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The Norton Introduction to Literature

by: Beaty, Jerome; Booth, Alison; Mays, Kelly J.; Hunter, J. Paul

The Norton Introduction to Literature

by: Beaty, Jerome; Booth, Alison; Mays, Kelly J.; Hunter, J. Paul

ISBN 13:
9780393976878
ISBN 10:
0393976874
Edition: 8th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 07/01/2001
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Preface

xxv

Introduction: What Is Literature?

xxix

Fiction

Fiction: Reading, Responding, Writing

(13)

The Zebra Storyteller

(3)

Spencer Holst

No One's a Mystery

(3)

Elizabeth Tallent

The Jewelry

(7)

Guy de Maupassant

Questions/Writing Suggestions

(1)

Understanding the Text

(324)

Plot

(51)

Happy Endings

(3)

Margaret Atwood

The Country Husband

(18)

John Cheever

Sonny's Blues

(25)

James Baldwin

Questions/Writing Suggestions

(2)

Narration and Point of View

(36)

The Cask of Amontillado

(5)

Edgar Allan Poe

Hills Like White Elephants

(3)

Ernest Hemingway

How

(7)

Lorrie Moore

Dreams

(17)

Timothy Findley

Questions/Writing Suggestions

100

(2)

Character

102

(55)

Why I Live at the P.O.

107

(9)

Eudora Welty

Bartleby, the Scrivener

116

(26)

Herman Melville

Our Friend Judith

142

(15)

Doris Lessing

Questions/Writing Suggestions

155

(2)

Setting

157

(38)

Sanchez

159

(9)

Richard Dokey

A Pair of Tickets

168

(14)

Amy Tan

The Lady with the Dog

182

(13)

Anton Chekhov

Questions/Writing Suggestions

194

(1)

Symbol

195

(28)

Young Goodman Brown

198

(9)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Hunger Artist

207

(7)

Franz Kafka

Janus

214

(9)

Ann Beattie

Questions/Writing Suggestions

217

(2)

Student Writing: Geoffrey Clement, The Struggle to Surface in the Water of ``Sonny's Blues''

219

(4)

Theme

223

(49)

A Souvenir of Japan

227

(6)

Angela Carter

The Management of Grief

233

(12)

Bharati Mukherjee

Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants

245

(10)

Nadine Gordimer

Interpreter of Maladies

255

(17)

Jhumpa Lahiri

Questions/Writing Suggestions

270

(2)

The Whole Text

272

(67)

The Secret Sharer

272

(31)

Joseph Conrad

Questions and Writing Suggestions

301

(2)

Love Medicine

303

(17)

Louise Erdrich

Questions and Writing Suggestions

319

(1)

The Open Boat

320

(19)

Stephen Crane

Questions and Writing Suggestions

337

(2)

Exploring Contexts

339

(238)

The Author's Work As Context: D. H. Lawrence and Flannery O'Connor

339

(107)

D. H. Lawrence

345

(45)

Odour of Chrysanthemums

345

(14)

The Blind Man

359

(14)

The Rocking-Horse Winner

373

(11)

Passages from Essays and Letters

384

(6)

Flannery O'Connor

390

(56)

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

390

(11)

The Lame Shall Enter First

401

(26)

Everything That Rises Must Converge

427

(12)

Passages from Essays and Letters

439

(5)

Questions/Writing Suggestions

444

(2)

Literary Kind as Context: Initiation Stories

446

(22)

Gorilla, My Love

447

(5)

Toni Cade Bambara

Boys and Girls

452

(10)

Alice Munro

Araby

462

(6)

James Joyce

Questions/Writing Suggestions

466

(2)

Form as Context: The Short Short Story

468

(22)

The Story of an Hour

470

(2)

Kate Chopin

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

472

(4)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Girl

476

(1)

Jamaica Kincaid

Pants on Fire

477

(4)

Nicholson Baker

The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket

481

(3)

Yasunari Kawabata

The Use of Force

484

(2)

William Carlos Williams

She Unnames Them

486

(4)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Questions/Writing Suggestions

488

(2)

Cultural and Historical Context

490

(39)

Babylon Revisited

498

(31)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Echoes of the Jazz Age

513

(3)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

From Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

516

(6)

Malcolm Cowley

The New York Times

Stocks Collapse in 16,410,030-Share Day

522

(1)

Crowd at Tickers See Fortunes Wane

522

(1)

Women Traders Going Back to Bridge Games: Say They Are Through with Stocks Forever

523

(1)

From Social Problems of the Family

524

(2)

Ernest R. Groves

From The Bankruptcy of Marriage

526

(3)

V. F. Calverton

Critical Contexts: A Fiction Casebook

529

(48)

A Rose for Emily

531

(46)

William Faulkner

Student Writing: Daniel Bronson, ``Like the Sand of the Hourglass...''

