An Introduction to Poetry / Edition 13

by X. Kennedy, Dana Gioia

Overview

Kennedy/Gioia's An Introduction to Poetry, 13^th edition continues to inspire students with a rich collection of poems and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about poetry. The authors of this bestselling book are the recipients of many prestigious poetry awards. Features new to this edition include:

Exclusive conversation between Dana Gioia and U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, offer students an insider’s look into the importance of literature and reading in the life of this poet.

More than 50 new selections—from a wonderful range of poets including Kevin Young, Bettie Sellers, Mary Oliver, David Lehman, Constantine Cavafy, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anne Stevenson, James Weldon Johnson, Alice Fulton, Jimmy Baca, Rita Dove, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lorine Niedecker, among others.

New 2009 MLA guidelines—provides students the updated source citation guidelines from the new 7th edition of the MLA Handbook and incorporates these in all sample student papers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780205686124
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	09/21/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	672
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

X. J. Kennedy, after graduation from Seton Hall and Columbia, became a journalist second class in the Navy (“Actually, I was pretty eighth class”). His poems, some published in the New Yorker, were first collected in Nude Descending a Staircase (1961). Since then he has written six more collections, several widely adopted literature and writing textbooks, and seventeen books for children, including two novels. He has taught at Michigan, North Carolina (Greensboro), California (Irvine), Wellesley, Tufts, and Leeds. Cited in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations and reprinted in some 200 anthologies, his verse has brought him a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lamont Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, an Aiken-Taylor prize, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the Award for Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English. He now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he and his wife Dorothy have collaborated on four books and five children.

Dana Gioia is a poet, critic, and teacher. Born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican ancestry, he attended Stanford and Harvard before taking a detour into business. (“Not many poets have a Stanford M.B.A., thank goodness!”) After years of writing and reading late in the evenings after work, he quit a vice presidency to write and teach. He has published three collections of poetry, Daily Horoscope (1986), The Gods of Winter (1991), and Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award; an opera libretto, Nosferatu (2001); and three critical volumes, including Can Poetry Matter? (1992), an influential study of poetry’s place in contemporary America. Gioia has taught at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Mercer, and Colorado College.

He is also the co-founder of the summer poetry conference at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. From 2003-2009 he served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. At the NEA he created the largest literary programs in federal history, including Shakespeare in American Communities and Poetry Out Loud, the national high school poetry recitation contest. He also led the campaign to restore active and engaged literary reading by creating The Big Read, which has helped reverse a quarter century of decline in U.S. reading. He currently divides his time between Washington, D.C. and Santa Rosa, California, living with his wife Mary, their two sons, and two uncontrollable cats.

Table of Contents

**Indicates new selection

Poetry

Interview with Kay Ryan

1. Reading a Poem

Poetry or Verse

Reading a Poem

Paraphrase

William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Lyric Poetry

Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays

Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

Narrative Poetry

Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spence

Robert Frost, “Out, Out–”

Dramatic Poetry

Robert Browning, My Last Duchess

Didactic Poetry

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

Adrienne Rich, Recalling “Aunt Jennifer's Tigers”

Thinking About Paraphrase

William Stafford, Ask Me

William Stafford, A Paraphrase of “Ask Me”

Checklist: Writing a Paraphrase

Writing Assignment on Paraphrasing

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

2. Listening to a Voice

Tone

Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz

Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know

Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book

Walt Whitman, To a Locomotive in Winter

Emily Dickinson, I like to see it lap the Miles

** Kevin Young, Doo Wop

Weldon Kees, For My Daughter

The Person in the Poem

Natasha Trethewey, White Lies

Edwin Arlington Robinson, Luke Havergal

Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting

Suji Kwock Kim, Monologue for an Onion

William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Dorothy Wordsworth, Journal Entry

James Stephens, A Glass of Beer

Anne Sexton, Her Kind

William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow

Irony

Robert Creeley, Oh No

W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen

Sharon Olds, Rites of Passage

** Rod Taylor, Dakota: October, 1822: Hunkpapa Warrior

Sarah N. Cleghorn, The Golf Links

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second Fig

** Dorothy Parker, Comment

** Bob Hicok, Making It In Poetry

Thomas Hardy, The Workbox

For Review and Further Study

William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper

** Erich Fried, The Measures Taken

William Stafford, At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border

Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta

Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

Wilfred Owen, War Poetry

Thinking About Tone

Checklist: Writing about Tone

Writing Assignment on Tone

Student Paper, Word Choice, Tone, and Point of View in Roethke's “My Papa's Waltz”

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

3. Words

Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First

William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say

Diction

Marianne Moore, Silence

Robert Graves, Down, Wanton, Down!

John Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You

The Value of a Dictionary

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath

** Kay Ryan, Chemise

J. V. Cunningham, Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead

Carl Sandburg, Grass

** Dan Anderson, Dog Haiku

Word Choice and Word Order

Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes

** Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne

Kay Ryan, Blandeur

Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid

Richard Eberhart, The Fury of Aerial Bombardment

Wendy Cope, Lonely Hearts

For Review and Further Study

E. E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town

Billy Collins, The Names

** Charles Bukowski, Dostoevsky

Anonymous, Carnation Milk

Gina Valdés, English con Salsa

Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

Lewis Carroll, Humpty Dumpty Explicates “Jabberwocky”

Thinking About Diction

Checklist: Writing About diction

Writing Assignment on Word Choice

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

4. Saying and Suggesting

Denotation and Connotation

John Masefield, Cargoes

William Blake, London

Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

Gwendolyn Brooks, Southeast Corner

Timothy Steele, Epitaph

E. E. Cummings, next to of course god america i

Robert Frost, Fire and Ice

** Diane Thiel, The Minefield

** Ron Rash, The Day the Gates Closed

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears

Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

Richard Wilbur, Concerning “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World”

Thinking About Denotation and Connotation

Checklist: writing about What a Poem SAYS AND Suggests

Writing Assignment on Denotation and Connotation

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

5. Imagery

Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro

Taniguchi Buson, The Piercing Chill I Feel

Imagery

T. S. Eliot, The Winter Evening Settles Down

Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar

Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish

** Rainer Maria Rilke, The Panther

Charles Simic, Fork

Emily Dickinson, A Route of Evanescence

Jean Toomer, Reapers

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty

About Haiku

Arakida Moritake, The falling flower

Matsuo Basho, Heat-lightning streak

Matsuo Basho, In the old stone pool

Taniguchi Buson, On the one-ton temple bell

** Taniguchi Buson, Moonrise on mudflats

Kobayashi Issa, Only One Guy

Kobayashi Issa, Cricket

Haiku from Japanese Internment Camps

** Suiko Matsushita, Cosmos in Bloom

** Neiji Ozawa, The War–This Year

Hakuro Wada, Even the Croaking of Frogs

Contemporary Haiku

Etheridge Knightn Making jazz swing in

Lee Gurga, Visitor's Room

Penny Harter, broken bowl

Jennifer Brutschy, Born Again

John Ridland, The Lazy Man's Haiku

Garry Gay, Hole in the Ozone

For Review and Further Study

John Keats, Bright star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art

Walt Whitman, The Runner

T. E. Hulme, Image

William Carlos Williams, El Hombre

Robert Bly, Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter

** Paul Goodman, Birthday Cake

Louise Glück, Mock Orange

Billy Collins, Embrace

** Kevin Prufer, Pause, Pause

Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

Ezra Pound, The Image

Thinking About Imagery

Checklist: Writing about Imagery

Writing Assignment on Imagery

Student Paper, FADED BEAUTY: Elizabeth Bishop's Use of Imagery in “The Fish”

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

6. Figures of Speech

Why Speak Figuratively?

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle

William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

Metaphor and Simile

Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Flower in the Crannied Wall

William Blake, To see a world in a grain of sand

Sylvia Plath, Metaphors

N. Scott Momaday, Simile

Emily Dickinson, It dropped so low — in my Regard

** Jill Alexander Essbaum, The Heart

Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

Other Figures of Speech

James Stephens, The Wind

Margaret Atwood, You fit into me

George Herbert, The Pulley

Dana Gioia, Money

Charles Simic, My Shoes

** Carl Sandburg, Fog

For Review and Further Study

Robert Frost, The Silken Tent

Jane Kenyon, The Suitor

Robert Frost, The Secret Sits

A. R. Ammons, Coward

Kay Ryan, Turtle

** Anne Stevenson, The Demolition

Robinson Jeffers, Hands

Robert Burns, Oh, my love is like a red, red rose

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

Robert Frost, The Importance of Poetic Metaphor

Thinking About Metaphors

Checklist: Writing About Metaphors

Writing Assignment on Figures of Speech

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

7. Song

Singing and Saying

Ben Jonson, To Celia

** James Weldon Johnson, Since You Went Away

William Shakespeare, O mistress mine

Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory

Paul Simon, Richard Cory

Ballads

Anonymous, Bonny Barbara Allan

Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham

Blues

Bessie Smith with Clarence Williams, Jailhouse Blues

W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues

** Kevin Young, Late Blues

Rap

Run D.M.C., from Peter Piper

For Review and Further Study

John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Eleanor Rigby

Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin'

Aimee Mann, Deathly

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

Paul McCartney, Creating “Eleanor Rigby”

Thinking About Poetry and Song

Checklist: Writing About Song Lyrics

Writing Assignment on Song Lyrics

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

8. Sound

Sound as Meaning

Alexander Pope, True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance

William Butler Yeats, Who Goes with Fergus?

John Updike, Recital

William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

Emanuel di Pasquale, Rain

Aphra Behn, When maidens are young

Alliteration and Assonance

A. E. Housman, Eight O'Clock

James Joyce, All day I hear

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls

Rime

William Cole, On my boat on Lake Cayuga

Hilaire Belloc, The Hippopotamus

Ogden Nash, The Panther

William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan

Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur

** William Jay Smith, A Note on the Vanity Dresser

Robert Frost, Desert Places

Reading and Hearing Poems Aloud

Michael Stillman, In Memoriam John Coltrane

William Shakespeare, Full fathom five thy father lies

T. S. Eliot, Virginia

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

T. S. Eliot, The Music of Poetry

Thinking About a Poem's Sound

Checklist: Writing About a Poem's Sound

Writing Assignment on Sound

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

9. Rhythm

Stresses and Pauses

Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Break, Break, Break

Ben Jonson, Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount, Keep Time With My Salt Tears

Dorothy Parker, Résumé

Meter

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Counting-out Rhyme

Jacqueline Osherow, Song for the Music in the Warsaw Ghetto

A. E. Housman, When I was one-and-twenty

William Carlos Williams, Smell!

Walt Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums!

David Mason, Song of the Powers

Langston Hughes, Dream Boogie

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

Gwendolyn Brooks, Hearing “We Real Cool”

Thinking About Rhythm

Checklist: Scanning a Poem

Writing Assignment on Rhythm

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

10. Closed Form

Formal Patterns

John Keats, This living hand, now warm and capable

Robert Graves, Counting the Beats

John Donne, Song (“Go and Catch a Falling Star”)

Phillis Levin, Brief Bio

The Sonnet

William Shakespeare, Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds

Michael Drayton, Since There's No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part

Edna St. Vincent Millay, What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why

Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night

** William Meredith, The Illiterate

Kim Addonizio, First Poem for You

** Mark Jarman, Unholy Sonnet: After the Praying

A. E. Stallings, Sine Qua Non

R. S. Gwynn, Shakespearean Sonnet

The Epigram

Alexander Pope, Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog

Sir John Harrington, Of Treason

Robert Herrick, Moderation

William Blake, Her Whole Life Is An Epigram

E. E. Cummings, a politician

Langston Hughes, Prayer

J. V. Cunningham, This Humanist

John Frederick Nims, Contemplation

Brad Leithauser, A Venus Flytrap

Dick Davis, Fatherhood

Anonymous, Epitaph of a Dentist

Hilaire Belloc, Fatigue

Wendy Cope, Variation on Belloc's “Fatigue”

Other Forms

Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Robert Bridges, Triolet

Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

A. E. Stallings, On Form and Artifice

Thinking About a Sonnet

Checklist: Writing About a Sonnet

Writing Assignment on a Sonnet

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

11. Open Form

Denise Levertov, Ancient Stairway

E. E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill 's

W. S. Merwin, For the Anniversary of My Death

William Carlos Williams, The Dance

Stephen Crane, The Heart

Walt Whitman, Cavalry Crossing a Ford

Ezra Pound, Salutation

Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Prose Poetry

Carolyn Forché, The Colonel

Charles Simic, The Magic Study of Happiness

Visual Poetry

George Herbert, Easter Wings

John Hollander, Swan and Shadow

** Richard Kostelanetz, Simultaneous Translations

Dorthi Charles, Concrete Cat

Seeing the Logic of Open Form Verse

E. E. Cummings, in Just-

** A. E. Stallings, First Love: A Quiz

** David Lehman, Radio

Carole Satyamurti, I Shall Paint My Nails Red

** Alice Fulton, What I Like

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

Walt Whitman, The Poetry of the Future

Thinking About Free Verse

Checklist: Writing about free verse

Writing Assignment on Open Form

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

12. Symbol

T. S. Eliot, The Boston Evening Transcript

Emily Dickinson, The Lightning is a yellow Fork

Thomas Hardy, Neutral Tones

Matthew 13:24-30, The Parable of the Good Seed

George Herbert, The World

Edwin Markham, Outwitted

Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

Christina Rossetti, Uphill

For Review and Further Study

William Carlos Williams, The Term

Ted Kooser, Carrie

** Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

Lorine Niedecker, Popcorn-can cover

** Wallace Stevens, The Snow Man

Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

William Butler Yeats, Poetic Symbols

Thinking About Symbols

Checklist: Writing About Symbols

Writing Assignment on Symbolism

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

13. Myth and Narrative

Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can.

William Wordsworth, The world is too much with us

H. D., Helen

** Constantine Cavafy, IThaca

Archetype

Louise Bogan, Medusa

John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci

Personal Myth

William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming

Gregory Orr, Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm

Myth and Popular Culture

Charles Martin, Taken Up

Andrea Hollander Budy, Snow White

Anne Sexton, Cinderella

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

Anne Sexton, Transforming Fairy Tales

Thinking About Myth

Checklist: Writing About Myth

Writing Assignment on Myth

Student Paper, The Bonds Between Love and Hatred in H. D.'s “Helen”

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

14. Poetry and Personal Identity

Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus

Rhina Espaillat, Bilingual/Bilingüe

Culture, Race, an