Literature: A Portable Anthology [5 ed.] 2020936683, 9781319499440

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface for Instructors
Selections by Form and Theme
PART ONE: READING AND WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE
1. Introduction to Reading and Writing about Literature
Why Read Literature?
Why Write about Literature?
What to Expect in a Literature Class
Literature and Enjoyment
2. The Role of Good Reading
The Value of Rereading
Critical Reading
The Myth of “Hidden Meaning”
Questions for Active Reading: Fiction
Active Reading
Annotating
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, “The Second Coming” (Annotated Poem)
Questions for Active Reading: Poetry
Note-Taking
Questions for Active Reading: Drama
Journal Keeping
Using Reference Materials
Asking Critical Questions of Literature
BEN JONSON, “On My First Son” (Annotated Poem)
☑ Checklist for Good Reading
3. The Writing Process
Prewriting
Choosing a Topic
Developing an Argument
The Thesis
Gathering Support for Your Thesis
Organizing Your Paper
Drafting the Paper
Revising and Editing
☑ Global Revision Checklist
☑ Local Revision Checklist
☑ Final Editing Checklist
Peer Editing and Workshops
Tips for Writing about Literature
Using Quotations Effectively
Quoting from Stories
Quoting from Poems
Quoting from Plays
Formatting Your Paper
4. Common Writing Assignments
Summary
Response
STUDENT ESSAY: Taylor Plantan, “A Response to ‘Sweat’ ”
Explication
ROBERT HERRICK, “Upon Julia’s Clothes”
STUDENT ESSAY: Jessica Barnes, “Poetry in Motion: Herrick’s ‘Upon Julia’s Clothes’ ”
Analysis
ROBERT BROWNING, “My Last Duchess”
STUDENT ESSAY: Adam Walker, “Possessed by the Need for Possession: Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ ”
Comparison and Contrast
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, “After Death”
STUDENT ESSAY: Todd Bowen, “Speakers for the Dead: Narrators in ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘After Death’ ”
Essay Exams
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, “Sonnet 73”
ROBERT HERRICK, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
STUDENT ESSAY EXAM: Midterm Essay
5. Writing about Stories
Elements of Fiction
Plot
Character
Point of View
Setting
Theme
Symbolism
Style
Stories for Analysis
KATE CHOPIN, “The Story of an Hour” (Annotated Story)
STUDENT ESSAY: An Essay That Compares and Contrasts: Melanie Smith, “Good Husbands in Bad Marriages”
6. Writing about Poems
Elements of Poetry
The Speaker
The Listener
Imagery
Sound and Sense
Two Poems for Analysis
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, “Sonnet 116” (Annotated Poem)
T. S. ELIOT, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Annotated Poem)
STUDENT ESSAY: An Explication: Patrick McCorkle, “Shakespeare Defines Love”
7. Writing about Plays
Elements of Drama
Plot, Character, and Theme
Diction
Spectacle
Setting
How to Read a Play
Watching a Play
The Director’s Vision
STUDENT ESSAY: An Analysis: Sarah Johnson, “Moral Ambiguity and Character Development in Trifles”
8. Writing a Literary Research Paper
Finding Sources
Evaluating Sources
Working with Sources
Quotations
Paraphrases and Summaries
Commentaries
Keeping Track of Your Sources
Writing the Paper
Refine Your Thesis
Organize Your Evidence
Start Your Draft
Revise
Edit and Proofread
Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism
What to Document and What Not to Document
Documenting Sources: MLA Format
In-Text Citations
Preparing Your Works Cited List
STUDENT ESSAY: Sample Research Paper: Rachel McCarthy, “The Widening Gyres of Chaos in Yeats’s ‘The Second Coming’ ”
9. Literary Criticism and Literary Theory
Formalism and New Criticism
Feminist and Gender Criticism
Queer Theory
Marxist Criticism
Cultural Studies
Postcolonial Criticism
Historical Criticism and New Historicism
Psychological Theories
Reader-Response Theories
Structuralism
Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
Ecocriticism
PART TWO: 40 STORIES
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Young Goodman Brown
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The Cask of Amontillado
AMBROSE BIERCE
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
KATE CHOPIN
The Story of an Hour
ANTON CHEKHOV
The Lady with the Dog
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
The Yellow Wallpaper
SUI SIN FAR (EDITH MAUD EATON)
In the Land of the Free
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
Hands
JAMES JOYCE
The Dead
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Kew Gardens
FRANZ KAFKA
The Metamorphosis
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
Bliss
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Sweat
WILLIAM FAULKNER
A Rose for Emily
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Hills Like White Elephants
JOHN CHEEVER
Reunion
RALPH ELLISON
Battle Royal
SHIRLEY JACKSON
The Lottery
JAMES BALDWIN
Sonny’s Blues
FLANNERY O’CONNOR
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
RAYMOND CARVER
Cathedral
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
MARGARET ATWOOD
Happy Endings
TONI CADE BAMBARA
The Lesson
ALICE WALKER
Everyday Use
TIM O’BRIEN
The Things They Carried
JAMAICA KINCAID
Girl
LOUISE ERDRICH
The Red Convertible
SANDRA CISNEROS
My Name
GEORGE SAUNDERS
Sticks
SHERMAN ALEXIE
This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
ALEXANDER CHEE
Mine
TED CHIANG
The Great Silence
JUNOT DÉAZ
Fiesta, 1980
MAILE MELOY
Tome
YIYUN LI
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
ZZ PACKER
Brownies
ADRIAN TOMINE
Echo Ave.
