Preface
         Part One Introduction
         Chapter One Brief Introduction to British and American Poetry
         Chapter Two What Is Poetry
         Chapter Three How to Read a Poem
         Chapter Four How to Evaluate a Poem
         Chapter Five Themes of a Poem
         Part Two Elements of Poetry
         Chapter One Voice: Speaker and Tone
         John Donne: The Flea
         Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening
         William Blake: The Lamb
         Theodore Roethke: My Papa's Waltz
         Robert Hayden: Those Winter Sundays
         Chapter Two Diction
         John Milton: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint
         William Blake: London
         William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
         Alfred,Lord Tennyson: Crossing the Bar
         Chapter Three Imagery
         Robert Browning: Meeting at Night
         Alfred,Lord Tennyson: Break,Break,Break
         Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro
         Seamus Heaney: The Play Way
         Chapter Four Figures of Speech
         Section One Simile,Metaphor
         Robert Bums: A Red,Red Rose
         Alfred Tennyson: The Eagle: A Fragment
         Sylvia Plath: Metaphors
         Section Two Metonymy,Synecdoche
         Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
         Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
         Section Three Personification,Apostrophe
         William Wordsworth: London,1802
         John Keats: To Autumn
         Sylvia Plath: Mirror
         Section Four Irony
         William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper
         Stephen Crane: The War Is Kind
         Section Five Paradox
         Richard Lovelace: To Lucasta,Going to the War
         William Wordsworth: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
         Thomas Hardy: Hap
         Chapter Five Symbolism and Allegory
         William Blake: The Sick Rose
         Thomas Stearns Eliot: The Boston Evening Transcript
         Emily Dickinson: I Heard a Fly Buzz——When I Died
         William Buffer Yeats: The Second Coming
         Chapter Six Syntax
         Thomas Hardy: The Man He Killed
         William Buffer Yeats: An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
         Chapter Seven Sound: Rhyme,Alliteration and Assonance
         Emily Dickinson: The Soul Selects Her Own Society
         Wystan Hugh Auden: That Night When Joy Began
         Chapter Eight Rhythm and Meter
         Robert Herriek: An Ode to Him
         Edna St. Vincent Millay: God's World
         Part Three Types of Poetry
         Chapter One Narrative Poetry
         Section One Epic
         John Milton: Paradise Lost
         Section Two Ballad
         Anonymous: Get Up and Bar the Door
         John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
         Section Three Romance
         Anonymous: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
         Chapter Two Lyric Poetry
         Section One Sonnet
         William Shakespeare: Sonnet
         William Wordsworth: The World Is Too Much with Us
         John Keats: On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
         Section Two Ode
         Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
         John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn
         Section Three Song
         John Donne: Song
         Ben Jonson: Song: To Celia
         Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne
         Section Four Elegy
         John Milton: Lycidas
         Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
         Percy Busshe Shelley: Adonais
         Section Five Dirge
         William Shakespeare: Full Fathom Five
         Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Dirge
         Section Six Aubade
         John Donne: The Sun Rising
         Robert Browning: Parting at Morning
         Section Seven Pastoral
         Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
         William Wordsworth: Michael: A Pastoral Poem
         Chapter Three Dramatic Poetry
         Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
         Percy Bysshes Shelley: Prometheus Unbound
         Chapter Four Other Types of Poetry
         Section One Descriptive Poetry
         James Thomson: The Seasons
         William Wordsworth: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,September 3,1802
         Section Two Reflective Poetry
         William Cowper: The Task: The Stricken Deer
         Section Three Didactic Poetry
         Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism
         Section Four Satirical Poetry
         Percy Bysshe Shelley: England in 1819
         Erenst Jones: The Song of the Lower Classes
         A Glossary of Poetic Terms
         List of Poets
         Bibliography
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