AP English Literature and Composition 2015 Explication Assignments Kasey Baldridge Brookelyn Sargent “An Echo Sonnet” Robert Pack “Icarus” Edward Field “Here” Philip Larkin “Evening Hawk” Robert Penn Warren “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” Emily Dickinson “The Convergence of the Twain” Thomas Hardy “The Author to Her Book” Anne Bradstreet “London, 1802” William Wordsworth “The Most of It” Robert Frost “The Last Night that She Lived…” Emily Dickinson Lauren Miller Chandler Waugh “When I Was One-And-Twenty” A.E. Housman “Hawk Roosting” Ted Hughes “A Barred Owl” Richard Wilbur “Five A.M.” William Stafford “Acquainted with the Night” Robert Frost “Douglass” Paul Laurence Dunbar “The Broken Heart” John Donne “The Great Scarf of Birds” John Updike “Clocks and Lovers” W.H. Auden “Bright Star” John Keats Britnee Mershon Samuel Boyd “To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age” Samuel Johnson “Golden Retrievals” Mark Doty “The History Teacher” Billy Collins “Poem from Modern Love” George Meredith “To Helen” Edgar Allan Poe “The Groundhog” Richard Eberhart Alexandria Lacey “The Century Quilt” Marilyn Nelson Waniek “To Paint a Water Lily” Ted Hughes “If I Could Tell You” W.H. Auden “The Centaur” May Swenson “The Prelude” William Wordsworth “Five Flights Up” Elizabeth Bishop “Siren Song” Margaret Atwood “Choose Something like a Star” Robert Frost “Storm Warnings” Adrienne Rich Todd Chapman “When I Have Fears” John Keats “The Chimney Sweeper” (1789) William Blake “Blackberry-Picking” Seamus Heaney “Sow” Sylvia Plath “One Art” Elizabeth Bishop AP English Literature and Composition 2015 Explication Assignments Bryce Wolfenbarker “Crossing the Swamp” Mary Oliver “The Death of a Toad” Richard Wilbur “There was a Boy” William Wordsworth “Spring and All” William Carlos Williams “For Jane Meyers” Louise Gluck