Poets convey deep thoughts with few words. How do poets approach their subjects? Why is the rhythm of words important to them? Poets want their words to be heard. Here's a collection to read "out loud."
When he was young, C.
In The Chronicles of Narnia, C.
In this scene from Kenneth Branagh's version of Henry V, released in 1989, we see the English king and his men assessing both French and English losse...
It's the Ides of March, and Julius Caesar receives a warning from the shadows. See an animated version of Shakespeare's famous play.
Following the horrific death of his young friend - Alexis Helmer - during the Second Battle of Ypres, Major John McCrae (a medical doctor from Guelph,...
This BBC clip is from a 1971 interview with J.
In this clip of "Julius Caesar," Brutus takes action as Caesar asks: "Et, tu, Brute?"
WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS AN ANIMATED VERSION OF DEATHS BY STABBING FROM SHAKESPEARE'S FAMOUS PLAY, JULIUS CAESAR.
The South African attended the Premiere of "Invictus," in Cape Town, and its reporter interviewed some of the actual people featured in the story (plu...
When Robert Kennedy, about to address an Indianapolis crowd including many African-Americans, learned that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinate...
Seamus Heaney, 1995 Nobel Laureate for Literature, was a world-famous poet who producednew workuntil shortly before his death in 2013.
C.S. Lewis, an unmarried professor whom his friends called Jack, was a highly successful writer when he met an American woman named Joy Davidman Gresh...
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