"Do I dare disturb the universe?" One of my favorite lines of all time. My English teacher had a poster with that line on it last year and I would stare at it for hours. I'm so glad I stumbled upon this series. There's nothing more soothing during exam week than some poetry and beautiful cinematography.

"do I dare eat a peach" OMG. No. Peach. Lydia. WHICKHAM. FEELS.

This is one of my favorite KZread videos ever. I watch this when I feel,anxious sometimes thirty million times in a row to make myself feel better. How special is that? The internet is really lovely sometimes.

@AppleTree1717

9 жыл бұрын

This is exactly how I feel, watching it again, again and again.

At 2:26 - the way Mary Kate moves is just mesmerizing.

I love love love that Mary Kate is reading "I Capture the Castle" - it's one of my favorite books!! And my favorite line is "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons". Keep up the awesomeness!!

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

One of my favorites as well! Thank you, I'm working on it! :)

@chantelvdveen

10 жыл бұрын

Ah, she is reading I Capture the Castle! That's perfect. It's one of my favourites too!

I can't get enough of Sean's voice. His chemistry with MK is exceptional!

Til human voices wake us, and we drown. That is my favourite last line ever.

Sean could read poetry to me aaall night long!

It's so refreshing and delicious how the images make you hear new things in the text.

I would love for there to be a video featuring the famous quote from CS Lewis's The Four Loves which starts with "To love at all is to be vulnerable..."

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the rec!

Thank you I think I have a new favourite poem "Do I dare disturb the universe".

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

Yay! It's one of my favorite lines.

This has long been one of my favorite poems(how could it not)...and a big reason I liked Crash Test Dummies growing up-well,as a young adult, grown but still expanding! ("Afternoons will be measured out in coffee spoons and TS Eliot" the key line of the song Afternoons&Coffeespoons))

This makes me feel so much. And I can't stop watching because it deserves to be heard and felt and seen again and again.

This is my favorite I didn't write this. It's so gorgeous and I was pleasantly surprised to see that I have the dress that Mary is wearing! Love the poem too and I'm so glad this introduced it to me.

Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock has been my favorite poem of all time!

One of my favorite poems by my favorite psuedo couple. Huzzah indeed.

For some 35 years, I've loathed Eliot and this poem. (William Carlos Williams' fan; no ideas but things...detested Eliot's over-intellectualization and arcane allusions and "Aren't we so clever with our obscure references"...) but could possibly learn to take a more tolerant stance with such beautiful interpretations--even when I question the interpretation. Can't really see the narrator with Mary Kate, for example, unless this is just his imagination, as someone suggested. But this is beautiful, and for that, I thank you.

This series is absolutely wonderful!! I love this poem to bits, and it's so brilliantly captured here. You should look into the poem 'To S.A.' by T.E. Lawrence, which was published as the dedication to his book 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'.

I've just started to watch your videos and I absolutely need to say that they are amazing. And in this particular one...oh god...I have no words to describe the magic of it. I mean, the way the music, the images of them at the beach and the voice, the poem itself it was just perfect. Thanks for giving this to us. (I'll continue to watching all of them. It's such a great work!)

This is one of my favorites too! We had to read it in 11th grade and my two favorite parts were "do I dare disturb the Universe?" and "...the women come and go talking of Michelangelo"

I LOVE this poem. My favorite lines are not featured here, but they are, "'That is not it at all, / That is not what I meant, at all.'" and "I grow old... I grow old... / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled." For the first part of the poem, I usually imagine a dark, smoky room with yellow light, or a wet, dark street with the street light reflected off the cobblestones. The beach matches the second part very well. I haven't read this poem since high school, but it's always had a special place in my heart. Another poem I love is by Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," really just for the first line, "Had we but world enough, and time." Off-topic: I want MK's dress!

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

There's a lot to bite off in the poem, I wish I had the time/resources to shoot much more for it! And I love "To His Coy Mistress" for that line too, though it really boils down to a fancy pick up line, doesn't it? And the dress is from Forever21 a few years ago, I picked it up in a college roommate wardrobe swap so I'm not sure how old it is. :)

the loveliest thing on youtube. I am so grateful that such a video exists. thank you!

Using this to study for my Brit Lit exam that includes this poem. Pausing where you took out lines to read this myself. Much more enjoyable. I wish you did more of the poems I have to study!

srsly ur shotwork is beautiful, the music sets such an amazing song, plus your taste in literature is phenomenal

This is beautiful! T.S. Eliot is my all-time favorite poet and this is definitely my favorite poem of his! So fantastic.

