English Assignments due 7-24-2021

7/20/2021 Poem links: ENGL100-10763 (ONL) Freshman Composition

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Poem links Poetry!

Read at least seven of the poems below. You get to choose! Browse the poems' titles, sample a few lines, and plunge in wherever you wish. Most poems are short and digestible but pack a punch. There's something for everyone: joy, death, love, religion, hope, despair, war, memory, regret, nature, mystery, sentiment, and the art of writing itself. The poems are intentionally presented to you without any organizing principle such as chronology or alphabetical order; I want you to meander through them as you would a magic shop.

After you find a poem you wish to read, re-read, and write about, call "dibs" on it in the poetry discussion topic for this week. If another student already called dibs, then you'll have to pick a different poem. There are fifty-eight poems linked below; plenty to choose from!

Note: These materials are made available through fair use and the TEACH Act; further copying and redistribution violates federal copyright law.

"Alone," by Edgar Allen Poe

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46477/alone-56d2265f2667d (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46477/alone-56d2265f2667d)

"Wild Geese," by Mary Oliver

http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/oliver_wildgeese.html (http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/oliver_wildgeese.html)

"The Panther," by Rainier Maria Rilke

http://wenaus.org/poetry/panther.html (http://wenaus.org/poetry/panther.html)

"Archaic Torso of Apollo," by Rainier Maria Rilke

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/archaic-torso-apollo (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/archaic-torso-apollo)

"A Blessing," by James Wright

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7/20/2021 Poem links: ENGL100-10763 (ONL) Freshman Composition

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46481/a-blessing (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46481/a-blessing)

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T. S. Eliot

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love- song-of-j-alfred-prufrock (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j- alfred-prufrock)

"Forgive My Guilt," R. T. Coffin

https://gussiespoetryproject.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/forgive-my-guilt/ (https://gussiespoetryproject.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/forgive-my-guilt/)

"A Man Meets a Woman in the Street," by Randall Jarell

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/man-meets-woman-street (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/man-meets-woman-street)

"Cleopatra Ode" (translation from Horace's Latin), by David Ferry

https://books.google.com/books? id=eD8yCs7J7jMC&pg=PA97&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false (https://books.google.com/books? id=eD8yCs7J7jMC&pg=PA97&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false)

"Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes," by W. Shakespeare

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45090/sonnet-29-when-in-disgrace- with-fortune-and-mens-eyes (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45090/sonnet-29-when-in-disgrace-with- fortune-and-mens-eyes)

"Sailing to Byzantium," by W. B. Yeats

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43291/sailing-to-byzantium (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43291/sailing-to-byzantium)

"Still I Rise," by Maya Angelou

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/still-i-rise (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/still-i-rise)

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7/20/2021 Poem links: ENGL100-10763 (ONL) Freshman Composition

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"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," by Wallace Stevens

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a- blackbird (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of- looking-at-a-blackbird)

"The Garden," by Ezra Pound

http://www.bartleby.com/265/285.html (http://www.bartleby.com/265/285.html)

"since feeling is first," by e. e. cummings (Yes, he spelled his name lowercase!)

https://dailypoetry.me/e-e-cummings/since-feeling-is-first/ (https://dailypoetry.me/e-e-cummings/since-feeling-is-first/)

"The Leap," by James Dickey

https://sarahcurleerhetoricprofile.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/the-leap-by- james-dickey.pdf (https://sarahcurleerhetoricprofile.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/the- leap-by-james-dickey.pdf)

"He would never use one word where none would do," by Philip Levine

https://www.24-treats.com/treats/He-would-never-use-one-word-wher-none- would-do.pdf (https://www.24-treats.com/treats/He-would-never-use-one-word- wher-none-would-do.pdf)

"To My Dear and Loving Husband," by Anne Bradstreet

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/my-dear-and-loving-husband (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/my-dear-and-loving-husband)

"One Art," by Elizabeth Bishop

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art)

"Middle Passage," by Robert Hayden

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43076/middle-passage (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43076/middle-passage)

"Directive," by Robert Frost

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7/20/2021 Poem links: ENGL100-10763 (ONL) Freshman Composition

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https://genius.com/Robert-frost-directive-annotated (https://genius.com/Robert-frost-directive-annotated)

"Because I could not stop for Death," by Emily Dickinson

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/because-i-could-not-stop-death-479 (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/because-i-could-not-stop-death-479)

"The Idea of Order at Key West," by Wallace Stevens

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43431/the-idea-of-order-at-key-west (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43431/the-idea-of-order-at-key-west)

"Song of Myself" (parts 1 and 2), by Walt Whitman

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/song-myself-i-ii-vi-lii (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/song-myself-i-ii-vi-lii)