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
The Thing Around Your Neck
PART THREE: 200 POEMS
ANONYMOUS
The Wife’s Lament
ANONYMOUS
Western Wind
SIR THOMAS WYATT
Whoso list to hunt
QUEEN ELIZABETH I
On Monsieur’s Departure
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
WALTER RALEGH
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet 18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet 73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet 116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”)
AEMILIA LANYER
Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women
JOHN DONNE
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
JOHN DONNE
Death, be not proud
BEN JONSON
On My First Son
ROBERT HERRICK
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
GEORGE HERBERT
The Collar
HESTER PULTER
The Eclipse
JOHN MILTON
When I consider how my light is spent
ANNE BRADSTREET
Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House
ANDREW MARVELL
To His Coy Mistress
THOMAS GRAY
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
PHILLIS WHEATLEY
On Being Brought from Africa to America
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Lamb
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Tyger
KOBAYASHI ISSA
(“All the time I pray to Buddha”)
KOBAYASHI ISSA
(“Don’t worry, spiders,”)
KOBAYASHI ISSA
(“Goes out, comes back — ”)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Kubla Khan
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
Prometheus
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Ode to the West Wind
JOHN KEATS
When I have fears that I may cease to be
JOHN KEATS
Ode to a Nightingale
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Annabel Lee
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Ulysses
ROBERT BROWNING
My Last Duchess
WALT WHITMAN
From Song of Myself
WALT WHITMAN
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Dover Beach
EMILY DICKINSON
Wild Nights — Wild Nights!
EMILY DICKINSON
I heard a Fly buzz — when I died
EMILY DICKINSON
Much Madness is divinest Sense
EMILY DICKINSON
Because I could not stop for Death
EMILY DICKINSON
There’s a certain Slant of light
LEWIS CARROLL
Jabberwocky
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
The Windhover
A. E. HOUSMAN
To an Athlete Dying Young
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The Second Coming
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Leda and the Swan
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
Richard Cory
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
We Wear the Mask
ROBERT FROST
After Apple-Picking
ROBERT FROST
The Road Not Taken
ROBERT FROST
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
ROBERT FROST
Acquainted with the Night
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Archaic Torso of Apollo
WALLACE STEVENS
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
WALLACE STEVENS
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE
Il Pleut/It’s Raining
MINA LOY
Moreover, the Moon —
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
The Red Wheelbarrow
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
This Is Just to Say
EZRA POUND
In a Station of the Metro
EZRA POUND
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE)
Helen
MARIANNE MOORE
Poetry
T. S. ELIOT
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
CLAUDE MCKAY
America
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
What lips my lips have kissed
WILFRED OWEN
Dulce et Decorum Est
E. E. CUMMINGS
in Just-
E. E. CUMMINGS
“next to of course god america i
FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Dawn
ANGSTON HUGHES
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
LANGSTON HUGHES
The Weary Blues
LANGSTON HUGHES
Theme for English B
LANGSTON HUGHES
Harlem
COUNTEE CULLEN
Incident
PABLO NERUDA
Body of a Woman
W. H. AUDEN
Funeral Blues (Stop all the clocks)
THEODORE ROETHKE
My Papa’s Waltz
ELIZABETH BISHOP
The Fish
ELIZABETH BISHOP
One Art
CZESłAW MIłOSZ
Dedication
ROBERT HAYDEN
Middle Passage
MURIEL RUKEYSER
Waiting for Icarus
DUDLEY RANDALL
Ballad of Birmingham
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Traveling through the Dark
RANDALL JARRELL
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
DYLAN THOMAS
Do not go gentle into that good night
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
the mother
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
We Real Cool
ROBERT LOWELL
For the Union Dead
DENISE LEVERTOV
The Ache of Marriage
JACK GILBERT
Failing and Flying
MAXINE KUMIN
Morning Swim
