Poetry for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry / Volume 27 :

Poetry for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry / Volume 27 : Ira Mark Milne, project editor. - 1 online resource (xix, 379 pages) : illustrations, photographs. - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-7019."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Archaic torso of Apollo / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges -- Conversation with a stone / Wislawa Szymborska -- Dream song 29 / John Berryman -- Goblin market / Christina Rossetti -- Iola, Kansas / Amy Clampitt -- The man-moth / Elizabeth Bishop -- My grandmother's plot in the family cemetary / Claudia Emerson -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Requiem / Anna Akhmatova -- A satirical elegy on the death of a late famous general / Jonathan Swift -- September 1, 1939 / W.H. Auden -- Telephone conversation / Wole Soyinka / Waterfalls in a bank / A.K. Ramanujan -- Yet we insist that life is full of happy chance / Lyn Hejinian.

Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.



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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. Archaic torso of Apollo.
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986. Borges and I.
Szymborska, Wislawa. Conversation with a stone.
Berryman, John, 1914-1972. Dream song 29.
Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894. Goblin market.
Clampitt, Amy. Iola, Kansas.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979. Man-moth.
Emerson, Claudia, 1957-2014. My grandmother's plot in the family cemetary.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. Ozymandias.
Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966. English. Rekviem.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Satirical elegy on the death of a late famous general.
Auden, W. H. 1907-1973. September 1, 1939.
Soyinka, Wole. Telephone conversation.
Ramanujan, A. K., 1929-1993. Waterfalls in a bank.
Hejinian, Lyn. Yet we insist that life is full of happy chance.


Poetry--Study and teaching.
Poetry--History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern--18th century.
Poetry, Modern--19th century.
Poetry, Modern--20th century.
Poetry, Modern--21st century.

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