"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman

[tragicallyj92]

This is beautiful

[pschlehr]

A lovely recitation. Nice job. That is one of my favorite Whitman poems. I think Whitman may be the only poet I really understand. Thanks for reminding me of this.

[ninuxy]

Damnit, I thought this is another Beautiful Agony video.

O Captian! My Captain! Where are thou le petit mort?

[MusclecarsMeditation]

Thank you.

[VideoCrime]

Beautiful poem. I can tell you like it as well. Yet, please take this advice: poetry must not be read as if it was a list of stuff you need to bring from a grocery store. I don't mean you have to yell it out or go all sarah bernhard on the poem, but it is all about feeling. It's music. It has melody. Listen to it, feel it and understand it. Understand your relation to it, then say it, feeling it.

[VideoCrime]

You know why Nicole Kidman won an oscar for portraying Virginia Woolf? It was not the fake nose or the fake accent. It was the way she says "Always the years between us, always the hours!" It's just her voice. She's not even speaking on screen. But at that moment you know how sentimental you really are, how vulnerable to beauty you can be, how manipulative art is supposed to be. That's what it's all about. :)

[siriobobo]

Love it; the sound; the shot; the black & white; the look. Really great. Congrats.

[siriobobo]

Love it; the sound; the shot; the black & white; the look. Really great. Congrats. 

[Xx13jonelle13xX]

Looks like your reading it.

[auddielovesmusic]

i am in 8th grade i have to memorize it for friday.. wish me luck i only know the first paragraph... ahhh g2g gotta study :)

[Xx13jonelle13xX]

@auddielovesmusic Lol you watched this too Audrey? Hahaha...

[krimdilakrim]

Ha thats cool that you did this in 7th. Im in 8th and i have to memorize it by tommaro : / but as our choices go we have: Growing pains by Jean Little, Dream girl by Carl Sandburg, A posion tree by William Blake, The road not taken by Robert Frost, Alone by Edgar Allen Poe, And O Captain, My Captain, By Walt Whitman.

[reibaful]

i like this girl.. she doesn't emote to much

[whole27]

wtf! who the fuck are you! disappointment!

[KerouacTulku]

loved it, very charming, and moving--I love uncle Walt

[ninuxy]

You dicked this up. Remember that for the rest of your life--you dicked this up.

[Intactisin]

@KeikouPoison more like dicks!

[sevenonpaper1]

I was listening to the other recitations, particularly the ones with the animated Whitman. That guy did it COMPLETELY WRONG!

YOU did it CORRECTLY!

[Quantumew]

pretty good. need a beard and cool hat though

[GIwillo]

sonds too monotone and not very alive.do not read it like an anchor! sry :)

(and yes, before everybody begins to swear, i cannot do it better.but that does not matter at all)

[xDorieliciousx]

great tone in your voice. nice read.

[TheFriedLiverAttack]

i had a dream of but that will soon be dead too

[wsmith1213]

Nicely Done!

[Tazza2424]

i had to learn this for yr 6 and i dont remember thigs well :S

[LiLaLuse]

beautiful! loved it <3

[Gleek216]

You said it really well but I think you should sit up instead of laying down.

[TheBashmentgual]

aww thts kl

[719madison]

YAWPPPPPPPP

[puppetlit]

Nice job. Don't listen to the negative comments.

[mrstephenjamessmith]

nice one, i enjoyed you reading that.

[SFsuperforte]

I think there's no reason anybody needs to hate.

[gentenormal]

no hay palabras equivocas, ellas cambian para dar un nuevo sentido.

[brahipster]

Amazing video. Great voice, lovely face. I really love this poem.

Congratulations!

[ScarletTheAwesome]

you are amazing!!!!!!!!!

[ellawieder]

mala onda xD

[solange0001]

(So I'm going to judge you, because it's what everyone likes to do to others when they're feeling insecure...don't take offense, just ignore it.)

So you think that just because you put on some makeup and have a black and white filter so all the imperfections of your face aren't as noticeable, that you are a great reciter of Whitman's poetry?

What, because you try to look and sound depressing, all the emo guys are going to see this and fall madly in love?

[Lovesterfab]

so you mean you're insecure to here? hahahaha kidding!

I think she did "recitation" and not declamation.... yupyupyup!! but she could do it in either way...... but i think if she did the declamation... the video would be better......

Wait! is it really a vintage video or they just put some effects?

[nachtsilence]

(Just as you critique her, I will critique you.) That, my friend Solange0001, is not true at all. The black and white signifies the two sides of this poem - not good and evil, but life and death. The gray area, if you would get technical, could signify the space between, wherein the character being narrated and spoken for in this poem must lay, to be telling his captain how much of a captain he was, and to be telling his captain that he is dying.

