Contents
Preface
Part One Introduction
Chapter One Brief Introduction to British and American Poetry 2
Chapter Two What Is Poetry 8
Chapter Three How to Read a Poem I I ,
Chapter Four How to Evaluate a Poem 13
Chapter Five Themes of a Poem 14
Part Two Elements of Poetry
Chapter One Voice: Speaker and Tone 16
John Donne: The Flea
Robert Frost: Stopping by Vods On a Snowy Evening
William Blake: The Lamb
Theodore Roethke My Papa Vltz
Robert Hayn: Those nter Sundays
Chapter Two Diction 23
John Milton: Metbougbt I Saw My Late Espoused Saint
William Blake: London
William Wordsworth: I Vndered Lonely as a Cloud
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Crossing the Bar
Chapter Three Imagery 29
Robert Browning: Meeting at Night
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Break, Break, Break
Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro
Seamus Heaney: The Play Vay
Chapter Four Figures of Speech 35
Section One Simile, Metaphor 35
Robert Bus: A Red, Red Rose
Alfred Tennyson: The Eagle: A Fragment
Sylvia Plath: Metaphors
Section Two Metonymy, Synecdoche 38
Andrew Marell 23 His Coy Mistress
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
Section Three Personification, Apostrophe 42
William Wordsworth: London, 1802
John Keats: 23 Autumn
Sylvia Plath: Mirror
Section Four Irony 46
William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper
Stephen Crane: The Wa...