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...Griffin, I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman / Maya Angelou, Still I Rise / Wole Soyinka, Telephone Conversation / Carolyn Forché, The Colonel / Carolyn Forché, The Memory of Elena / Charlotte Delbo, Prayer to the Living to Forgive Them for Being Alive / Poems for Further Reading: Jonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning / William Blake, London / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, The Slave Auction / Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed / Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sympathy / Hart Crane, Episode of Hands / Drama: Anna Deavere Smith, Limbo/Twilight #2 from Twilight Los Angeles 1992 / Nonfiction: Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman? / Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Manning Marable, The Prism of Race / Marjorie Agosin, A Visit to the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo / Carl Ponesse, Realizations of the Quest for Vision: A Political Interpretation 8. The Global Village Thematic Preview: Combining the Genres: Nadine Gordimer, Amnesty / Nikky Finney, South Africa: When a Woman Is a Rock / Athol Fugard, “Master Harold”…and the Boys / Toni Morrison, The Nobel Prize Speech: Nobel Lecture, 7 December 1993 / Fiction: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison Bergeron / Mary Gordon, The Imagination of Disaster / Chinua Achebe, Girls at War / Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World / Jhumpa Lahiri, The Third and Final Continent / Poetry: William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming / Judith Emlyn Johnson, Stone Olive / Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali: Song I and Song II / Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnet 1 / Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnet 29 / Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck / Derek Walcott, A Far Cry from Africa / Gloria Anzaldúa, To live in the Borderlands means you / Agha Shahid Ali, Postcard from Kashmir / Anna Lee Walters, My Name is ‘I Am Living’ / Mary Oliver, Ghosts / Wislawa Szymborska, The Century’s Decline / Wislawa Szymborska, Could Have / Wislawa Szymborska, Hatred / Poems for Further Reading: William Wordsworth, My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold / Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Kan: or, a Vision in a Dream / John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn / Edgar Allen Poe, The Haunted Palace / Walt Whitman, Facing West from California’s Shores / Emily Dickinson, I heard a Fly buzz—when I died / William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium / Theodore Roethke, The Waking / Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night / James Wright, A Blessing / Wallace Stevens, The Idea of Order at Key West / Cathy Song, Heaven / Drama: William Shakespeare, The Tempest / Nonfiction: Edward Said, Reflections on Exile / Alice Walker, Am I Blue? / Terry Tempest Williams, The Wild Card / Plato, The Allegory of the Cave / Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus / Yvette Ho, About “Heritage” / Linda Hogan, Heritage Part III. Reading and Writing About the Genres 9. Fiction Forms of Narrative / Elements of Fiction / The Reading/Writing Process: Fiction / Checklist for Reading Short Fiction / Student Portfolio: Response to Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour 10. Poetry Kinds of Poetry / Elements of Poetry / Structure / The Reading/Writing Process: Poetry / Checklist for Writing About Poetry / Student Portfolio: Response to Wilfred Owen’s Arms and the Boy 11. Drama Forms of Drama / Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drama / Elements of Drama / The Reading / Writing Process: Drama / Checklist for Writing about Drama / Student Portfolio: Response to Wakako Yamauchi’s And the Soul Shall Dance 12. Nonfiction Forms of Nonfiction / Elements of Nonfiction / The Reading/Writing Response: Nonfiction / Checklist of Questions for Nonfiction Prose / Student Portfolio: Response to King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail Part IV. Appendixes Appendix A. The Research Process and MLA Documentation / Appendix B. Critical Approaches to Literature For more information, call toll free at (800) 423-0563 Literature 75 TABLE OF CONTENTS Legacies Literature Literature 76 Visit us on the web at www.heinle.com Widely used for introductory literature courses or as a supplement to anthologies of literature, this text provides valuable guidelines for writing about literature. The sixth edition, like previous editions, provides answers to key questions students raise about studying literature. The text also