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The Road Not Taken
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Indecision may or may not be this man's biggest problem. All he can do is go left or right. It's not that big of a deal...or is it?

The Raven
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In Poe's raven's defense, he probably only knew that one word...

The Odyssey Summary
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Odysseus should have checked out How to Return Home from War for Dummies. Step One: Do not mess with the son of a god. Actually, no need to read on...

The Odyssey
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On his ten-year journey home from the Trojan War, Odysseus runs into everything from sirens to sea monsters to seductresses. Such is life when you...

Sonnets
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This video defines sonnets, a favorite of William Shakespeare. What are the different types of sonnet? How do you identify different kinds of sonne...

A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed: Oh, How Hollywood
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And you thought a nymph was a naturally lovely woodland creature. To be fair, so did we. But boy did Jonathan Swift prove us wrong.

Lord Byron
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The first real celebrity was a poet? Guess our standards have changed.

Diameter of the Bomb (Amichai)
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Why would Yehuda Amichai write an entire book on the diameter of a bomb and the diameter of its range? Is he trying to convey a message? Is his boo...

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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"The Love Song of Shmoop" is next.

Mending Wall
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Why not just buy a new wall? We're sure Mr. Frost would be okay with it.

Edgar Allan Poe: The Twilight Connection
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Sure, Edgar Allan Poe was dark and moody and filled with teenage angst, but what else does he have in common with the Twilight series?

Fern Hill
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"Nothing cared I that time would take me": the famous words of Dylan Thomas in his poem "Fern Hill." In this poem, the speaker fights age and aims...

My Last Duchess
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It can never hurt to have a few spare duchesses lying around the house.

My Last Duchess: 19th Century Logic About Women
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Hanging your wife's portrait above your fireplace? Romantic. Hanging it up after you've killed her? Not so much.

Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
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"Girl," by Jamaica Kincaid, is a poem—er, a story... er... what is this thing? Either way, it's about a mother's advice to her daughter. And noth...

I Explain a Few Things
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It's so nice when a poem is straight with you right from the get-go, isn't it? If more poems were this considerate, "The Road Not Taken" might have...

Kubla Khan
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" is like one long drug trip. Don't try this at home.

Ode on a Grecian Urn
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Ode on a Californian Shmoop.

Dream Deferred (Hughes)
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Imagine if dreams really could come true. This is the question that Langston Hughes ponders in his poem "Dream Deferred."

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