Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) wanted freedom and individuality and nature.
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Below is one good reading of Thoreau's poem "The Summer Rain." It does not have the text on the screen, so you'll need to read along with Meishisen (pages 60-64), and the reader reads a little fast, but his pronunciation is very clear and accurate, and I like his reading! Try it!
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) didn't care about nature so much. Instead, he wanted strong emotion, big imagination, and lots of sadness and beauty (and sometimes horror).
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Here are three youtube videos of people reading/singing/animating etc. "Annabel Lee." There are SO many versions! Also many high school students read it out loud for poetry reading competitions....
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) wanted imagination, emotion, nature (in her garden), and MYSTERY (not like a detective mystery, but like things we cannot understand, like life and death and love...) Emily is the most famous American woman poet. I love her very much.
Here's a link to her house' homepage (it's a lovely museum):
https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/
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And at the bottom of this page you can see the trailer for a new movie about Emily called A Quiet Passion (2016) and two different videos of "A Bird came down the Walk" (#359), some with animation!
Here's a link to her house' homepage (it's a lovely museum):
https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/
Click on a picture below to enter the gallery and see larger images and read my captions.
And at the bottom of this page you can see the trailer for a new movie about Emily called A Quiet Passion (2016) and two different videos of "A Bird came down the Walk" (#359), some with animation!
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