If I had a dollar for every time I heard John say “the Norton Anthology of Poetry” I’d be rich enough to give John the rights to the Norton Anthology of Poetry.

@Maryam-mz7jo

4 жыл бұрын

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@ScottLawrenceLawson

4 жыл бұрын

It is a great book! I still have my copy from college in 1986 as John does.

shout out to who ever made the text by text animations! This channel, I can already tell, is 100% my jam 👏

@charliespinoza1966

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, this was beautiful and seamless and subtle and amazing!

A poem about poems on a poetry channel: John couldn't be more on brand. I do love it, thanks for sharing :)

@aniksamiurrahman6365

4 жыл бұрын

Poetryception.

I love how the brothers Green both have ASMR channels now♥️

@vitormelomedeiros

4 жыл бұрын

what is Hank's???? i want it

THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY HAS RETURNED

"We cannot admire what we do not understand." I'm already in love with this channel.

ooooh I love it, I'm already digging this channel. I debated whether it was appropriate or not, but I decided that I would like to share something I wrote if anyone cares to read it; There is a small plant by my windowsill. It keeps the air fresh, and creates a lightness It has no true base function, but I decorate it for birthdays and on Christmas. Twinkling tinsel is hung between its branches like metallic silk. And boisterous lights fill in the empty gaps. I water my plant on Tuesdays, as it is my plant, and my responsibility to do so. I trim the dead leaves, turn the soil and wipe away the dust. Maintenence ensures my plant stays pristine.

@thunder_birdfps8294

2 жыл бұрын

I really like this!! Love from a fellow poet, though, 2 years late :)

"When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us." That was beautiful.

For a couple of years now, my husband and I have been wishing for a John Green poetry podcast. Thanks for making our wish come true. 🥰

@krissymillard1823

4 жыл бұрын

Mindy Holahan Peters I texted this to my husband immediately, saying, “My dream! ✨✨✨” 😄

Someone in the comments below said "but I don't know how to read poetry". I felt the same way, and then one line in that poem hit home pretty quickly. I wrote a thing. -- Gardens are easy to create. With very little effort they get themselves going; they want to be alive. If there’s just one person who will spend time in that garden, it will try to capture them. To draw them in, flower by flower, word by word. Delighted in the irony, the garden knows that it’s the colour that will catch the eye. A scape need only be interesting enough in one small way to capture; a turn of phrase or flourish. Gardens are easy to create. It’s the damn toads that are the problem.

@kumarsamal9624

3 жыл бұрын

Boy, you said it.

Great reading, thanks John! Also, perfect visual too, as I tend to rush reading, this helps me to really focus, listen, think line by line.

I think I like poetry but I don't really know how to read it so I hope this channel can help me in my journey a little bit

@kittyellison6106

4 жыл бұрын

Coco _ The Poetry Foundation has a great audio section on its website x

@cringepoet7544

4 жыл бұрын

I have found that just diving in is key. Read everything you can. Then read it again. Then read it again. And listen to others read. I'm excited for this channel for that exact reason!

@priyanshukaushik4053

4 жыл бұрын

Wait in line!

@MCAndyT

4 жыл бұрын

TTLY

I remember when you found your Norton Anthology of Poetry. Glad you didn't lose it again.

While this channel is still young, this might be seen. Thank you! I have needed something like this so bad. As a severely dyslexic writer, I have always struggled with poetry. The rhythm does not come naturally off the page and the meaning is lost between the gaps of ink. Yet this channel has, already, helped me appreciate it in a new way. The format is perfect, the intention is clear and I enjoy poetry now... finally!

@MCAndyT

4 жыл бұрын

100%

I used to not like poetry, and then I went to uni and took a creative writing class. I realised that it wasn’t that I didn’t like poetry, it was that I had never had anything to say before. I never had something I wanted to say that could only be conveyed through poetry. It was a great experience.

ah yes john's famous norton anthology of poetry =)))

@DanielBoonelight

4 жыл бұрын

gracious i'm wondering what he did to the thing. looks like it's been through two wars.

ive spent nearly 30 years of my life utterly unable to comprehend poetry, and 16 hours ago a vlogbrothers post opened my eyes to it. holy god am i excited to explore this new thing

@MCAndyT

4 жыл бұрын

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Man, John can really read the hell out of poetry. loved it!

Love the truth of this poem. I also love the truths of metaphors in foreign languages. Sometimes, since I can't parse the language "just so," the words have a deeper impact. Their impenetrable grammar connotes an authority that bears sussing out. I wade deeper into Russian Christian metaphors in my adult years, simply because, I have to wade deeper there.

I just made a 'poetry' favorites list a few days ago. When the timing of something feels like poetry.

