This text is designed to be used in any literature anthology, Introduction to Literature, or literature-based composition courses. It contains sections on the short story, plays, poetry, and the novel, as well as sections on film, writing a research paper and other types of literature-based composition. The book is full of exercises and contains numerous student sample essays.

Preface
Alternate Contents by Genre
Alternate Contents Additional Themes
CHAPTER 1. Why Read Literature?
Exercise
Why Do You Read Literature?
Why Do We Read Literature?
Bridging the Gap
Responding to What You Read
Exercise
ROBERT FROST, The Road Not Taken
Sample Student Response to The Road Not Taken
Commentary
Exercise
Considering Evidence to Support Your Response
Close Active Reading
Sample Oral Response to The Road Not Taken
Commentary
Exercise
Keeping a Reading Journal
Guidelines: Keeping a Reading Journal
CHAPTER 2. Joining the Conversation: Ways of Talking about Literature
PATRICIA GRACE, Butterflies (short story)
Responding to Butterflies
LANGSTON HUGHES, Theme for English B (poem)
Responding to Theme for English B
WENDY WASSERSTEIN, The Man in a Case (play)
Responding to The Man in a Case
E. B. WHITE, Education (essay)
Responding to Education
The Vocabulary of Literature
Actions and Events
Plot
Structure
Conflict
Irony of Situation
Box: Terms Related to Actions and Events
Exercises: Actions and Events
People
Characters: Listening and Observing
Listening
Observing
Characters: Growing and Changing
Characters: Point of View
Author and Speaker
Narrator
People in Nonfiction
Box: Terms Related to People
Exercises: People
Places and Times
Time and Place: The Cultures of the Work, the Writer, and the Reader
Place
Time
Box: Terms Related to Places and Times
Exercises: Places and Times
Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Style
Tone
Diction
Syntax
Rhythm and Rhyme
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Allusions
Box: Trems Related to Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Exercises: Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Ideas
Exercises: Ideas
CHAPTER 3. Continuing the Conversation: Considering Genre and Listening to Other Voices
Expectations: Short Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction
Distinctions: Short Fiction and Drama
Distinctions: Poetry
MARGARET ATWOOD, you fit into me
Distinctions: Nonfiction
An Introduction to Short Fiction
Early Forms of Fiction
Allegory
Myth
Legend
Fairy Tale
Fable
Parable
Modern Short Fiction
The Realistic Short Story
The Nonrealistic Short Story
A Word about Fiction and Truth
Guidelines: Short Fiction
An Introduction to Poetry
Suggestions for Reading Poetry
Types of Poetry
Guidelines: Poetry
An Introduction to Drama
Suggestions for Reading Drama
Traditional Forms of Drama
Modern Forms of Drama
Types of Drama
Guidelines: Drama
An Introduction to Nonfiction
Suggestions for Reading Speeches
Suggestions for Reading Letters
Suggestions for Reading Documents
Suggestions for Reading Journals and Diaries
Suggestions for Reading Essays
Guidelines: Nonfiction
Considering Other Voices
Authors Commentaries and Interviews
Reviews
Scholarly Criticism
CHAPTER 4. Writing About Literature
DYLAN THOMAS, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Responding to Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
JOAN ALESHIRE, Slipping
Responding to Slipping
Preparing to Write About Literature
Understanding the Assignment
Thinking about the Assignment
Assignment Topics
Writing to Respond
Topic 1
Discovering Ideas: Journal Entries
Considering Audience
Narrowing the Topic
Devising a Preliminary Thesis Statement
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Changes, KAREN ANGSTROM (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Titles, Openings, Conclusions
Karen Angstroms Revision List
Editing Focus: To Be, Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstroms Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Exercise
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
Changes: For Better or Worse? KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Exercise
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Topic 2
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
Box: Strategies for Collaborative Work
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Drafting
Responses: Raging Versus Slipping, WALTER JOHNSON (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Transitions, Development of Ideas
Workshop Excerpt
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Workshop Excerpt
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Workshop Excerpt
Exercise
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
Responses: Raging Versus Slipping, WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Exercise
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Topic 3
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Excerpt from Catherine Hupel's Work
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Excerpt from Catherine Hupel's Work
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
Love and Loss in Slipping, CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Excerpt from Catherine Hupel's Work
Exercise
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Excerpt from Catherine Hupel's Work
Exercise
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Excerpt from Catherine Hupel's Work
Exercise
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
Love and Loss in Slipping, CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Topic 4
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejaks Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Excerpt from Matt Cejaks Work
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Excerpt from Matt Cejaks Work
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejaks Writing Conference
Matt Cejaks Second Draft
Explication: Do Not Go Gentle, MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Excerpt from Matt Cejaks Work
