Poetry for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry / Volume 3 :

Poetry for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry / Volume 3 : Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary K. Ruby, editors ; foreword by David Kelly. - 1 online resource (xxii, 337 pages) : illustrations, photographs. - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-7019."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Any human to another / Countee Cullen -- A pied / Colleen McElroy -- Auto wreck / Karl Shapiro -- The bells / Edgar Allan Poe -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg -- The courage that my mother had / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- High windows / Philip Larkin -- Hope is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson -- Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- The man he killed / Thomas Hardy -- Mother to son / Langston Hughes -- My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke -- Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost -- Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith -- Ode to a nightingale / John Keats -- old age sticks / e.e. cummings -- [On his blindness] sonnet 16 / John Milton -- On the pulse of morning / Maya Angelou -- Sonnet 116 / William Shakespeare -- The unknown citizen / W. H. Auden.

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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Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Any human to another.
McElroy, Colleen J. Pied.
Shapiro, Karl Jay, 1913-2000. Auto wreck.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Bells.
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. Chicago.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950. Courage that my mother had.
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953. Fern Hill.
Larkin, Philip. High windows.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Hope is the thing with feathers.
Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962. Hurt hawks.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. I hear America singing.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Man he killed.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Mother to son.
Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963. My papa's waltz.
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Nothing gold can stay.
Smith, Stevie, 1902-1971. Not waving but drowning.
Keats, John, 1795-1821. Ode to a nightingale.
Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962. Old age sticks.
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Sonnet 16.
Angelou, Maya. On the pulse of morning.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. No. 116. Sonnets.
Auden, W. H. 1907-1973. Unknown citizen.


Poetry--Study and teaching.
Poetry--History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern--20th century.

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