* Poems that are highlighted will be discussed in class*

American Poetry

Colonial / Puritan Literature 1607-1800

POEMS:

  • “Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House”—AnneBradstreet
  • “To My Dear and Loving Husband”—Anne Bradstreet

Romantic Period 1800-1860

Transcendentalists (Romantics)

POEMS:

  • “Song of Myself 1, 2, 50-52” from Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
  • “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim”—Walt Whitman
  • “O Captain My Captain” –Walt Whitman
  • “Beat, Beat Drums”—Walt Whitman
  • “ The Soul selects her own Society”—Emily Dickinson
  • “If you were coming in the Fall”—Emily Dickinson
  • “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”—Emily Dickinson
  • “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”—Emily Dickinson
  • “Apparently with no surprise”—Emily Dickinson
  • “Success is counted sweetest”—Emily Dickinson
  • “Because I could not stop for Death”—Emily Dickinson
  • “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died”—Emily Dickinson
  • “Much Madness is divinest Sense”—Emily Dickinson
  • “The Tide Rises, The TideFalls”—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • “The Cross”—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Dark Romantics

POEMS:

  • “The Raven” –Edgar Allan Poe
  • “Annabel Lee” – Edgar Allan Poe

Realism 1860-1914

POEMS:

  • “War is Kind”—Stephen Crane
  • “Richard Cory”—Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • “Miniver Cheevy”—Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • “I Will Fight No More Forever”—Chief Joseph

Modernism 1914-1939

POEMS:

  • “The Garden”—Ezra Pound
  • “In a Station of the Metro”—Ezra Pound
  • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”—TS Eliot
  • “The Red Wheelbarrow”—William Carlos Williams
  • “The Great Figure”—William Carlos Williams
  • “This is Just to Say”—William Carlos Williams
  • “leaf”—ee cummings
  • “what if a much of a which of a wind”—ee cummings
  • “anyone lived in a pretty how town”—ee cummings
  • “In Just”—ee cummings
  • “Nothing Gold Can Stay”—Robert Frost
  • “Mending Wall”—Robert Frost
  • “Fire and Ice”—Robert Frost
  • “The Road Not Taken”—Robert Frost
  • “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”—Langston Hughes
  • “Harlem”—Langston Hughes
  • “I, Too”—Langston Hughes
  • “Mother to Son”—Langston Hughes

Contemporary 1939-Present

POEMS:

  • “How to Meditate”—Jack Kerouac
  • “Song”—Allen Ginsberg
  • “A Supermarket in California”—Allen Ginsberg
  • “Bomb” and “I Am 25”—Gregory Corso
  • “Mirror”—Sylvia Plath
  • “Daddy”—Sylvia Plath
  • “Lady Lazarus”—Sylvia Plath
  • “On Turning Ten”—Billy Collins
  • “Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes”—Billy Collins
  • “Dharma”—Billy Collins
  • “The Revenant”—Billy Collins
  • “The Lanyard”—Billy Collins
  • “Litany”—Billy Collins
  • “Fly”—W.S. Merwin
  • “The Shoelace”—Bukowski
  • “Question and Answer”—Bukowski
  • “Under”—Bukowski
  • “What Can We Do”--Bukowski
  • “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”—Bob Dylan
  • “All Along the Watchtower”—Bob Dylan
  • “ABC”—Robert Pinsky
  • “Kurosawa Champagne”—Derrick Brown
  • “To Be or Not to Be”—Derrick I. M. Gilbert

British Poetry

Renaissance 1485-1660

  • The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Marlowe)
  • The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd (Raleigh)
  • To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (Herrick)
  • To His Coy Mistress (Marvell)
  • The Shakespearean Sonnets 18, 29, 30, 71, 73, 116, 130
  • Death be not Proud (Donne)

Romantic 1798-1832

  • The Lamb (Blake)
  • The Tiger (Blake)
  • The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Innocence & Experience(Blake)
  • A Poison Tree (Blake)
  • Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (Wordsworth)
  • Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge)
  • She Walks in Beauty (Byron)
  • Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto IV (Byron)
  • Ozymandius (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
  • On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (Keats)
  • When I Have Fears (Keats)

Victorian 1832-1901

  • The Lady of Shalott (Tennyson)
  • Ulysses (Tennyson)
  • My Last Duchess (Robert Browning)
  • Porphyria’s Lover (Robert Browning)
  • Sonnet 43 from Sonnet’s from the Portuguese (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
  • DoverBeach (Matthew Arnold)
  • To An Athlete Dying Young (AE Housman)

Modern 1900-Present

  • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (TS Eliot)
  • The Hollow Men (TS Eliot)
  • The Wasteland (TS Eliot)
  • The Second Coming (Yeats)
  • Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas)
  • Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night (Dylan Thomas)
  • Bei Hennef (DH Lawrence)
  • The Snake (DH Lawrence)
  • Whales Weep Not (DH Lawrence)
  • The Piano (DH Lawrence)
  • Self-Pity (DH Lawrence)