Aiken, Conrad, “Herman Melville” (1958) Anderson, Philip B. “An Ode to Deconstruction” (c.1988): satire Angell, Barbara, “Ulabel Lume” (c.1955): parody of Poe Auden, W. H., “Herman Melville” (1933) Barlow, Joel, from “The Hasty Pudding” (1796): humor Berry, D. C., “Godiva” (c.2009): parody of Sylvia Plath Bishop, Elizabeth, “The Fish” (1955): analysis Bogan, Louise, “The Dream” (1954): analysis Bradstreet, Anne, “The Flesh and the Spirit” (1678): analysis      “A Letter to Her Husband” (1678): analysis Brooks, Gwendolyn, “A Song in the Front Yard” (1945)      “Sadie and Maud” (1945)      “We Real Cool” (1966) Bryant, William Cullen, “Thanatopsis” (1817): analysis      “The Prairies” (1832): analysis Bugeja, Michael J., “The Influence of William Carlos Williams” (2009) Carlisle, Andrea, “Emily Dickinson’s To-Do List” (1996) Chesterton, G. K., (British), “After Walt Whitman” (c .1894-1936): parody Clark, John Abbot, “The Love Song of F. Scott Fitzgerald” (c.1955): humor Collins, Billy, “Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes” (1998): humor Cope, Wendy (British), “Waste Land Limericks” (1986): parody of T. S. Eliot Cranch, Christopher, “Gnosis” (1844) Crane, Hart, “Black Tambourine” (1926): analysis      “At Melville’s Tomb” (1926): analysis by Crane and 3 critics      “To Emily Dickinson” (1926)      The Bridge (1930): analysis by 15 critics Crane, Stephen, 6 free verse pre-Imagist poems (1895-99): commentary Cullen, Countee, “Incident” (1925)      “Yet Do I Marvel” (1925) cummings, e. e., “chanson innocent” (1923): analysis      “Portrait” (1926): analysis      “since feeling is first” (1926)      “nobody loses all the time” (1926): humor      “somewhere i have never travelled” (1931)      “anyone lived in a pretty how town” (1940): analysis Cunningham, J. V., 32 witty verses (1942-57) Dacey, Philip, “Amherst with Fries” (1999), homage to Dickinson: humor Dickinson, Emily, “Papa above!” #61 (c.1859): analysis      “Success is counted sweetest” #67 (c.1859): analysis      “Exultation is the going” #76 (c.1859): analysis      “These are the days when Birds come back” #130 (c.1860): analysis by 5 critics      “I’m ‘wife’ – I’ve finished that” #199 (c.1860): analysis      “I taste a liquor never brewed” #214 (c.1860): analysis by 7 critics      “I like a look of Agony” #241 (c.1861): analysis      “Wild Nights! -- Wild Nights!” #249 (c.1861): analysis      “There’s a certain Slant of light” #258 (c.1861): analysis by 12 critics      “I felt a Funeral in my Brain” #280 (c.1861): analysis by 8 critics      “I got so I could take [hear?] his name” #293 (c.1861): analysis by 3 critics      “The Soul selects her own Society” #303 (c.1862): analysis by 4 critics      “There came a Day at Summer’s full” #322 (1861): analysis by 4 critics      “After great pain, a formal feeling comes” #341 (c.1862): analysis by 7 critics      “I read my sentence – steadily” #412 (c.1862): analysis      “I died for Beauty” #449 (c.1862): analysis by 2 critics      “I heard a Fly buzz when I died” #465 (c.1862): analysis by10 critics      “This World is not Conclusion” #501 (1862): analysis by 3 critics      “I’m ceded – I’ve stopped being Theirs” #508 (c.1862): analysis by 6 critics      “I started Early -- Took my Dog” #520 (1862): analysis by 7 critics      “I like to see it lap the Miles” #585 (1862): analysis by 4 critics      “A still – Volcano – Life” #601 (c.1862): analysis by 4 critics      “Because I could not stop for Death” #712 (c.1863): analysis by 17 critics      “My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun” #754 (c.1863): analysis by 9 critics      “My Faith is larger than the Hills” #766 (c.1863): analysis      “I felt a Cleaving in my Mind” #937 (c.1864): analysis      “A narrow Fellow in the Grass” #986 (c.1865): analysis      “Further in Summer than the Birds” #1068 (c.1866): analysis by 8 critics      “Title divine – is mine!” #1072 (c.1862): analysis by 6 critics      “Tell all the Truth but tell it Slant” #1129 (c.1868): analysis      “He preached upon ‘Breadth’ till it argued him narrow” #1207 (c.1872): analysis      “A Route of Evanescence” #1463 (c.1879): analysis by 7 critics      “As imperceptibly as Grief” # 1540 (c.1865): analysis      “Of God we ask one favor” #1601 (c.1884): analysis Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), “The Pool” (c.1915): Imagist poems      “Oread” (c.1915): Imagist poems Drew, George, “Apparently Someone in the Department” (2004): satire of PC Dugan, Alan, “Funeral Oration for a Mouse” (1961) Dunbar, Paul, “We Wear the Mask” (c.1895)      “Theology” (1899): humor      “Harriet Beecher Stowe” (1899): tribute Eberhart, Richard, “Emily Dickinson” (c.1930)      “The Groundhog” (c.1960): analysis by 2 critics      “Worldly Failure” (1960): on Robert Frost      “To William Carlos Williams” (1988) Eliot, T. S., “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915): analysis by 15 critics      “Portrait of a Lady” (1917): analysis by 3 critics      “Sweeney Among the Nightingales” (1918): analysis by 2 critics      “Gerontion” (1920): analysis by 6 critics      “The Waste Land” (1922): analysis by 25 critics      12 basic principles in reading “The Waste Land”      “The Hollow Men” (1925): analysis by 6 critics      “Ash Wednesday” (1930): analysis by 3 critics      Four Quartets (1943): analysis by 9 critics Emerson, Ralph Waldo, “Concord Hymn” (1837,1847)      “Brahma” (1856): analysis Fletcher, John Gould, “The Skaters” (c.1915): Imagist poems Freneau, Philip, “The Wild Honey Suckle” (1786): analysis      “The Indian Burying-Ground” (1787) : analysis      “On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature” (1815): analysis Frost, Robert, “Mowing” (1913): analysis by 2 critics      “The Death of the Hired Man” (1914): analysis by 2 critics      “After Apple-Picking” (1914): analysis by 10 critics      “Mending Wall” (1914,1919): analysis by 8 critics      “The Road Not Taken” (1915,1916): analysis by 7 critics      “Birches” (1916): analysis by 9 critics      “The Hill Wife” (1916): analysis by 3 critics      “Fire and Ice” (1920,1923): analysis by 4 critics      “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1923): analysis by 16 critics      “A Lone Striker” (1933): analysis by 2 critics      “Two Tramps in Mud-Time” (1934): analysis by 7 critics      “Desert Places” (1936): analysis by 7 critics      “Design” (1936): analysis by 11 critics      “Neither out far Nor in Deep” (1936): analysis by 5 critics      “The Gift Outright” (1942): analysis by 6 critics      “Departmental” (1949): humor Fuller, Roy, “The Love Song of J. Omar Khayyam” (1973): parody of T. S. Eliot Gardner, Isabella, “To Thoreau on Rereading Walden” (1955) Hall, Donald “The Impossible Marriage” (1986): humor Hecht, Anthony, “Samuel Sewall” (1954) Hemingway, Ernest, “Sing a song of critics” (1927): disdain Hoffenstein, Samuel, “Miss Millay Says Something Too” (1928): parody Holmes, Oliver Wendell, “Old Ironsides” (1830): commentary      from “The Deacon’s Masterpiece” (1858): satire      “The Chambered Nautilus” (1858): commentary Houghton, Firman, “Mr. Frost Goes South to Boston” (1961): parody Hughes, Langston, “Florida Road Workers” (1927): analysis James, Clive (Australian), from “Robert Lowell’s Notebook” (1986): parody      “Richard Wilbur’s