And the poem began,

That poem?

Who wrote this poem?

Memorize the poem by next week.

The students learned this poem by heart.

The great poem of John Donne's.

That's mighty pretty. That's a pretty poem.

And it's called My People

What's the heart of this poem?

Sometimes I get to the end of the poem,

Why was I obsessed by that poem?

Poe originally wrote the poem as an elocution piece and, as such, the poem is known for its focus on sound.

I, who by a miracle have 22 godchildren the answer is in this poem, which upsets me every time I read it.

The poem was written in December 1912.

The next poem is by E.E. Cummings,

You know, the poem in the book where you marked the place with a rosebud?

Sometimes a poem takes a metaphor and extends it, building on one idea in many ways.

The next poem is also rather short, and poetry just says a few things in different ways, and I think you could boil this poem down to saying,

And the poem began, Anderson Cooper is a gorgeous man.

The students learned this poem by heart.

The poem is called No Man is an Island.

So I'd like to close with this poem.

And I would like to finish with an old Sufi poem

No one who's heard this poem forgets it.

Khuki, remember that poem by Yeats?

That was getting kind of smutty there. Heh.

You know, the more I think of it, the fella who wrote that poem...

I gather the poem was hard to deliver.

Everyone in the class learned the poem by heart.

According to Kruchenykh, this poem was to become much more known than him.

The next poem is If No One Ever Marries Me.

They took the book, but they couldn't take the poem from me.

He broke it when he took her, not me, to travel with him while he created his poem.

The next film is called Forgetfulness and it's really a kind of poetic essay on the subject of mental slippage, and the poem begins with a certain species of forgetfulness that someone called 'literary amnesia.'

There's a horror movie in there somewhere.

He wrote this to his love, Maud Gonne, and he was bewailing the fact that he couldn't really give her what he thought she wanted from him.

And if you would like to know why I am not a father I, who by a miracle have 22 godchildren the answer is in this poem, which upsets me every time I read it.

The next poem is called The Country and it's based on, when I was in college,

I wrote this poem for her. These are not my beliefs.

And this year I took a deep breath after doing the final take , and I thought This is me doing my part for him, and for everyone else, so in many ways it impacted me while writing it, it impacted me while performing it.

He started writing the poem on 5 September 1823 in a coach which carried him from Cheb to Weimar and by his arrival on 12 September, it was finished.

And without his story, I wouldn t have the ability to try and share it.

The poem is about those who live in Iran and in exile who have forgot the struggle.

Because it told me, by God, one person got it.

The poem is called Libation, and it's for my friend Vusi who is in the audience here somewhere.