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[In America] individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors . . . will one day cause great changes in the world. Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crvecoeur

What Do You Think? How can peoples beliefs a ect their actions?

Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Introduction to the Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 4

Link to TodayGish Jen Coming into the Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL 10

C O L L E C T I O N 1 Native American VoicesLiterary Focus Native American Oral Traditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 15

Analyzing Visuals Analyzing Native American Art. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Huron Traditional Th e Sky Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MYTH 19Teton Sioux Traditional Th e Earth Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MYTH 21 Nez Perce Traditional Coyote Finishes His Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MYTH 22Blackfeet Traditional Th e Blackfeet Genesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MYTH 24Reading Focus Identifying Main Ideas and Supporting Details . . . . .ESSAY 29

Link to TodayN. Scott Momaday from Th e Way to Rainy Mountain . . . . . . . . MEMOIR 31

MapsUnited States. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A52United States Eastern Seaboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A54Central and South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A55

Encounters and Foundations to 1800

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Literary Skills Understand and analyze the characteristics of Native American oral traditions; archetypes; setting; historical context.

Reading Skills Identify and understand cultural characteristics of a text; identify main ideas and supporting details.

SKILLS FOCUSSKILLS FOCUS

Literary Skills Evaluate and analyze the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social in uences of a historical period.

Reading Skills Identify and understand chronological order; identify and understand graphic elements; use text organizers such as overviews, headings, and graphic features to locate and categorize information; read widely to increase knowledge of the students culture, the culture of others, and the common elements across cultures; identify and understand elements of text structure (including headings and sections).


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C O L L E C T I O N 2 Voyages and VisionsLiterary Focus American Narrative Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 43

Alvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca from La Relacin . . . . . . . . . . . . TRAVEL JOURNAL 45

Reading Focus Summarizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 51

William Bradford from Of Plymouth Plantation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRONICLE 53Mary Rowlandson from A Narrative of

the Captivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PERSONAL NARRATIVE 63William Byrd from Th e History of the Dividing Line . . . . . . . . . . . . HISTORY 73Olaudah Equiano from Th e Interesting Narrative

of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. . . . . . . . . . .AUTOBIOGRAPHY 83

Comparing Texts

The Puritan Worldview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Anne Bradstreet Here Follow Some Verses upon the

Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666. . . . . . . . . . POEM 95Edward Taylor Huswifery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 101Jonathan Edwards from Sinners in the

Hands of an Angry God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SERMON 105

Literary Skills Understand and analyze the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social in uences of a historical period; the charac-teristics of autobiography; the characteristics and use of the plain style; allusions; in uence of the audience on a writer; the characteristics of satire; tone; narrative accounts, including historical narratives; characteriza-tion; metaphor; historical and political contexts; meter; conceits; imagery; philosophical context.

Reading Skills Identify and understand the cultural characteristics of a text; summarize as a strategy for comprehension; identify main ideas and supporting details; summarize a text; analyze chronological order; identify/analyze tone; make inferences about an authors beliefs; analyze inverted syntax; analyze extended metaphor as a text structure; identify the writers purpose or intent.


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C O L L E C T I O N 3 Forging a New Nation

Literary Focus Political Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 117

Reading Focus Analyzing Persuasive Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 119

Patrick Henry Speech to the Virginia Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SPEECH 121Thomas Paine from Th e Crisis, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POLITICAL ESSAY 131

Comparing Texts

Political Points of View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Thomas Je erson from Th e Autobiography: Th e Declaration

of Independence . . . . . . . . AUTOBIOGRAPHY/POLICY STATEMENT 139Dekanawida from Th e Iroquois Constitution . . . . . . . . . POLICY STATEMENT 153Abigail Adams Letter to John Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LETTER 156Elizabeth Cady Stanton from Declaration of Sentiments

of the Seneca Falls Womans Rights Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . SPEECH/POLICY STATEMENT 158

Literary Skills Understand and analyze characteristics of persuasion; style; the characteristics of a writers style; the use of parallelism; symbolism; authors purpose; persuasive devices; the characteristics of autobiography; aphorisms.

