An edition of Exploring Literature -- Fourth Edition
(2009)
Exploring Literature
Fourth Edition
Fourth Edition (1), Sampler
by Frank Madden, Kate Chopin, William Shakespeare, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Tennessee Williams, James Joyce, 村上春樹, Sylvia Plath, Антон Павлович Чехов, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Alice Walker, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and John Steinbeck
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Table of Contents
Alternate Contents by Genre xxi
Preface to Instructor xxvii
About the Author xxxv
PART I MAKING CONNECTIONS 1
CHAPTER 1
Participation: Personal Response and Critical Thinking 3
The Personal Dimension of Reading Literature 3
Personal Response and Critical Thinking 4
Writing to Learn 4
Your First Response 4
Checklist:Your First Response 5
Keeping a Journal or Reading Log 5
Double-Entry Journals and Logs 7
The Social Nature of Learning: Collaboration 7
Personal, Not Private 8
Ourselves as Readers 8
Different Kinds of Reading 8
PETER MEINKE, Advice to My Son 9
Making Connections with Literature 10
Images of Ourselves 11
Connecting Through Experience 11
PAUL ZIMMER, Zimmer in Grade School 11
Connecting Through Experience 12
STEVIE SMITH, Not Waving but Drowning 12
Culture, Experience, and Values 12
Connecting Through Experience 13
ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays 13
Connecting Through Experience 14
MARGE PIERCY, Barbie Doll 14
Being in the Moment 15
NEW YORK TIMES, "Birmingham Bomb Kills 4" 16
DUDLEY RANDALL, Ballad of Birmingham 17
Participating, Not Solving 19
Using Our Imaginations 19
The Whole and Its Parts 20
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Communication: Writing a Response Essay 21
The Response Essay 21
Checklist:The Basics of a Response Essay 22
Voice and Writing 22
Voice and Response to Literature 23
Connecting Through Experience 23
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident 24
Writing to Describe 25
Choosing Details 25
Choosing Details from Literature 26
Connecting Through Experience 26
SANDRA CISNEROS, Eleven 26
Writing to Compare 29
Comparing and Contrasting Using a Venn Diagram 29
Connecting Through Experience 31
ANNA QUINDLEN, Mothers 31
Connecting Through Experience 32
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation 32
Possible Worlds 34
From First Response to Final Draft 36
The Importance of Revision 37
Using First or Third Person in Formal Essays 37
Step 1: Using Your First Response 38
Step 2: Choosing a Topic 38
Step 3: Brainstroming 38
Extending Your Ideas 38
Semantic Mapping, or Clustering 41
Mix and Match 42
Generating Ideas Through Collaboration 42
Step 4: Composing a Draft 42
Dierdre's Draft 43
Step 5: Revision 46
Checklist: Revision 46
Revising Dierdre's Draft 47
Formatting and Documenting Your Essay 48
Checklist: Basics for a Literary Essay 48
Checklist: Editing and Proofreading 49
Step 6: Dierdre's Revised Essay 50
PART II ANALYSIS, ARGUMENTATION, AND RESEARCH 53
CHAPTER 3
Exploration and Analysis: Genre and the Elements of Literature 55
Close Reading 55
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Annotating the Text 56
First Annotation: Exploration 56
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Ozymandias 56
Second Annotation: Analysis 57
Literature in Its Many Contexts 57
Your Critical Approach 57
Reading and Analyzing Fiction 58
Narration 58
Point of View 59
Setting 60
Conflict 61
Plot 62
Character 63
Language and Style 64
Diction 64
Symbol 64
Irony 65
Theme 65
Checklist:Analyzing Fiction 66
Getting Ideas for Writing About Fiction 67
KATE CHOPIN, The Story of an Hour 67
Reading and Analyzing Poetry 71
Language and Style 72
Denotation and Connotation 72
Voice 72
Tone 72
Irony 73
STEPHEN CRANE, War Is Kind 73
Imagery 74
HELEN CHASIN, The Word Plum 74
ROBERT BROWNING, Meeting at Night 75
Parting at Morning 75
Figurative Language: Everyday Poetry 75
LANGSTON HUGHES, A Dream Deferred 76
N. SCOTT MOMADAY, Simile 76
CARL SANDBURG, Fog 77
JAMES STEPHENS, The Wind 78
Symbol 78
ROBERT FROST, The Road Not Taken 78
Sound and Structure 79
Alliteration, Assonance, and Rhyme 79
Rhyme and Rhythm: Limericks 80
Meter 81
Formal Verse: The Sonnet 81
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet No.29 82
Blank Verse 82
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Free or Open Form Verse 83
WALT WHITMAN, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer 83
Interpretation: What Does the Poem Mean? 83
Explication 84
Types of Poetry 84
Lyric Poetry 84
Narrative Poetry 85
