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:
"Classic Ballroom Dances" by Charles Simic
"Elena" by Pat Mora
"The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
"Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666" By Anne Bradstreet