Hank Green reads "A Lecture on Aphids"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- Hank Green reads Charles Goodrich's poem, "A Lecture on Aphids".
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"Isn't there something wild and uplifting / about their complete indifference / to the human prospect?" -John
Preach Sire John ❤️
This does sound like a sentence that will scratch John's brain. I to, love things that are indifferent to the human prospect. These things keep me looking at myself and asking the important questions
I’ve been wanting to write a poem about why I love wild birds, and this “complete indifference to the human prospect” is one of the reasons. Beautiful.
I love that the lecturer knows so much about afids, about their fertile eggs and their translucence and their diet - the kinds of things you might look in a textbook or a wikipedia article - but not about their basic curiosity-satisfying flavor.
He makes the sacrifice so that we no longer have to wonder about their flavor!
neighbor: hey there's bugs on your-
hank: haha aphids go cromch
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I could see when it was going it was nice pretty and then that line... “and eat them” and it was a game changer so shocking. Before that line this was a poem something that I would have enjoyed consuming but in the end the memory would have faded. But that line so jarring to my preconceived idea. I hope I don’t forget.
That surprise got me too.
No one told me Hank's 'Bizarre Beasts' series was coming to Ours Poetica!?
Interesting how, just because I know and love Hank, I like this poem more than I would have otherwise.
Everything impacts our experiences of poems. Imagine if an aphid read it to you instead!
Oh yes @@ourspoetica what a pleasant whimsical thought, thank you
What a lovely idea! 😅🥰
It really runs in the family
I think this poem might be the definition of chaotic neutral
"Even though rose wine is their only food, aphids are bitter." I am going to wonder about this for a long time...
I liked this poem too. It makes me feel better when poetry doesn’t land for me or make me feel anything; it doesn’t mean that there’s something wrong with me, it just means the poem didn’t resonate. And that’s all.
Legitimate
I used to love bugs. Whatever happened to that? Now I'm the one spraying my tiny garden to make sure my tomatoes don't get blemishes.
I'm a big fan of bugs! Send them my way! (I just saw a bunch of stinkbugs hatch from the tiniest eggs and I definitely thought about this poem/eating them.)-Paige
I love how there's a little bit of microcosmos cross-over in this poem read by Hank.
Wow, that went from defense-of-nature-through-science, which was awesome, to shocking and dark and yet I loved it, but then it ended on an unsettling tone, and I didn't know what to do with it. I guess I'm congratulating the poet for making me feel things, but what do I do with this? XD
I… did not know, until just now, that I was subscribed to this channel. Thank you for both the aphidisorientation and the extra Greenery this morning, TH-cam!
Can we start a thread of bugs eaten and what they tasted like? - Paige
I once ate a string of smaller than usual ants off the town pastors porch out of boredom while waiting for him to return home... they were sweet.
I was offered and ate chocolate covered freeze dried grasshoppers at the Graham's Town Science fair... they had good crunch.
During the 7 year drought there was a grasshopper swarm. I shot the bigger ones with my brother's bb.gun, they were about the length of my hand back then. Their blood smelled like cilantro so I didn't eat them and still dislike coriander to this day.
I think I’m too careful to eat a bug that’s not ants. I’ve had ants plenty of times, almost always unknowingly. And honestly sometimes I find the ant-flavor in other food 😂
People talking about eating ants...
By my house most ants are fire ants,
I would not put one of those in my mouth, for love or money.
sec-hay-ters? is that the u.s way?
Ive always pronounced them sekka-tours :/
haha yes it is! at least in the south
There are times with American pronunciations that I just can’t. This is one of those times. Sec-hay-ters gonna hate?
This poem actually gives me chills. I love it!
A lot of people in the comments are asking about what the poem means. It's a good question, but maybe not the most useful one to you. A better question would be what does it mean to you? How does it affect you? There are ways to analyze poetry, sure, but it's impossible to have one correct, definitive perspective. Even if the author tells you point-blank what they meant to convey, that is not all that is there. Every reader will come at a piece of art from their own unique perspective and come away from it with different understandings. And that's okay.
So good! Thanks for reading for us Hank!!
HANK is reading POETRY. Wow John has definitely influenced him.
To be fair, this isn't poetry poetry, it's *science* poetry! :-)
I am not sure what this was about.But,man,was it awesome !
I love it
Good morning, Hank :)
It's Monday!
Is it where you life really morning?
@@_the_ No but it feels like it. I've worked solidly since I got up and have only just eaten. Lockdown has my timings out of whack.
@@blisles7626 I feel like everyone is feeling like that right know, but I hope you can get back to a normal rythm and stay healthy!
Loved both the poem and the reading. Thank you.
Lovely and quick turn true poem. I dig. I do. Man I love this channel too
Very good. Thanks Hank
Love this
Wow. That was fun!
Good night from the second lock down of Darebin Council. This is poignant of my childhood.
Wow this is brilliant!
i too wanna be a "full time inebriateunshamed of my nakedness"
Oh, dear lady, I see you came searching for something normal and proper and kept. Elsewhere with thee.
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That's your second cousin, hey !!!
Technically, "First Cousin, Once Removed".
Tony Vasile yup. Your parent’s cousin.
Second cousin would be the child of this person. The children of two cousins are second cousins.
Curious to know what were incorrect facts...
HAAAANK! NOOOOO!
Also, aphids eat tomatoes, so fuck aphids.
And Hank describing his relation to the poems author sounds like me describing my relation to Robert Frost. Though I never thought of Frost as being closely related. Mus be a New England thing 😂😂😂
Yeah, aphids are bitter...and so am I.
Grandfather's brothers son, so your first cousin once-removed? In conclusion, the English kinship system is ambiguous and sucks. In Tamil you can be unambiguous with much fewer words.
Yep, 1st cousin once-removed.
Your Family Tree Explained by CGP Grey: th-cam.com/video/PM79Epw_cp8/w-d-xo.html
Cool that in Tamil you have a better system :)