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Hi, and thanks for the kind comment! Is ELL English Language Learner?

@@bdumontpoetry English Language & Literature it contains courses such as mythology, linguistic, short story etc.

@@tqa-aykut7731 Sounds fantastic! I'm happy my channel could help a bit. Enjoy your studies!

Thanks for sharing! Many hands fit the same glove, if a poem's a glove. I agree completely that it's a fallen state. Fallen from what? That depends on a reader's philosophical views, implicitly or explicitly held. Personally, I think man falls when he turns away from reason and reality.

Thank you very much. 😀

Thank you for presenting such intriguing and altogether worthy material. You have restored my faith in social media. I hope to see more related subject matter in the future. Thanks again.

You're welcome, and thank you for such an encouraging comment!

I'm so glad you found value in my video, and thank you for telling me that and for the encouragement. I love Keats, too. I agree, he's a great fount of inspiration. What other poems are you planning on studying? Maybe something on your list happens to be on my list of planned videos, and I might push it to the front.

@@bdumontpoetry Hello Brandon, I am so glad you responded. I wasn't sure if you would, but, I hoped that you would. I find myself exploring his shorter verse, again for creative inspiration, and I have been sort of holding off on looking 2 of his longer works.The first is The Fall of Hyperion.A Dream. Then, I hoped to begin a long delve into his Hyperion A Fragment. If these works by Keats are material you are entertaining on your RUclips channel, I sure would look forward to viewing them. Thank you so much again. Take care and be blessed always. DMC

@@artistresidence7355 I actually have notes for a video on the Hyperion Fragment. No guarantee on when, but I'll definitely prioritize it. I love that work. Take care!

Your comment has spoiled me, and for two days I didn't know how to say thanks. You know, my explicit goal for myself when reading has been merely: read carefully and unaffectedly and be respectful of the text. So I'm dazzled to read how you described my reading style. Now I have this phrase of yours to add to my goals when reading: to "bring out the luminosity and inherent potency of each word." Wow, what a phrase! Thank you for taking the time to tell me this.

Yes, I think Romantic art is the best (broadly speaking and in terms of aesthetics). And if you mean by idealism striving for "the best", "the highest possible", I'm with you there. Tell me what your favorite poems by Byron and Coleridge are. Maybe I could make a video about them.

@@bdumontpoetry rime of the ancient mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and she walks in beauty by lord Byron. I think byron is the most god gifted from romantics. A special talent.

Thank you! It was fun making this one just a little bit theatrical.

Thank you! What are you favorites by Yeats or Joyce? I could take a look at them. I read an early epic by Yeats once, an early one of his if I remember right, based on Irish folklore. I remember I found it fascinating; maybe I could look at excerpts of it.

I'm glad it could help you! I wish you success in getting through the trouble! :)

"Ne" is a negation, as in modern "not". "N'ad" would be a contraction of "ne" and another word "(h)ad", so "n'ad" would be modern "didn't have" or "had not". OED confirms this, although it cites examples without the apostrophe, because probably it was obvious that "nad" was a contraction, just as we can get away with writing "didnt" without causing any confusion. If you get the time, write the full sentence here and we can see whether that checks out in the context of the sentence.

@@bdumontpoetry "As I lay in my bed slepe full unmete was unto me, but why that I ne might rest I ne wist, for there n'as earthly wight had more of hertis ese than I, for I n'ad sicknesse nor disese." Yay! It's fitting. Can I ask what's hertis ese exactly mean? And thank you so much for easier. :'}

@@ikkarezlet1922 You're welcome. "hertis ese" is modern "heart's ease". Often if you try out how the word is probably pronounced (like "ese") it'll remind you of a modern word, and it might be a 1-to1 match, so it's just a case of antique spelling. It doesn't work all the time, though. I'm not a linguist, but I'm pretty sure that with "heartis" it's a part of grammar that's no longer active in modern English. Suffixes were added to some nouns to show possession. Our apostrophe-s is a fossil of that old system. Modern German still has this as an active element. "Man of the house" in German is "Herr des Hauses". See the "-es" suffix? Anyway, enjoy Chaucer! (By the way, The Riverside Chaucer by Oxford Press is really good, I find, and helps with old spellings and vocabulary.)

@@bdumontpoetry oh this! Never fails to amaze, I searched all of Google, not much helped. Totally love these old English phrases and will definitely try chaucer. Thanks alot alot.

Thanks for the compliment!

Thanks! Agog is good. What do you mean exactly with 'keep going', though? Do you mean you would have liked more commentary, or more reading like this in general in other videos?

@@bdumontpoetry I only saw this video and though it was excellent. Your last words were "I have loads much more to say, but this is already a super long video" . I wouldn't have objected to more commentary, but that's just me, you summed it up nicely.

@@timmy317317 I appreciate that very much, thank you!

Thanks very much!

That's a good idea. I noticed too, displaying text would have been more helpful. I'll probably do it in future videos.

Thanks! I appreciate you telling me you liked it. Not being used to hearing my own voice, I find it difficult to judge whether it pleases me or not. Glad someone likes it! :)