You will hear five people speaking A E. Match what they say with the statements.0:04
You don't have to use one of the statements.0:14
T.S. eliot was a poet, playwright and critic.0:23
Some people say he was the most important poet of the 20th century.0:29
Although he was born in the United States, he spent most of his life in England and became a Briton.0:34
Eliot wrote about the need for people to have strong moral and religious beliefs.0:42
His poetry is not always easy to understand because it combines references to myths, history and literature as well as scenes of modern life.0:48
B. Emily Dickinson was one of America's greatest poets.1:03
Her poems can be hard to read.1:11
She wrote about the difficulty of understanding the world and of how quickly and strangely life passes.1:13
Emily was a reserved person.1:20
She refused to publish any of her poems during her life.1:23
She lived all her life at her parents home in Massachusetts.1:27
We don't know much about her personal life.1:31
Walt Whitman was the greatest poet of the 19th century.1:41
Whitman was born in New York, worked as a teacher and a journalist.1:46
His collection of poems, Leaves of Grass was first published in 1855.1:51
During the Civil War, Whitman served as a nurse in a Washington hospital.1:58
When President Lincoln died.2:04
Whitman expressed his feelings in one of his best remembered poems.2:06
O Captain My Captain.2:11
D. Walter Rayleigh was an English knight at the court of Elizabeth I. He was a soldier, explorer, historian and poet.2:16
He travelled to the New World and introduced potatoes and tobacco smoking to the English.2:30
Sir Walter Rayleigh spent 13 years as a prisoner in the Tower of London and finally was executed.2:36
Rayleigh wrote some very beautiful sonnets.2:43
E. Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, critic and short story writer.2:48
For many years people thought that he was just a writer of entertaining, suspense and mysterious stories.2:58
Today it is believed that that his work was much more important than that.3:06
His influence on many artists during his life and later was really great.3:11
His best known poem is the Raven, one of the most powerful and mysterious pieces of poetry ever.3:17
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