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POETRY:AN INTRODUCTIONSecond EditionMICHAEL MEYERUniversity of ConnecticutBEDFORD BOOKSS BBOSTON
ContentsResources for Writing about PoetryPreface for InstructorsInside front covervINTRODUCTION:READING IMAGINATIVE UTERATURETHE NATURE OF LITERATURE/EMILY DICKINSON, A narrow Fellow in the GrassTHE VALUE OF LITERATURE3THE CHANGING LITERARY CANON125POETRY1. Reading Poetry9READING POETRY RESPONSIVELYMARGE PIERCY, The Secretary ChantROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter SundaysJOHN UPDIKE, Dog's Death11THE PLEASURE OF WORDS991012WILLIAM HATHAWAY, Oh, Oh13ROBERT FRANCIS, Catch14A Sample Analysis: Tossing Metaphors Togetherin "Catch"15WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation19ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish20PHILIP LARKIN, A Study of Reading Habits22ROBERT MORGAN, Mountain Graveyard24E. E. CUMMINGS, l(a 25ANONYMOUS, Western'Wind26REGINA BARRECA, Nighttime Fires26SUGGESTIONS FOR APPROACHING POETRY27xlil
POETRY IN POPULAR FORMS29HELEN FARRIES, Magic of Love30JOHN FREDERICK NIMS, Love Poem31BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Streets of Philadelphia32QUEEN LATIFAH, The Evil That Men Do33ROBERT FRANCIS, On "Hard" Poetry (Perspective)POEMS FOR FURTHER STUDY3 6ALICE WALKER, a woman is not a potted plantWYATT PRUNTY, Elderly Lady Crossing on GreenALBERTO RIOS, Seniors38MARY JO SALTER, Welcome to Hiroshima39JOHN DONNE, The Sun Rising41LI HO, A Beautiful Girl Combs Her Hair42ROBERT HASS, Happiness43MILLER WILLIAMS, Excuse Me442.35363 7Word Choice, Word Order, and ToneDICTION4545DENOTATIONS AND CONNOTATIONS47RANDALL JARRELL, The Death of the Ball Turret GunnerE. E. CUMMINGS, she being Brand49WORD ORDER4851TONE51DEREK WALCOTT, The Virgins51RUTH FAINLIGHT, Flower Feet52KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN, Hazel Tells La VerneMARTIN ESPADA, Latin Night at the PawnshopMAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks555354DICTION AND TONE IN FOUR LOVE POEMS56ROBERT HERRICK, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time56ANDREW MARVELL, To His Coy Mistress5 7BERNARD DUYFHUIZEN, "To His Coy Mistress": On How a FemaleMight Respond (Perspective)59RICHARD WILBUR, A Late Aubade60DIANE ACKERMAN, A Fine, a Private Place61POEMS FOR FURTHER STUDY64MARGARET ATWOOD, Bored64THOMAS HARDY, The Convergence of the TwainDAVID R. SLAVITT, Titanic67SHARON OLDS, Sex without Love68JOHN KEATS, Ode on a Grecian Urn69GWENDOLYN BROOKS, We Real Cool70MARILYN BOWERING, Wishing Africa71D. H. LAWRENCE, The English A re So Nice!72IRA SADOFF, Nazis73LOUIS SIMPSON, Ln the Suburbs75A NOTE O N READING TRANSLATIONS75PABLO NERUDA, Juventud76PABLO NERUDA, Youth (translated by Robert Bly)xiv Contents6576
PABLO NERUDA, Youth (translated by Jack Schmitt)77WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA, The Joy of Writing (translatedby Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire)78WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA, The Joy of Writing (translatedby Stanislaw Barariczak and Clare Cavanagh)78SAPPHO, Immortal Aphrodite of the broidered throne(translated by Henry T. Wharton)80SAPPHO, Beautiful-throned, immortal Aphrodite(translated by T. W. Higginson)SOSAPPHO, Invocation to Aphrodite(translated by Richard Lattimore)81SAPPHO, Artfully adorned Aphrodite, deathless(translated by Jim Powell)823.Images83POETRY'S APPEAL TO THE SENSES83WILLAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, Poem83BONNIE JACOBSON, On Being Served ApplesWALT WHITMAN, Cavalry Crossing a FordDAVID SOLWAY, Windsurfing85THEODORE ROETHKE, Root Cellar87MATTHEW ARNOLD, Dover Beach88JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA, Green Chile89POEMS FOR FURTHER STUDY" '4.848590SEAMUS HEANEY, The Pitchfork90H. D. [HILDA DOOUTTLE], Heat91TIMOTHY STEELE, An Aubade92WILLIAM