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Videos:
These are a few of those poems that fostered discussion in our year long Humanities classes, whether at Sammamish H.S, Bellevue International School, or Kirkland International Community School.
Ozymandias – Percy Shelley – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITJrCePwUBM&list=PLmusiTGRzEUml5_aiXoyK9UWmALA7rXj4&index=1
Euclid Alone – Edna St Vincent Millay – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd7xJ0GMBgQ&list=PLmusiTGRzEUml5_aiXoyK9UWmALA7rXj4&index=3
The Force that Through the Green Fuse – Dylan Thomas – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyMoM7-Dh2k&list=PLmusiTGRzEUml5_aiXoyK9UWmALA7rXj4&index=2
Ozymandias — Percy Shelley — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlgvwsy_q4c
Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare — Edna St Vincent Millay — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC8xEh90UCc
Chimney Sweeper — William Blake — https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Musee des Beaux Arts — W.H. Auden — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P9Nn24rFOU
Cupid & My Campaspe — Edward De Vere or John Lyly — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0HfyOqZOkA
In My Craft or Sullen Art — Dylan Thomas — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkGQsjjLb00
When in Disgrace With Fortune — Wm Shakespeare-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYUpzWMqys0
My Mistress’ Eyes — Wm. Shakespeare — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08o6Xv-ieCY
Ode on a Grecian Urn — John Keats — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHWBR18Mu2E
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night — Dylan Thomas — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diLQd2-PzwE
They Flee From Me — Thomas Wyatt the Elder — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amCuJyC7MJc
Ode on Melancholy — John Keats — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNRt9-OvACw
Tyger, Tyger — William Blake — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0gnOqGal5Y
Convergence of the Twain — Thomas Harday — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDqcyH3EZkA
Force That Through the Green Fuse — Dylan Thomas — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3YJDN2Q_Po
Astrophel & Stella — Sir Philip Sidney — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTVEAm8kbEc