Poetry for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context and Criticism on Commonly Studied Poetry, vol.7

Cumulative Author/Title Index A Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? (Hardy): V4 American Poetry (Simpson): V7 Angelou, Maya Harlem Hopscotch: V2 On the Pulse of Morning: V3 Angle of Geese (Momaday): V2 Anonymous Barbara Allan: VI Lord Randal: V6 Sir Patrick Spens: V4 Swing Low Sweet Chariot: V1 Any Human to Another (Cullen): V3 A Pied (McElroy): V3 Arnold, Matthew Dover Beach: V2 Ars Poetica (MacLeish): V5 As I Walked Out One Evening (Auden): V4 Atwood, Margaret Siren Song: VI Auden, W. H. As I Walked Out One Evening: V4 Musee des Beaux Arts: VI The Unknown Citizen: V3 Auto Wreck (Shapiro): V3

B Barbara Allan (Anonymous): V7 Ballad of Birmingham (Randall): V5 Barrett, Elizabeth Sonnet 43: V2 The Bean Eaters (Brooks): V2 Because I Could Not Stop for Death (Dickinson): V2

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The Bells (Poe): V3 Beware: Do Not Read This Poem (Reed): V6 Birch Canoe (Revard): V5 Bishop, Elizabeth Brazil, January 1, 1502: V6 Blake, William The Tyger: V2 A Blessing (Wright): VI Blumenthal, Michael Inventors: V7 Bly, Robert Come with Me: V6 Bradstreet, Anne To My Dear and Loving Husband: V6 Brazil, January 1, 1502 (Bishop): V6 Brooke, Rupert The Soldier: VI Brooks, Gwendolyn The Bean Eaters: V2 The Sonnet-Ballad: VI Strong Men, Riding Horses: V4 We Real Cool: V6 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Sonnet 43: V2 Browning, Robert My Last Duchess: VI Butcher Shop (Simic): V7 Byron, Lord The Destruction of Sennacherib: VI

C Cargoes (Masefield): V5 Casey at the Bat (Thayer): V5 The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson): VI

Chicago (Sandburg): V3 Clifton, Lucille Miss Rosie: VI Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan: V5 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: V4 Come with Me (Bly): V6 Concord Hymn (Emerson): V4 Cool Tombs (Sandburg): V6 The Courage That My Mother Had (Millay): V3 The Creation (Johnson): VI Cullen, Countee Any Human to Another: V3 cummings, e. e. l(a: VI old age sticks: V3

D The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (Jarrell): V2 The Death of the Hired Man (Frost): V4 The Destruction of Sennacherib (Byron): VI Dickey, James The Heaven of Animals: V6 Dickinson, Emily Because I Could Not Stop for Death: V2 "Hope" Is the Thing with Feathers: V3 / Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died—: V5 The Soul Selects Her Own Society: VI There's a Certain Slant of Light: V6

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This Is My Letter to the World: V4 Digging (Heaney): V5 Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (Thomas): VI Donne, John Holy Sonnet 10: V2 Dove, Rita This Life: VI Dover Beach (Arnold): V2

E Easter 1916 (Yeats): V5 Eliot, T. S. Journey of the Magi: VI The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: VI Emerson, Ralph Waldo Concord Hymn: V4

F Facing It (Komunyakaa): V5 Falling Upon Earth (Basho): V2 A Far Cry from Africa (Walcott): V6 Fern Hill (Thomas): V3 Fifteen (Stafford): V2 Fire and Ice (Frost): VI For the Union Dead (Lowell): VI Frost, Robert The Death of the Hired Man: V4 Fire and Ice: VI Mending Wall: V5 Nothing Gold Can Stay: V3 The Road Not Taken: V2 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: VI The Wood-Pile: V6

G Ginsberg, Allen A Supermarket in California: V5 Gliick, Louise The Gold Lily: V5 The Gold Lily (Gliick): V5

