Responding to literature : stories, poems, plays, and essays / 5th ed.
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简介
This thematically arranged anthology incorporates poetry, drama, fiction, and the essay. Four introductory chapters illustrate ways of responding to and writing about literature, with numerous examples of student writing. Eight thematic chapters follow, with a balance of new and traditional voices, including less frequently anthologized selections from canonical writers as well as many works by women, minorities, and writers from other countries. A final chapter presents three poets for in-depth study: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Gwendolyn Brooks.
目录
* indicates material new to this edition
CHAPTER 1. Why Read Literature?
Why Do You Read Literature?
Why Do We Read Literature?
Bridging the Gap
Responding to What You Read
ROBERT FROST, The Road Not Taken
Sample Student Response to “The Road Not Taken”
Commentary
Critical Thinking: Considering Evidence to Support Your Response
Close Active Reading
Sample Oral Response to “The Road Not Taken”
Commentary
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
People
Characters: Listening and Observing
Characters: Growing and Changing
Characters: Point of View
Places and Times
Time and Place: The Cultures of the Work, the Writer, and the Reader
Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Style
Tone
Diction
Syntax
Rhythm and Rhyme
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Allusions
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
Modern Short Fiction
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Critical Thinking: Considering Evidence to Support Your Response
Close Active Reading
Sample Oral Response to “The Road Not Taken”
Commentary
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
People
Characters: Listening and Observing
Characters: Growing and Changing
Characters: Point of View
Places and Times
Time and Place: The Cultures of the Work, the Writer, and the Reader
Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Style
Tone
Diction
Syntax
Rhythm and Rhyme
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Allusions
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
Modern Short Fiction
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
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
People
Characters: Listening and Observing
Characters: Growing and Changing
Characters: Point of View
Places and Times
Time and Place: The Cultures of the Work, the Writer, and the Reader
Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Style
Tone
Diction
Syntax
Rhythm and Rhyme
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Allusions
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
Modern Short Fiction
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
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
People
Characters: Listening and Observing
Characters: Growing and Changing
Characters: Point of View
Places and Times
Time and Place: The Cultures of the Work, the Writer, and the Reader
Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Style
Tone
Diction
Syntax
Rhythm and Rhyme
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Allusions
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
Modern Short Fiction
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
E. B. WHITE, Education (essay)
Responding to “Education”
The Vocabulary of Literature
Actions and Events
Plot
Structure
Conflict
Irony of Situation
People
Characters: Listening and Observing
Characters: Growing and Changing
Characters: Point of View
Places and Times
Time and Place: The Cultures of the Work, the Writer, and the Reader
Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Style
Tone
Diction
Syntax
Rhythm and Rhyme
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Allusions
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
Modern Short Fiction
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Structure
Conflict
Irony of Situation
People
Characters: Listening and Observing
Characters: Growing and Changing
Characters: Point of View
Places and Times
Time and Place: The Cultures of the Work, the Writer, and the Reader
Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Style
Tone
Diction
Syntax
Rhythm and Rhyme
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Allusions
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
Modern Short Fiction
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Irony of Situation
People
Characters: Listening and Observing
Characters: Growing and Changing
Characters: Point of View
Places and Times
Time and Place: The Cultures of the Work, the Writer, and the Reader
Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Style
Tone
Diction
Syntax
Rhythm and Rhyme
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Allusions
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
Modern Short Fiction
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Characters: Growing and Changing
Characters: Point of View
Places and Times
Time and Place: The Cultures of the Work, the Writer, and the Reader
Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Style
Tone
Diction
Syntax
Rhythm and Rhyme
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Allusions
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
Modern Short Fiction
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Places and Times
Time and Place: The Cultures of the Work, the Writer, and the Reader
Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Style
Tone
Diction
Syntax
Rhythm and Rhyme
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Allusions
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
Modern Short Fiction
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Tone
Diction
Syntax
Rhythm and Rhyme
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Allusions
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
Modern Short Fiction
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Syntax
Rhythm and Rhyme
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Allusions
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
Modern Short Fiction
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Allusions
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
Modern Short Fiction
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Allusions
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
Modern Short Fiction
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Modern Short Fiction
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
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
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Guidelines: Nonfiction
Considering Other Voices
Authors’ Commentaries and Interviews
Reviews
Scholarly Criticism
CHAPTER 4. Writing About Literature
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Scholarly Criticism
CHAPTER 4. Writing About Literature
Writing and Critical Thinking
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
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
JOAN ALESHIRE, Slipping
Responding to “Slipping”
Preparing to Write About Literature
Understanding the Assignment
Thinking about the Assignment
Assignment Topics
Writing to Respond
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Thinking about the Assignment
Assignment Topics
Writing to Respond
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Writing to Respond
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 Angstrom’s Revision List
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Editing Focus: “To Be,” Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstrom’s Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
“Changes: For Better or Worse?” KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
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
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Drafting
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Transitions, Development of Ideas
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Revising Focus: Transitions, Development of Ideas
Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement
Final Copy: Writing to Compare
“Responses: Raging Versus Slipping,” WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Guidelines: Writing a Comparison
Writing to Analyze
Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Planning, Organizing, and Drafting
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples
Editing Focus: Word Choice
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers
Final Copy: Writing to Analyze
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
“Love and Loss in ‘Slipping’,” CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Analysis
