“The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams; p. 779.
“The Great Figure” by William Carlos Williams; p. 780.
“In a Station of a Metro” by Ezra Pound; p. 772.
“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell; p. 933.
“Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter” by Robert Bly; Resource Book.
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe; p. 283.
Excerpt from “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe. Resource Book.
“A Dream within a Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe. Resource Book.
“A Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe. Resource Book.
“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe. Resource Book.
“Much Madness is divinest Sense” by Emily Dickinson; p. 383.
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant” by Emily Dickinson; p. 386.
“I taste a liquor never brewed” by Emily Dickinson; p. 382.
“I heard a fly buzz when I died” by Emily Dickinson; p. 392.
“Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman
Verse 1: p. 347.
Verse 10: p. 353.
Verse 52: p. 359.
“A Super Market in California” by Allen Ginsberg; Resource Book.
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens; Resource Book.
“Emperor of Ice Cream” by Wallace Stevens; Resource Book.
“Class Picture 1959” by Billy Collins; Resource Book.
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Thomas Sterns Eliot (T.S. Eliot); p. 663.
“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop; p. 1035.
“In Just” by E.E. Cummings; Resource Book.
“Buffalo Bills” by E.E. Cummings; Resource Book.
“what if a much of a which of a wind” by E.E. Cummings; p. 797.
“Spring” by Edna St. Vincent Millay; Resource Book.
“Once by the Pacific” by Robert Frost; p. 564.
“Neither Out Far Nor in Deep” by Robert Frost; p. 565.
“The Road not Taken” by Robert Frost; Pending
“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost; Resource Book.
“Fog” by Carl Sandburg; Resource Book.
“Fifteen” by William Stafford; Resource Book.
Traveling through the Dark” by William Stafford; Resource Book.
“Ask Me” by William Stafford; Resource Book.
“Growing Up” by William Stafford; Resource Book.
“The Dead Seal” by Robert Bly; Resource Book.
“Looking into a Tide Pool” by Robert Bly; Resource Book.
“Warning to the Reader” by Robert Bly; Resource Book.

“We Real Cool” Gwendolyn Brooks; Resource Book.
“Mirror” by Sylvia Plath; p. 1149
“Mushrooms” by Sylvia Plath; p. 1150.
“Grass” by Charles Bukowski; Resource Book.
“Safe” by Charles Bukowski; Resource Book.
“For Jane” by Charles Bukowski; Resource Book.
“Leaning into the Afternoon” by Pablo Neruda; Resource Book.
“The Well” by Pablo Neruda; Resource Book.
“Full Powers” by Pablo Neruda; p. 369.
Spoken Word Art in Preparation for our Poetry Reading.
Poetry Terms
 Ballad: A song or poem that tells a story.
 Blank Verse: Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter Caesura: A pause or break within a line of poetry.
 Caesura: Grammatical pause or break in a line of poetry.
 Connotations: The associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition.
 Consonance: The repetition of the same or similar final consonant sounds on accented syllables or in important words.
 Denotation: The literal definition of words; used in definitional terms.
 Diction: A speaker or writer’s choice of words.
 Dramatic Monologue: A poem in which a character speaks to one or more listeners.
 Figures of Speech: A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and that is not meant to be taken literally.
 Free Verse: Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
 Imagery: The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.
 Lyric Poem: A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal thoughts and feelings of the speaker.
 Metaphor: A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison such as like, than, as, or resembles.
 Metonymy: A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it.
 Onomatopoeia: The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.
 Oxymoron: A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms such as sweet sorrow.
 Personification: A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts or attitudes.
 Rhyme: The repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables. The pattern of Rhymes in poems is referred to as rhyme scheme.
 Rhythm: The alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language.
 Simile: A figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
 Symbol: A person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself
 Slant Rhyme: A Rhyming sound that is not exact. Follow / fellow and mystery/ mastery.
 Tone: The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of the work, the characters in it, or the audience