Poetry
CHAPTER 15: READING A POEM IN ITS ELEMENTS
A Conversation on Writing with Carolyn Forché, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1eAn Interactive Reading: Carolyn Forche, The Museum of Stones
The Craft of PoetryRobert Burns, O My Luve’s Like a Red, Red Rose Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays Sappho, A Fragment [“The moon has set”]William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Mary Oliver, At Blackwater Pond William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium Stephen Dunn, Poem for People That Are Understandably Too Busy to Read Poetry
CHAPTER 16: GOING FURTHER WITH READINGAn Interactive Reading: William Shakespeare My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun Leonard Cohen, For Anne
FORMS OF POETRY
LyricSong of Solomon 4:1-7 [“Behold thou art fair, my love”]D. H. Lawrence, Piano William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan
EpicGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan [“Bob Southey, you’re a poet”] George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan [“I want a hero”]
DramaticRobert Browning, My Last Duchess A Conversation on Translation with Stephen Mitchell, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1eBhagavad Gita [The Secret of Life], translated by Stephen Mitchell Rumi, Some Kiss We Want, translated by Coleman ParksPablo Neruda, Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You, translated by Gustavo Escobedo
For Review and Further StudyElizabeth Barrett Browning, Go From Me Robert Browning, Love Among the Ruins William Dickey, ThereforeEdna St. Vincent Millay, Not In A Silver Casket Cool With Pearls Adrienne Rich, Living In Sin Rainer Maria Rilke, Archaic Torso of Apollo, translated by Stephen Mitchell
CHAPTER 17: WRITING ABOUT POETRYA Conversation on Writing with Li-Young Lee, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1eLi-Young Lee, Eating Alone Li-Young Lee, Eating Together An Interactive Reading of Eating AloneA Student’s Critical Analysis Paper on Eating Alone (three drafts)
CHAPTER 18: WORDS A Conversation on Writing with Marie Howe, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e Marie Howe, What the Living Do
Word Choice: Varieties of Diction John Keats, Ode on a Grecian UrnW. H. Auden, Funeral BluesGwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
General vs. Specific LanguageWilliam Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
AllusionAnthony Hecht, The Dover Bitch Philip Larkin, Aubade
Denotation vs. ConnotationElizabeth Bishop, The Fish James Wright, A Blessing
Word Order Robert Frost, Stopping by woods on a snowy evening Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream Lucille Clifton, Homage to my hips Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
For Review and Further Study Wanda Coleman, The ISMBilly Collins, The Names E.E. Cummings, in Just – John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Alan Dugan, Love Song: I and Thou Louise Gluck, Song of Obstacles Samuel Hazo, Just WordsNaomi Shihab Nye, The World In Translation A Checklist: Reading for WordsSuggestions for Writing about Words
CHAPTER 19: VOICE: Persona, Tone, and Irony A Conversation on Writing with Stephen Dunn, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1eStephen Dunn, After
ToneRandall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz Wallace Stevens, Sunday Morning Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book
For Review and Further StudyCharlotte Mew, I So Liked Spring Gary Soto, Mexicans Begin Jogging William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark William Carlos Williams, This Is Just To Say
Persona Ben Jonson, On My First Son Sylvia Plath, Daddy Rita Dove, Flash Cards Mark Doty, Golden Retrievals Ai, Riot Act, April 29, 1992 William Butler Yeats, Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
For Review and Further StudyFrank Bidart, Herbert White Juan Felipe Herrera, Autobiography of a Chicano Teen Poet Natasha Trethewey, Letter Home—New Orleans, November 1910
Irony Paul Laurence Dunbar, To a Captious Critic Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est Kenneth Fearing, AD Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Corey Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain Stephen Dunn, To a Terrorist
For Review and Further StudyE. E. Cummings, next to of course god America I Dorothy Parker, Sonnet for the End of a Sequence A Checklist: Reading for VoiceSuggestions for Writing about Voice
