Resources
Student guide to genius
Cla** list
Whitman
One's Self I Sing
I Hear America Singing
As Adam Early in the Morning
For You O Democracy
I Hear It was Charged Against Me
A Glimpse
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Song of Myself See part 52 for lines on dirt
Dickinson
There's a Certain Slant of Light
I Felt a Funeral in my Brain
The Soul selects her own Society
After a great pain, a formal feeling comes
I heard a Fly Buzz
I started early
I like to see it lap the Miles
A still--Volcano--life
They shut me up in prose
I dwell in Possibility
Because I could not stop for d**h
My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun
Title divine--is mine
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Volcanoes be in Sicily
Eliot
The Waste Land
Great source for various interpretations of "The Waste Land"
William Carlos Williams
Spring and All
The Red Wheelbarrow
To Elsie
This is just to say
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
The Rose is Obsolete
William Butler Yeats
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Fever 103 (public version)
Fever 103 (for you to annotate)
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
Joe Weil
Ode to Elizabeth
So Kiss Me, a**hole
Paunch
Filthy River
Charles Bukowski
dinosauria, we
Seamus Heaney
Digging
Bruce Guernsey
Stones
Gary Snyder
Riprap
Theodore Roethke
Root Cellar
Transplanting
Tom Waits
Dirt in the Ground
Nicolás Guillén
Far off...
What Color?
Langston Hughes
Let America be America Again
Tim O'Brien
How to Tell a True War Story
Flannery O'Connor
Good Country People
Working definitions of literature
Literature is any written work of all and various genres that are thoughtfully worded to convey a specific purpose and/or idea.
Literature is a term used to describe written and spoken words that are thoughtfully worded to convey an idea, often for the purpose of provoking emotion.