Part One  Elements of Poetry
       Unit One  Meter and Rhythm
          The Pasture
          Annabel Lee
          A Psalm of Life
          We Real Cool
       Unit Two  Stanza and Rhyme
          The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
          I Died for Beauty
          Ars Poetiea
          The Windhover
       Unit Three  Speaker and Tone
          Still I Rise
          A Far Cry from Africa
          The Song of Wandering Aengus
          Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?
       Unit Four  Figurative Language
          A Birthday
          All the World' s a Stage
          A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
          Cynara
       Unit Five  Image and Symbol
          Cavalry Crossing a Ford
          In a Station of the Metro
          Anecdote of the Jar
          The Second Coming
Part Two  Types of Poetry
       Unit Six Ballad
          A Red, Red Rose
          The Last Rose of Summer
          Boots of Spanish Leather
          Ballad of Birmingham
       Unit Seven  Ode
          Ode to the West Wind
       Unit Eight  Sonnet
          Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
          How Do I Love Thee?
          America  
          Why Brownlee Left
       Unit Nine  Free Verse
          I Hear America Singing
          Chicago
          The Red Wheelbarrow
          The Negro Speaks of Rivers
       Unit Ten  Shaped Verse
          40--Love
          The Window
          Swan and Shadow
Part Three  Themes of Poetry
       Unit Eleven  Friendship
          When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes
          The Arrow and the Song
          Break, Break, Break
          In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
       Unit Twelve  Love
          Love' s Philosophy
          The Soul Selects Her Own Society
          When You Are Old
          Permanently
       Unit Thirteen  Life
          Dreams  
          The Road Not Taken
          Sea-Fever  
          Success Is Counted Sweetest
       Unit Fourteen  Nature
          Spring
          I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
          On the Grasshopper and Cricket
          The Lake Isle of Innisfree
       Unit Fifteen  Death  
          Because I Could Not Stop for Death
          When I Am Dead, My Dearest
          Requiem
          Mid-Term Break
       Unit Sixteen  Patriotism
          My Heart's in the Highlands
          I Travelled among Unknown Men
          My Grave
          The Gift Outright
Part Four  Enjoying More English Poems
       George Herbert ( 1593-1633 )
          The Altar
       William Wordsworth ( 1770-1850 )
          The Solitary Reaper
       Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
          The Harp That Once Through Tara' s Halls
       Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
         Ozymandias
       Walt Whitman (181%1892)
          1 Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
          A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
       Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
          My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close
          If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
       Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
          In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"  
       Katharine Tynan ( 1861-1931 )
          Not Lovers Then
          Any Woman
       William Butler Yeats ( 1865-1939 )
          The Stolen Child
          The Mask  
       Robert Frost ( 1874-1963 )
          Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
          Birches
       Thomas Stearns Eliot ( 1888-1965 )
          The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
       E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
          Love Is More Thicker Than Forget
       Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)
          In Memory of W. B. Yeats
       R. S. Thomas (1913-2000)  
          Welsh Landscape
       Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
          Skunk Hour
       Donald Justice (b. 1925)  
          Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy
       James K. Baxter (1926-1972)
          New Zealand
       Ted HughesBZ ( 1930-1998 )
          Hawk Roosting