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Cultivates a love sad of literature and an understanding of effective sad writing Literature: An Introduction big Fiction, Poetry, Drama, & Writing introduces students to the appreciation & experience of literature in its major forms – and develops their abilities to big think critically & communicate effectively through, & about, writing. Authors X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia ayên ổn big help readers develop sensitivity big language, culture, and identity, see beyond the boundaries of their own selves, and view the world through the eyes of others. Each of the first three sections is devoted big one of the major literary forms of fiction, poetry, and drama; the fourth is a comprehensive introduction to big critical writing. The 14th Edition of this trusted resource has been revised throughout for clarity & accessibility, and all chapters have been updated with a more visual appeal for current students. Packed with a variety of popular and provocative stories, poems, plays, & critical prose, it includes exciting and often-surprising contemporary selections. Every chapter has been reviewed and updated with relevant cultural references.
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FICTION
Talking with Amy Tan
1. READING A STORY
THE ART OF FICTION
TYPES OF SHORT FICTION
Sufi Legover, Death Has an Appointment in Samarra A student tries to flee from Death in this brief, sardonic fable.
Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes Ever wonder where the phrase “sour grapes” comes from? Find out in this classic fable.
Bidpai, The Camel & His Friends With friends lượt thích these, you can guess what the camel doesn’t need.
Chuang Tzu, Independence The Prince of Ch’u asks the philosopher Chuang Tzu big become his advisor & gets a surprising reply in this classic Chinese fable.
Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm , Godfather Death Neither God nor the Devil came to the christening. In this stark folktale, a young man receives magical powers with a string attached.
PLOT
THE SHORT STORY
John Updike, A and P In walk three girls in nothing but bathing suits, and Sammy finds himself no longer an aproned checkout clerk but an armored knight.
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Wilhelm Grimilimet on Writing, On the Nature of Fairy Tales
THINKING ABOUT PLOT
CHECKLIST: Writing about Plot
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON PLOT
TERMS FOR REVIEW
2. POINT OF VIEW
IDENTIFYING POINT OF VIEW
TYPES OF NARRATORS
HOW MUCH DOES A NARRATOR KNOW?
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Proud, imperious Emily Grierson defies the town from the fortress of her mansion. Who could have guessed the secret that lay within?
Muriel Spark , The First Year of My Life An omniscient infant narrator, able to big access any conversation or scene on the planet, is born inbig a time of war.
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path When the man says big old Phoenix, “You must be a hundred years old, & scared of nothing,” he might be exaggerating, but not by much.
James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues Two brothers in Harlem see life differently. The older brother is the sensible family man, but Sonny wants big be a jazz musician.
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
James Baldwin on Writing, Race & the African American Writer
THINKING ABOUT POINT OF VIEW
CHECKLIST: Writing About Point of View
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON POINT OF VIEW
TERMS FOR REVIEW
3. CHARACTER
CHARACTERIZATION
MOTIVATION
Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain Anders is in line when armed robbers enter the bank, and he can’t help but get involved.
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have sad You Been? Alone in the house, Connie finds herself helpless before the advances of Arnold Friover, a spellbinding imitation teenager.
Toni Morrison, Recitatif Over many decades, two women’s lives continue big collide, as they find that their relationship is complicated by the challenges of race, class, and circumstance.
Raymond Carver, Cathedral He never expected to find himself trying to big describe a cathedral to big a blind man. He hadn’t even wanted big meet this odd, old frikết thúc of his wife.
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Raymond Carver on Writing, Commonplace but Precise Language
THINKING ABOUT CHARACTER
CHECKLIST: Writing about Character
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON CHARACTER
TERMS FOR REVIEW
4. SETTING
ELEMENTS OF SETTING
HISTORICAL FICTION
REGIONALISM
NATURALISM
HOW SETTING CAN HARMONIZE WITH OTHER ELEMENTS OF A STORY
Kate Chopin, The Storm Even with her husb& away, Calixta feels happily, securely married. Why then should she not shelter an old admirer from the rain?
Jack London, To Build a Fire Seventy-five degrees below zero. Alone except for one mistrustful wolf dog, a man finds himself battling a relentless force.
Ron Carlson , At the Jlặng Bridger Two men nearly freeze to death in the Wyoming wilderness. How does their intimate encounter with their mortality change them?