Checklist:Analyzing Poetry 85
Getting Ideas for Writing About Poetry 86
MAY SWENSON, Pigeon Woman 86
Reading and Analyzing Drama 89
Reading a Play 90
Point of View 90
Set and Setting 90
Conflict 91
Plot 91
The Poetics 92
Tragedy 92
Comedy 92
Characterization 93
Language and Style 93
Diction 93
Symbol 94
Irony 94
Theme 94
Periods of Drama: A Brief Background 95
Greek Drama 95
Shakespearean Drama 96
Tips on Reading the Language of Shakespeare 98
Modern Drama 100
Checklist:Analyzing Drama 102
Getting Ideas for Writing About Drama 103
Tips on Reading AntigonÉ 103
SOPHOCLES, AntigonÉ 104
Reading and Analyzing Essays 137
Types of Essays 138
Narrative 138
Expository 138
Argumentative 139
Language, Style, and Structure 139
Formal or Informal 139
Voice 139
Irony 140
Word Choice and Style 140
Theme: What's the Point? 140
The Aims of an Essay: Inform, Preach, or Reveal 140
Checklist:Analyzing Essays 141
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Getting Ideas for Writing About the Essay 141
AMY TAN, Mother Tongue 142
CHAPTER 4
Argumentation: Writing a Critical Essay 148
The Critical Essay 148
Suzanne's Response to AntigonÉ 149
Interpretation and Evaluation 149
Interpretation: What Does it Mean? 150
Evaluation:How Well Does it Work? 150
Options for a Critical Essay: Process and Product 151
Checklist: Options for a Critical Essay 151
An Analytical Essay 153
A Comparative Essay 155
A Thematic Essay 155
A Philosophical or Ethical Evaluation 156
A Contextual Essay 156
Argumentation:Writing a Critical Essay 156
The Shape of an Argument 157
Checklist:Writing a Critical Essay 157
Planning Your Argument 159
Supporting Your Argument: Induction and Substantiation 160
Opening, Closing, and Revising Your Argument 164
From First Response to Critical Essay 165
The Development of a Critical Essay 166
Step 1: Planning an Argument 166
Step 2: Supporting the Argument 166
Suzanne's Draft 167
Step 3: Revising the Essay 169
Step 4: Suzanne's Revised Essay 171
CHAPTER 5
Research: Writing with Secondary Sources 174
The Research Essay 174
Creating, Expanding, and Joining Interpretive Communities 175
It Is Your Interpretation 175
Getting Started 176
Choosing a Topic 176
Some Popular Areas of Literary Research 176
Your Search 177
People 177
The Library 177
Reference Works 178
Some Other Encyclopedias and Indexes Useful for Literary Research 178
Some Bibliographies,Indexes, and Abstracts Useful for Literary Research 179
Finding Sources on the Internet 180
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Some Internet Sources Useful for Literary Research 181
Evaluating Internet Sources 181
Checklist: Evaluating Internet Sources 181
Taking Notes 182
Integrating Sources into Your Writing 182
What Must Be Documented 183
Where and How 183
Paraphrasing and Summarizing 183
Quoting 184
Avoiding Plagiarism 184
Examples of Paraphrasing,Summarizing, Quoting, and Plagiarizing 185
From First Response to Research Essay 186
Checklist:Writing a Research Essay 186
CASE STUDY IN RESEARCH
James Joyce and "Eveline" 189
JAMES JOYCE, Eveline 190
Professor Devenish's Commentary 193
Kevin's Motivation and Process 194
A Student Research Essay-"Leaving Home" 196
PART III A THEMATIC ANTHOLOGY 201
Family and Friends 202
A Dialogue Across History 203
Family and Friends: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs 205
Reading and Writing About Family and Friends 205
FICTION 206
CHINUA ACHEBE, Marriage Is a Private Affair 206
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny's Blues 211
JOHN CHEEVER, Reunion 233
LOUISE ERDRICH, The Red Convertible 236
LINDA CHING SLEDGE, The Road 243
AMY TAN, Two Kinds 250
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path 259
POETRY 265
Connecting Through Comparison:Remembrance 265
ELIZABETH GAFFNEY, Losses That Turn Up in Dreams 265
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
(Sonnet No. 30) 266
JULIA ALVAREZ, Dusting 267
ROBERT FROST, Mending Wall 268
SEAMUS HEANEY, Digging 270
PHILIP LARKIN, This Be the Verse 272
MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die 273
LI-YOUNG LEE, The Gift 276
JANICE MIRIKITANI, For My Father 278
SHARON OLDS, 35/10 280
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THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa's Waltz 281
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter 282
DRAMA 284
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie 284
ESSAYS 335
BELL HOOKS, Inspired Eccentricity 335
MARK TWAIN, Advice to Youth 340
CASE STUDY IN BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT
Lorraine Hansberry and A Raisin in the Sun 343
LORRAINE HANSBERRY, A Raisin in the Sun 344
Lorraine Hansberry-In Her Own Words 408
In Others'Words 414
JAMES BALDWIN, Sweet Lorraine 414
JULIUS LESTER, The Heroic Dimension in A Raisin in the Sun 416
ANNE CHENEY, The African Heritage in A Raisin in the Sun 419
STEVEN R. CARTER, Hansberry's Artistic Misstep 421
MARGARET B. WILKERSON, Hansberry's Awareness of Culture and
Gender 422
MICHAEL ANDERSON, A Raisin in the Sun: A Landmark Lesson in Being
Black 424
A Student Essay 428
Exploring the Literature of Family and Friends: Making Connections and
Arguments 432
Making Connections 432
Making an Argument 432
A Research Option 433
Writing About Connections Across Themes 433
Collaboration:Writing and Revising with Your Peers 434
A Writing/Research Portfolio Option 434
Innocence and Experience 435
A Dialogue Across History 436
Innocence and Experience: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs 438
Reading and Writing About Innocence and Experience 438
FICTION 439
JULIA ALVAREZ, Snow 439
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson 440
THOMAS BULFINCH, The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus 446
RALPH ELLISON, Battle Royal 448
LILIANA HEKER, The Stolen Party 459
JAMES JOYCE, Araby 463
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 468
FRANK O'CONNOR, Guests of the Nation 480
Two Readers-Two Different Views:Exploring A&P and Making
Connections 489
JOHN UPDIKE, A&P 490
Two Student Essays-Two Different Views 495
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POETRY 500
Connecting Through Comparison: The City 500
WILLIAM BLAKE, London 500
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Composed upon Westminster Bridge,
September 3, 1802 501
Connecting Through Comparison: The Chimney Sweepers 502
WILLIAM BLAKE, The Chimney Sweeper (From Songs of Innocence) 502
The Chimney Sweeper (From Songs of Experience) 503
MARGARET ATWOOD, Siren Song 504
ROBERT FROST, "Out, Out. . ." 505
SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break 507
A. E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One-and-Twenty 508
EDGAR LEE MASTERS, Spoon River Anthology #111: Ernest Hyde 509
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, Richard Cory 510
ANNE SEXTON, Pain for a Daughter 512
WALT WHITMAN, There Was a Child Went Forth 514
ESSAYS 517
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, I Fell in Love, or My Hormones Awakened 517
EDWARD CONLON, The Midnight Tour 521
DAVID SEDARIS, The Learning Curve 529
CASE STUDY IN THEATRICAL CONTEXT
Hamlet and Performance 536
Interpretation and Performance 536
Multiple Interpretations of Hamlet 536
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 537
Desperately Seeking Hamlet: Four Interpretations 662
Olivier's Hamlet 663
Jacobi's Hamlet 663
Gibson's Hamlet 664
Branagh's Hamlet 664
From Part to Whole, from Whole to Part 665
A Student Essay-Explication and Analysis of the "To be, or not to be"
Soliloquy 665
A Critic's Influential Interpretation 669
ERNEST JONES, Hamlet's Oedipus Complex 669
Hamlet On Screen 671
BERNICE W. KLIMAN, The BBC Hamlet 671
CLAIRE BLOOM, Playing Gertrude on Television 673
STANLEY KAUFFMANN, Branagh's Hamlet 674
RUSSELL JACKSON, A Film Diary of the Shooting of Kenneth Branagh's
Hamlet 677
Exploring the Literature of Innocence and Experience: Making Connections
and Arguments 679
A Research Option 680
Writing About Connections Across Themes 680
Collaboration:Writing and Revising with Your Peers 682
A Writing/Research Portfolio Option 682
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CASE STUDY IN AESTHETIC CONTEXT
Poetry and Painting 683
Making Connections with Painting and Poetry 685
PIETER BRUEGHEL THE ELDER: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 686
W.H. AUDEN: Mus¿e des Beaux Arts 686
ALAN DEVENISH: Icarus Again 687
JACOPO TINTORETTO: Crucifixion 688
N. SCOTT MOMADAY: Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion 689
EDWARD HOPPER: Nighthawks 690
SAMUEL YELLEN: Nighthawks 691
VINCENT VAN GOGH: Starry Night 692
ANNE SEXTON: The Starry Night 693
HENRI MATISSE: Dance 694
NATALIE SAFIR: Matisse's Dance 695
JEAN-FRANCOIS MILLET: The Gleaners 696
MARY ELLEN LECLAIR: The Clark Institute: Labor Day, 1999 697
EDWIN ROMANZO ELMER: Mourning Picture 698
ADRIENNE RICH: Mourning Picture 699
JAN VERMEER: The Loveletter 700
SANDRA NELSON: When a Woman Holds a Letter 700
A Student's Comparison and Contrast Essay: Process and Product 701
Exploring Poetry and Painting:Making Connections and
Arguments 708
