Reading Assignments: Fifteen poems
• “Traveling Through the Dark,” William Stafford, p. 440
• “My Papa’s Waltz,” Theodore Roethke, p. 479
• “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” by William Shakespeare, p. 487
• “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” Dylan Thomas,
p. 491
p. 491
• “Alzheimer’s,” Kelly Cherry, p. 512
• “Building with Its Face Blown Off,” Billy Collins, p. 541
• “The Video,” Fleur Adcock, p. 551
• “A Red, Red Rose,” Robert Burns, p. 561
• “this morning (for the girls of eastern high school),” Lucille Clifton, p. 563
• “Because I could not stop for Death –,” Emily Dickinson, p. 565
• “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost, p. 574
• “Pied Beauty,” Gerard Manley Hopkins, p. 575
• “Harlem,” Langston Hughes, p. 576
• “The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus, p. 579
• “They,” Siegfried Sassoon, p. 581
