 | Drive, they said : poems about Americans and their cars by Kurt Brown | DromJohn | I know a man, Robert Creeley, The Great escape, Men in cars, Driving Montana, Richard Hugo, Goodbye Iowa, Expressways, J. D. Reed, Perpetual motion, Tony Hoagland, Sand City, James Haug, So long Tuscaloosa, Michael Pettit, Hitting the road, Donald Finkel, Traveller's advisory, David Clewell, So this is Nebraska, Ted Kooser, On our way, Greg Pape, Black road over which green trees grow, Thomas Lux, A Night and morning first time drive to Portland, Driving through Oregon (Dec. 1973), John Haines, In the realm of the ignition, James Tate, Losing WSUI, Michael Dennis Browne, Cutting loose on an August night, Jonathan Holden, Driving again, Lawrence Joseph, Road life, Reg Saner, Pickup, Philip Booth, Women in cars, Adrenalin run, Martha McFerren, Leaving in 1927, Every spring on certain nights, Veronica Patterson, Jurassic, Anne Waldman, Driving to Houston, Linda Gregg, Highway, Gene Zeiger, Leaving the mountains, Joyce Carol Oates, Angel fire, Exodus, Beth Houston, Route 280, Martha Hollander, As the birds, Terese Svoboda, There in my grandfather's old green Buick, Lynn Knight, Nandia, Joy Harjo, Alive, Jo Harjo, Interstate 80, Barbara M. Smith, Night blindness, Desert, Holding the family together, Maggie Anderson, A Metaphor crosses the road, Reasons for wanting to have children, Sheryl St. Germain, Night driving, Driving at night, Linda Hogan, Scenic route, Lisel Mueller, Driving after supper, Marianne Boruch, Driving into yourself, Mimosa, Deborah Digges, Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River, Robert Bly, Driving toward Boston I run across one of Robert Bly's old poems, Thomas McGrath, To a wall of flame in a steel mill Syracuse New York 1969, Larry Levis, Fences, Ki Davis, The Sunday driver in search of himself, Walking to Manhattan, Robert Hill Long, Virginia evening, Meeting the dead, Alicia Ostriker, Traffic, Stephen Dobyns, A Trucker drives through his lost youth, David Bottoms, Taking a stepdaughter to college, Kurt Brown, Driving all night, William Matthews, Driving alongside the Housatonic River alone on a rainy April night, Porcupine on the road to the river, Toward the Verrazano, Stephen Dunn, Key to the highway, Mark Halliday, For a friend, Driving into the hurricane, Encounter, Bruce Berger, Ranch exit, There is no way back, Patricia Monaghan, I see Chile in my rearview mirror, Agha Shahid Ali, Crossing west Nebraska looking for Blue Mountain, John Balaban, Driving out again at night, Stephen Berg, Lonesome pine special, Charles Wright, Stopping by the side of the road, At Kresge's diner in Stonefalls Arkansas, Edward Hirsch, Truck stop Minnesota, Little America, Rosebud, Jon Anderson, Interstate, At every gas station there are mechanics, Filling station, Elizabeth Bishop, Bison and ass, Karen Swenson, The Stones of my women, Hard river, James Finnegan, The Official Frisbee-chasing champion of Colorado, Rest stop, When the blue light comes a whirling up behind, Peter Sears, A Roadside near Ithaca, On picking and smelling a wild violet while wearing driving gloves, L. E. Sissman, Among blackberries, The Quilt, Beer, The Gas station, C. K. Williams, The Cows at night, Hayden Carruth, Territory of night, Fox, Great Basin blues, Wanting to be Death Valley, Riding westward, Coming home late from work ... from Cora Fry, Rosellen Brown, Travelling through the dark, William Stafford, Painting by number, At Slim's river, Poem, Denis Johnson, Head on, The Weather is brought to you, Scenes from a text, Robert Sward, Epistemology, Accident, Accidents, I hit the tree ... from Cora Fry, The Scarred girl, James Dickey, License to operate a motor vehicle, Highway: Michigan, Theodore Roethke, The Pileup, Lee Ballentine, The Wrecker, Driving home, Joseph Hutchison, Night: driving the blizzard, Ground blizzard interstate 70, Accident in the snow on the way to Amadeus, The Long drive home through heavy weather, Nick Bozanic, The House in the road, Henry Taylor, Wife hits moose, Turnpike, Burying an animal on the way to New York, Gerald Stern, Behaving like a Jew, 13th & Aloha, Daniel Hall, Elegy for Michael a friend killed in his car, Auto wreck, Karl Shapiro, Driving as metaphor, Concerning the transmission, The Drivers, Len Roberts, The Driving lesson, The Metaphysical automobile, Howard Nemerov, Fugue, Gleaning, Linda Pastan, urj, urs, dsp |
