AP Literature
Poetry Packet
▪ The Villanelle
“One Art” – Elizabeth Bishop
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” – Dylan Thomas
▪ The Sestina
“Sestina of the Tramp-Royal” – Rudyard Kipling
“Sestina: Altaforte” – Ezra Pound
▪ The Pantoum
“Pantoum of the Great Depression” – Donald Justice
“Parents’ Pantoum” for Maxine Kumin – Carolyn Kizer
▪ The Sonnet
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” Sonnet 18 – William Shakespeare
“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
▪ The Ballad
“The Tale of Custard the Dragon” – Ogden Nash
“We Real Cool” The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel – Gwendolyn Brooks
▪ Blank Verse
From “Paradise Lost” Book I, lines 710-746 – John Milton
“Directive” – Robert Frost
▪ The Heroic Couplet
“The Author to Her Book” – Anne Bradstreet
“My Last Duchess” Ferrara – Robert Browning
▪ The Stanza
“The Tyger” – William Blake
“I died for Beauty—but was scarce” – Emily Dickinson
▪ The Elegy
“O Captain! My Captain!” – Walt Whitman
“Child Burial” – Paula Meehan
▪ The Pastoral
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” – John Keats
“To My Sister” – William Wordsworth
▪ The Ode
“Ode to the West Wind” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The Fire of Driftwood” Devereux Farm near Marblehead – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
▪ Open Forms
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” – T.S. Eliot
“Ave Maria” – Frank O’Hara