Amy Tan, A Pair of Tickets A young woman flies with her father to Đài Loan Trung Quốc big meet two half-sisters she never knew existed.
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Amy Tan on Writing, Developing a Setting
THINKING ABOUT SETTING
CHECKLIST: Writing About Setting
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON SETTING
TERMS FOR REVIEW
5. TONE AND STYLE
TONE
STYLE
DICTION
Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place All by himself each night, the old man lingers in the bright café. What does he need more than brandy?
William Faulkner, Barn Burning This time when Ab Snopes wields his blazing torch, his son Sarty faces a dilemma: whether to obey or defy the vengeful old man.
IRONY
O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi A young husband & wife find ingenious ways big buy each other Christmas presents, in the classic story that defines the word “irony.”
Margaret Atwood , Happy Endings John and Mary meet. What happens next? This witty experimental story offers several different outcomes.
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Ernest Hemingway on Writing, The Direct Style
THINKING ABOUT TONE AND STYLE
CHECKLIST: Writing about Tone and Style
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON TONE AND STYLE
TERMS FOR REVIEW
6. THEME
PLOT VERSUS THEME
SUMMARIZING THE THEME
FINDING THE THEME
Stephen Crane, The xuất hiện Boat In a lifeboat circled by sharks, tantalized by glimpses of land, a reporter scrutinizes Fate & learns about comradeship.
Sandra Cisneros, Barbie-Q The trouble with buying Barbie dolls is that you want all the clothes, companions, and accessories. But in this neighborhood, things suddenly change.
Luke, The Parable of the Prodigal Son A father has two sons. One demands his inheritance now & leaves big spend it with ruinous results.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr ., Harrison Bergeron Are you handsome? Then off with your eyebrows! Are you brainy? Then a transmitter will sound thought-shattering beeps inside your ear.
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. on Writing, The Themes of Science Fiction
THINKING ABOUT THEME
CHECKLIST: Writing About Theme
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON THEME
TERMS FOR REVIEW
7. SYMBOL
ALLEGORY
SYMBOLS
RECOGNIZING SYMBOLS
John Steinbeông xã, The Chrysanthemums Fenced-in Elisa feels emotionally starved–then her life promises big blossom with the arrival of the scissors-grinding man.
Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace A woman enjoys one night of luxury, and then spends years of her life paying for it.
Ursula K. Le Guin , The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Omelas is the perfect thành phố. All of its inhabitants are happy. But everyone’s prosperity depends on a hidden evil.
Shirley Jackson , The Lottery Splintered & faded, the sinister blaông chồng box has worked its annual terror for longer than anyone in town can remember.
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Shirley Jackson on Writing, Biography of a Story
THINKING ABOUT SYMBOLS
CHECKLIST: Writing About Symbols
Sample Student Paper, An Analysis of the Symbolism in Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums”
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON SYMBOLS
TERMS FOR REVIEW
8. GENRE FICTION
ROMANCE VERSUS REALISM
WHAT IS GENRE?
COMMON TYPES OF GENRE FICTION
GENRE AND POPULAR CULTURE
Ray Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder In 2055, you can go on a Time Safari to hunt dinosaurs 60 million years ago. But put one foot wrong, and suddenly the future’s not what it used big be.
Kelly Link, The Faery Handbag The magical handbag allows one big access other worlds, with both beautiful and dark consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft, The Outsider He has been locked in a gothic castle for his entire life, until the day he escapes, but what he discovers outside sends hyên ổn running bachồng big his dark captivity.
Dashiell Hammett, One Hour Someone killed a man named Newhouse in broad daylight on a San Francisco street. Our detective sad is on the case.
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Ray Bradbury on Writing, Falling in Love sad at the Library
TOPICS FOR WRITING
TERMS FOR REVIEW
9. READING LONG STORIES AND NOVELS
ORIGINS OF THE NOVEL
NOVELISTIC METHODS
READING NOVELS
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych The supreme Russian novemenu tells how a petty, ambitious judge, near the over of his wasted life, discovers a harrowing truth.
Franz Kafka , The Metamorphosis “When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed inbig a monstrous insect.” Kafka’s famous opening sentence introduces one of the most chilling stories in world literature.
