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:
"Birches" by Robert Frost "Blood Oranges" by Lisel Mueller "For the White Poets Who Would be Indians" by Wendy Rose "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" by Emily Dickinson "Leda and the Swan" by William Butler Yeats And more