H H.D. Helen: V6 Hardy, Thomas Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?: V4 The Man He Killed: V3 Harlem (Hughes): VI Harlem Hopscotch (Angelou): V2 Hawk Roosting (Hughes): V4 Hayden, Robert Those Winter Sundays: VI Heaney, Seamus Digging: V5 Midnight: V2 Hecht, Anthony

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"More Light! More Light! ": V6 The Heaven of Animals (Dickey): V6 Helen (H.D.): V6 High Windows (Larkin): V3 The Highwayman (Noyes): V4 Holy Sonnet 10 (Donne): V2 "Hope" fs the Thing with Feathers (Dickinson): V3 Housman, A. E. To an Athlete Dying Young: VI When I Was One-and-Twenty: V4 Hughes, Langston Harlem: VI Mother to Son: V3 Theme for English B: V6 Hughes, Ted Hawk Roosting: V4 Hunger in New York City (Ortiz): V4 Hurt Hawks (Jeffers): V3

Toads: V4 Lawrence, D. H. Piano: V6 Levertov, Denise In the Land of Shinar: VI Leviathan (Merwin): V5 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth A Psalm of Life: VI Paul Revere's Ride: V2 Lord Randal (Anonymous): V6 Lost Sister (Song): V5 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Eliot): VI Lowell, Robert For the Union Dead: VI The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket: V6

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MacLeish, Archibald Ars Poetica: V5 The Man He Killed (Hardy): V3 A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (Raine): V7 Marvell, Andrew To His Coy Mistress: V5 Masefield, John Cargoes: V5 Matsuo Basho Falling Upon Earth: V2 The Moon Glows the Same: VI McCrae, John In Flanders Fields: V5 McElroy, Colleen A Pied: V3 McKay, Claude The Tropics in New York: V4 Meeting the British (Muldoon): VI Mending Wall (Frost): V5 Merriam, Eve Onomatopoeia: V6 Merwin, W. S. Leviathan: V5 Midnight (Heaney): V2 Millay, Edna St. Vincent The Courage That My Mother Had: V3 Milton, John [On His Blindness] Sonnet 16: V3 Mirror (Plath): VI Miss Rosie (Clifton): VI Momaday, N. Scott Angle of Geese: V2 The Moon Glows the Same (Basho): V7 "More Light! More Light!" (Hecht): V6 Mother to Son (Hughes): V3 Muldoon, Paul Meeting the British: VI Musee des Beaux Arts (Auden): VI My Last Duchess (Browning): VI My Papa's Waltz (Roethke): V3

M / Hear America Singing (Whitman): V3 / Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died— (Dickinson): V5 In a Station of the Metro (Pound): V2 In Flanders Fields (McCrae): V5 In the Land ofShinar (Levertov): V7 Inventors (Blumentha): V7 An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (Yeats): VI

/ Jarrell, Randall The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner: V2 Jeffers, Robinson Hurt Hawks: V3 Shine Perishing Republic: V4 Johnson, James Weldon The Creation: VI Journey of the Magi (Eliot): V7

K Keats, John Ode on a Grecian Urn: VI Ode to a Nightingale: V3 When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be: V2 King James Bible Psalm 23: V4 Komunyakaa, Yusef Facing It: V5 Kubla Khan (Coleridge): V5

L l(a (cummings): VI Lament for the Dorsets (Purdy): V5 Larkin, Philip High Windows: V3

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N Not Waving but Drowning (Smith): V3 Nothing Gold Can Stay (Frost): V3 Noyes, Alfred The Highwayman: V4

O O Captain! My Captain! (Whitman): V2 Ode on a Grecian Urn (Keats): VI Ode to a Nightingale (Keats): V3 Ode to the West Wind (Shelley): V2 old age sticks (cummings): V3 [On His Blindness] Sonnet 16 (Milton): V3 Onomatopoeia (Merriam): V6 On the Pulse of Morning (Angelou): V3 Ortiz, Simon Hunger in New York City: V4 Oysters (Sexton): V4

