@@TheArtisanGeek A true poet will never back a biased label such as Black Lives Matter, as poets and their art is all about holding the middle ground; being the referee, if you will. All lives matter; it's the truth; the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The following is an example of nature's diversity and the harmony of the all inclusive: I'm transfixed; moonlight on a snowy landscape. Yes, last night it snowed and on this night I stand between the black and the white; a dreamy referee cued for a brushstroke of gold. -Cynthia's Canvas by Conal Cochran
I know a lot of "educated" people don't take it seriously, but there is a lot of good poetry in Hip-Hop, especially in the underground and experimental side of the genre.
@@lissyanna7683 R.A.P Ferreira (FKA Milo) MF Doom, Ka, Open Mike Eagle, Danny Brown, JPEGMAFIA, Billy Woods, Quelle Chris, Little Simz, Noname, clipping., Tierra Whack, Rapsody, Aesop Rock, EL-P
I found a love for poetry by listening to this podcast called poetry unbound, where this person with an exquisite voice reads and interprets poems by various authors. I find it’s a relaxing way to sit and think about the poems that were just read and have little help understanding them after.
@@NaliniKluth i mean idk how you teach poetry about ik an issue some of my classmates have with poetry is because they can't connect to it. often times we'll read poems with essentially the same underlying meaning and while they're good meanings it gets tiring to read the fifth poem about the contrast of death and life with no new perspectives offered in the span of a month. maybe if your curriculum allows it try to add more variety
Also I'm Arab and I think we have some incredible peots, here some examples if you want to read their poetry Nizar Qabbani Al-Mutanabbi Mahmoud Darwish
what i like about poetry is that sometimes its more about yourself than the poem. when i come across a rare and particular type of poem and i feel it wash over me like a wave like you said, i often dont really understand what its talking about, i dont 'get' half of the lines etc, but i love these sorts of poems the most because it almost doesnt matter what the poets intentions are, you can learn a lot about yourself by how a poem you dont understand makes you feel. you can learn about whats occupying your subconcious by observing what meaning you attach to ambiguous words and lines. i feel as though poems like this are more like tools that help you understand yourself, they appeal to something much deeper within you than anything your conscious mind can understand. just goes to show, sometimes the poem reads you!
Just a note on translated poetry! Of course it's impossible to translate poetry (or anything) and retain all of the meaning of the source language, but often translation is a really creative art form in itself - meaning can be gained in translation as much as lost. I find the most rewarding way to consider a translation is as a different work altogether with different things to add to a conversation, rather than an imitation that will never do the original justice. Of course read in the source language if possible, but don't be put off reading translations! Often with older poetry you can find multiple translations and compare them which is also super fun and interesting
I have been a poetry fan for over 40 years. I discovered it when I was 12. I have long said that schools teaching poetry are the reason people don't like to read poetry. You do not read a poem thinking about what it means or what devices are used you simply read a poem for how it makes you feel. I love your take because it fits in well well with mine.
Hi, my name is Emilio and I'm from Puerto Rico. Maybe I'll have errors in my English because that's my second language; my first is Spanish. I found your channel like a month ago and I have to say every video it's like a new and exciting territory, not only of information, but to ask myself what I'm doing with either my own channel and my life as a reader. I'm already 40 and I start reading for pleasure like 6 years ago. The way I found book to read its usually by Booktube and, for some reason, I didn't read books from my own Island or any Latin literature. I've been looking for a way to share all this in your channel, but I was worry to be a long comment... To late. Anyway, I've been rethinking my approach to literature and a better way to share better content in my own channel because it's been changing topics since the first video, hahaha. Thank you for your passion in every video. As I've seen in comments you get to people in multiple ways including me.
@@mokona034 Saludos, Alfredo. Debo confesar que leo mucho en inglés porque se me hace más fácil encontrarlos y porque no he curioseado mucho en libros en español. No sé si tu pregunta va dirigida a libros escritos originalmente en español o traducidos. Hace un tiempo comencé a leer las novelas de Gabriel García Márquez y hubo 2 que me gustaron: La hojarasca y La mala hora. Esto no es, necesariamente, recomendaciones porque no he leído mucho y no conozco de tus gustos. Pero, en confianza puedo comentarte de otros libros (en inglés, aunque tal vez existan en español) que he leído y me han gustado.
@@mokona034 hola Alfredo, Quiroga tal vez o Lovecraft en inglés . Tengo un video en mi canal sobre una nueva autora mexicana, y un libro de ficcion gotica en mexico, por si te interesa saber de que se trata . Saludos
saludos, Emilio. conoces Gianinna Braschi? es una gran escritora de Puerto Rico que yo quiero leer. muy experimental, yo creo. escribió Los Estados Unidos de ña Banana, Yo-Yo Boeing (el primero libro en spanglish) e también un libro que ahora olvidé. perdón por mi español. yo soy brasileño y con cierta frecuencia yo hablo palabras en portugués cuando hablo en español. estudié la lengua por seis meses en la escuela. algunas recomendaciones de literatura brasileña: Clarice Lispector, Guimarães Rosa, Oswald de Andrade, Raduan Nassar.
