Select a poem that most interests you this week, and in about 200 words, explain why. Use the poem list below to please pick your poem from-
"The Ruined Maid" by Thomas Hardy
"To an Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Housman
"Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries" by A. E. Housman
"Recessional" by Rudyard Kipling
"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by William Butler Yeats
"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
"Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats
"Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
"Reuben Bright" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
From War is Kind by Stephen Crane
"We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"Little Brown Baby" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae
"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
"Patterns" by Amy Lowell
"Chicago" by Carl Sandburg
"Grass" by Carl Sandburg
"The Emperor of Ice Cream" by Wallace Stevens
"Danse Russe" by William Carlos Williams
"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
"In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound
"Helen" by H. D.
"They" by Siegfried Sassoon
"Glory of Women" by Siegfried Sassoon
"Shine, Perishing Republic" by Robinson Jeffers
"The Soldier: by Rupert Brooke
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot
"Break of Day in the Trenches" by Isaac Rosenberg
From Lament for the Great Music by Hugh MacDiarmid
"Ars Poetica" by Archibald MacLeish
"Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen
"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen
"Resume" by Dorothy Parker
"next to of course god america i" by E. E. Cummings
From Cane: "Reapers" by Jean Toomer
"Warning to Children" by Robert Graves
"1916 seen from 1921" by Edmund Blunden
"At Melville's Tomb" by Hart Crane
"Ode to the Confederate Dead" by Allen Tate
"Conjured" by Sterling Brown
"The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes
"Reflections on Ice-breaking" by Ogden Nash
"Heritage" by Countee Cullen
"Yet Do I Marvel" by Countee Cullen
"Where are the War Poets?" by C. Day Lewis
From The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh
"Musée des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden
"The Shield of Achilles" by W. H. Auden