CHAPTER 20: IMAGES AND SYMBOLS A Conversation on Writing with Jane Hirshfield, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1eJane Hirshfield, Tree Button Kobayashi Issa, On a branch, translated by Jane HirshfieldMatsuo Basho, A caterpillar, translated by Robert HassEzra Pound, In a Station of the Metro H. D., Sea Poppies William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar Jane Kenyon, The Blue Bowl
Poems and PaintingsW. H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts with Breughel’s Fall of Icarus Anne Carson, Automat with Edward Hopper’s AutomatCathy Song, Girl Powdering Her Neck with Kitagawa Utamaro’s Ukiyo-e print of Girl Powdering Her Neck
For Review and Further StudyRobert Bly, Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter John Dryden, Song for Saint Cecelia’s Day, 1687 Paul Laurence Dunbar, Farm House By the River John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Scavenging on a Double Bluff Amy Lowell, Patterns Robert Lowell, The Quaker Graveyard In Nantucket Cleopatra Mathis, Lilacs Howard Nemerov, The Blue Swallows Pablo Neruda, The Stolen Branch, translated by Donald D. WalshOctavio Paz, Motion Carole Satyamarti, I Shall Paint My Nails Red Sara Teasdale, I Am Not Yours A Checklist: Reading for Images and SymbolsSuggestions for Writing about Images and Symbols
CHAPTER 21: FIGURES OF SPEECH A Conversation on Writing with Robert Pinsky, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e Robert Pinsky, Shirt Michael Ondaatje, Sweet Like a Crow Robert Pinsky, To Television
Simile and MetaphorMargaret Atwood, You fit into me Jane Kenyon, The Suitor Sylvia Plath, Metaphors Linda Pastan, Jump Cabling Paul Muldoon, Symposium
Hyperbole and Understatement
Synechdoche and MetonymyCzeslaw Milosz, Encounter, translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian ValleeDiane Wakoski, Inside Out
Personification and ApostropheWilliam Wordsworth, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 William Blake, Ah! Sunflower Gabriella Mistral, Fugitive Woman, translated by Randall Couch
Parodox and OxymoronMatsuo Basho, Kyoto, translated by Robert HassWilliam Butler Yeats: The Fisherman
PunA. R. Ammons, Their Sex Life
Humor Julie Sheehan, I Hate You
For Further Review and StudyJohn Keats, To Autumn Marge Piercy, The Secretary Chant Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar Walt Whitman, A Noiseless, Patient Spider Nancy Willard, Saint Pumpkin A Checklist: Reading for Figures of SpeechSuggestions for Writing about Figures of Speech
CHAPTER 22: SOUND, RHYME, AND RHYTHM Conversation on Writing with Thomas Lynch, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1eThomas Lynch, Iambs for the day of burial
SoundSeamus Heaney, Digging
For Further Review and StudyJohn Keats, Bright Star – Would I Were As Steadfast As Thou Art Edna St. Vincent Millay, Only Until This Cigarette Is Ended Christina Rossetti, A Birthday
RhymeAlexander Pope, True ease in writing comes from art, not chance [excerpt from “An Essay on Criticism”] Marianne Moore, The Fish Emily Dickinson, The difference between Despair
For Further Review and StudyJulia Alvarez, Women’s Work Kelly Cherry, The Raiment We Put On Marilyn Nelson, Chopin
Rhythm
Stresses and PausesGwendolyn Brooks, Sadie and Maud
Meter
ScansionSamuel Taylor Coleridge, Trochee trips from long to short
Metrical VariationGerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
For Further Review and StudyAnonymous, Bonnie Barbara Allen Amy Clampitt, John Donne in California John Donne, Hymn to God, My God, In My Sickness Sonia Sanchez, Poem at Thirty Kevin Young, Jook A Checklist: Reading for Sound, Rhyme, and RhythmSuggestions for Writing about Sound, Rhyme, and Rhythm
CHAPTER 23: FIXED POETIC FORMS A Conversation on Writing with Edward Hirsch, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1eEdward Hirsch, My First Theology Lesson
Form, Fixed Form, Open Form
Stanzas, Couplets, Tercets, Quatrains
The Building Blocks of Form
The Sonnet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer William Shakespeare, When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes Maxine Kumin, Saga
VillanelleDylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night Elizabeth Bishop, One Art
SestinaElizabeth Bishop, Sestina
PantoumDonald Justice, Pantoum of the Great Depression Erica Funkhouser, First Pantoum of Summer
HaikuMatsuo Basho, Deep autumn—, translated by Robert HassYosa Buson, Tethered horse, translated by Robert HassKobayashi Issa, Don’t worry, spiders, translated by Robert Hass
EpigramSamuel Taylor Coleridge, What Is an Epigram? Langston Hughes, Prayer J. V. Cunningham, Two Epigrams A. R. Ammons, Small Song
LimerickEdward Lear, There was an Old Man with a gong J. D. Landis, Starvation Diet Laurence Perrine, The limerick’s never averse
