ENGLISH IIH
Poetry Unit
Mrs. Tziarri
1. Tone – 27-31
a. Barbie Doll – 27
b. Leaving the Motel - 28
c. In Time of Plague – 30
d. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers – 36
e. The Red Hat – 39
f. Milkweed and Monarch – 43
g. Those Winter Sundays – 49
h. A Narrow Fellow in the Grass - 62
2. Speaker – 68-72
a. The Ruined Maid – 68
b. Death of a Young Son by Drowning – 71
c. We Real Cool - 92
3. Situation and Setting - 93
a. Point Shirley - 102
b. Dover Beach – 104
c. Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen – 114
d. Morning – 116
e. Postcard from Kashmir - 123
4. Language - 129
a. Gentle Communication – 135
b. My Papa’s Waltz – 138
c. This is Just to Say – 143
d. In-Just 147
e. Symphony in Yellow – 156 (Imagery)
f. That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold – 166
(simile/metaphor)
g. A Red, Red Rose – 170
h. Wild Nights – Wild Nights! – 182
i. Diving Into the Wreck – 193 (symbol)
5. The Sounds of Poetry - 199
a. The Word Plum – 199
b. Sound and Sense – 204 (meter 206-207)
6. Internal Structure – 231
a. Mr. Flood’s Party
b. Ode to the West Wind - 244
7. External Form, Rhyme and Sonnets - 255
a. Nuns Fret Not – 259
b. First Fight. Then Fiddle – 270
c. Sonnet – 273 (Collins)
d. Buffalo Bill’s - 282
8. Context – 303-305
a. Emmett Till - 304
9. Other Poems:
a. Haikus by Basho – 393
b. Advice to a First Cousin – 419
c. Saturday’s Child – 434
d. The Negro Speaks of Rivers – 437
e. Because I Could Not Stop for Death – 531
f. The Road Not Taken – 542
g. Stopping By Woods – 543
h. I Hear America Singing – 580