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Poetic Devices Explained: LINE BREAKS (Definitions, Examples, and How to Use Them).
The third video in our series on poetic devices, in this video will look at how poets use line breaks to create meter and music in their poetry. We'll also examine how to write about them as well as a clever usage from early pop-punk music.
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Pat Mottola - Women Who Dare to Write - Afghan Women's Writing Project
Pat Mottola teaches Creative Writing at Southern Connecticut State University, where she earned both an M.S. in Art Education and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She also teaches art and poetry to senior citizens throughout Connecticut....
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Patricia Russac - Video Journalism Engaging Students in Social Justice
Patricia A. Russac is a teacher librarian with over seventeen years of experience at an independent, private elementary school in New York. She is a TED Educator, a PBS Learning Media Digital Innovator, and a National Association of...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Chapter 3 | STORY | You're Thinking About Doughnuts
Chapter 3 | STORY | You're Thinking About Doughnuts When Frank's mom has to work late one Friday cleaning the local museum, he finds himself spending a lonely night roaming the dark halls - until a chatty skeleton appears and takes him...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
DAY 06 | STORY | The Wicked Tricks of Till Owlyglass - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
The Sixth Day DAY 06 | STORY | The Wicked Tricks of Till Owlyglass - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen When we hear how Till Owlyglass had his boots greased all over, how he sewed invisible stitches and how he told a great...
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Haunting Poetry: All Hallows
Why would a poet use ambiguity? What do I do if I can't figure out what an image means? How come these words are haunting my dreams? All of these questions and more are addressed in this reading, summary, and analysis of Louis Gluck's...
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Frederick-Douglass Knowles ll - 'Twin Cotton Skin' (a sestina for Gammy)
Frederick-Douglass Knowles II is a poet, educator and activist involved in community education. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of Hartford. His collection of poetry, BlackRoseCity was featured at the 2018 Association of...
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Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Lines 70-86
Join us as we continue our close analysis of T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. In this lesson we’ll look at lines 70-86 which reveal Prufrock’s existential angst. This part of the poem contains some of the most famous...
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On Suffering: Musee des Beaux Arts
So the title's in French, the pronouns are separated from the antecedents, and some horse is scratching its butt...While Auden asks a lot of his readers, those that take the time to work through the poem often find it fascinating....
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
The Corn Dollies' Tales: A Journey Through History and Imagination
You're Thinking About Tomatoes - Chapter 14 Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen. A sequel to the very popular ‘You're Thinking About Doughnuts’. Frank is back among the ruins of the past again, this time on a school trip to a...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
A Plague of Wasps | Part 1 | STORY | NASTY
A Plague of Wasps | Part 1 | STORY | NASTY Michael Rosen keeps bumping into a chatty old lady who tells him wildly unlikely stories - like there being man eating fleas on the London tube.
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Poetic Devices Explained: ALLITERATION (Definitions, Examples, and How to Use Them).
The second video in our series on poetic devices, in this video will look at repetition at the start of words: alliteration. By using examples from famous poets as well as the breakfast aisle, we'll look at how to identify and use...
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Nilgün Anadolu-Okur - Dismantling Slavery
Nilgün Anadolu-Okur is an associate professor at Temple University’s College of Liberal Arts, and the director of African American Studies undergraduate program. Her publications include Dismantling Slavery: Frederick Douglass, William...
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Glenna Gustafson - Teachers Make a Difference
Dr. Gustafson is currently an associate professor in the Elementary Education Department within the School of Teacher Education and Leadership. In addition to teaching a variety of methods courses, she also serves as the cohort leader...
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Ozier Muhammad - 'The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock, Fall 1957' by Gwendolyn Brooks
Ozier Muhammad graduated with a B.A., in photography from Columbia College in Chicago. He has been a photojournalist for more than 3 decades. His first job was as a staff photographer at Ebony Magazine. Ozier joined The Charlotte...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Chapter 6 | STORY | You're Thinking About Doughnuts
Chapter 6 | STORY | You're Thinking About Doughnuts When Frank's mom has to work late one Friday cleaning the local museum, he finds himself spending a lonely night roaming the dark halls - until a chatty skeleton appears and takes him...
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Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Lines 111-131
In our final lesson on T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, we analyse lines 111-131. Find out how Prufrock resolves his dilemma and prepares himself for the future. As always, we make this challenging poem stress-free...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Chapter 6 | You're Thinking About Tomatoes | STORY |Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
You're Thinking About Tomatoes - Chapter 6 Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen. A sequel to the very popular ‘You're Thinking About Doughnuts’. Frank is back among the ruins of the past again, this time on a school trip to a...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Chapter 7 | STORY | You're Thinking About Doughnuts
Chapter 7 | STORY | You're Thinking About Doughnuts When Frank's mom has to work late one Friday cleaning the local museum, he finds himself spending a lonely night roaming the dark halls - until a chatty skeleton appears and takes him...
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Perfecting Poetry: Rosemary Dobson - Cock Crow
Discover Dobson’s deeply personal and emotive reflection on the complex experience of motherhood. Being a mum is tough. Sometimes, Dobson just wants to escape it all. One night, she decides to go on a long walk. She walks along the dark...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Moth - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Moth - Read by Michael Rosen
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Perfecting Poetry: Rosemary Dobson - Over the Hill
Discover how Dobson uses the image of a workman on a hill to explore the experience of enduring life’s challenges.
It’s the end of a long day for a workman, trudging home at sunset. He pauses at the top of a hill to light his pipe,...
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When You Break a Poet's Heart: A Reading, Summary, and Analysis of Yeats' "When You Are Old"
Written as more of an indulgent thought experiment, than a love poem, "When You Are Old" still contains that trademark Yeatsian beauty.