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WESTERN WIND is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into a book that teaches as well as inspires. The text also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-color reproductions of great works of art.
*- indicates selection or author is new to this editionPREFACEBefore We BeginPart One: The Senses1. WHERE EXPERIENCE STARTS: The ImageThe Role of the Senses*Jim Moore The Same LifeAnonymous Western WindArchibald Macleish ElevenSappho There's A ManT.S. Eliot PreludesAnonymous Brief AutumnalThe Specific ImageEzra Pound In A Station Of The Metro Alba ("As cool as the pale wet leaves...")Anthony Hecht The End Of The WeekendAnonymous Sir Patrick SpensExercises and DiversionsBrewester Ghiselin Rattler, AlertSappho Leaving Crete, Come Visit AgainEssay and Poem*Jim Moore Haiku/Touch2. WHAT'S IT LIKE? Simile, Metaphor and Other FiguresSimile and MetaphorRobinson Jeffers The Purse-SeineRobert Frost The Silken TentEmily Dickinson My Life Had Stood--A Loaded GunLinda Pastan ReturningMargaret Atwood HabitationWilliam Butler Yeats No Second TroyRobert Frost A Patch Of Old Snow*Al Young Up Vernon's AlleyHelen Chasin City PigeonsAnalogyWalter de la Mare All But BlindSynesthesia AllusionAlexander Pope Intended For Sir Isaac Newton*Michael Donaghy Local 32BPersonfication, MythologyKarl Shapiro A Cut FlowerWilliam Butler Yeats Leda And The SwanWalter Savage Landor DirceExercises and DiversionsAlan Shapiro Against PoetsEssays and Poems3. SYMBOLISM: The Broken Coin Synecdoche, Metonymy*Mary Jo Salter A Poetics of SexThe SymbolHoward Nemerov Money*Jenn Habel Another Poem About the HeartGeorge Herbert HopeWilliam Blake The Sick RoseRobert Frost Acquainted With The NightSaint John Of The Cross The Dark NightThing-PoemsRainer Maria Rilke The Merry-Go-RoundWilliam Carlos Williams Nantucket*Frank O'Hara Why I am Not a PainterAllegorySir Thomas Wyatt My Galley Charged with ForgetfulnessKingsley Amis A Note on WyattBilly Collins The Death of AllegoryExercises and DiversionsJohn Crowe Ransom Good ShipsCarl Sandburg A FenceEssays and Poems4. DOUBLE VISION: Antipoetry, Paradox, and IronyAntipoetryWilliam Shakespeare WinterFrancis P. Osgood Winter Fairyland In VermontElizabeth Bishop Filling StationWalt Whitman BeautyWilliam Shakespeare Sonnet 130ParadoxRobert Graves The Face in the MirrorAlexander Pope From An Essay on ManIrony*Wilfred Owen The Parable of the Old Man and the YoungUnderstatement--The Withheld ImageSimonides On the Spartan Dead at ThermopylaeX.J. Kennedy Loose WomanOverstatementRobert Graves SpoilsExercises and DiversionsRod Taylor Dakota: October, 1822: Hunkpapa WarriorWallace Stevens The Emperor Of Ice-CreamEssays and PoemsPart Two: The Emotions.5. THE COLOR OF THOUGHT: Emotions in Poetry The Role of EmotionWilliam Butler Yeats The SpurDick Davis Desire*Heather McHugh Earthmoving MaledictionAmmianus Epitaph of Nearchos*Michael McFee Time EnoughW.H. Auden The Shield of AchillesSense and SentimentalityAnonymous The Unquiet Grave*Julia Moore Little LibbieJohn Crowe Ransom Bells For John Whiteside's DaughterAlgernon Charles Swinburne Étude Réaliste (I)James Wright A Song for The Middle of the NightMay Swenson Cat & The WeatherWilliam Stafford Traveling Through The Dark*Richard Wilbur The PardonExercises and DiversionsKenneth Fearing Yes, The Agency Can Handle ThatEssays and PoemsPart Three: The Words.6. MACHINE FOR MAGIC: The Fresh Usual WordsLiving WordsKenneth Patchen Moon, Sun, Sleep, Birds, LiveRobert Frost Dust of Snow; Neither Out Far Nor In DeepEmily Dickinson A Narrow Fellow in The GrassLess Is MoreAlfred, Lord Tennyson Break, Break, BreakA.E. Housman Along the Field as We Came ByWilliam Butler Yeats An Irish Airman Foresees His DeathEzra Pound The Bath TubHilaire Belloc On His BooksWilliam Stafford Godiva County, MontanaW.H. Auden The Wanderer*Roger Mitchell The Word for Everything*Emily Grosholz Remembering the ArdecheExercises and DiversionsRandall Jarrell The Knight, Death, and the DevilEssays and PoemsPart Four: The Sounds. 