Women and Men 709
A Dialogue Across History 710
Women and Men: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs 712
Reading and Writing About Women and Men 712
FICTION 713
ANTON CHEKHOV, The Lady with the Pet Dog 713
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper 725
BESSIE HEAD, Life 737
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants 745
D. H. LAWRENCE, The Horse Dealer's Daughter 750
BOBBIE ANN MASON, Shiloh 762
ROSARIO MORALES, The Day It Happened 773
POETRY 776
Connecting Through Comparison: Be My Love 776
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 776
WALTER RALEIGH, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd 777
ANDREW MARVELL, To His Coy Mistress 778
MAYA ANGELOU, Phenomenal Woman 780
MARGARET ATWOOD, You Fit into Me 782
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, How Do I Love Thee? 783
ROBERT BROWNING, Porphyria's Lover 784
NIKKI GIOVANNI, Woman 786
JUDY GRAHN, Ella, in a Square Apron, Along Highway 80 788
ESSEX HEMPHILL, Commitments 789
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where,
and Why 790
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Love Is Not All 791
PABLO NERUDA, The Fickle One 792
SHARON OLDS, Sex Without Love 793
SYLVIA PLATH, Mirror 794
ALBERTO RIOS, The Purpose of Altar Boys 796
Connecting Through Comparison: Shall I Compare Thee? 797
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnet No. 18) 797
My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnet No. 130) 798
HOWARD MOSS, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? 798
Connecting and Comparing Across Genres: Cinderella 800
JACOB LUDWIG KARL GRIMM AND WILHELM KARL GRIMM, Cinderella 800
ANNE SEXTON, Cinderella 804
BRUNO BETTELHEIM, Cinderella 807
DRAMA 813
ANTON CHEKHOV, The Proposal 813
Connecting and Comparing Across Genres: Fiction and Drama 824
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles 824
A Jury of Her Peers 835
ESSAYS 851
SEI SHÍNAGAN, A Lover's Departure 851
VIRGINIA WOOLF, If Shakespeare Had a Sister 852
CASE STUDY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Women in Culture and History 855
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll's House 856
The Adams Letters 915
A Husband's Letter to His Wife 916
SOJOURNER TRUTH, Ain't I a Woman 917
HENRIK IBSEN, Notes for the Modern Tragedy 918
The Changed Ending of A Doll's House for a German Production 919
Speech at the Banquet of the Norwegian League for Women's Rights 919
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Excerpt from "The Solitude of Self" 920
WILBUR FISK TILLETT, Excerpt from "Southern Womanhood" 921
DOROTHY DIX, The American Wife 922
Women and Suicide 922
CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON (GILMAN), Excerpt from "Women and
Economics" 923
NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS AND JILL KER CONWAY, The Rest of the Story 925
A Student Essay 931
Exploring the Literature of Women and Men: Making Connections and
Arguments 935
A Research Option 936
Writing About Connections Across Themes 936
Collaboration:Writing and Revising with Your Peers 937
A Writing/Research Portfolio Option 938
Culture and Identity 939
A Dialogue Across History 940
Culture and Identity: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs 942
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Reading and Writing About Culture and Identity 942
FICTION 943
T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE, Greasy Lake 943
KATE CHOPIN, D¿sir¿e's Baby 951
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily 955
JAMAICA KINCAID, Girl 962
THOMAS KING, Borders 964
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, A Very Old Man with Enormous
Wings 972
TAHIRA NAQVI, Brave We Are 977
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use 982
POETRY 1004
Connecting Through Comparison: The Mask We Wear 989
W. H. AUDEN, The Unknown Citizen 989
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mask 990
T. S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 991
SHERMAN ALEXIE, On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City 996
GLORIA ANZALDòA, To Live in the Borderlands Means You 998
ELIZABETH BISHOP, In the Waiting Room 1000
GWENDOLYN BROOKS, We Real Cool 1003
E.E. CUMMINGS, anyone lived in a pretty how town 1004
MARTIN ESPADA, Latin Night at the Pawn Shop 1006
PAT MORA, Immigrants 1007
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, Mr. Flood's Party 1008
JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player 1010
