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Preface for Instructors
Thematic Contents
Introduction: Reading Imaginative Literature
The Nature of Literature
EMILY DICKINSON, A narrow Fellow in the Grass
The Value of Literature
The Changing Literary Canon
Encountering Poetry: Images of Poetry in Popular Culture
POSTER: Dorothy Parker, Unfortunate Coincidence
PHOTO: Carl Sandburg, Window
CARTOON: Roz Chast, The Love Song of J. Alfred Crew
PHOTO: Tim Taylor, I shake the delicate apparatus
POSTER: Eric Dunn and Mike Wigton, National Poetry Slam
PHOTO: Kevin Fleming
WEB SCREEN: Poetry-portal.com
WEB SCREEN: Ted Kooser, American Life in Poetry
POEM IN NEWSPAPER: MICHAEL MCFEE, Spitwads
THE ELEMENTS OF POETRY
1. Reading Poetry
Reading Poetry Responsively
LISA PARKER, Snapping Beans
ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
JOHN UPDIKE, Dog’s Death
The Pleasure of Words
WILLIAM HATHAWAY, Oh, Oh
A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Annotated Version of "Oh, Oh"
ROBERT FRANCIS, Catch
A SAMPLE STUDENT ANALYSIS: Tossing Metaphors Together in Robert Francis’s "Catch"
ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
PHILIP LARKIN, A Study of Reading Habits
ROBERT MORGAN, Mountain Graveyard
E. E. CUMMINGS, l(a
ANONYMOUS, Western Wind
REGINA BARRECA, Nighttime Fires
Suggestions for Approaching Poetry
BILLY COLLINS, Introduction to Poetry
Poetry in Popular Forms
HELEN FARRIES, Magic of Love
JOHN FREDERICK NIMS, Love Poem
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Devils & Dust
S. PEARL SHARP, It’s the Law: A Rap Poem
PERSPECTIVE: ROBERT FRANCIS, On "Hard" Poetry
Poems for Further Study
MARY OLIVER, The Poet with His Face in His Hands
JIM TILLEY, The Big Questions
ALBERTO RÍOS, Seniors
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Crossing the Bar
LI HO, A Beautiful Girl Combs Her Hair
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Raven
CORNELIUS EADY, The Supremes
2. Writing about Poetry: From Inquiry to Final Paper
From Reading to Writing
Questions for Responsive Reading and Writing
ELIZABETH BISHOP, Manners
A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Annotated Version of "Manners"
A SAMPLE STUDENT ANALYSIS: Memory in Elizabeth Bishop’s "Manners"
3. Word Choice, Word Order, and Tone
Word Choice
Diction
Denotations and Connotations
RANDALL JARRELL, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Word Order
Tone
COLETTE INEZ, Back When All Was Continuous Chuckles
MARILYN NELSON, How I Discovered Poetry
KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN, Hazel Tells LaVerne
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Tone in Katharyn Howd Machan’s "Hazel Tells LaVerne"
MARTÍN ESPADA, Latin Night at the Pawnshop
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, To a Captious Critic
Diction and Tone in Four Love Poems
ROBERT HERRICK, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
ANDREW MARVELL, To His Coy Mistress
ANN LAUINGER, Marvell Noir
SHARON OLDS, Last Night
PERSPECTIVE: ADAM KIRSCH, Literary Allusion in the Age of Google
Poems for Further Study
THOMAS HARDY, The Convergence of the Twain
DAVID R. SLAVITT, Titanic
JOANNE DIAZ, On My Father’s Loss of Hearing
MARY OLIVER, Oxygen
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JOHN KEATS, Ode on a Grecian Urn
GWENDOLYN BROOKS, We Real Cool
JOAN MURRAY, We Old Dudes
ALICE JONES, The Larynx
LOUIS SIMPSON, In the Suburbs
Poets at Play
BILLY COLLINS, Taking off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes
JOAN MURRAY, Taking Off Billy Collins’s Clothes
POSTCARD: BILLY COLLINS, To Joan Murray
GARRISON KEILLOR, The Anthem
