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Whitman
One's Self I Sing
I Hear America Singing
As Adam Early in the Morning
For You O Democracy
I Hear It was Charged Against Me
A Glimpse
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Song of Myself See part 52 for lines on dirt

Dickinson

There's a Certain Slant of Light
I Felt a Funeral in my Brain
The Soul selects her own Society
After a great pain, a formal feeling comes
I heard a Fly Buzz
I started early
I like to see it lap the Miles
A still--Volcano--life
They shut me up in prose
I dwell in Possibility
Because I could not stop for death
My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun
Title divine--is mine
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Volcanoes be in Sicily

Eliot
The Waste Land
Great source for various interpretations of "The Waste Land"

William Carlos Williams
Spring and All
The Red Wheelbarrow
To Elsie
This is just to say
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
The Rose is Obsolete

William Butler Yeats
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop

Sylvia Plath
Fever 103 (public version)
Fever 103 (for you to annotate)

Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken

Joe Weil
Ode to Elizabeth
So Kiss Me, Asshole
Paunch
Filthy River

Charles Bukowski
dinosauria, we

Seamus Heaney
Digging

Bruce Guernsey
Stones

Gary Snyder
Riprap

Theodore Roethke
Root Cellar
Transplanting

Tom Waits
Dirt in the Ground

Nicolás Guillén
Far off...
What Color?

Langston Hughes
Let America be America Again

Tim O'Brien
How to Tell a True War Story

Flannery O'Connor
Good Country People

Working definitions of literature
Literature is any written work of all and various genres that are thoughtfully worded to convey a specific purpose and/or idea.

Literature is a term used to describe written and spoken words that are thoughtfully worded to convey an idea, often for the purpose of provoking emotion.