The following is a list of possible term paper poems, with criticism available in the Poetry For Students volumes in the CDI. Feel free to consult those volumes for these and other selections to make your choice. Most of these poems can be read online.
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Note: the list is neither exhaustive nor in any particular order.
“Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” Emily Dickinson
“Dover Beach,” Matthew Arnold
“Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” Randall Jarrell
“Holy Sonnet 10,” John Donne
“Harlem Hopscotch,” Maya Angelou
“Midnight,” Seamus Heaney
“Ode to the West Wind,” Percy B. Shelley
“The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost
“Sailing to Byzantium,” W.B. Yeats
Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The Tyger,” William Blake
“Ulysses,” Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be,” John Keats
“Journey of the Magi,” T.S. Eliot
“The Second Coming,” W.B. Yeats
“Siren Song,” Margaret Atwood
“The Soldier,” Rupert Brooke
“Cool Tombs,” Carl Sandburg
“Piano,” D.H Lawrence
“Theme for English B,” Langston Hughes
“There’s a Certain Slant of Light,” Emily Dickinson
“The Woodpile,” Robert Frost
“Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night,” Dylan Thomas
“Harlem,” Langston Hughes
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot
“An Irish Airman Foresees His Death,” W.B. Yeats
“Mirror,” Sylvia Plath
“Musee des Beaux Arts,” W.H. Auden
“My Last Duchess,” Robert Browning
“Ode On a Grecian Urn,” John Keats
“The Sonnet Ballad,” Gwendolyn Brooks
“The Soul Selects Her Own Society,” Emily Dickinson
“Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Robert Frost
“Easter 1916,” W.B. Yeats
“I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died,” Emily Dickinson
“Kubla Khan,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Mending Wall,” Robert Frost
“Ah, Are You Digging on my Grave?” Thomas Hardy
“Hawk Roosting,” Ted Hughes
“Richard Cory,” E.A. Robinson
“The Bells,” Edgar Allan Poe
“Chicago,” Carl Sandburg
“Fern Hill,” Dylan Thomas
My Papa’s Waltz,” Theodore Roethke
“Not Waving But Drowning,” Stevie Smith
“Ode on a Nightingale,” John Keats
