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Perrines Sound and Sense

by: Perrine, Laurence

Perrines Sound and Sense

by: Perrine, Laurence

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Edition: 9th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 07/26/1996
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Preface

Part 1 The Elements of Poetry

(268)

What Is Poetry?

(17)

The Eagle

(1)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

Winter

(1)

William Shakespeare

Dulce et Decorum Est

(3)

Wilfred Owen

Spring

(1)

William Shakespeare

The Whipping

(1)

Robert Hayden

The Computation

(1)

John Donne

Hawk Roosting

(1)

Ted Hughes

Ballad of Birmingham

(1)

Dudley Randall

The Red Wheelbarrow

(1)

William Carlos Williams

The Pasture

(1)

Robert Frost

Terence, this is stupid stuff

(2)

A. E. Housman

Ars Poetica

(2)

Archibald MacLeish

Reading the Poem

(17)

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

(1)

Mari Evans

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

(1)

Ezra Pound

The Mill

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Mirror

(1)

Sylvia Plath

The Subalterns

(2)

Thomas Hardy

Exercise

(1)

Denotation and Connotation

(12)

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

Eldorado

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

A Hymn to God the Father

(1)

John Donne

One Art

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

Imagery

(12)

Meeting at Night

(1)

Robert Browning

Parting at Morning

(1)

Robert Browning

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

The Forge

(1)

Seamus Heaney

After Apple-Picking

(2)

Robert Frost

Those Winter Sundays

(1)

Robert Hayden

The Letter

(1)

Jane Kenyon

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

(1)

Walt Whitman

Reapers

(1)

Jean Toomer

To Autumn

(2)

John Keats

Figurative Language Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy

(19)

The Guitarist Tunes Up

(1)

Frances Cornford

The Hound

(1)

Robert Francis

Bereft

(1)

Robert Frost

It sifts from leaden sieves

(2)

Emily Dickinson

Scholars

(1)

Walter de la Mare

Western Wind

(4)

Anonymous

Exercise

(1)

Mind

(1)

Richard Wilbur

I taste a liquor never brewed

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Metaphors

(1)

Sylvia Plath

Song: Go, lovely rose!

(1)

Edmund Waller

Toads

(2)

Philip Larkin

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

(1)

John Donne

To His Coy Mistress

(2)

Andrew Marvell

Suum Cuique

(1)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

after minor surgery

(1)

Linda Pastan

Dream Deferred

(1)

Langston Hughes

Exercises

(1)

Figurative Language 2 Symbol, Allegory

(21)

The Road Not Taken

(2)

Robert Frost

A Noiseless Patient Spider

(1)

Walt Whitman

The Sick Rose

(2)

William Blake

Digging

(3)

Seamus Heaney

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

(1)

Robert Herrick

Peace

(2)

George Herbert

Fire and Ice

(1)

Robert Frost

Ulysses

(3)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

Curiosity

(1)

Alastair Reid

Discovery of the New World

(2)

Carter Revard

Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness

(2)

John Donne

Our journey had advanced

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Dust of Snow

(1)

Robert Frost

Soft Snow

100

(1)

William Blake

Exercises

100

(1)

Figurative Language 3 Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony

101

(21)

Much madness is divinest sense

102

(1)

Emily Dickinson

The Sun Rising

103

(1)

John Donne

Incident

104

(2)

Countee Cullen

One Perfect Rose

106

(2)

Dorothy Parker

The Chimney Sweeper

108

(1)

William Blake

Ozymandias

109

(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Exercise

110

(1)

Batter my heart, three-personed God

110

(1)

John Donne

Sorting Laundry

111

(2)

Elisavietta Ritchie

The Unknown Citizen

113

(1)

W. H. Auden

Departmental

114

(1)

Robert Frost

The State

115

(1)

Randall Jarrell

Grace to Be Said at the Supermarket

116

(1)

Howard Nemerov

in the inner city

117

(1)

Lucille Clifton

Mr. Z

117

(1)

M. Carl Holman

Southern Cop

118

(1)

Sterling A. Brown

My Last Duchess

119

(3)

Robert Browning

Allusion

122

(11)

``Out, Out---''

123

(1)

Robert Frost

From Macbeth: She should have died hereafter

124

(2)

William Shakespeare

in Just-

126

(1)

e. e. cummings

On His Blindness

127

(1)

John Milton

Hero and Leander

127

(1)

John Donne

Miniver Cheevy

128

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Leda and the Swan

129

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Leda's Sister and the Geese

130

(1)

Katharyn Howd Machan

An altered look about the hills

130

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Abraham to kill him

131

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Jack, eating rotten cheese, did say

132

(1)

Benjamin Franklin

A monkey sprang down from a tree

132

(1)

Laurence Perrine

Two brothers devised what at sight

132

(1)

Laurence Perrine

Meaning and Idea

133

(13)

Little Jack Horner

133

(2)

Anonymous

Loveliest of Trees

135

(1)

A. E. Housman

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

135

(2)

Robert Frost

To a Waterfowl

137

(1)

William Cullen Bryant

Design

138

(1)

