Introduction to Poetry: What is poetry . . .

Those Winter Sundays
BY ROBERT HAYDEN

‘Out, Out—’
BY ROBERT FROST

The Walrus and the Carpenter
BY LEWIS CARROLL

Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

My Papa’s Waltz
BY THEODORE ROETHKE

“White Lies” by Natasha Trethewey

The Red Wheelbarrow
BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

I Hear America Singing
BY WALT WHITMAN

Not Waving but Drowning
BY STEVIE SMITH

Huswifery
BY EDWARD TAYLOR

Preface: God’s Determination
Edward Taylor (1642-1729)

Fog by Carl Sandburg

To Autumn
BY JOHN KEATS

"Lonely Hearts," by Wendy Cope from Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (Faber and Faber).

Jabberwocky
BY LEWIS CARROLL

London
BY WILLIAM BLAKE