For Form III, we select poems from an anthology:

Introduction to Poetry edited by X. J. Kennedy & Dana Goia:

1. Shakespeare, "Shall I Compare Thee…"



                                           Other sonnets: Collins, "Sonnet" Arnold, "Shakespeare"

2.  Frost, "Out, Out-"




3. Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz"



4. Sexton, "Her Kind"




5. Olds, "Rite of Passage"(with Audio)


6. Williams, "This Is Just to Say"




7. Eliot, "The Winter Evening Settles Down"


8. Tennyson, "The Eagle"



9. Rich, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
(Text from Prof. Al Filreis English 88 Modern & Contemporary American Poetry)

10. Browning, "My Last Duchess" (with Audio)

11. Plath, “Metaphors” (with a paragraph of analysis)

12. Lawrence, “Piano”

13. Bottoms, "Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt" (Handout—this is not in the book)


Additional Poets & Poems:

Grammar - Parenthetical Expressions / Appositives / Restrictive & Nonrestrictive Clauses

I am a big fan of Grammar Girl for finding clever ways to remember the rules.  Here's her lesson on Appositives.


Looking for more practice sentences?  Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) has a ridiculous number to try.  They can be found here.

And here are some more.