Writing to Explicate
Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Matt Cejak’s Paraphrases (student work)
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying
Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference
Excerpt from Matt Cejak’s Writing Conference
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Matt Cejak’s Second Draft
“Explication: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Editing Focus: Conciseness
Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Final Copy: Writing to Explicate
“The Power of Sound and Sight in ‘Do Not Go Gentle’,” MATTHEW CEJAK
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Guidelines: Writing an Explication
Writing to Evaluate
Discovering Ideas: Interviewing
Joann Epstein’s Journal Entry
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Drafting
Revising Focus: Logic
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations
Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate
“Love and Strength,” JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values
Writing a Research Paper: Making a Literary Argument
Discovering Ideas: Researching
Results of Toni Jackmon’s Conversation with Librarian David Bauer
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources
Sample Source
“Thomas’ ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night’,” MICHAEL W. MURPHY, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Sample Note Cards
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Revising Focus: Using Quotations Effectively
Rules for Quoting
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Editing Focus: Combining Sentences
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Rules for Combining Sentences
Proofreading Focus: Spelling
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Final Copy: Research Paper
“We Are All Poets,” TONI JACKMON (student paper)
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Guidelines: Writing a Research Paper
Summary
Strategies for Discovering and Exploring Ideas
Strategies for Evaluating Your Audience
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Strategies for Revising
Strategies for Editing
Strategies for Proofreading
CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
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CHAPTER 5. Innocence and Experience
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
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident
GARY SOTO, Oranges
BETTIE SELLERS, In the Counselor’s Waiting Room
ROSEMARY CATACALOS, La Casa
MAY SWENSON, The Centaur
WILLIAM BLAKE, London
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break
*JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps
Chapter 6. Crime and Punishment
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat
NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers
RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
ISABEL ALLENDE, The Judge’s Wife
*BESSIE HEAD, Looking for a Rain God
RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea, From Prison
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
GREGORY CORSO, The Last Gangster
JIANG HE, To the Executioner
TESS GALLAGHER, Kidnapper
JUDITH CLARK, After My Arrest
*STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles
ANDRE DUBUS, Giving Up the Gun
*BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion
Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak
LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting
WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray
*MARY TALLMOUNTAIN, There Is No Word for Goodbye
*WING TEK LUM, It’s Something Our Family Has Always Done
LANGSTON HUGHES, Dream Variations
ATHOL FUGARD, “Master Harold”…and The Boys
CHIEF SEATTLE, My People
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
Chapter 8. Men and Women
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
*KAY BOYLE, Astronomer’s Wife
*EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever
*LAURIE COLWIN, A Country Wedding
*RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man
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 Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
AMY LOWELL, Patterns
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug
*PAULA GUNN ALLEN, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
*DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
*ROBERT SOLOMAN, Romantic Love
*C.S. LEWIS, We Have No “Right” to Happiness
Chapter 9. Families
TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping
*MARY HOOD, How Far She Went
*ANNE TYLER, The Artificial Family
*RUDY THAUBERGER, Goalie
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz
MAXINE KUMIN, Making the Jam Without You
SHARON OLDS, The Possessive
ROBERT MEZEY, My Mother
SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors
DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner
JAMES MASAO MITSUI, Allowance
NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson
*ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays
*MOLLY PEACOCK, Say You Love Me
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And Soul Shall Dance
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, From Father With Love
ANDREW MERTON, When Father Doesn’t Know Best*
Chapter 10. Nature
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
*JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
KATE CHOPIN, The Storm
DORIS LESSING, Through the Tunnel
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path
MORITAKE, Fallen Petals Rise So Kan, If Only We Could
MEISETSU, City People
KYOSHI, The Snake
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us
*GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, God’s Grandeur
*ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark
*DENISE LEVERTOV, To the Snake [include?]
*MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning
*MAXINE KUMIN, Woodchucks
*MAGGIE ANDERSON, A Place with Promise
*RICHARD WILBUR, The Writer
*PATRICK MEYERS, K-2
*BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative
*DONELLA MEADOWS, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land
Chapter 11. War and Power
*AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation
CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl
ELIZABETH GORDON, On the Other Side of the War
TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Mother and Poet
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est
ARIEL DORFMAN, Hope
WALT WHITMAN, The Dying Veteran
DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It
RADALL JARRELL, Gunner
*MARGARET ATWOOD, At First I Was given Centuries
*CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
*ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally
*JACQUELINE NVARRA RHOADS, Nurses in Vietnam
*BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There
Chapter 12. Death
*CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying
*GAIL GODWIN, Dream Children
JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud
e.e. cummings, buffalo bill’s
RUTH WHITMAN, Castoff Skin
EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzz¿when I died¿
EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House
A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young
THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane
*DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem
*MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings
*LEWIS THOMAS, On Natural Death
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death
Chapter 13. Three American Poets
*EMILY DICKINSON
ROBERT FROST
*A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry
RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Durer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil
ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night
W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Dance
Pieter Breughel the Elder’s Peasants Dance
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure
Charles Henry Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks
DONALD HALL, The Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THOM GUNN, Something Approaches
Ander Gunn’s Untitled photograph
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance
Henri Matisse’s Dance
WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
*ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT, Wormwood: The Penitents
Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico
*PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse’s Woman Before an Aquarium
*ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Edgar Degas’s The Millinery Shop
*JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
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