Literature: A Portable Anthology

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Literature: A Portable Anthology features nearly 250 literary selections with thorough coverage of reading and writing about literature, all at an affordable price. 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 38 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