Introduction to Poetry

• W. Shakespeare—“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
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• Milton—“On His Blindness”
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• John Donne—“The Good-Morrow”
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• R. Herrick—“To Daffodils”
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• Thomas Gray—“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
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• W. Wordsworth—“I wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
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• P.B. Shelley—“Ode to the West Wind”
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• John Keats—“To Autumn”
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• A. Tennyson—“Ulysses”
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• R. Browning—“Patriot”
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• Elizabeth B. Browning—“How do I love thee”
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• W. Whitman—“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
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• Emily Dickinson—“Because I Could not stop for Death”
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• W.B. Yeats—“A Prayer for My Daughter”
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• R. Frost—“Home Burial”
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• D.H. Lawrence—“The Piano”
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• Dylan Thomas—“Fern Hill”
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• Ted Hughes—“Pike”
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• R. Tagore—“Where the mind is without fear” (Gitanjali-35)
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• Kaiser Huq—“Learning Grief”
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Literary Terms:
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Metonymy, Symbol, Irony, Climax, Anticlimax, Alliteration, Assonance, Hyperbole, Paradox, Onomatopoeia, Bathos, Allusion, Conceit, Pun, Imagery, Elegy, Sonnet, Lyric, Dramatic Monologue, Ode, Ballad, Fable, Satire, Lampoon

Prosody:
Accent, Foot/Measure, Blank Verse, Rhyme, Tercet, Couplet, Heroic Couplet, Scansion of verse and others.