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, At the Ball Game 1011
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree 1013
Connecting Through Comparison: What Is Poetry? 1014
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH, Ars Poetica 1014
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, Constantly Risking Absurdity 1015
BILLY COLLINS, Introduction to Poetry 1017
DRAMA 1018
SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Rex 1018
LUIS VALDEZ, Los Vendidos 1061
ESSAYS 1070
Connecting Through Comparison:Work and Identity 1070
RICHARD RODRIGUEZ, Workers 1070
MARGE PIERCY, To Be of Use 1074
JOAN DIDION, Why I Write 1075
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write 1080
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., I Have a Dream 1085
CHARLES FRUEHLING SPRINGWOOD AND C. RICHARD KING, 'Playing Indian':
Why Native American Mascots Must End 1089
JONATHAN SWIFT, A Modest Proposal 1093
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, From Civil Disobedience 1099
CASE STUDY IN CULTURAL CONTEXT
Writers of the Harlem Renaissance 1102
ALAIN LOCKE, The New Negro 1103
LANGSTON HUGHES, From The Big Sea 1112
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain 1116
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 1119
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I, Too 1120
The Weary Blues 1120
One Friday Morning 1121
Theme for English B 1127
CLAUDE MCKAY, America 1128
GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT, Heritage 1128
JEAN TOOMER, Reapers 1129
COUNTEE CULLEN, Yet Do I Marvel 1130
From the Dark Tower 1131
ANNE SPENCER, Lady, Lady 1131
GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON, I Want to Die While You Love Me 1132
ZORA NEALE HURSTON, Sweat 1132
Commentary on "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" 1140
Langston Hughes 1140
Jessie Fauset 1142
Onwuchekwa Jemie 1142
R. Baxter Miller 1143
ALICE WALKER, Zora Neale Hurston:A Cautionary Tale and a
Partisan View 1143
A Sample Student Essay 1145
Exploring the Literature of Culture and Identity: Making Connections and
Arguments 1147
A Research Option 1148
Writing About Connections Across Themes 1149
Collaboration:Writing and Revising with Your Peers 1150
A Writing/Research Portfolio Option 1150
Faith and Doubt 1152
A Dialogue Across History 1153
Faith and Doubt: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs 1155
Reading and Writing About Faith and Doubt 1155
FICTION 1155
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral 1155
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Young Goodman Brown 1167
PAM HOUSTON, A Blizzard Under Blue Sky 1176
TIM O'BRIEN, The Things They Carried 1180
FLANNERY O'CONNOR, A Good Man Is Hard to Find 1193
LUIGI PIRANDELLO, War 1205
JOHN STEINBECK, The Chrysanthemums 1208
POETRY 1216
Connecting Through Comparison: September 11, 2001 1216
DEBORAH GARRISON, I Saw You Walking 1216
BRIAN DOYLE, Leap 1217
BILLY COLLINS, The Names 1219
MATTHEW ARNOLD, Dover Beach 1221
ROBERT BRIDGES, London Snow 1223
STEPHEN CRANE, The Wayfarer 1224
A Man Said to the Universe 1225
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JOHN DONNE, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 1125
Death, Be Not Proud 1226
MARK DOTY, Brilliance 1227
ROBERT FROST, Fire and Ice 1229
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug 1230
THOMAS HARDY, Hap 1232
A.E. HOUSMAN, To an Athlete Dying Young 1233
JOHN KEATS, When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be 1234
GALWAY KINNELL, Saint Francis and the Sow 1235
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark 1237
DYLAN THOMAS, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 1238
WALT WHITMAN, Song of Myself 6 1239
Connecting Through Comparison: The Impact of War 1240
THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed 1240
AMY LOWELL, Patterns 1241
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est 1244
CARL SANDBURG, Grass 1245
RANDALL JARRELL, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 1246
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It 1246
DRAMA 1248
DAVID MAMET, Oleanna 1248
JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE, Riders to the Sea 1279
ESSAYS 1288
DAN BARRY, Hurricane Katrina:The Corpse on Union Street 1288
ALBERT CAMUS, The Myth of Sisyphus 1291
PLATO, The Allegory of the Cave 1294
PHILIP SIMMONS, Learning to Fall 1300
CASE STUDY IN CONTEXTUAL CRITICISM
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson 1306
Her Life 1306
Her Work 1307
The Poems 1307
Success is counted sweetest 1307
