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Alternate Contents | |
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Preface to the Third Edition | |
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Parents and Children | |
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The Myth of Demeter and Persephone (from the Homeric Hymns) | |
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The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus | |
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Luke 15:11-32 (King James Bible), The Parable of the Prodigal Son | |
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Snow-White | |
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Writing Topics for Myths, Parables, and Folktales | |
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Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother | |
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The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Childhood Among Ghosts (excerpt) | |
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El Doctor | |
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Writing Topics for Essays | |
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Through the Tunnel | |
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Seventeen Syllables | |
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Marriage Is a Private Affair | |
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I Stand Here Ironing | |
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Everyday Use: For Your Grandmama | |
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Counterparts | |
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The Moment Before the Gun Went Off | |
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Writing Topics for Short Stories | |
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Metaphors | |
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Now That I Am Forever with Child | |
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Mother to Son | |
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Those Winter Sundays | |
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Pomegranate | |
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The Pomegranate | |
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Daedalus | |
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O Daedalus, Fly Away Home | |
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The Prodigal | |
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The Prodigal Son | |
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My Papa's Waltz | |
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Daddy | |
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His Story | |
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Ms. Lot | |
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I Go Back to May 1937 | |
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Portrait of My Father as a Young Man | |
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Yesterday | |
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The Portrait | |
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The Envious Heart | |
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | |
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Myth | |
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Writing Topics for Poems | |
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The Tempest | |
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Writing Topics for Drama | |
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Part 1: Parents and Children: Cross-Genre Discussion and Writing Topics | |
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Sisters and Brothers | |
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Genesis 4:1-26 (King James Bible), The Story of Cain and Abel | |
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Hansel and Gretel | |
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Cinderella or, The Little Glass Slipper | |
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Vasilisa the Beautiful | |
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Writing Topics for Myths, Parables, and Folktales | |
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Cinderella (excerpt from The Uses of Enchantment) | |
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The Theme of the Three Caskets | |
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Shakespeare's Sister (excerpt from A Room of One's Own) | |
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Writing Topics for Essays | |
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Legend | |
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In Memoriam, J.F.K. | |
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The Rich Brother | |
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The Brother | |
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Boys and Girls | |
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Soldier's Home | |
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The Shawl | |
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Writing Topics for Short Stories | |
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I Am Not. The Brother Did Something to Me | |
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Abel | |
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Two Sisters of Persephone | |
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Hansel and Gretel | |
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Gretel in Darkness | |
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Cinderella | |
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Mid-Term Break | |
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Far Summers | |
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Catullus, Poem 101 (Hail and Farewell) | |
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Writing Topics for Poems | |
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The Glass Menagerie | |
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Writing Topics for Drama | |
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Part 2: Sisters and Brothers: Cross-Genre Discussion and Writing Topics | |
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People in Love | |
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The Myth of Cupid and Psyche | |
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The Myth of Pygmalion | |
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Chinese Folktale, Faithful Even in Death | |
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Beauty and the Beast | |
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English Folktale, The Lady of Shalott | |
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The lover and the letter, on complete absorption (A Sufi Parable) ) | |
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Writing Topics for Myths, Parables, and Folktales | |
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The Marriage of True Minds and Romantic Love After the Middle Ages (excerpts from The Book of Courtly Love: The Passionate Code of the Troubadours) | |
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I Love You and Romantic Love (excerpts from About Love) | |
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Love and Death (excerpt from Love and Will) | |
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Writing Topics for Essays | |
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter | |
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The Lady with the Dog | |
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The Storm | |
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In The Life | |
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A Dill Pickle | |
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Writing Topics for Short Stories | |
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Western Wind | |
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Meeting at Night | |
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Parting at Morning | |
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Sonnet XLIII: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways | |
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The Good-Morrow | |
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A Red, Red Rose | |
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My Love Is Nothing Like the Moon | |
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Sonnet CXXX: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun | |
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Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day | |
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Song | |
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Recuerdo | |
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"Wild Nights--Wild Nights" (Poem 249) | |
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Free Union | |
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No Second Troy | |
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When You Go Away | |
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One Art | |
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To His Coy Mistress | |
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Waiting for Icarus | |
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La Belle Dame sans Merci | |
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The Lady of Shalott | |
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Porphyria's Lover | |
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Lovesong | |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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Writing Topics for Poems | |
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A View from the Bridge | |
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Writing Topics for Drama | |
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Part 3: People in Love: Cross-Genre Discussion and Writing Topics | |
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Wives and Husbands | |
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Genesis 18:16-33, 19:1-38 (Jerusalem Bible), The Story of Lot | |
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The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice | |
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Coyote and the Shadow People (a Nez Perce myth, told by Wayi'latpu to Archie Phinney) | |
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The Story of Odysseus and Penelope (excerpt from The Odyssey) | |
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The Blue Beard | |
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Writing Topics for Myths and Folktales | |
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Marrying Absurd | |
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The Wedding (excerpt from Russian Journal) | |
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Writing Topics for Essays | |
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The Gift of the Magi | |
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Wife-Wooing | |
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The Necklace | |