Reading Skills Analyze persuasion/arguments in a text; recognize and analyze modes of persuasion, including appeals to reason and appeals to emotion; make inferences as a strategy for comprehension.

Informational Skills Analyze persuasion/arguments in a text.


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Benjamin Franklin from Th e Autobiography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUTOBIOGRAPHY 165 from Poor Richards Almanack . . . . . . . . . . . APHORISMS 171

Link to TodayGordon S. Wood Th e Man of Many Masks

from Th e Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BIOGRAPHY 177

Writing Workshop Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Preparing for Timed Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting and Evaluating Speeches . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Preparing for Standardized Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194Literary Skills Review

Anne Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband. . . . . . . . .POEM 194Edna St. Vincent Millay Love is not all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 194

Vocabulary Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Writing Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Read On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

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I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Ralph Waldo Emerson

What Do You Think? Where does an individual nd inspiration?

Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Introduction to the Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 204

Link to TodayAnnie Dillard Living Like Weasels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 210

C O L L E C T I O N 4 Th e TransformingImagination

Literary Focus American Romanticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 215

Analyzing Visuals Analyzing a Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

William Cullen Bryant Th anatopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 219Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Th e Tide Rises, the Tide Falls . . . . .POEM 225

Th e Cross of Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 228Oliver Wendell Holmes Th e Chambered Nautilus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 233Ralph Waldo Emerson from Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 239

from Self-Reliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 244

Reading Focus Making Generalizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 251

Henry David Thoreau from Walden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 253

Comparing Texts

Civil Disobedience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267Henry David Thoreau from Resistance to Civil Government . . ESSAY 268Mohandas K. Gandhi from On Nonviolent Resistance . . . . . . . .SPEECH 277Martin Luther King, Jr. from Letter from

Birmingham City Jail . . . . . . . . . . . . OPEN LETTER 280

Imagination and the Individual: American Romanticism 18001860

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Literary Skills Understand and analyze theme; metaphor; meter; personi cation; sonnets; tone; extended metaphor; allusion; how imagery conveys meaning; gures of speech; historical context; philosophical context; the use of parallelism; parable; elements of literature from American Romanticism; paradox; parallelism; persua-sive devices; authors purpose.

Reading Skills Understand and analyze inverted sentences; annotate a poem; visualize imagery; identify the main idea of a text; monitor your reading for comprehension; read to understand style; make generalizations about a writers beliefs; read to research information; recognize persuasive techniques (logical, ethical, and emotional appeals).





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C O L L E C T I O N 5 Th e Realms of Darkness

Literary Focus Gothic Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 287

Washington Irving Th e Devil and Tom Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 289Nathaniel Hawthorne Th e Ministers Black Veil . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 303

Reading Focus Strategies for Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 317

Edgar Allan Poe Th e Fall of the House of Usher. . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 320Link to Today

Edgar Allan Poe from Th e Fall of the House of Usher adapted and illustrated by Matt Howarth . . . . . . . . . . .GRAPHIC NOVEL 336

Edgar Allan Poe Th e Pit and the Pendulum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 344Th e Raven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 359

Herman Melville from Moby-Dick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOVEL 367

Writing Workshop Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376


Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386


Ralph Waldo Emerson Th e Snow-Storm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 388Mary Oliver First Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 389

Vocabulary Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392Writing Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Read On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Literary Skills Evaluate genres and traditions in American literature; understand and analyze mood; symbolism; historical context; atmosphere; symbolic meaning; sound e ects in poetry; meter; characterization.

Reading Skills Make predictions as a strategy for comprehension; make inferences as a strategy for com-prehension; use a variety of reading skills to understand literary and informational text; monitor your reading for comprehension; understand and analyze style, archaic words, word choice, language structures, and syntax; apply and monitor a variety of response and comprehension strategies; respond to graphics; retell key events; use oral interpretation to understand a poem; draw inferences about characters.


