Literature & Language
What makes a poem … a poem?
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What exactly makes a poem … a poem? Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often...
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The Arts
A poetic experiment: Walt Whitman, interpreted by three animators
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Take a journey through Walt Whitman's poem 'A Noiseless Patient Spider' with the help of three...
Literature & Language
The Road Less Traveled By
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"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is one of the most famous and widely-read American poems....
Literature & Language
"Jabberwocky": One of literature's best bits of nonsense
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As Alice wanders through the dreamscape of Looking-Glass Land in Lewis Carroll's "Through the...
Literature & Language
Where the Sidewalk Ends (LEGO Sculpture)
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Here is a lesson that combines design, art, interpretation and poetry; centered around Shel...
Literature & Language
"New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus
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This animation is part of our series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated...
Literature & Language
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
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This animation is part of our series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated...
Literature & Language
"For Estefani, Third Grade, Who Made Me A Card" by Aracelis Girmay
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This animation is part of our series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated...
Literature & Language
"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
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This animation is part of our series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated...
Literature & Language
"All the World's a Stage" by William Shakespeare
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This animation is part of our series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated...
Literature
Why did Phillis Wheatley disappear?
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In 1775, General George Washington received a poem from one of colonial America’s most famous...
Literature & Language
"First Kiss" by Tim Seibles
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This animation is part of our series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated...
Literature
Everything you need to know to read Homer's "Odyssey"
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An encounter with a man-eating giant. A sorceress who turns men into pigs. A long-lost king...
Literature & Language
The epic Nordic legend of the monster slayer
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An epic written in Old English, “Beowulf” is known for its haunting monsters, dream-like...
Literature & Language
What happens when you die? A poetic inquiry
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Death, a kindly gentleman riding in a horse carriage, comes to collect a woman for her journey to...
Literature & Language
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
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Crash Course explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson. From the biographical details of her life,...
Literature
Why should you read Dante’s “Divine Comedy”?
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“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here…” Inscribed above the Gate of Hell, this prophecy sets into...
Literature
Why should you read Virgil's "Aeneid"?
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In 19 BC, the Roman poet Virgil suffered heatstroke and died on his journey back to Italy. On...