"Let us go then, you and I," "I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.", "Till human voices wake us, and we drown.". Yup, this is one of my favorite poems too, and I learned about it through my english class too. He's just such a lyrical writer and he exposes himself to us so well that there's a bond there.

I love these so much Mary Kate and Sean are so cute and Sean's voice is honestly so mesmerizing ❤

Definitely one of my favorite poems. SO AWESOME. I love "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

"Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet - and here’s no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker"

I have watched this about five times now and it is only now that I got that this is the poem in TFIOS on the plane.

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

Oh! I forgot about that but you are totally and completely correct and that is another reason to love TFIOS.

I love your work so much!!! Thank you for all the new poems and I look forward to seeing kissing in the rain and your other productions!!

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

So glad you're enjoying everything! Thank you!

I really enjoyed this. I've tried T.S. Eliot before without much luck; I'm more of a Black Mountain Poets/Confessionals girl. Having the video helped me see more of an underlying narrative (or at least one interpretation of it). Lots of great lines, though. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" always seems to grab me. Though I won't even pretend to have a grasp on the poem, to me that line says that even if we experience strange and extraordinary things, most of our lives are spent in more ordinary ways (measured by coffee spoons).

This was one of my favorite poems!!! It was one of the best things I read during my BA! Thank you so much for this, it's gorgeous and inspiring!

aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH SO BEAUTIFUL SO BEAUTIFUL SO BEAUTIFUL YOU SHOULD DO MORE T.S. ELIOT ALLLLLLL THE ELIOT (and if, in all seriousness, you do decide to make another eliot poem into a video, you should totally do the burial of the dead from the wasteland. because BEAUTIFUL WORDS AND RESONANT METAPHORS AND BEAUTY.) on a sidenote, is it weird if I say that I could listen to Sean Persaud recite poetry for far longer than he'd have voice (or be willing) for? because however strange it is, it's kind of true.

Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock is mentioned in a Slow Gherkin song called Shed Some Skin. They are my favorite band.

This is so beautiful.

God, this is beautiful. Always brightens up my Friday :)

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad to be a part of your Fridays!

I would absolutely love to see a take on excerpts from The Waste Land! This is incredible, I subscribed like two weeks ago because of kissing the the rain, and mostly MK Wiles, having found her through the LBD. :) Love your work so much!! This is actually fantabulous!

SHE'S READING "I CAPTURE THE CASTLE"! That book defined my teen years in more ways than I can tell. Yulin, you have the best of tastes. Also, Lydia (she'll always be gorgeous, exuberant Lydia to me) apparently got a better bf than I do, because mine would never let me read "I Capture the Castle" to him, lol!

I love this version of the reading. It's crazy how a reading can change the whole mood and meaning. I've done one on my channel that has a completely different feel. :)

Thanks for the Yale uni link! I love the line: "I have measured out my life in coffee spoons" - for me it's such a good trigger to do grand things rather than wasting your time on the unimportant routine stuff.

So beautiful. Thank you.

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and commenting!

Amazing - I can't stop watching. My MA in English lit side is SO delighted, my YA blogger side is fangirling at I Capture the Castle, and at the John Green and Rainbow Rowell episodes, and my LBD Seahorse side is loving seeing MK again. Also, LOVE that she's reading I Capture the Castle... Can you please do Just One Day by Gayle Forman, Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins, and ANYTHING Virginia Woolf (maybe Mrs Dalloway)?

Jesus this is just so amazing!! :) I rewatched this yesterday for the first time after it came out and it just completely got me, so I spent the last hour reading interpretations and about the backround and rewatching the video over and over! I'd LOVE to see my favourite poem, also by Eliot, the hollow men, but I'm aware that it is a bit dark, soo.. :P but maybe you'd like "Advice from Dionysus"? it's from a new york student, Shinji Moon, and it's one of the best poems I've read so far and I think you'd like it.. fantasic work as always!!

Now on to some Crash Test Dummies! (This is how the KZread black hole gets ya, kids, beware!) But for reals, I'm a little sad that I've only just now discovered this series and all the work you do; but I am also very glad, because I've just discovered it!

I can't believe that I've just found your channel.Your works are really good! I recommend one of Lang Leav's poems for your next video. :)

Oh look Sean and mk are playing a couple, what a surprise lol (great vid)

these are the coolest things i have ever seen

I love these.