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Franz Kafka on Writing, Gustav Janouch Discussing The Metamorphosis
THINKING ABOUT LONG STORIES AND NOVELS
CHECKLIST: Writing About Long Stories & Novels
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON LONG STORIES AND NOVELS
TERMS FOR REVIEW
10. LATIN AMERICAN FICTION
EL BOOM
MAGIC REALISM
AFTER EL BOOM
ARGENTINA: Jorge Luis Borges, The Gospel According to Mark A young man from Buenos Aires is trapped by a flood on an isolated ranch. To pass the time, he reads the Gospel big a family, with unforeseen results.
COLOMBIA: Gabriel García Márquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Even in death, a mysterious stranger has a profound effect on all of the people in the village.
CHILE: Isabel Allende, Revenge The young, beautiful Dulce Rosa Orellano is Queen of the Carnival & the daughter of a beloved Senator, and then a night of terrible violence changes her life forever.
MEXICO: Juan Rulfo, Tell Them Not to Kill Me! A violent episode from decades past catches up with an old man. Will he be saved from the firing squad?
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Jorge Luis Borges on Writing, On Storytelling
TOPICS FOR WRITING
TERMS FOR REVIEW
11. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: Flannery O’Connor
FLANNERY O’CONNOR
A Good Man Is Hard big Find Wanted: The Misfit, a cold-blooded killer. An ordinary family vacation leads big horror–& one moment of redeeming grace.
Revelation Mrs. Turpin thinks herself Jesus’s favorite child, until she meets a troubled college girl. Soon violence flares in a doctor’s waiting room.
Parker’s Back A tormented man tries big find his way to big God and big his wife–by having himself
tattooed.
FLANNERY O’CONNOR ON WRITING
Insights inbig “A Good Man Is Hard big Find”
On Her Catholic Faith
CRITICS ON FLANNERY O’CONNOR
Benjamin Percy, There Will Be Blood: Violence in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction
J. O. Tate, A Good Source Is Not So Hard big Find: The Real Life Misfit
Louise S. Cowan, The Character of Mrs. Turpin in “Revelation”
Damian J. Ference, No Vague Believer
Lucindomain authority Williams, Meeting Flannery O’Connor
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON FLANNERY O’CONNOR
12. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: Three Stories in Depth
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The Tell-Tale Heart The smoldering eye at last extinguished, a murderer finds that, despite all his attempts at a cover-up, his victim will be heard.
EDGAR ALLAN POE ON WRITING
On Imagination
The Philosophy of Composition
CRITICS ON “THE TELL-TALE HEART”
Daniel Hoffman, The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Scott Peeples, “The Tell-Tale Heart” as a Love sad Story
Charles Baudelaire, Poe’s Characters
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
The Yellow Wallpaper A doctor prescribes a “rest cure” for his wife after the birth of their child. The new mother tries to big settle in to life in the isolated and mysterious country house they have rented for the summer. The cure proves worse than the disease in this Gothic classic.
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN ON WRITING
Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”
The Nervous Breakdown of Women
CRITICS ON “THE YELLOW WALLPAPER”
Juliann Fleenor, Gender & Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar , Imprisonment & Escape: The Psychology of Confinement
Elizabeth Ammons, Biographical Echoes in “The Yellow Wallpaper”
ALICE WALKER
Everyday Use When successful Dee visits from the đô thị, she has changed her name big reflect her
African roots. Her mother and sister notice other things have changed, too.
ALICE WALKER ON WRITING
The Blachồng Woman Writer in America
Reflections on Writing & Women’s Lives
CRITICS ON “EVERYDAY USE”
Barbara T. Christian, “Everyday Use” & the Blachồng Power nguồn Movement
Mary Helen Washington, “Everyday Use” as a Portrait of the Artist
Houston A. Baker and Charlotte Pierce-Baker , Stylish vs. Sacred in “Everyday Use”
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
TOPICS FOR WRITING
13. GALLERY OF INTERNATIONAL VOICES
NIGERIA: Chinua Achebe , Dead Men’s Path The new headmaster of the village school is determined to fight superstition, but the villagers bởi vì not agree.
BANGLADESH: Tahmima Anam , Garments The girl who works next big Jesmin in the garments factory says one day, “My boyfriover wants big marry you.” Should Jesmin become this man’s third wife?
