Poetry for students.

Poetry for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry / Volume 51 : Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by David J. Kelly. - 1 online resource (xix, 357 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits - Gale virtual reference library .

"ISSN 1094-7019."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The bluebird / Charles Bukowski -- A Chinese banquet / Kitty Tsui -- The cord / Leanne O'Sullivan -- Defeat / Kahlil Gibran -- Dejection : an ode / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- First thought / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Hattie Mcdaniel arrives at the coconut grove / Rita Dove -- He wishes for the cloths of heaven / William Butler Yeats -- A Jewish cemetery in Germany / Yehuda Amichai -- Let me die a youngman's death / Roger McGough -- Love and friendship / Emily Bronte -- The night game / Robert A. Pinsky -- Numbers / Mary Cornish -- The summer I was sixteen / Geraldine Connolly -- What are big girls made of? / Marge Piercy -- When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / Walt Whitman.

Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.

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Poetry--Study and teaching.
Poetry--History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern--19th century.
Poetry, Modern--20th century.
Poetry, Modern--21st century.