ElegyA. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young W. H. Auden, In Memory of W. B. Yeats Theodore Roethke, Elegy for Jane
OdePercy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
For Review and Further StudyLouise Bogan, Changed Woman Nikki Giovanni, Knoxville, Tennessee Marilyn Hacker, Elektra on Third Avenue Seamus Heaney, Mid-Term Break Andrew Hudgins, Elegy for My Father Dorianne Laux, The Shipfitter’s Wife Jacqueline Osherow, Sonnet for the Music in the Warsaw Ghetto Robert Pinsky, Sonnet Mary Jo Salter, Video Blues Gjertrud Schnackenburg, Snow Melting David Wojahn, The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum Niagara Falls, Ontario, l987A Checklist: Reading for Fixed Poetic FormsSuggestions for Writing about Fixed Poetic Forms
CHAPTER 24: OPEN FORMS A Conversation on Writing with Robert Hass, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e Robert Hass, Meditation at Lagunitas
Open Form PoetryWalt Whitman, Song of Myself [I Celebrate myself, and sing myself] Sherman Alexie, Defending Walt Whitman E. E. Cummings, Since Feeling Is First Galway Kinnell, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps C. K. Williams, Tar Sharon Olds, Sex without Love Robert Hass, Dragonflies Mating
Visual Poetry George Herbert, Easter Wings John Hollander, Swan and the Shadow Chen Li, War Symphony Dylan Thomas, Vision and Prayer (i)
Prose PoemsCarolyn Forche, The ColonelLouis Jenkins, Football Ray Gonzalez, Corn Face Mesilla
For Further Review and Study Marilyn Chin, Turtle Soup Sandra Cisneros, Pumpkin Eater Mari Evans, Spectrum Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California Lorna Goodison, On Becoming a Tiger D. H. Lawrence, Snake Denise Levertov, Ache of Marriage Alberto Alvaro Rios, NaniRobert Sward, God Is In the Cracks James Wright, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio A Checklist: Reading for Open FormsSuggestions for Writing about Open Forms
CHAPTER 25: SONG and SPOKEN WORDA Conversation on Writing with Al Young, video interview available online @ www.mhhe.com/delbanco1e Al Young, Doo-Wop: The Moves
The Power of Rhythm Anonymous, Western Wind
Story in Brief Song: BalladsAnonymous, Sir Patrick Spence
Songs of the Countryside: Pastoral PoetryChristopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Shakespeare in SongWilliam Shakespeare, Feare no more the heat of the sun
Language as MelodyJohn Donne, Song: Go and catch a falling star
Native American PoetryJoy Harjo, Morning Song
Spoken Word PioneersThe Last Poets, My People Marc Smith, Dusty Blues
Three Spoken Word PoemsKenneth Carroll, So What! (for the White Dude who said this ain’t poetry) Lawson Fusao Inada, Grandmother Emily XYZ, Ship of State of Fools
For Further Review and StudyMiguel Algarin, HIV Jimmy Santiago Baca, Choices Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky Gil Scott Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Langston Hughes, The Blues Audre Lorde, The Electric Slide Boogie Willie Perdomo, Postcards of El Barrio Quincy Troupe, Poem Reaching for Something A Checklist: Reading Song and Spoken WordSuggestions for Writing about Song and Spoken Word
CHAPTER 26: LANGSTON HUGHES: A Case Study on Langston Hughes and his Contemporaries
Difficult Beginnings A Turning PointThe Harlem Renaissance Blues and JazzHughes’s PoetryFacts of Life
Langston HughesBallad of the Landlord Dream Boogie The Dream Keeper HarlemTheme for English B Let America Be America Again The Negro Speaks Of Rivers I, Too Minstrel Man Mother to Son Motto Negro A New Song Night Funeral In Harlem Po’ Boy Blues ArdellaSong for a Dark Girl The Weary Blues
Essay: “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”
Hughes’ ContemporariesCountee Cullen, Incident Helene Johnson, Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem Claude McKay, White City Jean Toomer, Reapers Jesse Redmon Fauset, Touche Angelina Weld Grimke, Fragment Getting Started: A Research Project Further Suggestions for Writing and ResearchSome Sources for Research
CHAPTER 27: ART AND POETRY:
A CASE STUDY ON WILLIAM BLAKE
William Blake’s Art and PoetryAn Unconventional MindBlake in Context: Eighteenth Century London
From Songs of InnocenceIntroduction to Songs of Innocence The Echoing Green with IllustrationsThe Little Lamb The Little Black Boy The Chimney Sweeper The Little Boy Lost The Little Boy Found Holy Thursday The Divine Image with Illustration
From Songs of ExperienceHoly Thursday with Illustration The Chimney Sweeper The Sick Rose The Tyger London The Human Abstract A Little Boy Lost A Little Girl Lost The Voice of the Ancient Bard The Clod & the Pebble Garden of Love with Illustration Making Connections: Songs of Innocence and ExperienceMaking Connections: Reading Text and ImageGetting Started: A Research ProjectLearning to Read Images: William Blake’s The Fly with IllustrationFurther Suggestions for Writing and ResearchSome Sources for Research
