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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
Section Two Metonymy, Synecdoche
Section Three Personification, Apostrophe
Section Four Irony
Section Five Paradox
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 Butler Yeats: The Second Coming
Chapter Six Syntax
Thomas Hardy: The Man He Killed
William Butler 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 Herrick: An Ode for Him
Edna St. Vincent Millay: God’s World
Part Three Types of Poetry
Chapter One Narrative Poetry
Section One Epic
Section Two Ballad
Section Three Romance
Chapter Two Lyric Poetry
Section One Sonnet
Section Two Ode
Section Three Song
Section Four Elegy
Section Five Dirge
Section Six Aubade
Section Seven Pastoral
Chapter Three Dramatic Poetry
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
Percy Bysshes Shelley: Prometheus Unbound
Chapter Four Other Types of Poetry
Section One Descriptive Poetry
Section Two Reflective Poetry
Section Three Didactic Poetry
Section Four Satirical Poetry
A Glossary of Poetic Terms
List of Poets
Bibliography
