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.
9781414428482
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.