 | Understanding poetry by Cleanth Brooks | DromJohn | Poetry as a way of saying, Dramatic situation, Sonnet 73, William Shakespeare, Out out, Robert Frost, Frankie and Johnny, Anonymous, Jesse James, Sir Patrick Spence, The Demon lover, Mama and daughter, Langston Hughes, The Echoing green, William Blake, Battle of the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis, Walt Whitman, Danny Deever, Rudyard Kipling, Farewell to barn and stack and tree, A. E. Housman, Ten days leave, W. D. Snodgrass, Waking in the blue, Robert Lowell, Meeting at night, Robert Browning, The Workbox, Thomas Hardy, The Fall of Rome, W. H. Auden, Rhythm and meter, Supplemental poems, The Code, The Three rivers, The Twa Corbies, The Cameo, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Hell gate, Proud Maisie, Sir Walter Scott, La Belle dame sans merci, John Keats, The Haunted oak, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Description: images moods and attitudes, Three short Japanese poems, In a station of the Metro, Ezra Pound, Red wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams, Written in March, William Wordsworth, Pippa's song, Dust of snow, November cotton flower, Jean Toomer, Beloved let us once more praise the rain, Conrad Aiken, Two voices in a meadow, Richard Wilbur, Cavalry crossing a ford, Cuttings, Theodore Roethke, Inversnaid, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring, Winter, To autumn, Ode: autumn, Thomas Hood, Composed on Westminster Bridge, Preludes, T. S. Eliot, Blow bugle blow, Channel firing: a second look, from The Palace of Art, The Main-deep, James Stephens, Pear tree, H. D., Hilda Doolittle, Heat, The Sun has set, Emily Brontë, You know, Jean Garrigue, The Woodspurge, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Geranium, Separation on the River Kiang, The River-merchants wife: a letter, Rocky acres, Robert Graves, A Letter from the Caribbean, Barbara Howes, The Yew in the churchyard, Yew-trees, Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong, Henry David Thoreau, Tone, Three poems of national celebration, from On the jubilee of Queen Victoria, 1887, Recessional, Death in battle, Somebody's darling, Marie Ravenel de la Coste, Inscription, Herman Melville, Come up from the fields father, Dulce et decorum est, Wilfred Owen, The Lovers give up the world, Let the rest of the world go by, J. Keirn Brennan, Maesia's song, Robert Greene, The Canonization, John Donne, A Garland of love poems, Western wind, When love meets love, Thomas Edward Brown, Fatima, Let me not to the marriage of true minds, If thou must love me, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lullaby, The Miser and the spendthrift, from Don Juan, George Gordon Lord Byron, To a young heir, Samuel Johnson, Provide provide, Against the establishment, London, from Beppo, England in 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, An Elementary school classroom in a slum, Stephen Spender, Joe Hill, Alfred Hayes, Sam Hall, For the union dead, Puzzled, Kitchenette building, Gwendolyn Brooks, If we must die, Claude McKay, A Supermarket in California, Allen Ginsberg, Eve in the garden, Eve, Ralph Hodgson, Arthur J. Bull, from Paradise lost, John Milton, Modern war, A Utilitarian's view of the Monitor's