Poetry for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry / Volume 5 : Mary K. Ruby, editor ; foreword by David Kelly. - 1 online resource (xxii, 318 pages) : illustrations, photographs. - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-7019."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish -- Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall -- Birch canoe / Carter Revard -- Cargoes / John Masefield -- Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- Digging / Seamus Heaney -- Easter 1916 / W. B. Yeats -- Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa -- The gold lily / Louise Gluck -- I heard a fly buzz-when I died- Emily Dickinson -- In Flanders field / John McCrae -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Lament for the Dorsets / Al Purdy -- Leviathan / W. S. Merwin -- Lost sister / Cathy Song -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Sonnet 55 / William Shakespeare -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell.

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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MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982. Ars poetica.
Randall, Dudley, 1914-2000. Ballad of Birmingham.
Revard, Carter. Birch canoe.
Masefield, John, 1878-1967. Cargoes.
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence, 1863-1940. Casey at the bat.
Heaney, Seamus, 1939- Digging.
Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939. Easter 1916.
Komunyakaa, Yusef. Facing it.
Gluck, Louise, 1943- Gold lily.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. I heard a fly buzz-when I died.
McCrae, John, 1872-1918. In Flanders fields.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Kubla Khan.
Purdy, Al, 1918-2000. Lament for the Dorsets.
Merwin, W. S. 1927- Leviathan.
Song, Cathy, 1955- Lost sister.
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Mending wall.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. No. 55. Sonnets.
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. Supermarket in California.
Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678. To his coy mistress.


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

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