Table of ContentsPart I: FictionIntroduction: Understanding Fiction1. ThemeAnton Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet DogKate Chopin, A Respectable WomanShirley Jackson, The Lottery 2. PlotYasunari Kawabata, Up in the TreeWilliam Faulkner, A Rose for EmilyAlice Munro, The Found Boat 3. CharacterArna Bontemps, A Summer TragedyIsaac Bashevis Singer, Gimpel the FoolFlannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find 4. Point of ViewHernando Tellez, Just Lather, That's AllDavid Leavitt, GravityJamaica Kincaid, Girl 5. SettingNathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman BrownJames Joyce, ArabyEudora Welty, A Worn Path 6. ToneLuigi Pirandello, WarAlice Walker, RoselilyAmy Tan, Two Kinds7. SymbolismErnest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted PlaceLangston Hughes, On the RoadKay Boyle, Astronomers's Wife8. An Anthology of Short FictionChinua Achebe, Civil PeaceIsaac Babel, My First GooseJorge Luis Borges, The South Raymond Carver, CathedralIsak Dinesen, The Blue JarLouise Erdrich, SnaresGabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man With Enormous WingsYussef Idriss, A House of FleshFranz Kafka, A Hunger ArtistDoris Lessing, Flight Bobbie Ann Mason, Big Bertha StoriesBharati Mukherjee, Hindus R.K. Narayan, Mother and SonGloria Naylor, Kiswana BrowneGrace Paley, A Conversation with My FatherEdgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death Leslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send Rain Clouds" James Thurber:"The Catbird Seat" Luisa Valenzuela, The CensorsJohn A. Williams, Son in the AfternoonRichard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man Part II: Poetry Introduction: Understanding Poetry 9. ThemeWilliam Shakespeare, Let Me Not to the Marriage of True MindsAndrew Marvell, To His Coy MistressEmily Dickinson, Wild Nights-Wild Nights!Adrienne Rich, I Come Home from YouRita Dove, Adolescence-IICathy Song, Picture Bride10. DictionBen Jonson, On My First DaughterAphra Behn, The DefianceEmily Dickinson, She Rose to His RequirementOctavio Paz, EngagedNikki Giovanni, Mothers 11. TonePercy Bysshe Shelley, OzymandiasE. A. Robinson, Richard CoryClaude McKay, AmericaEzra Pound, The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter June Jordan: "The Wedding" Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Ah Mah12. ImageryThomas Campion, There is a Garden in Her Face Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla KhanWallace Stevens, The Snow ManElizabeth Bishop, Filling StationMargaret Atwood, Game After SupperRobert Hayden, Those Winter SundaysLouise Erdrich, The Strange People13. SymbolismWilliam Blake, The TygerEmily Dickinson, There's a Certain Slant of LightRobert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningDenise Levertov, The VictorsNancy Morejen, Central Park Some People (3 P.M.)" 14. Simile and MetaphorWilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est Langston Hughes, HarlemNicanor Parra, Piano SoloJosephine Miles, HousewifeMaxine Kumin, TogetherSylvia Plath, DaddyDavid Mura, Grandfather and Grandmother in Love 15. Personification and ApostropheJohn Keats, To Autumn Walt Whitman, I Saw In Louisiana a Live-Oak GrowingEmily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop for DeathMay Swenson, Hearing the Wind at NightFadwa Tuquan, After Twenty Years16. Meter, Rhythm, and SoundJohn Donne, The Bait Matthew Arnold, To Marguerite-ContinuedGwendolyn Brooks, Hunchback Girl: She Thinks of HeavenElinor Wylie, Puritan SonnetAllen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in CaliforniaMargaret Walker, Poppa Chicken17. Structure and FormWilliam Shakespeare, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of TimeRobert Browning, My Last Duchesse. e. cummings, Next to of Course God America I Muriel Rukeyser, MythSonia Sanchez, Poem at ThirtyJoy Harjo, Fishing18. An Anthology of PoetryAnna Akhmatova, Lot's WifeAl-Tutili, SevillePaula Gunn Allen, WomanworkYehuda Amichai, The Sweet Breakdown of AbigailMaya Angelou, Southeast Arkanasia/To A Husband Matthew Arnold, Dover BeachW. H. Auden, The Unknown CitizenKofi Awoonor, Song of WarIngeborg Bachmann, The Great Freight Amiri Baraka, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide NoteUlli Beier, Praise-Names of TwinsJohn Berryman, The Ball Poem William Blake, London/The LambLouise Bogan, CassandraAnne Bradstreet, Before the Birth of One of Her Children, In Memory of My Dear Grand-ChildWilliam Stanley Braithwaite, The WatchersGwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters/We Real Cool Sterling A. Brown, Southern RoadElizabeth Barrett Browning, Consolation/If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For NaughtGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron, On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year/She Walks in Beauty Raymond Carver, Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second YearLorna Dee Cervantes, Refugee Ship Aime Cesaire, Spirals Cho Chihun, Ancient TempleSo Chongju, PoeticsJudith Ortiz Cofer, What the Gypsy Said to Her ChildrenJayne Cortez, Making ItStephen Crane, War Is KindVictor Hernandez Cruz, The Secrets IICountee Cullen, Incident/Yet Do I MarvelRoque Dalton, Love PoemKamala Das, An IntroductionRene Depestre, NothingnessBabette Deutsch, Disasters of WarEmily Dickinson: A Light Exists in Spring/From All the JailsJohn Donne: Holy Sonnet 7/Holy Sonnet 14Rita Dove, Fifth Grade Autobiography/ParsleyT.