Viewpoints 12 - Contents by Genre and Form
Invitation to Literature 2
The Word poem
Pablo Neruda ...................................................................... 4
Reading on "the Rez" memoir
Tomson Highway ................................................................ 6
For the Love of Books memoir
Rita Dove ............................................................................ 7
Not a Boyhood Passion memoir
Mordecai Richler ................................................................ 10
How Reading Changed My Life memoir
Anna Quindlen ................................................................... 12
The Secret poem
Denise Levertov ................................................................. 14
Invitation to Literature: Activities ............................ 15
Unit 1: Short Fiction ............................................................... 16
The Rocking-Horse Winner short story 
D.H. Lawrence .................................................................. 18
Write Me Sometimeshort story
Taien Ng-Chan .................................................................. 36
Calgary from Sunnyside woodblock print
Margaret Shelton .............................................................. 46
Outside Edges short story
Ivan Dorin .......................................................................... 48
Twisted Roots photograph
Lyle McIntyre ..................................................................... 60
The Shining Houses short story
Alice Munro ........................................................................ 62
A Devoted Son short story
Anita Desai ........................................................................ 74
Magpies short story
Thomas King ...................................................................... 87
The Winner short story
Barbara Kimenye .............................................................. 96
Windows short story
Bernice Morgan ............................................................... 109
Easter at My Aunt's lithograph
Christopher Pratt ............................................................. 118
War short story
Timothy Findley ............................................................... 120
Peace and War short story
Moacyr Scliar ................................................................... 138
The Spirit of Haida Gwaii sculpture
Bill Reid ............................................................................ 142
Mazes speculative fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin ........................................................... 144
Was It a Dream? ghost story
Guy de Maupassant ...................................................... 150
FromNo Great Mischief novel excerpt
Alistair MacLeod ............................................................ 155
Unit Wrap-Up Activities ........................................... 163
In-Depth: Universal Themes and Patterns 164
FromThe Archetypes of Literature literary criticism
Northrop Frye ................................................................. 166
The Hero's Adventure interview
Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers ............................... 171
Ode to the West Wind poem
Percy Bysshe Shelley .................................................... 177
Araby fromDubliners short story
James Joyce ................................................................... 181
Utopian Dreams book review
Val Ross .......................................................................... 188
Universal Themes and Patterns: Activities........ 193
Unit 2: Essays, Articles, Media ....................... 194
Essays
Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Body expository essay
Cynthia Ozick ................................................................... 196
Personal and Reflective Essays
Ka-Ching! personal essay
Margaret Atwood ............................................................ 205
Afternoon of an American Boy personal essay
E.B. White ........................................................................ 209
A Place to Stand On reflective essay
Margaret Laurence ......................................................... 216
Chameleons and Codas personal essay
Patricia Conrad ................................................................ 224
Elegy in Stonereflective essay
Steven Heighton ............................................................. 229
The Death of the Moth reflective essay
Virginia Woolf ................................................................... 236
Biographical Essays
Guy Lafleur biographical essay
Ken Dryden ...................................................................... 242
My Mother's Blue Bowl biographical essay
Alice Walker ..................................................................... 251
Migrant Mother photograph
Dorothea Lange .............................................................. 256
Expository and Analytical Essays
Of Youth and Age analytical essay
Francis Bacon ................................................................. 258
Why I Write analytical essay
George Orwell ................................................................. 263
The Not-So-Deadly Sin expository essay
Barbara Kingsolver ......................................................... 272
Call of the Weird expository essay
Drew Hayden Taylor ....................................................... 279
Argumentative and Persuasive Essays
A Modest Proposal persuasive essay
Jonathan Swift ............................................................... 283
Get Beyond Babel argumentative essay
Ken Wiwa ........................................................................ 294
The Death of History Is Bunk persuasive essay
Patrick Watson ............................................................... 300
Wanderers by Choice argumentative essay
Eva Hoffman ................................................................... 306
Peace, Technology, and the Role of Ordinary People speech
Ursula Franklin ................................................................ 313
Articles
Slide to Entropy newspaper column
Kathleen Winter ............................................................... 323
Paradise, a Poet, and Promised Land magazine article
George Elliott Clarke ...................................................... 327
Hockey Night in Port Hawkesbury magazine article
Lynn Coady ...................................................................... 331
The Sixth Flight magazine article
Chantal Tranchemontagne ........................................... 337
Buying Your Next Synthesizer tech-advice column
Amin Bhatia ..................................................................... 345
A Chat with Al Purdy interview
Kate Climenhage ............................................................. 349
Ours by Design magazine feature article
Alison Blackduck ............................................................. 354
Media
Look What I Found cartoon
Marian Henley .................................................................. 364
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus painting
Pieter Brueghel ................................................................ 366
Shower at Ohashi Bridge print
Hiroshige Utagawa ......................................................... 368
The Poetry of Earth and Sky photo essay
Courtney Milne with Ormond&Barbara Mitchell............370
Canada: A Virtual History newspaper feature article
Ray Conlogue .................................................................. 380
