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Wit - "Death, Thou Shalt Die"
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While waiting for an exam as part of her cancer treatment, Vivian recites part of John Dunne's "Holy Sonnet X," better known as "Death, Be Not Proud." Visit my channel for ...
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Wit - "Death, Be Not Proud"
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Vivian, a graduate student, discusses the meaning and punctuation of John Dunne's "Holy Sonnet X" with her professor, Dr. Ashford. The sonnet is often known by its first li...
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Pollyanna - "Pride and Prejudice" and More
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A sequence from the 2003 film Pollyanna. In the first scene, Pollyanna is reading the poem "The Song of Hiawatha," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In the last scene, she's r...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - "Beauty Is Truth"
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A scene from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." Francie causes a disruption in class when she tries to understand the most famous verse of John Keats's poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn....
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - "Troilus & Cressida"
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A scene from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." Every night Francie and Neely read a page from their family's only two books, The Bible and The Complete Works of Shakespeare. In t...
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Shirley Temple - "Before I Was a Little Girl"
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From the 1935 film Curly Top. Elizabeth (Shirley Temple) recites two short poems for her uncle Edward (John Boles).
The first poem, "Before," was published in Punch maga...
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Shirley Temple - "All Those Endearing Young Charms"
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Little Virgie (Shirley Temple) sings "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" to her father (John Boles) in the 1935 film The Littlest Rebel. The poem was written ...
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Star Trek - "All I ask is a tall ship"
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From an episode of Star Trek, Kirk quotes John Masefield's poem "Sea-Fever" to describe how he feels about captaining the Enterprise. "Even if you take away the wind and wa...
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Star Trek - "She Walks in Beauty"
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From an episode of Star Trek, Spock quotes the first line of Lord Byron's poem "She Walks in Beauty" to describe his crewmate Uhura.
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Natalie Wood - "Splendor in the Grass"
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Deanie reads and discusses part of William Wordsworth's poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" in her English class. This film, "Splendor in the Grass," takes its title fro...
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