Part One Elements of Poetry

Unit One Meter and Rhythm

The Pasture

Annabel Lee

A Psalm of Life

We Real Cool

Unit Two Stanza and Rhyme

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

I Died for Beauty

Ars Poetiea

The Windhover

Unit Three Speaker and Tone

Still I Rise

A Far Cry from Africa

The Song of Wandering Aengus

Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?

Unit Four Figurative Language

A Birthday

All the World' s a Stage

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

Cynara

Unit Five Image and Symbol

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

In a Station of the Metro

Anecdote of the Jar

The Second Coming

Part Two Types of Poetry

Unit Six Ballad

A Red, Red Rose

The Last Rose of Summer

Boots of Spanish Leather

Ballad of Birmingham

Unit Seven Ode

Ode to the West Wind

Unit Eight Sonnet

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

How Do I Love Thee?

America

Why Brownlee Left

Unit Nine Free Verse

I Hear America Singing

Chicago

The Red Wheelbarrow

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Unit Ten Shaped Verse

40--Love

The Window

Swan and Shadow

Part Three Themes of Poetry

Unit Eleven Friendship

When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes

The Arrow and the Song

Break, Break, Break

In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz

Unit Twelve Love

Love' s Philosophy

The Soul Selects Her Own Society

When You Are Old

Permanently

Unit Thirteen Life

Dreams

The Road Not Taken

Sea-Fever

Success Is Counted Sweetest

Unit Fourteen Nature

Spring

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

On the Grasshopper and Cricket

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Unit Fifteen Death

Because I Could Not Stop for Death

When I Am Dead, My Dearest

Requiem

Mid-Term Break

Unit Sixteen Patriotism

My Heart's in the Highlands

I Travelled among Unknown Men

My Grave

The Gift Outright

Part Four Enjoying More English Poems

George Herbert ( 1593-1633 )

The Altar

William Wordsworth ( 1770-1850 )

The Solitary Reaper

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

The Harp That Once Through Tara' s Halls

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Ozymandias

Walt Whitman (181%1892)

1 Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close

If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"

Katharine Tynan ( 1

Not Lovers Then

Any Woman

William Butler Yeats ( 1865-1939 )

The Stolen Child

The Mask

Robert Frost ( 1874-1963 )

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Birches

Thomas Stearns Eliot ( 1888-1965 )

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

Love Is More Thicker Than Forget

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

R. S. Thomas (1913-2000)

Welsh Landscape

Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Skunk Hour

Donald Justice (b. 1925)

Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy

James K. Baxter (1926-1972)

New Zealand

Ted HughesBZ ( 1930-1998 )

Hawk Roosting

Derek Walcott (b. 1930)

Winding Up

Adrian Henri (1932-2000)

Tonight at Noon

Margaret Atwood ( b. 1939)

You Fit into Me

Seamus Heaney ( b. 1939)

Bogland

From the Republic of Conscience

Eavan Boland ( b. 1944)

Mother Ireland

Appendix Ⅰ Glossary

Appendix Ⅱ Biographical Sketches