Anoka Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus
Prof. Scott R. Stankey
Introduction to Literature -- Poetry
General Information about Poetry
Different Ways to Classify Poetry
Poetry Information -- A Quick Introduction
Poetry Information -- More Introductory Terminology
Poetry Information -- The Sounds of Words
Poetry Information -- The Meanings of Words
Poetry Information -- The Forms of Poetry
"Death Be Not Proud" by John Donne -- read with John Donne's "Batter my heart"
"Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant -- read with Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" and Philip Freneau's "The Indian Burying Ground"
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman -- read with Walt Whitman's "A Noiseless Patient Spider"
"Richard Cory" by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel -- read with Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory"
"Afternoons and Coffeespoons" by the Crash Test Dummies -- read with T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"The Armadillo" by Elizabeth Bishop -- read with Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour"
"Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins
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