All Kinds of Poetry 2008 - Capital Region BOCES

All Kinds of Poetry 

April 2008 

Grades 7-12 

English Language Arts NYS Learning Standards 

STANDARD 1 Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding. 

STANDARD 2 Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression. 

STANDARD 3 Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation. 

STANDARD 4 Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction. 

Catalog Number: SA2570-SA2586 

Title: Forms of Poetry 18 Audio Files 

Imprint: Clearvue & SVE 

Physical Description: Digital Audio Streaming, average 5 min. 

long 

Titles Include Ballade, Blank Verse, Couplet, Free Verse, Limerick,Literary 

Ballad, Octave, 

Popular Ballad, Forms of Poetry: Quatrain,: Quintet, Rondeau, Roundel, 

Septet, Sestet, Sestina, Forms of Poetry: Sonnet, Spenserian Stanza, 

Triolet, Villanelle 

Audience: Junior High and High School 

Catalog Number: X940 

Title: Beowulf 

Imprint: Library Video, 2000. 

Physical Description: 30 min., closed captioned. 

Summary: The epic poem Beowulf leaps from 

page to screen in this stunning, animated adaptation. Faithful to the 

original literary work, this animated presentation chronicles the legendary 

struggle between Beowulf and the monster Grendel through fascinating 

sketch animation, captivating music and superb performances 

featuring the voices of Joseph Fiennes as Beowulf and Sir Derek Jacobi. 

The strong combination of image and sound, plus the translation into 

Modern English, make Beowulf accessible and enjoyable to contemporary 

audiences. 

Audience: Junior High, Senior High 

Catalog Number: LB50 

Title: Beowulf 

Imprint: Pearson Education, 2000. 

Physical Description: Literature Box 


Catalog Number: DVD473 

Title: Beowulf: A DVD Study Guide 

Imprint: Rocketbook, 2007. 

Physical Description: DVD, 56 min. 



Title: Robert Burns: Ploughman poet 

Imprint: New Dimension, 2002. 

Physical Description: Videocassette, 26 mins. 

Summary: Robert Burns' verses are known in almost every language 

on earth. His love poems rank as some of the finest ever written and his 

egalitarian ideals were in advance of his time. His personal life is a story 

of failure and successive disasters, but out of these experiences came an 

understanding of humanity; the strengths and weaknesses, passions and 

posturings of the human nature. 

Audience: Senior High 

Let me see that! 

Catalog Number: X932, X933, X934, X935 

Title: Poetry hall of fame: volumes 1- 4 

Imprint: Monterey Home Video, 1993. 

Physical Description: Videocassette, 58 mins. 

Summary: Simply an incredible collection of great writers, and a wonderful 

journey through great poems. Within these words on may find all the love, joy, 

hope and fear, enchantment and humor that is the human spirit. Program 

includes: William Shakespeare, Carl Sandburg, Carl W., Hines, Jr., Robert 

Hillyer, Anne Sexton, Leigh Hunt, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aphra Behn, Roger 

McGough, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried 

Sassoon, Stephanie Simpson, Ogden Nash, Richard Armour, John Milton, 

Stephen Spender, Percy Bysshe Shelley,Geoffrey Chaucer, Ogden Nash, Henry 

Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rudyard 

Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost . 


Catalog Number: SA2746 

Title: The Life, Time, and Works of Thomas Hardy: Love Poems 

Imprint: Clearvue, 1996. 

Physical Description: Digital Audio Streaming, 1 min. 



Title: The Life, Time, and Works of Wordsworth 




Catalog Number: V5607 

Title: The poetry book: history in verse 

Imprint: FFH, 1991. 

Physical Description: Videocassette, 15 min. 

Summary: This program includes Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Charge of the 

Light Brigade"; Robert Browning: "How They Brought the Good News from 

Ghent to Aix"; Robert Spencer: "Beth Gelert". 

Audience: Primary, Intermediate, Junior High


Title: The poetry book: nonsense verse 



Summary: This program includes Lewis Carroll: "The Walrus and the 

Carpenter"; Edward Lear: "The Jumblies"; Edward Lear: "The Dog with a 

Luminous Nose". 

Audience: Primary, Intermediate, Junior High 


Title: The poetry book: stories in verse I 



Summary: This program includes: Sir Walter Scott: "Young Lochinvar"; 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "The Wreck of the Hesperus"; Robert 

Bloomfield: "The Fakenham Ghost"; Robert Southey: "Bishop Hatto". 



Title: The poetry book: stories in verse II 



Summary: This program includes: William Wordsworth: "Lucy Gray"; 

Thomas Hardy: "A Trampwoman's Tragedy"; Robert Powell: "The Inchcape 

Rock". 


Catalog Number: DS301 

Title: History through Literature: Romanticism & Revolution 

Imprint: Clearvue & SVE, 1998. 

Physical Description: Digital Video Streaming, 22 min. 

