Reading List 2

Theme

Wildwood Links to an external site., Diaz

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Links to an external site. Garcia Marquez

Jesus Shaves Links to an external site., David Sedaris

Link Links to an external site.

Theme Poems

I Ask the Impossible, Links to an external site. Ana Castillo

Love Poem #1 Links to an external site., Sandra Cisneros

Tonight I can Write the Saddest Lines Links to an external site., Pablo Neruda

Love Poem, Links to an external site. Linda Pastan

Decade, Links to an external site.Amy Lowell

Sonnet 130 Links to an external site., Shakespeare

How Do I Love Thee, Links to an external site. Elizabeth Browning

Never Give All the Heart, Yeats Links to an external site.

[ I carry your heart with me], Links to an external site. e.e. Cummings.

Falling, Phillips Links to an external site.

Character

Barn Burning, Links to an external site. Falukner

A Girl I knew, Links to an external site. Salinger 

Story of an Hour Links to an external site., Chopin

the mother, Links to an external site. Brooks

Papa's Waltz, Links to an external site. Roethke

(audio of Papa's Waltz and The Mother) Links to an external site.

Daddy, Plath Links to an external site.

Green Chile, Santiago Baca Links to an external site.

The Abuelita Poem Links to an external site.

Figurative Language Links to an external site.

Taking off Emily Dickinson's Clothes, Links to an external site. Billy Collins

What Lips my lips have Kissed, and Where, and Why Links to an external site., Edna St. Vincent Millay

[in Just-] e.e. cummings Links to an external site.

Symbol

The Birthmark, Hawthorne Links to an external site.

A Wall of Fire Rising, Edwidge Danticat Links to an external site.

The Sick Rose, Blake Links to an external site.

The Vacuum, Nemorov Links to an external site.