P Paul Revere's Ride (Longfellow): V2 Piano (Lawrence): V6 Plath, Sylvia Mirror: VI A Psalm of Life (Longfellow): V7 Poe, Edgar Allan The Bells: V3 The Raven: VI Pound, Ezra In a Station of the Metro: V2 Psalm 23 (King James Bible): V4 Purdy, Al Lament for the Dorsets: V5

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The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket (Lowell): V6 Queen-Ann 's-Lace (Williams): V6

R Raine, Craig A Martian Sends a Postcard Home: V7 Randall, Dudley Ballad of Birmingham: V5 The Raven (Poe): VI The Red Wheelbarrow (Williams): VI Reed, Ishmael Beware: Do Not Read This Poem: V6 Revard, Carter Birch Canoe: V5 Richard Cory (Robinson): V4 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge): V4 The Road Not Taken (Frost): V2

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Robinson, E. A. Richard Cory: V4 Roethke, Theodore My Papa's Waltz: V3

S Sailing to Byzantium (Yeats): V2 Sandburg, Carl Chicago: V3 Cool Tombs: V6 The Second Coming (Yeats): V7 Sexton, Anne Oysters: V4 Shakespeare, William Sonnet 18: V2 Sonnet 30: V4 Sonnet 55: V5 Sonnet 116: V3 Sonnet 130: VI Shapiro, Karl Auto Wreck: V3 Shelley, Percy Bysshe Ode to the West Wind: V2 Shine, Perishing Republic (Jeffers): V4 Simic, Charles Butcher Shop: V7 Simpson, Louis American Poetry: VI Sir Patrick Spens (Anonymous): V4 Siren Song (Atwood): V7 Small Town with One Road (Soto): V7 Smith, Stevie Not Waving but Drowning: V3 The Soldier (Brooke): V7 Song, Cathy Lost Sister: V5 Sonnet 16 [On His Blindness] (Milton): V3 Sonnet 18 (Shakespeare): V2 Sonnet 30 (Shakespeare): V4 Sonnet 43 (Browning): V2 Sonnet 55 (Shakespeare): V5 Sonnet 116 (Shakespeare): V3 Sonnet 130 (Shakespeare): VI The Sonnet-Ballad (Brooks): VI Soto, Gary Small Town with One Road:Vl The Soul Selects Her Own Society (Dickinson): VI Stafford, William Fifteen: V2 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Frost): VI Strong Men, Riding Horses (Brooks): V4 A Supermarket in California (Ginsberg): V5 Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Anonymous): VI

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T Tears, Idle Tears (Tennyson): V4 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord The Charge of the Light Brigade: VI Tears, Idle Tears: V4 Ulysses: V2 Thayer, Ernest Lawrence Casey at the Bat: V5 Theme for English B (Hughes): V6 There's a Certain Slant of Light (Dickinson): V6 This Life (Dove): VI Thomas, Dylan Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night: VI Fern Hill: V3 Those Winter Sundays (Hayden): VI Tintern Abbey (Wordsworth): V2 To an Athlete Dying Young (Housman): V7 To His Coy Mistress (Marvell): V5 To My Dear and Loving Husband (Bradstreet): V6 Toads (Larkin): V4 The Tropics in New York (McKay): V4 The Tyger (Blake): V2

U Ulysses (Tennyson): V2 The Unknown Citizen (Auden): V3

W Walcott, Derek A Far Cry from Africa: V6 We Real Cool (Brooks): V6 When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be (Keats): V2 When I Was One-and-Twenty (Housman): V4 Whitman, Walt / Hear America Singing: V3 O Captain! My Captain!: V2 Williams, William Carlos Queen-Ann's-Lace: V6 The Red Wheelbarrow: VI The Wood-Pile (Frost): V6 Wordsworth, William Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey: V2 Wright, James A Blessing: V7

Y Yeats, William Butler Easter 7976: V5 An Irish Airman Foresees His Death: VI Sailing to Byzantium: V2 The Second Coming: VI

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Ortiz, Simon Hunger in New York City: V4

