Poetry - Its Content video

Poetry - Its Content video. Learning Objectives for this video:

• Content in Poetry. Learn about Understanding Poetry. Learn about Poetry and its Content. Gain insight to the poet's craft and develop a deep appreciation for this unique art form, and discover the ways that a poem can challenge a reader's imagination, beliefs, and feelings.
• Gain insight to the poet's craft through skillful poetry readings and observations made by famous poets on the nature of poetry.
• Recognize the basic elements of poetic form, including rhythm, rhyme, alliteration and other sound patterns, and the elements of Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets.
• Examine the meaning of a poem through its form and content and the poet-s use of imagery and figurative language such as simile, metaphor, and personification.
• Explain the difference between the dramatic and lyric styles of reading poetry aloud, and gain insight to the interpretive reading of a poem.
• Discover the many benefits of using online video for visual learning. Educational video for teaching the K-12 curriculum provides online learning for children and students of all ages and abilities. Using subtitled video - or video with closed captions - enables children to choose between watching, listening to, or reading each presentation whichever best suites their individual learning style. A wonderful option particularly for dyslexia and special needs education.