Summary: Discover how revolt became a romantic idea and see how 

much literary luminaries as Byron, Shelley, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, 

Poe, Emerson, Mary Shelley, Frederick Douglass challenged people to 

examine to their inner selves. 

Audience: Junior High and Senior High 

AMERICAN POETS 


Title: Emily Dickinson 


Physical Description: Videocassette, 30 mins., closed captioned 

Summary: Born into a famous New England family, Emily Dickinson 

lived a sheltered, reclusive life. Only seven of her poems were published 

during her lifetime, and she died virtually unknown. Then a treasure of 

nearly 2,000 poems was found and published. Her poetry reflects her 

profound states of despair and explores images of faith. Dickinson is 

considered one of the greatest American poets of all time. 



Title: World of Emily Dickinson 



Summary: The acclaimed Claire Bloom portrays the reclusive Emily 

Dickinson, in this dramatic presentation of the passionate, emotional 

poet who has so captivated generations of readers. A lifetime of imagination 

flows through her "letters to the world". 

Audience: Intermediate, Junior High 

The History of American Literature 4 Audio Files 


Title: Masters & Sandburg: Poetry of the American Midwest 


Physical Description: Digital Audio Stream, 2 min. 



Title: Plath, Rich, & Bishop: Women’s Poetry 





Title: Poetry of Nature 





Title: The New England Poetry of Robert Frost & Edwin Arlington 




Series: History of American Literature, Third Edition 


Title: The Birth of a National Literature 



Summary: This program introduces native American lore , explorers chronicles, 

and the Puritans; discusses literature as a political weapon during the 

Revolution; and covers the beginning of cultural independence. Introduces 

Jefferson, Franklin, Irving, and others. 



Title: From Civil War Turmoil to Romanticism 

Imprint: Clearvue & SVE, 2002 


Summary: This program investigates the emerging Transcendentalists, the 

American Romantics, and the movement towards realism and naturalism. The 

writers covered include Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Longfellow, Douglass, 

Stowe, Poe, Dickinson, Twain, London, and others. 



Title: America’s Wartime Literature & Postwar Reflections 



Summary: this program uncovers the social issues of the early to mid 

1900’s, the Harlem Renaissance, the Lost Generation, and the post-WWII era. 

Writers discussed include Pound, Eliot, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Mailer, Lowell, 

and many others. 



Title: Contemporary Literature of the 1980’s & Beyond 


Physical Description: Digital Video Stream, 27 min. 

Summary: This program delves into the issues surrounding social and technological 

change and explores modern writers. Brooks, Plath, Capote, Vonnegut, 

Oates, Wright, Janowitz, Tan, Kushnerm and others. 


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Title: Edgar Allan Poe: a journey in verse 

Imprint: Monterey Media, 2000. 


Summary: Edgar Allan Poe was truest to his heart as poet. He has 

blessed American literature with some of the most striking and moving 

imagery ever created. His phrasing and lyricism have forever changed 

the landscape of poetic verse. 

Audience: Junior High, High School 


Title: Edgar Allan Poe 

Imprint: Landmark, 2002. 


Summary: Born to actors in Boston, Poe was orphaned at the age of 

three and adopted by a family in Richmond, Virginia. He had a brief 

career at West Point before becoming a great American imaginative 

writer. His works include the Raven and A Telltale Heart. 

Audience: High School 

Catalog Number: DVD382 

Title: An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe 

Imprint: Monterey Media Company, 2000. 

Physical Description: DVD, 175 min. 

Summary: A series of poetry readings by actors dressed in period 

costume. Also option to view biographical information about Poe and a 

scrapbook with quotes and excerpts. 

Audience: Intermediate, Junior High, Senior High 

Catalog Number: KITBOX22 

Title: Complete tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe Literature 

Box 

Physical Description: col 1 

Summary: This collection of short stories and poems includes such 

masterpieces as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Purloined Letter, 

The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and Murders in the Rue Morgue. Literature 

Box. 

Audience: Junior High , Senior High 


Title: The picture in the poem 


Physical Description: 30 mins. 

Summary: Three poems and three distinctly different writing styles are 

analyzed through interpretations unique to various media. 

Audience: Senior High 


Title: Cowboy poets 

Imprint: Direct Cinema, 1990. 


Summary: Cowboy Poets profiles three cowboy reciters - Waddie 

Mitchell, Slim Kite and Wally McRae representing three different aspects 

of the cowboy-poetry tradition. This video is an important document of 

an endangered life-style and a wonderful introduction to a previously 

unrecognized folk tradition. 



Title: Slammin: the sport of spoken word 

Imprint: Cinema Guild, 1995. 


General Note: Independent filmmaker Paul Devlin (The Eyes of St. 

Anthony) uses his sports TV experience (NBC's Olympics, ESPN 2's Ex- 

treme Games 101) to capture the fiercely competitive edge of the Slam, without 

sacrificing the high quality of the poetry. 

