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Heres a virtual movie of the great Walt Whitman reading legendary poem "O Captain! My Captain!" The extended metaphor poem written in 18...
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Heres a virtual movie of the great Walt Whitman reading legendary poem "O Captain! My Captain!" The extended metaphor poem written in 1865 concerning the death of American president Abraham Lincoln.
Walt Whitman wrote the poem after Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Repeated metaphorical reference is made to this issue throughout the verse. The "ship" spoken of is intended to represent the United States of America, while its "fearful trip" recalls the troubles of the American Civil War. The titular "Captain" is Lincoln himself.[1]
With a conventional meter and rhyme scheme that is unusual for Whitman, it was the only poem anthologized during Whitman's lifetime. Many articles of the time stated that Whitman was planning to change his writing style, and after reading this poem, they were shocked with his counter-attack on the media. He only wrote a poem like this once.
Jim Clark
All rights are reserrved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2011
PLEASE NOTE - The image used in this animation is not actualy Walt Whitman it is a lookalike of Walt Whitman and is not to my knowledge a copyrighted image please write to me if you have bonafide information to the contrary. at my email address of hyperbolelad@hotmail.com
O Captain! My Captain!.............
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
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poetryreincarnations uploaded a new video
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Heres a virtual movie of the greatt Walt Whitman reading his wise and timeless poem
"Song of the Broad-Axe" from Leaves of Grass which ...
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Heres a virtual movie of the greatt Walt Whitman reading his wise and timeless poem
"Song of the Broad-Axe" from Leaves of Grass which first appeared in the 1856 edition...
This poem tells us to be survivors. It is a call to be rebellious and not to trust politicians and have no fear. It motivates men and women to do their best, no matter how
simplistic their background may be.People make a great city, not the
buildings is the theme of this wise poem..
Walt Whitman (1819-1892 was born in Long Island, New York, the son of a Quaker carpenter. Whitman's mother was descended from Dutch farmers. In Whitman's childhood there were slaves employed on the farm. Whitman was early on filled with a love of nature. He read classics in his youth and was inspired by writers such as Goethe, Hegel, Carlyle and Emerson he is best remembered for his long rambling collections of verse "Leaves of grass
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
All rights are reserrved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2011
PLEASE NOTE - The image used in this animation is not actualy Walt Whitman it is a lookalike of Walt Whitman and is not to my knowledge a copyrighted image please write to me if you have bonafide information to the contrary. at my email address of hyperbolelad@hotmail.com
Song of the Broad-Axe..............
What do you think endures?
Do you think a great city endures?
Or a teeming manufacturing state? or a prepared constitution? or the
best built steamships?
Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d'oeuvres of engineering,
forts, armaments?
Away! these are not to be cherish'd for themselves,
They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play for them,
The show passes, all does well enough of course,
All does very well till one flash of defiance.
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,
If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the
whole world.
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The place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd
wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce merely,
Nor the place of ceaseless salutes of new-comers or the
anchor-lifters of the departing,
Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops
selling goods from the rest of the earth,
Nor the place of the best libraries and schools, nor the place where
money is plentiest,
Nor the place of the most numerous population.
Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards,
Where the city stands that is belov'd by these, and loves them in
return and understands them,
Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds,
Where thrift is in its place, and prudence is in its place,
Where the men and women think lightly of the laws,
Where the slave ceases, and the master of slaves ceases,
Where the populace rise at once against the never-ending audacity of
elected persons,
Where fierce men and women pour forth as the sea to the whistle of
death pours its sweeping and unript waves,
Where outside authority enters always after the precedence of inside
authority,
Where the citizen is always the head and ideal, and President,
Mayor, Governor and what not, are agents for pay,
Where children are taught to be laws to themselves, and to depend on
themselves,
Where equanimity is illustrated in affairs,
Where speculations on the soul are encouraged,
Where women walk in public processions in the streets the same as the men,
Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men;
Where the city of the faithfulest friends stands,
Where the city of the cleanliness of the sexes stands,
Where the city of the healthiest fathers stands,
Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands,
There the great city stands.
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poetryreincarnations uploaded a new video
(4 days ago)
Heres a virtual movie of the great Walt Whitman reading ""One's Self I Sing" from his poem"Song of Myself" a poem by Walt ...
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Heres a virtual movie of the great Walt Whitman reading ""One's Self I Sing" from his poem"Song of Myself" a poem by Walt Whitman that is included in his lifelong work Leaves of Grass.
