| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 343 pages) : illustrations, photos. |
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Gale eBooks
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| Note |
"ISSN 1094-7019." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Angle of geese / N. Scott Momaday -- The bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson -- Death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Falling upon earth / Matsuo Basho -- Fifteen / William Stafford -- Harlem hopscotch / Maya Angelou -- Holy sonnet 10 / John Donne -- In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound -- Midnight / Seamus Heaney -- O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman -- Ode to the West Wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Paul Revere's Ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats -- Sonnet 18 / William Shakespeare -- Sonnet 43 / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth -- The Tyger / William Blake -- Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- When I have fears that I may cease to be / John Keats. |
| 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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Momaday, N. Scott, 1934- Angle of geese.
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Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000. Bean eaters.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Because I could not stop for death.
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Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965. Death of the ball turret gunner.
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Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888. Dover Beach.
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Matsuo, Basho, 1644-1694. Falling upon earth.
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Stafford, William, 1914-1993. Fifteen.
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Angelou, Maya. Harlem hopscotch.
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Donne, John, 1572-1631. Holy sonnet 10.
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. In a station of the Metro.
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Heaney, Seamus, 1939- Midnight.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. O captain! my captain!
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. Ode to the west wind.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. Paul Revere's ride.
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Road not taken.
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. Sailing to Byzantium.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnet 18.
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Sonnet 43.
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. Tintern Abbey.
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Blake, William, 1757-1827. Tyger.
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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. Ulysses.
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Keats, John, 1795-1821. When I have fears that I may cease to be.
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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 2. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c1998 9780787616892 |
| ISBN |
9781414428475 (electronic book) |
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1414428472 (electronic book) |
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9780787616892 |
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0787616893 |
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