fight, The Death of the ball turret gunner, Randall Jarrell, The Fury of aerial bombardment, Richard Eberhart, Naming of parts, Henry Reed, The Leg, Karl Shapiro, Death and mourning, After the burial, James Russell Lowell, A Refusal to mourn the death by fire of a child in London, Dylan Thomas, Luke Havergal, Edwin Arlington Robinson, At he slackening of the tide, James Wright, Bells for John Whiteside's daughter, John Crowe Ransom, Epitaph on Salomon Pavy, Ben Jonson, A Second garland of love poems, Winter remembered, La Figlia che piange, A Litany, Sir Philip Sidney, I knew a woman, Four New England poems, Mr. Flood's party, Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening, Father, John Wheelwright, Tell all the truth, Emily Dickinson, Analogical language: metaphor and symbol, Atmosphere to symbol, Mariana, Anecdote of the jar, Wallace Stevens, The Lamb, The Tiger, Image to metaphor, Desert places, The Song of the smoke, W. E. B. Du Bois, The Windhover, The Goat paths, A City sleeper, Jonathan Swift, Go lovely rose, Edmund Waller, Follow thy fair sun unhappy shadow, Thomas Campion, Blame not my checks, My springs, Sidney Lanier, Image in the discourse of a poem, She dwelt among the untrodden ways, The Definition of love, Andrew Marvell, You're the top, Cole Porter, Cleopatra's lament, Macbeth thinks of murdering the king, At Melville's tomb, Hart Crane, Image as summary, Sylvester's dying bed, Dark house, Commemorative of a naval victory, A Valediction: forbidding mourning, Combination and variation, Tears idle tears, A Lecture upon the shadow, As I walked out one evening, After great pain a formal feeling comes --, Evening song, On the founding of Liberia, Melvin Tolson, Love and time, Sonnet 65, To his coy mistress, Because I could not stop for death --, Envoi, Empty bed blues, Bessie Smith, The Last days of Alice, Allen Tate, Voyages, Night, Louise Bogan, The Goldfish wife, Sandra Hochman, Love calls us to the things of this world, Theme meaning and dramatic structure, Death and renown, Death the leveler, James Shirley, When I have fears, Elegy written in a country churchyard, Thomas Gray, In memory of W. B. Yeats, The Country wedding, The Joys of the simple life, Under the greenwood tree, Art thou poor yet hast thou golden slumbers?, Thomas Dekker, To the four courts please, Two songs from Sweeney Agonistes, The Breakup of a civilization, The Unknown citizen, Shine perishing republic, Robinson Jeffers, from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, The Second coming, William Butler Yeats, The Waste land, Man and nature, After apple-picking, The Miracle, Walter de la Mare, The Forces that through the green fuse, A Slumber did my spirit seal, The Eagle and the mole, Elinor Wylie, Brahma, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ode on a Grecian urn, The False lover or indifferent lover, Careless love, Ye flowery banks, Robert Burns, When lovely woman stoops to folly, Oliver Goldsmith, The Dark-eyed gentleman, My silks and fine array, I shall go back, Early evening quarrel, Belief (including the problems of believing), The Scoffers, If poisonous minerals, Church going, Philip Larkin, Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold, Lycidas, The Day after Sunday, Phyllis McGinley, Applications: the poet looks at a bird, Hawk roosting, Ted Hughes, Hurt hawks, The Owl, Edward Thomas, The Darkling thrush, Bantams in pine-woods, Little trotty wagtail, John Clare, Philomela, The Need of being versed in country things, The Wild swans at Coole, Wild swans, Sailing to Byzantium, Ode to a nightingale, The Eagle, Gamecock, James Dickey, The Solitary reaper, Lady lost, Nightingales, Robert Bridges, No swan so fine, Marianne Moore, Poems for study, A Grave, Little exercise, Elizabeth Bishop, The Snow-storm, Snow-flakes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Season 