I would love John to put together his own poetry anthology and to then release an audio book

I really liked how you animated the text of the poem. I find it easier to understand the writing when I can see the text and hear it read aloud. I am really excited for this channel!

just loved the idea so bad that I wanted to *translate* it to my first *language* _Arabic_ but this feature was locked , I wanna make the world read it too , and I know that alot of people will have difficulties in understanding *poetry* in _English_ even if they speak it really well. I'll be so happy to help you adding translations to other *languages* 😊.

@ourspoetica

4 жыл бұрын

we've turned on community contributions!

@asawerabbood

4 жыл бұрын

@@ourspoetica thank you so much ❤.

If this video is anything to go by I can say quite assuredly that my life will be improved greatly by the occasional poetry reading landing in my subscription box.

I always look at poets and authors' birth and death dates to settle them in their appropriate place in history in my mind. But this generation always catches me: Ms. Moore was born before automobiles and (common) electricity, and died after we landed on the moon. What a life.

I had no idea I needed this editing style in my life (the combination of the overhead view of books and then text that appears on the screen) but oh my god. Oh my GOD, this is EVERYTHING.

@MCAndyT

4 жыл бұрын

I LOVE the technique!

JOHN PLEASE READ MORE POETRY TO US🙏🙏🙏

"...If you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry." The truth has never been spoken so beautifully. Poetry isn't just a clever assortment of words and sentences to fit a certain rhyme scheme. Anything which makes you feel alive, and allows you to express that feeling in its rawness and poignancy, is poetry. Eloquence is not always what makes poetry, the feelings evoked in the reader is.

I could fall asleep to the sound of John reading poetry

I am my own favorite poet, because I can find the words I need much better than any proxy. It may be pride or a stubborn independence, but I believe it is also a thing that I can be happy with.

I love it! And what a great poem to use to launch the channel. I can't wait for the next one.

A voice calming a sea of emotion and anxiety. Thank you John Green

"We can't admire what we cannot understand." That pretty much sums up my relationship with art and poetry. PBS's Art Assignment really helped me with the former. Hopefully this channel will help me appreciate poetry. There is a way that John reads things that, what was previously a farrago of words becomes a profound poem. Thank you.

I wish this kept going ❤️ I’m so excited for this channel. Thank you!

This is the first, and probably only, channel where I've 'rung the bell'. Thanks for this great initiative!

I am so excited for this project. This is going to bring poetry to a whole new audience who never really thought of it as interesting until now.

Oh, I love this so much already. I cannot wait to see what other works, both familiar and new, this series brings.

Demand the rawness and that which is genuine

I bought a copy of the Norton Anthology of Poetry because of this video. John should get a royalty.

Same! I can still remember when I've read it first time in highschool. I used to really hate poems and this poem really changed my mind about it.

Love this,, I can listen this for hours...like seriously listen to it for hours. So, please try to upload more frequently from now. But do at your convenience. And also more Jhon Green would be Awesome.

Hi, yes, ok. I need about 100 of these videos as day. Thanks so much.

This is a great way to start my day 😊 Thanks, John ❤

@_the_

4 жыл бұрын

What time is it where you life?

@pamelarojas7754

4 жыл бұрын

@@_the_ It was around 7 or 8 am when I watched it

@_the_

4 жыл бұрын

@@pamelarojas7754 Thank you

This was beautiful. Really looking forward to hearing the poems to come.

I already love this channel❤

I love this channel so much already. Can't wait for more!

This new channel is so great:)

already in love with this channel

I love this so much!!!

What a lovely way to begin the day. I knew this channel was going to be grand.

So good!

VERY excited about this channel!

I absolutely love this!!! From the way it's read, to how the video is done. This is my new favorite obsession.

Yes !!!!! My prayers have been answered !!!

Love this so much!! This channel will son become my favorite thing about KZread

Love this channel.

I just came from John's latest video about this channel and I am loving it!

I LOVE this channel

I love this so much. The sound the the visuals and everything about this video is a wonderful experience, and I look forward to hearing and reading more poetry. 🥰🥰

i love this.

What a great poem!

Can you do short poems on Dear Hank and John again please? It was always my favorite :)

THANK YOU

Why did you stop? Keep going.....

Soooo looking forward to this channel! Also, can John read everything to me please??

Thank you.

I still have my university copy of the Norton Anthology. It's one of my prized possessions. Love this poem.

I've always disliked poetry, but I find myself liking it more and more as I grow older, especially when I hear it in my head with John's voice from his Thoughts From Places videos.

hi I love this

Who else wants a John Green meditation/sleep stories app? ✨

@sydneyd7054

4 жыл бұрын

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@mustardsfire22

4 жыл бұрын

The Anthropocene Reviewed is sort of like that. It's John's solo podcast.

