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:
"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman "Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats "Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare "Sonnet 43" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning And more