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Figures of speech & then some
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Introduction to Poetry: Figures of speech & then some
ENG 3310, general poetry readings
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Figures of speech & then some
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Figures of Speech
Because I could not stop for Death
from Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.
Part Four: Time and Eternity, XXVII
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun
A narrow fellow in the grass
from Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.
Part Two: Nature, XXIV
Margaret Atwood - You Fit Into Me
You Fit Into Me - Margaret Atwood
Robert Frost - The Silken Tent
The Silken Tent - Robert Frost
Maya Angelou - Touched by an Angel
Touched by an Angel - Maya Angelou
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Crossing the Bar
Crossing the Bar
BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Sound
Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven
The Raven
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
The Raven - LibriVox audio-recording
The Raven - Poe, audio-recording from LibriVox
A. E. Housman - Eight O'Clock
Eight O'Clock
by A. E. Housman
Gerard Manley Hopkins - God's Grandeur
God's Grandeur
BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
Rhythm
Gwendolyn Brooks - We Real Cool
We Real Cool
BY GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Dorothy Parker - Résumé
Resumé
BY DOROTHY PARKER
Langston Hughes - Dream Boogie
Dream Boogie by Langston Hughes
Song
Edwin Arlington Robinson - Richard Cory (poem)
Richard Cory
BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
Paul Simon - Richard Cory (song lyrics)
Richard Cory by Paul Simon
Anonymous - Bonny Barbara Allen (song lyrics)
from LOC American Memory
Historical content for Bonny Barbara Allen (LOC)
by Mary Sullivan, LOC, Historical Period: Settlement, Beginnings to 1763
John Lennon, Paul McCartney - Eleanor Rigby (song lyrics)
Eleanor Rigby by Lennon-McCartney
"We Real Cool," read by Gwendolyn Brooks
from
Poetry Reading Live
on YouTube
Listen to poetry in song
Playlist used for educational purposes, ONLY.
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