本书编入不同时代、不同国家、不同文化、不同风格的英语原语与英译诗歌近140首，以诗歌知和要素为纲，将诗歌的主要发展阶段和流派等内容置于对代表诗人及其代表作品的全面介绍和深入解读之中。本书吸收了许多当代新颖的文学思想和诸多国外文学教材优秀的教学成果，将“读、思、写”融于一体，强调诗歌阅读是一项影响思想并激发情感的、积极的创造性活动，而诗歌解读和批评写作是一个发现思想和检验思想的过程。
　　本书旨在解除笼罩在诗歌阅读和研究身上的神秘感，适合英语专业高年级学生和研究生以及有志于提高语言和文学素养、增强对事物的感受能力的广大读者。

本书作者独具匠心，突破传统，从全新的视角来解读英语诗歌，将不同风格、不同国别、不同题材和体裁的诗歌按照诗歌的组成要素和基本知识来编排，聚焦对诗歌的理解与阐释，同时也强调诗歌赏析与写作相结合，这样有助于提高学生的人文素养和诗歌赏析能力。

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7 Figures of Speech 52
Fawziyya Abu Khalid: Butterfl ies 53
Nazik Al-Mala’ika: Elegy for a Woman of No Importance 56
8 Structure 59
Pablo Neruda: To the Foot from Its Child 59
9 Theme 64
Emily Dickinson: Crumbling Is Not an Instant’s Act 65
Part 3 Understanding Poetry 68
1 Qualifying a Group of Lines as Poetry68
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 73 68
Louis Zukofsky: I Walk in the Old Street 70
2 Active Reading Strategies73
3 The Experience of Poetry 74
Robert Hayden: Those Winter Sundays 74
4 The Interpretation of Poetry 76
Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 78
5 The Evaluation of Poetry 81
Judith Wright: Rainforest 83
Part 4 Poems for Further Reading86
Alexander Pushkin: If by Life You Were Deceived 86
Fedor Tyutchev: Silentium! 86
Sergei Yesenin: Scarlet Light of Sunset 88
Edgar Allan Poe: To Helen 89
William Wordsworth: To a Butterfl y 91
Léopold Sédar Senghor: Night of Sine 95
Fernando Pessoa: In the Terrible Night 97
Barbara Barnard: Disguises 100
Part 5 Writing About Poetry 102
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Unit Two Diction in Poetry
Part 1 Word Choice and Word Order 104
1 Poetic Diction 104
2 Denotative and Connotative Meanings 104
Judith Ortiz Cofer: My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory 105
3 Levels of Diction 107
Margaret Atwood: The City Planners 108
Wanda Coleman: Sears Life 111
4 Word Choice 113
Walt Whitman: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer 114
5 Word Order 117
E E Cummings: Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town 119
Part 2 Voice: Speaker and Tone 123
1 The Speaker in the Poem 123
Emily Dickinson: I’m Nobody! Who Are You? 123
William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper 124
William Carlos Williams: Red Wheelbarrow 126
Langston Hughes: Negro 129
2 The Tone of the Poem 131
Robert Frost: Fire and Ice 132
Ruth Fainlight: Flower Feet 133
Stephen Crane: War Is Kind 135
Part 3 Imagery and Figures of Speech 137
1 Imagery: Descriptive Language 137
John Keats: from The Eve of St Agnes 137
Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro 139
William Wordsworth: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways 141
Andrew Marvell: The Defi nition of Love 143
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dark House 146
Suzanne Berger: The Meal 148
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2 Imagery: Figurative Language 149
George Gordon, Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty 150
Langston Hughes: Harlem 153
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Constantly Risking Absurdity 154
Marge Piercy: The Secretary Chant 158
Thosmas Campion: There Is a Garden in Her Face 159
Edmund Waller: Go, Lovely Rose 161
Linda Hogan: from The Truth Is 163
Carl Sandburg: Chicago 166
Part 4 Poems for Further Reading169
Bei Dao: A Bouquet 169
Christina Rossetti: from Goblin Market 170
William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 172
W H Auden: Their Lonely Betters 174
Sylvia Plath: Mirror 176
Sylvia Plath: Metaphors 178
Part 5 Writing About Poetry 180
Unit Three Themes in Poetry
Part 1 Theme and Meaning 182
1 Determining a Poem’s Theme 182
Adrienne Rich: A Woman Mourned by Daughters 183
James Shirley: Death the Leveler 185
Ben Jonson: Song: To Celia 187
John Donne: Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star 189
William Wordsworth: Composed upon Westminster Bridge 193
2 Pathways to Meaning—Four Types of Irony 194
Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est 195
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias 199
Elizabeth Bishop: One Art 201