BLAKE, London93WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est93WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA, End and Beginning94MARGARET HOLLEY, Peepers96ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Grief97JAMES DICKEY, Deer Among Cattle98RAINER MARIA RILKE, The Panther99JANE KENYON, The Blue Bowl99SALLY CROFT, Home-Baked Bread100CAROLYN KIZER, Food for Love101JOHN KEATS, To Autumn102EZRA POUND, In a Station of the Metro103CATHY SONG, The White Porch104T. E.HULME, On the Differences between Poetryand Prose (Perspective)105Figures of Speech107WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, From Macbeth (Act V, Scene v)108SIMILE AND METAPHOR108MARGARET ATWOOD, you fit into me109EMILY DICKINSON, Presentiment— is that longShadow— on the lawn—109Contents xv
ANNE BRADSTREET, The Author to Her BookROSARIO CASTELLANOS, Chess111110OTHER FIGURES112EDMUND CONTI, Pragmatist112' DYLAN THOMAS, The Hand That Signed the PaperJANICE TOWNLEY MOORE, To a Wasp114J.PATRICK LEWIS, The Unkindest Cut115POEMS FOR FURTHER STUDY113116MARGARET ATWOOD, February116SOPHIE CABOT BLACK, August117ERNEST SLYMAN, Lightning Bugs118SYLVIA PLATH, Mirror118WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, London, 1802119JIM STEVENS, Schizophrenia119WALT WHITMAN, A Noiseless Patient Spider120WALTWHITMAN, The Soul, reaching, throwing out for loveJOHN DONNE, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning121LINDA PASTAN, Marks122LUCILLE CLIFTON, come home from the movies 123ELAINE MAGARRELL, The Joy of Cooking123STEPHEN PERRY, Blue Spruce124ROBIN BECKER, Shopping125JOHN R. SEARLE, Figuring Out Metaphors (Perspective)5.Symbol, Allegory, and IronySYMBOL128ROBERT FROST, AcquaintedIRONY129131132EDWINARLINGTON ROBINSON, Richard CoryKENNETH FEARING, AD134JANICE MIRIKITANI, Recipe134E. E. CUMMINGS, next to of course god america iSTEPHEN CRANE, A Man Said to the Universe133136136POEMS FOR FURTHER STUDY13 7JANE KENYON, Surprise13 7CONRAD HILBERRY, The Frying Pan138WILLIAM BLAKE, The Sick Rose138PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mask139 ROBERT BLY, Snowbanks North of the House139WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling through the Dark141ANDREW HUDGINS, Seventeen141D. H. LAWRENCE, Snake143ALDENNOWLAN, The Bull Moose145JULIO MARZAN, Ethnic Poetry146JAMES MERRILL, Casual Wear147HENRY REED, Naming of Parts147JOHN CIARDI, Suburban148CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI, Indian Movie, New JerseyROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess150xvi Contents126128with the NightALLEGORY130EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Haunted Palace121149
WILLIAM BLAKE, The Chimney Sweeper152GARY SOTO, Behind Grandma's House153ROBERT BLY, Sitting Down to Dinner154EZRA POUND, On Symbols (Perspective)1556.Sounds156LISTENING TO POETRY156ANONYMOUS, Scarborough FairJOHN UPDIKE, Player Piano157158MAY SWENSON, A Nosty Fright158EMILY DICKINSON, A Bird came down the Walk—GALWAY KINNELL, Blackberry EatingRHYME159161162RICHARD ARMOUR, Going to Extremes162ROBERT SOUTHEY, From The Cataract ofLodore163DAVID LENSON, On the Contemporary Use of Rhyme(Perspective)166SOUND AND MEANING166GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God's GrandeurPOEMS FOR FURTHER STUDY166168EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Bells168LEWIS CARROLL [CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON],Jabberwocky—-171SYLVIA PLATH, Mushrooms172WILLIAM HEYEN, The Trains173JEAN TOOMER, Reapers173JOHN DONNE, Song174JOSEPH BRODSKY, Love Song1 75THOMAS HARDY, The Oxen1 75ALEXANDER POPE, From An Essay on CriticismMARILYN HACKER, Groves of Academe. 177MAXINE HONG KINGSTON, Restaurant178PAUL HUMPHREY, Blow1 79ROBERT FRANCIS, The Pitcher179HELEN CHASIN, The Word Plum180JOHN KEATS, Ode to a Nightingale7.Patterns o f R h y t h mSOME PRINCIPLES OF METER1 76181184184WALT WHITMAN, From Song of the Open RoadWILUAM WORDSWORTH, My Heart Leaps Up185188SUGGESTIONS FOR SCANNING A POEM188TIMOTHY STEELE, Waiting for the Storm189WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, That the Night Come190POEMS FOR FURTHER STUDY191ALICE JONES, The Foot191A. E. HOUSMAN, When I was one-and-twentyRACHEL HADAS, The Red Hat192ROBERT HERRICK, Delight in Disorder193191Contents xvil