MEXICO: Inés Arredonbởi vì, The Shunammite When Luisa visits her dying uncle, she has no idea that her life is about to change forever.
ALGERIA/FRANCE: Albert Camus, The Guest A prisoner is delivered to a schoolhouse on a remote hillside, and the schoolmaster must decide what to vì with hlặng.
SOUTH AFRICA: Nadine Gordimer , The Defeated In a dusty South African mining town, two schoolgirls become unlikely friends. As they grow up together, they start to big grow apart.
JAPAN: Kazuo Ishiguro, A Family Supper Something very odd lurks beneath the surface of this family supper, and it might prove fatal.
CHINA: Ha Jin, Saboteur When the police unfairly arrest Mr. Chiu, he hopes for justice. After witnessing their brutality, he quietly plans revenge.
ANTIGUA: Jamaica Kincaid, Girl “Try to big walk lượt thích a lady, & not lượt thích the slut you are so bent on becoming.” An old-fashioned mother tells her daughter how to big live.
EGYPT: Naguib Mahfouz, The Lawsuit He thought he’d seen the last of his late father’s second wife, but now she’s baông xã to big trouble his peaceful existence.
INDIA: Bharati Mukherjee, Saints Shawn wanders around his neighborhood at night, imagining an existence other than the sad, confusing, & often frightening home page life dominated by the unwelcome presence of his mom’s boyfriend, Wayne.
CANADA: Alice Munro, Wild Swans Rose has a disturbing and transformative sad experience on her first train ride big the big city.
IRAN: Marjane Satrapi, Kyên ổn Wilde (from Persepolis) During the Islamic Revolution, rochồng ‘n’ roll contrab& is smuggled into Iran.
14. STORIES FOR FURTHER READING
Sherman Alexie, This Is What It Means big Say Phoenix, Arizona The only one who can help Victor when his father dies is a childhood frikết thúc he’s been avoiding for years.
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake Murky and strewn with beer cans, the lake appears to be a wasteland. One gryên ổn night on its shore, three “dangerous characters” learn a lesson.
Willa Cather, Paul’s Case Paul’s teachers can’t understand the boy. Then one day, with stolen cash, he boards a train for Thành Phố New York and the life of his dreams.
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour “There was something coming to big her & she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to big name.”
Neil Gaiman , How to big Talk big Girls at Parties Two teenage boys try big navigate their way through a các buổi party filled with exotic, mysterious girls.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown Urged on through deepening woods, a young Puritan sees–or dreams he sees–good villagers hasten toward a diabolic rite.
Zora Neale Hurston , Sweat Delia’s hard work paid for her small house. Now her drunken husb& Sykes has promised it big another woman.
James Joyce, Araby If only he can find her a token, she might love sad hyên ổn in return. As night falls, a Dublin boy hurries big make his dream come true.
Jhumpage authority Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies Mr. Kapasi’s life had settled into a quiet pattern–and then Mrs. Das & her family come into it.
Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill Sundays had long brought joy to big solitary Miss Brill, until one fateful day when she happens big chia sẻ a bench with two lovers in the park.
Tyên ổn O’Brien, The Things They Carried What each soldier carries into big the combat zone is largely determined by necessity, but each man’s necessities differ.
Daniel Orozteo , Orientation “Those are the offices and these are the cubicles.” Welcome big the first day of your new job.
George Saunders, Puppy A puppy for sale exposes the vast class differences between seller and buyer.
Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned Marauders ransachồng an isl& in a terrible show of violence, but not all the pirates have sad dark hearts.
Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House Whatever hour you wake, a door is shutting. From room to room the ghostly couple walks, h& in hand.
