Instructional Video

The Favorite Poetry Project: "Nick and the Candlestick" by Sylvia Plath

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In this video episode [6:19] from Favorite Poem Project, Seph Rodney, a Jamaican-American photographer, describes a heartbreak and then explains how Sylvia Plath's poem entitled "Nick and the Candlestick" opened his mind to the accessibility of poetic messages. Then Rodney shares the poem entitled "Nick and the Candlestick" by Sylvia Plath.

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Concepts
diversity, poetry
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Additional Tags
immigrant, poem, "nick and the candlestick", favorite poetry project, jamaica, poet laureate, robert pinsky, sylvia plath, the favorite poem project, universal theme, examples of poetry
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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