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A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. Abraham Lincoln

What Do You Think? How does con ict lead to change?

Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398


Link to TodayLeonard Pitts, Jr. A Lesson Learned on the Road . NEWSPAPER ARTICLE 406

C O L L E C T I O N 6 Up from SlaveryLiterary Focus Slave Narratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 411

Reading Focus Analyzing Authors Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 413

Frederick Douglass from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUTOBIOGRAPHY 415

Harriet A. Jacobs from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUTOBIOGRAPHY 425

Spirituals Go Down, Moses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SPIRITUAL 433 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SPIRITUAL 436 Follow the Drinking Gourd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SPIRITUAL 437

Sojourner Truth Aint I a Woman? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SPEECH 441Link to Today

Lucille Clifton at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 445

A House Divided: Th e Civil War Era and Its Aft ermath 18501890

U N I T 3

Literary Skills Understand and analyze diction; the characteristics of a writers style; political context; refrain; oratory; characteristics of persuasion; repetition.

Reading Skills Determine the writers purpose or intent; analyze the authors purpose; analyze a writers perspective; identify and understand appeals to reason; identify and understand appeals to emotion, including loaded words; identify and understand the use of counterclaims/counterarguments in a text.





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C O L L E C T I O N 7 Th e Ravages of War Literary Focus The Rise of Realism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 451

Analyzing Visuals Analyzing a Photograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Reading Focus Analyzing Sequence of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 453

Ambrose Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 455Stephen Crane A Mystery of Heroism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 469

War Is Kind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 478Link to Today

Karen Breslau Healing Wars Wounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAGAZINE ARTICLE 482Chief Joseph I Will Fight No More Forever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SPEECH 489

Comparing Texts

Primary Sources on the Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493Robert E. Lee Letter to His Son. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LETTER 495Maj. Sullivan Ballou Letter to Sarah Ballou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LETTER 498Mary Chesnut from A Diary from Dixie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DIARY 500Abraham Lincoln Th e Gettysburg Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SPEECH 503

Literary Skills Understand and analyze elements of literature from American Romanticism and from the rise of realism; point of view; historical context; credibility in literature; situational irony; verbal irony; the characteristics of American Indian oratory, including repetition and tone.

Reading Skills Analyze the sequence of events in a text; make predictions; identify/analyze tone; identify and analyze emotional appeals in a text.

Informational Skills Understand and analyze authors purpose; analyze primary sources.


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C O L L E C T I O N 8 Whitman and DickinsonAmerican Masters

Literary Focus Styles of Poetry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 507

Reading Focus Analyzing Text Structures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 509

Author Study: Walt Whitman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 512from Song of Myself 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 516 6 A child said What is the grass? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 518 from 33 I understand the large hearts of heroes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 520 52 Th e spotted hawk swoops by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 524A Sight in Camp in the DaybreakGray and Dim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 530from Specimen Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOURNAL 533When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 537A Noiseless Patient Spider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 539

Link to TodayPablo Neruda Plenos poderes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 543

Full Powers translated by Ben Belitt and Alastair Reid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 545

Literary Skills Understand and analyze styles of poetry; the use of catalogs in poetry; the characteristics of free verse; biographical information; theme; symbolism; the use of parallelism; analogy; metaphor; exact rhyme and slant rhyme; style; epigrams; rhythm; irony; paradox; mood.

Reading Skills Understand and analyze the use of text structure in poetry; use paraphrasing or retelling as a strategy for comprehension; compare themes across texts; visualize the text; visualize imagery; compare and contrast poems; analyze poem structure; annotate a poem; summarize a text; monitor reading by paraphrasing.

Informational Skills Analyze rhetorical devices; analyze primary sources.