serves as a style guide for writing essays. NEW TO THE EDITION • What is Literature? has been rewritten in light of recent theoretical discussions and introduces the concept of sites of meaning, or places we can look to interpret literature. • Specialized Approaches to Interpreting Literature has been rearranged to reflect the author-work-reader dynamic. • Includes a discussion of subjectivity in essays about literature. • The new research essay on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein demonstrates how students can use information about an author’s life to interpret works of literature. • New student essays analyze Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles,” and George Eliot’s “Adam Bede.” • Full-text versions of short works accompany related student essays, including: Robert Frost’s “The Death of the Hired Man,” and Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory.” • Rules of usage and documentary procedures have been updated to reflect the most recent MLA guidelines. • Expanded and updated examination of online resources and helpful Internet addresses, plus a discussion of how to evaluate the quality of Web sites. Serves both teachers and students on multiple levels! Writing Essays about Literature A Guide and Style Sheet, Sixth Edition © 2002 Kelley Griffith, University of North Carolina at Greensboro © 2002 Paperback 347 pp. 0-15-506617-X Literature NEW! Preface Introduction Part One: Interpreting Literature Chapter 1 Strategies for Interpreting Literature Why do People Read Literature? What Is Interpretation? How do we Interpret? Chapter 2 What is Literature? Literature is Language Literature is Fictional Literature is True Literature is Aesthetic Literature is Intertextual Chapter 3 Interpreting Fiction The Nature of Fiction The Elements of Fiction Plot / Character / Theme / Setting / Point of View / Irony / Symbolism Other Elements Chapter 4 Interpreting Drama The Nature of Drama The Elements of Drama Plot / Characterization / Setting / Theme / Irony / Subgenres Chapter 5 Interpreting Poetry The Elements of Poetry Characterization, Point of View, Plot, Setting, and Theme / Diction / Imagery: Descriptive Language / Imagery: Figurative Language / Rhythm / Sound / Structure / Free Verse / Symbolism Chapter 6 Specialized Approaches to Interpreting Literature Literary Criticism and Theory Places for Interpretation The Work New Criticism / Structuralism / Post- Structuralism / Archetypal Criticism The Author Historical and Biographical Criticism / New Historicist Criticism The Reader Reader Response All of Reality Marxist Criticism / Psychological Criticism / Feminist and Gender Criticism Part Two: Writing About Literature Chapter 7 Strategies for Writing about Literature Why Write about Literature? How can you Write about Literature? The Writing Process Chapter 8 Choosing Topics Preliminary Steps in Choosing a Topic Be an Active Reader / Identify your Audience / Raise Questions about the Work / Narrow your Topic Search Strategies Focus on the Work’s Conventions (Its Formal Qualities) / Use Topoi (Traditional Patterns of Thinking) / Respond to Comments by Critics / Draw from Your Own Knowledge Talking and Writing Strategies Talk Out Loud / Make Outlines / Freewrite / Brainstorm / Make Notes / Keep a Journal Sample Essay about Literature Michelle Henderson, “Paradise Rejected in Homer’s Odyssey” / Comments on the Essay Chapter 9 Drafting the Essay The Argumentative Nature of Interpretive Essays The Structure of Essays about Literature The Argumentative Structure / The Rhetorical Structure Guidelines for Writing First Drafts Keep in Mind the needs of your Audience / Avoid Extreme Subjectivity (Overuse of I) / Draw up a Rough Draft / Begin Writing / Use Sound Deductive Reasoning / Support Key Claims with Facts / Use sound Inductive Reasoning / Define Key Terms / Organize Evidence According to Coherent Plan / Use Topoi to Generate Topics and Organize Your Essay Chapter 10 Reasoning and Editing Revise Throughout the Writing Process Revise for the Final Draft Write a Clear and Readable Prose Style Have other People Read and Respond to your Draft Edit the Final draft Rules of Usage / Quotations / Other Rules of Usage Related to Essays about Literature Physical Format Sample Essay in Two Drafts Robert Frost, “The Death of the Hired Man” / Jennifer Hargrove, “A Comparison of Mary and Warren in Robert Frost’s ‘The Death of the Hired Man’” Chapter 11 Documentation and Research Primary Sources Secondary Sources Research Papers and the Use of Secondary Sources How to Find Information and Opinions about Literature I. Library Catalogs and Stacks / II. Library reference Room / III. Library Periodicals / IV. Information and Opinion on the Internet / Evaluating the Quality of Web Sites Giving Credit to Sources Why Should You Give Credit? / When Should You Give Credit? / Where Should You Give Credit? Correct Documentary Form Guidelines for Parenthetical Citations / Guidelines for Footnotes and Endnotes / Guidelines and Form for the “Works Cited” List: General Rules / Sample Entries for Books / Sample Entry for Articles in Scholarly Journals / Sample Entries for Articles in Popular Publications / Sample Entries for Computer Databases / Sample Entry for Other Nonprint Sources Frequently Used Abbreviations Sample Research Paper Harold Wright, “The Monster’s Education in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” / Comments on the Research Paper Chapter 12 Taking Essay Tests Guidelines for Taking Essay Tests Sample Test Essays Chapter 13 Sample Essays Essay on a Poem Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Richard Cory” / George Cannon, “Point of View in Edwin Arlington Robinson’s ‘Richard Cory’” Essay on a Short Story Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” / Blake Long, “Montresor’s Fate in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Cask of Amontillado’” Essay on a Play Susan Glaspell, Trifles / Carolyn Briner, “The Meaning of Physical Objects in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles” Essay on a Novel Shalita Forrest, “First Love, Lost Love in George Eliot’s Adam Bede” Index of Concepts and Terms Index of Critics, Authors and Works For more information, call toll free at (800) 423-0563 Literature 77 TABLE OF CONTENTS Writing Essays about Literature Literature 78 Visit us on the web at www.heinle.com Use as a traditional text or customize via the Web! eFictions © 2002 Joseph F. Trimmer, Ball State University; Wade C. Jennings, Ball State University; Annette Patterson, James Cook, University–Australia © 2002 Paperback 904 pp. 0-15-506205-0 Instructor’s Resource Manual 0-15-506213-1 Literature eFictions offers a new, easy and exciting way for an instructor to teach fiction. Joseph Trimmer has collected a wide range of classic and contemporary fiction, and offers these stories to instructors and students via the Internet. All 200 stories are accompanied by writing apparatus and support for the instructor and reader. eFictions allows the reader and instructor to purchase only the fiction they want. With eFictions you can select the core text, an engaging collection of the 70 most popular short stories in English. Or you can use the Web Site, an extensive collection of traditional and innovative stories, which allows instructors to customize their own version of the anthology to fit their literary tastes and teaching styles. FEATURES—eFictions: The Core • eFictions: The Core contains the Introduction that explores reading, writing, and research processes. • 10 Paired Stories enable students to compare how two authors develop one major fictional element in their story; each pairing is designed to emphasize one of the five elements of fiction. • A Collection of Stories is an anthology of 59 stories arranged alphabetically by author with apparatus. • A glossary of Critical Terms concludes the text. FEATURES—eFictions: The Web Site • Provides access to all 70 stories in the core text and 130 additional stories. • The Web site contains: The Table of Contents, arranged alphabetically by author; the Abstract, with a head-note on the author, a brief summary of the story, and topics or thematic labels to indicate how the story might be studied thematically. • All customized version of eFictions will automatically contain the Introduction, including the Reading Process, the Writing Process, and the Research Process, as well as the Paired Stories section, providing 11 stories that introduce the instructional material in the book. NEW! Introduction Reading and Writing about Short Stories Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour The Writing Process The Research Process A Final Word Paired Stories Plot: Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog Joyce Carol Oates, The Lady with the Pet Dog Character: Willa Cather, Paul’s Case Ellen Gilchrist, Among the Mourners Setting: Katherine Mansfield, Her First Ball Witi Ihimaera, His First Ball Point of View: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Theme: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison Bergeron Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas A Collection of Stories Chinua Achebe, Vengeful Creditor Isabel Allende, Phantom Palace Sherwood Anderson, I’m a Fool James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths Albert Camus, The Guest Peter Carey, American Dreams Raymond Carver, A Small, Good Thing John Cheever, The Swimmer Sandra Cisneros, One Holy Night Arthur