'tis my lovely lambs, E. E. Cummings, Epitaph on an army of mercenaries, Ode to the Confederate dead, The Heron, Vernon Watkins, The Gallows, The Cottage hospital, John Betjeman, The Groundhog, The Heavy bear who goes with me, Delmore Schwartz, Thou art indeed just lord, Lucifer in starlight, George Meredith, The Visitant, Piano, D. H. Lawrence, Losses, Song for the last act, The Soul selects, Love in vain, Robert Johnson, I shall not care, Sara Teasdale, My father moved through dooms of love, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's city, Archibald MacLeish, Grapes making, Léonie Adams, The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket, The Last ride together, The Going, O black and unknown birds, James Weldon Johnson, We wear the mask, Swing low sweet chariot, I know moonrise, Upon a dying lady, Representative poems of our time, Hardweed path going, A. R. Ammons, These lacustrine cities, John Ashbery, Sand Creek, Charles Ballard, Poem for Halfwhite college students, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Leroi Jones, from Eleven addresses to the lord, John Berryman, The Figures, Robert Creeley, Bed time, Peter Davison, Faces seen once, My sad self, Mothers, Nikki Giovanni, For my mother, Louise Glück, Christmas eve in Whitneyville 1955, Donald Hall, Those winter Sundays, Robert Hayden, More light! more light!, Anthony Hecht, The Center of attention, Daniel Hoffman, The Curse, John Hollander, A Far cry after a close call, Richard Howard, Graves at Elkhorn, Richard Hugo, Europe and America, David Ignatow, How you get born, Erica Jong, Counting the mad, Donald Justice, Getting the mail, Galway Kinnell, Hard Rock returns to prison, Etheridge Knight, I think of Housman, Judith Kroll, The Testing-tree, Stanley Kunitz, The Old Adam, Denise Levertov, The Open sea, William Meredith, Thistledown, James Merrill, The Widow, W. S. Merwin, Earth and I gave you turquoise, N. Scott Momaday, I saw my darling, Frederick Morgan, Long Island springs, Howard Moss, from Life on Earth, Frank O'Hara, The Quiet fog, Marge Piercy, Daddy, Sylvia Plath, The Feral pioneers, Ishmael Reed, Living in sin, Adrienne Rich, Poem (I lived in the first century), Murial Rukeyeser, Summer words for a sister addict, Sonia Sanchez, from The Modes of Vallejo Street, Hugh Seidman, For my love returning to his wife, Anne Sexton, Love poem, Leslie Marmon Silko, Stumpfoot on 42nd Street, Louis Simpson, Mementos I, All the spirit powers went to their dancing place, Gary Snyder, In times of need, William Stafford, from Elegy for my father, Mark Strand, How to be old, May Swenson, The Lost pilot, James Tate, In the churchyard, Eleanor Ross Taylor, The Gardner to his god, Mona Van Duyn, In the badlands, David Wagoner, Placing a $2 bet, Diane Wakoski, A Far cry from Africa, Derek Walcott, Birth of love, Robert Penn Warren, The Minneapolis poem, How poems come about: intention and meaning, I hoed and trenched and weeded, The Woman at the Washington zoo, The Immortal part, To an athlete dying young, I wandered lonely as a cloud, Metrics, Accentual-syllable verse, Feet and line lengths: terms defined, Rhetorical variation, Substitution of feet, Defective feet, Significance of rhetorical variation, Some practical notes on scansion, Anapestic and dactylic meter, Why so pale and wan?, Sir John Suckling, End-line and internal pauses, Like as the waves, To Heaven, Ah sunflower, After long silence, Rose Aylmer, Walter Savage Landor, A Deep-sworn vow, Quantitative variation and forced pauses, Neutral tones, Sound and sense (from An Essay on criticism), Alexander Pope, Rhyme, Stanza forms, How do I love thee?, On the late massacre in Piedmont, To daffodils, Robert Herrick, The Blossom, Villanelle of the poet's road, Ernest Dowson, Missing dates, William Empson, urj, urs, dsp |
