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:
"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats "Siren Song" by Margaret Atwood "Small Town with One Road" by Gary Soto "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Housman And more