A Note on Reading Translations
Three Translations of a Poem by Sappho
SAPPHO, Immortal Aphrodite of the broidered throne
(translated by Henry T. Wharton)
SAPPHO, Beautiful-throned, immortal Aphrodite
(translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson)
SAPPHO, Prayer to my lady of Paphos (translated by Mary Barnard)
Two Translations of a Poem by Pablo Neruda
PABLO NERUDA, Verbo (original Spanish version)
PABLO NERUDA, Word (translated by Ben Belitt)
PABLO NERUDA, Word (translated by Kristin Linklater)
4. Images
Poetry’s Appeal to the Senses
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, Poem
WALT WHITMAN, Cavalry Crossing a Ford
DAVID SOLWAY, Windsurfing
THEODORE ROETHKE, Root Cellar
MATTHEW ARNOLD, Dover Beach
RUTH FORMAN, Poetry Should Ride the Bus
Poems for Further Study
AMY LOWELL, The Pond
H. D. [HILDA DOOLITTLE], Heat
RUTH FAINLIGHT, Crocuses
MARY ROBINSON, London’s Summer Morning
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Imagery in William Blake’s "London" and Mary Robinson’s "London’s Summer Morning"
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
PATTIANN ROGERS, In General
PATRICIA SMITH, What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl (for Those of You Who Aren’t)
RAINER MARIA RILKE, The Panther
JANE KENYON, The Blue Bowl
SALLY CROFT, Home-Baked Bread
JOHN KEATS, To Autumn
EDWARD HIRSCH, Fall
EZRA POUND, In a Station of the Metro
CATHY SONG, The White Porch
MELANIE MCCABE, Paperboy
PERSPECTIVE: T. E. HULME, On the Differences between Poetry and Prose
5. Figures of Speech
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, From Macbeth (Act V, Scene v)
Simile and Metaphor
MARGARET ATWOOD, you fit into me
EMILY DICKINSON, Presentiment — is that long Shadow—on the lawn—
ANNE BRADSTREET, The Author to Her Book
RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
Other Figures
EDMUND CONTI, Pragmatist
DYLAN THOMAS, The Hand That Signed the Paper
JANICE TOWNLEY MOORE, To a Wasp
J. PATRICK LEWIS, The Unkindest Cut
Poems for Further Study
GARY SNYDER, How Poetry Comes to Me
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Metaphor in Gary Snyder’s "How Poetry Comes to Me"
LOUISE BOGAN, Several Voices Out of a Cloud
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, To Waken an Old Lady
ERNEST SLYMAN, Lightning Bugs
JUDY PAGE HEITZMAN, The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill
SYLVIA PLATH, Mirror
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, London, 1802
JIM STEVENS, Schizophrenia
WALT WHITMAN, A Noiseless Patient Spider
JOHN DONNE, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
LINDA PASTAN, Marks
KAY RYAN, Hailstorm
RONALD WALLACE, Building an Outhouse
ELAINE MAGARRELL, The Joy of Cooking
SCOTT HIGHTOWER, My Father
PERSPECTIVE: JOHN R. SEARLE, Figuring Out Metaphors
6. Symbol, Allegory, and Irony
Symbol
ROBERT FROST, Acquainted with the Night
Allegory
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Haunted Palace
Irony
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, Richard Cory
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Irony in Edwin Arlington Robinson’s "Richard Cory"
KENNETH FEARING, AD
E. E. CUMMINGS, next to of course god america i
STEPHEN CRANE, A Man Said to the Universe
Poems for Further Study
BOB HICOK, Making it in poetry
JANE KENYON, Surprise
MARTÍN ESPADA, Bully
KEVIN PIERCE, Proof of Origin
CARL SANDBURG, Buttons
WALLACE STEVENS, Anecdote of the Jar
DENISE DUHAMEL, How It Will End
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling through the Dark
JULIO MARZÁN, Ethnic Poetry
MARK HALLIDAY, Graded Paper
CHARLES SIMIC, The Storm
