POETRY FINAL
AP Literature
LIST OF POEMS / WHAT TO STUDY
1. BILLY COLLINS POEMS: See handouts
“Thesaurus”, “Marginalia”, “Purity”, “Instructions to the Artist”, “Japan”, “Candle Hat”
2. EMILY DICKINSON POEMS: “Tell all the Truth…”, “This was a Poet…”, “He fumbles at your
Soul…”, “A nearness to tremendousness…”
3. T.S. ELIOT POEMS: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Waste Land”
4. PARTNER POEMS FROM SOUND AND SENSE:
Period 2:
Period 4:
Period 6:
“Design”
“Mind”
“The Sheaves”
“You, Andrew Marvell”
“The Two Ravens”
“The Two Ravens”
“Mind”
“When in Rome”
“Spring”
“The Sheaves”
“On His Blindness”
“On His Blindness”
“The Two Ravens”
“Sorting Laundry”
“Sorting Laundry”
“When in Rome”
“After Apple-Picking”
“Pathedy of Manners”
“Leda and the Swan”
“Dover Beach”
“A Study of Reading Habits”
“Spring”
“The Road Not Taken”
“Dulce Et Decorum Est”
“On His Blindness”
“A Study of Reading Habits”
“Bereft”
“Sorting Laundry”
“Dulce Et Decorum Est”
“The Aim was Song”
“The Mirror”
“The Naked and the Nude”
“The Whipping”
“The Unknown Citizen”
“Bereft”
“The Mill”
“After Apple-Picking”
“The Aim was Song”
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
“Blackberry Eating”
“The Whipping”
“A Noiseless Patient Spider”
“Pathedy of Manners”
“God’s Grandeur”
“Song: Go, Lovely Rose!”
“Dover Beach”
“To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time”
“Thistles”
“The Road Not Taken”
“The Mill”
“Is My Team Plowing?”
“A Late Aubade”
“Curiosity”
“That Night when Joy Began”
“Loveliest of Trees”
“Stopping by Woods on a
“The State”
“Toads”
Snowy Evening”
“Anthem for Doomed Youth”
“A Study of Reading Habits”
“Dulce Et Decorum Est”
5. ROMANTIC POETRY:
Period 2:
Blake: “The Poison Tree”
Keats: “To Autumn”
Shelley: “A Dialogue”
Byron: “Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup
Formed From a Skull”
Coleridge: “Frost at Midnight”
Wordsworth: “The Sailor’s Mother”
Period 4:
“The Divine Image”
“To Autumn”
“Love’s Philosophy”
“She Walks in Beauty”
Period 6:
“Night”
“To Autumn”
“The Indian Serenade”
“She Walks in Beauty”
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner” “The Dungeon”
“I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” “The Two April Mornings”
6. METAPHYSICAL POETRY: See handout
John Donne:
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
“Break of Day”
“Death, Be Not Proud”
“Love’s Deity”
“The Indifferent”
Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”
George Herbert: “Virtue”
“The Apparition”
“The Canonization”
“The Flea”
“The Good Morrow”
“The Sun Rising”
7. TERMS! See all handouts for poetry and literary terms