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Semley's Necklace | |
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Sweat | |
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The Legacy | |
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Writing Topics for Short Stories | |
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Proposal | |
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Anniversary | |
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The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter | |
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Poem in Praise of My Husband | |
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Eurydice | |
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Orpheus and Eurydice | |
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An Ancient Gesture | |
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Penelope | |
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Sea Grapes | |
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Ulysses | |
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Man and wife | |
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Lot's Wife | |
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Lot's Wife | |
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My Last Duchess | |
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My Last Duke | |
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The Widow's Lament in Springtime | |
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Writing Topics for Poems | |
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Trifles | |
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A Doll's House | |
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Writing Topics for Drama | |
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Part 4: Wives and Husbands: Cross-Genre Discussion and Writing Topics | |
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Friends and Enemies | |
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Bear Man Myth (from Myths of the Cherokee) | |
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The Story of Quetzalcoatl (from Myths of the World) | |
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The Fox and The Little Prince (excerpt from The Little Prince) | |
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Writing Topics for Myths and Folktales | |
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The Realization of the Shadow (from Man and His Symbols) | |
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The Jealous Mistress (excerpt from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl) | |
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Friendship's Gift | |
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Writing Topics for Essays | |
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William Wilson | |
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The Secret Sharer | |
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Roman Fever | |
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The Wall | |
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The Necessary Knocking on the Door | |
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Recitatif | |
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Writing Topics for Short Stories | |
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Friends | |
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A Shady Friend--for Torrid Days--(Poem 278) | |
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To an Athlete Dying Young | |
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How It Is | |
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Mending Wall | |
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To Julia de Burgos | |
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The Tunnel | |
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Faces | |
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A Poison Tree | |
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The Man He Killed | |
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Siren Song | |
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The Colonel | |
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Seeing a Friend Off | |
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Farewell Once More, To My Friend Yen at Feng Chi Station | |
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Auld Lang Syne | |
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Writing Topics for Poems | |
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The Children's Hour | |
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Writing Topics for Drama | |
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Part 5: Friends and Enemies: Cross-Genre Discussion and Writing Topics | |
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Students and Teachers | |
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The War Within and The Illumined Man (excerpts from The Bhagavad Gita) | |
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Four Zen Parables (excerpt from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones) | |
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The Parable of the Host and the Guests | |
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The Emperor's New Clothes | |
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Writing Topics for Myths, Parables, and Folktales | |
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The Story of My Life (excerpts) | |
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Mrs. Bertha Flowers (excerpt from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) | |
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Teacher Wei (excerpt from Iron and Silk) | |
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Writing Topics for Essays | |
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The Lesson | |
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As It Was in the Beginning | |
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Soap and Water | |
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Cathedral | |
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Writing Topics for Short Stories | |
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Theme for English B | |
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Ballad of Orange and Grape | |
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The Soul, Like the Moon | |
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Letter Written on a Paper Mountain | |
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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant (Poem 1129) | |
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Ethics | |
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Musee des Beaux Arts | |
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Snake | |
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The Fish | |
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A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island | |
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Writing Topics for Poems | |
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Pygmalion | |
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The Lesson | |
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Writing Topics for Drama | |
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Part 6: Students and Teachers: Cross-Gener Discussion and Writing Topics | |
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People Alone | |
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The Death of Adam | |
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The Myth of Sisyphus (told by J.F. Bierlein) | |
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Writing Topics for Myths, Parables, and Folktales | |
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The Myth of Sisyphus | |
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Solitude (excerpt from Walden) | |
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Writing Topics for Essays | |
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The Ring | |
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The Yellow Wall-Paper | |
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To Build a Fire | |
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A Hunger Artist | |
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The Death of Ivan Llych | |
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Writing Topics for Short Stories | |
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The Soul Selects Her Own Society (Poem 303) | |
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Song of Myself | |
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I wandered lonely as a cloud | |
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Blackberry Eating | |
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Pied Beauty | |
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Drinking Alone by Moonlight | |
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Madly Singing in the Mountains | |
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Madrigal: Another Life | |
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Sonnet | |
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In Blackwater Woods | |
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Mid-day | |
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Domination of Black | |
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My Sad Self | |
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The Road Not Taken | |
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Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota | |
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In the end there is nobody | |
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Fear of Death | |
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Final Notations | |
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The Snow Man | |
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Acquainted With the Night | |
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After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes | |
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Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances | |
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Writing Topics for Poems | |
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Oedipus the King | |
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Writing Topics for Drama | |
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Part 7: People Alone: Cross-Genre Discussion and Writing Topics | |
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Reading and Analyzing Fiction | |
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Reading and Analyzing Poetry | |
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Reading and Analyzing Drama | |
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Reading, Analyzing, and Writing Essays | |
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Glossary | |
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Biographical Notes | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |