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 ( 1 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 Derek Walcott (b. 1930) Winding Up Adrian Henri (1932-2000) Tonight at Noon Margaret Atwood ( b. 1939) You Fit into Me Seamus Heaney ( b. 1939) Bogland From the Republic of Conscience Eavan Boland ( b. 1944) Mother Ireland Appendix Ⅰ Glossary Appendix Ⅱ Biographical Sketches