Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:
"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
"Siren Song" by Margaret Atwood
"Small Town with One Road" by Gary Soto
"The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke
"To an Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Housman
And more
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American Poetry - Louis Simpson.
Barbara Allen - Anonymous.
A Blessing - James A. Wright.
Butcher Shop - Charles Simic.
Fire and Ice - Robert (Lee) Frost.
For the Union Dead - Robert (Traill Spence Jr.) Lowell.
In the Land of Shinar - Denise Levertov.
Inventors - Michael Blumenthal.
Journey of the Magi - T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot.
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home - Craig Raine.
Meeting the British - Paul Muldoon.
The Moon Glows the Same - Matsuo Basho.
A Psalm of Life - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The Second Coming - William Butler Yeats.
Siren Song - Margaret Atwood.
Small Town with One Road - Gary Soto.
The Soldier - Rupert (Chawner) Brooke.
To an Athlete Dying Young - A(fred) E(dward) Housman.