539

(3)

``We all said, `she will kill herself''': The Narrator/Detective in William Faulkner's ``A Rose for Emily''

542

(8)

Lawrence R. Rodgers

Styles of Reading

550

(8)

George L. Dillon

A Rose for ``A Rose for Emily''

558

(7)

Judith Fetterley

Of Time and Its Mathematical Progression: Problems of Chronology in Faulkner's ``A Rose for Emily''

565

(7)

Gene M. Moore

Student Writing: Willow D. Crystal, ``One of us...'': Concepts of the Private and the Public in William Faulkner's ``A Rose for Emily''

572

(5)

Evaluating Fiction

577

(42)

A Conversation with My Father

577

(6)

Grace Paley

The Most Dangerous Game

583

(18)

Richard Connell

Student Writing: Thaddeus Smith, Why ``The Most Dangerous Game'' Is Good Literature

598

(1)

Student Writing: Sara Rosen, Why ``The Most Dangerous Game'' Is Not Good Literature

599

(2)

Barn Burning

601

(18)

William Faulkner

Reading More Fiction

619

(191)

My Contraband

619

(14)

Louisa May Alcott

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

633

(7)

Ambrose Bierce

Without Benefit of Clergy

640

(15)

Rudyard Kipling

The Real Thing

655

(18)

Henry James

The Yellow Wallpaper

673

(12)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Souls Belated

685

(20)

Edith Wharton

A Jury of Her Peers

705

(15)

Susan Glaspell

Her First Ball

720

(5)

Katherine Mansfield

Flowering Judas

725

(9)

Katherine Anne Porter

The Garden of Forking Paths

734

(7)

Jorge Luis Borges

King of the Bingo Game

741

(7)

Ralph Ellison

The Lady with the Pet Dog

748

(13)

Joyce Carol Oates

Shiloh

761

(10)

Bobbie Ann Mason

Cathedral

771

(11)

Raymond Carver

In Broad Daylight

782

(8)

Ha Jin

The Prophet's Hair

790

(11)

Salman Rushdie

Dressing Down

801

(9)

Carol Shields

Poetry

Poetry: Reading, Responding, Writing

810

(23)

Reading

811

(1)

How Do I Love Thee?

811

(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Tally Stick

812

(1)

Jarold Ramsey

love poem

813

(2)

Linda Pastan

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

815

(1)

Ezra Pound

Wedding-Ring

816

(2)

Denise Levertov

Responding

817

(1)

On My First Son

818

(1)

Ben Jonson

The Vacuum

819

(1)

Howard Nemerov

Mid-Term Break

820

(1)

Seamus Heaney

Fifth Grade Autobiography

821

(1)

Rita Dove

The Fury of Overshoes

822

(3)

Anne Sexton

Writing About Poems

824

(1)

Practicing Reading: Some Poems on Love

825

(1)

[Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone]

825

(1)

W. H. Auden

To My Dear and Loving Husband

825

(1)

Anne Bradstreet

[Let me not to the marriage of true minds]

826

(1)

William Shakespeare

Rondeau

826

(1)

Leigh Hunt

A Special Theory of Relativity

826

(1)

Alan Bold

[What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why]

827

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

On Her Loving Two Equally

828

(1)

Aphra Behn

Married Love

828

(1)

Liz Rosenberg

To the Ladies

829

(1)

Mary, Lady Chudleigh

A Last Confession

830

(1)

W. B. Yeats

[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?]

830

(1)

William Shakespeare

Wayman in Love

831

(2)

Tom Wayman

Questions/Writing Suggestions

832

(1)

Understanding the Text

833

(256)

Tone

833

(27)

Barbie Doll

833

(1)

Marge Piercy

Leaving the Motel

834

(2)

W. D. Snodgrass

In Time of Plague

836

(2)

Thom Gunn

Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane

838

(1)

Etheridge Knight

London

839

(2)

William Blake

Woodchucks

841

(1)

Maxine Kumin

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

842

(2)

Adrienne Rich

Many Tones: Poems About Family Relationships

844

(1)

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

844

(1)

Galway Kinnell

Eden

844

(1)

Emily Grosholz

The Necessity for Irony

845

(1)

Eavan Boland

My Father's Corpse

846

(1)

Andrew Hudgins

Persimmons

847

(2)

Li-Young Lee

Those Winter Sundays

849

(1)

Robert Hayden

You Didn't Fit

850

(1)

Susan Musgrave

Elegy

851

(1)

Alan Dugan

Mother of the Groom

851

(1)

Seamus Heaney

Alzheimer's

852

(1)

Kelly Cherry

Beauty

852

(1)

Susan Glickman

Grandmother, a Caribbean Indian, Described by My Father

853

(1)

Yvonne Sapia

Postcard from Kashmir

854

(1)

Agha Shahid Ali

Green Chile

855

(1)

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Heaven

856

(2)

Cathy Song

Indian Movie, New Jersey

858

(2)

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Questions/Writing Suggestions

859

(1)

Speaker: Whose Voice Do We Hear?