From a fellow black literature junkie, I thank you for this...! Much like mathematics, poetry is taught so badly that I believe I learned more by reading, writing and performing it in public... Keep this going -from Montréal, Canada (McGill grad) 🇨🇦
May Sarton said that a poem captures a moment of violent change, but only a moment, while a novel is about growth and change. I like that a lot, and feel like it's certainly true for a large amount of the poetry I've read. I was a little worried when I saw the thumbnail with T.S. Eliot's name because I thought you might recommend his poetry to beginners-that can be a disaster imo. I'm glad you suggested his essays. Love your content!
May Sarton was right. Here's 13 lines; a line for every victim; an example of May's wisdom and advice to women everywhere: keep your wits about you at all times... At the breakfast table the headline's dropped between last night's shag and the coffee cup. Yeah, it's always someone someplace else. Randomness: a book plucked from a library's shelf. Whistle down the wind, sweet lass, and all harmony will come to you. Aye, be it petal or kind word; proposal on bent knee with promises of love, your beauty must surely be a magnet to all things good in this world...amirite? The ball-peen hammer; screwdriver and knife; the tools of randomness; unsavoury surprise. Oh, sweet lass; book on the shelf; breakfast table headline...someplace else. -Sutcliffe: The Next One by Conal Cochran
I relate to how you said the way poetry was taught in school wasn't super helpful when it comes to consuming poetry outside a school setting. I feel like every poetry unit I had in high school existed exclusively to look at figurative language and nothing else. I've been trying to get more into poetry over the last few months. Thanks for the recommendations!
Not defending the way schools teach poetry, but as someone is in studying to become a highschool English teacher who just so happens to have a passion for poetry, what we are meant to teach pretty much depends on the curriculum, or at least it is in Australia where I'm from. I agree that schools tend to look at mainly figurative language, but I also think we shouldn't dismiss it because it is quite an important part to poetry. I'm already conflicted because I know I'll have to teach what the curriculum says but at the same time I don't want kids hating poetry because of it, and I want to teach the reasons why poetry is such a great artform. I'm so sorry that your high school didn't give you the positive poetry experience you deserved
What I've found really useful when reading poetry - if you can afford it / get them from a library - is to read the book and listen to the audiobook at the same time. You then get a real feel for it. Especially if the poet themselves reads it. Plus RUclips has a lot of poets reading their own work.
"I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use." -L. Cohen
i really love what you said about poetry being read out loud and being an interactive form/experience! i think that the way you relate to a poem can be such a personal thing but i also really love it when my friends read poems for me, it can be such a beautiful experience to share!
Hello. I'm from Iran and there are some indescribable literary masterpieces composed by sage Persian poets like Sa'di Shirazi, Hafiz, Rumi and Ferdowsi . This one is composed by Sa'di : Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you’ve no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain! I highly recommend everyone to have their poems read.
I read The Poet X and for some reason, the way it was written just added more depth to the narrative. Then, I started reading a few excerpts of poetry and it started to touch me in a way that it didn’t in school! This video is helpful because, since then, I got more interested. Also, for some reason, poetry in English speaks more deeply than in Portuguese (my first language). Thank you!
Poetry like tap dance gets the low end of the totem pole, at least in spoken. Those who have combined music w there poetry such as rap and hip hop I feel get on better in their art. We write because it's what we do. We share many thoughts of life and what's goes on around us. It's art, it's a beautiful thing. 🙏❤️
Love that dress on you! It looks fancy and fairy at the same time. I have always been afraid of poetry, but what Elizabeth Gilbert told you makes a lot of sense to me. I read „Grief is the thing with feathers“ last year and although I cant say I got every verse and all the symbolisms, I absolutely loved it. Sometimes I didn’t know what was going on, but it transmitted a lot of emotions, I even ugly cried. After it „passed“ it did feel like a wave had hit me. Ps. I thought the poetry reading was super sweet.
This is great! Regarding poetry in a foreign language, I like your idea of pronouncing words even if you don't understand them. Or, I also like to listen to the poem being read in the original language. The bonus, of course, is if the reader is also the author of the poem.
I really understood poetry when i started reading mayakovsky in high school way before he was taught. I started reading out loud but in my head and it made so much more sense suddenly. He has very strong rhythm to his poetry and in russian it sounds like a proper storm sometimes. Without need to analyse anything for school i enjoyed it a lot and ended up memorising some poems just for the heck of it
On the point of reading poetry in other languages, Neruda's anthology is a good one. He translated his own poems from Spanish to English so there is no ambiguity in the translation. You can read the poems side by side and be jealous at how someone could be so talented at writing in two languages
I also recommend the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh! They have a lot of free poetry on their website; you can also browse their catalogue, look at their bookshop, see events they (usually) have.... It seems very accessible to me. :)
DAMN you are PUMPING out content- I love your dress so much!. Also, I don't interact with poetry too much, but I have always been plagued with a bit of insecurity. I felt like if it didn't come naturally then it had no place in my life. It's something I am slowly changing, but it's alright.
first of all, i LOVE that dress. second of all, i had a similar experience with poetry in school and have struggled with reading it ever since. this video was so lovely to come across and very helpful!
