Intro to Literature 2300 Poetry Study Guide

Chapter 13: Reading a Poem

• Key Poems:

  1. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats (675)

  2. "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden (677)

  3. "Sir Patrick Spence" by Anonymous (679-80)

  4. "Out, Out—" by Robert Frost (680-81)

  5. "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning (682-83)

  6. "My Papa’s Waltz" by Theodore Roethke (687-88)

  7. "The Author to Her Book" by Anne Bradstreet (689)

  8. "To a Locomotive in Winter" by Walt Whitman (690)

  9. "I like to see it lap the Miles" by Emily Dickinson (690-91)

  10. "Speech to the Young. Speech to the Progress-Toward" by Gwendolyn Brooks (692)

  11. "Hate Poem" by Julie Sheehan (704)

  12. "The Golf Links" by Sarah N. Gleghorn (705)

  13. "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake (706)

  14. "How do I love thee, let me count the ways" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1071)

  15. "Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You" by John Donne (719)

  16. "Aftermath" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (721)

  17. "Bread" by Samuel Menashe (723)

  18. "Grass" by Carl Sandburg (723)

  19. "London" by William Blake (741)

  20. "The Bean Eaters" by Gwendolyn Brooks (743)

  21. "Tears, Idle Tears" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (746)

  22. "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" by Richard Wilbur (746-47)

  23. "the mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks (1070)

  24. "The House the Built Me" by Allen Shamblin and Tom Douglas (Miranda Lambert)

  25. "My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun" by Emily Dickinson (774)

  26. "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman (989)