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Part One: THE ELEMENTS OF POETRY.1. WHAT IS POETRY? Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Eagle." William Shakespeare, "Winter." Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est." REVIEWING CHAPTER ONE.UNDERSTANDING AND EVALUATING POETRY.William Shakespeare, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day." Robert Hayden, "The Whipping." Emily Dickinson, "The last Night that She lived." Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Bean Eaters." Dudley Randall, "Ballad of Birmingham." William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow." Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Constantly risking absurdity." Langston Hughes, "Suicide's Note." A. E. Housman, "Terence, this is stupid stuff." Sir Philip Sidney, "Loving in truth." Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica." Suggestions for Writing.2. READING THE POEM.Thomas Hardy, "The Man He Killed." Philip Larkin, "A Study of Reading Habits." A. E. Housman, "Is my team plowing." REVIEWING CHAPTER TWO.John Donne, "Break of Day." Emily Dickinson, "There's been a Death, in the Opposite House." Ted Hughes, "Hawk Roosting." Mari Evans, "When in Rome." Sylvia Plath, "Mirror." Thomas Hardy, "The Ruined Maid." Linda Pastan, "Ethics." Adrienne Rich, "Storm Warnings." Suggestions for Writing.3. DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION.Emily Dickinson, "There is no Frigate like a Book." William Shakespeare, "When my love swears that she is made of truth." Ellen Kay, "Pathedy of Manners." EXERCISES.REVIEWING CHAPTER THREE.Henry Reed, "Naming of Parts." Langston Hughes, "Cross." William Wordsworth, "The world is too much with us." Robert Frost, "Desert Places." Mary Oliver, "Spring in the Classroom." John Donne, "A Hymn to God the Father." Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art." Sharon Olds, "35/10." Miller Williams, "My Wife Reads the Paper at Breakfast on the Birthday of the Scottish Poet." Suggestions for Writing.4. IMAGERY.Robert Browning, "Meeting at Night." Robert Browning, "Parting at Morning." EXERCISES.REVIEWING CHAPTER FOUR.Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring." William Carlos Williams, "The Widow's Lament in Springtime." Emily Dickinson, "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain." Adrienne Rich, "Living in Sin." Seamus Heaney, "The Forge." Robert Frost, "After Apple-Picking." Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays." Jane Flanders, "Shopping in Tuckahoe." Seamus Heaney, "An August Night." Wallace Stevens, "The Snow Man." John Keats, "To Autumn." Suggestions for Writing.5. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE I: SIMILE, METAPHOR, PERSONIFICATION, APOSTROPHE, METONYMY.Langston Hughes, "Harlem" (previously called "Dream Deferred"). Robert Frost, "Bereft." Emily Dickinson, "It sifts from Leaden Sieves." Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Book." John Keats, "Bright Star.EXERCISE.REVIEWING CHAPTER FIVE.Richard Wilbur, "Mind." Emily Dickinson, "I taste a liquor never brewed." Sylvia Plath, "Metaphors." Philip Larkin, "Toads." Mary Oliver, "Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957." Theodore Roethke, "The Sloth." John Donne, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning." Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress." Billy Collins, "Introduction to Poetry." Suggestions for Writing.6. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 2: SYMBOL, ALLEGORY.Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken." Walt Whitman, "A Noiseless Patient Spider." William Blake, "The Sick Rose." Seamus Heaney, "Digging." Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." George Herbert, "Peace.EXERCISES.REVIEWING CHAPTER SIX.Richard Wilbur, "The Writer." Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice." Christina Rossetti, "Up-Hill." Robert Phillips, Running on Empty." Mary Oliver, "The Truro Bear." Emily Dickinson, "Because I could not stop for Death." John Donne, "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness." Billy Collins, "Weighing the Dog." Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses." Suggestions for Writing.7. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 3: PARADOX, OVERSTATEMENT, UNDERSTATEMENT, IRONY.Emily Dickinson, "Much Madness is divinest Sense." John Donne, "The Sun Rising." Countee Cullen, "Incident." Marge Piercy, "Barbie Doll." William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper." Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias." EXERCISE.REVIEWI
