@@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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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
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.
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.
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 RU-vid has a lot of poets reading their own work.
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!
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!
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 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 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
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.
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. :)
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 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
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
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.
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 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.
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. 🙏❤️
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!
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 🤗
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.
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.
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 RU-vid, and I'm thinking I've finally found my sweet spot for poetry. I agree that poetry is best when read aloud
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.
I really disliked poetry the first time we had it in class but when I had a different teacher later I started to see it a bit different and it was easier for me. But I still have trouble connecting to it, so your thoughts on poetry are really interesting! I never considered it as something interactive. Thank you for sharing this video, I enjoyed it and encouraged me to try a different approach to starting poetry :D
A soft, quiet Lullaby poem I wrote a while back, to be read slowly, if you are so inclined. :-)Lullaby of The Silver Moon In the cool, blue night The bending reeds whisper To the silver sliver Of the silver moon The words flow on top of stars Jumping over the endless dark To the silver sliver Of the silver moon Through the breathy breeze And the whistling grass To the silver sliver of the silver moon To the waters below And the yawning depths To the silver sliver Of the silver moon Growing and gaining Surging and swelling Finally finding The silver sliver Of the silver moon
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
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
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 read a poem about a Viet Nam War vet who saw himself as he searched for the names of his fallen friends in the reflection of the memorial in Washington, D.C. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work as a prose memoir. Sometime poetry works bc of the way it violates the rules of logic and existence but sometimes it works bc it forces the narrator to shape the narrative to the medium.
Basho has a wonderful collection of Japanese Haikus. Maya Angelou, Philip Larkin, Frances Hodgeson Burnett, Shane Koyczan and Seamus Heaney are all wonderful too 📚 Love your channel and recommends 📖 🐛
I never realized just how impactful poetry can be. My first real interaction with anything close were the verses that Tolkien wrote in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, then the occasional haiku that turned up in an old manga I don't recall the name of. I am glad to have found your channel. Not only are you really sweet and engaging, you give me plenty of things to think about when I don't know what to read next. Thank you.
I remember reading William Blake's poison tree and it absolutely made me love poetry and then I learnt about it in school and I was learning about it from the perspectives of these very well educated teachers and it made me feel so inadequate about the fact that it hit me differently than it did to them
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 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
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
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
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 😋
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 :)
I usually read a book of poetry two-three times during my time with it. I first read each poem quickly to get a sense of its rhythm and flow and to see what meaning it may be conveying. Then I go back and read it slower with a bit more understanding, at least for me. Then I often go back and read certain lines that really speak to me, my soul; and, then sometimes write those passages in a notebook. Also, I tend to not read out loud as it distracts me too much, and also because I hear the words in my head while I am reading it anyway.
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.
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.
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 :')
I know I’m late here but Harold Blooms anthology on the greatest poems ever written in English is a great way to find classic poetry/poets from Chaucer to Robert Frost. It helped me get into poetry big time bc I had no idea what I was looking for.
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.
She is amazing!! And um, I'm Brazilian, and I think Carlos Drummond de Andrade is a real good pick to anyone who wants to read some nice Brazilian poetry
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.
Recently found your channel. You are just such a joy to watch and listen to. I love how thoughtful you are and how you mix in some really enjoyable and adorable outburst. You seem like someone who is not only fearlessly authentic but also having a good time sharing your ideas. Thank you for your recommendations!
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.
Thanks for this! I‘ve found it hard to get into poetry but would really like to. I think thinking of it as a «wave washing over you» might be helpful for me as well. Also; your intro is pretty much the cutest thing i’ve ever seen
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 loved this video! My entry point into poetry was partly our local slam poetry scene. I don't write much poetry myself, but the poets in our community brought their words to life in amazing ways. ♥ also! your dress truly is wonderful!
I love reading but I've never really got into book tube. I've always felt it focused on how much you read rather than what you read. But your channel is amazing! You are so honest with what you struggle with in terms of reading and the variety of writing that you cover from all over the world is so exciting!