Robert Frost

The Indifferent

139

(1)

John Donne

Love's Deity

140

(1)

John Donne

To the Mercy Killers

141

(1)

Dudley Randall

How Annandale Went Out

142

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Caged Skylark

143

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

No worst, there is none

143

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Alter! When the hills do

144

(1)

Emily Dickinson

We outgrow love

145

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Exercise

145

(1)

Tone

146

(17)

For a Lamb

148

(1)

Richard Eberhart

Apparently with no surprise

148

(2)

Emily Dickinson

Since there's no help

150

(1)

Michael Drayton

The Coming of Wisdom with Time

151

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Crossing the Bar

151

(1)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

The Oxen

152

(1)

Thomas Hardy

One dignity delays for all

153

(1)

Emily Dickinson

'Twas warm at first like us

154

(1)

Emily Dickinson

The Apparition

154

(2)

John Donne

The Flea

156

(1)

John Donne

Dover Beach

157

(1)

Matthew Arnold

Church Going

158

(3)

Philip Larkin

Getting Out

161

(1)

Cleopatra Mathis

A tiny cry within the night

162

(1)

Lynn Johnston

Exercises

162

(1)

Musical Devices

163

(14)

The Turtle

164

(2)

Ogden Nash

That night when joy began

166

(1)

W. H. Auden

Ettrick

167

(2)

Alicia Ann Spottiswood

God's Grandeur

169

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

We Real Cool

170

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

Blackberry Sweet

171

(1)

Dudley Randall

The Snowstorm

171

(1)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As imperceptibly as grief

172

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Seal Lullaby

173

(1)

Rudyard Kipling

Shut In

174

(1)

Robert B. Shaw

Traveling through the dark

175

(1)

William Stafford

Nothing Gold Can Stay

176

(1)

Robert Frost

Exercise

176

(1)

Rhythm and Meter

177

(24)

Virtue

182

(10)

George Herbert

Exercises

191

(1)

``Introduction'' to Songs of Innocence

192

(1)

William Blake

It takes all sorts

193

(1)

Robert Frost

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

194

(1)

A. E. Housman

Had I the Choice

194

(1)

Walt Whitman

The Aim Was Song

195

(1)

Robert Frost

Nevertheless

195

(2)

Marianne Moore

To a Daughter Leaving Home

197

(1)

Linda Pastan

Constantly risking absurdity

198

(1)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Because I could not stop for Death

199

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Break, break, break

200

(1)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

Sound and Meaning

201

(18)

Pease porridge hot

201

(1)

Anonymous

Song: Come unto these yellow sands

202

(1)

William Shakespeare

Splinter

203

(1)

Carl Sandburg

Upon Julia's Voice

204

(4)

Robert Herrick

The Span of Life

208

(3)

Robert Frost

Exercise

209

(2)

Sound and Sense

211

(1)

Alexander Pope

I heard a fly buzz when I died

211

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Heaven-Haven

212

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Anthem for Doomed Youth

213

(1)

Wilfred Owen

Landcrab

214

(1)

Margaret Atwood

Eight O'Clock

215

(1)

A. E. Housman

At the round earth's imagined corners

215

(1)

John Donne

Blackberry Eating

216

(1)

Galway Kinnell

The Bench of Boors

217

(1)

Herman Melville

The Dance

217

(2)

William Carlos Williams

Exercise

218

(1)

Pattern

219

(18)

These are the days when birds come back

220

(2)

Emily Dickinson

An epicure dining at Crewe

Anonymous

222

(1)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

223

(1)

John Keats

That time of year

224

(2)

William Shakespeare

Exercises

225

(1)

A Handful of Limericks

226

(1)

Anonymous

Two Japanese Haiku

227

(1)

Matsuo Basho

Moritake

Poem in October

228

(2)

Dylan Thomas

From Romeo and Juliet

230

(1)

William Shakespeare

Death, be not proud

231

(1)

John Donne

A Wreath

231

(1)

George Herbert

Acquainted with the Night

232

(1)

Robert Frost

The Story We Know

233

(1)

Martha Collins

Edward

Anonymous

234

(2)

A Christmas Tree

236

(1)

William Burford

Exercise

236

(1)

Bad Poetry and Good

237

(14)

God's Will for You and Me

241

(1)

Pied Beauty

242

(1)

A Poison Tree

242

(1)

The Most Vital Thing in Life

243

(1)

Longing

244

(1)

To Marguerite

244

(1)

The Long Voyage

245

(1)

Breathes there the man

245

(1)

The Engine

246

(1)

I like to see it lap the miles

246

(1)

Little Boy Blue

247

(1)

The Toys

248

(1)

Song: Sweetest love, I do not go

249

(1)

Song: Sweetest love, return again

250

(1)

Good Poetry and Great

251

(18)

The Canonization

253

(2)

John Donne

Home Burial

255

(3)

Robert Frost

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

258

(5)

T. S. Eliot

Sunday Morning

263

(6)

Wallace Stevens

Part 2 Poems for Further Reading

269

(80)

Woman Work

271

(1)

Maya Angelou

Siren Song

271

(1)

