Stuff You Should Know

How Poetry Works

May 2, 2017
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
How to Write a Poem
02:13 • 2min
3
How to Read a Poem
04:14 • 2min
4
The Best Way to Approach Poetry Is as a Typewritten Object of Art
06:23 • 2min
5
How to Read a Poem
08:17 • 2min
6
Is There a Difference Between Poetry and Rap?
09:52 • 2min
7
I've Been Watching a Lot of Riff Tracks Lately, and They Kill It
11:47 • 2min
8
Ike, What's This Guy Talking About?
13:39 • 2min
9
The Enlightenment and Poetry?
15:14 • 2min
10
I Liked Thoreau More Than Emerson
16:51 • 3min
11
How Do You Get Into Poetry?
19:21 • 2min
12
I've Never Seen Them. You Should See Them?
21:38 • 2min
13
The History of Poems
23:21 • 2min
14
What's the Difference Between Dramatic and Dramatic Poetry?
25:39 • 2min
15
How to Read a Poem Essay
27:15 • 2min
16
Rhyme
29:29 • 2min
17
A Poet, You Got a Quill?
31:00 • 2min
18
The Structure of a Poem
32:40 • 2min
19
Concrete Poems
34:21 • 2min
20
The Language, a Poem by Robert Creely
36:06 • 2min
21
The Rhyme Scheme of a Poem
38:04 • 2min
22
What Is Iambic Pentameter?
40:13 • 2min
23
What's a Troky Pentameter?
42:32 • 2min
24
Aren't Ballads a Narrative Song?
44:06 • 2min
25
Aarco Ballad - Is There Such a Thing?
46:24 • 3min
26
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dilland Thomas
49:33 • 3min
27
A Poem for Five Old Ladies by Thomas James Mertin
52:06 • 2min
28
Dear Mister Finelli, by Charles Bernstein
53:54 • 2min
29
Symbolism and Metaphor in Poems
55:41 • 2min
30
Poetry Slams
57:31 • 3min
31
A Man, We Did Poems
01:00:32 • 2min
32
Is There a Poetry Foundation?
01:02:20 • 2min
33
The Benedict Cumberbatch Name Generator
01:04:15 • 2min