[* Indicates material new to this edition] 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 Active Reading Annotating WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Second Coming (Annotated Poem) Note Taking Journal Keeping Using Reference Materials Questions for Active Reading: Fiction Questions for Active Reading: Poetry Questions for Active Reading: Drama 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 Julias Clothes STUDENT ESSAY: Jessica Barnes, Poetry in Motion: Herricks Upon Julias Clothes *Analysis ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess STUDENT ESSAY: Adam Walker, Possessed by the Need for Possession: Brownings 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: 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, Sonnys Blues FLANNERY OCONNOR, A Good Man Is Hard to Find GABRIEL GARClA 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 OBRIEN, 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 DlAZ, Fiesta, 1980 * MAILE MELOY, Tome YIYUN LI, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers *ZZ PACKER, Brownies * ADRIAN TOMINE, Echo Ave. * CHIMIMANDA 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 summers 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 Kahn 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-Merchants Wife: A Letter H.

D., 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 LANGSTON 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.