Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing PDF
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TO DAN AND SHANE FARRELL Acknowledgments A few years ago, Michael Spring commissioned a series of reading-and-writing essays on modern poems for Scholastic’s magazine Literary Cavalcade. Some of these essays, which first appeared in the magazine and in a Scholastic anthology, were early versions of essays in this book; and it was doing these first essays that gave us the idea to do such a book. We thank Michael Spring. And Myra Klahr of the New York poets-in-the-schools program, who found high school classes in which we could try out the teaching ideas presented here. And the students in Kate Farrell’s classes at Garden City High School, Valley Stream High School North and Valley Stream High School South, and the students in Kenneth Koch’s classes at Columbia University, where we tried the ideas out. And for other invaluable assistance we thank Gary Fisketjon, Carolyn Lumsden, and John Sterling. Contents INTRODUCTION The Poets in this Book Modern Poetry Reading Poetry Talking About Poetry Using the Writing Suggestions in This Book Writing Poetry on Your Own WHITMAN, WALT (1819–1892) From Song of Myself DICKINSON, EMILY (1830–1886) I Heard a Fly Buzz The Wind Took Up the Northern Things We Like March Bee! I’m Expecting You! The Last Night That She Lived The Crickets Sang Because I Could Not Stop for Death HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY (1844–1889) Pied Beauty Heaven-Haven God’s Grandeur Felix Randal Spring and Fall The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo RIMBAUD, ARTHUR (1854–1891) After the Flood Dawn Royalty The Lice Seekers Poets Seven Years Old Vowels Sensation YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER (1865–1939) The Song of Wandering Aengus He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Adam’s Curse The Wild Swans at Coole For Anne Gregory Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment STEIN, GERTRUDE (1874–1946) Susie Asado Ladies’ Voices Yet Dish RILKE, RAINER MARIA (1875–1926) Five sonnets from Sonnets to Orpheus Childhood STEVENS, WALLACE (1879–1955) Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Metaphors of a Magnifico Depression Before Spring Ploughing on Sunday Anecdote of the Jar Gubbinal Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks The Brave Man A Rabbit As King of the Ghosts APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME (1880–1918) Zone The Little Car It’s Raining WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS (1883–1963) Nantucket The Red Wheelbarrow To a Poor Old Woman The Locust Tree in Flower Between Walls This Is Just to Say January Morning The Act The Last Words of My English Grandmother LAWRENCE, D. H. (1885–1930) Butterfly Bavarian Gentians The White Horse Little Fish Nothing to Save Snake POUND, EZRA (1885–1972) The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Separation on the River Kiang Taking Leave of a Friend The Garret The Garden Sestina: Altaforte Alba ELIOT, T. S. (1888–1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Preludes MAYAKOWSKY, VLADIMIR (1893–1930) From A Cloud in Trousers CUMMINGS, E. E. (1894–1962) Spring Is Like a Perhaps Hand My Sweet Old Etcetera Paris; This April Sunset Completely Utters Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond LORCA, FEDERICO GARCÍA (1899–1936) The Moon Rises Ballad of Luna, Luna Little Viennese Waltz Dawn Song of Black Cubans AUDEN, W. H. (1907–1973) This Lunar Beauty 1929 215 The Wanderer GINSBERG, ALLEN (1926-) From Howl, Parts I and II A Supermarket in California
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