What is Poetry? 16mm school film

a poem called auto wreck shows how poetry can help us share our personal and inner views- and also that poetry is not all about flowers and sunsets all the time- but you knew that. we're all rubberneckers, but the folks in this film really soak it up- you want to say, "get a life!" orm "show's over, folks, go home"... but we are still standing there too-

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Film & Animation

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• film
• poetry
• Karl
• Shapiro
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• films

[RobinofSactown]

lol! yeah, i thought it was too long- when the poem ends the guy has to take us thru it again...so did u actually fall asleep? hope u weren't driving at the time!

[ron68496]

@comeacross9 Excellent comment ! I wish I were more turned on to poetry in my high schools days- long ago. I am just discovering the poetry of James Joyce and Emily Bronte- a beautiful melancholy there. " Cancels my physics " too. I highly commend this old film.

[comeacross9]

One of my favorite poems by the brilliant but under appreciated Karl Shapiro. " cancels our physics with a sneer...."

Thank you for posting this.

[skoolgirl16]

what did he say?

[ArtistIreland]

I fell asleep.