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:
"Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost
"I'm Nobody! Who are You?" by Emily Dickinson
"Of Modern Poetry" by Wallace Stevens
"Song" by John Donne
"Words and the Diminution of All Things" By Charles Wright