Whitman celebrated the average American and altogether union and equality which differentiates it between stories of the time and of the past. Whitman speaks of individuality in his first lines of, "One's Self I Sing." The combination of the "one" and the continuing of the "self" throughout the poem can be translated as, "everyman's self". Whitman also speaks of freedom, identity, and all around brotherhood. The theme changes in the next three lines when he references our spirit and physical body, our sexuality, male and female, and our wisdom. The final lines conclude with the idea of desire, physical and inner strength, and potential. Throughout the entire poem there is disagreement, such as, when the speaker says "simple" in the first line, "simple" meaning "not special," and finishes the first line with "separate," followed by the third line of en-masse, or togetherness. As the title is, "One's Self," not "Myself", this already forms the bond between the reader and writer which again is what he is conveying in the poem. The final line has the reader caught up in the difference between past heroes and the "modern man" which is just as powerful if one believes that it is so.
"One's Self I Sing," was published in 1881 as the first poem for the final phase of, Leaves of Grass. Whitman's third and final phase was known as the "inscriptions" section. As the first phase of Leaves of Grass was published in 1855 most of the press was unaware of the piece, but if there was an opinion about the poem it was mostly unpleasant because according to, "Boston Intelligencer's," "Leaves of Grass," was a, "heterogeneous mass of bombast, egotism, vulgarity, and nonsense". Even though the attitude towards the poem was not favorable in July 1855 Whitman received his famous letter from Emerson in appreciation of his words of strength, freedom, and power, as well as, "meets the demand I am always making of what seemed the sterile and stingy Nature".
"Self"The "self" of the poem's speaker - the "I" of the poem - should not be limited to or confused with the person of the historical Walt Whitman. The persona described has transcended the conventional boundaries of self. "I pass death with the dying, and birth with the new-washed babe .... and am not contained between my hat and boots" (section 7). There are several other quotes from the poem that make it apparent that Whitman does not consider the narrator to represent a single individual. Rather, he seems to be narrating for all: "in all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less/and the good or bad I say of myself I say of them" (Section 20) "it is you talking just as much as myself...I act as the tongue of you" (Section 47) "I am large, I contain multitudes." (Section 51) "For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." (Section 1) Two articles, Alice L. Cook's "A Note on Whitman's Symbolism in 'Song of Myself'" and John B. Mason's "Walt Whitman Catalogues: Rhetorical Means for Two Journeys in 'Song of Myself'", give interpretations as to the meaning of the 'self' as well as its importance to the poem. Cook writes of the "concept of 'self' in its individual and universal aspects" while Mason discusses "the reader's involvement in the poet's movement from the singular to the cosmic." The "self" serves as an ideal, yet, in contrast to traditional epic poetry, this identity is one of the common people rather than a hero. Critics have noted a strong Transcendentalist influence on the poem, a theory somewhat validated by Ralph Waldo Emerson's enthusiastic letter praising the first edition of Leaves of Grass. In addition to this romanticism, the poem seems to anticipate a kind of realism that would only become important in United States literature after the civil war..
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
All rights reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2012
PLEASE NOTE - The image used in this animation is not actualy Walt Whitman it is a lookalike of Walt Whitman and is not to my knowledge a copyrighted image please write to me if you have bonafide information to the contrary. at my email address of hyperbolelad@hotmail.com
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poetryreincarnations uploaded a new video
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Heres a virtual movie of the great Walt Whitman reading "In All People I See Myself" from his poem"Song of Myself" a poem by Wa...
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Heres a virtual movie of the great Walt Whitman reading "In All People I See Myself" from his poem"Song of Myself" a poem by Walt Whitman that is included in his lifelong work Leaves of Grass. "Self"The "self" of the poem's speaker - the "I" of the poem - should not be limited to or confused with the person of the historical Walt Whitman. The persona described has transcended the conventional boundaries of self. "I pass death with the dying, and birth with the new-washed babe .... and am not contained between my hat and boots" (section 7). There are several other quotes from the poem that make it apparent that Whitman does not consider the narrator to represent a single individual. Rather, he seems to be narrating for all: "in all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less/and the good or bad I say of myself I say of them" (Section 20) "it is you talking just as much as myself...I act as the tongue of you" (Section 47) "I am large, I contain multitudes." (Section 51) "For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." (Section 1) Two articles, Alice L. Cook's "A Note on Whitman's Symbolism in 'Song of Myself'" and John B. Mason's "Walt Whitman Catalogues: Rhetorical Means for Two Journeys in 'Song of Myself'", give interpretations as to the meaning of the 'self' as well as its importance to the poem. Cook writes of the "concept of 'self' in its individual and universal aspects" while Mason discusses "the reader's involvement in the poet's movement from the singular to the cosmic." The "self" serves as an ideal, yet, in contrast to traditional epic poetry, this identity is one of the common people rather than a hero. Critics have noted a strong Transcendentalist influence on the poem, a theory somewhat validated by Ralph Waldo Emerson's enthusiastic letter praising the first edition of Leaves of Grass. In addition to this romanticism, the poem seems to anticipate a kind of realism that would only become important in United States literature after the civil war..