@krissymillard1823

4 жыл бұрын

mustardsfire22 Good point! I don’t think I could use it to fall asleep because I’m either too interested or I am tearing up.... but it could definitely work for calming down. :) AR is such a gem. Thanks for mentioning it in case I hadn’t found it yet. I’m actually quite the evangelist for it myself.

This is crazy. I was just thinking I want john to read me poetry!

Reading starts at 0:30.

💛

Missed opportunity for the video to be titled *"Poeception"*

Wow yes, good.

I can tell that it was a conscious decision to not try to read into meanings of the poems because in poetry meaning is often in the eye of the beholder but i also think that in not analyzing them something is missed and an analysis at the end even if it's no more than your own views on the literary work would add to this immensely.

Ok yes please thank you

I've never clicked faster on a video haha ❤

Would that happen to be Chip’s Norton Anthology of Poetry that you stole and then misplaced and then rediscovered at the office?

I give reading poetry 10/10

How delicious, can't wait for more

This was wonderful! I can't wait for all the new poetry this channel will help me discover! :)

Am I the only one who was waiting for the camera to pan to the other page?

What is it with this gagged left beginnings (indented?)?

What was the footnote?

1:51😮

why does this poem lowkey sound like the critics review at the end of ratatouille

Can we submit our poems or read our own even if they aren’t published?

the composition of the stanzas is really confusing to me. I don't know if it's intentional or of there's some meter that I'm not grasping, but it just sits with me in a weird way

Fantastic channel, would love to hear some Dickinson from you guys

Wait, but isn't that Chip's copy of the Norton Anthology of Poetry?

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A QUESTION OF FLOWERS I. Generations, I cling to the image: bougainvilleas breaking away. Slow descent into palms of children unable to fly kites. Summer heat and translucent visions. Where are the sparrows, hope's usual metaphors? I love the sound of "crushed petals". Children, stare at the residue, at apparent lines. They are the trodden paths of Coleridge and Villa. They are your footprints foretold. Bloodied, ever flows. Wash your hands with the scent of forest fires, remnants of undoing. Play with me, in memory of generations past who tilled whatever left by crows and bugs. II. Play, that I admonish you with the ways of drunken poets. That we're in the company of yellow bells, santan, dama de noche. They must be parables of tainted selves. How immersed in rain showering twigs and thorns! How embraced the role of visitants! Our eyes yearning for extracts! For petrichor has arrived: heaven meets earth, gloom meets sensation. Dungeon of a home: is this for collective dread for the withered, untamed? III. I missed all about innocence, excavations clanking through the garden, crumpled grocery bags. Thud and rasp and ephemera. As thunderstorms subside, as the Devil's vigilance to the slaughter of joys. You must be frightened by this inwardness. Children, listen to a bedtime story unraveled in this rainy day. Imagine a rocking chair silhouetted against the fireplace, against souls thrust and battered. Imagine a soliloquy in eternal thread. A tale in stitches: measured to scare, woven to beguile, torn again to last. The moment the sun grins with his obstinate rays will I crush the remaining petals, surviving shadows of Cirilo and Sylvia. Phantoms might hoard from me, little souls might trick me into hide and seek. The gods might punish with oblivion's beauty. Here come menacing fingers watched by fog and the creaking of chaos. The question of flowers is one of endless love. Suffer. Ooze with exclamations. To baptize the unborn. [03 May 2020]

Moore's 1967 revision, in its entirety: I, too, dislike it. ___Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in ___it, after all, a place for the genuine.

That we do not admire what we cannot understand

That’s the smallest pop filter I’ve ever seen.

What purpose does the formatting and whitespace serve in this poem? It doesn't seem related to the content as far as I can tell, but I know very little about poetry.

@missylynke

4 жыл бұрын

I can't tell you what it means necessarily but I can say that where a poet chooses to break their lines gives the words at to the end or the beginning of lines extra tension within the poem. Think of it like poetry punctuation, like a comma -- except there's no "correct" way to use it. When you look at line breaks yourself: is this line break separating two ideas/images or is it breaking one idea/image into two pieces? What does that do to the image? How does it effect the rhythm of the poem? What words does that leave at the beginning or end of the line for emphasis? Why would the poet choose to emphasize those words?

Thank you! I'd love to talk poetry with you sometime. Hit me up.

I am interested in porety.

I am unsure what was meant by half poets. Does that mean someone who self-proclaim themselves as a poet, because the love the appearance intellectual pedigree; Or does it mean someone who uses poetry out of context, without trying to grasp the context? Or is it something else?