860

(25)

The Ruined Maid

860

(2)

Thomas Hardy

In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day

862

(1)

X.J. Kennedy

Letters in the Family

863

(3)

Adrienne Rich

Death of a Young Son by Drowning

866

(1)

Margaret Atwood

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

867

(3)

Robert Browning

Sudden Journey

870

(1)

Tess Gallagher

A Certain Lady

870

(2)

Dorothy Parker

Needs

872

(1)

A. R. Ammons

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

873

(1)

William Wordsworth

Praying Drunk

874

(2)

Andrew Hudgins

Hanging Fire

876

(1)

Audre Lorde

They Flee from Me

876

(1)

Sir Thomas Wyatt

To a Louse

877

(1)

Robert Burns

The Poison Flower

878

(1)

Mary Coleridge

Lessons of the War: Judging Distances

879

(1)

Henry Reed

La Migra

880

(1)

Pat Mora

We Real Cool

881

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

Mirror

882

(1)

Sylvia Plath

The Outlaw

882

(1)

Seamus Heaney

[I celebrate myself, and sing myself]

883

(2)

Walt Whitman

Questions/Writing Suggestions

883

(2)

Situation and Setting: What Happens? Where? When?

885

(39)

Cherrylog Road

886

(3)

James Dickey

The Flea

889

(1)

John Donne

Daystar

890

(1)

Rita Dove

To a Daughter Leaving Home

891

(1)

Linda Pastan

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

892

(2)

John Milton

Point Shirley

894

(2)

Sylvia Plath

Dover Beach

896

(2)

Matthew Arnold

Situations

898

(1)

How I Discovered Poetry

898

(1)

Marilyn Nelson

The Night-Wind

898

(1)

Emily Bronte

Siren Song

899

(1)

Margaret Atwood

A Mongoloid Child Handling Shells on the Beach

900

(1)

Richard Snyder

To His Coy Mistress

900

(2)

Andrew Marvell

Summer Love

902

(1)

Marilyn Chin

Peeling an Orange

902

(1)

Virginia Hamilton Adair

William Blake

Holy Thursday

903

(1)

Holy Thursday

903

(1)

Porphyria's Lover

904

(1)

Robert Browning

A Way of Life

905

(2)

Howard Nemerov

Times

907

(1)

[Full many a glorious morning have I seen]

907

(1)

William Shakespeare

The Good-Morrow

907

(1)

John Donne

Morning Song

908

(1)

Sylvia Plath

Morning

909

(1)

Billy Collins

A Description of the Morning

909

(1)

Jonathan Swift

Evening

910

(1)

Karen Volkman

Evening in the Sanitarium

911

(1)

Louise Bogan

Winter Evening

912

(1)

Archibald Lampman

Places

913

(1)

Singapore

913

(1)

Mary Oliver

In Westminster Abbey

914

(1)

John Betjeman

The Laundromat

915

(1)

Dorianne Laux

West Indian Primer

916

(1)

Elizabeth Alexander

A Map of the City

917

(1)

Thom Gunn

City Afternoon

917

(1)

John Ashbery

A Description of a City Shower

918

(1)

Jonathan Swift

Midsummer

919

(5)

Derek Walcott

Questions/Writing Suggestions

920

(1)

Student Writing: Kimberly Smith, A Letter to an Author

921

(3)

Language

924

(62)

Precision and Ambiguity

924

(1)

[The golf links lie so near the mill]

924

(1)

Sarah Cleghorn

Countess of Winchelsea, There's No To-Morrow

925

(1)

Anne Finch

Of Time and the Line

926

(1)

Charles Bernstein

At the San Franciso Airport

927

(2)

Yvor Winters

Slim Cunning Hands

929

(1)

Walter de la Mare

Gentle Communion

930

(2)

Pat Mora

[After great pain, a formal feeling comes---]

932

(1)

Emily Dickinson

My Papa's Waltz

932

(2)

Theodore Roethke

Sex without Love

934

(1)