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
All rights reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2012
PLEASE NOTE - The image used in this animation is not actualy Walt Whitman it is a lookalike of Walt Whitman and is not to my knowledge a copyrighted image please write to me if you have bonafide information to the contrary. at my email address of hyperbolelad@hotmail.com
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poetryreincarnations uploaded a new video
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Heres a virtual movie of the 16th century English poet Sir Thomas Wyatt reading his exquisite enigmatic conspiratorial poem "They flee from m...
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Heres a virtual movie of the 16th century English poet Sir Thomas Wyatt reading his exquisite enigmatic conspiratorial poem "They flee from me" . The poem alludes to the need at the time for certain thoughts and Liaisons be they politicaL religious or of the amorous kind to be kept in the realms of the clandestine in an age where just a few Unguarded words uttered in the wrong place in a world where religious and political intolerance was the norm could easily have led to a quick and brutal execution.Wyatts own Son was to fall prey to this he ended up being executed having become involved in a political conspiracy after the death of his father the poet. This as with most of Wyatts works was not even published during his lifetime.All Though Some of his poems did find circulation amongst the Aristocracy shortly after his death.
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503[1] -- 11 October 1542[1]) was a 16th-century English lyrical poet credited with introducing the sonnet into English.[2] He was born at Allington Castle, near Maidstone in Kent -- though his family was originally from Yorkshire. His mother was Anne Skinner and his father, Henry Wyatt, had been one of Henry VII's Privy Councillors, and remained a trusted adviser when Henry VIII came to the throne in 1509. In his turn, Thomas Wyatt followed his father to court after his education at St John's College, Cambridge. None of Wyatt's poems were published during his lifetime—the first book to feature his verse was printed a full fifteen years after his death.
Wyatt's professed object was to experiment with the English tongue, to civilise it, to raise its powers to those of its neighbours.[5] Although a significant amount of his literary output consists of translations of sonnets by the Italian poet Petrarch, he wrote sonnets of his own. Wyatt's sonnets first appeared in Tottle's Miscellany, now on exhibit in the British Library in London.
In addition to imitations of works by the classical writers Seneca and Horace, he experimented in stanza forms including the rondeau, epigrams, terza rima, ottava rima songs, satires and also with monorime, triplets with refrains, quatrains with different length of line and rhyme schemes, quatrains with codas, and the French forms of douzaine and treizaine [6] in addition to introducing contemporaries to his poulter's measure form (Alexandrine couplets of twelve syllable iambic lines alternating with a fourteener, fourteen syllable line).[7] and is acknowledged a master in the iambic tetrameter.[8]
While Wyatt's poetry reflects classical and Italian models, he also admired the work of Chaucer and his vocabulary reflects Chaucer's (for example, his use of Chaucer's word newfangleness, meaning fickle, in They flee from me that sometime did me seek). His best-known poems are those that deal with the trials of romantic love. Others of his poems were scathing, satirical indictments of the hypocrisies and flat-out pandering required of courtiers ambitious to advance at the Tudor court.
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
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They flee from me................
They flee from me that sometime did me seek,
With naked foot stalking in my chamber.
I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek
That are now wild and do not remember
That sometime they put themselves in danger
To take bread at my hand; and now they range
Busily seeking with a continual change.
Thanked be fortune, it hath been otherwise
Twenty times better; but once in special,
In thin array after a pleasant guise,
When her loose gown did from her shoulders did fall,
And she me caught in her arms long and small,
Therewithall sweetly did me kiss,
And softly said, "Dear heart, how like you this?"
It was no dream, I lay broad waking.
But all is turned thorough my gentleness,
Into a strange fashion of forsaking;
And I have leave to go of her goodness,
And she also to use newfangleness.
But since that I so kindly am served,
I would fain know what she hath deserved
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