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:
"Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art" by John Keats "Eating Poetry" by Mark Strand "Old Ironsides" by Oliver Wendell Holmes "Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School" by Jane Kenyon "War Is Kind" by Stephen Crane And more