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The Elements of Poetry | |
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What is Poetry? | |
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"The Eagle." | |
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"Winter." | |
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"Dulce et Decorum Est." | |
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Reviewing | |
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Understanding and Evaluating Poetry | |
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"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day." | |
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"The Whipping." | |
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"The last Night that She lived." | |
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"The Bean Eaters." | |
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"Ballad of Birmingham." | |
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"The Red Wheelbarrow." | |
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"Constantly risking absurdity." | |
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"Suicide's Note." | |
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"Terence, this is stupid stuff." | |
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"Loving in truth." | |
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"Ars Poetica." Suggestions for Writing | |
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Reading The Poem | |
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"The Man He Killed." | |
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"A Study of Reading Habits." | |
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"Is my team plowing." | |
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Reviewing | |
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"Break of Day." | |
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"There's been a Death, in the Opposite House." | |
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"Hawk Roosting." | |
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"When in Rome." | |
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"Mirror." | |
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"The Ruined Maid." | |
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"Ethics." | |
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"Storm Warnings." | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Denotation and Connotation | |
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"There is no Frigate like a Book." | |
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"When my love swears that she is made of truth." | |
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"Pathedy of Manners." | |
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Exercises | |
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Reviewing | |
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"Naming of Part s." | |
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"Cross." | |
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"The world is too much with us." | |
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"Desert Places." | |
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"Spring in the Classroom." | |
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"A Hymn to God the Father." | |
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"One Art." Sharon Olds, "35/10." | |
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"My Wife Reads the Paper at Breakfast on the Birthday of the Scottish Poet." | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Imagery | |
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"Meeting at Night." | |
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"Part ing at Morning." | |
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Exercises | |
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Reviewing | |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring." | |
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"The Widow's Lament in Springtime." | |
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"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain." | |
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"Living in Sin." | |
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"The Forge." | |
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"After Apple-Picking." | |
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"Those Winter Sundays." | |
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"Shopping in Tuckahoe." | |
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"An August Night." | |
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"The Snow Man." | |
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"To Autumn." | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Figurative Language I Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy | |
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"Harlem" (previously called "Dream Deferred") | |
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Robert Frost, "Bereft." | |
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"It sifts from Leaden Sieves." | |
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"The Author to Her Book." | |
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"Bright Star." | |
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Exercise | |
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Reviewing | |
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"Mind." | |
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"I taste a liquor never brewed." | |
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"Metaphors." | |
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"Toads." | |
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"Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957." | |
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"The Sloth." | |
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"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning." | |
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"To His Coy Mistress." | |
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"Introduction to Poetry." | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Figurative Language 2 Symbol, Allegory | |
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"The Road Not Taken." | |
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"A Noiseless Patient Spider." | |
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"The Sick Rose." | |
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"Digging." | |
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"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." | |
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"Peace." | |
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Exercises | |
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Reviewing | |
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"The Writer." | |
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"Fire and Ice." | |
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"Up-Hill." | |
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Running on Empty." | |
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"The Truro Bear." | |
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"Because I could not stop for Death." | |
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"Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness." | |
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"Weighing the Dog." | |
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"Ulysses." | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Figurative Language 3 Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony | |
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"Much Madness is divinest Sense." | |
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"The Sun Rising." | |
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"Incident." | |
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"Barbie Doll." | |
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"The Chimney Sweeper." | |
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"Ozymandias." | |
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Exercise | |
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Reviewing | |
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"A slumber did my spirit seal." | |
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"Batter my heart, three-personed God." | |
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"Sorting Laundry." | |
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"The History Teacher." | |
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"Mid-Term Break." | |
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"A Bitterness." | |
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"The Unknown Citizen." | |
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"in the inner city." | |
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"My Last Duchess." | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Allusion | |
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"Out, Out --." | |
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From Macbeth ("She should have died hereafter") | |
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Reviewing | |
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"Lilies."Mary Oliver "in Just-." | |
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"On His Blindness." | |
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"Miniver Cheevy." | |
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"My Son the Man." | |
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"Siren Song." | |
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"Journey of the Magi." | |
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"Leda and the Swan." | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Meaning and Idea | |
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Anonymous, "Little Jack Horner." | |
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"Loveliest of Trees." | |
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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." | |
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Reviewing | |
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"The Rhodora: On Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower?" | |
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"Design." | |
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"I never saw a Moor." | |
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"'Faith' is a fine invention." | |
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"O sweet spontaneous." | |
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"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." | |
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"On the Sonnet." | |
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"Sonnet." | |
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"Southern History." | |
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"Kentucky, 1833." | |
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"The Lamb." | |
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"The Tiger." | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Tone | |
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"To the Snake." | |
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"A narrow Fellow in the Grass." | |
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"Since there's no help." | |
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"Picnic, Lightning." | |
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Reviewing | |
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"My mistress' eyes." | |
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"Crossing the Bar." | |
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"The Oxen." | |
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"One dignity delays for all." | |