Sharon Olds

Lies

935

(1)

Martha Collins

[I dwell in Possibility---]

935

(1)

Emily Dickinson

William Carlos Williams

The Red Wheelbarrow

936

(1)

This Is Just to Say

936

(1)

Parsley

937

(2)

Rita Dove

Pied Beauty

939

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

[in Just-]

939

(1)

E. E. Cummings

Morning

940

(1)

Mary Oliver

Reflections on Ice-Breaking

940

(1)

Ogden Nash

Here Usually Comes the Bride

941

(1)

Hidden Meaning

941

(1)

Susan Musgrave

Still to Be Neat

942

(1)

Ben Jonson

Delight in Disorder

942

(1)

Robert Herrick

From Paradise Lost

943

(3)

John Milton

De Puero Balbutiente

946

(2)

Thomas Bastard

Picturing: The Languages of Description

947

(1)

Rorschach

948

(1)

Jeanne Marie Beaumont

Home Movies: A Sort of Ode

949

(1)

Mary Jo Salter

Bluebonnets

950

(1)

Gail Mazur

The Beautiful Changes

951

(1)

Richard Wilbur

On a Drop of Dew

952

(1)

Andrew Marvell

Love: Youth

953

(1)

C. K. Williams

To Penshurst

954

(3)

Ben Jonson

Metaphor and Simile

957

(1)

[That time of year thou mayst in me behold]

957

(2)

William Shakespeare

Marks

959

(1)

Linda Pastan

My Father's Garden

960

(1)

David Wagoner

Hogwash

961

(1)

Robert Francis

A Red, Red Rose

962

(1)

Robert Burns

Two Songs

963

(2)

Adrienne Rich

[Sex, as they harshly call it,]

963

(1)

[That ``old last act''!]

964

(1)

The Twenty-third Psalm

965

(1)

Anonymous

John Donne

[Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You]

966

(1)

The Computation

966

(1)

At the Hospital

966

(1)

David Ferry

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

967

(1)

Randall Jarrell

A Comparison of the Life of Man

967

(1)

Richard Barnfield

Aubade

967

(1)

Amy Lowell

Other

968

(1)

Dorothy Livesay

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

969

(1)

Francis William Bourdillon

[Wild Nights---Wild Nights!]

969

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Symbol

970

(1)

Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941

970

(2)

Sharon Olds

The Leap

972

(2)

James Dickey

Song

974

(1)

Edmund Waller

I Am Like a Rose

975

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

One Perfect Rose

976

(1)

Dorothy Parker

The Sick Rose

976

(2)

William Blake

Fireflies in the Garden

978

(1)

Robert Frost

Dancing with God

978

(1)

Stephen Dunn

Short History of the West

979

(1)

Jorie Graham

Diving into the Wreck

980

(2)

Adrienne Rich

After a Death

982

(1)

Roo Borson

The Town Dump

983

(3)

Howard Nemerov

Questions/Writing Suggestions

984

(2)

The Sounds of Poetry

986

(31)

The Word Plum

986

(2)

Helen Chasin

What the Motorcycle Said

988

(1)

Mona Van Duyn

Dirge

989

(2)

Kenneth Fearing

Sound and Sense

991

(2)

Alexander Pope

Metrical Feet

993

(1)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Emily Dickinson

994

(1)

Wendy Cope

[There was a young lady of Riga]

994

(1)

Anonymous

Song

994

(1)

Sir John Suckling

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

995

(2)

John Dryden

The Raven

997

(3)

Edgar Allan Poe

[Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore]

1000

(1)

William Shakespeare

Watching the Dance

1000

(1)

James Merrill

Break, Break, Break

1001

(1)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

Spring and Fall

1001

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Foolproof Loofah

1002

(1)

Lee Ann Brown

The Waking

1002

(1)

Theodore Roethke

[A narrow Fellow in the Grass]

1003

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Song

1004

(1)

Cynthia Zarin

Words and Music

1004

(1)

A Song

1005

(1)

Thomas Randolph

When to Her Lute Corinna Sings

1006

(1)

Thomas Campion

Spring

1006

(1)

William Shakespeare

Homage to the Empress of the Blues

1007

(1)

Robert Hayden

The Blues

1007

(1)

Billy Collins

Dear Coltrane

1008

(1)

Michael Harper

Dear John

Jazzanatomy

1009

(1)

James A. Emanuel

Mr. Tambourine Man

1010

(1)

Bob Dylan

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

1011

(1)

John Lennon

Paul McCartney

123rd Street Rap

1012

(5)

Willie Perdomo

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1013

(1)

Student Writing: Christine Woodside Metrical Variation and Meaning in ``To the Memory of Mr. Oldham''

1014

(3)

Internal Structure

1017

(27)

Mr. Flood's Party

1017

(3)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Goose Fish

1020

(2)

Howard Nemerov

Church Going

1022

(2)

Philip Larkin

Sonrisas

1024

(1)

Pat Mora

Arrangements with Earth for Three Dead Friends

1025

(2)

James Wright

The Victims

1027

(2)

Sharon Olds

Sir Patrick Spens

1029

(1)

Anonymous

Auto Wreck

1030

(1)

Karl Shapiro

The Pardon

1031

(1)

Richard Wilbur

The Dance

1032

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Desire

1032

(1)

Gail Mazur

[The Wind begun to knead the Grass---]

1033

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Save Us From

1034

(1)

Roo Borson

Poetry

1035

(1)

Stephen Dunn

Ode to the West Wind

1035

(3)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

1038

(6)

W. H. Auden

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1040

(1)

Student Writing: Carol Lin Language and Structure in Sharon Old's ``The Victims''

1041

(3)

External Form

1044

(29)

The Sonnet

1047

(1)

Nuns Fret Not

1047

(1)

William Wordsworth

[My lady's presence makes the roses red]

1048

(1)

Henry Constable

A Sonnet Is a Moment's Monument

1049

(1)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

On the Sonnet

1050

(1)

John Keats

The New Colossus

1051

(1)

Emma Lazarus

The White House

1051

(1)

Claude McKay

[When I consider how my light is spent]

1052

John Milton

London, 1802

1052

(1)

William Wordsworth

In an Artist's Studio

1053

(1)

Christina Rossetti

The Potato Harvest

1053

(1)

Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

First Fight. Then Fiddle

1054

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

Range-Finding

1054

(1)

Robert Frost

In the Park

1055

(1)

Gwen Harwood

The Harlem Dancer

1055

(1)

Claude McKay

Yet Do I Marvel

1056

(1)

Countee Cullen

Opening the Cage

1056

(1)

Edwin Morgan

Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe

1057

(1)

Helen Chasin

[My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun]

1057

(1)

William Shakespeare

Sweep Me through Your Many-Chambered Heart

1058

(2)

Diane Ackerman

Stanza Forms

1059

(1)

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

1060

(1)

Dylan Thomas

Poetry

1060

(1)

Marianne Moore

Sestina

1061

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

beware: do not read this poem

1062

(2)

Ishmael Reed

Ars Poetica

1064

(1)

Archibald MacLeish

The Way a Poem Looks

1065

(1)

E. E. Cummings [l(a]

1065

(1)

Composed in the Composing Room

1066

(1)

Franklin P. Adams

[Buffalo Bill's]

1066

(1)

E. E. Cummings

The Jungle Husband

1067

(1)

Stevie Smith

Easter Wings

1068

(1)

George Herbert

The Pillar of Fame

1069

(1)

Robert Herrick

Anglosaxon Street

1069

(1)

Earle Birney

Evening News I

1070

(1)

David Ferry

Lilac

1071

(2)

Mary Ellen Solt

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1072

(1)

The Whole Text

1073

(16)

Delay

1074

(1)

Elizabeth Jennings

Western Wind

1075

(1)

Anonymous

Upon Julia's Clothes

1076

(2)

Robert Herrick

Musee des Beaux Arts

1078

(1)

W. H. Auden

The Collar

1079

(1)

George Herbert

Design

1080

(1)

Robert Frost

The Learned

1080

(1)

Eden Phillpotts

Piano

1080

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

[My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun---]

1081

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Cutting the Cake

1082

(1)

Virginia Hamilton Adair

Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.

1082

(7)

Ben Johnson

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1083

(1)

Student Writing: Meaghan E. Parker Tragedy in Five Stanzas: ``Woodchucks''

1084

(5)

Exploring Contexts

1089

(146)

The Author's Work As Context: John Keats

1089

(17)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

1091

(1)

On the Grasshopper and the Cricket

1092

(1)

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles

1092

(1)

From Endymion (Book 1)

1093

(1)

When I Have Fears

1093

(1)

Ode to a Nightingale

1094

(2)

Ode on a Grecian Urn

1096

(2)

To Autumn

1098

(1)

Passages from Letters and the Preface to Endymion

1099

(6)

Questions/Writing Suggestion

1105

(1)

The Author's Work in Context: Adrienne Rich

1106

(23)

At a Bach Concert

1107

(1)

Storm Warnings

1108

(1)

Living in Sin

1108

(1)

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law

1109

(4)

Planetarium

1113

(1)

Dialogue

1114

(1)

Power

1115

(1)

For the Record

1115

(1)

[My mouth hovers across your breasts]

1116

(1)

Delta

1116

(1)

History

1117

(1)

Modotti

1118

(1)

Personal Reflections

1119

(9)

Question/Writing Suggestions

1128

(1)

Literary Tradition as Context

1129

(36)

Echo and Allusion

1130

(1)

[Come, my Celia, let us prove]

1131

(1)

Ben Jonson

The Lamb

1132

(1)

William Blake

Boom!

