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Introduction | |
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An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts | |
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Speaker, Listener, and Context | |
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" | |
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Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic | |
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The Language of Poetry | |
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Figurative Language | |
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Allegory and Symbol | |
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Tone of Voice | |
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Repetition: Sounds and Schemes | |
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Meter and Rhythm | |
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Free Verse and Open Form | |
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Stanza Forms | |
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Fixed Forms | |
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A Brief Note: Literary History, Poetic Conventions, and Theory | |
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Writing about Poetry | |
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Poetry | |
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Anonymous | |
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Western Wind | |
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Bonny Barbara Allan | |
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Sir Patrick Spens | |
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They Flee from Me | |
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Whoso List to Hunt | |
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Amoretti: Sonnet 75 | |
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Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1 | |
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The Burning Babe | |
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Idea: Sonnet 61 | |
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Sonnet 18 | |
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Sonnet 20 | |
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Sonnet 29 | |
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Sonnet 73 | |
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Sonnet 116 | |
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Sonnet 129 | |
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Sonnet 130 | |
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When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter) | |
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There Is a Garden in Her Face | |
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The Canonization | |
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The Flea | |
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Holy Sonnet 10 | |
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Holy Sonnet 14 | |
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | |
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On My First Son | |
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Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount | |
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In This Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn | |
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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | |
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Easter Wings | |
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Love (III) | |
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The Pulley | |
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Redemption | |
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Song | |
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How Soon Hath Time | |
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On the Late Massacre in Piedmont | |
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When I Consider How My Light Is Spent | |
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The Author to Her Book | |
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To Lucasta, Going to the Wars | |
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To His Coy Mistress | |
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To the Memory of Mr. Oldham | |
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Huswifery | |
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A Description of a City Shower | |
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from An Essay on Criticism | |
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Ode on Solitude | |
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | |
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The Chimney Sweeper | |
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The Little Black Boy | |
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A Poison Tree | |
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The Tyger | |
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A Red, Red Rose | |
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John Barleycorn | |
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud | |
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It Is a Beauteous Evening | |
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Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room | |
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Ode: Intimations of Immortality | |
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Frost at Midnight | |
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Kubla Khan | |
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Work Without Hope | |
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She Walks in Beauty | |
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Stanzas | |
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When We Two Parted | |
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Ode to the West Wind | |
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Ozymandias | |
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To the Fringed Gentian | |
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La Belle Dame sans Merci | |
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Ode on a Grecian Urn | |
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Ode to a Nightingale | |
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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | |
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When I Have Fears | |
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Sonnets from the Portuguese, 18 | |
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Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43 | |
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The Arsenal at Springfield | |
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The Cross of Snow | |
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The Haunted Palace | |
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Israfel | |
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The Raven | |
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The Eagle | |
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The Lady of Shalott | |
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Tears, Idle Tears | |
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Ulysses | |
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My Last Duchess | |
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Porphyria's Lover | |
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | |
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A Noiseless Patient Spider | |
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O Captain, My Captain | |
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Song of Myself, 1 | |
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Song of Myself, 5 | |
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Song of Myself, 6 | |
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Song of Myself, 11 | |
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Song of Myself, 21 | |
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Song of Myself, 32 | |
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Song of Myself, 47 | |
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Song of Myself, 52 | |
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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | |
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Dover Beach | |
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Because I Could Not Stop for Death | |
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The Brain Is Wider than the Sky | |
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I Felt a Funeral in My Brain | |
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Much Madness is Divinest Sense | |
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A Narrow Fellow in the Grass | |
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Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church | |
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The Soul Selects Her Own Society | |
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Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant | |
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There's a Certain Slant of Light | |
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Wild Nights--Wild Nights | |
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Up'Hill | |
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Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? | |
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The Convergence of the Twain | |
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Neutral Tones | |
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The Ruined Maid | |
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God's Grandeur | |
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Pied Beauty | |
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Spring and Fall: To a Young Child | |
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The Windhover | |
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The New Colossus | |
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Eight O'Clock | |
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Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now | |
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Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall | |
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"Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff . . ." | |
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree | |
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Leda and the Swan | |
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Sailing to Byzantium | |
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The Second Coming | |
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The Song of Wandering Aengus | |
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Firelight | |
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Eros Turannos | |
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The Mill | |
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Richard Cory | |
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The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers | |
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The Wayfarer | |
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We Wear the Mask | |
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Acquainted with the Night | |
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After Apple'Picking | |
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Design | |
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Home Burial | |
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The Need of Being Versed in Country Things | |
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The Road Not Taken | |
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | |
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Amaze | |
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Languor after Pain | |
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Trapped | |
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Anecdote of the Jar | |
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Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock | |
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The Emperor of Ice-Cream | |
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The Snow Man | |
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Sunday Morning | |
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The Last Words of My English Grandmother | |
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The Red Wheelbarrow | |
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Spring and All | |
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This Is Just to Say | |
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In a Station of the Metro | |
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Portrait d'une Femme | |
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The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter | |
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Let No Charitable Hope | |
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Ophelia | |
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Pear Tree | |
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Sea Rose | |
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Dreamers | |
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The Purse-Seine | |
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The Fish | |
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Silence | |
