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@@gabicreightonbooksetc. Thank you, Gabi! Glad you appreciated the reading.

@@AyushKumar-m3b5o Thank you! Glad you appreciated it.

@@JohnBassDunnahoo You are most welcome!

Thanks for your kind words of support, Noura! I'm happy to get feedback from those who appreciate my work on this channel. Glad to hear that you enjoy my readings and I hope you continue to do so. All the best to you and much love to Egypt ❤

@JohnReadsPoetry thanks dear best of luck ♥️♥️💪🥰

@@alessandroricciardi7317 You are most welcome! Thanks for watching.

Because to emphasize each rhyme you would have to pause in the middle of every sentence, and that would sound very awkward and unnatural in a narrative poem like this. Always pausing at the end of each line is a common beginner's mistake in poetry reading. Whether you pause or not depends on a few factors. Is the sentence over? Does enjambement occur? Does punctuation appear at the end of the line? Is the poem written with a very tight meter? "Endymion" is a long narrative poem, the rhymes here are more of a stylistic, "decorative" choice. Most of the time you shouldn't pause when an enjambement occurs, although sometimes if you want to emphasize the rhyme you can get away with that in certain specific situations, if your timing and rhythm are on point, but you need to have a very good sense of the structure, meter and musicality of the poem to do that, and that's certainly not an ability that you will find in a beginner or an improviser.

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@@curiouskid1547 You are most welcome! There are many hidden gems among Keats' poems.

@@koparka6672 Thank you, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the reading.

This Is ancient italian, It Is already hard to understand for an italian, i'd Say unless you're a genius It Is impossible to understand for a foreigner, even if it speaks italian at c1-c2 level

@@stillshootinginblackandwhite Apologies for the late reply, I just now saw your comments as I received no notification from TH-cam for some reason. Thank you for your kind words and for showing interest in a couple of my older videos, I appreciate it, especially on a platform such as this, that seems more and more to condemn older uploads to invisibility, even when they are centred around classic works of literature or other works of art that should theoretically have no expiration date. Concerning E. A. Poe's "The Sleeper" being a curious choice, the reason it and "Solitude" by Lord Byron were the first readings I uploaded is simply because they happen to be two of my very favourite poems. The quality isn't as good as later uploads, as these were early days and I was still getting the hang of things, but my love for this poem hasn't changed.

You are most welcome, I'm glad to hear that this helps.

Thank you for your feedback! You may be right. I find that music can work very well if it is composed with the specific poetry reading in mind, following the tonal ebbs and flows of the reading, as well as the content of the poem itself. However, most just seem to add a generic piano track or generic "inspirational" music in the background, which often doesn't fit what is being read at all and gives every reading the same tone. I personally find that to be distracting, which is why I don't add similar tracks to my readings by choice, but in the past I have occasionally been contacted by musicians who wished to create a musical track specifically for one of my readings, and that has been fine with me.

Exactly, thanks for pointing that out. I think the emphasis on "much" is a common mistake that stems from the difference between the way we use the word "world" today, i.e. meaning "the planet", and the more complicated, old-fashioned meaning of the term that would have been clearer to Wordsworth's contemporaries. This old-fashioned meaning was informed by religious thought and still persists today in the adjective "worldly", which means "relating to physical things rather than the spiritual", as in the expression "worldly goods". So Wordsworth isn't talking about the planet here, and isn't saying that the planet would be better off without us. In fact, he doesn't say that humans are harming the planet/natural environment anywhere in the poem. His use of the term "world" has a negative, polemical connotation, meaning the world of human affairs, characterized by greed and a superficial preoccupation with wealth and status, and serves to underline the growing distance between human society and Nature. We project our own, modern environmental sensibilities on the poem, but Wordsworth is concerned with Nature in a spiritual sense here, rather than a strictly environmental one. He is describing the sorry state of humankind, so preoccupied with material gain and wordly possessions that it has lost its connection to Nature, a connection that used to provide humans with meaning. Of course, none of this means that the poem's themes can't speak to us, today, in a way that evokes our justified and very valid environmental worries. That's the beauty of poetry and why I think this poem is even more relevant today than it was back when Wordsworth wrote it, at the time of the First Industrial Revolution. It's just that the title/opening line doesn't mean what some people think it does. Sorry for the essay.

@@JohnReadsPoetry , no need to apologize for an essay like that! Almost like you’ve given it some thought… 😉 My recently deceased law partner/best friend from university days and I have maintained a running debate for the last 45 years as to what the greatest short verse in literature was with which to capture our own final assessment of the world… Our wives and girlfriends and children may never have understood why two California trial attorneys found it necessary to resolve that question at 2 in the morning with one last nightcap in our hand so many times over the years, but we both could recite every word of the other’s proposed favorite even if one of us was incapable for some reason. The final verdict on the day would often turn on the spoken delivery, the weather or the quality of our bourbon and smoke. One candidate was obviously Wordsworth’s “World is too much”, (and he would have liked your delivery, btw). The other candidate was translated from the original Russian (always tricky) and is found in “The Bedbug, and selected poetry” with a now classic introduction by Patricia Blake. The text is as follows, but promise me that if you ever read it aloud, please be mindful of the pauses. Despite Mayakovsky’s natural bombast, this is a quiet poem and should never be rushed. My friend gave this candidate the final nod shortly before he passed, but there’s really not much to choose between the two when it’s all said and done… It is now I who must apologize for the essay 😂🤔🤫 Past One O’Clock ... by Vladimir Mayakovsky Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I have no cause to wake or trouble you. And, as they say, the incident is closed. Love’s boat has smashed against the daily grind. Now you and I are quits. Why bother then To balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts. Behold what quiet settles on the world. Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars. In hours like these, one rises to address The ages, history, and all creation.

Sono felice che abbia apprezzato l'interpretazione e che la poesia abbia risvegliato il suo ricordo della Scapigliatura. Grazie delle sue gentili parole.

Glad you appreciated it! Thanks for watching.

@@JohnReadsPoetry thank you . Sir I ask you a question that how I learn English like an American

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Yes, it almost seems like a scene from Dante's "Inferno".

He was indeed.