Select from the Poems Listed Below. Poems Should Be 15+ Lines

TPCASTT

Select from the poems listed below. Poems should be 15+ lines.

Poem titles are below. Select a poem from the list and answer the “T” part of your TPCASTT before you actually look the poem up to read it.

LONGER POEMS (CHOOSE 1) – Complete a detailed TPCASTT model for the item selected.

1. “The Poetic Interpretation of the Twist” – Cornelius Eady, page 633 2. “The Empty Dance Shoes” – Cornelius Eady, page 635 3. “The Fish” – Elisabeth Bishop, page 650 4. “Danny Deever” – Rudyard Kipling, page 652 5. “In Flanders Fields” – John McCrae, page 738 6. “The Bridegroom” – Alexander Pushkin, page 642 7. “A Tree Telling of Orpheus” – Denise Levertov, page 659

SHORTER POEMS (CHOOSE 2) – Complete a detailed TPCASTT model for BOTH items selected.

8. “The Guitar” – Federico Garcia Lorca, page 649 9. “Mowing” – Robert Frost, page 658 10. “Making a Fist” – Naomi Shihab Nye, page 664 11. “Spring & All”- William Carlos Williams, page 665 12. “My City” – James Weldon Johnson, page 677 13. “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” – Dylan Thomas, page 679 14. “The Waking” – Theodore Roethke, page 685 15. “Sonnet 18” – William Shakespeare, page 687 16. “Fear” – Gabriela Mistral, page 702 17. “The Bean Eaters” – Gwendolyn Brooks, page 703 18. “The Wind Tapped Like a Tired Man” – Emily Dickinson, page 718 19. “Glory” – Yusef Komunyakaa, page 720 20. “Conscientious Objector” – Edna St. Vincent Millay, page 726 21. “Pride” – Dahlia Ravikovitch, page 727 22. “The Weary Blues” – Langston Hughes, page 736 23. “Meeting at Night” – Robert Browning, page 744 24. “The Kracken” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, page 745