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Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry

by: Arp, Thomas R.; Johnson, Greg

Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry

by: Arp, Thomas R.; Johnson, Greg

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9780838407462
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0838407463
Edition: 11th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 05/14/2004
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

An introduction to poetry presented in a compact and concise anthology, SOUND AND SENSE continues the tradition of offering clear, precise writing and practical organization initiated by Laurence Perrine years ago.

Part 1 The Elements of Poetry

(300)

What Is Poetry?

(20)

The Eagle

(1)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

Winter

(1)

William Shakespeare

Dulce et Decorum Est

(3)

Wilfred Owen

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

(1)

William Shakespeare

The Whipping

(1)

Robert Hayden

The last Night that She lived

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Ballad of Birmingham

(2)

Dudley Randall

Kitchenette Building

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Red Wheelbarrow

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Suicide's Note

(1)

Langston Hughes

Terence, this is stupid stuff

(2)

A. E. Housman

Poetry: I

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Ars Poetica

(3)

Archibald MacLeish

Suggestions for Writing

(2)

Reading the Poem

(19)

The Man He Killed

(1)

Thomas Hardy

A Study of Reading Habits

(4)

Philip Larkin

Is my team plowing

(3)

A. E. Housman

General Exercises for Analysis and Evaluation

(1)

Break of Day

(1)

John Donne

There's been a Death, in the Opposite House

(1)

Emily Dickinson

When in Rome

(2)

Mari Evans

Mirror

(1)

Sylvia Plath

The Clod and the Pebble

(1)

William Blake

Facing It

(1)

Yusef Komunyakaa

Eros Turannos

(2)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Storm Warnings

(2)

Adrienne Rich

Suggestions for Writing

(1)

Denotation and Connotation

(14)

There is no Frigate like a Book

(2)

Emily Dickinson

When my love swears that she is made of truth

(1)

William Shakespeare

Pathedy of Manners

(3)

Ellen Kay

Exercises

(1)

Naming of Parts

(1)

Henry Reed

Cross

(1)

Langston Hughes

The world is too much with us

(1)

William Wordsworth

``I Am in Danger---Sir---''

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Desert Places

(1)

Robert Frost

A Hymn to God the Father

(1)

John Donne

One Art

(2)

Elizabeth Bishop

Suggestions for Writing

(1)

Imagery

(14)

Meeting at Night

(1)

Robert Browning

Parting at Morning

(1)

Robert Browning

Exercises

(1)

Spring

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Widow's Lament in Springtime

(1)

William Carlos Williams

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Living in Sin

(1)

Adrienne Rich

The Forge

(1)

Seamus Heaney

After Apple-Picking

(1)

Robert Frost

Those Winter Sundays

(1)

Robert Hayden

Reapers

(1)

Jean Toomer

The Destruction of Sennacherib

(1)

George Gordon

Lord Byron

To Autumn

(2)

John Keats

Suggestions for Writing

(1)

Figurative Language I

(21)

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy

The Guitarist Tunes Up

(1)

Frances Cornford

The Hound

(1)

Robert Francis

Bereft

(1)

Robert Frost

It sifts from Leaden Sieves

(2)

Emily Dickinson

Song of the Powers

(2)

David Mason

Bright Star

(4)

John Keats

Exercise

(1)

Mind

(1)

Richard Wilbur

I taste a liquor never brewed

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Metaphors

(1)

Sylvia Plath

Toads

(1)

Philip Larkin

Ghost of a Chance

(1)

Adrienne Rich

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

(2)

John Donne

To His Coy Mistress

(1)

Andrew Marvell

Dream Deferred

(1)

Langston Hughes

Introduction to Poetry

(2)

Billy Collins

Suggestions for Writing

(1)

Figurative Language 2

(22)

Symbol, Allegory

The Road Not Taken

(2)

Robert Frost

A Noiseless Patient Spider

(2)

Walt Whitman

The Sick Rose

(1)

William Blake

Digging

(3)

Seamus Heaney

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

(2)

Robert Herrick

Peace

100

(2)

George Herbert

Exercises

101

(1)

Fire and Ice

102

(1)

Robert Frost

Ulysses

102

(3)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

Curiosity

105

(1)

Alastair Reid

The Writer

106

(1)

Richard Wilbur

Power

107

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Because I could not stop for Death

108

(2)

Emily Dickinson

Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness

110

(2)

John Donne

Suggestions for Writing

111

(1)

Figurative Language 3

112

(23)

Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony

Much Madness is divinest Sense

113

(1)

Emily Dickinson

The Sun Rising

114

(1)

John Donne

Incident

115

(2)

Countee Cullen

Barbie Doll

117

(2)

Marge Piercy

The Chimney Sweeper

119

(2)

William Blake

Ozymandias

121

(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Exercise

121

(1)

Batter my heart, three-personed God

122

(1)

John Donne

Sorting Laundry

123

(2)

Elisavietta Ritchie

The History Teacher

125

(1)

Billy Collins

A Considerable Speck

126

(1)

Robert Frost

The Unknown Citizen

127

(1)

W. H. Auden

American Holiday

128

(1)

Joyce Carol Oates

in the inner city

129

(1)

Lucille Clifton

Mr. Z

130

(1)

M. Carl Holman

Afterward

131

(1)

Adrienne Rich

My Last Duchess

132

(3)

Robert Browning

Suggestions for Writing

134

(1)

Allusion

135

(13)

``Out, Out---''

136

(1)

Robert Frost

From Macbeth (``She should have died hereafter'')

137

(2)

William Shakespeare

e. e. cummings in Just---

139

(1)

Yet Do I Marvel

140

(9)

Countee Cullen

On His Blindness

149

John Milton

Hazel Tells La Verne

141

(1)

Katharyn Howd Machan

Miniver Cheevy

142

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Journey of the Magi

143

(2)

T. S. Eliot

Leda and the Swan

145

(1)

William Butler Yeats

I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus

146

(2)

Adrienne Rich

Suggestions for Writing

147

(1)

Meaning and Idea

148

(13)

Loveliest of Trees

149

(1)

A. E. Housman

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

150

(2)

Robert Frost

The Rhodora

152

(1)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Design

153

(1)

Robert Frost

I never saw a Moor

153

(1)

Emily Dickinson

``Faith'' is a fine invention

154

(1)

Emily Dickinson

On the Sonnet

154

(1)

John Keats

Sonnet

155

(1)

Billy Collins

The Indifferent

156

(1)

John Donne

Love's Deity

157

(1)

John Donne

My Number

158

(1)

Billy Collins

I had heard it's a fight

159

(2)

Edwin Denby

Suggestions for Writing

160

(1)

Tone

161

(18)

For a Lamb

163

(1)

Richard Eberhart

Apparently with no surprise

163

(2)

Emily Dickinson

Since there's no help

165

(1)

Michael Drayton

My mistress' eyes

166

(1)

William Shakespeare

Miracle Ice Cream

167

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Crossing the Bar

167

(1)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

The Oxen

168

(1)

Thomas Hardy

One dignity delays for all

169

(1)

Emily Dickinson

'Twas warm---at first---like Us

170

(1)

Emily Dickinson

The Apparition

170

(1)

John Donne

The Flea

171

(2)

John Donne

Dover Beach

173

(1)

Matthew Arnold

Church Going

174

(3)

Philip Larkin

Ending

177

(1)

Gavin Ewart

Anonymous Love

178

(1)

Suggestions for Writing

178

(1)

Musical Devices

179

(16)

The Turtle

180

(2)

Ogden Nash

That night when joy began

182

(1)

W. H. Auden

The Waking

183

(2)

Theodore Roethke

God's Grandeur

185

(2)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Exercise

186

(1)

Blow, blow, thou winter wind

187

(1)

William Shakespeare

We Real Cool

188

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

Woman Work

188

(2)

Maya Angelou

Rite of Passage

190

(1)

Sharon Olds

As imperceptibly as Grief

191

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Traveling through the dark

191

(1)

William Stafford

In Those Years

192

(1)

Adrienne Rich

1973

193

(1)

Marilyn Hacker

Nothing Gold Can Stay

194

(1)

Robert Frost

Suggestions for Writing

194

(1)

Rhythm and Meter

195

(27)

Virtue

200

(10)

George Herbert

Exercises

209

(1)

``Introduction'' to Songs of Innocence

210

(1)

William Blake

Had I the Choice

211

(1)

Walt Whitman

The Aim Was Song

212

(1)

Robert Frost

The Knight

213

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Old Ladies' Home

213

(1)

Sylvia Plath

The Tropics in New York

214

(1)

Claude McKay

To a Daughter Leaving Home

215

(1)

Linda Pastan

Quinceanera

216

(1)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Constantly risking absurdity

217

(1)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Blessing

218

(1)

James Wright

Break, break, break

219

(3)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

Suggestions for Writing

220

(2)

Sound and Meaning

222

(19)

Eight O'Clock

224

(1)

A. E. Housman

Sound and Sense

225

(4)

Alexander Pope

I heard a Fly buzz---when I died

229

(4)

Emily Dickinson

Exercise

232

(1)

Anthem for Doomed Youth

233

(1)

Wilfred Owen

Landcrab

234

(1)

Margaret Atwood

Recital

235

(1)

John Updike

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

236

(1)

Adrienne Rich

At the round earth's imagined corners

236

(1)

John Donne

Blackberry Eating

237

(1)

Galway Kinnell

Golden Retrievals

238

(1)

Mark Doty

A Fire-Truck

239

(1)

Richard Wilbur

The Dance

239

(2)

William Carlos Williams

Suggestions for Writing

240

(1)

Pattern

241

(20)

The Pulley

242

(2)

George Herbert

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

244

(1)

John Keats

That time of year

245

(2)

William Shakespeare

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

247

(2)

Dylan Thomas

Exercise

248

(1)

From Romeo and Juliet

249

(1)

William Shakespeare

Death, be not proud

250

(1)

John Donne

The White City

250

(1)

Claude McKay

Final Notations

251

(1)

Adrienne Rich

The Story We Know

252

(1)

Martha Collins

Lonely Hearts

253

(1)

Wendy Cope

The Ruined Maid

254

(1)

Thomas Hardy

Acquainted with the Night

255

(1)

Robert Frost

These are the days when Birds come back

256

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Woodchucks

257

(1)

Maxine Kumin

Delight in Disorder

258

(1)

Robert Herrick

In Medias Res

259

(2)

Michael McFee

Suggestions for Writing

260

(1)

Evaluating Poetry I

261

(12)

Sentimental, Rhetorical, Didactic Verse

God's Will for You and Me

264

(1)

Pied Beauty

264

(1)

A Poison Tree

265

(1)

The Most Vital Thing in Life

265

(1)

Pitcher

266

(1)

The Old-Fashioned Pitcher

267

(1)

The Long Voyage

267

(1)

Breathes there the man

268

(1)

The Engine

268

(1)

I like to see it lap the Miles

269

(1)

The Toys

270

(1)

Little Boy Blue

270

(1)

When I have fears that I may cease to be

271

(1)

O Solitude!

272

(1)

Suggestions for Writing

272

(1)

Evaluating Poetry 2

273

(28)

Poetic Excellence

The Canonization

274

(2)

John Donne

Ode on a Grecian Urn

276

(3)

John Keats

There's a certain Slant of light

279

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Home Burial

280

(4)

Robert Frost

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

284

(5)

T. S. Eliot

Sunday Morning

289

(4)

Wallace Stevens

The Weary Blues

293

(2)

Langston Hughes

The Fish

295

(2)

Elizabeth Bishop

Diving into the Wreck

297

(4)

Adrienne Rich

Part 2 Writing about Poetry

301

(40)

Why Write about Literature?

303

(1)

For Whom Do You Write?

303

(2)

Two Basic Approaches

305

(1)

Explication

305

(1)

Analysis

306

(1)

Choosing a Topic

306

(4)

Papers That Focus on a Single Poem

307

(1)

Papers of Comparison and Contrast

307

(1)

Papers on a Number of Poems by a Single Author

308

(1)

Papers on a Number of Poems with Some Feature Other than Authorship in Common

309

(1)

Proving Your Point

310

(1)

Writing the Paper

311

(3)

Introducing Quotations (Q1--Q11)

314

(6)

Documentation

320

(7)

Textual Documentation (TD1--TD5)

321

(2)

Parenthetical Documentation (PD1--PD6)

323

(2)

Documentation by Works Cited

325

(2)

Stance and Style (S1--S6)

327

(2)

Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems

329

(5)

Grammar (G1--G2)

329

(1)

Punctuation (P1--P5)

330

(2)

Usage (U1--U2)

332

(2)

Writing Samples

334

(7)

Explication: ``A Study of Reading Habits''

334

(3)

Analysis: Diction in ``Pathedy of Manners''

337

(4)

Part 3 Poems for Further Reading

341

(87)

To Marguerite

342

(1)

Matthew Arnold

Siren Song

342

(1)

Margaret Atwood

Musee des Beaux Arts

343

(1)

W. H. Auden

On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High

344

(1)

D. C. Berry

The Lamb

345

(1)

William Blake

The Tiger

346

(1)

William Blake

Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt

347

(1)

David Bottoms

Sadie and Maud

348

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

a song in the front yard

348

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

good times

349

(1)

Lucille Clifton

Women Who Love Angels

350

(1)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Kubla Khan

350

(2)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

War Is Kind

352

(1)

Stephen Crane

Rice Will Grow Again

353

(1)

Frank A. Cross, Jr.