BEN JONSON, Still to Be Neat194CHARLES MARTIN, Victoria's Secret194WILLIAM BLAKE, The Lamb195WILLIAM BLAKE, The Tyger196DOROTHY PARKER, One Perfect Rose197ALFRED, LORDTENNYSON, The Charge of the Light Brigade--- THEODORE ROKTHKE, My Papa's Waltz199ARON KEESBURY, Song to a Waitress200EDWARD HIRSCH, Fast Break200GREG WILLIAMSON, Waterfall202LOUISE BOGAN, On Formal Poetry (Perspective)2038.Poetic Forms197204SOME COMMON POETIC FORMS204A. E. HOUSMAN, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now205ROBERT HERRICK, Upon Julia's Clothes206SONNET207JOHN KEATS, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer207WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too Much with Us208WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?209WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, My mistress' eyes are nothing likethe sun209EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, / will put Chaos into fourteen lines210MOLLY PEACOCK, Desire211MARKJARMAN, Unholy Sonnet211VILLANELLE212DYLAN THOMAS, Do not go gentle into that good night212JULIA ALVAREZ, Woman's Work213SESTINA214ELIZABETH BISHOP, Sestina214FLORENCE CASSEN MAYERS, All-A merican Sestina216EPIGRAM217SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, What Is an Epigram?217A. R. AMMONS, Coward217DAVID McCORD, Epitaph on a Waiter217PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, Theology217LIMERICK218ANONYMOUS, There was a young lady named Bright218LAURENCE PERRINE, The limerick's never averse218HAIKU219MATSUO BASHO, Under cherry trees219ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Eastern Guard Tower219ELEGY219SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-term Break220ANDREW HUDGINS, Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead221ODE221PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Ode to the West Wind222PICTURE POEM224MICHAEL McFEE, In Medias Res224PARODY224PETER De VRIES, To His Importunate Mistress225X.J.KENNEDY, A Visit from St. Sigmund226ROBERT MORGAN, On the Shape of a Poem (Perspective)227ELAINE MITCHELL, Form (Perspective)228xviii Contents
9. Open Form229E.E.CUMMINGS, in Just229WALT WHITMAN, From / Sing the Body Electric230WALT WHITMAN, On Rhyme and Meter (Perspective)231GALWAY KINNELL, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps232WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Red Wheelbarrow233DENISE LEVERTOV, Gathered at the River233MARILYN NELSON WANIEK, Emily Dickinson's Defunct235JIM DANIELS, Short-order Cook236CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel23 7SHARON OLDS, Rite of Passage238CAROLYNN HOY, In the Summer Kitchen239ALLEN GINSBERG, First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels240ANONYMOUS, The Frog240TATO LAVIERA, AmeRican241THOMWARD, Vasectomy243JOSEPH BRUCHAC, Ellis Island244PETER MEINKE, The ABC of Aerobics245GARY SOTO, Mexicans Begin Jogging246FOUND POEM246DONALD JUSTICE, Order in the Streets10. Writing a b o u t P o e t r y247248QUESTIONS FOR RESPONSIVE READING AND WRITING248ELIZABETH BISHOP, Manners250A Sample Paper: Memory in Elizabeth Bishop's "Manners"25111. A Study of Three Poets: Emily Dickinson,Robert Frost, and Langston HughesEMILY DICKINSON254254EMILY DICKINSON, 7/7 can stop one Heart from breaking257EMILY DICKINSON, If I shouldn 't be alive25 7EMILY DICKINSON, The Thought beneath so slight a film —258EMILY DICKINSON, To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee259CHRONOLOGY259EMILY DICKINSON, Success is counted sweetest260EMILY DICKINSON, Water, is taught by thirst261EMILY DICKINSON, Safe in their Alabaster Chambers — (1859 version)261,, EMILY