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8 Poetry 493

skill workshop Essential Elements of Poetry 494
Contents
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 494

creative writing extension Writing Poetry 507

section 1
Darius V. Daughtry, what can a poem do? 513
Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven 517
David Alpaugh, Space Monkey 523
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool 526
Ha Jin, I Woke Up — Smiling 529

section 2
Nate Marshall, Harold’s Chicken Shack #86 532
Naomi Shihab Nye, Kindness 535
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 538
Pippa Little, Turning the Ship for Home and Then the Telling 541
Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death 544

central text Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again 548

conversation / How do we find common ground? 553
Chris Tognotti, from Finding Common Ground in Political Conversations 554
Leigh Morrison, from Common Ground Does Not Spell Compromise 555
Margaret Spellings and John Bridgeland, from You’re being fed lies: How Americans can find truth
in the age of misinformation 557
Pew Research Center, Partisan Antipathy: More Intense, More Personal (graphs) 559

section 3
Nikki Giovanni, Ego-Tripping (there may be a reason why) 562
Layli Long Soldier, from Whereas 565
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn 571
Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself 575

writing workshop Writing an Analysis of Poetry 582

public speaking extension Oral Interpretation of a Poem 594

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