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:
"In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Lament for the Dorsets" by Al Purdy "Leviathan" by W. S. Merwin, W. S. "Lost Sister" by Cathy Song "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost And more