Summary
"WESTERN WIND" is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into a book that teaches as well as inspires. The text also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-color reproductions of great works of art. .
Table of Contents
Part One: The Senses1. WHERE EXPERIENCE STARTS: The ImageThe Role Of The SensesAnonymous, Western WindArchibald Macleish, ElevenSappho, There's A ManT.S. Eliot, PreludesAnonymous, Brief AutumnalThe Specific ImageEzra Pound, In A Station Of The Metro Alba ("As cool as the pale wet leaves...")Anthony Hecht, The End Of The WeekendAnonymous, Sir Patrick SpensExercises And DiversionsBrewester Ghiselin, Rattler, AlertSappho, Leaving Crete, Come Visit Again2. WHAT'S IT LIKE? Simile, Metaphor and Other FiguresSimile And MetaphorRobinson Jeffers, The Purse-SeineRobert Frost, The Silken TentEmily Dickinson, My Life Had Stood--A Loaded GunLinda Pastan, ReturningMargaret Atwood, HabitationWilliam Butler Yeats, No Second TroyRobert Frost, A Patch Of Old SnowHelen Chasin, City PigeonsAnalogyWalter De La Mare, All But BlindSynesthia AllusionAlexander Pope, Intended For Sir Isaac NewtonPersonfication, MythologyKarl Shapiro, A Cut FlowerWilliam Butler Yeats, Leda And The SwanWalter Savage Landor, DirceExercises And DiversionsAlan Shapiro, Against Poets3. THE BROKEN COIN: The Use Of SymbolSynecdoche, MetonymyThe SymbolHoward Nemerov, MoneyPlato, The AppleGeorge Herbert, HopeWilliam Blake, The Sick RoseRobert Frost, Acquainted With The NightSaint John Of The Cross, The Dark NightThing-PoemsRainer Maria Rilke, The Merry-Go-RoundWilliam Carlos Williams, NantucketKarl Shapiro, Girls Working In BanksAllegorySir Thomas Wyatt, My Galley Charged with ForgetfulnessKingsley Amis, A Note on WyattBilly Collins, The Death of AllegoryExercises and DiversionsJohn Crowe Ransom, Good ShipsCarl Sandburg, A Fence4. BINOCULAR VISION: Antipoetry, Paradox, Irony, the Withheld ImageAntipoetryWilliam Shakespeare, WinterFrancis P. Osgood, Winter Fairyland In VermontElizabeth Bishop, Filling StationWalt Whitman, BeautyWilliam Shakespeare, Sonnet 130ParadoxRobert Graves, The Face In The MirrorAlexander Pope, From Essay On ManIronyUnderstatement--The Withheld ImageSimonides, On The Spartan Dead At ThermopylaeX.J. Kennedy, Loose WomanOverstatementRobert Graves, SpoilsExercises & DiversionsRod Taylor, Dakota: October, 1822: Hunkpapa WarriorWallace Stevens, The Emperor Of Ice-CreamPart Two: The Emotions.5. THE COLOR OF THOUGHT: The Emotions in PoetryThe Role Of EmotionWilliam Butler Yeats, The SpurWalter Savage Landor, Alas! 'Tis Very Sad To HearDick Davis, DesireAmmianus, Epitaph of NearchosW.H. Auden, The Shield of AchillesSense And SentimentalityAnonymous, The Unquiet GraveAnonymous, Papa's LetterJohn Crowe Ransom, Bells For John Whiteside's DaughterAlgernon Charles Swinburne, Etude Realiste (I)James Wright, A Song For The Middle Of The NightWill Allen Dromoole, Old LadiesJohn Crowe Ransom, Blue GirlsMay Swenson, Cat & The WeatherWilliam Stafford, Traveling Through The DarkMary Tacher Higginson, Ghost-FlowersTheodore Roethke, The GeraniumLaurence Hope, YouthExercises and DiversionsKenneth Fearing, Yes, The Agency Can Handle ThatPart Three: The Words.6. MACHINE FOR MAGIC: The Fresh Usual WordsLiving WordsKenneth Patchen, Moon, Sun, Sleep, Birds, LiveRobert Frost, Dust Of Snow; Neither Out Far Nor In DeepEmily Dickinson, A Narrow Fellow In The Grass;Less Is MoreAlfred, Lord Tennyson, Break, Break, BreakA.E. Housman, Along the Field as We Came ByWilliam Butler Yeats, An Irish Airman Foresees His DeathEzra Pound, The Bath TubHilaire Belloc, On His BooksRobert Frost, The Wrights' BiplaneWilliam Stafford, Godiva County, MontanaW.H. Auden, The WandererExercises and DiversionsRandall Jarrell, The Knight, Death, And The DevilPart Four: The Sounds.7. GOLD IN THE ORE: The Sounds Of EnglishGail Tremblay, Not SenseVowelsDylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good NightRobert Frost, Once By The PacificE.E. Cummings, Chansons Innocentes, IConsonantsExercises and DiversionsJohn