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Literature for Composition Reading and Writing Arguments About Essays, Stories, Poems, and Plays BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi_BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi 2/27/13 1:27 PM Page i INSTRUCTOR’S HANDBOOK TO ACCOMPANY Literature for Composition Reading and Writing Arguments About Essays, Stories, Poems, and Plays TENTH EDITION Edited by Sylvan Barnet Tufts University William Burto University of Massachusetts at Lowell William E. Cain Wellesley College Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City São Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi_BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi 2/27/13 1:27 PM Page ii Vice President and Editor in Chief: Joseph P. Terry Senior Supplements Editor: Donna Campion Electronic Page Makeup: Grapevine Publishing Services, Inc. Instructor’s Handbook to Accompany Literature for Composition: Essays, Stories, Poems, and Plays, Tenth Edition, by Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, and William E. Cain. Copyright © 2014, 2011, 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Instructors may re- produce portions of this book for classroom use only. All other reproductions are strictly prohibited without prior permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10–online–15 14 13 12 ISBN 10: 0-321-84213-8 www.pearsonhighered.com ISBN 13: 978-0-321-84213-8 BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi_BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi 2/27/13 1:27 PM Page iii Contents Preface xv Using the “Short Views” and the “Overviews” xvii Guide to MyLiteratureLabTM xix The First Day 1 PART I Getting Started: From Response to Argument CHAPTER 1 How to Write an Effective Essay: A Crash Course 4 CHAPTER 2 The Writer as Reader 5 KATE CHOPIN Ripe Figs 5 LYDIA DAVIS City People 6 RAY BRADBURY August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains 7 MICHELE SERROS Senior Picture Day 8 GUY DE MAUPASSANT The Necklace 9 GUY DE MAUPASSANT Hautot and Son 13 T. CORRAGHESSAN BOYLE Greasy Lake 13 CHAPTER 3 The Reader as Writer 15 KATE CHOPIN The Story of an Hour 15 KATE CHOPIN Désirée’s Baby 16 KATE CHOPIN The Storm 17 ANTON CHEKHOV Misery 19 V. S. NAIPAUL The Night Watchman’s Occurrence Book 21 Copyright © 2014, 2011, 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. iii BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi_BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi 2/27/13 1:27 PM Page iv iv Contents CHAPTER 4 The Pleasures of Reading—And of Writing Arguments about Literature 23 BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS Three Soldiers 23 JOHN STEINBECK The Chrysanthemums 23 WILLA CATHER A Wagner Matinée 24 CHAPTER 5 Writing as Performance 27 ROBERT FROST The Span of Life 27 JAMAICA KINCAID Girl 27 ANATOLE FRANCE Our Lady’s Juggler 28 JULIA BIRD 14: a txt msg pom. 30 NORMAN SILVER txt commandments 31 CHAPTER 6 Reading Literature Closely: Explication 32 LANGSTON HUGHES Harlem 32 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sonnet 73 (That time of year thou mayst in me behold) 33 JOHN DONNE Holy Sonnet XIV (Batter my heart, three-personed God) 34 EMILY BRONTË Spellbound 35 LI-YOUNG LEE I Ask My Mother to Sing 37 RANDALL JARRELL The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 37 CHAPTER 7 Reading Literature Closely: Analysis 39 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 39 ANONYMOUS The Judgment of Solomon 40 LUKE The Parable of the Prodigal Son 42 JAMES THURBER The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 44 APHRA BEHN Song: Love Armed 46 EDGAR ALLAN POE The Cask of Amontillado 46 KATHERINE ANNE PORTER The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 47 JOSÉ ARMAS El Tonto del Barrio 50 LESLIE MARMON SILKO The Man to Send Rain Clouds 51 BILLY COLLINS Introduction to Poetry 53 ROBERT FROST The Road Not Taken 55 ROBERT HERRICK To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 55 MARTÍN ESPADA Bully 56 CHAPTER 8 Arguing an Interpretation 58 PAT MORA Immigrants 58 Copyright © 2014, 2011, 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi_BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi 2/27/13 1:27 PM Page v Contents v ROBERT FROST Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 59 ROBERT FROST Mending Wall 59 T. S. ELIOT The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 60 JOHN KEATS Ode on a Grecian Urn 61 THOMAS HARDY The Man He Killed 64 GWENDOLYN BROOKS The Mother 64 JOYCE CAROL OATES Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 65 JORGE LUÍS BORGES The Lottery in Babylon 67 WILLIAM FAULKNER A Rose for Emily 69 CHAPTER 9 Arguing an Evaluation 71 JEFFREY WHITMORE Bedtime Story 71 DOUGLAS L. HASKINS Hide and Seek 71 MARK PLANTS Equal Rites 71 SARAH N. CLEGHORN The Golf Links 73 WILFRED OWEN Dulce et Decorum Est 74 WILFRED OWEN Anthem for Doomed Youth 75 HENRY REED Naming of Parts 76 KATHERINE MANSFIELD Miss Brill 77 W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The Appointment in Samarra 80 AMBROSE BIERCE An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 82 ISABEL ALLENDE If You Touched My Heart 84 HELENA MARIA VIRAMONTES The