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