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Preface | |
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About the Author | |
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Making Connections | |
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Participation: Personal Response and Critical Thinking | |
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The Personal Dimension of Reading Poetry | |
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Personal Response and Critical Thinking | |
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Writing to Learn | |
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Keeping a Journal or Reading Log | |
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Double-Entry Journals and Logs | |
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The Social Nature of Learning: Collaboration | |
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Personal, Not Private | |
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Ourselves as Readers | |
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Different Kinds of Reading | |
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Advice to My Son | |
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Making Connections | |
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Images of Ourselves | |
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Zimmer in Grade School | |
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Culture, Experience, and Values | |
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Incident | |
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Those Winter Sundays | |
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Barbie Doll | |
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Being in the Moment | |
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Birmingham Bomb Kills 4 Negro Girls | |
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Riots Flare | |
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Boys Slain | |
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(from New York Times) | |
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Ballad of Birmingham | |
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The Whole and Its Parts | |
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Participating, Not Solving | |
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Responding to Language | |
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Denotation and Connotation | |
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The Naked and the Nude | |
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Using our Imaginations | |
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Writing to Imagine: Creating Images through Comparison | |
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Woman | |
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Creating Images through Concrete Sensory Descriptions | |
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Simple Truths | |
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The Traveling Onion | |
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Communication: Writing About Poetry | |
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The Response Essay | |
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Voice and Writing | |
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Voice and Response to Poetry | |
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Writing to Describe | |
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Choosing Details | |
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Choosing Details from Poetry | |
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Writing to Compare | |
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Comparing and Contrasting Using a Venn Diagram | |
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Possible Worlds | |
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Response to Poetry: Describing and Comparing | |
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Staying Anchored in the Poem | |
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From First Response to Final Draft | |
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Using First Responses | |
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Extending Ideas | |
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Semantic Mapping or Clustering | |
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Mix and Match | |
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Collaboration | |
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The Response Essay: Composing a Draft | |
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Student First Draft | |
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Revision | |
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Organization and Unity | |
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Showing Support | |
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Clarity | |
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Voice | |
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Student Revised Draft | |
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Analysis And Argumentation | |
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Exploration and Analysis: The Elements of Poetry | |
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Your First Response | |
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Close Reading | |
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Annotating the Text | |
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Ozymandias | |
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Poetry in Its Many Contexts | |
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Your Critical Approach | |
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Interpretive Communities | |
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Reading and Analyzing Poetry | |
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Language and Style | |
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Voice | |
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Tone | |
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War Is Kind | |
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Imagery | |
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The Word 'Plum | |
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Meeting at Night | |
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Figurative Language: Everyday Poetry | |
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A Dream Deferred | |
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Simile | |
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Fog | |
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Oread, H.D | |
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The Wind | |
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The Guitarist Tunes Up | |
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Symbol | |
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The Road Not Taken | |
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The Hug | |
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Sound and Structure | |
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Finding the Beat: Limericks | |
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Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance | |
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Meter | |
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Formal Verse | |
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Sonnet #29 | |
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Love Is Not All | |
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Blank Verse | |
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Free Verse | |
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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | |
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Interpretation: What Does the Poem Mean? | |
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Explication | |
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Theme or Moral | |
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Types of Poetry | |
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Lyric Poetry | |
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Narrative Poetry | |
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Getting Ideas for Writing about Poetry | |
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Pigeon Woman | |
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Generating Ideas for Writing | |
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Argumentation: Interpreting and Evaluating Poetry | |
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The Critical Essay | |
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Choosing a Topic: Process and Product | |
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Writing to Analyze or Explicate | |
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Writing to Compare | |
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Writing about the Beliefs or Actions of the Speaker | |
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Writing about Poetry in Context | |
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Critical Thinking: Induction and Substantiation | |
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Thinking Critically about Poetry | |
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Facts and Opinions | |
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Ex-Basketball Player | |
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Supporting Connections | |
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Interpretation: What Do You Think It Means? | |
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A Defensible Interpretation, Not the Right Answer | |
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Developing an Interpretation | |
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Language and Form | |
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The Speaker | |
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The Whole: Theme | |
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Beliefs or Actions Expressed by the Speaker or Characters | |
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The Work in Context | |
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Interpretation or Evaluation | |
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Evaluation: How Well Does It Work? | |
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Developing Standards | |
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Developing Standards for Evaluating Poetry | |
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Your Own Standards: Expectations and Intentions | |
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Standards for Evaluating Poetry | |
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Generating Ideas for a Critical Essay | |
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Argumentation: Writing a Critical Essay | |
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The Shape of an Argument | |
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Planning Your Argument | |
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Supporting Your Argument | |
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Opening, Closing, and Revising Your Argument | |
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A Student's Critical Essay: Explication and Evaluation | |
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An Anthology Of Poetry | |
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On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City | |
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Dusting | |
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Phenomenal Woman | |
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To Live in the Borderlands Means You | |
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Dover Beach | |
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Siren Song | |
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You Fit Into Me | |
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The Unknown Citizen | |
