Stephen Burt: Why people need poetry
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"We're all going to die -- and poems can help us live with that." In a charming and funny talk, literary critic Stephen Burt takes us on a lyrical journey with some of his favorite poets, all the way down to a line break and back up to the human urge to imagine.
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- Internet Archive, in TED Talks
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- CC BY-NC-ND 3.0, as the Internet Archive states it.
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- TED.com
- Language
- English
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