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"'Twas warm - at first - like Us." | |
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"The Apparition." | |
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"The Flea." | |
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"For a Lamb." | |
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"The Rabbit." | |
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"Dover Beach." | |
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"Church Going." | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Musical Devices | |
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"The Turtle." | |
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"That night when joy began." | |
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"The Waking." | |
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"God's Grandeur." | |
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Exercise | |
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Reviewing | |
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"Blow, blow, thou winter wind." | |
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"We Real Cool." | |
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"Woman Work." | |
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"Rite of Passage." | |
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"As imperceptibly as Grief." | |
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"Music Lessons." | |
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"Traveling through the dark." | |
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"Song (After Shakespeare)." | |
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"Nothing Gold Can Stay." | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Rhythm And Meter "Virtue." | |
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Exercises | |
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Reviewing | |
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"Introduction" to Songs of Innocence | |
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"Had I the Choice." | |
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"The Aim Was Song." | |
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Lord Byron, "Stanzas." | |
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"Old Ladies' Home." | |
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"Africa." | |
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"To a Daughter Leaving Home." | |
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"Porphyria's Lover." | |
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"Break, break, break." | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Sound and Meaning | |
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Anonymous, "Pease Porridge Hot." | |
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"Eight O'Clock." | |
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"Sound and Sense." | |
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"I heard a Fly buzz - when I died." | |
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Exercise | |
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Reviewing | |
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"Anthem for Doomed Youth." | |
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"Landcrab." | |
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"Night and the Creation of Geography." | |
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"The Sound of Night." | |
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"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers." | |
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"Blackberry Eating." | |
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"Remembered Morning." | |
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"The Dance." | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Pattern | |
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"The Pulley." | |
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"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." | |
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"That time of year." | |
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"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night." | |
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Exercises | |
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Reviewing | |
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"From Romeo and Juliet." | |
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"Death, be not proud." | |
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"The Folly of Being Comforted." | |
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"The White City." | |
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"America." | |
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"We Wear the Mask." | |
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"Acquainted with the Night." | |
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"Villanelle for an Anniversary." | |
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"The House on the Hill." | |
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"Delight in Disorder." | |
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"Still to be neat." | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Evaluating Poetry I: Sentimental, Rhetorical, Didactic Verse | |
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Reviewing Chapter Fifteen | |
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Anonymous, "God's Will for You and Me." | |
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"Pied Beauty." | |
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"A Poison Tree." | |
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"The Most Vital Thing in Life." | |
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"Lower New York: At Dawn." | |
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"Composed upon Westminster Bridge." | |
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"Piano." | |
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"The Days Gone By." | |
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"The Engine." | |
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"I like to see it lap the Miles." | |
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"When I have fears that I may cease to be." | |
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"O Solitude!" | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Evaluating Poetry 2: Poetic Excellence | |
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"The Canonization." | |
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn." | |
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"There's a certain Slant of light." | |
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"Home Burial." | |
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." | |
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"Sunday Morning." | |
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"The Weary Blues." | |
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"The Fish." | |
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Featured Poets | |
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"A Light exists in Spring." | |
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"A narrow Fellow in the Grass." | |
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"Apparently with no surprise." | |
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"As imperceptibly as Grief." | |
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"Because I could not stop for Death." | |
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"'Faith' is a fine invention." | |
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"I died for Beauty--but was scarce." | |
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"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain." | |
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"I heard a Fly buzz--when I died." | |
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"I like a look of Agony." | |
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"I like to see it lap the Miles." | |
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"I never aw a Moor." | |
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"I taste a liquor never brewed." | |
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"It sifts from Leaden Sieves." | |
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'Much Madness is divinest Sense." | |
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"One dignity delays for all." | |
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"The last Night that She lived." | |
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"There is no Frigate like a Book." | |
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"There's a certain Slant of light." | |
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"There's been a Death, in the Opposite House." | |
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"'Twas warm--at first--like Us." | |
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"A Hymn to God the Father." | |
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"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning." | |
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"At the round earth's imagined corners." | |
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Batter my heart, three personed God." | |
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Break of Day." | |
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Death, be not proud." | |
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Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness." | |
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Song: Go and catch a falling star." | |
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The Apparition." | |
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The Canonization." | |
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The Flea." | |
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The Good-Morrow." | |
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The Indifferent." | |
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The Sun Rising." | |
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"Acquainted with the Night." | |
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"After Apple-Picking." | |
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"Bereft." | |
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"Birches." | |
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"Desert Places." | |
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"Design." | |
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"Fire and Ice." | |
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"Home Burial." | |
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"Mending Wall." | |
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"Nothing Gold Can Stay." | |
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"'Out, Out--.'" | |
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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." | |
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"The Aim Was Song." | |
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"The Road Not Taken." | |
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Contemporary Collection | |
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"Introduction to Poetry." | |
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"Oh, My God." | |
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"Picnic, Lightning." | |
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"Sonnet." | |
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"The Golden Years." | |
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"The History Teacher." | |
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"Weighing the Dog." | |
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"An August Night." | |
