Poetry for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry / Volume 22 : Anne Marie Hacht, project editor ; foreword by David Kelly. - 1 online resource (xxii, 336 pages) : illustrations, photographs. - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-7019." Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Apple sauce for Eve / Marge Piercy -- Death sentences / Radmila Lazic -- The forest / Susan Stewart -- If / Rudyard Kipling -- It's a woman's world / Eavan Boland -- Metamorphoses / Ovid -- Omen / Edward Hirsch -- On the threshold / Eugenio Montale -- The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe -- Pineapples and pomegranates / Paul Muldoon -- The satyr's heart / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- The Toni Morrison dreams / Elizabeth Alexander -- Trompe l'Oeil / Mary Jo Salter -- What I would ask my husband's dead father / Sharon Hashimoto -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman -- Why the classics / Zbigniew Herbert.

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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Piercy, Marge. Apple sauce for Eve.
Lazic, Radmila, 1949- Death sentences.
Stewart, Susan 1952- Forest.
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. If.
Boland, Eavan. It's a woman's world.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.
Hirsch, Edward. Omen.
Montale, Eugenio, 1896-1981. On the threshold.
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593. Passionate shepherd to his love.
Muldoon, Paul. Pineapples and pomegranates.
Kelly, Brigit Pegeen, 1951- Satyr's heart.
Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- Toni Morrison dreams.
Salter, Mary Jo. Trompe l'Oeil.
Hashimoto, Sharon. What I would ask my husband's dead father.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. When I heard the learn'd astronomer.
Herbert, Zbigniew. Why the classics.


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

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