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Themes of Literature

ART AND BEAUTY


Fiction
James Baldwin Sonny's Blues
Raymond Carver Cathedral
Lorrie Moore How to Become a Writer
Poetry
W. H. Auden Musée des Beaux Arts
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty
John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
Cathy Song Girl Powdering Her Neck
William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud
William Butler Yeats Sailing to Byzantium
Drama
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie




EMOTIONS AND DECISIONS


Fiction
Sherman Alexie The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour
Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants
James Joyce Araby
Joyce Carol Oates Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
John Updike A & P
Poetry
Matthew Arnold Dover Beach
Aphra Behn On Her Loving Two Equally
Elizabeth Bishop The Fish
T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress
Theodore Roethke My Papa's Waltz
William Stafford Traveling through the Dark
Drama
Susan Glaspell Trifles
Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House




MORTALITY AND ULTIMATE QUESTIONS


Fiction
Herman Melville Bartleby, the Scrivener
Bharati Mukherjee The Management of Grief
Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried
Katherine Anne Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Eudora Welty A Worn Path
Poetry
Lucille Clifton at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989
Judith Ortiz Cofer Cold as Heaven
Emily Dickinson I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—
Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death—
Michael S. Harper Nightmare Begins Responsibility
Ben Jonson On My First Son
John Keats When I have fears that I may cease to be
John Milton Lycidas
Wilfred Owen Dulce et Decorum Est
William Shakespeare Sonnet 73
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Crossing the Bar
Drama
William Shakespeare Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Sophocles Antigone




THE SPIRITUAL AND THE SUPERNATURAL


Fiction
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper
Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown
D. H. Lawrence The Rocking-Horse Winner
Poetry
John Donne Batter my heart, three-personed God
Richard Garcia Why I Left the Church
Gerard Manley Hopkins God's Grandeur
Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Philip Larkin High Windows
Walt Whitman A Noiseless Patient Spider
Drama
Edward Albee The Sandbox




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