Walt Whitman -- Song of Myself

[turtle222able]

C. K. Williams writes that the poem is, essentially, music/symphony. As beau as the music is to this piece, it does not eclipse it but works with it. Great work, re-minds us of a great

spark -- a great soul -- in the American [no, human] Collective Unconscious And, oh,

do we need such re-minders in a soul-less, cynical, suspicion-obsessed age. C Hayes

[JayGatsbyOdysseus]

The problem is that there is no soul. All that Whitman writes about is conjured up in the mind. It comes from the same place that religion comes from. It is a fake place, a lie that we tell ourselves so we can make it through the day. Whitman tells it well, though, the lie.

[writersblock26]

Thank you for posting this, mib198012345.

[xXBronzedBalletXx]

I believe that the music is too dramatic. I feel more overpowered by the music than the words.

[writersblock26]

@xXBronzedBalletXx Agreed.

[Philornaphy]

Beautifully read and put together -- well done. Thank you.

[bigbear6161]

Marvellous reading of Whitman, and very good pictures that connect to the text.

[idabrandao]

Wonderful combination of poem, voice and music to celebrate Walt Whitman. Many thanks for these 5 minutes of inspiring poetry.

[someguycalledDan]

Paper Towns brought me here :)

[rainingcolors]

I loaf a lot...

[kitenyos]

like this if ms scheck sent u here

[krane121]

without the music, to be honest, this recitation wouldn't be so good. elicit those things without the music and you've done something. this is a symptom, and one of the worst, of a movie culture.

[theothernickc]

Rapturous. I can tell you love whitman.

[PeterPunkBoy]

My favorite video on youtube

[jgary2727]

Thank you for sharing this interpretation of Walt Whitman's epic poem of the diversity and expressions of life. Great visualization.

[selmoonneamt]

I love it

[onehappiness]

The picture of Jesus from Passion of the Christ----so inappropriate!! If there was any message antithetical to the message of the New Testatment it is Whitman's.

[descrates09]

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,

I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,

If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,

But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,

And filter and fibre your blood.

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,

Missing me one place search another,

I stop somewhere waiting for you

[CoolDude8675309]

Thanks for posting this. For some reason, I think Whitman's poetry is better read aloud than read silently in the mind. The human voice resonates the beauty Walt Whitman's poetry; it delivers and transposes not to just a peice of paper, but to life and everyone with an ear

[missterribelle]

What a way to start a poem I celebrate myself!

Song Of Myself is a truly inspirational poem, many thanks for the effort you put into this video mjb198012345, an excellent job; you did much justice to Walt Whitmans words and it has gone into my poetry playlist.

★★★★★

[sixthsonofsevensins]

@missterribelle Yes but not far off. "In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass."

You are, where, will always his god. My God.

[descrates09]

i love u with all my heart whitman

[Chomuno]

Walt Whitman, I love you.

Since your portrait is over my bed, I feel better every day I become awoke,

You protect me and my verses.

I love you, and your more-than-wonderful poetry.

[nakachita]

He says don't look through my eyes. He clearly states it. Buddha, Christ, who so ever stumbled upon words such as this poetry has stated that everyone must follow their own path, and not follow them. To figure things out, and not make them the sole authority, and yet people just keep following. They keep behaving like sheep. That's funny.

[mjb198012345]

I'm not a believer of any kind. But I do know a beautiful story when I see one, and why shy away from the symbolism of that?

It seems more sheep-like to see a cross or a pic of jesus and jump to the conclusion that whoever put that image there must be a blinkered religious extremist, no?

[Ashiman12]

@mjb198012345 The trick, in my experience, is to be open to wisdom wherever it can be found - religion, philosophy, myth, poetry, art - but without forgetting that ultimately it's within the world of our own unique experience that truth can be recognized. We must learn to listen to what others have to say and to be willing to learn from it, but without making their conclusions into our conclusions.

[ikorodu0807]

@Ashiman12 a very interesting and profund commentary. I was curious and looked up your Channel.

My I ask what prompted you to recommend the, in my opinion, trivial video "How to do a split"?

[jimgeroo]

My favorite version of Song of Myself on youtube - inspiring!

[mjb198012345]

Music is by Ennio Morricone, and it's called "Once Upon a Time in the West" -- made for the film of the same name.

[dockatherynlovz]

what's the song please?

[darkbutterfly695]

this is beautiful. walt whitman is the father of poetry. I liked the part where christ was, because he speaks christ-like in this poem..the way he says through me you will blah blah blah