Unit One : Life 1
Section A : Required Reading 1
1. A Psalm of Life 1
2. The World Is Too Much with Us 5
Section B : Extended Reading 8
What Is Life? 8
Unit Two : Death 10
Section A:Required Reading 10
1. Death Be not Proud 10
2. Because I Could not Stop for Death 13
Section B : Extended Reading 16
Funeral Blues 16
Unit Three: Living 18
Section A : Required Reading 18
1. Mending Wall 18
2. Bridal Ballad 22
Section B : Extended Reading 25
The Tide Rises,the Tide Falls 25
Unit Four: Love 27
Section A : Required Reading 27
1. How Do I Love Thee? 27
2. Sonnet 18 30
Section B :Extended Reading 33
Meeting at Night 33
Unit Five: Family 35
Section A : Required Reading 35
1. My Papa's Waltz 35
2. Daddy 38
Section B : Extended Reading 45
Mother to Son 45
Unit Six : Happiness 47
Section A : Required Reading 47
1. To the Virgins to Make Much of Time 47
2. To His Coy Mistress 49
Section B : Extended Reading 54
Go, Lovely Rose 54
Unit Seven: Melancholy 57
Section A : Required Reading 57
1. Tears, Idle Tears 57
2. Ode on Melancholy 60
Section B : Extended Reading 64
The Voice 64
Unit Eight: Solitude 66
Section A : Required Reading 66
1. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 66
2. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 70
Section B : Extended Reading 73
Ode on Solitude 73
Unit Nine: Beauty 75
Section A : Required Reading 75
1. She Walks in Beauty 75
2. Annabel Lee 79
Section B : Extended Reading 84
To Celia 84
Unit Ten: Age 86
Section A : Required Reading 86
1. When I Was One-and-twenty 86
2. Mirror 88
Section B : Extended Reading 92
When You Are Old 92
Unit Eleven: Seasons 93
Section A : Required Reading 93
1. Ode to Autumn 93
2. Spring and All 98
Section B : Extended Reading 103
In Just 103
Unit Twelve : Night 105
Section A : Required Reading 105
1. Acquainted with the Night 105
2. Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night 109
Section B : Extended Reading 113
The Day Is Done 113
Unit Thirteen: People 116
Section A:Required Reading 116
1. O Captain ! My Captain! 116
2. Kubla Khan 119
Section B:Extended Reading 124
To an Athlete Dying Young 124
Unit Fourteen: Animals 127
Section A : Required Reading 127
1. The Tyger 127
2. Skunk Hour 130
Section B:Extended Reading 135
Ode to a Nightingale 135
Unit Fifteen: Places 140
Section A : Required Reading 140
1. Dover Beach 140
2. Sailing to Byzantium 145
Section B:Extended Reading 148
London 148
Unit Sixteen:War 150
Section A : Required Reading 150
1. Anthem for Doomed Youth 150
2. Dreamers 153
Section B:Extended Reading 156
War Is Kind 156
Unit Seventeen: Nature 158
Section A : Required Reading 158
1. Ode to the West Wind 158
2. To Brooklyn Bridge 164
Section B : Extended Reading 169
Soil 169
Appendix Ⅰ :Glossary of Poetry Terms 172
Appendix Ⅱ : Lists of Poets 182