Exercise
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Excerpt from Matt Cejaks Work
Exercise
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
The Power of Sound and Sight in Do Not Go Gentle, MATTHEW CEJAK
Exercise
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Topic 5
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epsteins Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Excerpt from Joann Epsteins Work
Planning and Organizing
Excerpt from Joann Epsteins Work
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Excerpt from Joann Epsteins Work
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Excerpt from Joann Epsteins Work
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Excerpt from Joann Epsteins Work
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
Love and Strength, JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Exercise
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
5. Argument, Critical Thinking, and Research
Argument and Critical Thinking
Definition of Argument
Purpose for Argument
"The Storm" Kate Chopin
Argument and Controversy
Determining a Thesis for Argument
Topics for Argument
Considering Audience
Exploring Ways to Refine the Thesis and Support the Argument
Close Reading
Discussion and Interviews
Library and On-line Research
Argument and Research
The Research Question
The Persuasive Research Paper
Exploring the Research Question
Resources for Research: Reference Works
Monographs and Other Books
Printed Periodicals
Online Resources
Guidelines: Locating Online Resources
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Planning an Argument and Formulating the Thesis
Drafting an Argument
Guidelines: Rational Appeals
Revising an Argument
Using and Documenting Sources
Taking Notes
Organizing Your Notes
Summarizing and Paraphrasing
Copying Quotations
Sample Notecards
Determining What Needs to be Documentated
What Does Not Need to Be Documented
Avoiding Plagiarism
Exercise
Using and Documenting Quotations from Literary Works: MLA Style
Quoting from Poems
Quoting from Plays
Quoting from Fiction
Incorporating Material from Sources into Your Paper
Compiling a List of Works Cited
Print Resources
Oral Communication
Media and Performance Sources
Online Sources
Guidelines: Preparing the List of Works Cited
Sample of a Completed Researched Argument
A Closer Look at Bobint, JOSH LACHANCE (student paper)
Note: Selections that are new to the fifth edition are indicated with an asterisk
CHAPTER 6. Innocence and Experience
On Reading Literature Thematically: Critical Thinking Fiction
[Each chapter begins with a brief introduction to its theme]
[Considerations questions follow each selection]
[Connections questions, Suggestions for Connections Across Chapters, and Suggestions for Collaborative Learning conclude each chapter]
FICTION
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Young Goodman Brown
JAMES JOYCE, Araby
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And the Soul Shall Dance
LOUISE ERDRICH, The Red Convertible
W.D. WETHERELL, The Bass, The River and Sheila Mant
POETRY
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GWENDOLYN BROOKS, We Real Cool
JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
GARY SOTO, Oranges
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE, Rain
DRAMA
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
Commentary: CAROLYN HEILBRUN, The Character of Hamlets Mother
Commentary: LAURA BOHANNAN, Shakespeare in the Bush
Photo Essay THEN AND NOW : Images of Hamlet
Film Connection: Hamlet
ESSAYS
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
FICTION
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man (moved from Ch. 6 in Responding 4th Ed.)
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonnys Blues
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
POETRY
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
LUCILLE CLIFTON, in the inner city
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
N.SCOTT MOMADAY, New World
SHERMAN ALEXIE, Evolution
DRAMA
ATHOL FUGARD, Master Haroldand The Boys
Commentary:
ERVIN BECK "Fugard's 'Master Harold' and The Boys*
BRIAN SUTTON "Fugard's 'Master Harold' and The Boys* (A RESPONSE TO ERVIN BECK)
ESSAYS
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Love and Hate
FICTION
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
Commentary:
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper
EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
SUSAN GLASPELL, A Jury of Her Peers
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
Poetry
SAPPHO, To Me He Seems Like a God
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Let me not to the marriage of true minds
JOHN DONNE, The Sun Rising
ANDREW MARVELL, To His Coy Mistress
APHRA BEHN, The Willing Mistress
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
SIR WALTER RALEIGH, The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd
W.S. MERWIN, Separation
KRISTINE BATEY, Lot's Wife
DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
KITTY TSUI, A Chinese Banquet
Drama
HENRIK IBSEN, A Dolls House
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
Essays
C.S. LEWIS, We Have No Right to Happiness"
JOAN DIDION, Marrying Absurd
Chapter 9. Families
Fiction
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
GISH JEN "Who's Irish?"
Poetry
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papas Waltz
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
Commentary:
DAVID HUDDLE, The Banked Fires of Robert Haydens Those Winter Sundays
URSULA K. LEGUIN, The Old Falling Down
LOUSE GLCK, Terminal Resemblance
GAIL MAZUR, Family Plot, October
Drama
SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Rex
LANGSTON HUGHES, Soul Gone Home
Essays
RAYMOND CARVER, My Father's Life
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
PHOTO ESSAY: THEN AND NOW: Images of Families
Chapter 10. Nature