1132

(2)

Howard Nemerov

Love in America?

1134

(1)

Marianne Moore

You Too? Me Too---Why Not? Soda Pop

1135

(1)

Robert Hollander

[Not marble nor the gilded monuments]

1136

(1)

William Shakespeare

Poetic ``Kinds''

1137

(1)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

1137

(2)

Christopher Marlowe

Haiku

1139

(1)

[Whether astringent]

1139

(1)

Chiyojo

Basho

[A village without bells---]

1140

(1)

[This road---]

1141

(1)

Buson

[Coolness---]

1141

(1)

[Listening to the moon]

1141

(1)

Issa

[The moon and the flowers]

1141

(1)

[Insects on a bough]

1141

(1)

[The faces of dolls]

1142

(1)

Seifu

[No sky and no earth]

1142

(1)

Hashin

[Come! Come! Though I call]

1142

(1)

Onitsura

[Old pond---...]

1142

(1)

Lafcadio Hearn

[An old-time pond from off whose shadowed depth]

1143

(1)

Clara A. Walsh

[The still old pond]

1143

(1)

Earl Miner

[The old pond]

1143

(1)

Allen Ginsberg

[The falling flower]

1143

(1)

Babette Deutsch

[Eastern guard tower]

1144

(1)

Etheridge Knight

[Looking over my shoulder]

1144

(1)

Allen Ginsberg

[In the falling snow]

1144

(1)

Richard Wright

Ray Charles

1144

(1)

James A. Emanuel

Imitating and Answering

1145

(1)

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

1145

(1)

Sir Walter Ralegh

Raleigh Was Right

1146

(1)

William Carlos Williams

[(ponder, darling, these busted statues]

1147

(1)

E. E. Cummings

To His Importunate Mistress

1147

(1)

Peter De Vries

A Further Proposal

1148

(1)

Allen Ginsberg

Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams

1149

(1)

Kenneth Koch

Ode on a Grecian Urn Summarized

1150

(1)

Desmond Skirrow

The Dover Bitch

1150

(1)

Anthony Hecht

[Not only marble, but the plastic toys]

1151

(2)

Wendy Cope

Cultural Belief and Tradition

1152

(1)

Adam's Task

1153

(1)

John Hollander

Eve Names the Animals

1153

(1)

Susan Donnelly

Helen

1154

(1)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Cassandra

1155

(1)

Louise Bogan

Ulysses Embroidered

1155

(1)

Miriam Waddington

An Ancient Gesture

1156

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Kraken

1157

(1)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

1157

(1)

Langston Hughes

On Being Brought from Africa to America

1158

(1)

Phyllis Wheatley

Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley

1158

(1)

June Jordan

Africa

1159

(1)

Maya Angelou

A Far Cry from Africa

1159

(1)

Derek Walcott

I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra

1160

(2)

Ishmael Reed

Advice to a First Cousin

1162

(1)

Alberto Alvaro Rios

Jacklight

1163

(2)

Louise Erdrich

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1164

(1)

Cultural and Historical Context

1165

(38)

Emmett Till

1166

(1)

James A. Emanuel

Channel Firing

1167

(1)

Thomas Hardy

Sonnet: The Ladies' Home Journal

1168

(4)

Sandra Gilbert

Times, Places, and Events

1172

(1)

Thinking about Bill, Dead of AIDS

1172

(1)

Miller Williams

From Colony to Nation

1172

(1)

Irving Layton

Welcome to Hiroshima

1173

(1)

Mary Jo Salter

America

1174

(1)

Claude McKay

Harlem (A Dream Deferred)

1175

(1)

Langston Hughes

Frederick Douglass

1175

(1)

Robert Hayden

Boy on a Swing

1176

(1)

Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali

Casabianca

1176

(1)

Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Casabianca

1177

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

Dulce et Decorum Est

1178

(1)

Wilfred Owen

The Fury of Aerial Bombardment

1179

(1)

Richard Eberhart

Ballad of Birmingham

1179

(1)

Dudley Randall

Punishment

1180

(2)

Seamus Heaney

Constructing Identity, Exploring Gender

1182

(1)

Exchanging Hats

1182

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

Practicing

1183

(1)

Marie Howe

Song: To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

1184

(1)

Richard Lovelace

Disabled

1184

(1)

Wilfred Owen

Robert Browning

My Last Duchess

1185

(2)

A Woman's Last Word

1187

(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To George Sand---A Desire

1188

(1)

To George Sand---A Recognition

1189

(1)

Tu Do Street

1189

(1)

Yusef Komunyakaa

She

1190

(1)

Richard Wilbur

Written the First Year I Was Marry'd

1191

(1)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

What's That Smell in the Kitchen?

