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:
"Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art" by John Keats
"Eating Poetry" by Mark Strand
"Old Ironsides" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School" by Jane Kenyon
"War Is Kind" by Stephen Crane
And more
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Anasazi - Gary Snyder.
Annabel Lee - Edgar Allan Poe.
Barbie Doll - Marge Piercy.
Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art - John Keats.
Eating Poetry - Mark Strand.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - Thomas Gray.
The Exhibit - Lisel Mueller.
For an Assyrian Frieze - Peter Viereck.
Four Mountain Wolves - Leslie Marmon Silko.
In Memory of Radio - Amiri Baraka.
The Missing - Thom(son William) Gunn.
Old Ironsides - Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Psalm 8 - King James Bible.
Reactionary Essay on Applied Science - Phyllis McGinley.
Sonnet 19 (Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws . . .) - William Shakespeare.
St. Francis and the Sow - Galway Kinnell.
Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School - Jane Kenyon.