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Lawrence Ferlinghetti, In Goya's Greatest ScenesAnne Finch, Trail All Your PikesGisele Fong, CorrosionCarolyn Forche, Dulcimer MakerRobert Frost, Mending Wall/Once By the Pacifico Anthony Grooms, HomespaceJoy Harjo, I Give You BackGeorge Herbert, Church-MonumentsGerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty Henry Howard, To His LadyLangston Hughes, Evening Air Blues/Mother to Son/Share-Croppers/The Negro Speaks of Rivers/VagabondsLawson Fusao Inada, Nightsong in Asian AmericanRandall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret GunnerBen Jonson, On My First Son/To CeliaJune Jordan, SafeJohn Keats, Written in Disgust of Vulgar/SuperstitionMaurice Kenny, Corn-PlanterD.H. Lawrence, PianoDenise Levertov, The Ache of Marriage/Living While It May Philip Levine, Spring in the Old WorldShirley Geok-lin Lim, Modern Secrets Audre Lorde, OyaAmy Lowell, The TaxiRobert Lowell, Children of LightMairi MacInnes, VJ DayAnnette M'Baye, SilhouetteClaude McKay, OutcastIfeayi Menkiti, Veterans DayCzeslaw Milosz, On PrayerJohn Milton, When I Consider How My Light is SpentJanice Mirikitani, Prisons of Silence/Sing With Your Body Pat Mora, ElenaCarlos Nejar, Oil LampsPablo Neruda, The United Fruit Co.Simon J. Ortiz, SpeakingWilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed YouthPapyrus Harris 500, Beginning of the Songs of DelightPepi I Pyramid Texts, UtteranceKatherine Philips, Against LoveEzra Pound, A VirginalAlexander Pushkin, A Sower Went Out to Sow His Seed/To My Old Nurse Ibn Quzman, The Radish Rahel, To My CountryIsmael Reed, SermonetteRoberto Fernandez Retamar, A Motto from Poets: Leave StoneAdrienne Rich, AugustTheodore Roethke, My Papa's WaltzChristina Rossetti, Uphill Muriel Rukeyser, The Lost RomansLuis Omar Salinas, QuetzalcoatleBert Schierbeek, The Bicycle RepairmanLeopold Sedar Senghor, Prayer to the MasksAnne Sexton, The Black Art/The Fury of Flowers and Worms Percy Bysshe Shelley, Song to the Men of EnglandSir Philip Sidney, With How Sad Steps, O MoonMohan Singh, EveningStevie Smith, The Weak MonkGary Snyder, Not Leaving the House Edith Sodergran, HopeGary Soto,Daybreak/Learning to BargainWole Soyinka, Telephone ConversationStephen Spender, An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum Wallace Stevens, The Irish Cliffs of MoherJonathan Swift, A Description of a City Shower Sara Teasdale, BarterDylan Thomas, Fern HillJoyce Carol Thomas, Black ChildMohamud S. Togane, ArfayeMelvin B. Tolson, A Legend of VersaillesGerald Vizenor, Family Photograph David Wagoner, A Valedictory to Standard Oil of IndianaDiane Wakoski, To an AutocratMargaret Walker, LineageChad Walsh, Port Authority Terminal: 9 A.M. MondayPhillis Wheatley, To the Right Honorable William, Earl of DartmouthWalt Whitman, Cavalry Crossing A Ford/I Hear America Singing/There was a Child Went ForthWilliam Carlos Williams, Danse Russe/To Waken An Old LadyJames Wright, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, OhioSir Thomas Wyatt, They Flee From MeMitsuye Yamada, Desert RunWilliam Butler Yeats, Leda and the SwanAl Young, A Poem for Willard MotleyBernice Zamora, Notes From a Chicana CoedCyn Zarco, AsparagusPart III: Drama. Introduction: Understanding Drama. 19. ThemeJohn Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea Langston Hughes, Soul Gone Home 20. CharacterHenrik Ibsen, A Doll's HouseLorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun21. PlotSophocles, Oedipus RexArthur Miller, Death of a Salesman22. FormAristophanes,LysistrataWilliam Shakespeare, Othello 23. An Anthology of DramaWoody Allen, Death KnocksBrigid Brophy, The Waste Disposal UnitSusan Glaspell, Suppressed DesiresLady Gregory, The Rising of the MoonDavid Henry Hwang, Family DevotionsEstela Portillo, Day of the SwallowsJohn A. Williams, August Forty-FiveAugust Wilson, Ma Rainey's Black BottomBiographical Profiles Glossary of Literary Terms Permission AcknowledgmentsIndex of Literary Terms Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems
