An Intro To Poetry: How To Read Poetry
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- Опубліковано 5 тра 2020
- 00:01:01 Introduction
00:05:40 What is Poetry?
00:09:25 How To Read A Poem
00:22:12 What Makes A Good Poem?
00:28:20 Subject
00:30:04 Context
00:33:37 Form & Structure
00:42:22 Rhythm, Meter & Rhyme
01:03:36 Language
01:23:24 EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT: YAYYYYY!
Sources and Further Reading:
Poetry Handbook: For Readers and Writers (1993) - Dinah Livingstone
Poetry For Dummies (2001) - The Poetry Center, John Timpane and Maureen Watts
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet (2012) - Stephen Fry
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense (2017) - Jenny Uglow
How Poetry Can Change Your Heart (2019) - Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley
Poetry Recommendations:
The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984) - Grace Nichols
Kid (1992) - Simon Armitage
Book of Matches (1993) - Simon Armitage
The World’s Wife (1999) - Carol Ann Duffy
Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website (2003) - edited by Diane Boller
Rapture (2005) - Carol Ann Duffy
Selected Poems (2006) - John Donne
Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations (2011) - edited by Susan Ratcliffe - recommended by my friend, Cerian, who often uses it to spark her interest and go find whole poems she likes
Dogs Songs (2013) - Mary Oliver
Paper Aeroplanes (2014) - Simon Armitage
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (2015) - Edward Lear
Love Found (2017) - edited by Jessica Strand & Leslie Jonath
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul (2017) - edited by William Sieghart
Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism (2018) - edited by Danielle Barnhart & Iris Mahan
The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope (2019) - edited by William Sieghart
Websites & Poems:
Poetry Foundation: www.poetryfoundation.org/
Idiosyncrasies of the Body (2008) - Diane Lockward www.sundresspublications.com/b...
Mrs Beast (1999) - Carol Ann Duffy
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This started from reading terrible poetry by UA-camers to an actual lesson on how to enjoy reading it. Nicely done.
This channel is slowly turning into a literature channel and I absolutely love it
tbh, I'm not even THAT interested in poetry. I like reading it, but I usually wouldn't watch an educational video about it. But I really just want to listen to Rachel talking about something she's excited about. Something about her videos just relaxes me.
About allusions: My husband always misunderstood a song which had the line "you're my kryptonite", because he never bothered with Superman and thought kryptonite made Superman stronger. It shifted his whole understanding of the song when I told him what kryptonite actually does 😁
I'm a dance teacher choreographer and I find poetry to be "the dancing of words" 🥰
Rachel, could you PLEASE do a bookshelf tour?? It would be so interesting to see all your books, especially because you read so many different kinds. I personally read many different genres as well but a lot of people here on UA-cam (or booktube) seem to only read fiction, especially young and new adult and I find that extremely boring. I have bought so many different books because of you (sane new world, affluenza, the ten types of human etc.) and I would love to get even more inspiration
Sometimes I worry that although I'm a rather artsy, creative person I'll never fully "get" poetry. I've always struggled getting beyond the basic surface level of a poem and just enjoying the imagry it conjures up. Finding extra meaning or even understanding much of it has never been my strong suit. So I'm looking forward to watching this in full 🧡. Thanks for making this Rachel.
I always thought that poetry wasn't my thing because I was bad at understanding prose, but watching your videos on bad poetry and seeing you read examples of good ones and talk about poetry has really given me hope and inspiration to find poetry that I would enjoy, and now seeing this video pop up in my feed has given me hope and joy. Thank you, Internet Miss Honey :)
content aside, it's super impressive that you can hold a discourse for so long with no editing cuts and with a dog digging a hole in the couch in the background. Most youtubers have 200 cuts per minute. Speaks a lot about your focus and passion.
This video didn't get that many views but I want to say that I really appreciate it. I can see the effort and the passion that went into it. I especially love the poetry club, I'd been waiting for a platform like that to share my writing as a beginner and grow from the feedback. Hopefully you still continue this because even though it may get less attention, it will be very impactful for the few that do pay attention. Thanks!
I needed this video yesterday! I had to turn in a "filter" defining what art is and what it is not. I decided to write a poem. Because my professor kept getting mad at me saying that everything is art (or well should be considered art so long as it is created). Blah blah blah about words having meaning and therefore art having meaning and how he wouldn't consider his own daughter's drawings to be art, blah blah.
hey, to my knowledge she never says what the upsetting content of "idiosyncracies of the body" is, so i figured id mention in case someone wanted to go look.
Soo my interpretation of An Ideal Woman: I think the poem paints a picture of self-absorbed, ignorant man who views women based on how much pleasure he can derive from looking at their bodies. A man driven by primal desires not caring if what he's searching for is even real. The descriptions of the women are in my opinion always based on how he views or feels about them or what they're to him, lacking the acknowledgement that they're their own human beings living a life separate from him and that his actions could impact them. The first part of the poem has a very light tone, it seems like some silly game little boys play, and then there's this turning point where you're suddenly struck with horror together with the man. This also ties with the word "took" - when you first read the poem, that word looks innocent and you don't think twice about it, but when you read the poem again knowing how it ends, you almost feel this shadow of force, maybe even violence behind that word. The man ruined something in each of the women. They were left feeling his hungry stare burned into their hands, legs, cheeks, they could never look at themselves the same way they did before. It felt like he ripped out parts of them, so eventually they came to take it all back the same way he did - "demanding what was theirs, theirs, theirs", feeling entitled to it. They took from him everything he took from them and left him the one thing he was never interested in, the soul. And only in this state, stripped from all physical desires, could he truly see what he'd done.
My favorite use of enjambment:
The best way I can explain what makes a good poem is this:
so excited about this video! Rachel was actually the one who got me interested in poetry in the first place (only found her channel a few weeks ago) so as a beginner, I’m glad to have a guide of sorts :)
I'm 14, and I quite like expressing my emotions and experiences through art and stories, and recently poetry. I wrote a poem the other day and I was looking for some criticism and other people's opinions on it. I have no clue where else to post this for actual feedback, so if anyone actually reads this, thank you, and please tell me how i can improve.
I'm a huge fan of rap music, and that kinda led me to reading poetry, and honestly, thanks to these videos, I've started writing my own poetry XD but, one thing I do want to say is, Rachel, I would recommend checking out a rapper named Aesop Rock. You may not be into rap, and I mean, you just may not be interested, you may even know who it is already...but I feel like you would like what he does with words and his allusions to things and just the way that everything he says has some incredibly intricate meaning
The imagery and vivid detail in "An Ideal Woman" is amazing. Not only is she just listing features like hair or cheeks, but she's describing each person that they belong to, which adds even more depth. It seems lighthearted in the beginning, as she mentions things like desire and love, but quickly turned them on their head by showing just how powerful and destructive those intense feelings can be. When someone doesn't love you back, it can feel as though your "heart has been ripped out of your chest," which is the saying that came to mind when reading the second half of the poem. This man thought it was love, but in reality he only loved what they had to offer.