This video explores using context clues in war poems.

This video demonstrates how to identify various patterns of organization in poetry.

This video explains how to analze various aspects of poems.

This video demonstrates how to identify the main idea in a poem.

The final essential element of poetry is line, which structures a poem’s verses and stanzas. Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise demonstrates the power of line through rhyme schemes, rhetorical questions, and similes, all of which enhance the...

In this video, we will provide an in-depth overview of the HashiCorp Vault configuration file, which is a critical component for configuring Vault to meet your specific use case. This video will walk you through the ins and outs of...

This is a lab video on unsealing with Auto Unseal. This lab will walk through the process of configuring and using the Cloud Auto Unseal mechanism.
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Mr. Griot demonstrates how to write a poem about nature.

This video focuses on the structured elegance of the prologue in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," presented as a sonnet—a popular form during Shakespeare's era, typically associated with romantic expression. The analysis covers the...

Mr. Griot explores the characteristics of poetry and figurative language by looking at examples and examining text.

A video entitled "Write and Recite Poetry" which explores using expression to perform poetry.

"Summarizing a Poem" uses the strategy of creating annotated notes to summarize a poem.

"Identifying the Theme of a Poem" demonstrates strategies to use when determining the theme of a poem.

This video explores the components of a lyric poem and explains how to compose a lyric poem.

Limerick Poetry reviews the elements of a limerick and explains how to compose one.

“Repetition in Poems” examines the use of repeated lines or phrases in poetry.

A video entitled “Poetic Sounds” which explores sound devices used in poetry, highlighting examples from several works by Edgar Allan Poe.

A video entitled “Poetry Interpretation,” which demonstrates the process of reading a poem to interpret its message.

A close reading of Adrienne Rich's classic poem "Power"

By using William Wordsworth's famous poem we seek to draw the distinction between author and speaker and determine which one was in love with the mysterious Lucy.

The third video in our series on poetic devices, in this video will look at how poets use line breaks to create meter and music in their poetry. We'll also examine how to write about them as well as a clever usage from early pop-punk music.

Join us as we continue our close analysis of T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. In this lesson we’ll look at lines 70-86 which reveal Prufrock’s existential angst. This part of the poem contains some of the most famous...

In our final lesson on T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, we analyse lines 111-131. Find out how Prufrock resolves his dilemma and prepares himself for the future. As always, we make this challenging poem stress-free...

Written as more of an indulgent thought experiment, than a love poem, "When You Are Old" still contains that trademark Yeatsian beauty.