Eternal Spirit of the Chainless Mind

A Prologue……………………………………………………7

PART I CONTRASTS

I. Theme One: LOVE……………………………………………13
Introduction to Theme One - 15
Poetic Texts: Ben Jonson - To Celia 1/ Andrew Marvel - To His Coy Mistress / John Donne - The Flea 2/ Christopher Marlowe - The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 3/ Sir Walter Raleigh - The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd 4 / Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder - Tangled I Was in Love's Snare
Words & Phrases - 32
Study Questions - 34

II. Theme Two: WAR ………………………………………… 37
Introduction to Theme Two - 41
Poetic Texts: John Milton - On the Late Massacre in Piedmont / Stephen Crane - There Was Crimson Clash of War 5 / Wilfred Owen - Anthem for Doomed Youth 6 / Rupert Brooke - The Soldier 7 / Walt Whitman - Calvary Crossing a Ford 8 / A. E. Housman - Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries 9 / Alfred, Lord Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade 10
Words & Phrases - 53
Study Questions - 54

III. Theme Three: MYTHIC THEMES………………………… 57
Introduction to Theme Three - 59
Poetic Texts: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan / John Keats - On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 11/ Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Ulysses / Hilda Doolittle - Helen 12 / William Wordsworth - The World Is Too Much With Us 13 / P. B. Shelly - Ozymandias 14
Words & Phrases - 75
Study Questions - 78

IV. Theme Four: VISIONS OF EVERYDAY ……………… 81
Introduction to Theme Four - 83
Poetic Texts: William Wordsworth - It Is a Beauteous Evening 15 / William Blake - The Sick Rose 16 / Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken 17 / A. E. Housman - When I Was One and Twenty 18 / Walt Whitman - Beat! Beat! Drums!
Words & Phrases - 94
Study Questions - 92

V. THEME FIVE: NATURE ………………………………97
Introduction to Theme Five - 99
Poetic Texts: W.B. Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree / Sara Teasdale - There Will Come Soft Rains 19 / William Wordsworth - She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways 20 / Thomas Hardy - The Darkling Thrush 21 / Alfred, Lord Tennyson - The Eagle 22
Words & Phrases - 110
Study Questions - 111

VI. THEME SIX: DEATH………………………………………113
Introduction to Theme Six - 115
Poetic Texts: Emily Dickinson - Because I Could Not Stop For Death 23 / John Donne - Death Be Not Proud 24 / George Herbert - Death 25 / Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain! 26 / William Shakespeare - No Longer Mourn For Me
Words & Phrases - 128
Study Questions - 129

PART II PARALLELS

VII. THEME SEVEN: PERSONAL IDENTITY…………………133
Introduction to Theme Seven - 135
Poetic Texts: John Milton - How Soon Hath Time / W.B. Yeats - A Coat 27 / William Blake - A Poison Tree 28 / Stephen Crane - The Heart 29 / Claude McKay - America 30
Words & Phrases - 144
Study Questions - 145

VIII. THEME EIGHT: SOLITUDE………………………………147
Introduction to Theme Eight - 149
Poetic Texts: Alexander Pope - Ode on Solitude 31 / James Thomson - Hymn on Solitude / T.S. Eliot - The Winter Evening Settles Down 32 / Thomas Hardy - The Convergence of the Twain 33
Words & Phrases - 161
Study Questions - 163

IX. THEME NINE: ART………………………………………165
Introduction to Theme Nine - 167
Poetic Texts: Robert Browning - My Last Duchess / Archibald Macleish - Ars Poetica 34 / Marianne Moore - Poetry 35 / William Wordsworth - Daffodils 36 / John Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Words & Phrases - 183
Study Questions - 185

X. THEME TEN: CONCRETE POEMS………………………189
Introduction to Theme Ten - 191
Poetic Texts:
George Herbert - Easter Wings 37 / George Herbert - The Altar 38 / Lewis Carroll - The Mouse's Tail / Steven Reeder - Uroboros 39 / Ezra Pound - In a Station in the Metro 40 / Carl Sandburg - Fog 41
Words & Phrases - 202
Study Questions - 203

XI. THEME ELEVEN: CHRISTIAN THEMES…………………205
Introduction to Theme Eleven - 207
Poetic Texts:
William Blake - The Lamb 42 / William Blake - The Tyger 43 / W.B. Yeats - The Second Coming 44 / John Milton - When I Consider How My Light Is Spent / John Donne - Holy Sonnet 14 45 / George Herbert - The Collar 46
Words & Phrases - 221
Study Questions - 223

XII. THEME TWELVE: FREEDOM…………………………… 227
Introduction to Theme Twelve - 229
Poetic Texts:
P.B. Shelley - Ode to the West Wind / William Blake - London 47 / William Blake - The Chimney Sweeper 48 / George G. Byron - Sonnet on Chillon 49 / Anna Laetitia Barbauld - The Rights of Women 50
Words & Phrases - 243
Study Questions - 245

Overview Questions of the Text……………………247
Glossary ………………………………………………248
Index of First Lines…………………………………256
Index of Authors & Titles……………………………259
List of Fifty Recited Poems …………………………262