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Author Study: Emily Dickinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Emily Dickinson Th e Soul selects her own Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 550Th is is my letter to the World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 552Tell all the Truth but tell it slant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 555Success is counted sweetest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 557Because I could not stop for Death . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 560Much Madness is divinest Sense. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 563I heard a Fly buzzwhen I died . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 568My life closed twice before its close . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 570

I sing . . . because I am afraid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LETTERS 572Link to Today

Lucha Corpi Emily Dickinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 576

Writing Workshop Historical Research Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580


Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting Historical Research . . 594

Preparing for Standardized Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596 Literary Skills Review

Stephan Crane from Th e Red Badge of Courage . . . . . . . . . . . NOVEL 596Yusef Komunyakaa Camoufl aging the Chimera . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 598


Read On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? Henry James

What Do You Think? What forces shape human character?

Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606


Link to TodayGarrison Keillor A Walk on the Ice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RADIO ESSAY 614

C O L L E C T I O N 9 Regionalism and Local Color

Literary Focus Regionalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 619

Analyzing Visuals Analyzing Regionalism in a Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

Reading Focus Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 621

Bret Harte Th e Outcasts of Poker Flat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 623

Comparing Texts

Author Study: Mark Twain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636

Mark Twain Th e Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 638Th e Lowest Animal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 645

from Life on the Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MEMOIR 654

Willa Cather A Wagner Matine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 669

Th e Age of Realism 18801914U N I T 4

Literary Skills Understand and analyze regionalism; characterization; tall tales; the characteristics of satire; historical context; extended metaphor; style; setting.

Reading Skills Make predictions as a strategy for comprehension; understand vernacular; identify/rec-ognize a writers purpose; identify comic devices; make inferences such as conclusions, generalizations, and predictions, and support them using the text.



Reading Skills Identify and understand chronological order; identify and understand graphic elements; use text organizers such as overviews, headings, and graphic features to locate and categorize information; read widely to increase knowledge of the students culture, the culture of others, and the common elements across cultures; identify and understand elements of text structures (including headings and sections).


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C O L L E C T I O N 10 Realism and Naturalism

Literary Focus Realism and Naturalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 681

Kate Chopin Th e Story of an Hour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 683

Reading Focus Analyzing Cause and E ect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 691

Jack London To Build a Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 693Link to Today

Beck Weathers from Left for Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUTOBIOGRAPHY 708Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 713

Miniver Cheevy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 713Paul Laurence Dunbar Douglass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 719

We Wear the Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 721

Writing Workshop Re ective Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724


Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting a Re ective Essay . . . 734


Edwin Arlington Robinson For a Dead Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 736Pat Mora Now and Th en, America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 736


Read On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740

Literary Skills Evaluate genres and traditions in American literature; understand and analyze realism and naturalism; irony; philosophical context; connotations; rhyme scheme; symbols.

Reading Skills Analyze historical context, especially political and social in uences of the time; understand and analyze cause and e ect; read closely for details; identify/recognize a writers purpose.

Informational Skills Identify main ideas and sup-porting details.


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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things. Willa Cather

What Do You Think? How does progress challenge tradition and rede ne society?

Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744


Link to TodayToni Morrison Th e Reader as Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 752

C O L L E C T I O N 11 Make It New!Literary Focus Symbolism and Imagism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 757

Analyzing Visuals Analyzing Symbols in a Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759

Ezra Pound Th e River-Merchants Wife: A Letter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 761Th e Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 764

Reading Focus Synthesizing Important Ideas in a Poem . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 767

T. S. Eliot Th e Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 769William Carlos Williams Th e Red Wheelbarrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 779

Th e Great Figure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 779Th is Is Just to Say . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 782

Th e Moderns 19141939U N I T 5

Literary Skills Understand and analyze symbolism and imagism; imagery; dramatic monologue; style; credibility in literature; how imagery conveys meaning; apostrophe; the speaker of the poem; mood; the characteristics of a writers style; characteristics of sonnets; allusions; blank verse; ambiguity; a narrative poem.

Reading Skills Use paraphrasing as a strategy for comprehension; synthesize important ideas in a poem; identify historical context; analyze a writers perspec-tive; visualize imagery; understand tone; use oral interpretation to understand a poem; close reading; understand syntax; analyze the use of text structure in poetry; read to understand poetry and elements of poetry; make inferences about characters.

