Baker College
Research Guides
- Library Resources
- Research Guides
- LIT 2010: Introduction to Literature
- Module Four Readings and Resources
LIT 2010: Introduction to Literature
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:
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