Fiction
STEPHEN CRANE, The Open Boat
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
Commentary:
EUDORA WELTY, Is Phoenix Jacksons Grandson Really Dead?
LESLIE MARMON SILKO, The Man to Send Rain Clouds
Poetry
Haiku
Moritake, Fallen Petals Rise
So Kan, If Only We Could
Meisetsu, City People
Kyoshi, The Snake
WILLIAM BLAKE, The Tyger
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
JOHN KEATS, La Belle Dame Sans Merci
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Gods Grandeur
JEAN TOOMER, November Cotton Flower
H.D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE), Sheltered Garden
ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
Drama
JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE, Riders to the Sea
Essays
BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
ANNIE DILLARD, The Deer at Providencia
VIRGINIA WOOLF, The Death of a Moth
Chapter 11. War and Power
Fiction
AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK OCONNOR, Guests of the Nation
Commentary:
STANLEY RENNER, The Theme of Hidden Powers: Fate vs. Human Responsibility in Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
TIM OBRIEN, The Things They Carried
BHARATI MUKHERJEE, The Management of Grief
Poetry
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Ozymandias
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Second Coming
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
RANDALL JARRELL, Gunner
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers (Moved from Ch. 6, Responding 4th ed)
GALWAY KINNELL, When the Towers Fell
Drama
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
Essays
ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE, To Any Would-Be Terrorists
PHOTO ESSAY: THEN AND NOW: Images of War
FILM CONNECTION: Three Kings
Chapter 12. Technology and Ethics
Fiction
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The Birthmark
KAY BOYLE, The Astronomers Wife (Moved from Chapter 8, Responding 4th ed)
B. TRAVEN, Assembly Line
DON DELILLO, Videotape
GEORGE SAUNDERS, My Flamboyant Grandson
Poetry
EMILY DICKINSON, I like to see it lap the Miles
WALT WHITMAN, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
WILLIAM JAY SMITH, Galileo Galilei
ADRIENNE RICH, Power
MARGARET ATWOOD, The City Planners
CHARLES BUKOWSKI, maybe we'll see . . .
MARGE PIERCY, The Market Economy
ELLEN WOLFE, Amniocentesis
MICHAEL RYAN, TV Room at the Children's Hospice
Drama
MARGARET EDSON,Wit
Commentaries:
LLOYD ROSE, Review of Wit
ALVIN KLEIN, A Professor's Passions in Life and Death
Essays
REBECCA MEAD, Eggs for Sale
LOGAN HILL, Racial Digital Divide [?]
Chapter 13. Death
Fiction
CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
Commentary:
WILLIAM FAULKNER, On the Meaning of A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
Poetry
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzzwhen I died
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
e.e. cummings, Buffalo Bill's
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Sons Dangerous Illness
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment (Moved from ch. 6, Responding 4th edition)
WILLIAM TREMBLAY, The Lost Boy
MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
Drama
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
Essays
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion (Moved from Ch. 6, Responding 4th ed.)
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry (color section)
Topics for Discussion and Writing
Sample Assignment and Student Paper
Deaths Image, JANICE MOORE (student paper)
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durers Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Goghs The Starry Night
Pieter Breughel the Elders Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuths I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hoppers Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
Edward Hoppers Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munchs The Scream
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisses Dance
Henri Matisses Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picassos The Old Guitarist
PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisses Woman Before an Aquarium
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degass The Millinery Shop
JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
MARTHA HOLLANDER, The Phantom Cart
Salvador Dali, The Phantom Cart
Edward Hopper, Rooms by the Sea
JOHN HOLLANDER, Rooms By the Sea
KARL KIRCHWEY, Dialogue
Albert Giacometti, Hands Holding the Void
MARILYN CHANDLER McENTRYRE, Jesus and theWoman at the Well
Rembrant van Rijn, Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Chapter 15. Four Poets, Then and Now
Making Connections
Timeline: Key Events in the Lives of Three American Poets
EMILY DICKINSON
Biography
If I can stop on heart from breaking
Wild Nights Wild Nights
Theres a certain Slant of light
Im Nobody! Who are you?
Heaven is what I cannot reach!
After great pain, a formal feeling comes--
The Brain is wider than the Sky
This is my letter to the World
The Soul selects her own Society
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
ROBERT FROST
Biography
Mending Wall
Home Burial
Out, Out
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Acquainted with the Night
Desert Places
A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
Mending Wall, DONALD CUNNINGHAM
From* The Figure a Poem Makes, ROBERT FROST
From The Indispensable Robert Frost, DONALD J. GREINER
One Long, Wild Conversation: Robert Frost as Teacher, JAY PARINI
"The Place Is the Asylum": Women and Nature in Robert's Frost's Poetry
BILLY COLLINS
Biography
The History Teacher
Jack
Going Out For Cigarettes
My Life
The Names
RITA DOVE
Biography
Geometry
AdolescenceI
Grape Sherbert
Adolescence--II
Daystar
Poem in Which I Refuse Contemplation
*Missing
Glossary of Literary Terms
Credits
Index of First Lines
Index of Authors, Titles, and Subjects