CHAPTER 28: AMERICAN PLAIN STYLE:
Two Case Studies: Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost
Emily Dickinson and Robert FrostThe Roots of American Plain StyleThe Plain Style
Emily DickinsonSuccess is counted sweetest I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed Some keep the Sabbath going to Church Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers I like a look of Agony Wild Nights—Wild Nights There’s a Certain Slant of Light I felt a Funeral in my Brain I’m Nobody! Who are You The Soul Selects Her Own Society After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes Much Madness Is Divinest Sense I died for Beauty—but was scarce I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died The Brain—Is Wider Than the Sky I started early, took my dog Because I Could Not Stop for Death One Need Not Be A Chamber – To Be Haunted A narrow Fellow in the Grass The Bustle in a House Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant There is no Frigate like a Book
Robert FrostMowing After Apple-Picking Mending Wall Birches "Out, Out—" The Oven Bird The Road Not Taken Fire and Ice Nothing Gold Can Stay Acquainted with the Night Desert Places Design Come In The Gift Outright The Silken Tent Getting Started: A Research ProjectFurther Suggestions for Writing and ResearchSome Sources for Research
CHAPTER 29: AN ANOTHOLOGY OF POEMS FOR FURTHER READING Kim Addonizio, First Poem for You Gloria Anzaldua, To live in the Borderlands means you W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband Emily Bronte, Come Walk with Me Robert Browning, Meeting at Night Robert Browning, Parting at Morning George Gordon, Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty John Ciardi, Most Like An Arch This Marriage Judith Ortiz Cofer, Quinceañera Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan E.E. Cummings, l(a E.E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town E.E. Cummings, buffalo bill’s defunct John Donne, Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God, for You John Donne, Death, Be not Proud John Donne, The Flea John Donne, The Sun Rising T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Louise Erdrich, Dear John Wayne Rhina Espaillat, Bilingual/Bilingue Linda Gregg, Something Scary Kimiko Hahn, The Details We Fall For Donald Hall, Letter with No Address Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush George Herbert, Love Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes Robert Herrick, Delight In Disorder Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time Gerard Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover A.E. Housman, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now A.E. Housman, When I was One and Twenty Ben Jonson, To Celia John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It Emma Lazarus, Colossus Thomas Lynch, Liberty Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress Gerda Mayer, Narcissus James Merrill, The Victor Dog W. S. Merwin, For the Anniversary of My Death John Milton, Paradise Lost [“Of Man’s first disobedience…”] John Milton, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent Wilfred Owen, Anthem of Doomed Youth Grace Paley, Here Linda Pastan, Ethics Molly Peacock, Desire Sylvia Plath, Mirror Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee Ezra Pound, The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Sir Walter Raleigh, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham Henry Reed, Naming of Parts Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck Wendy Rose, Leaving Port Authority for the St. Regis Rez Christina Rossetti, Echo Sappho, a lyric Carl Sandburg, Fog Ann Sexton, Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds William Shakespeare, Not marble nor the gilded monuments William Shakespeare, That time of year thou mayest in me behold Jane Shore, My Mother’s Chair Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias Sir Phillip Sidney, To the Sad Moon Gary Soto, Saturday at the Canal Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses Anne Waldman, BluehawkPhyllis Wheatley, On Begin Brought from Africa to America Richard Wilbur, The Writer William Carlos Williams, Spring and All William Wordsworth, London, 1802 William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much With Us William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old
Literature: Craft and Voice (Volume 2, Poetry), Vol. 2
