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Grade 12 English

AP Literature & Composition

Readings

  • "Writing About Poetic Language"

    • "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman​

    • "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" by William Shakespeare

    • "Turtle" by Kay Ryan

    • "In the Long Hall" by Hayden Carruth

    • "My Son My Executioner" by Donald Hall

  • "Writing About Poetic Form"

    • "We Real Cool" by Gwendoyln Brooks​

    • "Eight O'Clock" by A. E. Housman

    • "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by E. E. Cummings

    • "Telephone Conversation" by Wole Soyinka

    • "Nuns Fret Not" by William Wordsworth

    • "Sonnet" by Billy Collins

    • "Love at First Sight" by Alan Ziegler

    • "40---Love" by Roger McGough

Unit 2:
Poetry I
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