Coursebook in English poetry:poetic elements and poetic types

Preface

Part One Introduction
Chapter One Brief Introduction to British and American Poetry
Chapter Two What Is Poetry
Chapter Three How to Read a Poem
Chapter Four How to Evaluate a Poem
Chapter Five Themes of a Poem

Part Two Elements of Poetry
Chapter One Voice: Speaker and Tone
John Donne: The Flea
Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening
William Blake: The Lamb
Theodore Roethke: My Papa's Waltz
Robert Hayden: Those Winter Sundays

Chapter Two Diction
John Milton: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint
William Blake: London
William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Alfred,Lord Tennyson: Crossing the Bar

Chapter Three Imagery
Robert Browning: Meeting at Night
Alfred,Lord Tennyson: Break,Break,Break
Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro
Seamus Heaney: The Play Way

Chapter Four Figures of Speech
Section One Simile,Metaphor
Robert Bums: A Red,Red Rose
Alfred Tennyson: The Eagle: A Fragment
Sylvia Plath: Metaphors
Section Two Metonymy,Synecdoche
Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
Section Three Personification,Apostrophe
William Wordsworth: London,1802
John Keats: To Autumn
Sylvia Plath: Mirror
Section Four Irony
William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper
Stephen Crane: The War Is Kind
Section Five Paradox
Richard Lovelace: To Lucasta,Going to the War
William Wordsworth: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
Thomas Hardy: Hap

Chapter Five Symbolism and Allegory
William Blake: The Sick Rose
Thomas Stearns Eliot: The Boston Evening Transcript
Emily Dickinson: I Heard a Fly Buzz——When I Died
William Buffer Yeats: The Second Coming

Chapter Six Syntax
Thomas Hardy: The Man He Killed
William Buffer Yeats: An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

Chapter Seven Sound: Rhyme,Alliteration and Assonance
Emily Dickinson: The Soul Selects Her Own Society
Wystan Hugh Auden: That Night When Joy Began

Chapter Eight Rhythm and Meter
Robert Herriek: An Ode to Him
Edna St. Vincent Millay: God's World

Part Three Types of Poetry
Chapter One Narrative Poetry
Section One Epic
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Section Two Ballad
Anonymous: Get Up and Bar the Door
John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Section Three Romance
Anonymous: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Chapter Two Lyric Poetry
Section One Sonnet
William Shakespeare: Sonnet
William Wordsworth: The World Is Too Much with Us
John Keats: On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
Section Two Ode
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn
Section Three Song
John Donne: Song
Ben Jonson: Song: To Celia
Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne
Section Four Elegy
John Milton: Lycidas
Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Percy Busshe Shelley: Adonais
Section Five Dirge
William Shakespeare: Full Fathom Five
Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Dirge
Section Six Aubade
John Donne: The Sun Rising
Robert Browning: Parting at Morning
Section Seven Pastoral
Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
William Wordsworth: Michael: A Pastoral Poem

Chapter Three Dramatic Poetry
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
Percy Bysshes Shelley: Prometheus Unbound

Chapter Four Other Types of Poetry
Section One Descriptive Poetry
James Thomson: The Seasons
William Wordsworth: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,September 3,1802
Section Two Reflective Poetry
William Cowper: The Task: The Stricken Deer
Section Three Didactic Poetry
Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism
Section Four Satirical Poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley: England in 1819
Erenst Jones: The Song of the Lower Classes

A Glossary of Poetic Terms
List of Poets
Bibliography