Poetry

We’ll teach you to tell the difference between a sonnet and a stanza in no time. From Homer to T.S. Eliot, we unpack imagery, form, and symbolism in poetry.

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A

Alighieri, Dante
- Inferno
Angelou, Maya
Arnold, Matthew
- Dover Beach
Atwood, Margaret
- Margaret Atwood’s Poetry
Auden, W. H.
- Funeral Blues

B

Barrett Browning, Elizabeth
- How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
Baudelaire, Charles
- The Flowers of Evil
Bishop, Elizabeth
- One Art
- The Fish
Blake, William
- Songs of Innocence and Experience
- The Tyger
Brooks, Gwendolyn
- We Real Cool
Browning, Robert
Burns, Robert
- To a Mouse
Byron, Lord
- She Walks in Beauty

C

Carroll, Lewis
- Jabberwocky
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Cummings, E. E.
- i carry your heart with me

D

Dickinson, Emily
Donne, John
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
- We Wear the Mask

E

Eliot, T. S.

F

Frost, Robert

G

Ginsberg, Allen
- Howl
Glück, Louise
- The Wild Iris
Gorman, Amanda
- The Hill We Climb

H

Heaney, Seamus
- Digging
Henley, William Ernest
- Invictus
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Hopkins’s Poetry
Hughes, Langston

K

Keats, John
Kilmer, Joyce
- Trees
Kipling, Rudyard
- If—
- The White Man's Burden

L

Lazarus, Emma
- The New Colossus
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
- Paul Revere's Ride
Lorde, Audre
- Hanging Fire

M

Marlowe, Christopher
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Marvell, Andrew
- To His Coy Mistress
McKay, Claude
- If We Must Die
Milton, John
- Paradise Lost

O

Oliver, Mary
- Wild Geese
Owen, Wilfred
- Dulce Et Decorum Est

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R

Rich, Adrienne
- Diving into the Wreck
Roethke, Theodore
- My Papa's Waltz

S

Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Spenser, Edmund
- The Faerie Queene
Stevens, Wallace
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

T

Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Thomas, Dylan
- Do not go gentle into that good night
- And death shall have no dominion

W

Whitman, Walt
Williams, William Carlos
- This Is Just to Say
- The Red Wheelbarrow
Wordsworth, William

Y

Yeats, William Butler