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 Summers 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 Mens 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 Hearts 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 Dressmakers 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