Unzipped annotated graphic
Anna Husarska ............................................................... 389
The Humpback of Notre Dame print advertisement
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador ............. 392
Morty Mania trade magazine article
Judy Waytiuk .................................................................... 394
The Monkey's Paw magazine feature article
Daniel Wood .................................................................... 403
Restoring Life on the Edge newspaper article
Chris Rose ....................................................................... 421
Unit Wrap-Up Activities ............................................ 429
In-Depth:Media on Media................................ 430
Aphorisms aphorisms
Marshall McLuhan .......................................................... 431
The News analytical essay
Neil Postman ................................................................... 434
Learning Without Lectures newspaper article
Ann Rees ........................................................................ 443
King Zog's Birthday radio script
Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding ....................................... 446
almost visible poem
Kenneth J. Harvey .......................................................... 449
Media on Media: Activities ...................................... 451
In-Depth:Argument and Persuasion 452
Effective Persuasion from Rhetoric argument
Aristotle.............................................................................454
Giant Database Is Ripe for Abuse newspaper editorial
Edmonton Journal ..........................................................456
Let's Stop Being Hysterical, Shall We, and Start Selling Water to Those Who Need It opinion
piece
Lee Morrison .................................................................. 459
Our Water Sovereignty Is at Risk opinion piece
Eric Reguly ......................................................................463
FromWater non-fiction book excerpt
Marq de Villiers ............................................................... 466
Poetry poem
Marianne Moore ............................................................. 473
Argument and Persuasion: Activities.............. 475
Unit 3: Poetry ................................................. 476
The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Engineers’ Corner lightverse
Wendy Cope.................................................................... 478
Is the Pathetic Fallacy True? lyric
Elizabeth Brewster ......................................................... 481
Evening etching
Mary Cassatt.................................................................... 484
Birch Bark lyric
Michael Ondaatje ........................................................... 486
vancouver-courtenay-calgary lyric
George Bowerin............................................................... 489
Prairie Flight free verse
Dorothy Livesay................................................................ 492
Fern Hill lyric
Dylan Thomas................................................................... 494
Amiri Barakaphotograph
C. Daniel Dawson ........................................................... 498
The Committee to Upgrade Celestial Signs shape poem
Kurt Brown ....................................................................... 500
The Heroes You Had as a Girl free verse
Bronwen Wallace ............................................................ 503
foremother narrative
Lillian Bouzane ................................................................ 507
To You Who Would Wage War Against Me dramatic monologue
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm ................................................. 511
I, Icarus free verse
Alden Nowlan.................................................................... 515
Musée des Beaux Arts reflective verse
W.H. Auden ..................................................................... 518
People on the Bridge reflective verse
Wislawa Szymborska ...................................................... 521
Progress free
verse
Emma LaRocque............................................................. 524
Summer Night lyric
Langston Hughes............................................................ 527
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock dramatic monologue
T.S. Eliot ........................................................................... 530
Afternoons&Coffeespoonssong lyrics
Brad Roberts of The Crash Test Dummies.................. 539
The River lyric
Derek Walcott................................................................... 542
grammar poem shape poem
Rita Wong ........................................................................ 545
Traditions
Mu-lan ballad
Anonymous....................................................................... 548
FromBeowulf epic
Anonymous, Translated by Seamus Heaney............... 553
FromThe Canterbury Tales: General Prologue narrative
Geoffrey Chaucer............................................................ 560
Sonnet 116 sonnet
William Shakespeare....................................................... 570
A Poison Tree engraving
William Blake .................................................................... 572
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner narrative
Samuel Taylor Coleridge................................................. 574
Can You Leave Your Native Land? quatrain
Susanna Moodie ............................................................. 601
Dover Beachdramatic monologue
Matthew Arnold ............................................................... 604
Because I Could Not Stop for Death— allegorical verse
Emily Dickinson ............................................................... 608
Unit Wrap-Up Activities ............................................ 611
Unit 4: Drama ............................................................. 612
A Marriage Proposalstage play
Anton Chekhov ............................................................... 614
Set Design forThe Foreigner set design
Karen Schulz Gropman.................................................. 634
From Acoose: Man Standing Above Ground monologue
Janice Acoose and Brenda Zeman .............................. 636
Film Location for Random Passage film location
CBC Television ................................................................ 640
Stop!stage play
Donna Lewis..................................................................... 642
Dead Parrot television script
Monty Python ................................................................... 650
Unit Wrap-Up Activities............................................. 655
In-Depth: Shakespeare .................................. 656
Invisible Genius: The Quiet Talent of Tanya Moiseiwitsch magazine article
Therese Greenwood ...................................................... 658
FromHamlet film script
William Shakespeare and Kenneth Branagh .............. 666
Shakespeare in the Cinema: symposium
A Film Directors' Symposium................................... 677
The Shakespearean Tragic Hero literary criticism
A.C. Bradley...................................................................... 687
Strong Women Prevail in Shakespeare's Comedies literary criticism
Angela Pitt........................................................................ 692
Saloonio short story
Stephen Leacock............................................................. 696
Shakespeare: Activities............................................ 700