Milton, On The Late Massacre In Piedmont8. WORKING WITH GOLD: The Devices of SoundLanguage As MimicryJohn Updike, Player PianoA Reason For Rhyme?Erza Pound, Alba ("When the nightingale . . .") Off-RhymeWilfred Owen, Anthem For Doomed Youth;Arms And The BoyThe Music Of PoetryAnonymous, The Streets of LaredoCharles Causley, Lord LovelaceExercises & DiversionsT.S. Eliot, New HampshireWilliam Butler Yeats, Under Ben Bulben, VIEdwin Arlington Robinson, The Dark HillsPart Five: The Rhythms.9. THE DANCER AND THE DANCE: The Play of RhythmsRhythmRepetition As RhythmRobert Graves, Counting The BeatsWalt Whitman, From Leaves Of GrassThe Rhythm Of AccentA Note On ScansionChristian Morgenstern, Fish's NightsongIambic PentameterVariations On IambicWilliam Shakespeare, Sonnet 66Meter And RhythmWilliam Butler Yeats, The Second ComingLine LengthMatthew Arnold, Dover BeachA.E. Housman, I to My PerilsTheodore Roethke, My Papa's WaltzExercises and DiversionsWilliam Browne, On The Countess Dowager Of PembrokeKatherine McAlpine, That Ghastly Night in Dover10. DIFFERENT DRUMMERS: Rhythms Old and NewOther Syllable-Stress RhythmsGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron, The Destruction Of SennacheribWilliam Blake, Ah, Sun-Flower Strong-Stress RhythmsAnnonymous, I Have Labored SoreRichard Wilbur, FunkAnonymous, From Ubi Sunt Quiante Nos Fuerunt?E.E. Cummings, if everything happens that can't be doneDudley Randall, Blackberry SweetSprung RhythmA Word About QuantityWilliam Meredith, Effort At SpeechSyllabic MeterJames Tate, Miss Cho Composes In The CafeteriaRobert Morgan, Grandma's BureauDave Etter, RompFree Verse, Free RhythnsEzra Pound, The ReturnStephen Crane, A Man Said To The UniverseThe Variable FootWilliam Carlos Williams, The DescentConcrete PoetryEmmett Williams, Like Attracts LikeThe Prose PoemHanjorg Mayer, OilExercises and DiversionsWilliam Carlos Williams, IrisPart Six: The Mind.11. THE SHAPE OF THOUGHT: We Go A-SentencingThe SentenceEugenio Montale, The EelGwendolyn Brooks, We, Real CoolUse Of ConnectivesJacques Prevert, The MessageParallelismWalt Whitman, I Hear America SingingGail Tremblay, It Is ImportantSentence StructureE.E. Cummings, Me up at doesPeter Viereck, To Helen Of Troy (N.Y.)Robert Frost, Beyond WordsAlice Fulton, What I LikeKenneth Patchen, O All down within Pretty MeadowJohn Clare, Remember Dear MaryLevels Of LanguageRobert Graves, The Persian VersionEdward Field, Curse of the Cat WomanNew Words, New LanguageE.E. Cummings, wherelings whenlingsExercises & Diversions12. GOLDEN NUMBERS: On Nature and FormWilliam Butler Yeats, The StatuesJohn Donne, The AnniversaryWilliam Butler Yeats, The Lover Mourns For The Loss Of LoveFixed Stanza FormsHoward Nemerov, "Good-Bye," Said The River, "I'm Going Downstream"X.J. Kennedy, On a Given BookBruce Bennett, On Being Immortalized in BronzeAmareh, I'll Hide Within My Poems (trans. Dick Davis)Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's ClothesWilliam Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit SealEdgar Allen Poe, To HelenFixed Forms For PoemsGeorge Meredith, Lucifer in StarlightWilliam Shakespeare, Sonnet 29Howard Nemerov, A Primer of the Daily RoundGwendolyn Brooks, The Rites For Cousin VitMarilyn Hacker, Dear Julie, Provincetown Is Not AntibesGerard Manley Hopkins, Pied BeautyMona Van Duyn, Sonnet For MinimalistsFrancois Villon, Ballade to His MistressFrances Cornford, To A Fat Lady Seen From The TrainFrederick Morgan, 1904Lady Izumi Shikibu, Lying Here AloneAdelaine Crapsey, Cinquain: A WarningBasho, Evening Darkens. Hunched; Lightning In The Clouds!Richard Wilbur, Sleepless At Crown PointR.S. Gwynn, Black HelicoptersAnonymous, Sir Isaac NewtonE. William Seaman, Higgledy-piggledyPaul Pascal, TactAnonymous, There Was A Young Lady Of TottenhamExercises and DiversionsA.E. Housman, With Rue My Heart Is LadenThomas Hardy, I Look Into My Glass13. A HEAD ON ITS SHOULDERS: Common Sense, Uncommon SenseCommon SenseMiller Williams: A Poem For Emily
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