JAMES MERRILL, Casual Wear
HENRY REED, Naming of Parts
ALLEN BRADEN, The Hemlock Tree
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
RICHARD WILBUR, A Finished Man
WILLIAM BLAKE, The Chimney Sweeper
WALT WHITMAN, From Song of Myself
GARY SOTO, Behind Grandma’s House
PERSPECTIVE: EZRA POUND, On Symbols
7. Sounds
Listening to Poetry
ANONYMOUS, Scarborough Fair
JOHN UPDIKE, Player Piano
MAY SWENSON, A Nosty Fright
EMILY DICKINSON, A Bird came down the Walk—
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Sound in Emily Dickinson’s "A Bird came down the Walk—"
ANYA KRUGOVOY SILVER, French Toast
Rhyme
RICHARD ARMOUR, Going to Extremes
ROBERT SOUTHEY, From "The Cataract of Lodore"
PERSPECTIVE: DAVID LENSON, On the Contemporary Use of Rhyme
Sound and Meaning
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
Poems for Further Study
DIANE LOCKWARD, Linguine
LEWIS CARROLL (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON), Jabberwocky
HARRYETTE MULLEN, Blah-Blah
WILLIAM HEYEN, The Trains
JOHN DONNE, Song
ALEXANDER POPE, From An Essay on Criticism
HAKI R. MADHUBUTI, The B Network
WILFRED OWEN, Anthem for Doomed Youth
ANDREW HUDGINS, The Cow
PAUL HUMPHREY, Blow
ROBERT FRANCIS, The Pitcher
HELEN CHASIN, The Word Plum
RICHARD WAKEFIELD, The Bell Rope
JEAN TOOMER, Reapers
JOHN KEATS, Ode to a Nightingale
HOWARD NEMEROV, Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry
8. Patterns of Rhythm
Some Principles of Meter
WALT WHITMAN, From Song of the Open Road
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, My Heart Leaps Up
Suggestions for Scanning a Poem
TIMOTHY STEELE, Waiting for the Storm
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: The Rhythm of Anticipation in Timothy Steele’s "Waiting for the Storm"
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, That the Night Come
Poems for Further Study
WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE, Drumming Behind You in the High School Band
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Break, Break, Break
ALICE JONES, The Foot
A. E. HOUSMAN, When I was one-and-twenty
RITA DOVE, Fox Trot Fridays
CHRISTOPHER MERRILL, A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball
RACHEL HADAS, The Red Hat
ROBERT HERRICK, Delight in Disorder
BEN JONSON, Still to Be Neat
SONIA SANCHEZ, Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict
WILLIAM BLAKE, The Lamb
WILLIAM BLAKE, The Tyger
CARL SANDBURG, Chicago
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, The Charge of the Light Brigade
JOHN MALONEY, Good!
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
PERSPECTIVE: LOUISE BOGAN, On Formal Poetry
9. Poetic Forms
Some Common Poetic Forms
A. E. HOUSMAN, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
ROBERT HERRICK, Upon Julia’s Clothes
Sonnet
JOHN KEATS, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too Much with Us
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, I will put Chaos into fourteen lines
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: The Fixed Form in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s "I will put Chaos into fourteen lines"
SHERMAN ALEXIE, The Facebook Sonnet
MARK JARMAN, Unholy Sonnet
WILLIAM BAER, Letter of Resignation
X. J. KENNEDY, "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"
R.S. GWYNN, Shakespearean Sonnet
Villanelle
DYLAN THOMAS, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, The House on the Hill
Sestina
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, Sestina
FLORENCE CASSEN MAYERS, All-American Sestina
Epigram
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, What Is an Epigram?
A. R. AMMONS, Coward
DAVID MCCORD, Epitaph on a Waiter
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, Theology
Limerick
ANONYMOUS, There was a young lady named Bright
LAURENCE PERRINE, The limerick’s never averse
Haiku
MATSUO BASHO, Under cherry trees
CAROLYN KIZER, After Basho-
SONIA SANCHEZ, c’mon man hold me
Elegy
BEN JONSON, On My First Son
THOMAS GRAY, Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold
Fishes
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
BRENDAN GALVIN, An Evel Knievel Elegy
Ode
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Ode to the West Wind
Parody
BLANCHE FARLEY, The Lover Not Taken
Picture Poem
MICHAEL MCFEE, In Medias Res
PERSPECTIVE: ELAINE MITCHELL, Form
10. Open Form
WALT WHITMAN, From "I Sing the Body Electric"
PERSPECTIVE: WALT WHITMAN, On Rhyme and Meter
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: The Power of Walt Whitman’s Open Form Poem "I Sing the Body Electric"
LOUIS JENKINS, The Prose Poem
DAVID SHUMATE, Shooting the Horse
RICHARD HAGUE, Directions for Resisting the SAT
ELLEN BASS, Gate C22
KELLY CHERRY, Alzheimer’s
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Red Wheelbarrow
NATASHA TRETHEWEY, On Captivity
GARY GILDNER, First Practice
MARILYN NELSON WANIEK, Emily Dickinson’s Defunct
JULIO MARZÁN, The Translator at the Reception for Latin American Writers
ROBERT MORGAN, Overalls
KEVIN YOUNG, Eddie Priest’s Barber Shop and Notary
LINDA PASTAN, To a Daughter Leaving Home
ANONYMOUS, The Frog
TATO LAVIERA, AmeRícan
KARL SHAPIRO, Lower the Standard
PETER MEINKE, The ABC of Aerobics
MARY STEWART HAMMOND, The Big Fish Story
Found Poem
DONALD JUSTICE, Order in the Streets
11. Combining the Elements of Poetry:
A Writing Process
The Elements Together
Mapping the Poem
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
Asking Questions about the Elements
A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Annotated Version of "Death Be Not Proud"
A SAMPLE FIRST RESPONSE
Organizing Your Thoughts
A SAMPLE INFORMAL OUTLINE
The Elements and Theme
A SAMPLE EXPLICATION: The Use of Conventional Metaphors for Death in John Donne’s "Death Be Not Proud"
APPROACHES TO POETRY
12. A Study of Emily Dickinson
A Brief Biography
PHOTO: Emily Dickinson, age 16
SILHOUETTE: Emily Dickinson, age 14
PHOTO: Emily Dickinson, unauthenticated image
PHOTO: Edward Dickinson
LETTER AND CARTOON: Emily Dickinson to William Cowper Dickinson
PHOTO: Susan Gilbert Dickinson
LETTER AND CARTOON: Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert Dickinson
An Introduction to Her Work
EMILY DICKINSON, If I can stop one Heart from breaking
EMILY DICKINSON, If I shouldn’t be alive
EMILY DICKINSON, The Thought beneath so slight a film—
EMILY DICKINSON, To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
CHRONOLOGY
EMILY DICKINSON, Success is counted sweetest
EMILY DICKINSON, Water, is taught by thirst
EMILY DICKINSON, Safe in their Alabaster Chambers—(1859 version)
EMILY DICKINSON, Safe in their Alabaster Chambers—(1861 version)
EMILY DICKINSON, Portraits are to daily faces
EMILY DICKINSON, Some keep the Sabbath going to Church—
EMILY DICKINSON, "Heaven"— is what I cannot reach!
EMILY DICKINSON, "Hope" is the thing with feathers—
EMILY DICKINSON, I felt a Funeral in my Brain—
EMILY DICKINSON, I like a look of Agony
EMILY DICKINSON, Wild Nights—Wild Nights!
EMILY DICKINSON, I started Early—Took my Dog—
EMILY DICKINSON, What Soft—Cherubic Creatures—
EMILY DICKINSON, The Soul selects her own Society—
FACSIMILE: Manuscript Page for "What Soft—Cherubic Creatures—"
EMILY DICKINSON, Much Madness is divinest Sense—
EMILY DICKINSON, I dwell in Possibility—
EMILY DICKINSON, After great pain, a formal feeling comes—
EMILY DICKINSON, Pain—has an Element of Blank—
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—
EMILY DICKINSON, He fumbles at your Soul
EMILY DICKINSON, One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—
EMILY DICKINSON, Because I could not stop for Death—
EMILY DICKINSON, My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—
EMILY DICKINSON, They say that "Time assuages"
EMILY DICKINSON, I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
EMILY DICKINSON, Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—
EMILY DICKINSON, There is no Frigate like a Book
EMILY DICKINSON, Fame is the one that does not stay—
EMILY DICKINSON, From all the Jails the Boys and Girls
PERSPECTIVES ON EMILY DICKINSON
EMILY DICKINSON, A Description of Herself
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, On Meeting Dickinson for the First Time
MABEL LOOMIS TODD, The Character of Amherst
RICHARD WILBUR, On Dickinson’s Sense of Privation
SANDRA M. GILBERT AND SUSAN GUBAR, On Dickinson’s White Dress
CYNTHIA GRIFFIN WOLFF, On the Many Voices in Dickinson’s Poetry
PAULA BENNETT, On "I heard a Fly buzz— when I died—"
MARTHA NELL SMITH, On "Because I could not stop for Death—"
RONALD WALLACE, Miss Goff
TWO COMPLEMENTARY CRITICAL READINGS
CHARLES R. ANDERSON, Eroticism in "Wild Nights—Wild Nights!"