Angelou, Maya Harlem Hopscotch: V2 On the Pulse of Morning: V3 Auden, W. H. As I Walked Out One Evening: V4 Musee des Beaux Arts: VI The Unknown Citizen: V3 Bishop, Elizabeth Brazil, January I, 1502: V6 Blumenthal, Michael Inventors: VI Bly, Robert Come with Me: V6 Bradstreet, Anne To My Dear and Loving Husband: V6 Brooks, Gwendolyn The Bean Eaters: V2 The Sonnet-Ballad: VI Strong Men, Riding Horses: V4 We Real Cool: V6 Clifton, Lucille Miss Rosie: VI Cullen, Countee Any Human to Another: V3 cummings, e. e. l(a: VI old age sticks: V3 Dickey, James The Heaven of Animals: V6 Dickinson, Emily Because I Could Not Stop for Death: V2 "Hope" Is the Thing with Feathers: V3

African American Angelou, Maya Harlem Hopscotch: V2 On the Pulse of Morning: V3 Brooks, Gwendolyn The Bean Eaters: V2 The Sonnet-Ballad: VI Strong Men, Riding Horses: V4 We Real Cool: V6 Clifton, Lucille Miss Rosie: VI Cullen, Countee Any Human to Another: V3 Dove, Rita This Life: VI Hayden, Robert Those Winter Sundays: VI Hughes, Langston Harlem: VI Mother to Son: V3 Theme for English B: V6 Johnson, James Weldon The Creation: VI Komunyakaa, Yusef Facing It: V5 McElroy, Colleen A Pied: V3 Randall, Dudley Ballad of Birmingham: V5 Reed, Ishmael Beware: Do Not Read This Poem: V6

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/ Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died—: V5 The Soul Selects Her Own Society: VI There's a Certain Slant of Light. V6 This Is My Letter to the World: V4 Dove, Rita This Life: VI Eliot, T. S. Journey of the Magi: V7 The Love Song ofJ. Alfred Prufrock: VI Emerson, Ralph Waldo Concord Hymn: V4 Frost, Robert The Death of the Hired Man: V4 Fire and Ice: VI Mending Wall: V5 Nothing Gold Can Stay: V3 The Road Not Taken: V2 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: VI The Wood-Pile: V6 Ginsberg, Allen A Supermarket in California: V5 Gluck, Louise The Gold Lily: V5 H.D. Helen: V6 Hayden, Robert Those Winter Sundays: VI Hecht, Anthony "More Light! More Light!": V6 Hughes, Langston Harlem: VI Mother to Son: V3 Theme for English B: V6 Jarrell, Randall

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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. V2 Jeffers, Robinson Hurt Hawks: V3 Shine, Perishing Republic: V4 Johnson, James Weldon The Creation: VI Komunyakaa, Yusef Facing It: V5 Levertov, Denise In the Land of Shinar: VI Longfellow, Henry Wads worth A Psalm of Life: VI Paul Revere's Ride: V2 Lowell, Robert For the Union Dead: VI The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket: V6 MacLeish, Archibald Ars Poetica: V5 McElroy, Colleen A Pied: V3 McKay, Claude The Tropics in New York: V4 Merriam, Eve Onomatopoeia: V6 Merwin, W. S. Leviathan: V5 Millay, Edna St. Vincent The Courage that My Mother Had: V3 Momaday, N. Scott Angle of Geese: V2 Ortiz, Simon Hunger in New York City: V4 Plath, Sylvia Mirror: VI Poe, Edgar Allan The Bells: V3 The Raven: VI Pound, Ezra In a Station of the Metro: V2 Randall, Dudley Ballad of Birmingham: V5 Reed, Ishmael Beware: Do Not Read This Poem: V6 Revard, Carter Birch Canoe: V5 Robinson, E. A. Richard Cory: V4 Roethke, Theodore My Papa's Waltz: V3 Sandburg, Carl Chicago: V3 Cool Tombs: V6 Sexton, Anne Oysters: V4 Shapiro, Karl Auto Wreck: V3 Simic, Charles Butcher Shop: VI Simpson, Louis American Poetry: VI Song, Cathy