I only started loving poetry after I read poems by one of my favourite ever poets called 'Lieke Marsman'. Something about the rawness + beauty of her words inspired my to start writing myself, both in Dutch and in English and it helped me process what was going on around and inside me. I haven't been inspired lately, which sucks and makes me feel terrible, but the stress of school is overpowering haha. I'm going to try and set some time aside this summer to envelop myself in the world of words again because it truly tugs at my heartstrings in the most comfortingly sentimental way
I got into poetry myself when I read Poe's The Raven. I heard a line quoted on Fallout 4 and got curious about the rest of the poem. I really couldn't tell you what I like about poetry and Poe in particular, I just enjoy it.
I am still not very "good" at reading poetry, but I am definitely getting into it anyway and I especially enjoy Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Margaret Atwood, Morgan Harper Nichols and Romeo Oriogun
@@emmab5035 In the semi-dark she sits before the computer screen; coffee within reach and just shy of midnight. Neon peeks between the gaps in the venation blind and paints a luminous magic on the wall. A black cat's curled at one end of the sofa and, content with the bliss that comfort affords, the little animal purrs as it sleeps. The gentle tap of a keyboard cocks the feline's ear. Outside a light drizzle begins to fall; it turns the sidewalk into a mirror and speeds the pace of all upon it. In the distance a siren wails as it fades. In this simplicity there exists a beauty; mediocre to some; magnificent to others. Regardless the value, which is measured by the clock's tick, that beauty is beyond price; like love and the esoteric. -A Moment Before Midnight by Conal Cochran
I really like the vibe that you give off, such a chill vibe that makes anyone comfortable when talking to you, love your enthusiasm and your hair! And then I discovered that you are based in the Netherlands, so hello fellow person living in the Netherlands :)
You are spot on with reading poetry out loud and emphasizing certain words or sections. It can completely change what I take away from it. I fist learned this listening to the classic, “ Road not taken” by Robert Frost, read by himself. Hearing it read by him made the poem so much more moving. You can hear the wisdom and acceptance of the words.
The way you speak is so soothing !! Subscribed ! Also, the bit about translated poetries remind me of a quote from a movie called Paterson that goes like "Reading a translated poetry is like taking a shower with a raincoat on" or something along those lines. I think anyone who speaks more than 1 languages would agree that each language has their own way of expressing and describing things, which can play a huge role in a medium that's all about connecting with the soul rather than the mind. It's kinda frustrating to think that we can probably only feel a fraction of what the author intended to emulate. But regardless of that, I've found tons of gorgeous translated proses and I'm very grateful for those fractions of beauty that I got to experience
oh that dress is absolutely gorgeous! i also agree with you that we should not dismiss modern poetry, after all the genre has always changed and evolved
I just started reading poetry because I loved Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and the only other stuff she’s published is poetry. Then I listened to The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, and it’s so lovely to listen to.
Okay, first of all, thank you for all the books you have taked about, second of all, girl... you are gorgeus, I love your energy and the way you speak about poetry.
I have never been into poetry, it's always been too metaphorical and flowery for my taste. Then I read rupi kaur and loved her, and moved to trying and enjoying amanda lovelace. I hear a lot of complaints about how they 'waste paper' but I love the kind of visual poetry they create with the words. I've also started to get into spoken word/slam poetry on RUclips, and I'm thinking I've finally found my sweet spot for poetry. I agree that poetry is best when read aloud
ive been looking for a video like this because ive been trying to get into poetry independently, and this was really helpful. the idea of letting the poetry wash over you instead of getting bogged down in the details was a revelation for me when you said it. and the dress just STUNNING
im obsessed w you, your brain, this channel, the fashion,,,,,, idk watching your videos is just always empowering and encouraging and they always make me happy :')
Fully agree about poetry being a puzzle and having to dissect it, it really ruined it for me too at school and uni. I've recently found poetry again and I'm enjoying it so much more. "Poetry is supposed to wash over you like a wave" is a fantastic way of looking at it.
I just stumbled upon your channel and this is the first video I watched. And I just love how soothing your voice is. I hope you do poetry readings aaaaaaaaa
That dress looks amazing. Also i have a similar experience where school ruined poetry for me. As I grew older I started to get into it. I can vividly remember certain poems that really made a mark.
Love how you articulately express yourself! I’ve just gotten into reading poetry and have been looking for some good titles to read, thanks for the suggestions 🤗
I've been trying to get into poetry very slowly recently. One thing that helped was to buy a book of silly poems about vegetables which I absolutely loved 😋
Thank you for addressing poetry. There are poems that I immediately "get", but also so many others very popular or famous ones that I just find confusing. It was good to hear your fresh take on how to read them.
i just love your vibes and authenticity!! thank you so much, that's exactly how i felt about poetry and exactly why i'm here and this was extremly helpful while also being so calm and fun to listen to your sweet voice and great smiles and laughs in between thewe explanations of serious topic
You are hilarious and adorable and I learned a lot just stumbling onto your video. I am trying to access poetry and videos like yours are so helpful to my search. Keep it up!!