Faith is a fine invention 1308
There's a certain Slant of light 1308
I like a look of Agony 1308
Wild Nights-Wild Nights! 1309
The Brain-is wider than the Sky- 1309
Much Madness is divinest Sense- 1309
I've seen a dying eye 1309
I heard a Fly buzz-when I died- 1310
After great pain, a formal feeling comes 1310
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church 1310
This world is not conclusion 1311
There is a pain-so utter- 1311
Because I could not stop for Death 1311
The Bustle in a House 1312
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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant- 1312
Making Connections 1313
Emily Dickinson-In Her Own Words 1315
To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson) (1852) 1315
To T.W. Higginson (1862) 1315
In Others'Words 1316
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, On Meeting Dickinson for the
First Time (1870) 1316
MABEL LOOMIS TODD, The Character of Amherst (1881) 1317
RICHARD WILBUR, On Dickinson's Sense of Privation (1960) 1318
SANDRA M. GILBERT AND SUSAN GUBAR, On Dickinson's White Dress
(1979) 1318
Critical Commentary on Her Poetry 1319
HELEN MCNEIL, Dickinson's Method 1319
CYNTHIA GRIFFIN WOLFF, On The Many Voices in Dickinson's Poetry
1320
ALLEN TATE, On "Because I could not stop for Death" 1321
PAULA BENNETT, On "I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-" 1322
Poems About Emily Dickinson 1323
LINDA PASTAN, Emily Dickinson 1323
BILLY COLLINS, Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes 1323
A Sample Student Essay 1325
Exploring the Literature of Faith and Doubt: Making Connections and
Arguments 1328
A Research Option 1328
Writing About Connections Across Themes 1329
Collaboration:Writing and Revising with Your Peers 1330
A Writing/Research Portfolio Option 1330
Appendix A: Critical Approaches to Literature 1331
Appendix B:Writing About Film 1338
Appendix C: Documentation 1345
Glossary of Literary Terms 1354
Literary and Photo Credits 1357
Index of Author Names,Titles, and First Lines of Poems 1364
Index of Terms 1370
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ALTERNATE CONTENTS
BY GENRE
FICTION
CHINUA ACHEBE Marriage Is a Private Affair 206
JULIA ALVAREZ, Snow 439
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny's Blues 211
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson 440
T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE, Greasy Lake 943
THOMAS BULFINCH, The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus 446
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral 1155
JOHN CHEEVER, Reunion 233
ANTON CHEKHOV, The Lady with the Pet Dog 713
KATE CHOPIN, The Story of an Hour 67
D¿sir¿e's Baby 951
SANDRA CISNEROS, Eleven 26
RALPH ELLISON, Battle Royal 448
LOUISE ERDRICH, The Red Convertible 236
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily 955
SUSAN GLASPELL, A Jury of Her Peers 835
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper 725
JACOB LUDWIG AND WILHELM KARL GRIMM, Cinderella 800
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Young Goodman Brown 1167
BESSIE HEAD, Life 737
LILIANA HEKER, The Stolen Party 459
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants 745
PAM HOUSTON, A Blizzard Under Blue Sky 1176
LANGSTON HUGHES, One Friday Morning 1121
ZORA NEALE HURSTON, Sweat 1132
JAMES JOYCE, Eveline 190
Araby 463
JAMAICA KINCAID, Girl 962
THOMAS KING, Borders 964
D.H. LAWRENCE, The Horse Dealer's Daughter 750
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings 972
BOBBIE ANN MASON, Shiloh 762
ROSARIO MORALES, The Day It Happened 973
TAHIRA NAQVI, Brave We Are 977
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 468
TIM O'BRIEN, The Things They Carried 1180
FLANNERY O'CONNOR, A Good Man Is Hard to Find 1193
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FRANK O'CONNOR, Guests of the Nation 480
LUIGI PIRANDELLO, War 1205
LINDA CHING SLEDGE, The Road 243
JOHN STEINBECK, The Chrysanthemums 1208
AMY TAN, Two Kinds 250
JOHN UPDIKE, A&P 490
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use 982
EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path 259
POETRY
SHERMAN ALEXIE, On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City 996
JULIA ALVAREZ, Dusting 267
MAYA ANGELOU, Phenomenal Woman 780
GLORIA ANZALDòA, To Live in the Borderlands Means You 998
MATTHEW ARNOLD, Dover Beach 1221
MARGARET ATWOOD, Siren Song 504
You Fit Into Me 782
W.H. AUDEN, Mus¿e des Beaux Arts 686
The Unknown Citizen 989
GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT, Heritage 1129
