Poetry has an undeserved reputation for being difficult and confusing. But the truth is that you don't have to figure poetry outyou just have to read it. In this video, we talk about what poetry is, and we read a poem together with the goal of enjoying it rather than deciphering it.

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Poems in this Video
The Red Wheelbarrow: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Re...
Dawn: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Al_Que...

0:00 Introduction
1:35 What Poetry Does
4:36 Why I Love "The Red Wheelbarrow"
6:07 Reading a Poem
9:14 Conclusion