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Literature to Go

Second Edition ©2014

ISBN-10: 1-4576-5051-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-4576-5051-2
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Contents

Resources for Reading and Writing about Literature

Preface for Instructors

INTRODUCTION: READING IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE

The Nature of Literature

EMILY DICKINSON, A narrow Fellow in the Grass

The Value of Literature

The Changing Literary Canon

FICTION

The Elements of Fiction

1. Reading Fiction

Reading Fiction Responsively

KATE CHOPIN, The Story of an Hour

A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Annotated Section of "The Story of an Hour"

A SAMPLE PAPER: Differences in Responses to Kate Chopin’s "The Story of an Hour"

Explorations and Formulas

A COMPARISON OF TWO STORIES

     KAREN VAN DER ZEE, From A Secret Sorrow

     GAIL GODWIN, A Sorrowful Woman

2. Plot

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, From Tarzan of the Apes

WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily

*ANDRE DUBUS, Killings

3. Character

CHARLES DICKENS, From Hard Times

MAY-LEE CHAI, Saving Sourdi

*JUNOT DIAZ, How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie

HERMAN MELVILLE, Bartleby, the Scrivener

4. Setting

ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Soldier’s Home

FAY WELDON, IND AFF, or Out of Love in Sarajevo

*MURIEL SPARK, The First Year of My Life

5. Point of View

Third-Person Narrator

First-Person Narrator

JOHN UPDIKE, A & P

*e-Page: Listen to John Updike reading A & P

*DAVID UPDIKE, Summer

*MAGGIE MITCHELL, It Would Be Different If

6. Symbolism

*TOBIAS WOLFF, That Room

RALPH ELLISON, Battle Royal

PETER MEINKE, The Cranes

7. Theme

STEPHEN CRANE, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

*EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Cask of Amontillado

*JOYCE CAROL OATES, Hi Howya Doin’

*DAGOBERTO GILB, Romero’s Shirt

8. Style, Tone, and Irony

Style

Tone

Irony

RAYMOND CARVER, Popular Mechanics

SUSAN MINOT, Lust

*RICK MOODY, Boys

Fiction in Depth

9. A Study of Flannery O’Connor

A Brief Biography and Introduction

FLANNERY O’CONNOR, A Good Man Is Hard to Find

*e-Page: Listen to Flannery O’Connor reading A Good Man Is Hard to Find

PERSPECTIVES ON O’CONNOR

     FLANNERY O’CONNOR, On the Use of Exaggeration and Distortion

     JOSEPHINE HENDIN, On O’Connor’s Refusal to "Do Pretty"

     CLAIRE KATZ, The Function of Violence in O’Connor’s Fiction

     TIME MAGAZINE, On "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

*10. A Study of Dagoberto Gilb: The Author Reflects on Three Stories

*A Brief Biography and An Introduction to His Work

*INTRODUCTION: DAGOBERTO GILB, How Books Bounce

*ESSAY: DAGOBERTO GILB, On Writing Love in L.A.

STORY: DAGOBERTO GILB: Love in L.A.

*ESSAY: DAGOBERTO GILB, On Writing Shout

*STORY: DAGOBERTO GILB: Shout

*ESSAY: DAGOBERTO GILB, On Writing Uncle Rock

*STORY: DAGOBERTO GILB, Uncle Rock

*PERSPECTIVES

     *DAGOBERTO GILB, On Physical Labor

     *DAGOBERTO GILB, On Distortions of Mexican American Culture

Michael Meyer Interviews Dagoberto Gilb

*FACSIMILIES: Two Draft Manuscript Pages

*Suggested Topics for Longer Papers

A Collection of Stories

11. Stories for Further Reading

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The Birthmark

*ZORA NEALE HURSTON, Spunk

JAMES JOYCE, Eveline

*e-Page: Listen to Gabriel Byrne reading James Joyce’s Eveline

JAMAICA KINCAID, Girl

*e-Page: Listen to Jamaica Kincaid reading Girl

ANNIE PROULX, 55 Miles to the Gas Pump

*e-Page: Listen to Campbell Scott and Frances Fisher reading Annie Proulx’s 55 Miles to the Gas Pump

