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LIT 2010: Introduction to Literature
Module Four Readings and Resources
LIT 2010: Introduction to Literature
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Module One Readings and Resources
Module Two Readings and Resources
Module Three Readings and Resources
Module Four Readings and Resources
Module Five Readings and Resources
Module Six Readings and Resources
Module Seven Readings and Resources
Module Eight Readings and Resources
Readings
What is Poetry?
What is Poetry?
Understanding Poetry
Beginner's Guide to Reading and Understanding Poetry
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor
Elements of Poetry:
Word choice and tone (Links to an external site.)
Imagery (Links to an external site.)
Figurative language (Links to an external site.)
Voice
Notes
What is Poetry?
Tips for Analyzing Poetry
Videos
Video: “What Makes a Poem?”
Video: “The Pleasure of Poetic Pattern”
Video: Top five tips for performing a poetry reading
Video: Example of how to interpret a poem
Video: Symbolism
Audio Recordings of Poems
We Real Cool Read by Gwendolyn Brooks
Ballad of Birmingham, singing performance, very powerful
Daddy, read by Sylvia Plath
Do Not go Gentle Into that Good Night
Dulce Et Decorum est animated video reading
Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the Telephone by WH Auden
Head, Heart by Lydia Davis, video
Head, Heart by Lydia Davis, a singing performance
My Papa’s Waltz read by Theodore Roethke
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