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Introduction to Poetry, An, 13th edition
Published by Pearson (September 21, 2009) © 2010
- X J. Kennedy Pitzer College
- Dana Gioia University of Southern California
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Kennedy/Gioia's An Introduction to Poetry, 13th edition continues to inspire students with a rich collection of poems and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about poetry.
This bestselling anthology includes more than 450 of the discipline's greatest poems, blending classic works and contemporary selections. Both noted poets themselves, the text's editors X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia write of their subject with wit and a contagious enthusiasm. Informative, accessible apparatus presents readable discussions of the literary devices, illustrated by apt works, and supported by interludes with the poets. This edition features more than 50 new poems, a masterwork casebook on T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Songs of J. Alfred Prufrock," revised and expanded chapters on writing, and a new design.
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Interview with Kay Ryan
1. Reading a Poem
Poetry or Verse
Reading a Poem
Paraphrase
William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Lyric Poetry
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Narrative Poetry
Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spence
Robert Frost, “Out, Out–”
Dramatic Poetry
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Didactic Poetry
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Adrienne Rich, Recalling “Aunt Jennifer's Tigers”
Thinking About Paraphrase
William Stafford, Ask Me
William Stafford, A Paraphrase of “Ask Me”
Checklist: Writing a Paraphrase
Writing Assignment on Paraphrasing
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
2. Listening to a Voice
Tone
Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz
Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know
Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book
Walt Whitman, To a Locomotive in Winter
Emily Dickinson, I like to see it lap the Miles
** Kevin Young, Doo Wop
Weldon Kees, For My Daughter
The Person in the Poem
Natasha Trethewey, White Lies
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Luke Havergal
Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting
Suji Kwock Kim, Monologue for an Onion
William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Dorothy Wordsworth, Journal Entry
James Stephens, A Glass of Beer
Anne Sexton, Her Kind
William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow
Irony
Robert Creeley, Oh No
W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen
Sharon Olds, Rites of Passage
** Rod Taylor, Dakota: October, 1822: Hunkpapa Warrior
Sarah N. Cleghorn, The Golf Links
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second Fig
** Dorothy Parker, Comment
** Bob Hicok, Making It In Poetry
Thomas Hardy, The Workbox
For Review and Further Study
William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper
** Erich Fried, The Measures Taken
William Stafford, At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border
Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Wilfred Owen, War Poetry
Thinking About Tone
Checklist: Writing about Tone
Writing Assignment on Tone
Student Paper, Word Choice, Tone, and Point of View in Roethke's “My Papa's Waltz”
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
3. Words
Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First
William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say
Diction
Marianne Moore, Silence
Robert Graves, Down, Wanton, Down!
John Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You
The Value of a Dictionary
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath
** Kay Ryan, Chemise
J. V. Cunningham, Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead
Carl Sandburg, Grass
** Dan Anderson, Dog Haiku
Word Choice and Word Order
Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes
** Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne
Kay Ryan, Blandeur
Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid
Richard Eberhart, The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
Wendy Cope, Lonely Hearts
For Review and Further Study
E. E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town
Billy Collins, The Names
** Charles Bukowski, Dostoevsky
Anonymous, Carnation Milk
Gina Valdés, English con Salsa
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Lewis Carroll, Humpty Dumpty Explicates “Jabberwocky”
Thinking About Diction
Checklist: Writing About diction
Writing Assignment on Word Choice
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
4. Saying and Suggesting
Denotation and Connotation
John Masefield, Cargoes
William Blake, London
Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
Gwendolyn Brooks, Southeast Corner
Timothy Steele, Epitaph
E. E. Cummings, next to of course god america i
Robert Frost, Fire and Ice
** Diane Thiel, The Minefield
** Ron Rash, The Day the Gates Closed
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears
Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Richard Wilbur, Concerning “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World”
Thinking About Denotation and Connotation
Checklist: writing about What a Poem SAYS AND Suggests