"Frost at Midnight," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43986/frost-at-midnight (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43986/frost-at-midnight)

"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," by Robert Herrick

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/virgins-make-much-time (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/virgins-make-much-time)

"Daddy," by Sylvia Plath

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48999/daddy-56d22aafa45b2 (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48999/daddy-56d22aafa45b2)

"I cannot live with You," by Emily Dickinson

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/i-cannot-live-you-640 (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/i-cannot-live-you-640)

"Kubla Khan," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan)

"[i carry your heart with me](i carry it in)," by e.e. cummings

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7/20/2021 Poem links: ENGL100-10763 (ONL) Freshman Composition

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49493/i-carry-your- heart-with-mei-carry-it-in (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49493/i-carry-your-heart- with-mei-carry-it-in)

"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45474/o-captain-my-captain (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45474/o-captain-my-captain)

"Stopping by woods on a snowy evening," by Robert Frost

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42891/stopping-by-woods-on-a- snowy-evening (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42891/stopping-by- woods-on-a-snowy-evening)

"All the world's a stage," by William Shakespeare

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56966/speech-all-the-worlds-a-stage (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56966/speech-all-the-worlds-a-stage)

"Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" by William Shakespeare

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45087/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare- thee-to-a-summers-day (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45087/sonnet- 18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day)

"I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud," by William Wordsworth

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud)

"A Psalm of Life," by William Wordsworth

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44644/a-psalm-of-life (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44644/a-psalm-of-life)

"On His Blindness," by John Milton

https://www.shmoop.com/consider-light-spent-blindness/poem-text.html (https://www.shmoop.com/consider-light-spent-blindness/poem-text.html)

"Ode on a Grecian Urn," by John Keats

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7/20/2021 Poem links: ENGL100-10763 (ONL) Freshman Composition

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn)

"The Tyger," by William Blake

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger)

"The New Colossus," by Emma Lazarus

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/the-new-colossus (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/the-new-colossus)

"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," by W. B. Yeats

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/irish-airman-foresees-his-death (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/irish-airman-foresees-his-death)

"In second grade Miss Lee I promised never to forget you, and I never did," by Alberto Rios.

https://theriverinerabbitpoll.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/in-second-grade- miss-lee-i-promised-by-alberto-rios.pdf (https://theriverinerabbitpoll.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/in-second-grade-miss-lee-i- promised-by-alberto-rios.pdf)

"Ex-basketball Player," by John Updike.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43489 (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43489)

"To an Athlete Dying Young," by A. E. Housman.

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/athlete-dying-young (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/athlete-dying-young)

"Sonnet," by Billy Collins. (This is a reflexive poem in which the writer writes about writing.)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/07/poetry1 (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/07/poetry1)

"They Flee from Me," Thomas Wyatt.

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7/20/2021 Poem links: ENGL100-10763 (ONL) Freshman Composition

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https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/they-flee-me (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/they-flee-me)

"The Second Coming," by W. B. Yeats.

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/second-coming (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/second-coming)

"Hope is the thing with feathers," by Emily Dickinson.

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/hope-thing-feathers-254 (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/hope-thing-feathers-254)

"The soul selects her own society," by Emily Dickinson.

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/soul-selects-her-own-society-303 (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/soul-selects-her-own-society-303)

"anyone lived in a pretty how town," by e.e. cummings.

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/anyone-lived-pretty-how-town (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/anyone-lived-pretty-how-town)

"Once by the Pacific," by Robert Frost.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/once-by-the-pacific/ (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/once-by-the-pacific/)

"The Most of It," by Robert Frost.

https://www.poetryverse.com/robert-frost-poems/the-most-of-it

"The Man of Double Deed," by anonymous.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/56374 (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/56374)

"To His Coy Mistress," by Andrew Marvell.

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/his-coy-mistress (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/his-coy-mistress)

"Auguries of Innocence," by William Blake.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43650 (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43650)

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7/20/2021 Poem links: ENGL100-10763 (ONL) Freshman Composition

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"Ozymandias," by Percy Byshe Shelley.

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/ozymandias (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/ozymandias)

"Those Winter Sundays," by Robert Hayden.

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/those-winter-sundays (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/those-winter-sundays)

"Dog Dreaming," by W. S. Merwin.

https://womenspages.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/now-this-is-a-great-poem-about-dogs- merwin-on-dog-dreaming/ (https://womenspages.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/now-this-is-a- great-poem-about-dogs-merwin-on-dog-dreaming/)

"The Horses," by Edwin Muir.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-horses/ (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-horses/)

"When You Are Old," by W. B. Yeats.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43283 (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43283)

"The Summer Day," by Mary Oliver.

https://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html (https://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html)

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