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Summary

Table of Contents

Alternate Contents by Genre

Alternate Contents Additional Themes

CHAPTER 1. Why Read Literature?

Exercise

Why Do You Read Literature?

Why Do We Read Literature?

Bridging the Gap

Responding to What You Read

Exercise

ROBERT FROST, The Road Not Taken

Sample Student Response to The Road Not Taken

Commentary

Exercise

Considering Evidence to Support Your Response

Close Active Reading

Sample Oral Response to The Road Not Taken

Commentary

Exercise

Keeping a Reading Journal

Guidelines: Keeping a Reading Journal

CHAPTER 2. Joining the Conversation: Ways of Talking about Literature

PATRICIA GRACE, Butterflies (short story)

Responding to Butterflies

LANGSTON HUGHES, Theme for English B (poem)

Responding to Theme for English B

WENDY WASSERSTEIN, The Man in a Case (play)

Responding to The Man in a Case

E. B. WHITE, Education (essay)

Responding to Education

The Vocabulary of Literature

Actions and Events

Plot

Structure

Conflict

Irony of Situation

Box: Terms Related to Actions and Events

Exercises: Actions and Events

People

Characters: Listening and Observing

Listening

Observing

Characters: Growing and Changing

Characters: Point of View

Author and Speaker

Narrator

People in Nonfiction

Box: Terms Related to People

Exercises: People

Places and Times

Time and Place: The Cultures of the Work, the Writer, and the Reader

Place

Time

Box: Terms Related to Places and Times

Exercises: Places and Times

Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns

Style

Tone

Diction

Syntax

Rhythm and Rhyme

Figurative Language

Verbal Irony

Allusions

Box: Trems Related to Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns

Exercises: Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns

Ideas

Exercises: Ideas

CHAPTER 3. Continuing the Conversation: Considering Genre and Listening to Other Voices

Expectations: Short Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction

Distinctions: Short Fiction and Drama

Distinctions: Poetry

MARGARET ATWOOD, you fit into me

Distinctions: Nonfiction