"We asked the cyclone to go around our barn but it didn't hear us." —Carl Sandburg from The People, Yes Check out the Additional Questions, Hot Links, Internet Activities, and Self-Tests for this unit using the navigation bar at the left.

PART 1: FACING TROUBLED TIMES
T. S. Eliot	The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	Poem	718
Comparing Literary Works
Ezra Pound	A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste	Nonfiction	729
	The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	Poem	732
	In a Station of the Metro	Poem	734
William Carlos Williams	The Red Wheelbarrow	Poem	735
	The Great Figure	Poem	735
	This Is Just to Say	Poem	736
H. D.	Pear Tree	Poem	737
	Heat	Poem	738
F. Scott Fitzgerald	Winter Dreams	Short Story	744
John Steinbeck	The Turtle from The Grapes of Wrath	Fiction	768
Comparing Literary Works
E. E. Cummings	old age sticks	Poem	776
	anyone lived in a pretty how town	Poem	777
W. H. Auden	The Unknown Citizen	Poem	779
Thomas Wolfe	The Far and the Near	Short Story	786
Comparing Literary Works
Wallace Stevens	Of Modern Poetry	Poem	796
	Anecdote of the Jar	Poem	797
Archibald MacLeish	Ars Poetica	Poem	798
Marianne Moore	Poetry	Poem	800
PART 2: FOCUS ON LITERARY FORMS: THE SHORT STORY
Comparing Literary Works
Ernest Hemingway	In Another Country	Short Story	809
Sherwood Anderson	The Corn Planting	Short Story	815
Eudora Welty	A Worn Path	Short Story	820
PART 3: FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE LAND
Comparing Literary Works
Carl Sandburg	Chicago	Poem	838
	Grass	Poem	840
Katherine Anne Porter	The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	Short Story	846
Comparing Literary Works
William Faulkner	Race at Morning	Short Story	860
	Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech	Speech	875
Comparing Literary Works
Robert Frost	Birches	Poem	882
	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	Poem	885
	Mending Wall	Poem	886
	"Out, Out—"	Poem	888
	The Gift Outright	Poem	890
	Acquainted With the Night	Poem	892
Comparing Literary Works
James Thurber	The Night the Ghost Got In	Nonfiction	898
E. B. White	from Here Is New York	Nonfiction	903
Comparing Literary Works
Langston Hughes	The Negro Speaks of Rivers	Poem	926
	Ardella	Poem	927
	Dream Variations	Poem	928
	Refugee in America	Poem	929
Claude McKay	The Tropics in New York	Poem	930
Comparing Literary Works
Countee Cullen	From the Dark Tower	Poem	936
Arna Bontemps	A Black Man Talks of Reaping	Poem	937
Jean Toomer	Storm Ending	Poem	938