Writing Assignment on Denotation and Connotation
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
5. Imagery
Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro
Taniguchi Buson, The Piercing Chill I Feel
Imagery
T. S. Eliot, The Winter Evening Settles Down
Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish
** Rainer Maria Rilke, The Panther
Charles Simic, Fork
Emily Dickinson, A Route of Evanescence
Jean Toomer, Reapers
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
About Haiku
Arakida Moritake, The falling flower
Matsuo Basho, Heat-lightning streak
Matsuo Basho, In the old stone pool
Taniguchi Buson, On the one-ton temple bell
** Taniguchi Buson, Moonrise on mudflats
Kobayashi Issa, Only One Guy
Kobayashi Issa, Cricket
Haiku from Japanese Internment Camps
** Suiko Matsushita, Cosmos in Bloom
** Neiji Ozawa, The War–This Year
Hakuro Wada, Even the Croaking of Frogs
Contemporary Haiku
Etheridge Knightn Making jazz swing in
Lee Gurga, Visitor's Room
Penny Harter, broken bowl
Jennifer Brutschy, Born Again
John Ridland, The Lazy Man's Haiku
Garry Gay, Hole in the Ozone
For Review and Further Study
John Keats, Bright star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art
Walt Whitman, The Runner
T. E. Hulme, Image
William Carlos Williams, El Hombre
Robert Bly, Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter
** Paul Goodman, Birthday Cake
Louise Glück, Mock Orange
Billy Collins, Embrace
** Kevin Prufer, Pause, Pause
Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Ezra Pound, The Image
Thinking About Imagery
Checklist: Writing about Imagery
Writing Assignment on Imagery
Student Paper, FADED BEAUTY: Elizabeth Bishop's Use of Imagery in “The Fish”
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
6. Figures of Speech
Why Speak Figuratively?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle
William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
Metaphor and Simile
Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Flower in the Crannied Wall
William Blake, To see a world in a grain of sand
Sylvia Plath, Metaphors
N. Scott Momaday, Simile
Emily Dickinson, It dropped so low — in my Regard
** Jill Alexander Essbaum, The Heart
Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Other Figures of Speech
James Stephens, The Wind
Margaret Atwood, You fit into me
George Herbert, The Pulley
Dana Gioia, Money
Charles Simic, My Shoes
** Carl Sandburg, Fog
For Review and Further Study
Robert Frost, The Silken Tent
Jane Kenyon, The Suitor
Robert Frost, The Secret Sits
A. R. Ammons, Coward
Kay Ryan, Turtle
** Anne Stevenson, The Demolition
Robinson Jeffers, Hands
Robert Burns, Oh, my love is like a red, red rose
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Robert Frost, The Importance of Poetic Metaphor
Thinking About Metaphors
Checklist: Writing About Metaphors
Writing Assignment on Figures of Speech
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
7. Song
Singing and Saying
Ben Jonson, To Celia
** James Weldon Johnson, Since You Went Away
William Shakespeare, O mistress mine
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory
Paul Simon, Richard Cory
Ballads
Anonymous, Bonny Barbara Allan
Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham
Blues
Bessie Smith with Clarence Williams, Jailhouse Blues
W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues
** Kevin Young, Late Blues
Rap
Run D.M.C., from Peter Piper
For Review and Further Study
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Eleanor Rigby
Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin'
Aimee Mann, Deathly
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Paul McCartney, Creating “Eleanor Rigby”
Thinking About Poetry and Song
Checklist: Writing About Song Lyrics
Writing Assignment on Song Lyrics
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
8. Sound
Sound as Meaning
Alexander Pope, True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance
William Butler Yeats, Who Goes with Fergus?
John Updike, Recital
William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Emanuel di Pasquale, Rain
Aphra Behn, When maidens are young
Alliteration and Assonance
A. E. Housman, Eight O'Clock
James Joyce, All day I hear
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls
Rime
William Cole, On my boat on Lake Cayuga
Hilaire Belloc, The Hippopotamus
Ogden Nash, The Panther
William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan
Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur
** William Jay Smith, A Note on the Vanity Dresser
Robert Frost, Desert Places
Reading and Hearing Poems Aloud
Michael Stillman, In Memoriam John Coltrane
William Shakespeare, Full fathom five thy father lies
T. S. Eliot, Virginia
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
T. S. Eliot, The Music of Poetry
Thinking About a Poem's Sound
Checklist: Writing About a Poem's Sound
Writing Assignment on Sound
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
9. Rhythm
Stresses and Pauses
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Break, Break, Break
Ben Jonson, Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount, Keep Time With My Salt Tears
Dorothy Parker, Résumé
Meter
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Counting-out Rhyme
Jacqueline Osherow, Song for the Music in the Warsaw Ghetto
A. E. Housman, When I was one-and-twenty
William Carlos Williams, Smell!
