As a foreigner, I'll make a poem myself: If the great people of America Say in freedom they believe Patriots shall stand and fight From woke shall seek relive!
That wasn't poetry, that was seventh grade word play for people who put a great deal of import on how a poem makes them feel, rather than what it makes them think. Believe me people, in a generation this poem and it author will be entirely forgotten. That's what happens to the mediocre.
@@marriedkiwi When we ream we scream of the American ice cream of dreams and seams woven by Betsy Ross -- who never flossed -- but dared to dream and sowed the American seam.
She's proof that half of America has dumbed down to the point of no return. How in any way was this inspiring, amazing, great or any other adjective people are using? It was horrible.
@@richardjames4090 I know exactly what her poem meant because I understand spoken word poetry, a genre that demands a high level vocabulary & critical thinking to digest. No wonder you can't comprehend it.
Cliche after cliche after cliche after cliche. There are so many wonderful poets out there that will never be given "a shot". I just didn't find anything special about this at all.
So she slightly flubbed the pronunciation of one vowel. The subtitled video posted on her Instagram says “hallowed.” Get over yourself and go pick on someone else.
“Hollowed….”????? Did she mean “hallowed”?😂 That sounded like an 8th grade project that a kid threw together to get a passing grade they don’t care about.
I feel like I need an interpreter to make sense of her jumbled mess of words. Could you imagine her trying to teach English to a class of foreign students?🤣
The vacuousness of Gorman is an apt image of the past 4 years. I recommend she write a valediction forbidding mourning on this administration’s departure and let a better poet speak to the anxiety that Trump’s inauguration will bring to a world that has no need for his chaos and narcissism.
@@conor7154here’s a transcript of the first two lines of the poem; it’s a matter of pronunciation which you have NO BUSINESS criticizing. The entire poem is available online but I guess the five seconds it takes to research that is too much for your narrow & rude self: We gather at this hallowed place because we believe in the American dream.
Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison couldn't touch this if they tried. Which they wouldn't want to anyway because it's as profound as Ikea's assembly instructions.
She started off by misusing the word hollow. Its hallow smh 😢someone forgot to tell this child this is not poetry. Talk about no self awareness 😆😆 She could be reading my grocery list and this crowd would give a standing ovation. Pathetic
DNC totally SHAT on RNC at this convention and beyond!!! Brilliant beautiful respectful loving caring kind people ALL. THIS is what the world needs right now. Thank you America xxx🇦🇺🏴
My grandkids are going to read this in their history class. I got James Baldwin chills listening to this. I feel blessed to be alive at the same time as Amanda.
We are people, people of black, not refined to shacks, nor shackles, nor pigeonholed... We must rise, rise all the time. Sometimes in rhyme. Then passes is time..... Trump is BAD!
that the decisions that US takes more often than not have a global impact, and if wrong decisions, that means billions of people across the earth can be affected.
Now you have proved to me that you have limited comprehension skills ! Of course the Earth can perish from a country that abuses it and denies climate change ! What is wrong with you ?
@@PamelaClarke-p3uSo the entire earth is contained within the United States? I can imagine she would think that, her race infamously struggles with object permanence. Plenty of testing has shown that her kind can’t comprehend that objects can exist outside of their view.
She’s a terrible “poet,” but come on. She’s not a Maoist, she’s a Harvard educated neoliberal Instagram poet, at best. Not a hardened leftist guerrilla. She doesn’t know the first thing about Marxist theory or probably even who Mao was
she is the raygun of poetry
❤😂
Wake up you're dreaming 😂😂😂
She really is.
This is awful
As a foreigner, I'll make a poem myself:
If the great people of America
Say in freedom they believe
Patriots shall stand and fight
From woke shall seek relive!
@@doctrui approved
Words, words everywhere
And not a thought to think.
Words, words everywhere
And all the brains did shrink
If this qualifies as a poem, then every speech ever given qualifies as a poem.
Welcome to "Prose"
There is no beginning to her talent
@@irislake7387 we can pray for end times.. because there are some of the worse jokes following her
Your statement is more poetic than anything I've heard from her.
Best TH-cam comment I've read all year.
