Dr. Gerling and the 2016 lit cla** - Texts we're engaging this semester lyrics

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Williams Spring and All The Red Wheelbarrow To Elsie This is just to say Landscape with the Fall of Icarus The Rose is Obsolete William Butler Yeats Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop Sylvia Plath Fever 103 (public version) Fever 103 (for you to annotate) Robert Frost The Road Not Taken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.