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| Introduction | |
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| On Fiction | |
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| The Bases of Literature Writing About Literature FICTION Fiction as Narrative | |
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| The Art of Narration: Giving Meaning to Action Anonymous, Clever Manka Kate Chopin | |
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| The Story of an Hour | |
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| The Storytellers | |
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| High Horse's Courting | |
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| Old Boss Wants into Heaven | |
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| If Not Higher | |
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| The Reporters | |
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| Hills like White Elephants | |
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| A Pair of Silk Stockings | |
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| A Worn Path | |
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| Where Are You Going | |
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| Where Have You Been? | |
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| First-Person Narratives Charlotte | |
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| The Yellow Wall-Paper | |
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| The Loudest Voice | |
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| My Man Bovanne Judith | |
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| Not for Sale Tales Within Tales | |
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| Youth: A Narrative | |
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| The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Character Study and Social Commentary Looking Inward and Outward | |
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| The Minister's | |
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| A Parable | |
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| A Rose for Emily Grace Paley | |
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| Dream-Vision Beyond Reality | |
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| The Man of the Crowd | |
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| A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | |
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| A Tale for Children | |
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| Autobiography | |
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| Old Times on the Mississippi | |
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| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | |
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| An Anthology of Short Stories Ambrose Bierce | |
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| The Rocking-Horse Winner | |
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| The Man Who Was Almost a Man Katherine Anne Porter | |
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| The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | |
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| The Chysanthemums | |
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| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
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| I Stand Here Ironing POETRY Reading Poetry | |
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| And there is always one more story | |
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| The Storyteller's Escape Anonymous | |
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| Sir Patrick Spens Anonymous | |
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| The Cherry-Tree Carol Anonymous, Get Up and Bar the Door Dudley Randall | |
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| Ballad of Birmingham | |
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| Slim in Hell Elements of Poetry Repetition and Rhythm | |
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| It Was a Lover and His Lass | |
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| The Ruined Maid E.E. Cummings, All in green went my love riding | |
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| The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee Etheridge Knight, Ilu, the Talking Drum Compression and Verse Forms Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool Arthur Guiterman, On the Vanity of Earthly | |
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| Greatness Marianne Moore, I May, I Might | |
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| I Must Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro Amy Lowell | |
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| Wind and Silver | |
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| The Dance | |
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| The World Is Too Much with Us | |
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| There's a Certain Slant of Light | |
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| Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant | |
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| Word Choice: Meanings and Suggestions | |
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| The Bustle in a House | |
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| Because I Could Not Stop for Death | |
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| She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways | |
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| Upon Julia's Clothes | |
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| With Rue My Heart Is Laden Gerard Manley Hopkins | |
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| Heaven-Haven Marge Piercy | |
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| The Secretary Chant | |
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| These Fought in Any Case | |
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| The Speaker in the Poem | |
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| The Speaker's Voice Theodore | |
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| My Papa's | |
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| I Knew a Woman | |
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| What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why | |
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| Nikki Giovanni, You Are There | |
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| Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday | |
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| Those Winter Sundays Denise Levertov | |
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| At David's | |
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| The Folly of Being Comforted | |
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| My Last Duchess | |
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| Birches | |
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| Notes for My Child | |
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| The Speaker's Vision | |
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| Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud | |
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| When I Have Fears | |
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| A Noiseless Patient Spider | |
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| The Irish Airman Foresees His Death | |
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| Two Tramps in Mud Time | |
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| Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi Protest and Social Comment Audre Lorde | |
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| Power | |
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| Anchorage | |
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| Dulce et Decorum Est E. E. Cummings, "next to of course god america i Adrienne Rich | |
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| Reed, Al Capone in Alaska Beyond the Speaker: The Double Vision of Irony Adrienne | |
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| Rich | |
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| When I Was One-and-Twenty | |
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| Resume | |
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| The Unknown Citizen | |
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| A Study of Reading Habits | |
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| Mid-American Tragedy Imagery Similes | |
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| Metaphors, and Personification | |
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| The Dalliance of the Eagles Alfred | |
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| The Eagle Langston Hughes | |
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| On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | |
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| Fog William Wordsworth | |
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| Composed upon Westminster Bridge | |
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| September 3, 1802 | |
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| I Like to See It Lap the Miles | |
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| A Narrow Fellow in the Grass Nikki Giovanni | |
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| Woman Sylvia Plath | |
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| Metaphors Richard Wilbur | |
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| Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Symbol and Allegory | |
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| Love (III) Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| Days | |
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| First Fig | |
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| The Heart | |
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| In back of the real | |
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| Mother to Son John Keats | |
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| Ode on a Grecian | |
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| The Lamb | |
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| The Tyger Conceits and Allusions | |
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| Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness Anonymous | |
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| Sumer Is Icumen In Ezra Pound | |
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| Ancient Music | |
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| Sonnet 18 | |
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| The Silken Tent | |
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| The Sun Rising | |
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| Sonnet 31 | |
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| To His Coy Mistress | |
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| Food for Love | |
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| The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica Patterns of Imagery Percy | |
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| Ode to the West Wind | |
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| Ode to a Nightingale | |
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| Dover Beach | |
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| Sailing to Byzantium | |
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| Fern Hill Sound Meter and Its Variations Anonymous (modern version | |
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| The Seafarer Gerard | |
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| Felix Randal Alfred | |
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| The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls | |
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| The Collar | |
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| Sonnet 29 | |
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| On Shakespeare Rhyme Schemes and Verse Forms | |
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| The Night-Piece, to Julia | |
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| Home-Thoughts, from Abroad | |
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| They Flee from Me | |
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| Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Anonymous | |
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| Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood | |
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| The Sonnet | |
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