This lady Amanda sounds like my aunt post drug binge ranting nonsense about her week; but a slightly dumbed down version of it.
That wasn't poetry, that was seventh grade word play for people who put a great deal of import on how a poem makes them feel, rather than what it makes them think. Believe me people, in a generation this poem and it author will be entirely forgotten. That's what happens to the mediocre.
In a generation? It will be forgotten in a month.
Jealousy....what have you ever done?
ah hatred...
@@estherroberts8466 well, I have translated multiple volumes of poetry, all published. So yeah, there’s that.
@@mollkatless Best to spend time improving your writing skills rather than tearing others down.
So cringe
Just the level of comment expected from the inarticulate.
@@PamelaClarke-p3u 26 years I studied literature. Find me a line that should resonate with a conherent human being.
@@marriedkiwi When we ream we scream of the American ice cream of dreams and seams woven by Betsy Ross -- who never flossed -- but dared to dream and sowed the American seam.
@@hoibsh21 are you taking the piss with more nonsense?
@@marriedkiwi YES !
She's proof that half of America has dumbed down to the point of no return. How in any way was this inspiring, amazing, great or any other adjective people are using? It was horrible.
You will never understand.
@@PamelaClarke-p3u of course I do…. It’s YOU that will never understand because you’ve been dumbed down just like I said…
You're that proof yourself.
@@richardjames4090 I know exactly what her poem meant because I understand spoken word poetry, a genre that demands a high level vocabulary & critical thinking to digest.
No wonder you can't comprehend it.
@richardjames4090 dearheart, you're the proof you speak of.
“If our earth shall perish from this country.”
That sounds rather incoherent to be inspirational.
So many ignorant people here !
One, two… buckle my shoe
Three four, she hasn’t got any more…
Rhymes.
No one there understood a thing she said, but they will act like they did.
Lol. Speak for yourself. Your comprehension skills must be limited .
I understood every word of it. I understand spoken word poetry, which you apparently do not.
crazy (not really) how it's all the uzer-afdhaoehjapoefhaofhaskdjfh's that keep commenting rebuttals to people criticizing the poem 💀
Cliche after cliche after cliche after cliche. There are so many wonderful poets out there that will never be given "a shot". I just didn't find anything special about this at all.
I just got dumber
That’s impossible!
What?
I'm sure. We can't educated them all. Thank you Amanda!
@@aec5210 "can't educated"
ironic
I’m in my hollowed place getting dumber listening this 😂
She genuinely doesn't know the difference between "hollowed" and "hallowed".
you figured it out, plus it's her poetry, not yours.
So she slightly flubbed the pronunciation of one vowel. The subtitled video posted on her Instagram says “hallowed.” Get over yourself and go pick on someone else.
How the hell can the “earth perish from the country”? Didn’t she mean the other way around?
@@andrewsteeves6982 because the country is destroying the earth it sits on.
You wouldn't know the difference. It's her pronounceciation that has your pants in a bunch. You are not worthy of her message.
Platitudinous doggerel
Jealousy-filled hate
@@PamelaClarke-p3u No dude. It was just genuinely bad.
Word salad.
its poets like this that turn so many people off of it.
Yoooo. This could tank dems in 2024. Wtf.
Hollowed? I think she meant hallowed. And it's a sports arena, not Mecca.
Gorman is a good Irish name. My grandmother was a Gorman, I wonder...
Wow How profound 😂😂😂
Her talent knows no beginning 😂😂😂
“Hollowed….”????? Did she mean “hallowed”?😂
That sounded like an 8th grade project that a kid threw together to get a passing grade they don’t care about.
I feel like I need an interpreter to make sense of her jumbled mess of words. Could you imagine her trying to teach English to a class of foreign students?🤣
moroon
@@todd6338 you
"For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors."
Walter Benjamin
She is like the Lin Manuel Miranda of poetry. One in millions.
It was word salad
We gather at this HOLLOWED place ... 😂
She’s a breath of fresh air and a ray of sunshine
Cringe
Just the level of comment expected from the inarticulate!
yeah, she's a real RayGunn of sunshine
If this is poetry, my pancake batter is Shakespeare.
