ENG 102 | Defining Poetry | Poetry Questions | Revising Poetry | Draw a Poem | Create a Poem | Villanelle | Handouts
Prepare for recitation and interpretation in class.
Select a poem from the list and study it to understand the poem's speaker and its theme.
Look up any confusing words and see me about anything you don't understand; use the QCC Library database, Literature Resources from Gale, for guidance.
Memorize the poem (30+ lines) and practice several times. Your grade will be lower if you cannot recite the whole poem.
Prepare a brief written analysis (400-500 words).
Be prepared to respond to the poetry questions after your recitation.
Selections from course text and Favorite Poem Project and Poets.org
| Title | Student-9 am | Due | Student-10 am | Due | |
| 480 | Sonnet 20 or Sonnet 29 by Shakespeare | ||||
| 511 | The Little Black Boy by William Blake | ||||
| 530 | When We Two Parted by George Gordon, Lord Byron | ||||
| 558 | My Last Duchess by Robert Browning | ||||
| 560 | Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning | ||||
| 564 | Song of Myself, 6 by Walt Whitman | ||||
| 566 | Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold | ||||
| Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson | |||||
| Richard Cory by Robinson (589)/St. Judas by James Wright (687) | |||||
| 586 | The Second Coming by William B. Yeats | ||||
| Mending Wall by Robert Frost | |||||
| 607 | The Last Words of My English Grandmother by William Carlos Williams | ||||
| 620 | Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot | ||||
| 628 | Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen | ||||
| 644 | The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop | ||||
| The Steeple Jack by Marianne Moore | |||||
| 641 | The Unknown Citizen by D. H. Auden | ||||
| The Waking by Theodore Roethke | |||||
| 651 | Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas | ||||
| 661 | The Writer by Richard Wilbur | ||||
| 681 | Mementos, I by W. D. Snodgrass | ||||
| 690 | Cinderella by Anne Sexton | ||||
| 700 | Rape by Adrienne Rich | ||||
| 705 | Ethics by Linda Pastan | ||||
| 710 | The Tunnel by Mark Strand | ||||
| 713 | The Black Walnut Tree by Mary Oliver | ||||
| 758 | Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa | ||||
| Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy | |||||
| To Be of Use by Marge Piercy | |||||
| To a Terrorist by Stephen Dunn |