C. Clarke, The Star Stephen Crane, The Open Boat Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible William Faulkner, Barn Burning F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited Ernest Gaines, The Sky Is Gray Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Gail Godwin, Dream Children Nadine Gordimer, Town and Country Lovers Graham Greene, The Destructors Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini’s Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown Ernest Hemingway, The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber Shirley Jackson, The Lottery Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron Ha Jin, The Bridegroom James Joyce, Araby James Joyce, The Dead Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner Henry Lawson, The Drover’s Wife Doris Lessing, A Woman on a Roof Jack London, To Build a Fire Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O’Connor, Revelation Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of Amontillado Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall J. F. Powers, A Losing Game Thomas Pynchon, Entropy Philip Roth, Defender of the Faith Jean Shepard, The Endless Street Car Ride into Night, and the Tinfoil Noose Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimpel the Fool John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums John Updike, A & P John Updike, Separating Alice Walker, Everyday Use Fay Weldon, Pumpkin Pie Eudora Welty, Why I Live at the P.O. Eudora Welty, A Worn Path Edith Wharton, Roman Fever Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man For more information, call toll free at (800) 423-0563 Literature 79 TABLE OF CONTENTS eFictions See pages 68-69 for additional information on customizing eFictions Liiterture 80 Visit us on the web at www.heinle.com This student-friendly text gives clear explanations of complex theories. It also provides extensive guidance for writing literary analyses from each of the critical perspectives. FEATURES • Each chapter includes a glossary of terms commonly used within the school of criticism being examined. • A list of useful Web sites at the end of each chapter provides another valuable source of information. • Each critical approach is demonstrated by application to a standard poem or story that students are likely to read in college. • Extensive and specific suggestions are given on how to write an essay. Makes the complex understandable! Theory into Practice An Introduction to Literary Criticism © 2002 Ann B. Dobie, University of Louisiana–Lafayette © 2002 Paperback 336 pp 0-15-506858-X Literature NEW! 1. The Relationship of Reading and Writing Reading and Writing in College / Engaging the Text / Shaping a Response / Helping the Process / Summing Up / Recommended Web Sites / Suggested Reading 2. Familiar Approaches Conventional Ways of Reading Literature / Conventional Ways of Writing about Literature / Summing Up / Recommended Web Sites / Model Student Analyses 3. Formalism Historical Background / Reading as a Formalist / Writing a Formalist Analysis / Glossary of Terms Useful in Formalist Criticism / Recommended Web Sites / Suggested Reading / Model Student Analysis 4. Psychological Criticism Historical Background / Practicing Psychological Criticism / Writing Psychological Criticism / Glossary of Terms Useful in Psychological Criticism / Recommended Web Sites / Suggested Reading / Model Student Analyses 5. Marxist Criticism Historical Background / Reading from a Marxist Perspective / Writing a Marxist Analysis / Glossary of Terms Useful in Marxist Criticism / Recommended Web Sites / Suggested Reading / Model Student Analysis 6. Feminist Criticism Historical Background / Reading as a Feminist / Writing Feminist Criticism / Glossary of Terms Useful in Feminist Criticism / Recommended Web Sites / Suggested Reading / Model Student Analysis 7. Reader-Response Criticism Historical Background / Making a Readers Response / Writing a Reader-Response Analysis / Glossary of Terms Useful in Reader- Response Criticism / Recommended Web Sites / Suggested Reading / Model Student Analysis 8. Deconstruction Historical Background / Practicing Deconstruction / Making a Deconstructive Analysis / Writing a Deconstructive Analysis / Glossary of Terms Useful in Understanding Deconstruction / Recommended Web Sites / Suggested Reading / Model Student Analysis 9. Cultural Studies: New Historicism An Overview of Cultural Studies / Assumptions, Principles, and Goals of New Historicism / Historical Background / Reading as a New Historicist / Writing a New Historicist Literary Analysis / Glossary of Terms Useful in New Historicist Criticism / Recommended Web Sites / Suggested Reading / Model Student Analysis 10. More Cultural Studies: Postcolonialism and Multiculturalism Postcolonialism / Historical Background / Basic Assumptions / Reading as a Postcolonialist / Glossary of Terms Useful in Postcolonial Studies / American Multiculturalism / African-American Literature / Reading as a Multiculturalist / Writing a Cultural Studies Analysis / Recommended Web Sites / Suggested Reading / Model Student Analyses Literary Selections William Faulkner, Barn Burning / James Joyce, Araby / Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown / Guy de Maupassant, The Diamond Necklace / Letters of Abigail and John Adams / Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death / Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening / Ernest J.Gaines, The Sky Is Gray / Jill Ker Conway, excerpt from The Road From Coorain / Zora Neale Hurston, excerpt from The Eatonville Anthology For more information, call toll free at (800) 423-0563 Literature 81 TABLE OF CONTENTS Literature 82 Visit us on the web at www.heinle.com This up-to-date anthology emphasizes Victorian nonfiction prose and verse with a generous, fresh selection from authors both canonical and noncanonical. With clear and thorough annotation, it also incorporates new research and teaching interests. FEATURES • The five Contexts sections that begin the book provide convenient coverage of chief historical issues. • The text includes an ample selection of both well-known and previously overlooked authors. • Thorough annotations and footnotes provide students with reliable information. • Other features include a chronology and bibliography for accurate, up-to-date historical overviews, and biographical and critical appreciation. • A color insert shows pages and covers from literature and advertisements printed in the nineteenth century. Victorian Literature 1830–1900 © 2002 Dorothy Mermin, Cornell University; Herbert F. Tucker, University of Virginia © 2002 Hardback 1140 pp. 0-15-507177-7 Literature TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I. Historical and Cultural Contexts 1. The Condition of England 2. Faith, Doubt, and Knowledge 3. Gender and Sexuality 4. Empire and Travel 5. The Function of Poetry Part II. Authors John Keble Thomas Carlyle Thomas Babington MacAulay James Dawson Burn John Henry Newman William Barnes Harriet Martineau John Stuart Mill Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alfred Tennyson Charles Darwin George Meredith Margaret Oliphant Christina Georgina Rossetti Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) William Morris Algernon Charles Swinburne Augusta Webster Walter Pater Thomas Hardy Gerard Manley Hopkins Michael Field (Katharine Bradley; Edith Cooper) Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wilde A. E. Housman Mary Coleridge Amy Levy William Butler Yeats Rudyard Kipling Ernest Dowson Max Beerbohm Edward Fitzgerald Elizabeth Gaskell Samuel Smiles Robert Browning Edward Lear Emily Bronté John Ruskin Victoria Arthur Hugh Clough Jean Ingelow Florence Nightingale Herbert Spencer Matthew Arnold Frances Power Cobbe Coventry Patmore Adelaide Anne Procter Thomas Henry Huxley Dante Gabriel Rossetti NEW! Literature 83 For more information, call toll free at (800) 423-0563 This textbook provides one of the strongest combinations of traditional plays and current plays. With important secondary readings in the book and some of the best introductory essays about the theater and culture of the various historical periods of any book in the field, it is unrivaled in its combination of historical and critical material. FEATURES • This is a briefer version of the best selling Harcourt Brace Anthology of Drama. • Comprehensive content can be used in many courses. • Critical and theoretical materials make ordering other texts unnecessary. • Gender and racial diversity sets plays in their contemporary multicultural climate. The perfect combination of historical and critical material! The Harcourt Anthology of Drama Brief Edition © 2002 W. B. Worthen, University of California–Berkeley © 2002 Paperback 997 pp. 0-15-506395-2 Instructor’s Manual 0-15-506403-7 Literature NEW! TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Drama, Theater, and Culture Part I. Classical Athens Sophocles, Oedipus the King / Euripides, Medea / Aristophanes, Lysistrata Part II. Classical Japan Kan’ami Kiyotsugu, Matsukaze / Nakamura Matagoro II and James R. Brandon, Adaptors: Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai Part III. Medieval and Renaissance England Anonymous, Everyman / William Shakespeare, Hamlet / William Shakespeare, The Tempest Part IV. Early Modern Europe Pedro Calderón de la Barco, Life Is a Dream / Molière, Tartuffe / Aphra Behn, The Rover / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Loa to