Elegies and Odes: 10/1 in-class discussion

Elegies

1.  James Reiss' "The Breathers"

2. Joan Larkin's "Afterlife"

3. Jericho Brown's "Another Elegy"

4. Jimmy Santiago Baca's "Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX"

5. A.E. Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"

6. Mary Jo Bang's "You Were You Are An Elegy"

7. Yusef Komunyakaa's "We Never Know"

Odes

1. Allen Tate's "Ode to the Confederate Dead"

2. Pablo Neruda's "Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market"

3. Alexander Pope's "Ode on Solitude"

4. Elizabeth Alexander's "Praise Song for the Day" (Read for Obama's inauguration)

5. John Keats' "To Autumn"

6. Kevin Young's "Ode to the Midwest"

7. Anne Sexton's "In Celebration of My Uterus"