ELIZABETH BISHOP, In the Waiting Room 1000
WILLIAM BLAKE, London 500
The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence) 502
The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Experience) 503
ROBERT BRIDGES, London Snow 1223
GWENDOLYN BROOKS, We Real Cool 1003
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, How Do I Love Thee? 783
ROBERT BROWNING, Meeting at Night 75
Parting at Morning 75
Porphyria's Lover 784
HELEN CHASIN, The Word Plum 74
BILLY COLLINS, Introduction to Poetry 1017
The Names 1219
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes 1323
STEPHEN CRANE, War Is Kind 73
The Wayfarer 1224
A Man Said to the Universe 1225
COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident 24
Yet Do I Marvel 1130
From the Dark Tower 1131
E.E. CUMMINGS, anyone lived in a pretty how town 1004
ALAN DEVENISH, Icarus Again 687
EMILY DICKINSON, Success is counted sweetest 1307
Faith is a fine invention 1308
There's a certain Slant of light 1308
I like a look of Agony 1308
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Wild Nights-Wild Nights! 1309
The Brain-is wider than the Sky- 1309
Much Madness is divinest Sense- 1309
I've seen a dying eye 1309
I heard a Fly buzz-when I died- 1310
After great pain, a formal feeling comes 1310
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church 1310
This world is not conclusion- 1311
There is a pain-so utter- 1311
Because I could not stop for Death 1311
The Bustle in a House 1312
Tell all the Truth but tell it Slant- 1312
JOHN DONNE, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 1225
Death, Be Not Proud 1226
MARK DOTY, Brilliance 1227
BRIAN DOYLE, Leap 1217
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mask 990
T.S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 991
MARTIN ESPADA, Latin Night at the Pawn Shop 1006
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, Constantly Risking Absurdity 1015
ROBERT FROST, The Road Not Taken 78
Mending Wall 268
"Out, Out. . . " 505
Fire and Ice 1229
ELIZABETH GAFFNEY, Losses That Turn Up in Dreams 265
TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug 1230
DEBORAH GARRISON, I Saw You Walking 1216
NIKKI GIOVANNI, Woman 786
JUDY GRAHN, Ella, in a Square Apron, Along Highway 80 788
THOMAS HARDY, HAP 1232
The Man He Killed 1240
ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays 13
SEAMUS HEANEY, Digging 270
Mid-Term Break 507
ESSEX HEMPHILL, Commitments 789
A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One-and-Twenty 508
To an Athlete Dying Young 1233
LANGSTON HUGHES, A Dream Deferred 76
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 1119
I, Too 1120
The Weary Blues 1120
Theme for English B 1127
RANDALL JARRELL, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 1246
GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON, I Want to Die While You Love Me 1132
JOHN KEATS, When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be 1234
GALWAY KINNELL, Saint Francis and the Sow 1236
YUSEF KOMUNYAKKA, Facing It 1246
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PHILIP LARKIN, This Be the Verse 272
MICHAEL LASSELL, How To Watch Your Brother Die 273
MARY ELLEN LECLAIR, The Clark Institute: Labor Day, 1999 695
LI-YOUNG LEE, The Gift 276
AMY LOWELL, Patterns 1241
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH, Ars Poetica 1014
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 776
ANDREW MARVELL, To His Coy Mistress 778
EDGAR LEE MASTERS, Spoon River Anthology #111: Ernest Hyde 509
CLAUDE MCKAY, America 1128
PETER MEINKE, Advice to My Son 9
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, Love Is Not All 791
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why 791
JANICE MIRIKITANI, For My Father 278
N. SCOTT MOMADAY, Simile 76
Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion 689
PAT MORA, Immigrants 1007
HOWARD MOSS, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day 798
SANDRA NELSON, When a Woman Holds a Letter 699
PABLO NERUDA, The Fickle One 792
SHARON OLDS, 35/10 280
Sex Without Love 793
WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est 1244
LINDA PASTAN, Emily Dickinson 1323
MARGE PIERCY, Barbie Doll 14
To Be of Use 1074
SYLVIA PLATH, Mirror 795
WALTER RALEIGH, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd 777
DUDLEY RANDALL, Ballad of Birmingham 17
ADRIENNE RICH, Mourning Picture 697
ALBERTO RIOS, The Purpose of Altar Boys 796
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, Richard Cory 511
Mr. Flood's Party 1008
THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa's Waltz 281
NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse's Dance 694
CARL SANDBURG, Fog 77
Grass 1245
ANNE SEXTON, Pain for a Daughter 512
The Starry Night 693
Cinderella 804
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes
(Sonnet 29) 82
When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought (Sonnet 30) 266
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnet 18) 797
My Mistress's Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnet 130) 798
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Ozymandias 56
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STEVIE SMITH, Not Waving, but Drowning 12
CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter 282
ANNE SPENCER, Lady, Lady 1131
WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark 1237
JAMES STEPHENS, The Wind 78
MAY SWENSON, Pigeon Woman 86
DYLAN THOMAS, Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night 1238
JEAN TOOMER, Reapers 1129
JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player 1010
WALT WHITMAN, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer 83
There Was a Child Went Forth 514
Song of Myself 6 1239
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, At the Ball Game 1011
WILLIAMWORDSWORTH, Composed upon Westminster Bridge
September 3, 1802 501
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree 1013
SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks 691
PAUL ZIMMER, Zimmer in Grade School 11
DRAMA
ANTON CHEKHOV, The Proposal 813
SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles 824
LORRAINE HANSBERRY, A Raisin in the Sun 344
HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll's House 856
DAVID MAMET, Oleanna 1248
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 537
SOPHOCLES, AntigonÉ 104
SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Rex 1018
JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE, Riders to the Sea 1279
LUIS VALDEZ, Los Vendidos 1061
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie 284
ESSAYS
MICHAEL ANDERSON, A Raisin in the Sun: A Landmark Lesson in Being Black
424
JAMES BALDWIN, Sweet Lorraine 414
DAN BARRY, Hurricane Katrina:The Corpse on Union Street 1288
BRUNO BETTELHEIM, Cinderella 807
PAULA BENNETT, On "I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-" 1322
ALBERT CAMUS, The Myth of Sisyphus 1291
ANNE CHENEY, The African Heritage in A Raisin in the Sun 419
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, I Fell in Love, or My Hormones Awakened 517
EDWARD CONLON, The Midnight Tour 521
NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS AND JILL KER CONWAY, The Rest of the Story 925
JOAN DIDION, Why I Write 1075
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DOROTHY DIX, The American Wife 922
Women and Suicide 922
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write 1080
BELL HOOKS, Inspired Eccentricity 335
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation 32
From The Big Sea 1112
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain 1116
ERNEST JONES, Hamlet's Oedipus Complex 669
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., I Have a Dream 1085
STANLEY KAUFFMANN, Branagh's Hamlet 674
BERNICE W. KLIMAN, The BBC Hamlet 671
JULIUS LESTER, The Heroic Dimension in A Raisin in the Sun 416
ALAIN LOCKE, The New Negro 1103
HELEN MCNEIL, Dickinson's Method 1319
PLATO, The Allegory of the Cave 1294
ANNA QUINDLEN, Mothers 31
RICHARD RODRIGUEZ, Workers 1070
DAVID SEDARIS, The Learning Curve 529
PHILIP SIMMONS, Learning to Fall 1300
CHARLES FRUEHLING SPRINGWOOD AND C. RICHARD KING, 'Playing Indian':
Why Native American Mascots Must End 1089
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Excerpt from "The Solitude of Self" 920
JONATHAN SWIFT, A Modest Proposal 1093
AMY TAN, Mother Tongue 142
ALLAN TATE, On "Because I could not stop for Death" 1321
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, From Civil Disobedience 1099
MARK TWAIN, Advice to Youth 340
MARGARET B. WILKERSON, Hansberry's Awareness of Culture and Gender
422
CYNTHIA GRIFFIN WOLFF, On The Many Voices in Dickinson's Poetry 1320
VIRGINIA WOOLF, If Shakespeare Had a Sister 852
PAINTINGS
PIETER BRUEGHEL, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 686
EDWIN ROMANZO ELMER, Mourning Picture 698
EDWARD HOPPER, Nighthawks 690
HENRI MATISSE, Dance 694
JEAN-FRANCOIS MILLET, The Gleaners 696
JACOPO TINTORETTO, Crucifixion 688
VINCENT VAN GOGH, Starry Night 692
JAN VERMEER, The Loveletter 700
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