Informational Skills Analyze primary sources.





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Marianne Moore Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 785Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 788Carl Sandburg Chicago. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 791Edgar Lee Masters Richard Bone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 797

Butch Weldy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 797Mrs. George Reece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 800

Wallace Stevens Domination of Black. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 803E. E. Cummings what if a much of a which of a wind . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 807

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 810

Robert Frost Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 814Nothing Gold Can Stay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 816Birches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 819Mending Wall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 824Th e Death of the Hired Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 828

I must have the pulse beat of rhythm . . . . . . . . . . . INTERVIEW 837

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C O L L E C T I O N 12 Modern American Fiction

Literary Focus Modernism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 841

Ernest Hemingway Soldiers Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 843 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954 . . . . . . .SPEECH 853

F. Scott Fitzgerald Winter Dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 857

Reading Focus Making Inferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 875

William Faulkner A Rose for Emily. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 877Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1950 . . . . . . . . .SPEECH 888

John Steinbeck from Th e Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 17 . . . . . . . . . . NOVEL 893Eudora Welty A Worn Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 903Katherine Anne Porter Th e Jilting of Granny Weatherall . . . . SHORT STORY 913Link to Today

Bill Glauber Th e Fight Against Alzheimers . . . . . . . . . . NEWSPAPER ARTICLE 925James Thurber Th e Secret Life of Walter Mitty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 931Flannery OConnor Th e Life You Save May Be Your Own . . . SHORT STORY 939

Literary Skills Understand and analyze Modernism; the protagonist and the antihero archetype; character motivation; setting; credibility in literature; tone; theme; stream of consciousness; political context; parody; foreshadowing.

Reading Skills Read for details; make inferences about characters; make inferences as a strategy for comprehension; analyze repetition; identify details; close reading; analyze cause and e ect; make predictions as a strategy for comprehension.

Informational Skills Determine a speakers message; analyze an authors beliefs; organize and record new information in systematic ways, such as notes, charts, and graphic organizers.


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C O L L E C T I O N 13 Th e Harlem Renaissance

Literary Focus The Harlem Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 951

Reading Focus Identifying Historical Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 953

Zora Neale Hurston from Dust Tracks on a Road . . . . . . . . . AUTOBIOGRAPHY 955Arna Bontemps A Black Man Talks of Reaping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 967Countee Cullen Tableau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 971

Incident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 971

Comparing Texts

Author Study: Langston Hughes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 976Langston Hughes Th e Weary Blues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 978

Th e Negro Speaks of Rivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 983 Harlem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 986 Heyday in Harlem from Th e Big Sea . . . . . . MEMOIR 989

Link to TodayRuth Evans and Sue Armstrong Harlems Second

Coming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WEB ARTICLE 996

Writing Workshop Literary Analysis: Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002

Preparing for Timed Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011

Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting a Literary Analysis . . 1012

Preparing for Standardized Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1014Literary Skills Review

Claude McKay America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1014Allen Ginsberg Homework. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1015

Vocabulary Skills Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018Writing Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019

Read On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1020

Literary Skills Understand and analyze the Harlem Renaissance; the characteristics of autobiography; style; extended metaphor; metaphor; simile; rhythm; repetition; mood; political context.

Reading Skills Identify historical context; understand the use of text structure in poetry; compare and contrast poems; understand the writers context; visualize the text; identify historical themes.

Informational Skills Analyze an authors arguments; identify and understand patterns of organization; identify comparison-contrast organization.


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Everything is connected in the end. Don DeLillo

What Do You Think? What human needs and desires do we have in common?

Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1024

Introduction to the Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1026

Link to TodayEllen Goodman Th anksgiving Memories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1032

C O L L E C T I O N 14 Th e Wages of WarLiterary Focus War Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1035

Reading Focus Visualizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1037

Randall Jarrell Th e Death of the Ball Turret Gunner . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1039

Link to TodayBrenda Payton Honor at Last . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEWSPAPER ARTICLE 1042

Elie Wiesel from Night translated by Marion Wiesel . . . . . . . . . . . MEMOIR 1047Art Spiegelman from Maus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GRAPHIC NOVEL 1060John Hersey A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima . . . . . . . . . . . . . REPORTAGE 1067Mitsuye Yamada Desert Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1083

C O L L E C T I O N 15 Contemporary Drama

Literary Focus American Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1089

Arthur Miller Why I Wrote Th e Crucible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1095

Reading Focus Drawing Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1097

Arthur Miller Th e Crucible. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DRAMA 1098

Th e Contemporary Period 1939 to Present

U N I T 6

Literary Skills Understand and analyze the characteristics of war literature; implied metaphor; historical context; tone; subjective and objective reporting; gures of speech.

Reading Skills Visualize the text; analyze a writers message; respond to graphics; read closely for details; use context clues to determine the meaning of words.

Informational Skills Analyze an authors arguments; read closely for details.





Literary Skills Understand and analyze elements of American drama; character motivation; credibility in literature.

Reading Skills Draw conclusions about characters; draw inferences about characters.


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C O L L E C T I O N 16 Contemporary Fiction

Literary Focus Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1169

Analyzing Visuals Analyzing a Movie Still . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1171

Bernard Malamud Th e Magic Barrel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1173John Updike Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1187Tim OBrien Speaking of Courage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1195Raymond Carver Everything Stuck to Him . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1207Anne Tyler Teenage Wasteland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1215Julia Alvarez Daughter of Invention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1225

Reading Focus Analyzing a Writers Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1237

Amy Tan Rules of the Game from Th e Joy Luck Club . . . . . . . . . . . NOVEL 1239

Comparing Texts

Themes Across Genres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251Joyce Carol Oates Th e Sky Blue Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1253Brian Doyle Joyas Voladoras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1258 Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CARTOON 1264

Literary Skills Understand and analyze characterization; static and dynamic characters; theme; con ict; credibility in literature; the characteris-tics of a writers style; character motivation; biographi-cal information; symbols; the use of catalog.

Reading Skills Draw inferences about characters; analyze the sequence of events in a text; analyze historical context, especially political and social in u-ences of the time; learn through questioning; make predictions as a strategy for comprehension; make inferences about characters; analyze a writers message; interpret/analyze details; identify and understand pat-terns of organization.


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C O L L E C T I O N 17 Contemporary Nonfi ction

Literary Focus Autobiographical Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1267

Richard Wright from Black Boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1269Maxine Hong Kingston Th e Girl Who Wouldnt Talk

from Th e Woman Warrior. . . . . . . . . . . . MEMOIR 1283Alice Walker from In Search of Our Mothers Gardens. . . . PERSONAL ESSAY 1293James Baldwin Autobiographical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1301

Reading Focus Understanding a Writers Background . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1307

Sandra Cisneros Straw into Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1309

C O L L E C T I O N 18 Contemporary Poetry

Literary Focus Poetry and Personal Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1319

W. H. Auden Th e Unknown Citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 1321Elizabeth Bishop Th e Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1327

One Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1330Anne Sexton Th e Bells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1335Sylvia Plath Mirror. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1339

Mushrooms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 1341Gwendolyn Brooks Th e Bean Eaters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1345

In Honor Of David Anderson Brooks, My Father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1345

Reading Focus Summarizing a Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1349

Billy Collins Man Listening to Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 1351Judith Ortiz Cofer Th e Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1357Rita Dove Testimonial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1363Garrett Hongo What For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1367Nikki Giovanni Th e Beep Beep Poem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1373Natasha Trethewey Providence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1377Naomi Shihab Nye Trying to Name What Doesnt Change . . . . . .POEM 1381Norbert Krapf Prayer from Th ree Paumanok Pieces . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1385

Literary Skills Relate poetry to per-sonal experience; understand and analyze irony; philo-sophical context; symbols; characteristics of a villanelle; imagery; personi cation; tone; the uses of rhyme; the characteristics of a writers style; concrete and abstract language; biographical information; sound e ects in poetry; refrain; parallelism; elements of poetry; theme; apostrophe; allusions; repetition; archetypes; political context; diction.