Part 2 Symbol and Allegory 204
1 Symbolism 204
Anonymous: Psalm 23 205
William Blake: The Sick Rose 206
Robert Frost: For Once, Then, Something 208
2 Allegory 209
Christina Rossetti: Uphill 210
George Herbert: Virtue 211
Part 3 Allusion and Myth 213
1 Allusion 213
William Meredith: Dreams of Suicide 213
Eduardo Langagne: Discoveries 215
2 Myth 217
Countee Cullen: Yet Do I Marvel 217
Marilyn Hacker: Mythology 218
Part 4 Poems for Further Reading221
Charles Baudelaire: Correspondences 221
Paul Verlaine: Moonlight 224
Guillaume Apollinaire: Mirabeau Bridge 225
Edith S?dergran: Gather Not Gold and Precious Stones 228
William Blake: Ah, Sunfl ower 229
William Butler Yeats: The Second Coming 230
William Butler Yeats: Leda and the Swan 233
Wallace Stevens: Anecdote of the Jar 236
Part 5 Writing About Poetry 240
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Unit Four Forms of Poetry (I)
Part 1 Types of Poetry 242
1 Narrative Poetry 242
2 Lyric Poetry 243
John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn 244
Philip Larkin: Aubade 249
Elizabeth Alexander: Praise Song for the Day 253
John Ashbery: Vetiver 257
Ben Jonson: On My First Son 260
Part 2 Rhythm and Meter262
1 Metrical Patterns 262
Emily Dickinson: I Like to See It Lap the Miles— 264
Emily Brontё: The Night Is Darkening Round Me 266
Edward Lear: Calico Pie 268
2 Caesura and Line Breaks 271
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 129 272
John Keats: La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad 275
Theodore Roethke: My Papa’s Waltz 280
Part 3 Closed Form (I)283
1 Blank Verse 283
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ulysses 284
2 The Couplet 289
Alexander Pope: from Epistle II of An Essay on Man 290
3 The Tercet 293
Matsuo Bashō: Haiku 293
Robert Browning: A Toccata of Galuppi’s 295
4 The Quatrain 300
Adrienne Rich: Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers 301
5 The Ballad Stanza 303
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Anonymous: Bonny Barbara Allan 303
6 The Common Measure307
Donald Hall: My Son, My Executioner 307
Part 4 Poems for Further Reading310
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To the Moon 310
Friedrich H?lderlin: The Neckar 313
Heinrich Heine: The Lorelei 316
Horace: To Licinius 318
Ben Jonson: To Heaven 321
William Butler Yeats: When You Are Old 323
Gabriela Mistral: Richness 325
Part 5 Writing About Poetry 327
Unit Five Forms of Poetry (II)
Part 1 Closed Form (II)330
1 Rhyme Royal 330
Theodore Roethke: I Knew a Woman 330
2 Ottava Rima 333
William Butler Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium 334
3 The Spenserian Stanza 337
George Gordon, Lord Byron: Apostrophe to the Ocean 338
4 The Sestina 342
Elizabeth Bishop: Sestina 342
5 The Villanelle 345
Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 345
Part 2 Closed Form (III): The Sonnet 348
1 The Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet 348
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Petrarch: Sonnet 90 (Laura) 349
2 The English or Shakespearean Sonnet 352
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 29 352
3 The Spenserian Sonnet 356
Edmund Spenser: Sonnet 30 356
Part 3 Open Form 359
1 Open Form and Poetic License 359
Leslie Marmon Silko: Prayer to the Pacifi c 362
2 Conventional Techniques in the Open Form Poem 365
Dudley Randall: A Poet Is Not a Jukebox 366
3 Walt Whitman’s Long-lasting Influence 370
Walt Whitman: from Song of Myself 371
Nazik al-Mala’ika: Love Song for Words 376
4 Prose Poetry 378
Shuntarō Tanikawa: A Personal Opinion About Gray 379
5 Visual Poetry 381
E E Cummings: Buffalo Bill’s 383
George Herbert: Easter Wings 385
Part 4 Poems for Further Reading387
Giacomo Leopardi: The Infi nite 387
Dino Campana: Genoa Woman 388
Salvatore Quasimodo: Only if Love Should Pierce You 390
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Silent Noon 391
Ted Hughes: The Thought-Fox 393
Marianne Moore: Poetry 396
Allen Ginsberg: A Supermarket in California 398
Jaime Torres Bodet: The Window 401
Part 5 Writing About Poetry 403
Bibliography 404