DAVID S. REYNOLDS, Popular Literature and "Wild Nights—Wild Nights!"
Questions for Writing about an Author in Depth
A SAMPLE IN-DEPTH STUDY
EMILY DICKINSON, "Faith" is a fine invention
EMILY DICKINSON, I know that He exists
EMILY DICKINSON, I never saw a Moor—
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently with no surprise
A SAMPLE STUDENT PAPER: Religious Faith in Four Poems by Emily Dickinson
Suggested Topics for Longer Papers
13. A Study of Robert Frost
A Brief Biography
PHOTO: Robert Frost, age 18
PHOTO: Robert Frost, age 47
PHOTO: Robert Frost at his writing desk
An Introduction to His Work
ROBERT FROST, The Road Not Taken
ROBERT FROST, The Pasture
CHRONOLOGY
ROBERT FROST, Mowing
ROBERT FROST, Storm Fear
ROBERT FROST, Mending Wall
ROBERT FROST, Home Burial
ROBERT FROST, The Wood-Pile
ROBERT FROST, After Apple-Picking
ROBERT FROST, Birches
ROBERT FROST, An Old Man’s Winter Night
ROBERT FROST, "Out, Out—"
ROBERT FROST, The Oven Bird
ROBERT FROST, Fire and Ice
ROBERT FROST, Dust of Snow
ROBERT FROST, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
ROBERT FROST, Good-by and Keep Cold
ROBERT FROST, The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
ROBERT FROST, Neither Out Far nor In Deep
FACSIMILE: Manuscript page of "Neither Out Far nor In Deep"
ROBERT FROST, Design
PERSPECTIVES ON ROBERT FROST
ROBERT FROST, "In White": An Early Version of "Design"
ROBERT FROST, On the Living Part of a Poem
AMY LOWELL, On Frost’s Realistic Technique
ROBERT FROST, On the Figure a Poem Makes
ROBERT FROST, On the Way to Read a Poem
HERBERT R. COURSEN JR., A Parodic Interpretation of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
PETER D. POLAND, On "Neither Out Far nor In Deep"
TWO COMPLEMENTARY CRITICAL READINGS
RICHARD POIRIER, On Emotional Suffocation in "Home Burial"
KATHERINE KEARNS, On the Symbolic Setting of "Home Burial"
Suggested Topics for Longer Papers
14. A Study of Billy Collins: The Author Reflects on Five Poems
PHOTO: Billy Collins
A Brief Biography and an Introduction to His Work
PHOTO: Billy Collins, first day as a student at St. Joan of Arc School
PHOTO: Billy Collins, first day at Holy Cross College
PHOTO: Billy Collins, senior photo, Holy Cross College
PHOTO: Billy Collins, with cigarette
PHOTO: Billy Collins, Scarsdale, NY
PHOTO: Billy Collins, in his office at Lehman College
CHRONOLOGY
BOOK COVER: Questions About Angels
BOOK COVER: The Art of Drowning
BOOK COVER: Nine Horses
BOOK COVER: The Trouble with Poetry
BILLY COLLINS, "How Do Poems Travel?"