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The Mother | |
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We Real Cool | |
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London | |
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The Chimney Sweeper | |
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To See a World in a Grain of Sand | |
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In the Waiting Room | |
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The Fish | |
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One Art | |
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Porphyria's Lover | |
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Jabberwocky | |
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Sweet Mama Wanda Tells Fortunes for a Price | |
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Victoria's Secret | |
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My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory | |
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A Man Said to the Universe | |
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Incident | |
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anyone lives in a pretty how town, e.e. cummings | |
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somewhere I have never traveled | |
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Icarus Again | |
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I heard a fly buzz - | |
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when I died | |
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Tell all the truth but tell it slant | |
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes | |
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Much Madness is divinest Sense | |
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She Sweeps with many-colored brooms | |
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There is a certain slant of light | |
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Success is Counted Sweetest | |
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The Flea | |
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Death Be Not Proud | |
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A Valediction Forbidding Mourning | |
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Brilliance | |
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We Wear the Mask | |
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The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock | |
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Late Night at the Pawn Shop | |
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Constantly Risking Absurdity | |
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Pitcher | |
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Fire and Ice | |
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Mending Wall | |
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Out, Out . . . | |
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Losses that Turn Up in Dreams | |
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A Supermarket in California | |
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Nikki-Rosa | |
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Snowdrops | |
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Ella, in a Square Apron, Along Highway 80 | |
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Sonnet Ending with a Film Subtitle | |
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Hap | |
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The Man He Killed | |
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Digging | |
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Mid-Term Break | |
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Pied Beauty | |
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The Loveliest of Trees | |
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When I was one-and-twenty | |
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I, Too | |
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers | |
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Secretary | |
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When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be | |
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Saint Francis and the Sow | |
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The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible | |
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Night Sounds | |
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Facing It | |
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After Love | |
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Aubade | |
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This Be the Verse | |
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How To Watch Your Brother Die | |
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The Gift | |
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Patterns | |
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Ars Poetica | |
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | |
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To His Coy Mistress | |
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America | |
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If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way | |
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Lament | |
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What Lips My Lips have Kissed, and Where, and Why | |
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How Soon Hath Time | |
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When I Consider How My Light Is Spent | |
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For My Father | |
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Poetry | |
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Immigrants | |
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Ode to My Socks | |
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Sex Without Love | |
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35/10 | |
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Dulce et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori | |
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Marks | |
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To Be of Use | |
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Mirror | |
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The Nymph's Reply | |
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Diving into the Wreck | |
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Rape | |
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Mourning Picture | |
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The Purpose of Altar Boys | |
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Mr. Flood's Party, Edwin Arlington Robinson | |
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Richard Cory | |
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Elegy for Jane | |
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My Papa's Waltz | |
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Grass | |
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Cinderella | |
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Pain for a Daughter | |
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day (Sonnet 18) | |
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Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet 116) | |
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My Mistress's Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnet 130) | |
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When My Love Swears That She Is made of Truth (Sonnet 138) | |
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That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold (Sonnet 73) | |
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The Pleasure of Reading | |
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Telephone Conversation | |
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The Youngest Daughter | |
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Traveling Through the Dark | |
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The Emperor of Ice Cream | |
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Ulysses | |
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Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night | |
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The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower | |
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Reapers | |
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The Mosquito | |
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From Song of Myself | |
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At the Ball Game | |
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This Is Just to Say | |
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Composed on Westminster Bridge | |
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud | |
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My Heart Leaps Up | |
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A Blessing | |
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The Question of Loyalty | |
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Nighthawks | |
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree | |
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When You Are Old | |
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Case Study on Poems and Painting: Thinking About Interpretation, Poetry, and Painting | |
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus | |
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Mus�e des Beaux Arts | |
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Icarus Again | |
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Crucificxion | |
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Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion | |
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Nighthawks | |
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Nighthawks | |
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The Starry Night | |
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The Starry Night | |
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The Love Letter | |
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When a Woman Holds a Letter | |
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The Old Guitarist | |
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The Man with the Blue Guitar | |
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Mourning Picture | |
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Mourning Picture | |
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The Gleaners | |
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The Clark Institute: Labor Day, 1999 | |
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Critical Approaches to Literature | |
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Research and Documentation: Writing with Secondary Sources | |
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Documentation-Some Basics | |
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What Must Be Documented | |
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Where and How | |
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Evaluating Sources from the Internet | |
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Plagiarism | |
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The Physical Layout of the Research Essay | |
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Documentation-MLA Style | |
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Citing Sources in the Text of the Essay | |
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Works Cited Documentation | |
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Electronic Sources | |
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Other Sources | |
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Sample Works Cited | |
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A Glossary of Literary Terms | |
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Indices | |