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FORM OF POETRY
Susan Tichy
FORM & GENRE LISTS, page 8
Genres (or kinds): Aubade
/
Epigram / Epistle / Ars Poetica /
Nocturne / Elegy / Ekphrasis /
Carpe Diem / Pastoral /
City
Poem / Satire / Ode / Dramatic
Monologue
& Other Persona Poems /
Woman's Complaint / Defense of Women
/ Farewell to Husband/Legacy to Children /
Elegy for Infant
Aubade:
Donne: The Sun Rising 265
In the Modern volume:
Sitwell: Aubade 426
Rosenberg: Break of Day in the Trenches 505
Epigram:
Jonson: To the Reader, To Dr. Empirick 291, On S;pies, To
Fool
or Knave 292, Playwright 293, On Gut 296
Herrick: Upon Julia's Breasts, Upon a Child That Died 321, Upon Julia's
Clothes,
Upon Prue His Maid, Upon Ben Jonson 323
Crashaw: On the Baptized Ethiope, To the Infant Martyrs 422, Upon the
Infant
Martyrs 423
Goldsmith: When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly 627
Landor: Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher, Death Stands Above Me
Whispering
Low, Death of the Day, all 764
Byron: Stanzas (When man hath no freedom to fight for at home) 792
[this
is the poem recited by Breaker Morant in jail in the movie]
Melville: Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem, Greek Architecture 957
Dickinson: #185 Faith is a fine invention 1011, #1763 Fame is a bee 1025
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries 1074, Crossing Alone the Nighted
Ferry
1075
MacDiarmid: Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries 1268
E.Thomas: In Memoriam (Easter 1915) 1148, The Owl 1148
Epistle:
Johnson: Inviting a Friend to Supper 294
Pope: Epistile to Dr. Arbuthnot 565
Montagu: Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband 580
Bradstreet: A Letter to Her Husband 420
Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes 597
Leapor: Epistle of Deborah Dough 617
Williams: This Is Just to Say 1164
Kumin: Letters 274
Ars Poetica (including women's poems on vocation):
Pope: Essay on Criticism 539
Bradstreet: The Prologue 417, The Author to Her Book 419
Cavendish: An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book 455
Finch: The Introduction 522
Coleridge: The Aeolian Harp 739
Barrett Browning: from Aurora Leigh 857, To a Musical
Instrument 860
Dickinson: #341 After great pain a formal feeling comes 1015, #435 Much
madness
is divinest sense 1015, #505 I would not paint a picture 1016, #569 I
reckon
when I count at all 1017, #613 They shut me up in prose 1018, #709
Publication
is the auction 1020, #754 My life had stood a loaded gun 1021, # 1129
Tell
all the truth but tell it slant 1024
Yeats: Adam's Curse 1086, The Circus Animal's Desertion 1101, Under Ben
Bulben
1103
Stevens: The Snow Man 1150, Anecdote of the Jar 1154, The Poems of Our
Climate
1160, The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm 1161, Table Talk 1161,
A
Room on a Garden 1162, Of Mere Being 1162
Williams: The Red Wheelbarrow 1166, Poem (As the cat) 1167, A Sort of
Song
1168
Moore: Poetry 438
Niedecker: Poet's Work
In the Contemporary volume:
O'Hara: Why I Am Not a Painter 369
Wilbur: The Writer 200
Duncan: Poetry, A Natural Thing 152, Often I Am Permitted to Return to
a Meadow 151
Creeley: I Keep to Myself Such Measures 332
Snyder: Rip-Rap 537, Axe Handles 541
Strand: Keeping Things Whole 621, Eating Poetry 621
Harrison: Self Justification 678
Nocturne:
Finch: A Nocturnal Reverie 519
Williams: To the Moon 695
Smith: Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening 653
Coleridge: Frost at Midnight 742
Whitman: By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame 971
Arnold: Dover Beach 999
Hopkins: I Wake and Feelthe Fell of Dark Not Day 1065
E.Thomas: Rain 1148
In the Modern volume:
Frost: I have been acquainted with the Night 217
Elegy:
Surrey: Wyatt Resteth Here 124
Tichborne: Tichborne's Elegy 139
Jonson: Elegy for His Son 291, Elegy for His Daughter 291, Epitaph on
Elizabeth
LH 296, A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme 300,
Browne: On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke 316
Carew: An Elegy upon the death of the Dean of Paul's Dr. John Donne 350
Milton: Lycidas (pastoral elegy) 354, Methought I Saw 379
Philips: Epitaph on Her Son 482
Behn: On the Death of the Late Earl of Rochester 501
Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous
General
528
Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 609
Elliot: Flowers of the Forest 619
Cowper: Epitaph on a Hare 637
Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal 722,
Shelley: To Wordsworth 793, Adonais 807