BILLY COLLINS, Osso Buco
BILLY COLLINS, On Writing "Osso Buco"
BILLY COLLINS, Nostalgia
BILLY COLLINS, On Writing "Nostalgia"
BILLY COLLINS, Questions About Angels
BILLY COLLINS, On Writing "Questions About Angels"
BILLY COLLINS, Litany
BILLY COLLINS, On Writing "Litany"
BILLY COLLINS, Building with Its Face Blown Off
PERSPECTIVE: On "Building with Its Face Blown Off": Michael Meyer Interviews Billy Collins
PHOTO: Billy Collins Action Poetry Web site
PHOTO: Poetry 180 Web site
FACSIMILES: Three manuscript pages
Suggested Topics for Longer Papers
15. A Study of Julia Alvarez: The Author Reflects on Five Poems
PHOTO: Julia Alvarez
A Brief Biography
BOOK COVER: A Cafecito Story
PHOTO: Julia Alvarez and students at Alta Gracia
An Introduction to Her Work
CHRONOLOGY
JULIA ALVAREZ, On Writing "Queens, 1963"
PASSPORT PHOTO: Julia Alvarez, age 10
JULIA ALVAREZ, Queens, 1963
PHOTO: Queens Civil Rights Demonstration, 1963
PERSPECTIVE: MARNY REQUA, From an Interview with Julia Alvarez
JULIA ALVAREZ, On Writing "Housekeeping Cages" and Her Housekeeping Poems
JULIA ALVAREZ, Housekeeping Cages
JULIA ALVAREZ, On Writing "Dusting"
JULIA ALVAREZ, Dusting
JULIA ALVAREZ, On Writing "Ironing Their Clothes"
JULIA ALVAREZ, Ironing Their Clothes
JULIA ALVAREZ, On Writing "Sometimes the Words Are So Close" (From the "33" Sonnet Sequence)
JULIA ALVAREZ, Sometimes the Words Are So Close
Drafts of "Sometimes the Words Are So Close": A Poet’s Writing Process
FACSIMILES: Four Draft manuscript pages
JULIA ALVAREZ, On Writing "First Muse"
PHOTO: Library Way Bronze Plaque of "Sometimes the Words Are So Close"
JULIA ALVAREZ, First Muse
IMAGE: Chiquita Banana
PERSPECTIVE: KELLI LYON JOHNSON, Mapping an Identity
16. A Critical Case Study: T. S. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
PHOTO: T. S. Eliot, age 18
A Brief Biography
PAINTING: T. S. Eliot, by Wyndham Lewis
PHOTO: T. S. Eliot as Prufrock
T. S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
PERSPECTIVES ON T. S. ELIOT
ELISABETH SCHNEIDER, Hints of Eliot in Prufrock
BARBARA EVERETT, The Problem of Tone in Prufrock
MICHAEL L. BAUMANN, The "Overwhelming Question" for Prufrock
FREDERIK L. RUSCH, Society and Character in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
ROBERT SWARD, A Personal Analysis of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Suggested Topics for Longer Papers
17. A Cultural Case Study: Harlem Renaissance Poets Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen
PHOTO: Harlem Renaissance couple
PHOTO: The Lafayette Theatre
CHRONOLOGY
PHOTO: Harlem
IMAGE: Survey Graphic magazine, 1925
PHOTO: Cotton Club
CLAUDE MCKAY, A Brief Biography and an Introduction to His Work
PHOTO: Claude McKay
CLAUDE MCKAY, The Harlem Dancer
CLAUDE MCKAY, If We Must Die
CLAUDE MCKAY, The Tropics in New York
CLAUDE MCKAY, The Lynching
CLAUDE MCKAY, America
CLAUDE MCKAY, Outcast
CLAUDE MCKAY, On a Primitive Canoe
LANGSTON HUGHES, A Brief Biography and an Introduction to His Work
PHOTO: Langston Hughes
IMAGE: Langston Hughes stamp
PHOTO: Couples dancing in a Harlem nightclub
LANGSTON HUGHES, The Negro Speaks of Rivers
LANGSTON HUGHES, Jazzonia
LANGSTON HUGHES, Lenox Avenue: Midnight
LANGSTON HUGHES, Ballad of the Landlord
LANGSTON HUGHES, Harlem Sweeties
LANGSTON HUGHES, 125th Street
LANGSTON HUGHES, Harlem
COUNTEE CULLEN, A Brief Biography and an Introduction to His Work
PHOTO: Countee Cullen
COUNTEE CULLEN, Yet Do I Marvel
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
COUNTEE CULLEN, For a Lady I Know
COUNTEE CULLEN, Heritage
COUNTEE CULLEN, Tableau
COUNTEE CULLEN, F
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