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What is Poetry?

That's a good question. Maybe this is poetry. A haiku, perhaps.


Epic Poem Videos 4 videos

The lliad
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So that's why Brad Pitt looks so fit in Troy! (The movie, not the city-state.) He's related to the gods, just like Achilles was. We always knew kne...

The Odyssey
71775 Views

On his ten-year journey home from the Trojan War, Odysseus runs into everything from sirens to sea monsters to seductresses. Such is life when you...

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Poetry Videos 6 videos

The Road Not Taken
29610 Views

Indecision may or may not be this man's biggest problem. All he can do is go left or right. It's not that big of a deal...or is it?

A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed: Oh, How Hollywood
2293 Views

And you thought a nymph was a naturally lovely woodland creature. To be fair, so did we. But boy did Jonathan Swift prove us wrong.

Fern Hill
2285 Views

"Nothing cared I that time would take me": the famous words of Dylan Thomas in his poem "Fern Hill." In this poem, the speaker fights age and aims...

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