Poetry Understanding

Study Poetry using Online Video

Use our 2 online educational video titles to gain insight to the poet's craft and develop a deep appreciation for this unique art form. Learn to recognize rhythm, rhyme, sound patterns, and the elements of a sonnet by examining the works of such poets as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and many others. Poetry readings and commentaries by poets about their writing techniques enhance a comprehensive presentation of this splendid literary genre.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain insight to the poet's craft through skillful poetry readings and observations made by famous poets on the nature of poetry.
• Recognize the basic elements of poetic form, including rhythm, rhyme, alliteration and other sound patterns, and the elements of Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets.
• Examine the meaning of a poem through its form and content and the poet's use of imagery and figurative language such as the simile, metaphor, and personification.
• Explain the difference between the dramatic and lyric styles of reading poetry aloud and gain insight to the interpretive reading of a poem.

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• Poetry Its Content (Runtime: 20:35)
• Poetry Its Form (Runtime: 21:04)