[nachtsilence]

The "emo guys" aren't going to fawn over her because she looks or sounds depressing. They would fawn over her more due to the fact that she is reciting Whitman's poetry, and doing a bang-up job of it. You need to learn to read between the lines. Have you never taken a tenth grade English class? Significance and symbolism.

[solange0001]

oh you really showed me, "nachtsilence"! way to go for showing me up! You feel proud?

[solange0001]

ooohh....you're such a literary genius!! just look at the way you use your loaded words and terminology!! oh, little old me, i feel embarrassed!! i could never seem as smart as YOU!! (disregarding the fact that I've taken all honors courses of English in high school, including AP English, passing the exam with a 5...AND I thoroughly enjoyed what I read and analyzed it to a college-level extent). Are you a guy? if so, you're probably defending her because your dick went hard when you saw her.

[SvenneRio]

solange0001 you're either an amazing troll and a fucking moron, or just a fucking moron /= also: condescending, pretentious, superior, shameless, big-headed, egotistical and just a little off in the grammar and spelling, not enough to care if you weren't being an arrogant cunt, but enough to point out because it's ironic. Congratulations, you should be a politician.

[sonotantobello]

Oh Solange , my Solange...I'm so shure you're an ugly piece of shit...

[robindavies24]

Beautiful......reminds me of losing my dad

[hastapup]

Performance with no emotion, no feelings, you just say some words you learned by heart, but reciting, this is something else

1/5

[nemtudommegjegyezni]

So beautiful poem, so beautiful girl.

[ediann]

Beautiful performance!

[greymattersblog]

Well done! 5 stars! You mention you're worried about getting some words wrong? The only one you really missed was "its voyage CLOSED and done" (You say, "SAID and done"). Only 1 word off of a poem you memorized 10 years ago? Impressive!

[dervortex]

so beautiful!

please memorize some more poems!

best wishes

[dontpushmedute]

You are classically beautiful.

[chrobbb]

you are cute! :-)

[fiochu]

aww that is soo cool

[youlivewhatyoulearn]

great

[ScaesarBtech]

I had to memorize this in 7th grade too and still remember all the words. It was over 10yrs for me too, isnt it funny how u dont forget the words. Also wouldnt it be weird if we had the same teacher. Mine was named Mrs. Duffy

[Elfdaughter]

Shame it cuts the final line off. One of my all-time favourite poems, and a pretty good rendition.

[TheBrunoYouKnow]

aww, i think you recited it well :)

[alexthemod1]

....for those of you who feel slightly more daring...O captain, my captain!

[jimfarrowlove]

Sounds ok,but she looks too pretentious.

[solwolfpunk]

This is a lovely job.

[vibby098]

She is good in bed I promise.

[Paradiseonme]

Pretty bad reading

[pinkhobo666]

..........cold and dead

[mellowyellow06]

People that can spell. :)

[mldenman]

Whitman was the greatest of poets!! I've been told this was Whitman's least favorite poem, due to it's meter - which is unlike any other Whitman poem. Thank you for reciting it. Still they are great words.

[Rosiercentral]

Fallen cold and dead.

You have a better memory mthan I have and this is my favorite poem.

[6395544]

I like your Face. I love you.

[Adrianrulz]

I love being an English major. We're covering Whitman right now.

[abuBakr97]

To Robin Davis24 who asks for explanation. The poem is about Lincons death/assasination.

[KoharuSarah]

Very good :D

I'm from Germany and we read the book "Dead Poets Society", where Oh Captain My Captain! is very important :D

We had to learn this, too.

[Rosiercentral]

there's a mbook?

[rondar623]

Whitman, greatest of all poets! you did well, you did very well.

[rumenige]

Great poem, great words...greetings fron Spain.

Oh capitán, mi capitán

[robindavies24]

Great poem, never studied...strikes me as a metaphore for the death of a father or mentor can anyway explain??

[chaychull]

Like cancontrl said, this is a poem that Walt Whitman wrote about Abraham Lincoln.

[cancontrl]

Abe Lincoln, his "captain"....

[prospectnyc]

beautiful girl reciting walt whitman. love it

[rottenapplez]

you are not bjork

[pinkhobo666]

wots bjork.

[funyanX]

this poem makes me want to cry (oh how i wish i could cry) your delivery was impressive. Your eyes were solemn but radiant. Your a very beautiful girl.

[Psychochaos3]

it cut off the last "cold and Dead"

[Saoff]

I dont want to seem like the American who posts the hot phrase and so forth. You know, the rash or rude compliment. But that was just a petty arguement to try and blur the original saying which is: You have a very interesting face and i have a reason to believe you know this. I dont understand it. Your eyes, i guess its the eyes.