Section 1 : Poetry and the Arrest of Life
Section 2 : Poetry and Difficulty
Section 3 : Distinguishing Between Good and Bad Poetry
Section 4 : The Poet on Poetry
Section 5 : Sunday Morning, Wallace Stevens
Section 6 : The Graveyard by the Sea, Paul Valéry
Section 7 : The Moon and the Yew Tree, Sylvia Plath
Section 8 : At the Fishhouses, Elizabeth Bishop
Section 9 : Philip Larkin and W.H. Auden
Section 10 : What are they trying to tell us
Section 11 : Conclusion, Part One Poetry What It Is, And How to Understan
Section 12 : James Merrill's Santorini Stopping the Leak. A Poem of Thera
Section 13 : Love, and the Arrest of Life
Section 14 : Charles Wright's Black Zodiac
Section 15 : STOPPING THE LEAK T.S. Eliot's Poem, Virginia
Section 16 : Poetry and the way it undermines us Weldon Kees and Donald J