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| Why Study Literature | |
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| Understanding Poetic Form | |
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| Introduction: Reading Poetry Marianne Moore, Poetry | |
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| Poetic Language: Diction, Word Choice, and Tone | |
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| Digging Gerard | |
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| The Windhover | |
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| Breaking Tradition | |
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| The Knight, Death, and the Devil | |
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| This Living Hand | |
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| A Dream of Jealousy | |
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| The Fury of Aerial Bombardment Poems for Further Reading and Critical Writing | |
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| Traveling Through the Dark | |
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| Didactic Piece | |
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| The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing | |
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| Poetic Imagery and Theories of the Modern Image | |
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| O Taste and See | |
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| Eleven Theories of the Modern Image | |
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| In a Station of the Metro | |
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| The Great Figure | |
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| Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout Poems for Further Reading and Critical Writing | |
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| The Dead Butterfly | |
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| Preludes Critical Perspective: On Imagist Poetics Ezra Pound, from "A Few Don'ts for an Imagist" Critical Perspective: Modern Poetry and Formal Invention | |
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| Figurative Language Sylvia Plath | |
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| Metaphors Anonymous, I Have a Yong Sister William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 (That time of year thou mayst in me behold) | |
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| Separation | |
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| I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Sharon Olds, Size and Sheer | |
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| Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | |
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| Poem 328 (A Bird came down the Walk) | |
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| Watch Repair Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill Poems for Further Reading and Critical Writing | |
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| The Thought-Fox Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself (Section 6) | |
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| The Silken Tent | |
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| A Valediction Forbidding Mourning | |
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| Symbolism | |
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| The Lamb Dorothy Parker, One Perfect Rose | |
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| The Sick | |
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| The Last Wolf Robert Frost, Mending Wall | |
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| The Moon and the Yew Tree W.S. Merwin, Strawberries | |
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| Upon a Spider Catching a Fly Poems for Further Reading and Critical Writing | |
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| When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd | |
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| I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing | |
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| Myth W.H. Auden, Museacute;e des Beaux Arts Anne Sexton | |
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| To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph | |
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| Jacklight Poems for Further Reading and Critical Writing | |
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| Journey of the Magi | |
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| Prayer to the Pacific | |
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| Coatlicue's Rules: Advice from an Aztec Goddess Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself (Section 24) Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind | |
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| Emotive Poetics Theodore Roethke | |
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| Waking from Sleep William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29 (When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes) | |
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| First Song Emily Dickinson, Poem 258 (There's a certain Slant of light) Poems for Further Reading and Critical Writing Emily Dickinson, Poem 512 (The Soul has Bandaged moments) | |
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| Fever 103 Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself (Section 26) | |
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| Prosody Sound Emily Dickinson, Poem 465 (I heard a Fly buzz--when I died) | |
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| The Lake Isle of Innisfree Sylvia Plath, Point Shirley Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |
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| Arms and the Boy Meter and Rhythm Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz | |
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| Poetic Forms Fixed Poetic Forms Blank Verse, Couplets, Tercets, and Quatrains | |
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| First Snow in Alsace Longer Fixed Stanza Forms The Sonnet | |
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| When I Consider How My Light Is Spent | |
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| Sonnet 55 (Not marble, nor the gilded monuments) Edmund Spenser, Sonnet 75 (One day I wrote her name upon the strand) Gwendolyn Brooks, the rites for Cousin Vit The Villanelle | |
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| The Waking The Sestina Pattern Poetry, Concrete Poetics, and Vers | |
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| Bleeding Open Poetic Forms | |
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| The Well Featured Writer: John Keats On First Looking into Chapman's Homer On Seeing the Elgin Marbles Poems for Further Reading and Critical Writing Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to a Nightingale La Belle Dame sans Merci The Eve of St. Agnes To Autumn Letters of John Keats Excerpt from Letter to Benjamin Bailey, November 22, 1817 Excerpt from Letter to George and Thomas Keats, December 21, 1817 Excerpt from Letter to John Taylor, February 27, 1818 Excerpt from Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds, May 3, 1818 Critical Perspective: On Keats and Critical Judgment Cynthia Chase, from "Viewless Wings: Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale'" Critical Perspective: On Keats and Symbolism David Perkins, from "The 'Ode to a Nightingale'" Critical Perspective: On Imagination and Reality in the Odes Jack Stillinger, from "Imagination and Reality in the Odes" | |
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| Poetry and History | |
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| Beyond Formalism: Poetry and New Historicism William Blake, London | |
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| The Author to Her Book | |
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| Critical Perspectives: A Casebook on Poetry and Social Activism Between the Wars Poems for Further Reading and Critical Writing Kenneth Fearing, Dirge Kenneth Fearing, $2.50 Kenneth Fearing, X Minus X Langston Hughes, | |
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| Goodbye Christ Langston Hughes, Johannesburg Mines Langston Hughes, Elevator Boy Alfred Hayes, In a Coffee Pot Tillie Lerner Olsen | |
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| I Want You Women Up North to Know Genevieve Taggard | |
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| The Minotaur Joseph Kalar, Papermill Joseph Kalar, Worker Uprooted Critical Perspective: On Counteacute;e Cullen's "Incident" Cary Nelson, from Repression and Recovery Critical Perspective: On Depression Era Culture Rita Barnard, from The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance | |
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| Critical Perspectives: A Casebook on Poetry, Trauma, and Testimony: Holocaust Verses Poems for Further Reading and Critical Writing Primo Levi, Shemaacute; Nelly Sachs, O the Chimneys | |
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| Never Shall I Forget Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Babii Yar Dan Pagis, Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car | |
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| Death Fugue Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus William Heyen, Kotov Anthony Hecht, The Book of Yolek Tadeusz Roacute;zewicz, Pigtail Charles Reznikoff, from Holocaust Adrienne Rich, from Sources Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Draft 17: Unnamed Critical Perspective: On Holocaust Testimony Geoffrey H. Hartman, from "On Traumatic Knowledge and Literary Studies" Critical Perspective: On Paul Celan's Imagery Shoshana Felman, from Testimony (on Paul Celan's "Death Fugue") Critical Perspective: On Witnessing to the Holocaust Dori Laub, from Testimony Critical Perspective: On the Holocaust Survivor Terrence Des Pres, from The Survivor Critical Perspective: On Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Cathy Caruth, fro | |