For Wednesday, 4/8:

Below are the specific authors and poems we'll focus our first discussion around. They are not necessarily in the order that we will discuss them in class, so make sure to get at least one good reading of each poem.

Annotate each poem. It might be helpful to use a thesaurus or have an encyclopedia help you pick up allusions or define unfamiliar words and phrases.

Wednesday’s Heavy List:

Theodore Roethke:

- My Papa’s Waltz
- The Lost Son
- The Waking
- Elegy for Jane
- In a Dark Time

Robert Penn Warren:

- Audobon

Stanley Kunitz:

- Father and Son
- After the Last Dynasty
- Qunnapoxet
- The Wellfleet Whale

Randall Jarrell:

- 90 North
- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
- Thinking of the Lost World

Elizabeth Bishop:

- The Fish
- At the Fishhouses
- Questions of Travel
- One Art