7. GOLD IN THE ORE: Sound as Meaning*Kay Ryan Crustaceon IsalndGail Tremblay Not SenseVowels and AssonanceDylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good NightRobert Frost Once By The PacificE.E. Cummings Chansons Innocentes, I*Christian Bök VowelsConsonants and AlliterationExercises and DiversionsJohn Milton On the Late Massacre in PiedmontEssays and Poems8. WORKING WITH GOLD: Rhyme and MusicLanguage as MimicryJohn Updike Player Piano*Anne Stevenson Making PoetryA Reason for Rhyme?*Etheridge Knight A Poem for MyselfEzra Pound Alba ("When the nightingale . . .")Off-Rhyme or Slant Rhyme Wilfred Owen Anthem For Doomed Youth; Arms and the Boy*Thomas McGrath Remembering the Children of AuschwitzThe Music of PoetryWilliam Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree*Anonymous Sumer Is Icumen In*Ezra Pound Ancient MusicAnonymous The Streets of LaredoCharles Causley Lord Lovelace Exercises and Diversions*Timothy Murphy Twice Cursed; Poet’s PrayerEdwin Arlington Robinson The Dark HillsEssays and PoemsPart Five: The Rhythms9. THE DANCER AND THE DANCE: The Play of RhythmsRhythmRepetition as RhythmRobert Graves Counting The BeatsWalt Whitman From Leaves of GrassThe Rhythm of AccentA Note on ScansionIambic PentameterVariations on IambicWilliam Shakespeare Sonnet 66Meter and RhythmWilliam Butler Yeats The Second ComingLine LengthMatthew Arnold Dover Beach*May Swenson QuestionTheodore Roethke My Papa's WaltzExercises and DiversionsWilliam Browne On the Countess Dowager of PembrokeKatherine McAlpine That Ghastly Night in DoverEssays and Poems10. DIFFERENT DRUMMERS: Alternative Forms of MeterOther Syllable-Stress RhythmsGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron The Destruction Of Sennacherib*Timothy Murphy Harvest of Sorrows Strong-Stress RhythmsAnonymous I Have Labored SoreRichard Wilbur Funk*Anonymous How Many Miles to Babylon?E.E. Cummings if everything happens that can't be done*W.H. Auden As I Walked Out One EveningSprung RhythmA Word about Quantity*Timothy Steele Sapphics against AngerSyllabic MeterJames Tate Miss Cho Composes in the Cafeteria*Ron Rash ScarecrowExercises and DiversionsEssays and Poems11. REMOVING THE NET: "Free Verse," Concrete Poetry, Prose PoemsSome Background on Free Verse*H.D. Oread*William Carlos Williams Dedication for a Plot of GroundLine BreaksStephen Crane A Man Said to the Universe*Denise Levertov The Ache of Marriage*George Oppen Psalm*Suzanne Lummis Morning After the 6.1*Rachel Loden The Killer InstinctThe Variable FootWilliam Carlos Williams The DescentConcrete and Shaped PoetryEmmett Williams Like Attracts LikeHanjorg Mayer Oil*Jan D. Hodge CarouselThe Prose Poem*Robert Hass A Story About the Body*Marie Howe Part of Eve’s Discussion*Jay Meek Trains in WinterExercises and DiversionsWilliam Carlos Williams Iris Essays and PoemsPart Six: The Mind.12. THE SHAPE OF THOUGHT: Sentences and StructureThe SentenceEugenio Montale The EelGwendolyn Brooks We Real CoolUse of ConnectivesJacques Prevert The MessageParallelismWalt Whitman I Hear America Singing*Shirley Geok-Lin Lim Learning to Love AmericaSentence StructureE.E. Cummings Me up at doesPeter Viereck To Helen Of Troy (N.Y.)Robert Frost Beyond WordsAlice Fulton What I LikeJohn Clare Remember Dear MaryThinking about DictionRobert Graves The Persian VersionEdward Field Curse of the Cat WomanCreating New WordsE.E. Cummings wherelings whenlingsExercises and DiversionsEssays and Poems