Walt Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums!
David Mason, Song of the Powers
Langston Hughes, Dream Boogie
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Gwendolyn Brooks, Hearing “We Real Cool”
Thinking About Rhythm
Checklist: Scanning a Poem
Writing Assignment on Rhythm
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
10. Closed Form
Formal Patterns
John Keats, This living hand, now warm and capable
Robert Graves, Counting the Beats
John Donne, Song (“Go and Catch a Falling Star”)
Phillis Levin, Brief Bio
The Sonnet
William Shakespeare, Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
Michael Drayton, Since There's No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part
Edna St. Vincent Millay, What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night
** William Meredith, The Illiterate
Kim Addonizio, First Poem for You
** Mark Jarman, Unholy Sonnet: After the Praying
A. E. Stallings, Sine Qua Non
R. S. Gwynn, Shakespearean Sonnet
The Epigram
Alexander Pope, Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog
Sir John Harrington, Of Treason
Robert Herrick, Moderation
William Blake, Her Whole Life Is An Epigram
E. E. Cummings, a politician
Langston Hughes, Prayer
J. V. Cunningham, This Humanist
John Frederick Nims, Contemplation
Brad Leithauser, A Venus Flytrap
Dick Davis, Fatherhood
Anonymous, Epitaph of a Dentist
Hilaire Belloc, Fatigue
Wendy Cope, Variation on Belloc's “Fatigue”
Other Forms
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Robert Bridges, Triolet
Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
A. E. Stallings, On Form and Artifice
Thinking About a Sonnet
Checklist: Writing About a Sonnet
Writing Assignment on a Sonnet
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
11. Open Form
Denise Levertov, Ancient Stairway
E. E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill 's
W. S. Merwin, For the Anniversary of My Death
William Carlos Williams, The Dance
Stephen Crane, The Heart
Walt Whitman, Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Ezra Pound, Salutation
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Prose Poetry
Carolyn Forché, The Colonel
Charles Simic, The Magic Study of Happiness
Visual Poetry
George Herbert, Easter Wings
John Hollander, Swan and Shadow
** Richard Kostelanetz, Simultaneous Translations
Dorthi Charles, Concrete Cat
Seeing the Logic of Open Form Verse
E. E. Cummings, in Just-
** A. E. Stallings, First Love: A Quiz
** David Lehman, Radio
Carole Satyamurti, I Shall Paint My Nails Red
** Alice Fulton, What I Like
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Walt Whitman, The Poetry of the Future
Thinking About Free Verse
Checklist: Writing about free verse
Writing Assignment on Open Form
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
12. Symbol
T. S. Eliot, The Boston Evening Transcript
Emily Dickinson, The Lightning is a yellow Fork
Thomas Hardy, Neutral Tones
Matthew 13:24-30, The Parable of the Good Seed
George Herbert, The World
Edwin Markham, Outwitted
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Christina Rossetti, Uphill
For Review and Further Study
William Carlos Williams, The Term
Ted Kooser, Carrie
** Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
Lorine Niedecker, Popcorn-can cover
** Wallace Stevens, The Snow Man
Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
William Butler Yeats, Poetic Symbols
Thinking About Symbols
Checklist: Writing About Symbols
Writing Assignment on Symbolism
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
13. Myth and Narrative
Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can.
William Wordsworth, The world is too much with us
H. D., Helen
** Constantine Cavafy, IThaca
Archetype
Louise Bogan, Medusa
John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci
Personal Myth
William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
Gregory Orr, Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm
Myth and Popular Culture
Charles Martin, Taken Up
Andrea Hollander Budy, Snow White
Anne Sexton, Cinderella
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Anne Sexton, Transforming Fairy Tales
Thinking About Myth
Checklist: Writing About Myth
Writing Assignment on Myth
Student Paper, The Bonds Between Love and Hatred in H. D.'s “Helen”
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
14. Poetry and Personal Identity
Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus
Rhina Espaillat, Bilingual/Bilingüe
Culture, Race, an
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