Margaret Atwood

Musee des Beaux Arts

272

(1)

W. H. Auden

On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High

273

(1)

D. C. Berry

The Lamb

274

(1)

William Blake

The Tiger

274

(1)

William Blake

Low Barometer

275

(1)

Robert Bridges

The Dead

276

(1)

Rupert Brooke

If thou must love me

276

(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Good Times

277

(1)

Lucille Clifton

The Lost Baby Poem

277

(1)

Lucille Clifton

Kubla Khan

278

(1)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Money

279

(1)

Victor Contoski

The Listeners

280

(1)

Walter de la Mare

A light exists in spring

281

(1)

Emily Dickinson

A narrow fellow in the grass

282

(1)

Emily Dickinson

There's a certain slant of light

283

(1)

Emily Dickinson

The Lipstick on the Mirror

283

(1)

Tom Disch

The Good-Morrow

284

(1)

John Donne

Song: Go and catch a falling star

285

(1)

John Donne

The Triple Fool

286

(1)

John Donne

Vergissmeinnicht

286

(1)

Keith Douglas

The Colonel

287

(1)

Carolyn Forche

Birches

288

(1)

Robert Frost

Desert Places

289

(1)

Robert Frost

Mending Wall

290

(1)

Robert Frost

Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same

291

(1)

Robert Frost

The oven Bird

291

(1)

Robert Frost

Pushing

292

(1)

Christopher Gilbert

Nikki-Rosa

293

(1)

Nikki Giovanni

The Allegory of the Wolf Boy

293

(1)

Thom Gunn

On the Move

294

(1)

Thom Gunn

Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins

295

(1)

R. S. Gwynn

The Red Hat

296

(1)

Rachel Hadas

Channel Firing

297

(1)

Thomas Hardy

The Darkling Thrush

298

(1)

Thomas Hardy

Dream of Fair Women

299

(1)

Ann Hayes

Redemption

299

(1)

George Herbert

Riddle

300

(1)

William Heyen

Two Different Things

301

(1)

Michael Hogan

To an Athlete Dying Young

302

(1)

A. E. Housman

Bredon Hill

303

(1)

A. E. Housman

Thistles

304

(1)

Ted Hughes

The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field

304

(1)

Richard Hugo

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

305

(1)

Randall Jarrell

Song: To Celia

305

(1)

Ben Jonson

Warning

305

(1)

Jenny Joseph

La Belle Dame sans Merci

306

(1)

John Keats

Ode on a Grecian Urn

307

(2)

John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale

309

(2)

John Keats

The warden said to me

311

(1)

Etheridge Knight

The Sound of Night

311

(1)

Maxine Kumin

Aubade

312

(1)

Philip Larkin

Offspring

313

(1)

Naomi Long Madgett

Life with Father

314

(1)

Walter McDonald

What Are Year?

315

(1)

Marianne Moore

Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss

316

(1)

Thomas Nashe

what gramma said about her grandpa

317

(1)

nila northSun

The Victims

317

(1)

Sharon Olds

Speaking

318

(1)

Simon F. Ortiz

The Sad Children's Song

319

(1)

Grace Paley

The Hat Lady

319

(1)

Linda Pastan

The Imperfect Paradise

320

(1)

Linda Pastan

A Work of Artifice

321

(1)

Marge Piercy

Spinster

321

(1)

Sylvia Plath

Getting Through

322

(1)

Deborah Pope

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

323

(1)

John Crowe Ransom

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

324

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Living in Sin

324

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Nani

325

(1)

Alberto Rios

Mr. Flood's Party

326

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Richard Cory

327

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Sheaves

328

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

I knew a woman

328

(1)

Theodore Roethke

Fear no more

329

(1)

William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

330

(1)

William Shakespeare

My mistress' eyes

330

(1)

William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

331

(1)

William Shakespeare

The Fly

331

(1)

Karl Shapiro

Small Town with One Road

332

(1)

Gary Soto

The Beating

333

(1)

Ann Stanford

The Death of a Soldier

334

(1)

Wallace Stevens

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

334

(1)

Wallace Stevens

The Snow Man

335

(1)

Wallace Stevens

A Description of the Morning

335

(1)

Jonathan Swift

From In Memoriam A. H. H.

336

(1)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

336

(1)

Dylan Thomas

Fern Hill

337

(1)

Dylan Thomas

The Virgins

338

(1)

Derek Walcott

When I Heard the learn'd Astronomer

339

(1)

Walt Whitman

The Writer

339

(1)

Richard Wilbur

Poem

340

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Spring and All

341

(1)

William Carlos Williams

To Waken on Old Lady

342

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

342

(1)

William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud

343

(1)

William Wordsworth

The Solitary Reaper

343

(1)

William Wordsworth

Sailing to Byzantium

344

(1)

William Butler Yeats

The Second Coming

345

(1)

William Butler Yeats

The Wild Swans at Coole

346

(3)

William Butler Yeats

Appendix: Writing about Poetry

349

(36)

Glossary of Terms

385

(9)

Copyrights and Acknowledgments

394

(7)

Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines

401

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