Anyone lived in a pretty how town / e. e. cummings -- The centaur / May Swenson -- Follower / Seamus Heaney -- Freeway 280 / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning / Alice Walker -- I, too / Langston Hughes -- A nocturnal reverie / Anne Finch …
Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
An ancient gensture / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The black snake / by Mary Oliver -- The fish / by Elizabeth Bishop -- Fragment 2 / by Sappho -- The hippopotamus / by Ogden Nash -- Huswifery / by Edward Taylor -- Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias / by Federico Garcia Lorca --…
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
Classic ballroom dances / by Charles Simic -- Elena / by Pat Mora -- Fully empowered / by Pablo Neruda -- The hollow men / by T.S. Eliot -- I wandered lonely as a cloud / by William Wordsworth -- Jazz fantasia / by Carl Sandburg -- The lotus flowers / by Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Mu…
Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
Autobiographia literaria / by Frank O'Hara -- The bridegroom / by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin -- Conscientious objector / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The fly / by William Blake -- Grandmother / by Valzhyna Mort -- Midsummer, Tobago / by Derek Walcott -- My mother combs my ha…
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.