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Lost Sister: V5 Soto, Gary Small Town with One Road: VI Stafford, William Fifteen: V2 Thayer, Ernest Lawrence Casey at the Bat: V5 Whitman, Walt / Hear America Singing: V3 O Captain! My Captain!: V2 Williams, William Carlos Queen-Ann 's-Lace: V6 The Red Wheelbarrow: VI Wright, James A Blessing: VI

Canadian Atwood, Margaret Siren Song: VI McCrae, John In Flanders Fields: V5 Purdy, Al Lament for the Dorsets: V5

Cherokee Momaday, N. Scott Angle of Geese: V2

English Arnold, Matthew Dover Beach: V2 Auden, W. H. As I Walked Out One Evening: V4 Musee des Beaux Arts: VI The Unknown Citizen: V3 Blake, William The Tyger: V2 Bradstreet, Anne To My Dear and Loving Husband: V6 Brooke, Rupert The Soldier: VI Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Sonnet 43: V2 Browning, Robert My Last Duchess: VI Byron, Lord The Destruction of Sennacherib: VI Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan: V5 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: V4 Donne, John Holy Sonnet W: V2 Eliot, T. S. Journey of the Magi: VI The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: VI Hardy, Thomas Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?: V4

The Man He Killed: V3 Housman, A. E. To an Athlete Dying Young: VI When I Was One-and-Twenty: V4 Hughes, Ted Hawk Roosting: V4 Keats, John Ode on a Grecian Urn: VI Ode to a Nightingale: V3 When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be: V2 Larkin, Philip High Windows: V3 Toads: V4 Lawrence, D. H. Piano: V6 Marvell, Andrew To His Coy Mistress: V5 Masefield, John Cargoes: V5 Milton, John [On His Blindness] Sonnet 16: V3 Noyes, Alfred The Highwayman: V4 Raine, Craig A Martian Sends a Postcard Home: VI Shakespeare, William Sonnet 18: V2 Sonnet 30: V4 Sonnet 55: V5 Sonnet 116: V3 Sonnet 130: VI Shelley, Percy Bysshe Ode to the West Wind: V2 Smith, Stevie Not Waving but Drowning: V3 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord The Charge of the Light Brigade: VI Tears, Idle Tears: V4 Ulysses: V2 Williams, William Carlos Queen-Ann's-Lace: V6 The Red Wheelbarrow: VI Wordsworth, William Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey: V2 Yeats, W. B. Easter 1916: V5 An Irish Airman Forsees His Death: VI Sailing to Byzantium: V2 The Second Coming: VI

German Blumenthal, Michael Inventors: VI Roethke, Theodore My Papa's Waltz: V3

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Heaney, Seamus Digging: V5 Midnight: V2 Muldoon, Paul Meeting the British: VI Yeats, William Butler Easter 1916: V5 An Irish Airman Foresees His Death: VI Sailing to Byzantium: V2 The Second Coming: VI

Momaday, N. Scott Angle of Geese: V2

Byron, Lord The Destruction of Sennacherib: VI

Jamaican McKay, Claude The Tropics in New York: V4

Soto, Gary Small Town with One Road: VI

Native American Momaday, N. Scott Angle of Geese: V2 Ortiz, Simon Hunger in New York City: V4 Revard, Carter Birch Canoe: V5

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Japanese Basho, Matsuo Falling Upon Earth: V2 The Moon Glows the Same: VI

Jewish B lumen thai, Michael Inventors: VI Shapiro, Karl Auto Wreck: V3

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Spanish Williams, William Carlos The Red Wheelbarrow: VI

Swedish Sandburg, Carl Chicago: V3

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Levertov, Denise In the Land ofShinar: VI Thomas, Dylan Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night: VI Fern Hill: V3

Levertov, Denise In the Land ofShinar: VI Merriam, Eve Onomatopoeia: V6 Shapiro, Karl Auto Wreck: V3

Walcott, Derek A Far Cry from Africa: V6

Revard, Carter Birch Canoe: V5

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