Walt Whitman -- Song of Myself

Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. An edited extract from his epic poem, Leaves of Grass.

Poem edited by Matt Bedford -- http://www.americanfootsteps.net
Video editing by Matt Bedford
Read by David Muldoon -- http://www.myspace.com/boogeymanorchestra
Music by Ennio Morricone -- "Once Upon a Time in the West"

(Words at: http://americanfootsteps.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/walt-whitman-song-of-myself)

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• Walt
• Whitman
• Ennio Morricone
• Dave Muldoon
• Matt Bedford
• Leaves of Grass
• Song of Myself
• America
• Poem
• Poetry
• 1851

[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?

[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.

[PeterPunkBoy]

My favorite video on youtube

[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]

@xXBronzedBalletXx Agreed.

[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.

[Philornaphy]

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

[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"?

[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.

[bigbear6161]

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