1192

(1)

Marge Piercy

Paper Matches

1192

(1)

Paulette Jiles

When I Was Fair and Young

1193

(1)

Elizabeth

L'amitie: To Mrs. M. Awbrey

1193

(1)

Katherine Philips

Edna St. Vincent Millay

[Women have loved before as I love now]

1194

(1)

[I, being born a woman and distressed]

1194

(1)

[Who would divorce her lover...]

1195

(1)

Marilyn Hacker

The Lonely Wife

1195

(1)

Amy Lowell

The Silence of Women

1196

(1)

Liz Rosenberg

The Changeling

1197

(1)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Washing-Day

1198

(2)

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Venison

1200

(1)

Karen Chase

A Blank

1200

(3)

Thom Gunn

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1201

(2)

Critical Contexts: A Poetry Casebook

1203

(32)

Daddy

1205

(30)

Sylvia Plath

Dying Is an Art

1208

(3)

George Steiner

The Plath Celebration: A Partial Dissent

1211

(1)

Irving Howe

Sylvia Plath

1212

(3)

A. Alvarez

Rituals of Exorcism: ``Daddy''

1215

(3)

Judith Kroll

From Protean Poetic

1218

(3)

Mary Lynn Broe

From A Feminine Tradition

1221

(2)

Margaret Homans

From A Disturbance in Mirrors

1223

(3)

Pamela J. Annas

Jealous Gods

1226

(9)

Steven Gould Axelrod

Evaluating Poetry

1235

(14)

[Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame]

1238

(1)

William Shakespeare

Song

1239

(3)

John Donne

Street Funeral

1242

(1)

Irving Layton

In Memory of Jane Fraser

1242

(1)

Geoffrey Hill

Blackberry Eating

1243

(1)

Galway Kinnell

[The Brain---is wider than the Sky---]

1243

(1)

Emily Dickinson

To Emily Dickinson

1244

(1)

Hart Crane

Anecdote of the Jar

1244

(1)

Wallace Stevens

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

1245

(1)

John Crowe Ransom

King Kong Meets Wallace Stevens

1245

(1)

Michael Ondaatje

Reading Time: 1 Minute 26 Seconds

1246

(1)

Muriel Rukeyser

Revolutionary Petunias

1247

(2)

Alice Walker

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1248

(1)

Reading More Poetry

1249

(83)

As I Walked Out One Evening

1249

(1)

W. H. Auden

The Tyger

1250

(1)

William Blake

Gwendolyn Brooks

To the Diaspora

1251

(1)

The Coora Flower

1252

(1)

Kubla Khan

1252

(2)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Emily Dickinson

[Because I could not stop for Death---]

1254

(1)

[I reckon---when I count at all---]

1254

(1)

[I stepped from Plank to Plank]

1255

(1)

[It dropped so low---in my Regard---]

1255

(1)

[My life closed twice before its close---]

1256

(1)

[We do not play on Graves---]

1256

(1)

[She dealt her pretty words like Blades---]

1256

(1)

John Donne

The Canonization

1257

(1)

[Death, be not proud, though some have called thee]

1258

(1)

The Sun Rising

1258

(1)

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

1259

(1)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Sympathy

1260

(1)

We Wear the Mask

1261

(1)

T. S. Eliot

Journey of the Magi

1261

(2)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

1263

(3)

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

1266

(1)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

1267

(1)

Allen Ginsberg

A Supermarket in California

1267

(1)

Velocity of Money

1268

(1)

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

1269

(3)

Thomas Gray

Thomas Hardy

The Convergence of the Twain

1272

(2)

The Darkling Thrush

1274

(1)

During Wind and Rain

1275

(1)

Neutral Tones

1275

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

God's Grandeur

1276

(1)

The Windhover

1276

(1)

Langston Hughes

I, Too

1277

(1)

Theme for English B

1278

(1)

Heirloom

1279

(1)

A. M. Klein

Skunk Hour

1279

(2)