For a Lady I Know

354

(1)

Countee Cullen

A Light exists in Spring

354

(1)

Emily Dickinson

A narrow Fellow in the Grass

355

(1)

Emily Dickinson

I died for Beauty---but was scarce

356

(1)

Emily Dickinson

I like a look of Agony

356

(1)

Emily Dickinson

The Good-Morrow

357

(1)

John Donne

Song: Go and catch a falling star

357

(1)

John Donne

The Triple Fool

358

(1)

John Donne

Vergissmeinnicht

359

(1)

Keith Douglas

Guns

360

(1)

W.D. Ehrhart

The Colonel

361

(1)

Carolyn Forche

Birches

362

(1)

Robert Frost

Mending Wall

363

(1)

Robert Frost

Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same

364

(1)

Robert Frost

The Oven Bird

365

(1)

Robert Frost

Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins

365

(2)

R.S. Gwynn

The Red Hat

367

(1)

Rachel Hadas

My Son, My Executioner

367

(1)

Donald Hall

Channel Firing

368

(1)

Thomas Hardy

The Darkling Thrush

369

(1)

Thomas Hardy

Hap

370

(1)

Thomas Hardy

To an Athlete Dying Young

371

(1)

A.E. Housman

Aunt Sue's Stories

372

(1)

Langston Hughes

Theme for English B

373

(1)

Langston Hughes

Thistles

374

(1)

Ted Hughes

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

374

(1)

Randall Jarrell

Warning

375

(1)

Jenny Joseph

La Belle Dame sans Merci

376

(1)

John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale

377

(3)

John Keats

The Sound of Night

380

(1)

Maxine Kumin

Aubade

380

(2)

Philip Larkin

L.A., Loiterings

382

(1)

Larry Levis

Pity me not

383

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Loves of the Parrots

383

(1)

Joyce Carol Oates

I Go Back to May 1937

384

(1)

Sharon Olds

The Victims

385

(1)

Sharon Olds

Wish You Were Here

386

(1)

Robert Phillips

A Work of Artifice

386

(1)

Marge Piercy

Mad Girl's Love Song

387

(1)

Sylvia Plath

Spinster

388

(1)

Sylvia Piath

Wuthering Heights

389

(1)

Sylvia Plath

To the Mercy Killers

390

(1)

Dudley Randall

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

391

(1)

John Crowe Ransom

Delta

391

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Dreamwood

392

(1)

Adrienne Rich

The Fact of a Doorframe

392

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Our Whole Life

393

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Nani

394

(1)

Alberto Rios

The Mill

395

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Mr. Flood's Party

396

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Richard Cory

397

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

I knew a woman

398

(1)

Theodore Roethke

My Papa's Waltz

399

(1)

Theodore Roethke

Driftwood

399

(1)

Sherod Santos

The Abortion

400

(1)

Anne Sexton

Her Kind

401

(1)

Anne Sexton

Fear no more

402

(1)

William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

402

(1)

William Shakespeare

The Fly

403

(1)

Karl Shapiro

Little Ode to the Wheelchair Boys

404

(1)

Dave Smith

The Youngest Daughter

405

(2)

Cathy Song

Small Town with One Road

407

(1)

Gary Soto

Telephone Conversation

408

(1)

Wole Soyinka

One day I wrote her name upon the strand

409

(1)

Edmund Spenser

The Death of a Soldier

410

(1)

Wallace Stevens

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

410

(1)

Wallace Stevens

The Snow Man

411

(1)

Wallace Stevens

Listening to My Mother's Comic Banter with Sackboys and Servers

412

(1)

Leon Stokesbury

Fern Hill

413

(2)

Dylan Thomas

Blurry Cow

415

(1)

Chase Twichell

Telephone Poles

415

(1)

John Updike

What the Motorcycle Said

416

(1)

Mona Van Duyn

The Virgins

417

(1)

Derek Walcott

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

418

(1)

Walt Whitman

Danse Russe

419

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Poem

419

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Spring and All

420

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Henzey's Pond

421

(1)

Ralph Tejeda Wilson

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

421

(1)

William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud

422

(1)

William Wordsworth

The Solitary Reaper

423

(1)

William Wordsworth

Portrait

424

(1)

Judith Wright

Sailing to Byzantium

424

(1)

William Butler Yeats

The Second Coming

425

(1)

William Butler Yeats

The Wild Swans at Coole

426

(2)

William Butler Yeats

Glossary of Terms

428

(9)

Copyrights and Acknowledgments

437

(7)

Index of Authors, Titles and First Lines

444

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