Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry
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This classic textbook continues to lead the market and set the standard for introduction to poetry courses. We are fortunate to hold as a new author Greg Johnson, accomplished fiction and novel writer and award-winning creative writing instructor. Benefits: The most-often assigned Introduction to Poetry text ever published. This edition contains more information on writing. All chapters have been supplied with "Suggestions for Writing." Chapters 15 (bad and good poetry) and 16 (great poetry) have been renamed "Evaluating Poetry."
The Elements of Poetry 1What Is Poetry? 3The Eagle 5Winter 6Dulce et Decorum Est 7Reviewing Chapter One 10Understanding and Evaluating Poetry 11Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 12The Whipping 12The last Night that She lived 13Ballad of Birmingham 14Kitchenette Building 16The Red Wheelbarrow 17Constantly risking absurdity 17Suicide's Note 18Terence, this is stupid stuff 19Ars Poetica 21Suggestions for Writing 22Reading the Poem 24The Man He Killed 26A Study of Reading Habits 27Is my team plowing 30Reviewing Chapter Two 33Break of Day 33There's been a Death, in the Opposite House 34When in Rome 35Animals Are Passing from Our Lives 36Question 37Mirror 38The Clod and the Pebble 38Ethics 39Storm Warnings 40Suggestions for Writing 41Denotation and Connotation 42There is no Frigate like a Book 42When my love swears that she is made of truth 44Pathedy of Manners 45Exercises 47Reviewing Chapter Three 48Naming of Parts 48Cross 49The world is too much with us 50Desert Places 51Let No Charitable Hope 52A Hymn to God the Father 52One Art 5335/10 54Suggestions for Writing 55Imagery 56Meeting at Night 57Parting at Morning 58Exercises 59Reviewing Chapter Four 59Spring 59The Widow's Lament in Springtime 60The Man with Night Sweats 61I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 62Living in Sin 63The Forge 64After Apple-Picking 64Those Winter Sundays 66An August Night 67The Snow Man 67To Autumn 68Suggestions for Writing 69Figurative Language I: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy 70Harlem 71Bereft 72It sifts from Leaden Sieves 73The Author to Her Book 74The Telephone 76Bright Star 77Exercise 80Reviewing Chapter Five 81Mind 81I taste a liquor never brewed 82Metaphors 83Toads 83Ghost of a Chance 84A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 85To His Coy Mistress 87Introduction to Poetry 88Suggestions for Writing 89Figurative Language 2: Symbol, Allegory 90The Road Not Taken 90A Noiseless Patient Spider 92The Sick Rose 93Digging 95To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 98Peace 99Exercises 101Reviewing Chapter Six 101The Writer 102Fire and Ice 103Up-Hill 104Harlem Hopscotch 104I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 105Because I could not stop for Death 106Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness 107Weighing the Dog 109Ulysses 109Suggestions for Writing 112Figurative Language 3: Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony 113Much Madness is divinest Sense 114The Sun Rising 115Incident 116Barbie Doll 118The Chimney Sweeper 120Ozymandias 121Exercise 122Reviewing Chapter Seven 123Lady Luncheon Club 123Batter my heart, three-personed God 124Sorting Laundry 125The History Teacher 127Mid-Term Break 128A Considerable Speck 129The Unknown Citizen 130In the inner city 131My Last Duchess 132Suggestions for Writing 134Allusion 135"Out, Out-" 136From Macbeth ("She should have died hereafter") 137Reviewing Chapter Eight 138In Just- 139Yet Do I Marvel 140On His Blindness 140Miniver Cheevy 141My Son the Man 142Siren Song 143Journey of the Magi 144Leda and the Swan 146Suggestions for Writing 146Meaning and Idea 148Little Jack Horner 148Loveliest of Trees 149Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 150Reviewing Chapter Nine 152The Rhodora: On Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower? 152Design 153I never saw a Moor 154"Faith" is a fine invention 154On the Sonnet 155Sonnet 155The Lamb 156The Tiger 157The Indifferent 158Love's Deity 159My Number 160I had heard it's a fight 161Suggestions for Writing 161Tone 163For a Lamb 165Apparently with no surprise 165Since there's no help 167Picnic, Lightning 168Reviewing Chapter Ten 169My mistress' eyes 169Crossing the Bar 170The Oxen 171One dignity delays for all 172'Twas warm-at first-like Us 173The Apparition 173The Flea 174Dover Beach 176Church Going 177Suggestions for Writing 180Musical Devices 181The Turtle 182That night when joy began 184The Waking 185God's Grandeur 187Exercise 188Reviewing Chapter Eleven 189Blow, blow, thou winter wind 189We Real Cool 190Woman Work 191Rite of Passage 192As imperceptibly as Grief 193Music Lessons 194Traveling through the dark 194Thistles 195Nothing Gold Can Stay 196Suggestions for Writing 197Rhythm and Meter 198Virtue 203Exercises 212Reviewing Chapter Twelve 213"Introduction" to Songs of Innocence 213Had I the Choice 214The Aim Was Song 215Stanzas 216Old Ladies' Home 216Africa 217To a Daughter Leaving Home 218A Blessing 219Porphyria's Lover 220Break, break, break 222Suggestions for Writing 223Sound and Meaning 224Pease Porridge Hot 224Eight O'Clock 226Sound and Sense 227I heard a Fly buzz-when I died 231Exercise 233Reviewing Chapter Thirteen 235Anthem for Doomed Youth 235Landcrab 236Tree at My Window 237Aunt Jennifer's Tigers 238At the round earth's imagined corners 238Blackberry Eating 239The Health-Food Diner 240The Dance 241Suggestions for Writing 241Pattern 243The Pulley 244On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 246That time of year 247Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 249Exercise 250Reviewing Chapter Fourteen 251From Romeo and Juliet 251Death, be not proud 252The Sheaves 253The White City 253America 254We Wear the Mask 255Sonnenizio on a Line from Drayton 255Acquainted with the Night 256In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn 257Villanelle for an Anniversary 258The House on the Hill 259These are the days when Birds come back 260Delight in Disorder 261Still to be Neat 262Suggestions for Writing 262Evaluating Poetry I: Sentimental, Rhetorical, Didactic Verse 263Reviewing Chapter Fifteen 266God's Will for You and Me 266Pied Beauty 266A Poison Tree 267The Most Vital Thing in Life 267Lower New York: At Dawn 268Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 269Pitcher 269The Old-Fashioned Pitcher 270Piano 270The Days Gone By 271The Engine 271I like to see it lap the Miles 272When I have fears that I may cease to be 272O Solitude! 273Suggestions for Writing 273Evaluating Poetry 2: Poetic Excellence 275The Canonization 276Ode on a Grecian Urn 278There's a certain Slant of light 280Home Burial 281The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 285Sunday Morning 290The Weary Blues 294The Fish 296Diving into the Wreck 298
