Norton, 2036-39; Poetry Foundation “Rhyme”

Seamus Heaney, “Digging” (1899)

Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” (977)

Claude McKay, “The Tropics in New York”

Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting”

Stephen Fry, pp. 1-11 & Chart on p. 120 (Course Reserves)

Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (478)

John Keats, “Ode to a Grecian Urn” (938); “When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be” (906)

William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18” (259)

Langston Hughes, “Harlem” (1433); “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1430)

Emily Dickinson, (“I like to see it lap the miles”) (1117) (“’Hope’ is the thing with feathers –“) (1114) (“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”) (1115)

Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus” (1843)

Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day”

Tasks: 1) Subscribe to Poem-a-Day’s digital poetry series;
2) Log on to scholarblogs.emory.edu to be added to the course website

Read & listen to Abel Meeropol’s “Strange Fruit” as sung by Billie Holiday: http://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/158933012/the-strange-story-of-the-man-behind-strange-fruit

Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz” (1494)

William Blake, “The Tyger” (743)

Suji Kwock Kim, “Montage with Neon, Bok Choi, Gasoline, Lovers & Strangers”