Summary: This video takes us inside the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Bin New 

York's East Village for a slam-poetry competition featuring performances by 

some of the city's most talented spoken word poets. The five competing poets' 

lively presentations before a highly energized, standing-room-only crowd are 

blended with personal interviews with the poets as well as the audiencemember 

judges who numerically rate each poem. Directed by Paul Devlin. 

Audience: Junior High Senior High 


Title: Harlem 

Imprint: Spoken Arts, 1998. 

Physical Description: Videocassette. 

Summary: Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and James Baldwin have sung 

their songs about Harlem. Walter Dean Myers joins the chorus in calling to life 

the deep, rich, and hope-filled history of this community. 

Audience: Intermediate, Junior High, Senior High 

How to Read & Understand Poetry 

26 Audio Files 




SA2621 The Relationship between Poetry and the Reader 

SA2622 How Poetry Speaks 

SA2623 Narrative 

SA2624 Appealing to Feelings 

SA2625 New Interpretive Worlds 

SA2626 Moral & Spiritual Commentary 

SA2627 The Interconnectedness of Form and Content 

SA2628 Rhyme 

SA2629 Meter 

SA2630 Rhyme 

SA2631 Alliteration 

SA2632 The Sonnet 

SA2633 Listening as a way to Appreciate Poetry 

SA2634 Poetry Reading Techniques 

SA2635 Styles of Reading Poetry 

SA2636 Reading & Meaning 

SA2637 Simile & Metaphor 

SA2638 Personification & Imagery 

SA2639 Visualizing Poetry 

SA2640 Interpretive Meaning Reading Wordsworth’s composed 

upon Westminster Bridge 

SA2641 Interpretive Meaning From Song of Myself 

SA2642 Interpretive Meaning Keats’ When I have fears that I may 

cease to be 

SA2643 Interpretive Meaning Robinson’s Richard Corey 

SA2644 Interpretive Meaning Donne’s Death be not Proud 

SA2645 Interpretive Meaning Rosetti’s Song 

SA2646 Interpretive Meaning Arnold’s Dover Beach 



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Title: Poetry hall of fame: volume 2 

Imprint: Monterey Home Video, 1993. 


Summary: Simply an incredible collection of great writers, and a wonderful 

journey through great poems. Within these words one may find all 

the love, joy, hope, fear, enchantment and humor that is the human 

spirit. Included in this program: John Masefield, Edmund Spenser, John 

Keats, George Herbert, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel W. Allen, A.P. Herbert, 

Roger McGough, Alexander Pope, Edwin Markham, Anne Bradstreet, 

Judith Viorst, Conrad Aiken, James Russell Lowell, Amy Lowell, Robert 

Lowell, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, William Cowper, 

Hartley Coleridge, Eugene Field, Joseph S. Newman, William Butler 

Yeats, Edgar Lee Masters, Phyllis McGinley, e.e. cummings, Edith Sitwell, 

William Blake, Sylvia Plath, Robert Browning, Lord Bryon, and Thomas 

Hardy 

Audience: Junior High 


Title: The Life, Time, & Works of Whitman-8 Audio Files 


Audience: Junior High, High School 


Title: Leaves of Grass– Walt Whitman– 40 Audio Files 

Physical Description: Digital Audio Streaming, Average 10 –50 min. 


Catalog Number: SA2719-2726 

Title: The Life, Time, and Works of Henry David Thoreau-8 Audio 

Files 




Title: Just the Facts: Understanding Literature: The Elements of 

Poetry 

Imprint: Goldhil, 2003. 


Summary: Illustrates figurative language, meter and rhyme, simile and 

metaphor and explain oxymoron, assonance, alliteration, imagery, understatement, 

hyperbole, and more. 



Title: Lewis Carroll: Nonsense Poems & Glimmers of a Life 

Imprint: Churchill Media, 1989. 


Summary: Explore the works of this brilliant wordsmith who so wonderfully 

plays with words, images, and ideas. The program features 

three segments covering the life and work of Lewis Carroll. 

Audience: Intermediate, Junior High 


Title: The Poetry Lounge: Self-Expression through the Spoken 

Word 

Imprint: Choices Video, 2004. 


Summary: Explores the underlying philosophies involved in the slam 

poetry movement. Five young poets, Omari Hardwicki, Brutha Gimel, 

and Gina Loring demonstrate their ability to execute exemplary public 

speaking skills through their performances. Each poem is followed by a 

brief interview that offers an insightful look at the writing process. The 

program promotes effective oral communication skills and will inspire 

students to create their own poetry through a realization that they can make a 

difference and express a certain part of their life’s struggle so that they might 

be able to help somebody else. 


Poetry on the Web 

Poetry 180: A Poem a day for American High School Students 

An incredible list of modern poems sure to please high school classes. 

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/ 

Poetry Archives 

Contains thousands of full-text, non-copyrighted, classical poems from many 

poets. Searchable by author, title, and first line; browsable by author. 

http://www.emule.com/poetry/ 


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