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"Digging." | |
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"Follower." | |
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"Mid-Term Break." | |
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"The Forge." | |
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"Villanelle for an Anniversary." | |
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"I Go Back to May 1937." | |
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"My Son the Man." | |
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"Rite of Passage." | |
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"The Planned Child." | |
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"The Victims." "35/10." | |
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"A Bitterness." | |
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"Lilies." | |
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"Music Lessons." | |
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"Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957." | |
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"Spring in the Classroom." | |
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"The Black Snake." | |
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"The Rabbit.? | |
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Writing About Poetry | |
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Why Write about Literature? | |
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For Whom Do You Write? | |
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Two Basic Approaches | |
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Explication | |
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Analysis | |
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Choosing a Topic | |
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Papers That Focus on a Single Poem | |
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Papers of Comparison and Contrast | |
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Papers on a Number of Poems by a Single Author | |
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Papers on a Number of Poems with Some Feature Other than Authorship in Common | |
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Proving Your Point | |
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Writing the Paper | |
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Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q11) | |
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Documentation | |
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Textual Documentation (TD1-TD5) | |
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Parenthetical Documentation (PD1-PD6) | |
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Documentation by Works Cited | |
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Documentation of Electronic Sources | |
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Stance and Style (S1-S6) | |
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Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems | |
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Grammar (G1-G2) | |
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Punctuation (P1-P5) | |
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Usage (U1-U2) | |
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Writing Samples | |
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Explication: "A Study of Reading Habits." | |
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Analysis: Diction in "Pathedy of Manners.? | |
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Poems for Further Reading | |
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"Sonnenizio on a Line from Drayton." | |
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"The Miser." | |
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"Mus?e des Beaux Arts." | |
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"Main Character." | |
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"On Her Loving Two Equally." | |
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"On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High." | |
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"Manners." | |
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"a song in the front yard." | |
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"Grief." | |
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"Witness." | |
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"good times." | |
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"Kubla Khan." | |
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"The Golden Years." | |
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"Oh, My God!" Stephen Crane | |
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"War Is Kind." | |
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"Buffalo Bill's defunct." | |
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"the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls." | |
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"Spring is like a perhaps hand." | |
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"A Light exists in Spring." | |
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"Apparently with no surprise." | |
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"I died for Beauty-but was scarce." | |
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"I like a look of Agony." | |
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"At the round earth's imagined corners." | |
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"The Good-Morrow." | |
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"The Indifferent." | |
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"Song: Go and catch a falling star." | |
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"Persephone, Falling." | |
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"Sympathy." | |
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"Christ climbed down." | |
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"The Colonel." | |
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"Birches." | |
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"Mending Wall." | |
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"A Supermarket in California." | |
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"From the Wave." | |
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"Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins." | |
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"'Ah, are you digging on my grave?'" | |
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"Channel Firing." | |
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"The Subalterns." | |
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"Follower." | |
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"Love." | |
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"To an Athlete Dying Young." | |
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"Aunt Sue's Stories." | |
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"Mother to Son." | |
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"Negro Servant." | |
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"Theme for English B." | |
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"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner." | |
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"Oh, that joy so soon should waste." | |
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"To Celia." | |
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"Warning." | |
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"La Belle Dame sans Merci." | |
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"Ode to a Nightingale." | |
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"Aubade." | |
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"Black Mother Woman." | |
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"Silence." | |
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"Immigrants." | |
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"I Go Back to May 1937." | |
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"The Planned Child." | |
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"The Victims." | |
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"The Black Snake." | |
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"R?sum?." | |
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"I am learning to abandon the world." | |
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"Sentimental Poem." | |
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"A Work of Artifice." | |
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"Mad Girl's Love Song." | |
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"Spinster." | |
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"Wuthering Heights." | |
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"Salutation." | |
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"Poetry: 1." | |
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"The Mill." | |
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"Mr Flood's Part y." | |
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"Richard Cory." | |
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"I knew a woman." | |
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"My Papa's Waltz." | |
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"Song." | |
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"Letter from an Institution." | |
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"Young." | |
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"Let me not to the marriage of true minds." | |
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"Stick Figure." | |
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"Evening Walk." | |
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"Grayheaded Schoolchildren." | |
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"Raptures." | |
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"Not Waving but Drowning." | |
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"Small Town with One Road." | |
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"One day I wrote her name upon the strand." | |
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"Anecdote of the Jar." | |
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"The Death of a Soldier." | |
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"Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock." | |
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"The Oak." | |
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"Fern Hill." | |
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"Ex-Basketball Player." | |
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"In Bed with a Book." | |
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"Return to the Swamp." | |
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"A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim." | |
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"To a Stranger." | |
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"Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand." | |
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"Spring and All." | |
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"I wandered lonely as a cloud." | |
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"My heart leaps up when I behold." | |
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"The Solitary Reaper." | |
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"The Lake Isle of Innisfree." | |
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"Sailing to Byzantium." | |
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"The Second Coming." | |
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"The Wild Swans at Coole." | |
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Glossary and Index of Literary Terms | |