Summary

Ideal for high school and college students, this eBook presents essay topics that provide research and writing suggestions on a range of American and world poetry. These topics are designed to inspire students to think critically, delve deeper, and ask (and answer) fresh new questions. 

The works covered include:

• Aeneid
• "Acquainted with the Night"
• "The Bean Eaters"
• Beowulf
• "The Chambered Nautilus"
• The Divine Comedy
• "Diving into the Wreck"
• "A Dream within a Dream"
• "Eldorado"
• "Funeral Blues"
• Gilgamesh
• "‘Hope' is the thing with feathers-"
• "I Hear America Singing"
• The Iliad
• "Love is Not All. It is Not Meat Nor Drink."
• "O Captain! My Captain!"
• The Odyssey
• "The Seafarer"
• "Still I Rise"
• "Sylvia's Death"

Specifications

eBook

About the Author(s)

Robert C. Evans is a professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage, Short Fiction: A Critical Companion, Kate Chopin's Short Fiction, and many more. He is also the editor of the third volume in Facts On File's Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers and the author of Facts On File's Culture and Society in Shakespeare's Day and Literature and the Theater in Shakespeare's Day.