By: Garin Kilpatrick
The title of Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken, is often confused as The Road Less Travelled. Once you read to the end of this Prize Winning Poem you will understand why.
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September 28th, 2009
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September 8th, 2009
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By: Garin Kilpatrick
I recently completed the 5 poems in the Eduify Poetry Series below with accompanying videos that feature scrolling words of the poems as they are read. These videos and others are featured on our YouTube channel. If you check out our channel be sure to click “subscribe” so that you stay inside our video literature loop! Each of the poetry podcasts below has its own individual post, with accompanying analysis. These analytical posts can be found by clicking the links to the individual posts for each podcast below.
Robert Frost – The Road not Taken
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Goethe – The Castle on the Hill
Rudyard Kipling – If
William Shakespeare – Of Youth and Love
Louis Carrol – Jabberwocky
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What do you think of the Poems above? What type of poems would you like to see made into podcasts? Who is your favorite poet?
September 1st, 2009
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By: Garin Kilpatrick
Sonnet 76 is a Shakespearean Sonnet that shares a striking thematic semblance to his much longer poem A Lover’s Complaint. The Theme of Sonnet 76 is youth and in within the Sonnet Shakespeare does a candid job of confronting his ability to spin his own style by Spending again what is already spent.
Sonnet 76 mirrors Shakespeare’s A lover’s complaint by touching on the themes of youth and love. Despite sharing the same themes as A Lovers Complaint, Sonnet 76 has managed to do so without quite as much controversy. A Lovers Complaint was so controversial that Slate.com Author Ron Rosenbaum even questioned should “A Lover’s Complaint” be kicked out of the canon? I disagree with Ron and the idea that abolishing any of Shakespeare’s work from the Shakespearean canon could be a good thing.
My impression of the impact of Shakespeare is more along the lines of this quote attributed to Ben Johnson:
“He was not for an age, but for all time.”
The sonnet below is no timid example of Shakespeare’s timelessness.
August 25th, 2009
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By: Garin Kilpatrick
When you must answer,
harsh questions of life,
Will you fall, or will you rise?
Will you stand tall, or meet your demise?
“Will you be noble?” Kiplings if asks us all.
August 21st, 2009
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By: Garin Kilpatrick
The eduify Poetry Analysis Series will consist of five separate Blog posts, and this introduction post. Each of the following five posts will analyze one of the five Poems by the five acclaimed Authors. Stay tuned to @eduify and @GarinKilpatrick as a new post will be announced every few days! The Poems we will be Analyzing are written by the 5 dead poets pictured above: Kipling, Frost, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Carrol. Shakespeare has been in the ground the longest but nonetheless his poetry and plays remain very alive! To learn when the aforementioned Authors lived, and what their first names are (and which Author used a pen name) simply read the rest of the post. You will also find introductions to these well written men and mention of the Poems that will be analyzed.
