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.