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

So wonderful.

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

This is amazing. Also I Capture the Castle is my favorite book.

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

It's pretty wonderful, I agree!

I love this poem! And these videos are absolutely lovely. I agree that I would love to see your interpretation of "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred Lord Tennyson. I would also love to see Pablo Neruda's poem "Tonight I can write the saddest lines" or a Shakespeare sonnet! Or maybe even a section of "The Waste Land." Keep up the good work :) "I have measured out my life in coffee spoons..."

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! I'm not too familiar with the Wasteland, been meaning to look into it!

"like patient etherized upon a table"

I got so excited when I saw that Mary-Kate was reading I Capture the Castle, it is one of my all time favourite books. I would love to see you do Bright Star or La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats. Or The Good Morrow from John Donne and The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson. I am just so loving this series.

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

It's a wonderful book, yes! And thank you for the recs!

All right, I have to share this: having "liked" this, KZread gives the usual suggestions over on the right: several more from "I Didn't Write This", some other Eliot interpretations and analysis, and (when you're ready to move up?) the Hoopla Kids video of "The Wheels on the Bus Rhyme."

Another beautiful work! I'm always so happy to see a new video from you in by subscription feed. If you're ever looking for requests, I'd love to see how you'd set one of Bukowski's For Jane poems to video.

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I'll look into it!

I always imagined Alfred Prufrock as the lovelorn type.

I agree with the commenter who didn't understand the visual interpretation for this video. While the images are lovely, they don't quote seem to go with the imagery in the poem, with all the talk of streets and rooms and just everyday, potentially unlovely things. There's something jarring in Prufrock that I would have liked to see represented in the video.

@colej.banning2419

7 жыл бұрын

It does seem to miss the poem's heavy use of irony. Unless the video itself is trying to be ironical on some sort of meta-level? I don't know.,

I would love for "Maybe I need you" by Andrea Gibson to be featured! :) that would be awesome :)

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the rec!

I think I like the refrain best: "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo."

SHE'S READING I CAPTURE THE CASTLE!!!

Yulin, end with "Best Wishes!" Also, could you do the poem "England in 1819" by Percy Bysshe Shelley? I really like that one and it'd be nice to see you take this series down a darker path.

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation, and yes, I'm playing with tone in future eps.

I was a little disappointed because the first few stanzas where he wanders in the streets at night are some of my favorite pieces of imagery in poetry but this video did not show that. Plus, the whole poem is about daring to tell a woman that he loves her and the pain that accompanies his fear which was once again lost in the video where there are two people happily together. Is this an imagining of what he could have had plus the beach stanzas? I do enjoy your videos though, I just have a strange relationship with this poem so I was a little picky. Thank you!

Make more pleasseeeeee

I loved this, but could you do some future videos based on female authors? It'd be cool to hear Mary Kate read.

Is there a significance to Mary Kate reading I Capture the Castle? As in neither Prufrock nor Cassandra get the love that they want (although for different reasons). This adaptation was so good!

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

Not particularly, it's one of my favorite books and I wanted to include it somehow. Anne of Green Gables is also featured briefly.

@jocoomber6512

10 жыл бұрын

It is a really good book. I didn't notice Anne of Green Gables.

I have a confession, until recently (as in about 2 months ago) I HATED this poem. I also had to read it in high school and my teacher clearly hated it. The way she taught it there was no way anyone in the class could like it. This was also the same teacher who tried to make us read The Fountainhead and when we all refused to do it she gave up on the assignment. So you can guess what kind of teacher she was.

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

That's a shame, and yes, the person doing the introduction can have a big effect on how people feel about things!

A metaquestion: Why do you always post a blank comment as soon as you've uploaded the video? Is it part of your campaign to raise the level of KZread discourse? I mean, by pre-empting those who might otherwise post information-free comments like "First!"?

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

Haha, I like that idea! But actually it's because Google+ just automatically counts posting a video as a comment. It gives the option of writing a message with the post, which I usually save for Tumblr and Twitter.

@Vsirin

10 жыл бұрын

I think that's from Yulin sharing the link on Google+ sans comment. I *think*.

The more of these I watch the more I feel very voyeuristic. In a good way though, I think, like I'm seeing a quiet moment I probably shouldn't be seeing.

@yulinisworking

10 жыл бұрын

Glad you're enjoying it!