DICKINSON, Safe in their Alabaster Chambers— (1861 version)262EMILY DICKINSON, Portraits are to daily faces262EMILY DICKINSON, Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —263EMILY DICKINSON, / taste a liquor never brewed —264EMILY DICKINSON, "Heaven" — is what I cannot reach!264EMILY DICKINSON, Of Bronze — and Blaze —265EMILY DICKINSON, / like a look of Agony,266EMILY DICKINSON, I'm Nobody! Who are you?266EMILY DICKINSON, Wild Nights — Wild Nights!267EMILY DICKINSON, / cannot dance upon my Toes —267EMILY DICKINSON, What Soft — Cherubic Creatures —268EMILY DICKINSON, The Soul selects her own Society —269EMILY DICKINSON, This is my letter to the World269Contents xix
EMILY DICKINSON, Much Madness is divinest Sense —270EMILY DICKINSON, / dwell in Possibility—270EMILY DICKINSON, This was a Poet — It Is That2 71EMILY DICKINSON, / read my sentence — steadily —2 72EMILY DICKINSON, The Grass so little has to do —2 72EMILY DICKINSON, After great pain, a formal feeling comes—--- EMILY DICKINSON, / heard a Fly buzz—when I died—274EMILY DICKINSON, One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—273274EMILY DICKINSON, Because I could not stop for Death —275EMILY DICKINSON, A Light exists in Spring2 76EMILY DICKINSON, Ifelt a Cleaving in my Mind —277EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House277EMILY DICKINSON, Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —278EMILY DICKINSON, From all the Jails the Boys and Girls2 78EMILY DICKINSON, The Lightning is a yellow Fork2 79PERSPECTIVES ON DICKINSONDickinson's Description of Herself279279THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, On Meeting Dickinsonfor the First Time280MABEL LOOMIS TODD, The Character ofAmherst281RICHARD WILBUR, On Dickinson s Sense of Privation282SANDRA M. GILBERT AND SUSAN GUBAR, On Dickinson's White DressKARL KELLER, Robert Frost on Dickinson284CYNTHIA GRIFFIN WOLFF, On the Many Voices in Dickinson's PoetryPAULA BENNETT, On "1heard a Flybuzz— whenldied—"286JOAN KIRKBY, On the Fragility of Language in Dickinson's PoetryGALWAY KINNELL, The Deconstruction of Emily Dickinson288283285287TWO COMPLEMENTARY CRITICAL READINGS290CHARLES R. ANDERSON, Eroticism in "Wild Nights — Wild Nights!"290DAVID S. REYNOLDS, Popular Literature and "Wild Nights — Wild Nights!"QUESTIONS FOR WRITING ABOUT AN AUTHOR IN DEPTHEMILY DICKINSON, 'Faith " is a fine invention294EMILY DICKINSON, I know that He exists294292EMILY DICKINSON, I never saw a Moor —294EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently with no surprise295A Sample In-Depth Study: Religious Faith in Four Poems byEmily Dickinson295ROBERT FROST298ROBERT FROST, The Road Not Taken301ROBERT FROST, The Pasture303CHRONOLOGY303ROBERT FROST, Mending Wall304ROBERT FROST, Home Burial306ROBERT FROST, After Apple-Picking309ROBERT FROST, The Wood-Pile310ROBERT FROST, Birches311ROBERT FROST, "Out, Out—"313ROBERT FROST, Fire and Ice314ROBERT FROST, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningROBERT FROST, Nothing Gold Can Stay315ROBERT FROST, Once by the Pacific315ROBERT FROST, Two Tramps- in Mud Time316xx Contents314291
ROBERT FROST, Design318ROBERT FROST, Neither Out Far nor In DeepROBERT FROST, Come In319ROBERT FROST, The Silken Tent320ROBERT FROST, The Most of It321ROBERT FROST, Away!321319PERSPECTIVES ON FROST322"In White": Frost's Early Version of "Design"322Frost on the Living Part of a Poem323AMY LOWELL, On Frost's Realistic Technique323Frost on the Figure a Poem Makes324Frost on the Way to Read a Poem326LIONEL TRILLING, On Frost as a Terrifying Poet327HERBERT R. COURSEN
RACHEL HADAS, The Red Hat 192 ROBERT HERRICK, Delight in Disorder 193 Contents xvil. BEN JONSON, Still to Be Neat 194 CHARLES MARTIN, Victoria's Secret 194 WILLIAM BLAKE, The Lamb 195 WILLIAM BLAKE, The Tyger 196 DOROTHY PARKER, One Perfect Rose 197 ALFRED, LORDTENNYSON, The Charge of the Light Brigade 197--- THEODORE ROKTHKE, My Papa's Waltz
