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FORM OF POETRY Section 001 / Fall 2004 / Susan Tichy / Tuesday 7:20-10:00 / Thompson Hall 106 FORM & GENRE LISTS, page 1
Ballad Stanza, Common Measure, Hymnal Stanzas, Iambic Tetrameter, & Other 4x4sSee also: Short Quatrains (Iambic tetrameter) on List Page 4Anon. Song & Lyric (15th c): Lyke Wake Dirge 68, Western Wind 68 Ballad Tradition: Sir Patrick Spens 87, The Unquiet Grave 88, Wife of Usher's Well 89, Barbara Allen 90, Get Up & Bar the Door 96 Elizabethan & Restoration Courtly Song & Lyric: Marlowe (16th c): Passionate shepherd to his love 233 Ralegh (16th c): Nymph’s reply to the shepherd 140 Herrick (17th c): To the virgins to make much of time (Gather ye rosebuds) 320Suckling (17th c): Out upon it! 413 Lovelace (17th c): Song: To Lucasta going to the wars 430 Donne (17th c): Valediction forbidding mourning 275, The Ecstasy 276 16th & 17th c. “Fourteeners”:Whitney (16th c): fr The Manner of her will (W) 135 Finch (17th c): The Answer 521 18th c. Hymns: Wesley: My God! I know; I feel thee mine 588 Cowper: fr Olney Hymns 636 18th c. Song: Burns: Green Grow the Rashes 688, Of A’ the Airts 689, John Anderson My Jo 694, Bonnie Doon 694, A Red Red Rose 694 18th c. Lyric: Montagu (18th c): A Receipt to Cure the Vapors 579 Goldsmith (18th c): When lovely woman stoops to folly 627 Cowper: Epitaph on a Hare 637Wheatley: A Farewell to America 659 Blake (18-19th c): The Divine Image 673, Little Boy Lost 673, Little Boy Found 674, A Divine Image (Cruelty has a human heart) 679, Holy Thursday (II) 679, The Clod & the Pebble 679, A Poison Tree 680, The Tyger 680, London 681, Mock on Mock on 682 19th c.:Wordsworth: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways 721, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal 722, Coleridge (19th c): Rime of the Ancient Mariner 744 Byron: Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos 766, She Walks in Beauty 767, So We'll Go No More a Roving 768 Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci 842 Emerson (19th c): Concord Hymn 850 Tennyson (19th c): In Memoriam AHH 899 (abba "In Memoriam" stanza) Bronte: Hope 945 Dickinson: starts p. 1010: #49, 241, 254, 258, 280, 465, 712, etc.C. Rossetti: Song 1026, Up-Hill 1027 Carroll: Jabberwocky 1033 Hardy: I Looked into My Glass 1050, The Darkling Thrush 1052, In Time of “The Breaking of Nations” 1057 or MODERN 59, The Oxen MODERN 59, Shut Out that Moon 50, Drummer Hodge 47, Channel Firing 51, A Poet 58 20th c.: Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole (extended to a sestet) 1088, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (extended 16 lines) 1088, Easter 1916 MODERN 105, Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop MODERN 130 Robinson: Miniver Cheevy 1108, Mr. Flood’s Party 1110, both also in MODERN Frost: Stopping by Woods 1131 E.Thomas: Adlestrop 1147, The Owl 1148Lawrence: Youth Mowing MODERN 328 Eliot: Whispers of Immortality MODERN 468, Sweeney Among the Nightingales 469 McKay: A Midnight Woman to the Bobby MODERN 500 Hughes: Cross 1322, Song for a Dark Girl 1323 Kunitz: He 1347 MacDiarmid: (poems in Scots) Cloudburst & Soaring Moon, Parley of Beasts, O Wha's the Bride MODERN 520-521 Cummings: may i feel said he MODERN 552, anyone lived in a pretty how town 553, my father moved through dooms of love 554 Graves: Down Wanton Down MODERN 564 Smith: Not Waving but Drowning 1331, Thoughts about the Person from Porlock 1332 Cullen: Incident 1337 C. Day Lewis: Two Songs 1341, Where Are the War Poets? 1343 Betjeman: Death in Leamington 1356, Arrest of Oscar Wilde 1357 Auden: Tell Me the Truth about Love 1362 MacNiece: Bagpipe Music (14ers) L. Hughes: Cross MODERN 689, Song for a Dark Girl 691, Madam & Her Madam 697, etc. Auden: Tell Me the Truth About Love 1362 Niedecker: Swept Snow Li Po, What horror to awake at night MODERN 717 Hayden: Paul Lawrence Dunbar 1430 Roethke: My Papa's Waltz MODERN 848 (trimeter, read re: ballad & song) Brooks: A Song in the Front Yard CONTEMP 141, Sadie & Maud 142, Of DeWitt Williams 143, The Vacat Lot 143, We Real Cool 145, Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till 145 Bennett: Pass fi White CONTEMP 169, No Lickle Twang 170, Dry-Foot Bwoy 172, Colonization in Reverse 173, Independence 174, etc. Creeley: Bresson's Movies 1430 (different form, but read in relation to ballad narrative) Alun Lewis: Goodbye 1468 Douglas: Vergissmeinnicht 1514, Gallantry MODERN 862 Justice: Counting the Mad 1581 Stevenson: Willow Song 1741 (read re: ballad & song) Dylan: Boots of Spanish Leather 1746 Randall: Ballad of Birmingham 1747 Cope: Bloody Men 1825, Flowers 1825 20th c. Blues Stanza: Brown: Slim in Atlanta 1317, Chillen Get Shoes 1319, Conjured 1321, Memphis Blues MODERN 677 Hughes: The Weary Blues 1320, Bad Luck Card 1323, Harlem Sweeties 1323, Harlem 1324, Lament over Love MODERN 690, Po Boys Blues 690, Gal's Cry for a Dying Lover 691, Bad Man 692, etc |