| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 349 pages) : illustrations, photos. |
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Gale eBooks
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| Note |
"ISSN 1094-7019." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The creation / James Weldon Johnson -- The destruction of Sennacherib / Lord Byron -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- Harlem / Langston Hughes -- An Irish airman foresees his death / William Butler Yeats -- l / e.e. cummings -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot -- Mirror / Sylvia Plath -- Miss Rosie / Lucille Clifton -- Musee des Beaux Arts / W. H. Auden -- My last duchess / Robert Browning -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- The raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- The sonnet-ballad / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare -- The soul selects her own society / Emily Dickinson -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Swing low sweet chariot / Anonymous -- This life / Rita Dove -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden. |
| Summary |
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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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. Charge of the light brigade.
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Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. Creation.
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Destruction of Sennacherib.
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Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953. Do not go gentle into that good night.
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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Harlem.
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. Irish airman foresees his death.
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Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. l(a.
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
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Plath, Sylvia. Mirror.
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Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010. Miss Rosie.
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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. Musee des Beaux Arts.
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Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. My last duchess.
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Keats, John, 1795-1821. Ode on a Grecian urn.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Raven.
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Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963. Red wheelbarrow.
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Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000. Sonnet-ballad.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnet 130.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Soul selects her own society.
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening.
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Dove, Rita. This life.
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Hayden, Robert, 1913-1980. Those winter Sundays.
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Swing low, sweet chariot.
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Poetry -- Study and teaching.
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Poetry -- History and criticism.
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Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Napierkowski, Marie Rose, editor.
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Ruby, Mary K., editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Poetry for students, Volume 1. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c1998 9780787616885 |
| ISBN |
9781414428468 (electronic book) |
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1414428464 (electronic book) |
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9780787616885 |
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0787616885 |
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