Some Suggestions of Short Poems to Explicate

From Textbook (Meyer)

• e.e.cummings [l(a)}  (p. 222); "In Just-" (p. 270..yes it's more than 10 lines)
• Martin Espada "Latin Night at the Pawnshop" (p. 230)
• William Carlos Williams "Poem" (p. 235...yes it is more than ten lines, but so few words per line)
• EMily Dickinson "The Bustle in a House" (617); "Wild Nights" (830); "Much Madness is Divinest Sense" (1276)
• Nikki Giovanni "Clouds" (993)
• Jean Toomer, "Reapers" (1003)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins "Pied Beauty" (1167)
• William Butler Yeas  "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (1293)

• NB: In searching for short poems on-line, I found all kinds of mutilated fragments.  Be sure that the piece you choose is a complete poem, and not just an exceprted stanza)
• Short Poems Web Page
• The Acdemy of American Poets lets you search for poems by author
• SOME PERSONAL FAVORITES
• William Carlos WIlliams  "This is Just to Say"
• William Butler Years "The Fascination of What's Difficult"
• William Butler Yeats, "Who Goes with Fergus?"
• Theodore Roethke:  "Cuttings" | "The Minmal"| "Dolor"
• Mark Strand, "Reasons for Moving"
• Archibald MacLeish, "What Any Lover Learns"
• Edna St. Vincent Millay "Spring"
• Amy Lowell "Opal"
• Mina Loy, "Moreover, the Moon"
• Dickinson, "Tell All the Truth.."