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Dr. Uncle Jerry University: Poetry 101

4/30/20261 hr 16 min

We’re doing something a bit different today! Some conversations have popped up in various comment sections about why Uncle Jerry prefers specific types of poetry, and which lenses we use to dissect those poems, whether we’re talking about Charles Dickens, Emily Dickenson, or Taylor Swift. So Uncle Jerry put together a lecture explaining how and why he views certain poetic styles the way he does, and explains the different criticism styles and theories we use to understand a poem’s meaning and impact.

Hope you enjoy! Please leave any questions in the commen...

Clips

Validating Reader Feelings
Intentional Fallacy Defense
Taylor As Cultural Artifact
Why Confessional Feels Tricky
Two Readings, One Poem
August As A Sonnet
Two Classes, Two Reactions
Craft Inside Confession
Who Is Slim Shady?

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

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  3. Jerry Coats· Host0:52

    Here's, here's another confessional poet, another guy, and, and I really do like this. You may recognize this. "May I have your attention please? May I have your attention please? Will the real Slim Shady- [laughs] ... please stand up? I repeat, will the real Slim Shady please stand up?"

  4. Speaker 31:12

    [upbeat music] Hello, Uncle Jerry.

  5. Jerry Coats· Host1:19

    Hello, Niece Angela.

  6. Speaker 31:21

    What you got for us today? I feel like you're gonna teach us today.

  7. Jerry Coats· Host1:24

    We are... I, I'm in my professorial mode.

  8. Speaker 31:27

    In your Ravenclaw mode.

  9. Jerry Coats· Host1:28

    I have my, I have my Ravenclaw

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