Faberge Egg Factory” (1986): parody Jarrell, Randall, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (1948) Jeffers, Robinson, “Ocean” (1954) Joyce, James (Irish), “The Waste Land” (1925): parody of Eliot Kennedy, X. J., “Emily Dickinson Leaves a Message to the World, Now That Her Homestead in Amherst      Has an Answering Machine” (1992) King, Stoddard, “Poem for Benjamin Franklin’s Birthday” (1926): humor Kinnell, Galway, “For William Carlos Williams” (1960)      “The Deconstruction of Emily Dickinson” (1994) Koch, Kenneth, “Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams” (2005): parody Kumin, Maxine, “After the Poetry Reading” (1996) Lang, Andrew (Scot), “Brahma” (c.1864-1912): parody of Emerson Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, “A Psalm of Life” (1838): analysis by 2 critics      “The Rainy Day” (1842)      “The Slave's Dream” (1842)      “The Day is Done” (1844) Lowell, Amy, “Meditation” (c.1915): Imagist poems Lowell, James Russell, from “A Fable for Critics” (1848): on Emerson, Bryant, Hawthorne, Cooper, Fuller,      Poe, Irving, Holmes, Lowell Lowell, Robert, “Mr. Edwards and the Spider” (1944): analysis      “Skunk Hour” (1959): analysis      “Words for Hart Crane” (1959)      “T. S. Eliot” (1969)      “Ezra Pound” (1969)      “Robert Frost” (1969) Lummis, C. F., “A Poe-em of Passion” (c.1882): parody MacLeish, Archibald, “Ars Poetica” (1915): credo Markham, Edwin, “The Man with the Hoe” (1899) Melville, Herman, “Art” (1891) McGinley, Phyllis, “The Theology of Jonathan Edwards” (1957): wit McKay, Claude, “America” (1922)      “The White City” (1922) Millay, Edna St. Vincent, “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” (1923): analysis Monsour, Leslie, “Emily's Words” (1990): homage Moore, Marianne, “Poetry” (1921-51): analysis      “Critics and Connoisseurs” (1924): analysis      “What Are Years?” (1941): analysis by 2 critics Morley, Christopher, “Epitaph for Any New Yorker” (1920): humor Nash, Ogden, 42 witty verses (1933-53)      “Kindly Unhitch That Star, Buddy” (1933): humor      “Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man” (1934): analysis      “The Purist” (c.1938): humor      “I Never Even Suggested It” (1940): humor      “Golly, How Truth Will Out” (1940): humor Nemerov, Howard, “Santa Claus” (1960): analysis      “Style” (1967) Parker, Dorothy, 67 witty lines & verses (1919-61) Pastan, Linda, “Emily Dickinson” (1971)      “Remembering Frost at Kennedy’s Inauguration” (2004) Paterson, Andrea, “Because I Could Not Dump” (1981): parody of Dickinson Poe, Edgar Allan, “To Helen” (1831): analysis by 2 critics      “Ulalume” (1847): analysis by 6 critics Pound, Ezra, “In a Station of the Metro” (1910): analysis by 4 critics      “L’Art” (1910): Imagist poems      “A Pact,” with Walt Whitman (1916)      Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920): analysis by 7 critics      “Portrait d’une Femme” (1926): analysis      “Canto XLV” (1937): analysis      from “Canto LXXXI” (1940): analysis      Cantos (1919-70): analysis by 9 critics Proudfit, David Law, “Prehistoric Smith” (c.1897): humor Randall, Dudley, “Booker T. and W. E. B.” (1969) Rich, Adrienne, “Diving into the Wreck” (1973)      “’I Am in Danger -- Sir –‘” (c.1950-99) Robinson, Edwin Arlington, “Credo” (1896): analysis      “L’Envoi” (1897): analysis      “Miniver Cheevy” (1910): analysis by 5 critics      “Richard Cory” (1910): analysis by 2 critics      “Walt Whitman” (c.1910)      “Eros Turannos” (1916): analysis      “The Dark Hills” (1920): analysis      “Mr. Flood’s Party” (1920): analysis by 3 critics      “The Sheaves” (1925) Roethke, Theodore, “Papa's