| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 296 pages) : illustrations, photos. |
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Gale eBooks
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| Note |
"ISSN 1094-7019." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
An African elegy / Robert Duncan -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Blood oranges / Lisel Mueller -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- The conquerors / Phyllis McGinley -- Darwin in 1881 / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Daylights / Rosanna Warren -- For the White poets who would be Indian / Wendy Rose -- I felt a funeral, in my brain / Emily Dickinson -- i was sitting in mcsorley's / e. e. cummings -- The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens -- Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats -- The song of the smoke / W. E. B. Du Bois -- To his excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick -- We live by what we see at night / Martin Espada. |
| 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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Duncan, Robert Edward, 1919-1988. African elegy.
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Birches.
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Mueller, Lisel. Blood oranges.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Cavalry crossing a ford.
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McGinley, Phyllis, 1905-1978. Conquerors.
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Schnackenberg, Gjertrud. Darwin in 1881.
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Warren, Rosanna. Daylights.
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Rose, Wendy. For the White poets who would be Indian.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. I felt a funeral, in my brain.
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Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. I was sitting in mcsorley's.
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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955. Idea of order at Key West.
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. Leda and the swan.
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Song of the smoke.
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Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784. To his excellency General Washington.
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Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674. To the virgins, to make much of time.
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Espada, Martin, 1957- We live by what we see at night.
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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 |
Thomason, Elizabeth, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Poetry for students, Volume 13. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c2001 9780787646912 |
| ISBN |
9781414428581 (electronic book) |
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1414428588 (electronic book) |
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9780787646912 |
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0787646911 |
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