Introduction: What Is Poetry?
  I: What Is poetry?
  II: Elements of Poetry
  III: Genres of Poetry
  IV: Approaches towards Poetry
Chapter One: The Sound of Poetry
  Wind
  I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
  Anthem for Doomed Youth
  Break, Break, Break
  Gloire de Dijon
Chapter Two: The Rhyme of Poetry
  The Windhover
  Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
  We Real Cool
  The Road Not Taken
  The Daffodils
Chapter Three: The Rhythm of Poetry
  Virtue
  Sonnet 18
  A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
  The Long March
  A Supermarket in California
Chapter Four: The Shape of Poetry
  Easter Wings
  in Just-
  The Hollow Men
  A Red, Red Rose
  The Solitary Reaper
Chapter Five: The Words of Poetry
  Paradise Lost
  Pied Beauty
  She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
  This Is Just to Say
  Moonlight Among the Pines
Chapter Six: The Figurative Language of Poetry
  The Flea
  The Tyger
  Dover Beach
  Fire and Ice
  Up-Hill
Chapter Seven: The Allusion of Poetry
  On His Blindness
  To Helen
  The Second Coming
  Abraham to Kill Him
  Anecdote of the Jar
Chapter Eight: The Imagery of Poetry
  In a Station of the Metro
  The Red Wheelbarrow
  Mirror
  Fern Hill
  The Fish
Chapter Nine: The Tone of Poetry
  Love’s Farewell
  Crossing the Bar
  Song of White Snow in Farewell to Secretary Wu, Going Back to the Capital
  The Trees
  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Chapter Ten: The Theme of Poetry
  When I Was One and Twenty
  To His Coy Mistress
  Ode to the Plum Blossom
  Apparently with No Surprise
  The Man He Killed
Appendix I: A Glossary of Poetic Terms
Appendix II: A Historical Sketch of British Poetry
Appendix III: A Historical Sketch of American Poetry
Bibliography