Allen Ginsberg

                                                           A Supermarket in California

                                               Allen Ginsberg with Paul MaCartney

Randall Jarrell

                                                   The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Gwendolyn Brooks

                                                                    We Real Cool

Dylan Thomas

                                                 Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night

Traveling through the Dark

                                           William Stafford tells the story behind the poem 

Ballad of Birmingham

                                                        The Story Behind The Poem

                                                                 Ballad of Birmingham

e.e. cummings

                                                                            In Just

                                                  
                                                       pity this busy monster, manunkind

Langston Hughes

This first video is where the majority of your notes should come from. You might need to watch this more than once.

 
                                        
This next clip comes from the Library of Congress and really gives some great insights into Hughes through an examination of his poetry.  You might jot down a few notes from this video, but mainly I want you to hear Hughes' poetry.
                                      

 

No notes needed for the last two videos, but their both worth a listen. Notes will be collected at the beginning of class on Wednesday.         

                                    Langston Hughes reading "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

                                                            

                                                                "Theme for English B."

William Carlos Williams

                                                                   Spring and All

                                                            The Red Wheelbarrow

                                                                     This is just to say

Robert Frost

Robert Frost Short Biography

                                              Robert Frost reads "The Road Not Taken"

                                              "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

We Wear The Mask

                                                   North Carolina Poetry Out Loud - 2010

To An Althlete Dying Young

Richard Cory

                                                               Simon & Garfunkel

                                                           Paul McCartney & Wings

Emily Dickinson - The Belle of Amherst

A play based on the life of Emily Dickinson, "The Belle of Amherst" delicately explores the life of America's greatest woman poet at various stages in her experience from the age of 15, when she was full of hope and success, until she died at 56, a virtual recluse with her door closed against society. Her life is recreated with liberal excerpts from her poetry and by the method of her playing the roles of her father, teacher and friends.

                                                                        Part 1
                                                             

                                                                      Part 2

 

                                                                       Part 3
                

                                                                       Part 4


                                                       I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died

                                                      Because I Could Not Stop For Death

                                                                  

Poems from Paintings

                                    Manet  "The Monet family in their garden at Argenteuil"

                                                            Van Gogh  "Starry Night"

                                        Seurat  "A Sunday on the island of La Grande Jatte"

                                                          Cezanne  "The Card Players"

                                                            Degas  "Women at Cafe"

                                                           Goya "The Stonebreakers"

                                                               Goya  "Third of May"

                                                           Matisse  "The Joy of Life"

                                                                 Matisse  "Music"

                                                                Monet  "Castle in Fog"

                                                                 Munch  "The Scream"

                                                                Picasso  "Guitar man"

                                                                      Renoir  "Party"

                                                           Renoir  "Market scene"

                                                     Dali

                                                       Manet  "The Bar at the Folies-Bergeres"

                                                   Matisse  "Women before an Aquarium"

                                                       Van Gogh   "Worker's in Field"

                                                   Van Gogh  "Man Alone with Thoughts"

                                                            Marc Franz  "Yellow Cow"

                                                                    Van Gogh  "Landscape"

                                                                   Brueghel  "Icarus"

                                                          Brueghel  "Children's Games"

Song of Myself - Walt Whitman

    
                                     and excerpt from "Walt Whitman" An American Experience 

Annabel Lee - Edgar Allan Poe

                                                     
                                                            "Annabel Lee" a short film

                                                         Joan Baez sings "Annabel Lee"  

                                                 

Ulysses - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 
                                                      performed by John Gielgud (1996)

Porhyria's Lover - Robert Browning

     
                                                              "Porphyria's Lover"

Tintern Abbey - William Wordsworth

 
                                                                 read by Ted Hughes

To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell

                 
                                                   "To His Coy Mistress" - a short film

                                                   A short analysis of part of the poem

She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron

                                                               read by High Dancey

                                                "Vanity Fair" starring Reese Witherspoon

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time - Robert Herrick

                             Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins" as found in "The Dead Poet's Society"

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

                                            
                                                        read by Richard Burton (part 1)

            
                                                                     (part 2)

                                                                     (part 3)

How Do I Love Thee? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

       
                                                          as read by Sally on the "Peanuts"

                                               performed @ 2012 NJ POL State Finals

On His Blindness - John MIlton

                                                   
                                                                  read by John Neville

Death Be Not Proud - John Donne

                                  
                                                              read by Julian Glover

                                             
                                                    Emma Thompson in the film "Wit"

Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

                             
                                    "Ozymandias" as read by Bryan Cranston of "Breaking Bad"

                                           
                                           A quick analysis of the poem. Worth your listen.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

                                                                        Sonnet 18

                                                                       Sonnet 73

                                                                         Sonnet 116

                                                                      Sonnet 130