Reading Skills Identify/analyze tone; interpret/ana-lyze details; use paraphrasing or retelling as a strategy for comprehension; draw inferences such as conclu-sions, generalizations, and predictions, and support them using the text; summarize a text; identify key words; analyze poem structure; analyze a writers mes-sage; analyze characteristics of free verse; interpret and analyze details; analyze themes across cultures; analyze historical context, especially political and social in u-ences of the time; close reading.


Literary Skills Understand and analyze the characteristics of autobiography; dialogue in non ction; characterization; a personal, or informal, essay; political context; tone; allusions.

Reading Skills Interpret/analyze details; make inferences about characters; identify the main idea by outlining; evaluate an authors arguments; identify and understand a writers background.


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Comparing Texts

Themes Across Cultures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1389Derek Walcott Elsewhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 1391Agha Shahid Ali Medusa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1397Jhumpa Lahiri When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1401Edwidge Danticat Th e Book of the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1419Richard Rodriguez from Days of Obligation:

An Argument with My Mexican Father . . ESSAY 1430Gurinder Chadha Bend It Like Beckham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MOVIE POSTER 1434

Writing Workshop Literary Analysis: Non ction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1436

Preparing for Timed Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1445

Media Workshop Analyzing and Using Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1446

Preparing for Standardized Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1454Literary Skills Review

Amy Lowell September, 1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1454Julia Alvarez How I Learned to Sweep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1455

Vocabulary Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1458Writing Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1459

Read On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1460

Resource Center Handbook of Literary and Historical Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1464World of Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483Writers Handbook . . . . . . . . . . . . 1488

Language Handbook . . . . . . . . . 1499Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1536Spanish Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1545Academic Vocabulary Glossary in English and Spanish . . . . . . . . 1553

Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . 1555Picture Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1560Index of Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1564Index of Authors and Titles . . . . 1574

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from 33 I understand the large hearts of heroes: Success is counted sweetest: I sing : : : because I am afraid:

The Sky Tree:

Coyote Finishes His Work:

from The Way to Rainy Mountain:

from La Relacin:

from Of Plymouth Plantation:

from A Narrative of the Captivity:

from The History of the Dividing Line:

from Th e Interesting Narrativeof the Life of Olaudah Equiano:

Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666:

Huswifery:

Speech to the Virginia Convention:

from The Crisis, No: 1:

from Th e Autobiography: The Declaration of Independence:

from The Iroquois Constitution:

Letter to John Adams:

Letter to John Adamsfrom Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Womans Rights Convention:

from The Autobiography:

from Poor Richards Almanack:

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls:

The Cross of Snow:

The Chambered Nautilus:

from Nature:

from Self-Reliance:

from Walden:

from Resistance to Civil Government:

from On Nonviolent Resistance:

from Letter from Birmingham City Jail:

The Devil and Tom Walker:

The Fall of the House of Usher:

The Pit and the Pendulum:

The Raven:

from Moby-Dick:

from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:

from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl:

Go Down, Moses:

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot:

Follow the Drinking Gourd:

Aint I a Woman?:

A Mystery of Heroism:

War Is Kind:

I Will Fight No More Forever :

Letter to His Son:

Letter to Sarah Ballou:

from A Diary from Dixie:

The Gettysburg Address:

from Song of Myself 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself:

from Song of Myself 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myselffrom 33 I understand the large hearts of heroes: 52 The spotted hawk swoops by:

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim:

from Specimen Days:

When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer:

The Soul selects her own Society:

This is my letter to the World:

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant:

Success is counted sweetestf: Because I could not stop for Death:

Much Madness is divinest Sense:

I heard a Fly buzzwhen I died:

My life closed twice before its close:

The Blackfeet Genesis:

The Ministers Black Veil:

A Noiseless Patient Spider:

from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God:

6 A child said What is the grass?:

The Earth Only:

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