Whitman: Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 970, When Lilacs
Last
in the Dooryard Bloomed 978, Reconciliation 978
Tennyson: In Memoriam A.H.H. 899
Browning: Memorabilia 933
Bronte: Remembrance 947
Hardy: Thoughts of Phena 1051, The Voice 1056, During Wind and Rain 1057
Housman: To an Athlete Dying Young 1070
In the Modern Volume:
E. Thomas: The Owl 232
Rosenberg: Dead Man's Dump 507
Tate: Ode to the Confederate Dead 650
Our Bog is Dood 708
Auden: In Memory of W. B. Yeats 798, In Memory of Sigmund Freud 803
Roethke: Elegy for Jane 849
In the Contemporary Volume:
Olson: Pacific Lament 3
Swenson: Staring at the Sea 49
Lowell: For the Union Dead 124
Brooks: Rites for Cousin Vit 144, Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmitt
Till 145
Ginsberg: from Kaddish 149
Levertov: The Olga Poems 251
Kumin: How It Is 270 (for Anne Sexton)
Creeley: Mother's Voice 333
O'Hara: The Day Lady Died 365
Goeffrey Hill: several: 581
Strand: Elegy for My Father 623
Clifton: To My Last Period 663, At the cemetery 661,
S. Howe: from Thorow 689
Harper: We Assume, & other poems on the death of his son 699
Carpe Diem:
Ralegh: The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd 140
Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 233
Herrick: To the Virgins 320
Campion: My Sweetest Lesbia 249, I Care Not For These Ladies 249
Jonson: Song to Celia 299
Waller: Song (Go lovely rose) 352
Marvell: To His Coy Mistress 435
Lawrence: Self-Protection 1180
Pastoral:God's garden, the seasons, free love,
passionate
shepherds, simple farmers, noble savages, retreat from society, natural
democracy,
brutal nature or idyllic nature: pastoral relies on a contrast between
rural & urban, natural & artificial, free & constrained. A
"nature poem" per se is not necessarily pastoral.
Spenser: from The Shepheardes Calender 147
Jonson: Still to Be Neat 308
Herrick: The Argument of His Book 317, The Vine 317, Delight in
Disorder
318
Carew: The Spring 348
Crashaw: The Wish 427
Marvell: The Picture of Little TC in a Prospect of Flowers 439, The
Mower
Against Gardens 440 (& others), The Garden 442
Cavendish: The Sea Similized to Meadows and Pastures 455
Smith: from Beachy Head 655 (& see link to the whole poem,
in
readings for Week 7)
Blake: Song (How sweet I roam'd), To the Evening Star 671, from
Songs of Innocence 671-675, from
Songs
of Experience 678-683
Burns: To a Mouse 684, O Wert Thou in the Cauld Balst 695, (& see
links
to the bawdy versions of some of his sweeter songs, in readings for
Week
7)
Wordsworth: Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey 699, The
Prelude
715, Resolution and Independence 723, It Is a Beauteous Evening 726, My
Heart
Leaps Up 728, Ode: Intimations of Immortality 728, I Wandered Lonely as
a
Cloud 733, The World Is Too Much With Us 735, The Solitary Reaper 737,
Suprised
by Joy 737
Clare: Badger 822, Gypsies 823
Bryant: To a Waterfowl 830
Keats: When I Have Fears 832
Longfellow: from Evangeline
Whitman: from Song of Myself 961, Cavalry Crossing a Ford
973,
The Dalliance of the Eagles 978, A Noiseless Patient Spider 985, To a
Locomotive
in Winter 985
Dickinson: #328 A bird came down the walk 1014, #465 I heard a fly buzz
when
I died 1016, #968 A narrow fellow in the grass 1023, #1068 Further in
summer
1023, #1463 A route of evanescence 1024
Hardy: The Darkling Thrush 1052, In Time The Breaking of Nations 1057
Hopkins: God's Grandeur, The Windhover 1062, Pied Beauty, Felix Randal
1063,
That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire 1066
Yeats: The Wilde Swans at Coole 1087
Dunbar: A Summer's Night 1117
Frost: Mending Wall 1121, The Wood Pile 1126,
The Oven
Bird 1128, Birches 1128, Stopping by Woods 1131, To Earthward 1132,
Neither
Out Far Nor In Deep 1135, Design 1135, Come In 1137, Never Again Would
Birds'
Song Be the Same 1137, The Most of It 118, Directive 1139
Sandburg: Grass 1147
Stevens: The Snow Man 1150 (read with Frost's
"Desert
Places"), Anecdote of the Jar 1154, Thirteen Ways of
Looking
at a Blackbird 1155, A Room on a Garden 1162, Of Mere
Being
1162
Bynner: Haskell 1163
Williams: The Red Wheelbarrow 1166, Queen Ann'e Lace 1163,
Lawrence: Snake 1178, Elemental 1178, Trees in the Garden 1179,
Bavarian
Gentians 1182
In the Modern volume:
Poems by Frost, Roethke 841, Kunitz 758, Jeffers, Niedecker
Cummings: 546 In just spring, My sweet old etcetera,
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
Rosenberg: Returning We Hear the Larks 506
In the Contemporary volume:
Poems by Ammons (esp Corson's Inlet 290-could also be an
ars poetica), Merwin (411, 412), Oliver, Snyder, James Wright, Bly, T.