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Journey of the Magi | |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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Preludes | |
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The Equilibrists | |
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Piazza Piece | |
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If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way | |
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Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for that Word | |
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What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why | |
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Dulce et Decorum Est | |
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in Just- | |
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nobody loses all the time | |
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pity this busy monster,manunkind | |
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r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r | |
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Georgia Dusk | |
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Women | |
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Chaplinesque | |
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Dream Boogie | |
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Theme for English B | |
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The Weary Blues | |
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Our Bog Is Dood | |
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Incident | |
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Yet Do I Marvel | |
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Imperial Adam | |
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As I Walked Out One Evening | |
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Mus�e des Beaux Arts | |
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The Unknown Citizen | |
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Dolor | |
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My Papa's Waltz | |
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Root Cellar | |
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The Fish | |
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One Art | |
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Sestina | |
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Those Winter Sundays | |
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Ballad of Birmingham | |
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Traveling through the Dark | |
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | |
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Fern Hill | |
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For My Daughter | |
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North | |
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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner | |
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For Malcolm X | |
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The Ballad of Chocolate Mabbie | |
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the mother | |
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We Real Cool | |
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For the Union Dead | |
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A Coney Island of the Mind, #15 | |
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How Everything Happens | |
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A Primer of the Daily Round | |
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Junk | |
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Playboy | |
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The Writer | |
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Year's End | |
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Next, Please | |
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Aubade | |
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This Be the Verse | |
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The Heaven of Animals | |
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Love Song: I and Thou | |
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The Book of Yolek | |
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Third Avenue in Sunlight | |
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As I Was Going to Saint-Ives | |
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The Ache of Marriage | |
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American Classic | |
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My Father in the Night Commanding No | |
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Subterfuge | |
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Counting the Mad | |
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The Ungrateful Garden | |
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From"Pro Femina" | |
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Three | |
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Noted in the New York Times | |
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A Supermarket in California | |
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Casual Wear | |
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Charles on Fire | |
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Mementos, I | |
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The Day Lady Died | |
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Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape | |
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Paradoxes and Oxymorons | |
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For the Anniversary of My Death | |
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The Last One | |
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Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio | |
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Saint Judas | |
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Animals Are Passing from Our Lives | |
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You Can Have It | |
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Cinderella | |
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The Truth the Dead Know | |
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From the Wave | |
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Terminal | |
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In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day | |
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September Twelfth, 2001 | |
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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers | |
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Diving into the Wreck | |
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Rape | |
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Pike | |
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A Walk | |
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Central America | |
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The Book | |
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1932- | |
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Reading the Obituary Page | |
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Daddy | |
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Edge | |
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Metaphors | |
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Strangers like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh, 1945-1985 | |
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The Tunnel | |
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The Premonition | |
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Ape | |
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The Black Walnut Tree | |
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Narcissus and Echo | |
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homage to my hips | |
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wishes for sons | |
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What's That Smell in the Kitchen! | |
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Voyages | |
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First Practice | |
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Compartments | |
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Discovering My Daughter | |
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Siren Song | |
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The Sacred | |
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Digging | |
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Punishment | |
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Abandoned Farmhouse | |
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Sundays in Democracies | |
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Ballade of the New God | |
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All'American Sestina | |
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Foreplay | |
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Litany | |
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Paradelle for Susan | |
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Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan | |
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The Serenity in Stones | |
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Arigato | |
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Means Thank You | |
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The Visitor | |
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Combing | |
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E.S.L | |
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The One Girl at the Boys Party | |
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From Brief Candles | |
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My Husband Discovers Poetry | |
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Daughter | |
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Rondeau Redoubl� | |
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A Monorhyme for the Shower | |
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Bestiary | |
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Mountain Bride | |
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A Martian Sends a Postcard Home | |
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Women Bathing at Bergen'Belsen | |
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Body and Soul | |
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The Day Kennedy Died | |
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The Ballad of Aunt Geneva | |
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Child Beater | |
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Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too | |
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Facing It | |
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Sapphics Against Anger | |
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God, a Poem | |
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Tu Negrito | |
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The Colonel | |
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Planting a Sequoia | |
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Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr | |
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Case Notes | |
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She Had Some Horses | |
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Air View of an Industrial Scene | |
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Thatcher Bitchboy | |
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The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica | |
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Adolescence III | |
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After Disappointment | |
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Alan Doll Rap | |
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The Traveling Onion | |
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The Purpose of Altar Boys | |
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Bilingual Sestina | |
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Dim Lady | |
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The River in Spate | |
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Sonnenizio on a Line by Millay | |
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Song of the Powers | |
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Welcome to Hiroshima | |
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Stamp Collecting | |
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Primping in the Rearview Mirror | |
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Coy Mistress | |
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First Kiss | |
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Useful Advice | |
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The Exaggeration of Despair | |
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Domestic Work, 1937 | |
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Occupation | |
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Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther | |
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Riddle | |
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Asked for a Happy Memory of her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field | |
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Appendix: Traditional Stanza, Fixed, and Nonce Forms | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Index of Critical Terms | |
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Index of Poets, Titles, and First Lines | |