The Divine Narcissus Part V. Modern Europe Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House / Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard / Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara / Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children / Samuel Beckett, Endgame / Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine Part VI. The United States Susan Glaspell, Trifles / Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie / Luis Valdez, Los Vendidos / August Wilson, Fences / David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly / Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches / Suzan-Lori Parks, The America Play Part VII. World Stages Aimé Césaire, A Tempest / Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman / Brian Friel, Translations / Maishe Maponya, Gangsters / Tomson Highway, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing / Athol Fugard, Valley Song Literature 84 Visit us on the web at www.heinle.com Literature This classic textbook continues to lead the market and set the standard for introduction to poetry courses. We are fortunate to hold as a new author Greg Johnson, accomplished fiction and novel writer and award-winning creative writing instructor. FEATURES • The most-often assigned Introduction to Poetry text ever published. • This edition contains more information on writing. All chapters have been supplied with “Suggestions for Writing.” • Chapters 15 (bad and good poetry) and 16 (great poetry) have been renamed “Evaluating Poetry.” The standard-setter for poetry courses! Perrine’s Sound and Sense An Introduction to Poetry, Tenth Edition © 2001 Thomas R. Arp, Southern Methodist University; Greg Johnson, Kennesaw State University © 2001 Paperback 435 pp. 0-15-507396-6 Instructor’s Manual 0-15-507397-4 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, Redemption / Robert Frost, Fire and Ice / Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses / Alastair Reid, Curiosity / Richard Wilbur, The Writer / Jay Macpherson, Sun and Moon / John Donne, Hymn to God My God, In My Sickness / Emily Dickinson, I Started Early–Took My Dog / Exercises / 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 / Edwin Arlington Robinson, New England / Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll / William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper / Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias / Exercise / John Donne, Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God / Elisavietta Ritchie, Sorting Laundry / W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen / Robert Frost, Departmental / Larry Rottmann, APO 96225 / Lucille Clifton, In the Inner City / M. Carl Holman, Mr. Z / Robert Browning, My Last Duchess / Suggestions for Writing William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us / Robert Frost, Desert Places / John Donne, A Hymn to God the Father / Elizabeth Bishop, One Art / Suggestions for Writing 4. Imagery Robert Browning, Meeting at Night / Robert Browning, Parting at Morning / Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring / William Carlos Williams, The Widow’s Lament in Springtime / Emily Dickinson, I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain / Seamus Heaney, The Forge / Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain / Robert Frost, After Apple Picking / Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays / Jean Toorner, Reapers / John Keats, To Autumn / Suggestions for Writing 5. Figurative Language 1 Simi1e Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy / Frances Cornford, The Guitarist Tunes Up / Robert Francis, The Hound / Robert Frost, Bereft / Emily Dickinson, It Sifts from Leaden Sieves / Thomas Hardy, The Subalterns / John Keats, Bright Star / Exercise / Richard Wilbur, Mind / Emily Dickinson, I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed / Sylvia Plath, Metaphors / Elizabeth Bishop, Pink Dog / Philip Larkin, Toads / John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning / Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress / Ralph Waldo Emerson, Suum Cuique / Langston Hughes, Dream Deferred / Suggestions for Writing I. The Elements of Poetry 1. What Is Poetry? Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle / William Shakespeare, Winter / Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est / William Shakespeare, Spring / Emily Dickinson, How Many Times These Low Feet Staggered / Robert Hayden, The Whipping / Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham / Gwendolyn Brooks, Kitchenette Building / William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow / Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro / Langston Hughes, Suicide’s Note / A. E. Housman, Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff / 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 / General Exercises for Analysis and Evaluation / John Donne, Break of Day / Emily Dickinson, There’s Been a Death, In the Opposite House / Sylvia Plath, Mirror / Carter Revard, Discovery of the New World / Edwin Arlington Robinson, Eros Turannos / Katherine Philips, Against Love / Dabney Stuart, Hidden Meanings / 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 / Ben Johnson, On My First Son / Henry Reed, Naming of Parts / Langston Hughes, Cross / TABLE OF CONTENTS For more information, call toll free at (800) 423-0563 Literature 85 14. Pattern Emily Dickinson, These Are the Days When Birds Come Back / Anonymous, An Epicure Dining at Crewe / John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer / William Shakespeare, That Time of Year / Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, / a Smattering Of Limericks / Carolyn Wells, A Tutor Who Tooted the Flute / Anonymous, There Was A Young Fellow Named Hall / Martin Bristow Smith, A Goat on a Stroll Near a Brook / Laurence Perrine, The Limerick’s Never Averse / William Shakespeare, From Romeo and Juliet / John Donne, Death, Be Not Proud / Martha Collins, The Story We Know / Wendy Cope, Lonely Hearts / George Gascoigne, Gascoigne’s Lullaby / Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night / Anonymous, Edward Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder / Michael Mcfee, In Medias Res / Exercise / Suggestions for Writing 15. Evaluating Poetry 1 Sentimental, Rhetorical, Didactic Verse / God’s Will for You and Me / Pied Beauty a Poison Tree / The Most Vital Thing In Life / Longing / To Marguerite Pitcher / The Old-Fashioned Pitcher / The Long Voyage / Breathes There the Man / The Engine / I Like to See It Lap the Miles / The Toys / Little Boy Blue / When I Have Fears / O Solitude! / Do Not Stand By My Grave and Weep / Song / Suggestions for Writing 16. Evaluating Poetry 2 Poetic Excellence / John Donne, The Canonization / John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn / Emily Dickinson, There’s a Certain Slant of Light / Robert Frost, Home Burial / T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / Wallace Stevens, Sunday Morning / Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish II. Writing about Poetry Writing about Poetry I. Why Write about Literature? II. For Whom Do You Write? III. Choosing a Topic Papers That Focus on a Single Poem / Papers of Comparison and Contrast /Papers on a Number of Poems By a Single Author / Papers on a Number of Poems with Some Feature Other Than Authorship in Common IV. Proving Your Point V. Writing the Paper VI. Introducing Quotations (Q1—Q11) VII. Documentation Textual Documentation (TDI—TD5) / Parenthetical Documentation (PD1—PD6) VIII. Stance and Style (SI—S6) IX. Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems Grammar(G1—G2) / Punctuation (P1—P5) / Usage (U1—U2) X. Writing Samples Explication: “A Study of Reading Habits” / Analysis: Diction in “Pathedy of Manners” XI. Poems For Further Reading Poems for Futher Reading / Margaret Atwood, Siren Song / W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts / D. C. Berry, On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High / William Blake, The Lamb / William Blake, The Tiger / David Bottoms, Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt / Rupert Brooke, The Dead / Elizabeth Barrett Browning, If Thou Must Love Me / Lucille Clifton, Good Times / Lucille Clifton, The Lost Baby Poem / Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan / Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know / Walter De La Mare, Scholars / Emily Dickinson, A Light Exists in Spring / Emily Dickinson, A Narrow Fellow in the Grass / Emily Dickinson, I Died for Beauty 1 But Was Scarce / Emily Dickinson, I Like a Look of Agony / Emily Dickinson, What Inn Is This / Tom Disch, The Lipstick on the Mirror / John Donne, The Good-Morrow / John Donne, Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star / John Donne, Song: Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go / John Donne, The Triple Fool / Keith Douglas, Vergissmeinnicht / Stephen Dunn, Tangier / Carolyn Forché, The Colonel / Robert Frost, Birches / Robert Frost, Mending Wall / Robert Frost, Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same / Robert Frost, The Oven Bird / Nikki Giovanni, Nikki- Rosa / Thom Gunn, On the Move / R. S. Gwynn, Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins / Marilyn Hacker, Fourteen / Rachel Hadas, The Red Hat / Donald Hall, My Son, My Executioner / Thomas Hardy, Channel Firing / Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush / Thomas Hardy, Hap / William Heyen, Riddle / A. E. Housman, To a an Athlete Dying Young / A. E. Housman, Bredon Hill / Langston Hughes, Theme for English / B Ted Hughes, Thistles / Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner / Ben Jonson, Song: To Celia / Jenny Joseph, Warning / Donald Justice, In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn / John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci / John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale / Maxine Kumin, The Sound of Night / Philip Larkin, Aubade / Marianne Moore, What Are Years? / Sharon Olds, The Victims / Mary Oliver, The Summer Day / Simon J. Ortiz, Speaking / Linda Pastan, The Imperfect Paradise / Marge Piercy, A Work Of Artifice / Sylvia Plath, Mad Girl’s Love Song / Sylvia Plath, Spinster / Deborah Pope, Getting Through / John Crowe Ransom, Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter / Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers / Adrienne Rich, Living in Sin / Adrienne Rich, Storm Warnings / Alberto Ríos, Nani / Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Mill / Edwin Arlington Robinson, Mr. Flood’s Party / Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory / Theodore Roethke, I Knew a Woman / Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz / Anne Sexton, The Abortion / Anne Sexton, Her Kind / William Shakespeare, Fear No More / William Shakespeare, Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds / William Shakespeare, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? / Karl Shapiro, The Fly / Sir Philip Sidney, Loving In Truth / Gary Soto, Small Town with One Road / Wallace Stevens, The Death of a Soldier / Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock / Wallace Stevens, The Snow Man / Jonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning / Alfred, Lord Tennyson, From “In Memoriam A.H.H.” / Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill / John Updike, Telephone Poles / Derek Walcott, The Virgins / Edmund Waller, Song: Go, Lovely Rose! / Bruce Weigl, Snowy Egret / Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer / Richard Wilbur, April 5, 1974 / William Carlos Williams, Poem / William Carlos Williams, Spring and All / William Wordsworth, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 / William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud / William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper / William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming / William Butler Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole / Glossary of Terms / Copyrights and Acknowledgments / Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines CONTENTS Perrine’s Sound and Sense 8. Allusion Robert Frost, “Out, Out–” / William Shakespeare, from Macbeth (“She Should Have Died Hereafter”) / e. e. cummings, In Just / John Milton, On His Blindness / Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy / William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan / Katharyn Howd Machan, Leda’s Sister and the Geese / Emily Dickinson, Abraham to Kill Him / Walter McDonald, Life With Father / Laurence Perrine, A Monkey Sprang Down from a Tree / Laurence Perrine, Two Brothers Devised What at Sight / Suggestions for Writing 9. Meaning And Idea Anonymous, Little Jack Horner / A. E. Housman, Loveliest Of Trees / Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening / William Cullen Bryant, To a Waterfowl / Robert Frost, Design / Emily Dickinson, I Never Saw a Moor / Emily Dickinson, “Faith” Is a Fine Invention / John Donne, The Indifferent / John Donne, Love’s Deity / Dudley Randall, To the Mercy Killers / Edwin Arlington Robinson, How Annandale Went Out / Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Caged Skylark / Gerard Manley Hopkins, No Worst, There Is None / Suggestion for Writing 10. Tone Richard Eberhart, For a Lamb / Emily Dickinson, Apparently With No Surprise / Michael Drayton, Since There’s No Help / William Shakespeare, My Mistress’eyes / Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Crossing the Bar / Thomas Hardy, The Oxen / Emily Dickinson, One Dignity Delays for All / Emily Dickinson, Twas Warm–At First–Like Us / John Donne, The Apparition / John Donne, The Flea / Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach / Philip Larkin, Church Going / Cleopatra Mathis, Getting Out Anonymous, Love / Suggestions for Writing 11. Musical Devices Ogden Nash, The Turtle / W. H. Auden, That Night When Joy Began / Theodore Roethke, The Waking / Gerard Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur / Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool / Dudley Randall, Blackberry Sweet / Maya Angelou, Woman Work / Ralph Waldo Emerson,...