Hughes 558, Stafford (Traveling through the Dark) 83
City Poem (often, ironically, a species of pastoral):
Swift: Description of the Morning, Description of a City
Shower
526
Wordsworth: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge 727
Sandburg: Chicago 1146
Satire:
Sidney: What Length of Verse? 190
Donne: Song (Go and catch a falling star) 264, Woman's Constancy 265,
Satire
III 283,
Dryden: MacFlecknoe 473
Behn: The Disappointment
Swift: Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General 528, sThe
Lady's
Dressing Room 530
Pope: Rape of the Lock 547, from The Dunciad 576
Wilmot/Rochester: Disabled Debauchee 510, A Satire against Reason 505
Montagu: A Receipt to Cure the Vapors 579
Burns: Holy Willy's Prayer 685
Byron: from Don Juan 769
Clough: The Latest Decalogue 950, from Dipsychys
951
Lawrence: The English Are So Nice! 1181
Ode:
Jonson: Ode to Himself 304
Milton: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity 359
Marvell: Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell 444
Finch: The Spleen 516
Gray: Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 606, Ode on the Death
of
a Favorite Cat 608
Collins: One on the Poetical Character 613, Ode to Evening 615
Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality 728
Coleridge: Dejection: An Ode 760
Shelley: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 794, Mont Blanc 796, Ode to the
West
Wind 801, To a Skylark 805
Keats: Ode to Psyche 843, Ode to a Nightingale 845, Ode on Melancholy
847,
Ode on a Grecian Urn 848, To Autumn 849
Emerson: The Rhodora 851 (read this with Frost's "Design"), The Snow
Storm
851
Whitman: Song of Myself 961, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer 969,
To
a Locomotive in Winter 985
Arnold: Dover Beach 999
In the Modern volume:
Stevens
Zukofsky: To My Wash Stand 738
Moore: An Octopus 441, The Pangolin 448, The Paper Nautilus 451
Auden: In Praise of Limestone 806
In the Contemporary volume:
Bishop: Brazil Jan 1 1502
Clifton: Homage to My Hips 660, Poem to My Uturus 661
Harper: Dear John Dear Coltrane 702
Dramatic Monologue & other Persona Poems:
Donne: The Flea 279
Tennyson: Ulysses 896
Browning: My Last Duchess 911, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 913,
The
Bishop Orders His Tomb 915, Fra Lippo Lippi 918, A Toccata of Galuppi's
927,
Andrea del Sarto 934
Rossetti: The Convent Threshold 1028
Hardy: Channel Firing 1054
Yeats: An Irish Airman Forsees His Death 1088
Mew: The Farmer's Bride 1112, In Nunhead Cemetery 1113
A. Lowell: Patterns 1140
Williams: The Widow's Lament in Springtime
Lawrence: Love on the Farm 1176
Woman's Complaint/Women's Defense:
Lanyer: from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 255
Finch: The Answer 521 (answer to Pope's Impromptu 576), On Myself
Montagu: Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband 580
Barbauld: The Rights of Woman 646
Farewell to a Husband/Legacy to Children:
Bradstreet: Before the Birth of One of Her Children 418
Though rarely represented in canonical anthologies, this genre was
extremely
common in women's poetry until modern times. Though sometimes kin to a
love
poem or elegy, it most often was a species of devotional verse, in
which
the woman composed her soul to face death and consoled and counseled
those
she loved.
Other genres to watch for:
Lover's Complaint in all its variants, Dialogue of Body
& Sou l/ Good & Evil / Living & Dead etc., Prayer or
Devotional
Poem, Epithalamion / Prothalamion, Epic, Tribute, Friendship / Women's
Friendship,
Country Retreat,
Modern Ekphrastic Poems:
Williams: Queen Ann's Lace 1166, The Dance 1169, Pictures from Breughel
Modern 310
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