That dress!! I'm loving the what I'm wearing segments at the start! This video came at the perfect time for me as I've been trying to read more poetry but sometimes it's like... I don't know what I'm looking for, and I often don't feel too intelligent for it
This is such a helpful and insightful video, like I thought I was the only one who struggled with reading poetry, where to start and felt intimidated by it
1) that dress is incredible! And 2) this was not only nice, but also super helpful! I definitely feel like I keep looking at poetry like I did in school and I’m excited to get back into poetry thanks to this video!
I was just the same, but i read the Bell Jar, and I liked so much the writing that I began to read her poems; when a poet writes a novel: a potential treasure
My favorite poem since I was 12 is Daffodils. This summer I was lucky enough to find a young artist who is creating a painting to illustrate the poem for me. I am so excited! I love the beauty poetry brings to life.
Poetry is a lot like koans. They're a condensed story that, through the interplay of language and music, speak to something deeper inside the self: the human condition. It's what connects the reader and writer in a different way than what prose does.
I had a teacher that let us write a poem in any style in grade 10 After reading our poems she assigned us poets to read based on the poems we wrote and the styles we chose. My teacher had to bring in 3 books from her own collection for me to read of James Douglas Morrison as the school didn't have any. That was when and how I discovered poetry.... as well by default the music of the Doors
I agree with you on Insta-poets. They definitely made it more accessible but it should be a start point for non-poetry readers, so they can get used to reading poetry. I enjoy reading some Insta poetry at times when I don't have energy to read more complicated works. They just don't have the deeper sense that most poetry has. Also there are amazing Modernist poets such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, who are definitely easy to read with deeper context or just very poetic.
Your story about the Rupi Kaur love poems had me in stitches! My first book of poems was Allen Ginsberg's Howl and I am guilty of very similar behaviour. Great video, I'm going to try reading some poems out loud.
I’ve haven’t done it yet, but I bet a poetry book on audio would be cool. Also, I’d recommend checking out some poetry anthologies from the library. I’m beginning to explore poetry more this year. Acevedo is the GOAT. I like what E Filbert said-that resonates.
Um, that dress is friggin gorgeous
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@@TheArtisanGeek A true poet will never back a biased label such as Black Lives Matter, as poets and their art is all about holding the middle ground; being the referee, if you will. All lives matter; it's the truth; the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The following is an example of nature's diversity and the harmony of the all inclusive:
I'm transfixed;
moonlight on a snowy landscape.
Yes, last night it snowed
and on this night
I stand between the black and the white;
a dreamy referee cued for a brushstroke of gold.
-Cynthia's Canvas
by Conal Cochran
I know a lot of "educated" people don't take it seriously, but there is a lot of good poetry in Hip-Hop, especially in the underground and experimental side of the genre.
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which one for example. I would like to research
Any musical genre for that matter
@@lissyanna7683 R.A.P Ferreira (FKA Milo) MF Doom, Ka, Open Mike Eagle, Danny Brown, JPEGMAFIA, Billy Woods, Quelle Chris, Little Simz, Noname, clipping., Tierra Whack, Rapsody, Aesop Rock, EL-P
Lissy Anna TPAB by Kendrick Lamar is a good starting point
I found a love for poetry by listening to this podcast called poetry unbound, where this person with an exquisite voice reads and interprets poems by various authors. I find it’s a relaxing way to sit and think about the poems that were just read and have little help understanding them after.
Thanks for the recommendation
Thank you 👌 seems like a great way to start a habit .
Is that on Spotify?
@@mountainrock7682 yes
@@marynoname3701 Oh thank you.
School ruins literature in many ways. 🙈 I have never really taken to poetry but you make me want to try now!
Lol. I agree with this so much (literature student here).
Good luck!
Students ruin poetry, because they are unwilling to think. We teachers try our best it make it accessible.
@@yuki_eerhs4591 Same. A creative writing student here 😑😂
@@NaliniKluth i mean idk how you teach poetry about ik an issue some of my classmates have with poetry is because they can't connect to it. often times we'll read poems with essentially the same underlying meaning and while they're good meanings it gets tiring to read the fifth poem about the contrast of death and life with no new perspectives offered in the span of a month. maybe if your curriculum allows it try to add more variety
The dress dance: 10/10
Also I'm Arab and I think we have some incredible peots, here some examples if you want to read their poetry
Nizar Qabbani
Al-Mutanabbi
Mahmoud Darwish
Thank you!! I actually thrifted a book from Penguin containing Arabic poetry a while ago, so I will try and see if it contains any of their work :D
I love Mahmoud Darwish's Identity Card
I love Darwish!
I love the first and third one
I love Kahlil Gibran too! very popular in America although he wrote "The Prophet" in English
what i like about poetry is that sometimes its more about yourself than the poem. when i come across a rare and particular type of poem and i feel it wash over me like a wave like you said, i often dont really understand what its talking about, i dont 'get' half of the lines etc, but i love these sorts of poems the most because it almost doesnt matter what the poets intentions are, you can learn a lot about yourself by how a poem you dont understand makes you feel. you can learn about whats occupying your subconcious by observing what meaning you attach to ambiguous words and lines. i feel as though poems like this are more like tools that help you understand yourself, they appeal to something much deeper within you than anything your conscious mind can understand. just goes to show, sometimes the poem reads you!
Beautifully put
That dress looks so good on you!
Thank you very much!! :D
The mysterious YT algorithm sent me here, and I'm so glad.
Just a note on translated poetry! Of course it's impossible to translate poetry (or anything) and retain all of the meaning of the source language, but often translation is a really creative art form in itself - meaning can be gained in translation as much as lost. I find the most rewarding way to consider a translation is as a different work altogether with different things to add to a conversation, rather than an imitation that will never do the original justice. Of course read in the source language if possible, but don't be put off reading translations! Often with older poetry you can find multiple translations and compare them which is also super fun and interesting
I have been a poetry fan for over 40 years. I discovered it when I was 12. I have long said that schools teaching poetry are the reason people don't like to read poetry. You do not read a poem thinking about what it means or what devices are used you simply read a poem for how it makes you feel.
I love your take because it fits in well well with mine.
Hi, my name is Emilio and I'm from Puerto Rico. Maybe I'll have errors in my English because that's my second language; my first is Spanish.
I found your channel like a month ago and I have to say every video it's like a new and exciting territory, not only of information, but to ask myself what I'm doing with either my own channel and my life as a reader.
I'm already 40 and I start reading for pleasure like 6 years ago. The way I found book to read its usually by Booktube and, for some reason, I didn't read books from my own Island or any Latin literature.
I've been looking for a way to share all this in your channel, but I was worry to be a long comment... To late. Anyway, I've been rethinking my approach to literature and a better way to share better content in my own channel because it's been changing topics since the first video, hahaha.
Thank you for your passion in every video. As I've seen in comments you get to people in multiple ways including me.
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¿Qué recomiendas en español? He estado leyendo mucho Sci-Fi (en inglés) desde el inicio de la cuarentena y ya le quiero variar.
@@mokona034 Saludos, Alfredo. Debo confesar que leo mucho en inglés porque se me hace más fácil encontrarlos y porque no he curioseado mucho en libros en español. No sé si tu pregunta va dirigida a libros escritos originalmente en español o traducidos.
Hace un tiempo comencé a leer las novelas de Gabriel García Márquez y hubo 2 que me gustaron: La hojarasca y La mala hora. Esto no es, necesariamente, recomendaciones porque no he leído mucho y no conozco de tus gustos. Pero, en confianza puedo comentarte de otros libros (en inglés, aunque tal vez existan en español) que he leído y me han gustado.
@@mokona034 hola Alfredo, Quiroga tal vez o Lovecraft en inglés . Tengo un video en mi canal sobre una nueva autora mexicana, y un libro de ficcion gotica en mexico, por si te interesa saber de que se trata . Saludos
saludos, Emilio. conoces Gianinna Braschi? es una gran escritora de Puerto Rico que yo quiero leer. muy experimental, yo creo. escribió Los Estados Unidos de ña Banana, Yo-Yo Boeing (el primero libro en spanglish) e también un libro que ahora olvidé.
perdón por mi español. yo soy brasileño y con cierta frecuencia yo hablo palabras en portugués cuando hablo en español. estudié la lengua por seis meses en la escuela.
algunas recomendaciones de literatura brasileña: Clarice Lispector, Guimarães Rosa, Oswald de Andrade, Raduan Nassar.
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From a fellow black literature junkie, I thank you for this...!
Much like mathematics, poetry is taught so badly that I believe I learned more by reading, writing and performing it in public...
Keep this going
-from Montréal, Canada (McGill grad) 🇨🇦
May Sarton said that a poem captures a moment of violent change, but only a moment, while a novel is about growth and change. I like that a lot, and feel like it's certainly true for a large amount of the poetry I've read. I was a little worried when I saw the thumbnail with T.S. Eliot's name because I thought you might recommend his poetry to beginners-that can be a disaster imo. I'm glad you suggested his essays. Love your content!
May Sarton was right. Here's 13 lines; a line for every victim; an example of May's wisdom and advice to women everywhere: keep your wits about you at all times...
At the breakfast table the headline's dropped
between last night's shag and the coffee cup.
Yeah, it's always someone someplace else.
Randomness: a book plucked from a library's shelf.
Whistle down the wind, sweet lass,
and all harmony will come to you.
Aye, be it petal or kind word; proposal on bent knee
with promises of love, your beauty must surely be
a magnet to all things good in this world...amirite?
The ball-peen hammer; screwdriver and knife;
the tools of randomness; unsavoury surprise.
Oh, sweet lass; book on the shelf;
breakfast table headline...someplace else.
-Sutcliffe: The Next One
by Conal Cochran
You are just so amazing.
Why thank you so much!! 🥺✨
@u a total digression from poetry but sadly you're right.....
I relate to how you said the way poetry was taught in school wasn't super helpful when it comes to consuming poetry outside a school setting. I feel like every poetry unit I had in high school existed exclusively to look at figurative language and nothing else. I've been trying to get more into poetry over the last few months. Thanks for the recommendations!
Not defending the way schools teach poetry, but as someone is in studying to become a highschool English teacher who just so happens to have a passion for poetry, what we are meant to teach pretty much depends on the curriculum, or at least it is in Australia where I'm from. I agree that schools tend to look at mainly figurative language, but I also think we shouldn't dismiss it because it is quite an important part to poetry. I'm already conflicted because I know I'll have to teach what the curriculum says but at the same time I don't want kids hating poetry because of it, and I want to teach the reasons why poetry is such a great artform. I'm so sorry that your high school didn't give you the positive poetry experience you deserved
What I've found really useful when reading poetry - if you can afford it / get them from a library - is to read the book and listen to the audiobook at the same time. You then get a real feel for it. Especially if the poet themselves reads it. Plus RUclips has a lot of poets reading their own work.
Fantastic dress (no simp)
Also this helped me so much now I’m not gonna die in english
Thank you! I'm glad to hear that this was helpful! :D
You look like a 14-year-old. but still somehow your vibe is “an old librarian”. Love that. Subscribed.
Makes me think of Cardinal from SAO Alicization
In 8th grade, I had an awesome English teacher who was able to get our whole class loving poetry. A gift for a lifetime.
"I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use." -L. Cohen
i really love what you said about poetry being read out loud and being an interactive form/experience! i think that the way you relate to a poem can be such a personal thing but i also really love it when my friends read poems for me, it can be such a beautiful experience to share!
You have the most pleasant energy!
Been looking for more black Booktubers as a black girl. I like your intellectual, academic vibe as I find it similar to mine. Subbed.
I love how soft spoken and well-mannered you are. Thank you for the suggestions also ❤
Hello. I'm from Iran and there are some indescribable literary masterpieces composed by sage Persian poets like
Sa'di Shirazi,
Hafiz,
Rumi
and Ferdowsi .
This one is composed by Sa'di :
Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul.
If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain.
If you’ve no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you cannot retain!
I highly recommend everyone to have their poems read.
I read The Poet X and for some reason, the way it was written just added more depth to the narrative. Then, I started reading a few excerpts of poetry and it started to touch me in a way that it didn’t in school! This video is helpful because, since then, I got more interested. Also, for some reason, poetry in English speaks more deeply than in Portuguese (my first language). Thank you!
Poetry like tap dance gets the low end of the totem pole, at least in spoken.
Those who have combined music w there poetry such as rap and hip hop I feel get on better in their art.
We write because it's what we do. We share many thoughts of life and what's goes on around us. It's art, it's a beautiful thing. 🙏❤️
Love that dress on you! It looks fancy and fairy at the same time.
I have always been afraid of poetry, but what Elizabeth Gilbert told you makes a lot of sense to me.
I read „Grief is the thing with feathers“ last year and although I cant say I got every verse and all the symbolisms, I absolutely loved it.
Sometimes I didn’t know what was going on, but it transmitted a lot of emotions, I even ugly cried. After it „passed“ it did feel like a wave had hit me.
Ps. I thought the poetry reading was super sweet.
This is great! Regarding poetry in a foreign language, I like your idea of pronouncing words even if you don't understand them. Or, I also like to listen to the poem being read in the original language. The bonus, of course, is if the reader is also the author of the poem.
Yess exactly!! Hearing poets recite their own work is like the best thing ever 🥺✨
I really understood poetry when i started reading mayakovsky in high school way before he was taught. I started reading out loud but in my head and it made so much more sense suddenly. He has very strong rhythm to his poetry and in russian it sounds like a proper storm sometimes. Without need to analyse anything for school i enjoyed it a lot and ended up memorising some poems just for the heck of it
On the point of reading poetry in other languages, Neruda's anthology is a good one. He translated his own poems from Spanish to English so there is no ambiguity in the translation. You can read the poems side by side and be jealous at how someone could be so talented at writing in two languages
I also recommend the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh! They have a lot of free poetry on their website; you can also browse their catalogue, look at their bookshop, see events they (usually) have.... It seems very accessible to me. :)
woahh the dress gives me such classy dark academia vibes!!
the flowy dress and the hair are giving me princess leia vibes i LIVE for it! loved the video.
That's so sweet of you to say! Thank you very much!! I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed the video!! :D
your videos just fill me with so much motivation to be more productive whenever I watch them. love your content
DAMN you are PUMPING out content- I love your dress so much!.
Also, I don't interact with poetry too much, but I have always been plagued with a bit of insecurity. I felt like if it didn't come naturally then it had no place in my life. It's something I am slowly changing, but it's alright.
first of all, i LOVE that dress.
second of all, i had a similar experience with poetry in school and have struggled with reading it ever since. this video was so lovely to come across and very helpful!
I only started loving poetry after I read poems by one of my favourite ever poets called 'Lieke Marsman'. Something about the rawness + beauty of her words inspired my to start writing myself, both in Dutch and in English and it helped me process what was going on around and inside me. I haven't been inspired lately, which sucks and makes me feel terrible, but the stress of school is overpowering haha. I'm going to try and set some time aside this summer to envelop myself in the world of words again because it truly tugs at my heartstrings in the most comfortingly sentimental way
I got into poetry myself when I read Poe's The Raven. I heard a line quoted on Fallout 4 and got curious about the rest of the poem. I really couldn't tell you what I like about poetry and Poe in particular, I just enjoy it.
Your voice and vibe gives me peace
"Poetry in translation is like taking a shower with a raincoat on."
- Paterson (2016)
I am still not very "good" at reading poetry, but I am definitely getting into it anyway and I especially enjoy Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Margaret Atwood, Morgan Harper Nichols and Romeo Oriogun
i love Lorca oh my goodness!!! his poetry is so simple but so beautiful
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In the semi-dark she sits before the computer screen;
coffee within reach and just shy of midnight.
Neon peeks between the gaps in the venation blind
and paints a luminous magic on the wall.
A black cat's curled at one end of the sofa and,
content with the bliss that comfort affords,
the little animal purrs as it sleeps.
The gentle tap of a keyboard cocks the feline's ear.
Outside a light drizzle begins to fall;
it turns the sidewalk into a mirror
and speeds the pace of all upon it.
In the distance a siren wails as it fades.
In this simplicity there exists a beauty;
mediocre to some; magnificent to others.
Regardless the value, which is measured by the clock's tick,
that beauty is beyond price; like love and the esoteric.
-A Moment Before Midnight
by Conal Cochran
I'm so happy i found this, i just love poetry so much. Beat poems and slam poetry are so fascinating to listen to, too.
I love how your hairstyle always matches your clothes. It's almost like low key cosplaying. This time: 20th.
I really like the vibe that you give off, such a chill vibe that makes anyone comfortable when talking to you, love your enthusiasm and your hair! And then I discovered that you are based in the Netherlands, so hello fellow person living in the Netherlands :)
You are spot on with reading poetry out loud and emphasizing certain words or sections. It can completely change what I take away from it. I fist learned this listening to the classic, “ Road not taken” by Robert Frost, read by himself. Hearing it read by him made the poem so much more moving. You can hear the wisdom and acceptance of the words.
Just as you said 'show you what I'm wearing' I was like 'I hope she shows us what she's wearing', LOOOVVVEEE the dress
So lovely and so intelligent. This young lady renews my faith in the future of humanity.
Thank you for this video and for making poetry so inviting!
"Poetry is supposed to wash over you like a wave."
You explaining of poetry help me to improve my own poems.
The way you speak is so soothing !! Subscribed !
Also, the bit about translated poetries remind me of a quote from a movie called Paterson that goes like "Reading a translated poetry is like taking a shower with a raincoat on" or something along those lines. I think anyone who speaks more than 1 languages would agree that each language has their own way of expressing and describing things, which can play a huge role in a medium that's all about connecting with the soul rather than the mind. It's kinda frustrating to think that we can probably only feel a fraction of what the author intended to emulate. But regardless of that, I've found tons of gorgeous translated proses and I'm very grateful for those fractions of beauty that I got to experience
Paterson is definitely one of the best movies I've watched in recent years!
oh that dress is absolutely gorgeous! i also agree with you that we should not dismiss modern poetry, after all the genre has always changed and evolved
I just started reading poetry because I loved Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and the only other stuff she’s published is poetry. Then I listened to The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, and it’s so lovely to listen to.
Okay, first of all, thank you for all the books you have taked about, second of all, girl... you are gorgeus, I love your energy and the way you speak about poetry.
I love hearing you read poetry!
I have never been into poetry, it's always been too metaphorical and flowery for my taste. Then I read rupi kaur and loved her, and moved to trying and enjoying amanda lovelace. I hear a lot of complaints about how they 'waste paper' but I love the kind of visual poetry they create with the words. I've also started to get into spoken word/slam poetry on RUclips, and I'm thinking I've finally found my sweet spot for poetry. I agree that poetry is best when read aloud
Love the fashion dances at the start!
I just went through your channel and I am so excited
ive been looking for a video like this because ive been trying to get into poetry independently, and this was really helpful. the idea of letting the poetry wash over you instead of getting bogged down in the details was a revelation for me when you said it. and the dress just STUNNING
im obsessed w you, your brain, this channel, the fashion,,,,,, idk watching your videos is just always empowering and encouraging and they always make me happy :')
Fully agree about poetry being a puzzle and having to dissect it, it really ruined it for me too at school and uni. I've recently found poetry again and I'm enjoying it so much more. "Poetry is supposed to wash over you like a wave" is a fantastic way of looking at it.
lovely dress :)! and thank you for creating this video!! it really helped me a lot
That hello. I instantly smiled
I just stumbled upon your channel and this is the first video I watched. And I just love how soothing your voice is. I hope you do poetry readings aaaaaaaaa
That dress looks amazing. Also i have a similar experience where school ruined poetry for me. As I grew older I started to get into it. I can vividly remember certain poems that really made a mark.
Your voice is so angelic and passionate and it truly shines when you are reading poetry
Love how you articulately express yourself! I’ve just gotten into reading poetry and have been looking for some good titles to read, thanks for the suggestions 🤗
Watching ur videos makes me happy
your voice is so calm! love the video
you are so sweet! and so insightful! poetry intimidates me most of the time but this video makes me want to try again.
I love poetry! I'm just really sad i can't read more launguages. Especially persian/arabic poetry I would love to read properly.
I've been trying to get into poetry very slowly recently. One thing that helped was to buy a book of silly poems about vegetables which I absolutely loved 😋
Thank you for this, it’s really helped. You have a lovely, positive aura about you:)
It's a great video you've got there. Thanks for sharing.
I LOVE ur talk on rupi kaur!! I've never really loved her work but I feel like she's done wonders for making poetry more accessible
Thank you for addressing poetry. There are poems that I immediately "get", but also so many others very popular or famous ones that I just find confusing. It was good to hear your fresh take on how to read them.
i just love your vibes and authenticity!!
thank you so much, that's exactly how i felt about poetry and exactly why i'm here and this was extremly helpful while also being so calm and fun to listen to your sweet voice and great smiles and laughs in between thewe explanations of serious topic
that dress is beautiful! you've earned a subscriber 🌸
I love that dress!! This is a great video, I’m trying to get more into poetry so it’s very useful. Thank you
I just loved your english, so well spoken (which is good for a non native english speaker like me) and you accent is so beautiful!
You are hilarious and adorable and I learned a lot just stumbling onto your video. I am trying to access poetry and videos like yours are so helpful to my search. Keep it up!!
I know this is already a year old but this is exactly what I was looking for, anyways I love your channel
Ah that's very kind of you to say! Thank you very much!! :)
That dress!! I'm loving the what I'm wearing segments at the start!
This video came at the perfect time for me as I've been trying to read more poetry but sometimes it's like... I don't know what I'm looking for, and I often don't feel too intelligent for it
this is extremely helpful !! ive been starting to get into the wondrous world of poetry but had no clue where to read poetry. thank you sm🥺
This is such a helpful and insightful video, like I thought I was the only one who struggled with reading poetry, where to start and felt intimidated by it
1) that dress is incredible! And 2) this was not only nice, but also super helpful! I definitely feel like I keep looking at poetry like I did in school and I’m excited to get back into poetry thanks to this video!
I think I have bookshelf envy and that dress is so beautiful :)
I was just the same, but i read the Bell Jar, and I liked so much the writing that I began to read her poems; when a poet writes a novel: a potential treasure
I found Thomas Hardy this way as well.
My favorite poem since I was 12 is Daffodils. This summer I was lucky enough to find a young artist who is creating a painting to illustrate the poem for me. I am so excited! I love the beauty poetry brings to life.
Poetry is a lot like koans. They're a condensed story that, through the interplay of language and music, speak to something deeper inside the self: the human condition. It's what connects the reader and writer in a different way than what prose does.
I love the vibe of her videos 👑👑👑
I had a teacher that let us write a poem in any style in grade 10
After reading our poems she assigned us poets to read based on the poems we wrote and the styles we chose. My teacher had to bring in 3 books from her own collection for me to read of James Douglas Morrison as the school didn't have any. That was when and how I discovered poetry.... as well by default the music of the Doors
That cape is so lovely on you, i now suddenly need to sew something with this kind of cape
I agree with you on Insta-poets. They definitely made it more accessible but it should be a start point for non-poetry readers, so they can get used to reading poetry.
I enjoy reading some Insta poetry at times when I don't have energy to read more complicated works. They just don't have the deeper sense that most poetry has. Also there are amazing Modernist poets such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, who are definitely easy to read with deeper context or just very poetic.
You are so brilliant, intelligent and eloquent, you can tell how well read you are! LOVE that dress!!
Your videos are so wonderful and fill me with so much joy 😊 I'm really happy I found your channel. I also love when you show your OOTD hahha.
Your story about the Rupi Kaur love poems had me in stitches! My first book of poems was Allen Ginsberg's Howl and I am guilty of very similar behaviour. Great video, I'm going to try reading some poems out loud.
I’ve haven’t done it yet, but I bet a poetry book on audio would be cool. Also, I’d recommend checking out some poetry anthologies from the library. I’m beginning to explore poetry more this year. Acevedo is the GOAT. I like what E Filbert said-that resonates.