Poetry for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry / Volume 1 : Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary K. Ruby, editors ; foreword by David Kelly. - 1 online resource (xx, 349 pages) : illustrations, photographs. - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-7019."

Includes bibliographies and index.

The charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The creation / James Weldon Johnson -- The destruction of Sennacherib / Lord Byron -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- Harlem / Langston Hughes -- An Irish airman foresees his death / William Butler Yeats -- l / e.e. cummings -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot -- Mirror / Sylvia Plath -- Miss Rosie / Lucille Clifton -- Musee des Beaux Arts / W. H. Auden -- My last duchess / Robert Browning -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- The raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- The sonnet-ballad / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare -- The soul selects her own society / Emily Dickinson -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Swing low sweet chariot / Anonymous -- This life / Rita Dove -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden.

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



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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. Charge of the light brigade.
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. Creation.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Destruction of Sennacherib.
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953. Do not go gentle into that good night.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Harlem.
Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939. Irish airman foresees his death.
Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962. l(a.
Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965. Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Plath, Sylvia. Mirror.
Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010. Miss Rosie.
Auden, W. H. 1907-1973. Musee des Beaux Arts.
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. My last duchess.
Keats, John, 1795-1821. Ode on a Grecian urn.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Raven.
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963. Red wheelbarrow.
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000. Sonnet-ballad.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnet 130.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Soul selects her own society.
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening.
Dove, Rita. This life.
Hayden, Robert, 1913-1980. Those winter Sundays.


Swing low, sweet chariot.


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

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