Part One Entree to English Poetry
I.What Is Poetry?
II.The Function of Poetry
III.Major Types of Poetry
1.Narrative Poetry
2.Lyric Poetry
3.Dramatic Poetry
IV.Elements of Poetry
1.Rhyme
2.Metre
3.Foot
4.Metrical Pattern
5.Stanza
6.Image
7.Symbol
8.Figures of Speech
9.Speaker and Tone
10.Diction
11.Subject Matter and Theme
V.How to Read a Poem?
1.Read a Poem More Than Once
2.Keep a Dictionary Nearby and Use It
3.Read So As to Hear the Sounds of the Words in Your Mind
4.Pay Full Attention to What the Poem Is Saying
5.Practice Reading Poems Aloud
Part Two American Poetry
1.Anne Dudley Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband
2.William Cullen Bryant
To a Waterfowl
Thanatopsis
3.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Daybreak
4.Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
Annabel Lee
The Raven
To My Mother
5.Wait Whitman
O Captain! My Captain!
I Hear America Singing
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
There Was a Child Went Forth
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
An Excerpt from Song of Myself
6.Emily Dickinson
479 Because I Couldn't Stop for Death
112 Success Is Counted Sweetest
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