Moths 85 CHAPTER 10 Research: Writing with Sources 87 PART II Up Close: Thinking Critically about Literary Works and Literary Forms CHAPTER 11 Critical Thinking: Arguing with Oneself, Asking Questions, and Making Comparisons 90 WILLIAM NOTMAN Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill (photograph) 90 E. E. CUMMINGS Buffalo Bill ’s 93 RAYMOND CARVER Mine 96 RAYMOND CARVER Little Things 96 CHAPTER 12 A Brief Guide: Writing about Literature 99 Copyright © 2014, 2011, 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi_BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi 2/27/13 1:27 PM Page vi vi Contents CHAPTER 13 Reading and Writing about Essays 100 BRENT STAPLES Black Men and Public Space 100 LANGSTON HUGHES Salvation 101 LAURA VANDERKAM Hookups Starve the Soul 102 CHAPTER 14 Reading and Writing about Stories 103 GRACE PALEY Samuel 103 DIANA CHANG The Oriental Contingent 104 GISH JEN Who’s Irish? 106 RON WALLACE Worry 108 CHAPTER 15 Thinking Critically: A Case Study about Flannery O’Connor 110 FLANNERY O’CONNOR A Good Man Is Hard to Find 110 FLANNERY O’CONNOR Revelation 111 CHAPTER 16 Graphic Fiction 114 R. CRUMB AND DAVID ZEN MAIROWITZ A Hunger Artist 115 CHAPTER 17 Reading and Writing about Plays 117 SUSAN GLASPELL Trifles 117 DAVID IVES Sure Thing 118 SOPHOCLES Oedipus the King 119 CHAPTER 18 Reading and Writing about Poems 122 EMILY DICKINSON Wild Nights—Wild Nights 122 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sonnet 146 (Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth) 124 ROBERT FROST The Telephone 124 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sonnet 130 (My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun) 126 DANA GIOIA Money 127 ROBERT FROST The Hardship of Accounting 128 EDMUND WALLER Song (Go, lovely rose) 128 WILLIAM BLAKE The Sick Rose 129 ROBERT HERRICK Upon Julia’s Clothes 129 BILLY COLLINS Sonnet 130 ROBERT BROWNING My Last Duchess 131 E. E. CUMMINGS anyone lived in a pretty how town 132 Copyright © 2014, 2011, 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi_BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi 2/27/13 1:27 PM Page vii Contents vii SYLVIA PLATH Daddy 133 GWENDOLYN BROOKS We Real Cool 134 ETHERIDGE KNIGHT For Malcolm, a Year After 134 ANNE SEXTON Her Kind 137 JAMES WRIGHT Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota 138 CHAPTER 19 Thinking Critically about Poems: Two Case Studies 140 A CASE STUDY ABOUT EMILY DICKINSON 140 I heard a Fly buzz—when I died— 140 The Soul selects her own Society 141 These are the days when Birds come back 142 Papa above! 142 There’s a certain Slant of light 143 This World is not Conclusion 145 I got so I could hear his name— 147 Those—dying, then 148 Apparently with no surprise 148 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant 149 A CASE STUDY ON COMPARING POEMS AND PICTURES 150 JANE FLANDERS Van Gogh’s Bed 150 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The Great Figure 151 ADRIENNE RICH Mourning Picture 153 CATHY SONG Beauty and Sadness 155 MARY JO SALTER The Rebirth of Venus 156 ANNE SEXTON The Starry Night 157 W. H. AUDEN Musée des Beaux Arts 159 X. J. KENNEDY Nude Descending a Staircase 160 GREG PAPE American Flamingo 162 CARL PHILLIPS Luncheon on the Grass 164 JOHN UPDIKE Before the Mirror 167 WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Brueghel’s Two Monkeys 169 PART III Standing Back: A Thematic Anthology CHAPTER 20 The World around Us 172 LOUISE ERDRICH Ringo’s Gold 172 Copyright © 2014, 2011, 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi_BARN.2138.bkfm.i-xxvi 2/27/13 1:27 PM Page viii viii Contents BILL MCKIBBEN Now or Never 172 AESOP The Ant and the Grasshopper 174 AESOP The North Wind and the Sun 177 JACK LONDON To Build a Fire 178 SARAH ORNE JEWETT A White Heron 179 PATRICIA GRACE Butterflies 182 MATTHEW ARNOLD In Harmony with Nature 182 THOMAS HARDY Transformations 184 JOHN KEATS To Autumn 184 GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS God’s Grandeur 185 WALT WHITMAN A Noiseless Patient Spider 187 EMILY DICKINSON “Nature” is what we see 188 EMILY DICKINSON A narrow Fellow in the Grass 190 JOY HARJO Vision 191 MARY OLIVER The Black Walnut Tree 192 KAY RYAN Turtle 192 ROBERT FROST The Pasture 193 ROBERT FROST Mowing 195 ROBERT FROST The Wood-Pile 197 ROBERT FROST The Oven Bird 197 ROBERT FROST The Need of Being Versed in Country Things 198 ROBERT FROST The Most of It 199 ROBERT FROST Design 199 CHAPTER 21 Journeys 201 JOAN DIDION On Going Home 201 MONTESQUIEU (Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu) Persian Letters 201 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Young Goodman Brown 202 EUDORA WELTY A Worn Path 205 TONI CADE BAMBARA The Lesson 206 AMY HEMPEL Today Will Be a Quiet Day 208 JAMES JOYCE Eveline 209 JOHN KEATS On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer 211 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Ozymandias 212 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Ulysses 213 COUNTEE CULLEN Incident 214 WILLIAM STAFFORD Traveling Through the Dark 215 ADRIENNE RICH Diving into the Wreck 216 Copyright © 2014, 2011, 2007 Pearson Education, Inc.
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