POETRY
Talking with Kay Ryan
15. READING A POEM
POETRY OR VERSE
HOW TO READ A POEM
PARAPHRASE
William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
LYRIC POETRY
Robert Hayden , Those Winter Sundays
Adrienne Rich , Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
NARRATIVE POETRY
Anonymous , Sir Patriông xã Spence
Robert Frost , “Out, Out–”
DRAMATIC POETRY
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
DIDACTIC POETRY
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Adrienne Rich on Writing, Recalling “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
THINKING ABOUT PARAPHRASING
William Stafford, Ask Me
William Stafford, A Paraphrase of “Ask Me”
CHECKLIST: Writing a Paraphrase
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON PARAPHRASING
TERMS FOR REVIEW
16. LISTENING TO A VOICE
TONE
Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz
Stephen Crane, The Wayfarer
Anne Bradstreet , The tác giả big Her Book
Rhina Espaillat , Bilingual / Bilingüe
Franz Wright, Alcohol
Gwendolyn Brooks, Speech to big the Young. Speech big the Progress-Toward.
Weldon Kees, For My Daughter
THE SPEAKER IN THE POEM
Natasha Trethewey, White Lies
Edwin Arlington Robinson , Luke Havergal
Anonymous , Dog Haiku
William Wordsworth , I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Dorothy Wordsworth , Journal Entry
Karen An-hwei Lee, Rainfall
William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow
IRONY
Robert Creeley, Oh No
W. H. Auden , The Unknown Citizen
Sharon Olds , Rite of Passage
Thomas Hardy , The Workbox
Sarah N. Cleghorn , The Golf Links
Edmãng cầu St. Vincent Millay, Second Fig
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY
William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper
Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Wilfred Owen on Writing , War Poetry
THINKING ABOUT TONE
CHECKLIST: Writing About Tone
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON TONE
Sample Student Paper, Word Choice, Tone, & Point of View in Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”
TERMS FOR REVIEW
17. WORDS
LITERAL MEANING: WHAT A POEM SAYS FIRST
William Carlos Williams, This Is Just big Say
DICTION
John Masefield, Cargoes
Robert Graves, Down, Wanton, Down!
John Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You
THE VALUE OF A DICTIONARY
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath
Samuel Menashe, Bread
Carl Sandburg, Grass
J. V. Cunningđê mê, Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead
WORD CHOICE AND WORD ORDER
Robert Herrick , Upon Julia’s Clothes
Kay Ryan, Blandeur
Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid
Richard Eberhart , The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
Julie Larios , What Bee Did
Wendy Cope , Lonely Hearts
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY
Sarah Cortez , Adam
E. E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town
Anonymous, Carnation Milk
Gina Valdés, English bé Salsa
William Wordsworth, My heart leaps up when I behold
William Wordsworth , Mutability
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Lewis Carroll on Writing , Humpty Dumpty Explicates “Jabberwocky”
THINKING ABOUT DICTION
CHECKLIST: Writing About Diction
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON WORD CHOICE
TERMS FOR REVIEW
18. SAYING AND SUGGESTING
DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION
William Blake, London
Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
E. E. Cummings, “next big of course god america i
Maria Hummel , The Tree
Timothy Steele, Epitaph
Hieu Minc Nguyen, Arranged
Diane Thiel, The Minefield
H.D., Sea Rose
Po Chü-i, The Cranes
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears
Anne-Marie Thompson, Audiation
Rebecca Foust, What You Work For 71
Richard Wilbur, Love sad Calls Us big the Things of This World
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Richard Wilbur on Writing, Concerning “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World”
THINKING ABOUT DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION
CHECKLIST: Writing About What A Poem Says And Suggests
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION
TERMS FOR REVIEW
19. IMAGERY
Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro
Tanigubỏ ra Buson , The piercing chill I feel
IMAGERY
T. S. Eliot, The winter evening settles down
Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar
Elizabeth Bisiêu thị, The Fish
Emily Dickinson , A Route of Evanescence
Jean Toomer, Reapers
Gerard Manley Hopkins , Pied Beauty
ABOUT HAIKU
Arakidomain authority Moritake , The falling flower
Matsuo Basho , Heat-lightning streak
Matsuo Basho, In the old stone pool
Tanigubỏ ra Buson , On the one-ton temple bell
Taniguchi Buson , Moonrise on mudflats
Kobayashi Issa, only one guy
Kobayashi Issa , Cricket
HAIKU FROM JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMPS
Suiko Matsushita, Rain shower from mountain
Suiko Matsushita, Cosmos in bloom
Hakuro Wada , Even the croaking of frogs
Neiji Ozawa , The war–this year
CONTEMPORARY HAIKU
Nick Virgilio , The Old Neighborhood
Yone Nogubỏ ra, Oh, How Cool
Penny Harter , broken bowl
Jennifer Brutschy , Born Again
Adelle Foley , Learning to Shave
Garry Gay , Hole in the ozone
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY
John Keats, Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art
Walternative text Whitman, The Runner
H.D., Heat
William Carlos Williams, El Hombre
Billy Collins , Embrace
Robert Bly, Driving to big Town Late to big Mail a Letter
Chamãng cầu Bloch, Tired Sex
Gary Snyder , Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Tattoo
Stevie Smith , Not Waving but Drowning
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Ezra Pound on Writing , The Image
THINKING ABOUT IMAGERY
CHECKLIST: Writing About Imagery
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON IMAGERY
Sample Student Paper, Faded Beauty: Bishop’s Use of Imagery in “The Fish”
TERMS FOR REVIEW
đôi mươi. FIGURES OF SPEECH
WHY SPEAK FIGURATIVELY?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle
William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee big a summer’s day?
Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
METAPHOR AND SIMILE
Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun
Alfred, Lord Tennyson , Flower in the Crannied Wall
William Blake , To see a world in a grain of sand
Sylvia Plath , Metaphors
N. Scott Momaday, Simile
Emily Dickinson , It dropped so low — in my Regard
Jill Alexander Essbaum , The Heart
Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Cody Walker , I’m Like
OTHER FIGURES OF SPEECH
James Stephens , The Wind
Robinson Jeffers , Hands
Aurora Stewart, Word Play
George Herbert, The Pulley
Damãng cầu Gioia , Money
Carl Sandburg , Fog
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY
Jane Kenyon , The Suitor
Robert Frost, A Patch of Old Snow
Kay Ryan, Turtle
Emily Brontë, Love and Friendship
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Robert Frost on Writing, The Importance of Poetic Metaphor
THINKING ABOUT METAPHORS
CHECKLIST: Writing About Metaphors
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON FIGURES OF SPEECH
TERMS FOR REVIEW
21. SONG
SINGING AND SAYING
Ben Jonson, To Celia
James Weldon Johnson , Sence You Went Away
William Shakespeare , O mibức xúc mine
Edwin Arlington Robinson , Richard Cory
Paul Simon , Richard Cory
BALLADS
Anonymous , Bonny Barbara Allan
Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham
BLUES
Bessie Smith with Clarence Williams , Jailhouse Blues
Ishmael Reed, Oakl& Blues
RAP AND PERFORMANCE POETRY
Patricia Smith, Hip-hop Ghazel
Taylor Mali, Totally lượt thích whatever, you know?
Franny Choi, Choi Jeong Min
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY
Thao and The Get Down Stay Down (Thao Nguyen), Meticulous Bird
Father John Misty (Joshua Tillman), Bored in the USA
St. Vincent (Annie Clark) , Severed Crossed Fingers
Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Bob Dylan on Writing, Rhythm, Rime, and Songwriting from the Outside
THINKING ABOUT POETRY AND SONG
CHECKLIST: Writing About Song Lyrics
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON SONG
TERMS FOR REVIEW
22. SOUND
SOUND AS MEANING
Alexander Pope, True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance
William Butler Yeats, Who Goes with Fergus?
Edgar Allan Poe , from Ulalume
William Wordsworth , A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Aphra Behn , When maidens are young
ALLITERATION AND ASSONANCE
Frances Cornford, The Watch
James Joyce, All day I hear
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The splendor falls on castle walls
RIME
William Cole, On my boat on Lake Cayuga
Hilaire Belloc, The Hippopotamus
Bob Kaufman , No More Jazz at Alcatraz
David Barber, Aria
Gerard Manley Hopkins , God’s Grandeur
HOW TO READ A POEM ALOUD
Michael Stillman, In Memoriam John Coltrane
William Shakespeare, When daisies pied and violets blue
T. S. Eliot, Virginia
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
T. S. Eliot on Writing, The Music of Poetry
THINKING ABOUT A POEM’S SOUND
CHECKLIST: Writing About a Poem’s Sound
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON SOUND
TERMS FOR REVIEW
23. RHYTHM
STRESSES AND PAUSES
STRESS AND MEANING
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
George Gordon, Lord Byron, So We’ll Go No More a-Roving
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Break, Break, Break
Dorothy Parker, Résumé
METER
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Counting-out Rhyme
Edith Sitwell, Mariner Man
A. E. Housman, When I was one-and-twenty
William Carlos Williams , Smell!
