Part One Entree to English Poetry I.What Is Poetry? II.The Function of Poetry III.Major Types of Poetry 1.Narrative Poetry 2.Lyric Poetry 3.Dramatic Poetry IV.Elements of Poetry 1.Rhyme 2.Metre 3.Foot 4.Metrical Pattern 5.Stanza 6.Image 7.Symbol 8.Figures of Speech 9.Speaker and Tone 10.Diction 11.Subject Matter and Theme V.How to Read a Poem? 1.Read a Poem More Than Once 2.Keep a Dictionary Nearby and Use It 3.Read So As to Hear the Sounds of the Words in Your Mind 4.Pay Full Attention to What the Poem Is Saying 5.Practice Reading Poems Aloud Part Two American Poetry 1.Anne Dudley Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband 2.William Cullen Bryant To a Waterfowl Thanatopsis 3.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls Daybreak 4.Edgar Allan Poe To Helen Annabel Lee The Raven To My Mother 5.Wait Whitman O Captain! My Captain! I Hear America Singing Youth, Day, Old Age and Night There Was a Child Went Forth When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd An Excerpt from Song of Myself 6.Emily Dickinson 479 Because I Couldn't Stop for Death 112 Success Is Counted Sweetest