Waltz” (1950): analysis      “The Waking” (1953) Ross, Alan, “Radar” (1954): analysis Rukeyser, Muriel, “This Place in the Ways” (1948)      “Double Dialogue: Homage to Robert Frost” (1994) Sandburg, Carl, “The Fog” (c.1915): Imagist poems      “To the Ghost of John Milton” (1928): analysis Seeger, Alan, “Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers for France” (1916) Sexton, Anne, “Her Kind” (1960) Shapiro, Karl, “The Fly” (c.1944) Simpson, Louis, “Squeal” (1957): parody of “Howl” (1955), Allen Ginsberg      “In California” (1963) Scott, Winfield, “The U.S. Sailor with the Japanese Skull” (1945): analysis Snodgrass, W. D., “Powwow” (1962): analysis Stafford, William, “Traveling through the Dark” (1960): analysis      “At the Robert Frost Memorial” (1982)      “Understanding Poetry, by William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens” (1987) Stein, Gertrude, “Picasso” (1909): analysis Stevens, Wallace, “Sunday Morning” (1915): analysis by stanza      10 critics discuss “Sunday Morning”      “Anecdote of the Jar” (1916): analysis by 5 critics      “Le Monocle de Mon Oncle” (1923): analysis by 2 critics      “Peter Quince at the Clavier” (1923): analysis by 3 critics      “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” (1923): analysis by 3 critics      “The Comedian as the Letter C” (1923): analysis by 4 critics      “A High-Toned Old Christian Woman” (1923): analysis      “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (1923): analysis by 4 critics      “The Idea of Order at Key West” (1935): analysis by 3 critics      “The Glass of Water” (1942): analysis      “Notes toward a Supreme Fiction” (1942): analysis by 4 critics Strong, George A., “What Hiawatha Probably Did” (1856): parody Symons, Julian (British), “Hart Crane” (c.1938) Taggard, Genevieve, “With Child” (1922) Taylor, Edward, “Preface, God’s Determinations” (c.1682): analysis      “Housewifery” (c.1682): analysis Thompson, William Henry, “The High Tide at Gettysburg” (1888) Thoreau, Henry David, “My Life Is Like a Stroll upon the Beach” (1849) Timrod, Henry, “Ode”: to the Confederate Dead (1867) Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard, “Sonnet XVI” (1860): analysis Twain, Mark, “Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d” (1884): parody Updike, John, “Miss Moore at Assembly” (1993): parody of Marianne Moore Very, Jones, “The Created” (1839): analysis      “On Visiting the Graves of Hawthorne and Thoreau” (1886) Wheatley, Phillis, “On being brought from Africa to America” (1773) Whitman, Walt, “Song of Myself” (1855): analysis by 12 critics      “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (1856): analysis by 4 critics      “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” (1859): analysis by 5 critics      “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (1865): analysis by 8 critics      “Passage to India” (1871) : analysis by 6 critics Wilbur, Richard, “Epistemology” (1950)      “Mind” (1956)      “Marginalia” (1956)      “Altitudes” (1956): homage to Emily Dickinson      “Seed Leaves” (1964): homage to Robert Frost Williams, William Carlos, “The Red Wheelbarrow” (c.1913): analysis by 3 critics      “Poem, or, Spring and All” (1923): analysis by 4 critics      “The Yachts” (1938): analysis by 2 critics      Paterson I-V (1946-58): analysis by 4 critics Winters, Yvor, “To Emily Dickinson” (1930)      “Before Disaster” (1932-33)      “On Teaching the Young” (1934)      “Dedication to a Book of Criticism” (1934)      “A Testament to one now a child” (1937)      “To a Portrait of Melville in My Library” (1937) Wylie, Elinor, “Puritan Sonnet” (1928): analysis