Walternative text Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums!
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Gwendolyn Brooks on Writing, Hearing “We Real Cool”
THINKING ABOUT RHYTHM
CHECKLIST: Scanning a Poem
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON RHYTHM
TERMS FOR REVIEW
24. CLOSED FORM
THE VALUE OF FORM
FORMAL PATTERNS
Ernest Dowson, Days of wine and roses
John Donne , Song (“Go & catch a falling star”)
Thomas M. Disch , Zewhyexary
THE SONNET
William Shakespeare, Let me not to big the marriage of true minds
Michael Drayton, Since there’s no help, come let us kiss & part
Edna St. Vincent Millay , What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
Kyên Addonizio , First Poem for You
Luis J. Rodríguez, Praise big Shoes
A. E. Stallings, Sine Qua Non
Amit Majmudar , Rites big Allay the Dead
R. S. Gwynn, Shakespearean Sonnet
Sherman Alexie, The Facebook Sonnet
Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth
THE EPIGRAM
Sir John Harrington, Of Treason
William Blake , To H–
Langston Hughes , Two Somewhat Different Epigrams
John Frederiông xã Nims , Contemplation
Anonymous , Epitaph on a dentist
Hilaire Belloc , Fatigue
Wendy Cope , Variation on Belloc’s “Fatigue”
Wendy Videloông xã, If Not for the Dark
OTHER FORMS
Omar Khayyam , Rubaiyat
Come, fill the Cup, & in the fire of Spring
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ
Ah Love! could you & I with Hyên conspire
Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle inbig that good night
Robert Bridges, Triolet
Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask
Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
A. E. Stallings on Writing , On Form & Artifice
THINKING ABOUT A SONNET
CHECKLIST: Writing About A Sonnet
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON CLOSED FORM
TERMS FOR REVIEW
25. OPEN FORM
Denise Levertov, Ancient Stairway
FREE VERSE
E. E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill ’s
W. S. Merwin, For the Anniversary of My Death
Ezra Pound, Salutation
William Carlos Williams, The Dance
Stephen Crane, The Heart
Walternative text Whitman , I Hear America Singing
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
PROSE POETRY
Charles Simic, The Magic Study of Happiness
Gertrude Stein, Nothing Elegant
VISUAL POETRY
George Herbert, Easter Wings
John Hollander, Swan & Shadow
CONCRETE POETRY
Dorthi Charles, Concrete Cat
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY
Carole Satyamurti, I Shall Paint My Nails Red
E. E. Cummings, in Just-
Francisteo X. Alarcón , Frontera/Border
Naongươi Shihab Nye, The Traveling Onion
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Walt Whitman on Writing , The Poetry of the Future
THINKING ABOUT FREE VERSE
CHECKLIST: Writing About Line Breaks
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON OPEN FORM
TERMS FOR REVIEW
26. SYMBOL
THE MEANINGS OF A SYMBOL
T. S. Eliot, The Boston Evening Transcript
Emily Dickinson, The Lightning is a yellow Fork
THE SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT
IDENTIFYING SYMBOLS
Thomas Hardy , Neutral Tones
ALLEGORY
Matthew , The Parable of the Good Seed
George Herbert, Redemption
Edwin Marktê mê , Outwitted
Suji Kwoông xã Kyên ổn, Occupation
Frank O’Hara, To the Harbormaster
Antonio Machabởi, Proverbgame ios y Cantares (XXIX)
Translated by Michael Ortiz, Traveler
Christina Rossetti, Up-Hill
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY
William Carlos Williams, Winter Trees
Ted Kooser , Carrie
Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
William Blake, The Tyger
Karen Holden , Bats in a Box
Tangươi Haal&, Lipstick
Lorine Niedecker, Popcorn-can cover
Wallace Stevens, The Snow Man
Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
William Butler Yeats on Writing, Poetic Symbols
THINKING ABOUT SYMBOLS
CHECKLIST: Writing about Symbols
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON SYMBOLISM
TERMS FOR REVIEW
27. MYTH
THE SUBJECTS AND USES OF MYTH
Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay
William Wordsworth, The world is too much with us
H.D., Helen
Edgar Allan Poe, To Helen
ARCHETYPE
Louise Bogan , Medusa
John Keats , La Belle Dame sans Merci
PERSONAL MYTH
William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
Diane Thiel, Memenbig Mori in Middle School
MYTH AND POPULAR CULTURE
