Poetry has an undeserved reputation for being difficult and confusing. But the truth is that you don't have to figure poetry out--you just have to read it. In this video, we talk about what poetry is, and we read a poem together with the goal of enjoying it rather than deciphering it.

Check out these cool contemporary poems: https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-a...

Poems in this Video
The Red Wheelbarrow: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Re...
Dawn: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Al_Que...

0:00 Introduction
1:35 What Poetry Does
4:36 Why I Love "The Red Wheelbarrow"
6:07 Reading a Poem
9:14 Conclusion