"Disobedience" by A A Milne (poetry reading)

[jamespeter100]

My name is James, and when I visit some of my more "mature" customers, I have people chanting this at high speed, so I am here on youtube to look up what this is about. Also, I have had people singing "James James hold the ladder steady", a song by Sue Thompson from 1963.

[lisa1234z]

Thanks for the very interesting reading ;)

[Goldenspirit99]

I think this poem is the best poem ever!

[laRazaDJesus]

i'm a better poet than milne. his are sing-song and primitive.

[chauvinistpig42]

@laRazaDJesus And what have you had published? Fucking clown.

[laRazaDJesus]

that's creepy, heartless and anti-children. no soul.

[SpokenVerse]

@laRazaDJesus A A Milne was the creator of Winnie-the Pooh and many other much-loved characters and stories. The poem is from "When We Were Very Young", published in 1924, the quintessence of British humour.

We see things the way we are - not the way they are.

[EyeLean5280]

@laRazaDJesus - Creepy? Definitely. And therein, of course, lies its charm.

Satirical poetry like this (Edward Gorey's is perhaps the epitome) isn't everyone's cup of tea, to be sure, but if it certainly isn't soulless.

[marianneotv]

Thanks for this surprising poem. I love the way you tell it.

Thanks to the words on the video, I could "hear" all what is read. But not sure I caught the point of the poem.

I am a mother, so I took it from this point ! And just wondered wether the boy would need some remontrance, or better a smile and a kiss.

Reading then your comment under the video, I had another point of view .

Hmmm! Interesting ! : )

[20bientje]

this poem always calmes me down

i dont know why

[Jellybeawesome]

ha thanks i had to look this up for my homework!

[harry1066fun]

brilliant

[jaredofmo]

I've wondered what happened to the mother. Was she murdered? Is there a darker subtext here that flies over your head as a kid?

[crywalt]

I have owned a boxed set of A.A. Milne books since, well, since I was very young. A distant relation had given the set to me and when my mother would pass on news from her I'd say, "Who is she?" and my mother would say, "Winnie the Pooh."

When I was young I only read a few of the poems in the first two books but I loved the Pooh stories in the last two books. As I got older I realized the poems are just as good.

My children have the set now. And so it goes.

[Cogskate]

Beautiful reading of a well-loved poem from my childhood. Thank you.

And long live irony!

[sharpasaneraser]

your channel is quite simply the best thing on youtube. thanks

[Merricat42]

Lovely. I wasn't aware of this work of Milne's. Like many people, I associate him most closely with his "Winnie The Pooh" books. I'll have to especially look for "When We Were Very Young."

Bette in Canada

[TheArchDandy]

Beautiful reading of this poem. I used to know it as a child, and I'd forgotten all about it until now.

[dezonnestekt]

spot-on! Like a Beethoven sonata played bij Kempff or a Goldberg Variation played by Gould: all other interpretations become superfluous...

[TheWisemonkey8]

Love this reading!!! ;).