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, What I Learned from the Incredible Hulk
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY
A. E. Stallings, First Love: A Quiz
Alfred, Lord Tennyso n, Ulysses
Anne Sexton , Cinderella
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Diane Thiel on Writing, The Map of Myth
THINKING ABOUT MYTH
CHECKLIST: Writing About Myth
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON MYTH
Sample Student Paper, The Bonds Between Love sad and Hatred in H.D.’s “Helen”
TERMS FOR REVIEW
28. POETRY AND PERSONAL IDENTITY
CONFESSIONAL POETRY
Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus
IDENTITY POETICS
Rhina Espaillat, Bra
CULTURE, RACE, AND ETHNICITY
Claude McKay, America
Shirley Geok-lin Lyên, Riding inbig California
Francisteo X. Alarcón , The X in My Name
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Quinceañera
Sherman Alexie , The Powwow at the End of the World
Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It
GENDER
Anne Stevenson, The Victory
Jenny Factor, Rubyfruit
James Wright, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Adrienne Rich , Women
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY
Brian Turner, The Hurt Locker
Philip Larkin , Aubade
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Rhina P. Espaillat on Writing , Being a Bilingual Writer
THINKING ABOUT POETIC VOICE AND IDENTITY
CHECKLIST: Writing About Voice & Personal Identity
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON PERSONAL IDENTITY
TERMS FOR REVIEW
29. POETRY IN SPANISH: LITERATURE OF LATIN AMERICA
Sor Juana, Presente en que el Cariño Hace Regalo la Llaneza
Translated by Diane Thiel, A Simple Gift Made Rich by Affection
Pablo Nerudomain authority, Muchos Somos
Translated by Alastair Reid, We Are Many
Jorge Luis Borges , On his blindness
Translated by Robert Mezey, On His Blindness
Octavio Paz, Con los ojos cerrados
Translated by Eliot Weinberger , With eyes closed
SURREALISM IN LATIN AMERICAN POETRY
Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas
César Vallejo, La cólera que quiebra al hombre en niños
Translated by Kimberly Gooden, The anger that breaks the man into children
CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN POETRY
José Emilio Pacheco, Alta Traición
Translated by Alastair Reid, High Treason
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Alastair Reid on Writing, Translating Neruda
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON SPANISH POETRY
30. CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE
THE EFFECT A POEM MAKES
Anonymous , O Moon, when I gaze on thy beautiful face
Emily Dickinson , Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
SENTIMENTALITY
RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE
William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium
Arthur Guiterman, On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
Percy Bysshe Shelley , Ozymandias
Robert Hayden, Frederiông xã Douglass
Elizabeth Bisiêu thị, One Art
John Keats, Ode big a Nightingale
Walternative text Whitman , O Captain! My Captain!
Emma Lazarus , The New Colossus
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Edgar Allan Poe on Writing, A Long Poem Does Not Exist
THINKING ABOUT EVALUATING A POEM
CHECKLIST: Writing An Evaluation
TOPICS FOR WRITING ON EVALUATING A POEM
TERMS FOR REVIEW
31. WHAT IS POETRY?
32. THREE CRITICAL CASEBOOKS: Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Robert Frost
EMILY DICKINSON
Wild Nights — Wild Nights!
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
The Soul selects her own Society
Some keep the Sabbath going big Church
Much Madness is divinest Sense
This is my letter to the World
I heard a Fly buzz — when I died
I started Early — Took my Dog
I dwell in Possibility
Because I could not stop for Death
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
EMILY DICKINSON ON WRITING
Recognizing Poetry
Self-Description
CRITICS ON EMILY DICKINSON
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Meeting Emily Dickinson
Thomas H. Johnson, The Discovery of Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts
Richard Wilbur, The Three Privations of Emily Dickinson
Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Dickinson and Death (A Reading of “Because I could not stop for Death”)