Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:
"Omen" by Edward Hirsch
"If" by Rudyard Kipling
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe
"Pineapples and Pomegranates" by Paul Muldoon
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" By Walt Whitman