List #2
10/6—Sarah Helen Whitman: "A November Landscape," 94—Lucretia Davidson: "America," 148-49—Frances Sargent Osgood: "Woman. A Fragment," 163-65; "Ellen Learning to Walk," 165; "Ah! Woman Still," 166
10/8—Alice Cary: "The Sea-Side Cave," 236—Sarah Orne Jewett: "At Home from Church," 265—Emma Lazarus: "The New Ezekiel," 269
10/17—Emily Dickinson: "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain," 249; "There's a Certain Slant of Light," 249-50; "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died," 252; "Because I Could not Stop for Death," 253-54; "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass," 254
10/20—Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Richard Cory," 279
10/22—Paul Laurence Dunbar: "The Haunted Oak," 290-92
10/24—Robert Frost: "Spring Pools," 313; "Design," 313-14; "The Gift Outright," 314
10/29—Amy Lowell: "Meeting-House Hill," 303; H. D.: "Helen," 369
10/31—Louise Bogan: "Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom," 442
11/3—Wallace Stevens: "The Snow Man," 326; "Anecdote of the Jar," 334; "The Idea of Order at Key West," 334-35
11/5—e. e. cummings: "you shall above all things be glad and young," 437; "anyone lived in a pretty how town," 437-38
Once you have made your selections, I encourage you to come see me to talk about your poem and your presentation. We can read the poem together, talk about possible approaches, avoid dead-ends (hopefully), and look at research possibilities.