Robert Lowell

Andrew Marvell

The Garden

1281

(2)

The Mower, against Gardens

1283

(1)

Lycidas

1284

(5)

John Milton

Sharon Olds

I Go Back to May 1937

1289

(1)

The Lifting

1290

(1)

The Glass

1290

(1)

Sylvia Plath

Barren Woman

1291

(1)

Black Rook in Rainy Weather

1292

(1)

Lady Lazarus

1293

(2)

Ezra Pound

The Garden

1295

(1)

In a Station of the Metro

1295

(1)

A Virginal

1295

(1)

I Knew a Woman

1296

(1)

Theodore Roethke

Wallace Stevens

The Idea of Order at Key West

1297

(1)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

1298

(1)

Sunday Morning

1299

(3)

Lord Tennyson

Alfred

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

1302

(1)

Tears, Idle Tears

1302

(1)

Tithonus

1303

(1)

Ulysses

1304

(2)

Dylan Thomas

Fern Hill

1306

(1)

In My Craft or Sullen Art

1307

(1)

Song of the Son

1308

(1)

Jean Toomer

Walt Whitman

Facing West from California's Shores

1309

(1)

I Hear America Singing

1309

(1)

A Noiseless Patient Spider

1310

(1)

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed

1310

(6)

Richard Wilbur

Museum Piece

1316

(1)

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

1317

(1)

Transit

1318

(1)

Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798

1318

(4)

William Wordsworth

W. B. Yeats

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

1322

(1)

All Things Can Tempt Me

1322

(1)

Easter 1916

1323

(2)

The Second Coming

1325

(1)

Leda and the Swan

1326

(1)

Sailing to Byzantium

1326

(1)

Among School Children

1327

(3)

Byzantium

1330

(2)

Drama

Drama: Reading, Responding, Writing

1332

(27)

Trifles

1335

(11)

Susan Glaspell

Sure Thing

1346

(13)

David Ives

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1355

(1)

Student Writing: Caryl Zook, Trifles

1356

(3)

Understanding the Text

1359

(249)

Character

1359

(3)

Structure

1362

(1)

Stages, Sets, and Setting

1363

(2)

Tone

1365

(1)

Theme

1366

(1)

The Children's Hour

1367

(51)

Lillian Hellman

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1416

(2)

Pygmalion

1418

(75)

Bernard Shaw

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1491

(2)

A Doll House

1493

(53)

Henrik Ibsen

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1544

(2)

The Piano Lesson

1546

(62)

August Wilson

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1607

(1)

Exploring Contexts

1608

(454)

The Author's Work as Context: William Shakespeare

1608

(167)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1614

(56)

Hamlet

1670

(105)

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1770

(2)

Student Writing: Jeanette Sperhac, The Play's the Thing: Deception in Hamlet

1772

(3)

Literary Context: Tragedy and Comedy

1775

(90)

Oedipus the King

1778

(41)

Sophocles

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1818

(1)

The Importance of Being Earnest

1819

(46)

Oscar Wilde

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1864

(1)

Culture as Context: Social and Historical Setting

1865

(144)

A Raisin in the Sun

1869

(66)

Lorraine Hansberry

Questions/Writing Suggestions

1934

(1)

Death of a Salesman

1935

(74)

Arthur Miller

Questions/Writing Suggestions

2004

(2)

Student Writing: Sherry Schnake Dream of a Salesman

2006

(3)

Critical Contexts: A Drama Casebook

2009

(53)

Antigone

2012

(50)

Sophocles

From The Antigone of Sophocles

2045

(1)

Richard C. Jebb

From Sophoclean Tragedy

2046

(2)

Maurice Bowra

Introduction to Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays

2048

(5)

Bernard Knox

From The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

2053

(4)

Martha C. Nussbaum

From Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays

2057

(2)

Rebecca W. Bushnell

From Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

2059

(3)

Mary Whitlock Blundell

Evaluating Drama

2062

(9)

A Streetcar Named Desire

2071

(68)

Tennessee Williams

The Cherry Orchard

2139

(38)

Anton Chekhov

How I Learned to Drive

2177

Paula Vogel

Appendices Writing about Literature

Introduction

Representing the Literary Text

Replying to the Text

Explaining the Text

A10

Critical Approaches

A18

Writing About Fiction, Poetry, Drama

A28

Deciding What to Write About

A33

From Topic to Rough Draft

A37

From Rough Draft to Completed Paper

A42

A Summary of The Process

A51

Glossary

A53

Biographical Sketches

A64

Permissions Acknowledgments

A103

Index of Authors

A119

Index of Titles and First Lines

A129

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