Poetry

**Some sites to help out with or enhance your study of poetry:**

 * BBC's Arts "Out Loud" site -- Terrific place to hear a few old voices (several of them long gone) recite their own work (there's a Wendy Cope one in here!): []
 * The American Academy of Poets has some great recordings here -- //listen// to them! []

[[image:Philip_Larkin2.jpg]]Philip Larkin
First poem for us -- have a read. Annotate, or make notes, directly on the text and bring it to class Sept. 14. Think "literarily," of course, but don't forget to respond with your heart, too. What do you //feel// about this poem?

Hear Larkin's own voice reading the poem above: media type="youtube" key="acXxM2WAeNE" height="344" width="425"

And what about this poem? It's not from __The Whitsun Weddings__, our main point of focus, but it is rather representative of all that is Larkin-esque. Have a peek.

Your response to this (response)? []

"The Whitsun Weddings", the poem from which the collection takes its title:

Hear this poem being read...media type="youtube" key="_U_o5x-1PoA" height="344" width="425"

Larkin's fans/admirers...The Philip Larkin Society (yes, it exists!) has its own website: []

Some more of Larkin's work -- review for upcoming oral presentations:

Some of Larkin's poetry, sort of forgotten for years, turned up a couple of years ago in audio tape form Times Online article

**[[image:Wendy_Cope.jpg width="162" height="162"]]Wendy Cope**
The infamous "Bloody Men" -- 2 ways! And #2 from a decidedly different VOICE...media type="youtube" key="pmVHm2PB0fQ" height="344" width="425" The words... Sonnet VI from Jason Strugnell, with the original Shakespearean sonnet And the really unfortunate student who had difficulty comprehending the tone and message of Cope's "Engineers' Corner"--good for a bit of a wry smile! []
 * 1) 1 Cope reading her own work... media type="youtube" key="cLgb2pZtpd8" height="344" width="425"