Perrines Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry (Taschenbuch)

Preface Part 1 The Elements of Poetry What Is Poetry? The Eagle Alfred Lord Tennyson Winter William Shakespeare Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen Spring William Shakespeare The Whipping Robert Hayden The Computation John Donne Hawk Roosting Ted Hughes Ballad of Birmingham Dudley Randall The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams The Pasture Robert Frost Terence, this is stupid stuff A. E. Housman Ars Poetica Archibald MacLeish Reading the Poem The Man He Killed Thomas Hardy A Study of Reading Habits Philip Larkin Is my team plowing A. E. Housman General Exercises for Analysis and Evaluation Break of Day John Donne There's been a death in the opposite house Emily Dickinson When in Rome Mari Evans The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter Ezra Pound The Mill Edwin Arlington Robinson Mirror Sylvia Plath The Subalterns Thomas Hardy Exercise Denotation and Connotation There is no frigate like a book Emily Dickinson When my love swears that she is made of truth William Shakespeare Pathedy of Manners Ellen Kay Exercises Naming of Parts Henry Reed Cross Langston Hughes The world is too much with us William Wordsworth Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe A Hymn to God the Father John Donne One Art Elizabeth Bishop Imagery Meeting at Night Robert Browning Parting at Morning Robert Browning Spring Gerard Manley Hopkins The Widow's Lament in Springtime William Carlos Williams I felt a funeral in my brain Emily Dickinson The Forge Seamus Heaney After Apple-Picking Robert Frost Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden The Letter Jane Kenyon Cavalry Crossing a Ford Walt Whitman Reapers Jean Toomer To Autumn John Keats Figurative Language Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy The Guitarist Tunes Up Frances Cornford The Hound Robert Francis Bereft Robert Frost It sifts from leaden sieves Emily Dickinson Scholars Walter de la Mare Western Wind Anonymous Exercise Mind Richard Wilbur I taste a liquor never brewed Emily Dickinson Metaphors Sylvia Plath Song: Go, lovely rose! Edmund Waller Toads Philip Larkin A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Donne To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell Suum Cuique Ralph Waldo Emerson after minor surgery Linda Pastan Dream Deferred Langston Hughes Exercises Figurative Language 2 Symbol, Allegory The Road Not Taken Robert Frost A Noiseless Patient Spider Walt Whitman The Sick Rose William Blake Digging Seamus Heaney To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick Peace George Herbert Fire and Ice Robert Frost Ulysses Alfred Lord Tennyson Curiosity Alastair Reid Discovery of the New World Carter Revard Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness John Donne Our journey had advanced Emily Dickinson Dust of Snow Robert Frost Soft Snow William Blake Exercises Figurative Language 3 Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony Much madness is divinest sense Emily Dickinson The Sun Rising John Donne Incident Countee Cullen One Perfect Rose Dorothy Parker The Chimney Sweeper William Blake Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley Exercise Batter my heart, three-personed God John Donne Sorting Laundry Elisavietta Ritchie The Unknown Citizen W. H. Auden Departmental Robert Frost The State Randall Jarrell Grace to Be Said at the Supermarket Howard Nemerov in the inner city Lucille Clifton Mr. Z M. Carl Holman Southern Cop Sterling A. Brown My Last Duchess Robert Browning Allusion ``Out, Out---'' Robert Frost From Macbeth: She should have died hereafter William Shakespeare in Just- e. e. cummings On His Blindness John Milton Hero and Leander John Donne Miniver Cheevy Edwin Arlington Robinson Leda and the Swan William Butler Yeats Leda's Sister and the Geese Katharyn Howd Machan An altered look about the hills Emily Dickinson Abraham to kill him Emily Dickinson Jack, eating rotten cheese, did say Benjamin Franklin A monkey sprang down from a tree Laurence Perrine Two brothers devised what at sight Laurence Perrine Meaning and Idea Little Jack Horner Anonymous Loveliest of Trees A. E. Housman Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost To a Waterfowl William Cullen Bryant Design Robert Frost The Indifferent John Donne Love's Deity John Donne To the Mercy Killers Dudley Randall How Annandale Went Out Edwin Arlington Robinson The Caged Skylark Gerard Manley Hopkins No worst, there is none Gerard Manley Hopkins Alter! When the hills do Emily Dickinson We outgrow love Emily Dickinson Exercise Tone For a Lamb Richard Eberhart Apparently with no surprise Emily Dickinson Since there's no help Michael Drayton The Coming of Wisdom with Time William Butler Yeats Crossing the Bar Alfred Lord Tennyson The Oxen Thomas Hardy One dignity delays for all Emily Dickinson 'Twas warm at first like us Emily Dickinson The Apparition John Donne The Flea John Donne Dover Beach Matthew Arnold Church Going Philip Larkin Getting Out Cleopatra Mathis A tiny cry within the night Lynn Johnston Exercises Musical Devices The Turtle Ogden Nash That night when joy began W. H. Auden Ettrick Alicia Ann Spottiswood God's Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks Blackberry Sweet Dudley Randall The Snowstorm Ralph Waldo Emerson As imperceptibly as grief Emily Dickinson Seal Lullaby Rudyard Kipling Shut In Robert B. Shaw Traveling through the dark William Stafford Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost Exercise Rhythm and Meter Virtue George Herbert Exercises ``Introduction'' to Songs of Innocence William Blake It takes all sorts Robert Frost Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries A. E. Housman Had I the Choice Walt Whitman The Aim Was Song Robert Frost Nevertheless Marianne Moore To a Daughter Leaving Home Linda Pastan Constantly risking absurdity Lawrence Ferlinghetti Because I could not stop for Death Emily Dickinson Break, break, break Alfred Lord Tennyson Sound and Meaning Pease porridge hot Anonymous Song: Come unto these yellow sands William Shakespeare Splinter Carl Sandburg Upon Julia's Voice Robert Herrick The Span of Life Robert Frost Exercise Sound and Sense Alexander Pope I heard a fly buzz when I died Emily Dickinson Heaven-Haven Gerard Manley Hopkins Anthem for Doomed Youth Wilfred Owen Landcrab Margaret Atwood Eight O'Clock A. E. Housman At the round earth's imagined corners John Donne Blackberry Eating Galway Kinnell The Bench of Boors Herman Melville The Dance William Carlos Williams Exercise Pattern These are the days when birds come back Emily Dickinson An epicure dining at Crewe Anonymous On First Looking into Chapman's Homer John Keats That time of year William Shakespeare Exercises A Handful of Limericks Anonymous Two Japanese Haiku Matsuo Basho Moritake Poem in