Poetry+Videos

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The Hangman media type="youtube" key="_ZSS3yxpnFU" height="385" width="480"

Ferlingetti and Beat Poetry media type="youtube" key="Vgec1sXIaiw" height="385" width="480"

media type="youtube" key="n-a8ELOVig4" height="385" width="480" Forgetfulness by Billy Collins--Collins's poetry put to a video.

The Litany by Billy Collins media type="youtube" key="56Iq3PbSWZY" height="385" width="640"

media type="youtube" key="0EjB7rB3sWc" height="385" width="640" Naming of Parts by Henry Reed media type="youtube" key="Ju_enTEyTpg" height="385" width="480"
 * The Lanyard by Billy Collins

Sonnet 130 (a reading): media type="youtube" key="cw6Swr-ME40" height="385" width="480"

Sonnet 130

Explication of Poems: readings of the ones that we used in class:

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Ballad Poems** are poems that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain. A ballad is often about love and often sung. A ballad is a story in poetic form. "Casey at the Bat" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee."

Casey at the Bat read by Thayer. media type="youtube" key="UEAQICidTNc" height="385" width="640"

media type="youtube" key="O2F0qC1-sa0" height="385" width="480" "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes. The Highwayman

A very spooky visual version but a good reading by Plath of her poem "Lady Lazarus"

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Here's "Dulce et decorum est" Here''s a video game version of the poem. It makes it a little longer than it has to be, but it isan interesting interp.

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"War is Kind" reading

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"my sweet old ectetra" by ee cummings. An interesting interpatation of the poem. It sort of mixes the beat poet and the

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