Poetics : An Illustrated Guide

A PROLOGUE·······································································6
PART Ⅰ THEMES···································································9
THEME ONE: LOVE····························································11
SONG: TO CELIA·································································· 13
TO HIS COY MISTRESS·························································· 15
Metaphysical Poets······························································ 20
THE FLEA············································································ 23
A Brief Introduction to John Donne········································ 28
A Brief Introduction to John Milton ········································ 36
The Romantic Period (1785-1830)·········································· 42
A Brief Introduction to William Wordsworth···························· 45
Imagery in Poetry································································ 49
MEETING AT NIGHT······························································ 51
PARTING AT MORNING························································· 55
A Brief Introduction to Robert Browning································· 57
MY LAST DUCHESS······························································ 60
The Golden Age of Literature················································· 65
ON MY FIRST SON······························································· 67
A Brief Introduction to Ben Jonson········································· 70
The Victorian Age ································································ 73
A Brief Introduction to Gerard Manley Hopkins························ 74
GOD’S GRANDEUR······························································· 76
THEME TWO: PERSONAL IDENTITY······························· 79
RAINBOW··········································································· 82
A Brief Introduction to William Blake ····································· 84
A POISON TREE··································································· 87
A Brief Introduction of Emily Dickinson··································· 90
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH······························· 93
A Coat················································································ 97
HOW SOON HATH TIME ······················································ 99
ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT································103
POETICS: An 4 Illustrated Guide
THEME THREE: SOLITUDE·············································· 106
DAFFODILS········································································108
A Brief Introduction of William Butler Yeats ···························· 111
SAILING TO BYZANTIUM······················································114
STOPPING BY THE WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING···············123
A Brief Introduction to T.S. Eliot ············································127
THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK·····························132
THEME FOUR: FREEDOM················································ 147
LONDON···········································································149
A Brief Introduction to Lord George Gordon Byron··················152
SONNET ON CHILLON·························································155
A Brief Introduction to Percy Bysshe Shelley ··························158
OZYMANDIAS····································································160
ODE TO THE WEST WIND·····················································163
Women Writers of the 19th Century······································169
A Brief Introduction to Anna Laetitia Barbauld························171
WASHING DAY···································································173
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN·······································181
A Brief Introduction to Amelia Opie ······································189
BLACK MAN’S LAMENT·······················································191

PART II ELEMENTS OF POETRY································· 199
ELEMENT ONE: DICTION················································· 202
THE EAGLE·········································································205
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN’S HOMER······················209
IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING···············································212
THE SECOND COMING························································214
ELEMENT TWO: SYNTAX················································· 217
THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE················································219
THE DARKLING THRUSH······················································223
THE SILKEN TENT································································225
A Brief Introduction to William Carlos Williams·······················229
RED WHEEL BARROW··························································231
ELEMENT THREE: IRONY AND PARADOX···················· 233
A MAN SAW A BALL OF GOLD··············································236
ON INK··············································································238
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE·····················································242
THE COLLAR·······································································244
ELEMENT FOUR: FIGURES OF SPEECH························· 247
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! ···················································249
HOLY SONNET 10·······························································253
A RED, RED ROSE································································255
CONCORD HYMN·······························································258
ELEMENT FIVE: THE SOUND OF POETRY····················· 260
THE YOUNG HOUSE WIFE····················································262
MENDING WALL·································································264
UPON JULIA’S CLOTHES·······················································266
LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION·············································270
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY··················································272
SPRING AND FALL: TO A YOUNG CHILD·································276

GLOSSARY········································································· 278
INDEX OF FIRST LINES···················································· 284
INDEX OF AUTHORS & TITLES ······································ 286
INDEX OF FIFTY RECITED POEMS································· 288