Carefully read the following sections and poetry titles from Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing.
Chapter 15: Understanding Poetry
Kirzner & Mandell
"Origins of Modern Poetry", "Defining Poetry", "Recognizing Kinds of Poetry"
Pamela Spiro Wagner, "How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual"
William Shakespeare, "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"
E.E. Cummings, "l(a"
Chapter 16: Voice
Kirzner & Mandell
"The Speaker in the Poem", "The Tone of the Poem", "Irony"
Langston Hughes, "Negro"
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"
Thomas Hardy, "The Man He Killed"
Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias"
Agha Shahid Ali, "The Wolf's Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood' "
Chapter 17: Word Choice, Word Order
Kirzner & Mandell
"Word Choice", "Levels of Diction", "Word Order"
Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
Adrienne Rich, "Living in Sin"
Margaret Atwood, "The City Planners"
Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask"
Edmund Spenser, "One day I wrote her name upon the strand"
E.E. Cummings, "anyone lived in a pretty how town"