MARK TWAIN, The Story of the Good Little Boy

POETRY

THE ELEMENTS OF POETRY

12. Reading Poetry

Reading Poetry Responsively

LISA PARKER, Snapping Beans

ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays

JOHN UPDIKE, Dog’s Death

The Pleasure of Words

WILLIAM HATHAWAY, Oh, Oh

A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Annotated Version of "Oh, Oh"

ROBERT FRANCIS, Catch

A SAMPLE STUDENT ANALYSIS: Tossing Metaphors Together in Robert Francis’ "Catch"

PHILIP LARKIN, A Study of Reading Habits

ROBERT MORGAN, Mountain Graveyard

E. E. CUMMINGS, l(a

ANONYMOUS, Western Wind

*ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Crossing the Bar

REGINA BARRECA, Nighttime Fires

*e-Page: Listen to Regina Barreca reading Nighttime Fires

Suggestions for Approaching Poetry

BILLY COLLINS, Introduction to Poetry

Poetry in Popular Forms

HELEN FARRIES, Magic of Love

JOHN FREDERICK NIMS, Love Poem

*BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Devils & Dust

Poems for Further Study

*CORNELIUS EADY, The Supremes

ALBERTO RÍOS, Seniors

LI HO, A Beautiful Girl Combs Her Hair

ROBERT FROST, Design

*EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Raven

MARY OLIVER, The Poet with His Face in His Hands

13. Word Choice, Word Order, and Tone

Word Choice

Diction

Denotations and Connotations

RANDALL JARRELL, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

*e-Page: Listen to Randall Jarrell reading The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Word Order

Tone

*COLETTE INEZ, Back When All Was Continuous Chuckles

*MARILYN NELSON, How I Discovered Poetry

KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN, Hazel Tells LaVerne

*e-Page: Listen to Katharyn Howd Machan reading Hazel Tells LaVerne

MARTÍN ESPADA, Latin Night at the Pawnshop

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, To a Captious Critic

Diction and Tone in Four Love Poems

ROBERT HERRICK, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

ANDREW MARVELL, To His Coy Mistress

*e-Page: Listen to Paul Muldoon reading Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress

ANN LAUINGER, Marvell Noir

SHARON OLDS, Last Night

*PERSPECTIVE: Barney and Clyde, The Defenestration of Frog

Poems for Further Study

THOMAS HARDY, The Convergence of the Twain

DAVID R. SLAVITT, Titanic

*JOANNE DIAZ, On My Father’s Loss of Hearing

*MARY OLIVER, Oxygen

GWENDOLYN BROOKS, We Real Cool

*e-Page: Listen to Gwendolyn Brooks reading We Real Cool

JOAN MURRAY, We Old Dudes

LOUIS SIMPSON, In the Suburbs

JOHN KEATS, Ode on a Grecian Urn

14. Images

Poetry’s Appeal to the Senses

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, Poem

WALT WHITMAN, Cavalry Crossing a Ford

*DAVID SOLWAY, Windsurfing

MATTHEW ARNOLD, Dover Beach

*RUTH FORMAN, Poetry Should Ride the Bus

Poems for Further Study

AMY LOWELL, The Pond

WILLIAM BLAKE, London

*MARY ROBINSON, London’s Summer Morning

EMILY DICKINSON, Wild Nights—Wild Nights!

WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est

*RUTH FAINLIGHT, Crocuses

SALLY CROFT, Home-Baked Bread

JOHN KEATS, To Autumn

15. Figures of Speech

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, From Macbeth (Act V, Scene v)

Simile and Metaphor

MARGARET ATWOOD, you fit into me

EMILY DICKINSON, Presentiment — is that long Shadow—on the lawn—

*ANNE BRADSTREET, The Author to Her Book

Other Figures

EDMUND CONTI, Pragmatist

DYLAN THOMAS, The Hand That Signed the Paper

JANICE TOWNLEY MOORE, To a Wasp

J. PATRICK LEWIS, The Unkindest Cut

Poems for Further Study

GARY SNYDER, How Poetry Comes to Me

ERNEST SLYMAN, Lightning Bugs

*WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, To Waken an Old Lady

JUDY PAGE HEITZMAN, The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill

*e-Page: Listen to Judy Page Heitzman reading The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, London, 1802

ROBERT FROST, Fire and Ice

JOHN DONNE, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

*JIM STEVENS, Schizophrenia

*WALT WHITMAN, A Noiseless Patient Spider

ELAINE MAGARRELL, The Joy of Cooking

16. Symbol, Allegory, and Irony

Symbol

ROBERT FROST, Acquainted with the Night

*e-Page: Listen to Robert Frost reading Acquainted with the Night

Allegory

EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Haunted Palace

Irony

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, Richard Cory

KENNETH FEARING, AD

E. E. CUMMINGS, next to of course god america i

*e-Page: Listen to E.E. Cummings reading next to of course god america i

STEPHEN CRANE, A Man Said to the Universe

Poems for Further Study

BOB HICOK, Making it in poetry

KEVIN PIERCE, Proof of Origin

CARL SANDBURG, Buttons

*ALLEN BRADEN, The Hemlock Tree

*JIM TILLEY, Boys

ALDEN NOWLAN, The Bull Moose

JULIO MARZÁN, Ethnic Poetry

*DENISE DUHAMEL, How It Will End

*MARK HALLIDAY, Graded Paper

ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess

*e-Page: Listen to Richard Howard reading Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess

WILLIAM BLAKE, The Chimney Sweeper

17. Sounds

Listening to Poetry

JOHN UPDIKE, Player Piano

MAY SWENSON, A Nosty Fright

EMILY DICKINSON, A Bird came down the Walk—

*ANYA KRUGOVOY SILVER, French Toast

Rhyme

RICHARD ARMOUR, Going to Extremes

ROBERT SOUTHEY, From "The Cataract of Lodore"

*ANDREW HUDGINS, The Cow

Poems for Further Study

LEWIS CARROLL (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON), Jabberwocky

*DIANE LOCKWARD, Linguine

EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a Fly buzz—when I died

*e-Page: Listen to Robert Pinsky reading Emily Dickinson’s I heard a Fly buzz—when I died

ROBERT FROST, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

*WILLIAM HEYEN, The Trains

JOHN DONNE, Song

PAUL HUMPHREY, Blow

ROBERT FRANCIS, The Pitcher

HELEN CHASIN, The Word Plum

*RICHARD WAKEFIELD, The Bell Rope

18. Patterns of Rhythm

Some Principles of Meter

WALT WHITMAN, From "Song of the Open Road"

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, My Heart Leaps Up

Suggestions for Scanning a Poem

TIMOTHY STEELE, Waiting for the Storm

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, That the Night Come

*e-Page: Listen to Samantha Eggar reading William Butler Yeats’ That the Night Come

Poems for Further Study

*JOHN MALONEY, Good!

*WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE, Drumming Behind You in the High School Band

ALICE JONES, The Foot

ROBERT HERRICK, Delight in Disorder

BEN JONSON, Still to Be Neat

WILLIAM BLAKE, The Lamb

*e-Page: Listen to Brian Murray reading William Blake’s The Lamb

WILLIAM BLAKE, The Tyger

CARL SANDBURG, Chicago

ROBERT FROST, "Out, Out—"

19. Poetic Forms

Some Common Poetic Forms

A. E. HOUSMAN, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

ROBERT HERRICK, Upon Julia’s Clothes

Sonnet

JOHN KEATS, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too Much with Us

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

*e-Page: Listen to Sir John Gielgud reading William Shakespeare’s Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun

*e-Page: Listen to Sir John Gielgud reading William Shakespeare’s My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun

*R.S. GWYNN, Shakespearean Sonnet

MOLLY PEACOCK, Desire

MARK JARMAN, Unholy Sonnet

*SHERMAN ALEXIE, The Facebook Sonnet

Villanelle

DYLAN THOMAS, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

*e-Page: Listen to Dylan Thomas reading Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Sestina

FLORENCE CASSEN MAYERS, All-American Sestina

Epigram

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, What Is an Epigram?

DAVID MCCORD, Epitaph on a Waiter

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, Theology

Limerick

Arthur Henry Reginald Butler, There was a young lady named Bright

LAURENCE PERRINE, The limerick’s never averse

Haiku

MATSUO BASHO, Under cherry trees

CAROLYN KIZER, After Basho

SONIA SANCHEZ, c’mon man hold me

Elegy

*BEN JONSON, On My First Son

BRENDAN GALVIN, An Evel Knievel Elegy

Ode

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Ode to the West Wind

Parody

BLANCHE FARLEY, The Lover Not Taken

PERSPECTIVE: ELAINE MITCHELL, Form

Picture Poem

MICHAEL MCFEE, In Medias Res

20. Open Form

WALT WHITMAN, From "I Sing the Body Electric"

*e-Page: Listen to Brian Murray reading from Walt Whitman’s I Sing the Body Electric

*DAVID SHUMATE, Shooting the Horse

*RICHARD HAGUE, Directions for Resisting the SAT

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Red Wheelbarrow

*e-Page: Listen to William Carlos Williams reading The Red Wheelbarrow

*ELLEN BASS, Gate C22

JULIO MARZÁN, The Translator at the Reception for Latin American Writers

ANONYMOUS, The Frog

*NATASHA TRETHEWEY, On Captivity

*CHRISTINA GEROGIANNIS, Headland

TATO LAVIERA, AmeRícan

PETER MEINKE, The ABC of Aerobics

Found Poem

DONALD JUSTICE, Order in the Streets

Poetry in Depth

21. A Study of Billy Collins: The Author Reflects on Five Poems

A Brief Biography and an Introduction to His Work

INTRODUCTION: BILLY COLLINS, How Do Poems Travel?

POEM: BILLY COLLINS, Osso Buco

ESSAY: BILLY COLLINS, On Writing "Osso Buco"

POEM: BILLY COLLINS, Nostalgia

ESSAY: BILLY COLLINS, On Writing "Nostalgia"

POEM: BILLY COLLINS, Questions About Angels

ESSAY: BILLY COLLINS, On Writing "Questions About Angels"

POEM: BILLY COLLINS, Litany

ESSAY: BILLY COLLINS, On Writing "Litany"

POEM: BILLY COLLINS, Building with Its Face Blown Off

PERSPECTIVE: On "Building with Its Face Blown Off": Michael Meyer Interviews Billy Collins

FACSIMILE: BILLY COLLINS, Draft Manuscript Page of "Busy Day"

Suggested Topics for Longer Papers

Questions for Writing about an Author in Depth

*22. A Thematic Case Study: The World of Work

*DANA GIOIA, Money

*TONY HOAGLAND, America

*JAN BEATTY, My Father Teaches Me to Dream

*MICHAEL CHITWOOD, Men Throwing Bricks

*DAVID IGNATOW, The Jobholder

*JOYCE SUTPHEN, Guys Like That

*MARGE PIERCY, To be of use

A Collection of Poems

23. Poems for Further Reading

*ANONYMOUS, Bonny Barbara Allan

WILLIAM BLAKE, Infant Sorrow

*ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, When our two souls stand up erect and strong

ROBERT BURNS, A Red, Red Rose

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON, She Walks in Beauty

LUCILLE CLIFTON, This Morning (For the Girls of Eastern High School)

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Kubla Khan: or, a Vision in a Dream

EMILY DICKINSON, Because I could not stop For Death

JOHN DONNE, The Flea

*e-Page: Listen to Richard Burton reading John Donne’s The Flea

*GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS), In a London Drawingroom

T.S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

*e-Page: Listen to T.S. Eliot reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

ROBERT FROST, Mending Wall

*e-Page: Listen to Robert Frost reading Mending Wall

ROBERT FROST, The Road Not Taken

THOMAS HARDY, Hap

*FRANCES E. W. HARPER, Learning to Read

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Pied Beauty

A. E. HOUSMAN, To an Athlete Dying Young

*JULIA WARD HOWE, Battle-Hymn of the Republic

LANGSTON HUGHES, Harlem

*e-Page: Listen to Langston Hughes reading Harlem

*GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON, Calling Dreams

BEN JONSON, To Celia

JOHN KEATS, La Belle Dame sans Merci

*e-Page: Listen to Sir Ralph Richardson reading John Keats’ La Belle Dame sans Merci

JOHN KEATS, Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition

EMMA LAZARUS, The New Colossus

*AMY LOWELL, A Decade

*JILL MCDONOUGH, Accident, Mass. Ave.

*CLAUDE MCKAY, The Lynching

JOHN MILTON, When I consider how my light is spent

*e-Page: Listen to Robert Speaight reading John Milton’s When I consider how my light is spent

CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI, Some Ladies Dress in Muslin Full and White

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, That time of year thou mayst in me behold

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Ozymandias

*LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY, Indian Names

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Ulysses

WALT WHITMAN, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The Solitary Reaper

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Mutability

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, Leda and the Swan

DRAMA

The Study of Drama

24. Reading Drama

Reading Drama Responsively

SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles

*e-Page: Listen to Jeanie Hackett, Amy Madigan, Sam McMurray, Steven Vinovich, and Steven Weber reading Susan Glaspell’s Trifles

A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Annotated Section of Trifles

Elements of Drama

JOAN ACKERMANN, Quiet Torrential Sound

Drama in Popular Forms

LARRY DAVID, "The Pitch," a Seinfeld Episode

25. Sophocles and Greek Drama

Theatrical Conventions of Greek Drama

Tragedy

SOPHOCLES, Oedipus the King (Translated by Robert Fagles)

26. William Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama

Shakespeare’s Theater

The Range of Shakespeare’s Drama: History, Comedy, and Tragedy

A Note on Reading Shakespeare

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Othello, The Moor of Venice

*e-Page: Listen to Chicago’s Shakespeare Repertory reading a scene from William Shakespeare’s Othello, The Moor of Venice

27. Henrik Ibsen and Modern Drama

Realism

Theatrical Conventions of Modern Drama

HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll House (Translated by Rolf Fjelde)

28. A Collection of Short Plays

*MICHAEL HOLLINGER, Naked Lunch

SHARON E. COOPER, Mistaken Identity

*ANDREW BISS, What’s the Meta?

DAVID HENRY HWANG, Trying to Find Chinatown

*DAVID IVES, The Blizzard

JANE MARTIN, Rodeo

JANE ANDERSON, The Reprimand

CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING

29. Reading and the Writing Process

The Purpose and Value of Writing about Literature

Reading the Work Closely

Annotating the Text and Journal Note Taking

     Annotated Text

     Journal Note

Choosing a Topic

Developing a Thesis

Arguing about Literature

Organizing a Paper

Writing a Draft

     Writing the Introduction and Conclusion

     Using Quotations

Revising and Editing

     QUESTIONS FOR WRITING: A REVISION CHECKLIST

Types of Writing Assignments

30. Writing about Fiction

From Reading to Writing

     QUESTIONS FOR RESPONSIVE READING AND WRITING

Analysis

     A SAMPLE STUDENT ANALYSIS: John Updike’s "A&P" as a State of Mind

31. Writing about Poetry

From Reading to Writing

     QUESTIONS FOR RESPONSIVE READING AND WRITING

Explication

A SAMPLE PAPER-IN-PROGRESS

     Mapping the Poem

     JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud

     Asking Questions about the Elements

     A SAMPLE FIRST RESPONSE: First Response to John Donne’s "Death Be Not Proud"

     Organizing Your Thoughts

     A SAMPLE INFORMAL OUTLINE: Proposed Outline for Paper on John Donne’s "Death Be Not Proud"

     The Elements and Theme

     FINAL PAPER: A SAMPLE EXPLICATION

     The Use of Conventional Metaphors for Death in John Donne’s "Death Be Not Proud"

A SAMPLE STUDENT EXPLICATION

     EMILY DICKINSON, There’s a certain Slant of light

     A Reading of Emily Dickinson’s "There’s a certain Slant of light"

32. Writing about Drama

From Reading to Writing

     QUESTIONS FOR RESPONSIVE READING AND WRITING

Comparison and Contrast

*A SAMPLE STUDENT COMPARISON: The Struggle for Women’s Self-Definition in Ibsen’s A Doll House and James Joyce’s Eveline

33. The Literary Research Paper

Choosing a Topic

Finding Sources

     Electronic Sources

Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes

Developing a Thesis and Organizing the Paper

Revising

Documenting Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism

     The List of Works Cited

     Parenthetical References

     A SAMPLE STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER: How William Faulkner’s Narrator Cultivates a Rose for Emily

Glossary of Literary Terms

Index of First Lines

Index of Authors and Titles

Index of Terms

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