Poetry offers us a powerful vehicle for pursuing a deeper examination of life and its meaning. Poet Mary Pinard has compiled this list of particularly relevant poems. Pinard teaches poetry and literature at Babson College; the latest collection of her own poems was published last year (Portal, Salmon Poetry, 2014).
Alexie, Sherman:
“On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City” and “The Facebook
Sonnet”
Auden, W. H.:
“Musée Des Beaux Arts”
Bishop, Elizabeth: “The Fish”
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: “Work Without Hope”
(sonnet)
Collins, Billy:
“Questions about Angels,” and “Nostalgia”
Dickinson, Emily:
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,”
Dolin, Sharon:
“For I Will Consider the Overlooked Dragonfly”
Heaney, Seamus:
“Digging”
Hudgins, Andrew:
“Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead”
Hughes, Langston:
“Harlem”
Kavanagh, Patrick:
“Epic” (sonnet)
Kinnell, Galway:
“After Making Love We Hear Footsteps,” and “Blackberry Eating”
Keats, John:
“To Autumn”
Komanyakaa, Yusef:
“Facing It”
Kunitz, Stanley:
“The Round” and “The Layers”
Levertov, Denise:
“Witness”
Oliver, Mary:
“The Kingfisher” and “Wild
Geese”
Pinsky, Robert:
“Shirt”
Shelley, Percy Bysshe:
“Ozymandias” (sonnet)
Stafford, William:
“Traveling Through the Dark”
Strand, Mark:
“Keeping Things Whole”
Swenson, May:
“Staring at the Sea on the Day of the Death of Another” (sonnet)
Whitman, Walt:
“A Noiseless Patient Spider”
Wilbur, Richard:
“The Writer”
Yeats, William Butler:
“The Wild Swans at Coole,”
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