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More Poems for Our First Two class Segments to Date

Additional poems in personal-expressive tradition:

• Sappho
• Sharon Olds
• W.D. Snodgrass, see all of Heart's Needle, p. 1731
• Li-Young Lee, "Persimmons," p. 2011
• John Berryman (persona poems), from Dream Songs, #1, 4, 14, 29, 40, pp. 1548

Additional poems in the visionary tradition:

• Theodore Roethke, "In a Dark Time," p. 1501
• William Yeats, "The Second Coming," p. 1196
• Philip Levine, "They Feed They Lion," p. 1761
• D.H. Lawrence, "The Ship of Death," p. 1291
• Wallace Stevens, "Of Mere Being," p. 1268 and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," p. 1260