FRANK O’HARA
The Day Lady Died
ALLEN GINSBERG
A Supermarket in California
GALWAY KINNELL
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
GALWAY KINNELL
When one has lived a long time alone
JOHN ASHBERY
They Knew What They Wanted
W. S. MERWIN
One of the Butterflies
JAMES WRIGHT
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
PHILIP LEVINE
What Work Is
ANNE SEXTON
Cinderella
ADRIENNE RICH
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
ADRIENNE RICH
Diving into the Wreck
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
LINDA PASTAN
love poem
SYLVIA PLATH
Morning Song
SYLVIA PLATH
Daddy
AUDRE LORDE
Coal
MARY OLIVER
The Summer Day
LUCILLE CLIFTON
at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989
LUCILLE CLIFTON
homage to my hips
C. K. WILLIAMS
On the Métro
CHARLES SIMIC
Eyes Fastened with Pins
SEAMUS HEANEY
Digging
SEAMUS HEANEY
Mid-Term Break
ROBERT PINSKY
Shirt
MAHMOUD DARWISH
Identity Card
BILLY COLLINS
Forgetfulness
TOI DERRICOTTE
A Note on My Son’s Face
RICHARD GARCIA
Why I Left the Church
SHARON OLDS
I Go Back to May 1937
LOUISE GLüCK
Mock Orange
QUINCY TROUPE
A Poem For “Magic”
BERNADETTE MAYER
Sonnet (You jerk you didn’t call me up)
MARILYN NELSON
Emmett Till’s name still catches in my throat,
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA
Facing It
JANE KENYON
Happiness
LINDA HOGAN
Crow Law
VICTOR HERNÁNDEZ CRUZ
Problems with Hurricanes
CAROLYN FORCHÉ
The Boatman
JORIE GRAHAM
Prayer
LINDA GREGERSON
Prodigal
MARIE HOWE
Death, the last visit
DANA GIOIA
Majority
JOY HARJO
Fear Poem, or I Give You Back
JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA
Family Ties
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER
The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
Gate A-4
GARY SOTO
Moving Away
MARY RUEFLE
Rain Effect
RITA DOVE
Fifth Grade Autobiography
ALBERTO RÉOS
Nani
CHERRÉE MORAGA
Loving in the War Years
HARRYETTE MULLEN
Elliptical
MARK DOTY
A Display of Mackerel
TONY HOAGLAND
History of Desire
LOUISE ERDRICH
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
KIM ADDONIZIO
First Kiss
PATRICIA SMITH
Skinhead
MARILYN CHIN
How I Got That Name
CATHY SONG
Heaven
MARTÍN ESPADA
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
LI-YOUNG LEE
Eating Alone
KATHY FISH
Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild
CLAUDIA RANKINE
(“You are in the dark, in the car …”)
SPENCER REECE
The Clerk’s Tale
A. VAN JORDAN
from
TAYLOR MALI
What Teachers Make
MARGARET NOODIN
Agoozimakakiig Idiwag/What the Peepers Say
NATASHA TRETHEWEY
History Lesson
SHERMAN ALEXIE
Postcards to Columbus
HONORÉE FANONNE JEFFERS
Unidentified Female Student, Former Slave
ALLISON JOSEPH
On Being Told I Don’t Speak Like a Black Person
ADRIENNE SU
Substitutions
BRIAN TURNER
What Every Soldier Should Know
SUJI KWOCK KIM
Occupation
TERRANCE HAYES
Talk
MONICA YOUN
Goldacre
JEN BERVIN
64 [erasure of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 64]
OLIVER DE LA PAZ
Autism Screening Questionnaire — Speech and Language Delay
TRACY SMITH
Declaration [erasure of the Declaration of Independence]
EDUARDO CORRAL
In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes
ROSS GAY
A Small Needful Fact
AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL
Self-Portrait as Scallop
KATY DIDDEN
“Embrace Them All”
JERICHO BROWN
Bullet Points
MAHOGANY L. BROWNE
Black Girl Magic
ADA LIMÓN
How to Triumph Like a Girl
MATTHEW OLZMANN
Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz
ARACELIS GIRMAY
Ode to the Watermelon
ILYA KAMINSKY
We Lived Happily during the War
MAGGIE SMITH
Good Bones
NATALIE DIAZ
When My Brother Was an Aztec
JENNY JOHNSON
Tail
AMIT MAJMUDAR
Arms and the Man
TARFIA FAIZULLAH
En Route to Bangladesh, Another Crisis of Faith
PATRICIA LOCKWOOD
Rape Joke
JACOB SAENZ
Blue Line Incident
OCEAN VUONG
Aubade with Burning City
KAVEH AKBAR
Portrait of the Alcoholic with Relapse Fantasy
FATIMAH ASGHAR
Pluto Shits on the Universe
DANEZ SMITH
alternate names for black boys
JAVIER ZAMORA
El Salvador
NOAH BALDINO
Passing
LAYLI LONG SOLDIER
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PART FOUR: 9 PLAYS
SOPHOCLES
Oedipus the King (Translated by David Grene)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello, the Moor of Venice
HENRIK IBSEN
A Doll House (Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp)
SUSAN GLASPELL
Trifles
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
AUGUST WILSON
Fences
NILO CRUZ
Anna in the Tropics
NEENA BEBER
Misreadings
LYNN NOTTAGE
Sweat
Biographical Notes on the Authors
Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines