Alone by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Tom o' Bedlam 

Wisdom from long ago is still wisdom today.

White dood right?

@@TheAnonyte Just a dood.

I imagine so.

imagine thinking this is reality 😏

Do not mistake loneliness with solitude

@@seeuathebeach you don’t think poe was a lonely man?

@@ben_alfred he shows a positive perspective of being alone. Hence he cannot be lonely.

@@seeuathebeach Poe’s life was extraordinarily hard though. He battled with addiction, and continually lost the people closest to him. What made you interpret this poem as being positive? (not a criticism, I just didn’t see it like that)

Maybe those two go together. You have nothing else to do but look up at the sky and nature around you when you're alone. When you are with people you are more focussed on them.

Shite shite

Absolutely true!

One upside to that is, that one no longer fears death. I've found that to be empowering, liberating and terrifying all at once.

Godbless you God and Jesus love you

Only a person who has experienced and developed awareness of death in life can truly understand the truth and beauty of that perspective

Me too

Me

What does he mean same tone. Same tone as what

@@morrisalanisette9067 means to live the mundane life.. He was different from others & saw life differently

@@morrisalanisette9067 I personally think he means he could not feel joy at the same tone AKA : same intensity and in the same way he found others to perceive and experience joy.

I memorized the raven in 6th, just for me to be able to read it even when i didn't have it.

I feel the same.

Beautiful 🤭

That's beautiful, Catherine. We are the same age.

Well you're a very beautiful woman you do not look your age and I am not trying to take you out I'm just being friends

Being alone is a doubleedged sword, there's both good and bad.

I here you brother God bless you 🙏,take care now.

@@Dreez76 there is no good for me

@@Dreez76 Hi.... alone is sad.... but as you say a double edged sword.... Maybe the odd reply...is a happy... maybe.... Reply if you want to...Hey....why not?? xx

@@rachaelmee4630 Well. I know a lot of guys in relationship that are literally chained, having to ask for every little social gathering with friends. They became much happier after they left their one-sided relationship. Hence why, being alone, can give you more happiness than not being. But there is also the positive side of relationship.

No man, thats when you think you saw what true sorrow looks like, and then he hits you with: The mystery which binds me still- From the torrent, or the fountain- From the red cliff of the mountain- From the sun that ’round me roll’d In its autumn tint of gold- From the lightning in the sky As it pass’d me flying by- From the thunder, and the storm- And the cloud that took the form--- When the rest of Heaven was blue--- Of a demon in my view- This is the exact representation of melancholy. THE MYSTERY WHICH BINDS ME STILL (MIND THE STILL AT THE END) WHEN THE REST OF HEAVEN WAS BLUE OF A DEMON IN MY VIEW

​@@baronhelmut2701Excellently stated.

@@Th3BigBoy fucking hell man. That last line gave me goosebumps so bad one of them almost started bleeding.

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​@@baronhelmut2701Could you please explain what the last line means, please? I am not an English speaker, so maybe I couldn't grasp it

“When you think too much you have nothing to think about except thoughts.” - Alan Watts

@@vresnuil “anda pa alla bobo” - messi

Great tale of revenge.

I guess this can describe what has been happening for me

@@vresnuil awesome

Maybe even look up some more Poe. This may have opened a little window for you. Enjoy if you do! 🦋

@@mrskate8914 well said, l am an avid fan, always was ( lonely)🤟

Samsies…🤷‍♀️🥰

@@lindabratsch9091 🤷‍♂️🥰

same!! beautiful, comforting (and even a little sad) all at the same time. bravo, mr. poe.

I love your interpretation

Sending Prayers , (Fiamanillah ) Leaving you In the care of lord .

Thanks, for giving me hope!

Well spoken Ell B. Your interpretation resonates with me. Thank you. ❤️

@@Nemo66577 WOW. Thank you for posting this in your reply to Ell B. I’m finding my footing again after a horrific trauma and when I look back in my journals and take note of how many WASTED hours I spent trying repeatedly to explain myself and why live alone-instead of being focused on my healing, It’s shocking and even a bit sad. I’ve never felt or stated that I will ALWAYS choose to live alone as I’ve no problem embracing the fact that I love LOVE and haven’t ruled out the possibility of opening up to it. All I know right now is that for me, my mental health MUST come first and my hope is that with time and lots of hard work, I will be able to feel empowered, safe, secure and less fearful that I may 1-honor myself and 2-trust again. I am the only one who is responsible of taking care of me, and if being alone is what feels right and it’s working, that means I AM enough! Thank you so much. I appreciate your words and forgive my injecting myself into your response to Ell B. 🙏❤️

a lot of us are, i am!

@@arleneirvine1526 I prefer being alone to being around people that I cannot relate to.

He had a wife, lmao gtfo

@@suchmouse he did but she died

@Ahmed Mohamed better to have loved and lost, than never loved at all

Same here.

Certainly

I choose to be alone, not at the beginning of my life though. I used to think people needed each other, then I noticed the strength within me without another.

@@lrsco Yes, you may choose to be alone, others don't though i.e., impaired individuals, individuals diagnosed at early stages of their lives, people lacking in confidence and other attributes, etc. A variety of people sometimes don't have the luxury of choice hence the 'pay for joy' experience you see in the dark streets of the today. Not for the sake of fun, just for the sake of feeling something.. anything. However, irrelevant, my short comment was about the idea of living with seclusion and overcoming it because it most likely will get better at some point in time. In the end of our lives, we define our sky as clear or clouded. That's the most marvelous thing about the universe: the perserverence of the human to exhaust all events including overcoming the darkest one. And sometimes that event is just feeling loneliness. Ain't nothing wrong with that.

Your comment is worth reading! Living in te chaos is what people make think about their’s life

Let's live in the chaos of hopesssss !!!!!!

You are also a poet. Keep writing. We who choose to be alone need community.

Thank you.

I don't hear anybody narrating

I love his voice and Poe ❤️

I wonder if it possible that Poe was not neurotypical.

You literally took the words right out of my mouth100% .

We become comfortable with our discomfort. It is the devil that's known as opposed to the one we do not know. And it is the unknown that fills us with fear.

So true!

As well as unadulterated, free thinking ....

Yes indeed. Grandiose statement but definitely true. What would we do without it?

Truly.

almost like a sense of celestial perspective

wow

Thank you.

Line #4 _My passions from a common (spring)_

@@dr.linauthup2778 ❤️❤️

thanks

Hello Teresa 👋

Same here. I weep.

@@TheSaltydog07 how are you doing today, hope you’re having a great day??

I so agree! He touches my heart and soul.

I don't, as a rule, like poetry.But i like this

Agreed.

♾

Hello, JStack. I'm autistic as well. You are not alone, my friend.

Actually i ubderstan this poem's mean from your explananation..thanks 🇮🇩

Profound 🌸🌻✌️

Very hard to dive (understanding) an other mind

Beautifully said. As an only child it is something I crave this the most. Being able to feel alone without feeling lonely with someone by my side.

💙

Nice description as we don't know English poetry much

very much in agreement

As a child I always felt loneliest when surrounded by other children. I felt more alienated from them by their innocence than by their attempts to bully me.

Nice

Is it really sad?

@@PavanKumar-ft5hi Stole my comment . How rude 🤣

Agreed.

You were not born alone. You did not give birth to yourself. You did not safely deliver yourself out of your mother's womb. There were lots of ppl helping. No one is born alone. At the very leasr they have their bio mom with them. Most ppl are born into a very noisy but well cooperating small crowd of vert helpful people. Without others who helped you, you would not have taken your first breath. Whether you die alone or not will be upto you and your fate tho. It is good to deeply feel art and connect to it. But don't get carried away believing in cynical falsitudes just because an older man you respect repeated them to you after hearing it or reading it from another man he respected. Practice critical thinking too. Emotion is not the opposite of reason but an integral part of it. You don't have to sacrifice truth and rationale to make a point.

@@prongs4137 I think we are perceiving two very different things here. There is such a thing as literary license or figures of speech if you will. We are all born one at a time and most of us also depart one at a time is what is meant here. So, it matters little how many people may be around us during birth or death.

@@prongs4137 the day everybody turns their backs on you and you realize it's what you do for yourself that matters the day you ask anybody around you for help in making your next big step or the day you ask those around you to pull you out of a dark zone your mind wandered into without your consent and everybody keeps ignoring you keeps telling you the same thing you tell yourself and keep laughing at your problems and saying one word hoping that you be okay but you won't and will never be until you find time alone look at your life all the paths you have taken all the crowds you have gathered and all the ways you have faltered and decide alone that the only person who has the power to make your life OK is OK so no ...

@@prongs4137 it's is not cynical of us to know not assume that we are born alone and die alone and the most things we do for ourselves that make us be the greatest we do and decide them alone. Yes people will be around you and people have helped you but what you fail to notice is that only at your consent do they help you cannot be helped and have many things be done to you if you don't consent for them to happen....it's all upto to you so you are alone in everything

@@prongs4137 though I get your point we cannot survive alone in this world but don't confuse the world with your world in your world you will always be a lone even if you try adding others as once said You can be with me but you can't feel my gratitude for me you can be in my dreams but you can't dream my dreams for me

Thanks for watching!

I get the sense of being shaken, as an initial feeling. Your comment seems much deeper. Curious if you're comfortable embellishing your perspective. Of course, I totally understand it that's not comfortable on the internet & asked from someone you don't know. Regardless, best wishes.

@@wordnourishment7534I am wondering about this heavenly sound. May I know about this background sound please!

@@LibsRockU I don't think it's anything deep or unique, but the beginning when he described being so different from childhood, early youth!, was so sad, it touched me and reminded me of times I was different and alone. It moved me at a very core part of me. And knowing how difficult Poe's life was adds another layer to it. Aloneness is not something people like to talk about. And the narrator's voice was very evocative also.

@@katherineg9396 Ummm, I believe you just thoroughly contradicted yourself. (?) I have a strong sense that you're basically agreeing with me. Still, trust YOURSELF. Whatever your words mean might be very important to others & of course, also to you as you navigate your life. Best wishes.

yes

You Are Not Alone

@@robertnoonan2992 wait what, what’s with me? Is it behind me 🫣

There is a comfort in remaining where you are i mean youve gotten used to it but remember life js more about just what you know its about what you dont its about going forward and its about whatever you want it to be love, power, peace Just dont sit idly qhile life passes you by the world doesnt wait for anyone even if theyre dead the sun still shines the people still work but for someome their world has ended Truth be told i dont really know But there is a lot to know Think to yourself and listen to others As it helps you know more Did not intend for this to be a randomly bad poem but i went alone with jt 😂 so here it is

I hear you on that thing about not sleeping, glad you're doing better brother 🙏,take care 😁🦍🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️⛵⛵🖖👈👈👈.

I want this printed on my GraveStone.....so beautiful.

Agreed.

the late great Poet of Our era; Charles Bukowski

@@shanesmith1020 thanks

@@thomasoakley1510 thanks

Tom OBedlam has a fantastic RU-vid channel.

@@JudymayMurphy what's his channel name?? thank you

We live in different dimensions. Vibrating on different frequencies. Thank you God

Our world is our perception... we colour it with each new knowledge and insight and understanding... Enrich it...

That one sentence is the definition of our worlds souls today. No truer words spoken for this time on history.

Indeed.

Liked to make u remember

Yes, we all die alone.

@Insectavamour Chin up, mate.

we are all special God made us special he created us and he has a kingdom waiting for us for those who believe in his son Jesus Christ God showed me heaven ❤

From the abyss I came and to the abyss I return - Nikos Kazatsakis

Livia Soprano represents the most evil of all creatures; an narcissistic mother. She said this to her grandchild to take away his will to live. Don’t let this quote darken your path.

I’m so sorry about your past. Same here my both parents pass away when I was young. life was really hard for me but thank God today, I never give on my dreams and now I have fulfilled that dream. I’m now a independent drilling contractor who drill and refine crude oil. Where are you texting from?

Thanks for sharing your story..Trust your compassion and insight serves to make life rich.

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"Retrieve away"? What does this mean?

He really was

Wow. My thoughts exactly.

Sir Anthony Hopkins... What a gentleman! Would love to hear Poe's works coming out of his mouth. 😍

Yes I agree I was born into a family that thought life was about stepping on others to get somewhere or be suspicious of neighbours . I was told constantly that I must toughen up . But as a child I thought why do I see the the world in colour when my family saw things as a black and white war zone ?

@@garypautard1069 My family were somewhat similar. Definitely not united and love drama and negativity. This poem really resonated with me.

Keep ya head up, I'm in a hole again as well and music and workouts help here and there...

Sending you love and warmth ❤

Same here ,I have complex ptsd 🥲

I know what you mean being it's not mattering how many friends family excetera I will still be alone on the outside looking in

@@googacc4654 exactly. That’s a great way of your describing it. It’s almost like a catch 22 that we are connected but from the inside looking out we, for all practical purposes, each in our own bio computer onlookers of our entire lives. Which from That perspective really says it all. Thank you for your comment 🕊🙏🏾. I always enjoy peoples own perspectives relating to one particular subject. Thanks again and many blessings my friend

Ravens should remind you of Odin!

Edgar Allan Crow.

And I quote the Raven..."nevermore"

Eat my shorts

I love this ❤️

Yes,true, amen 🙏, thing's will be fine.god bless.

Raj .never heard this poem before,just everything in it explains exactly 💯 me.im amazed by every word.

@@margaretmolloy257 I am glad for you.

And heartbreak.

Agreed.

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Agreed.

It takes a lifetime to find out who you are. As it should.

Aren't you proud of your perspective? That's what make us unique.

Happy (quite belated) Birthday!

this poem is not about unrequited love

Thank you for your kind words ❤️

this is so sweet. happy for you

Me too Michelle

Agreed.