It was! I looked it up and the summary matches what I remember.

I found the list, it may be missing some poems but this is largely what we covered:

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr

Arcadia - Tom Stoppard

Dulce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Kindred - Octavia E. Butler

Life of Galileo - Bertolt Brecht

Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw

Suicide in the Trenches - Siegfried Sassoon

The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King

The Lady's Not for Burning - Christopher Fry

The Mortal Immortal - Mary Shelley