She is a gift to us all
Hallowed. Not “hollowed”
Maybe for you. She definitely isn't a gift for me!
Well, leave her to yourself.
I hope you're being sarcastic with that.
" hollowed place "
Damn right .
Very hollow.
Such poise. A gift to listen. Powerful and emotional. Dream.
Maybe she has a gift to listen, certainly not to speak tho
I genuinely believe that if you actually like this poem, you have no taste.
Black to black. Go figured!😅
First you have to have the intelligence to comprehend.
You forgot to put parentheses around the word poem, because this garbage is NOT poetry.
@@PamelaClarke-p3u
Intelligence is what makes it glaringly obvious that this “poem” is 100% 💩💩.
@@PamelaClarke-p3u
Nah, first Amanda had to have the intelligence to WRITE
“Hollowed place”? Lmao DEI
Doesn't hollow mean nothing, empty or worthless?
thought she said hallowed, but i could be wrong
Semantically the meaning is “ hallowed” so OBVIOUSLY we apply comprehension, not not-pick pronunciation
Read with the aim to comprehend. Semantically “ hallowed “ is the word of course .
She is such a light
How so.? That a word salad like KAMALA😂😂😂😂
@@bernadetteloia330So you would rather hear about Hannibal Lecter, batteries, boats and a shark. Not to forget the snake 😂
@@bernadetteloia330only to people with limited ability to comprehend, like you.
@@suecollins8482huh?
How the hell can the “earth perish from the country”? Didn’t she mean the other way around? And it’s “Hallowed” not “Hollowed”
The vacuousness of Gorman is an apt image of the past 4 years. I recommend she write a valediction forbidding mourning on this administration’s departure and let a better poet speak to the anxiety that Trump’s inauguration will bring to a world that has no need for his chaos and narcissism.
"We vote for Kamala
Because she is good
We hate Donald Trump
cause he's an orange dude"
-- Nobel Prize 2025
My ears are bleeding.
inedible word salad
The coments say it ALL... EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!!
She learned poetry from Kamala Harris.
Spell checker captions are unsatisfactory. It's HALLOWED PLACE... NOT HOLLOW
Wow. That's all. Just. Wow.
@@adriaticace wow. Just wow.
What in the name of Sam hell was that??? Harvard are you serious?? 😂😢
She is wonderful. So great at speaking her ideas. Amazing!!
Cringe
Jealous! Hater!
chat-gpt aaaah comment
Awesome ❤❤❤
Amazing, she is a legend
She can’t differentiate hallow and hollow. She thinks they’re the same word. She has the vocabulary of a child.
I know that what democrats about they tell u wat to do and wat to think and say.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@conor7154here’s a transcript of the first two lines of the poem; it’s a matter of pronunciation which you have NO BUSINESS criticizing. The entire poem is available online but I guess the five seconds it takes to research that is too much for your narrow & rude self:
We gather at this hallowed place
because we believe in the American dream.
She has blossomed, her words brought tears.
How the hell can the “earth perish from the country”? Didn’t she mean the other way around?
National Treasure!!! ❤️🤩🥰
Exactly 😊
Hallowed. Not “hollowed”😅
Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison couldn't touch this if they tried. Which they wouldn't want to anyway because it's as profound as Ikea's assembly instructions.
She started off by misusing the word hollow. Its hallow smh 😢someone forgot to tell this child this is not poetry. Talk about no self awareness 😆😆 She could be reading my grocery list and this crowd would give a standing ovation. Pathetic
This is our Maya Angelou Lawd have mercy and my Langston Hughes 🖤😴❤️✊🏽🥲
She's closer to Rupi Kaur than Maya Angelou
Please don’t speak I’ll of Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was a real poet.
She makes pauses for applause. Pathetic.
Good speech. Her party should practice it.
Poem not speech
Right the Republicans should practice it
Andrew Dice Clay rattles off poems better. This is terrible
Love this beautiful young lady. Her words echo Maya Angelou. ❤
No wonder why poetry is dead.
This is garbage.
I should have put my 2 cents in
DNC totally SHAT on RNC at this convention and beyond!!! Brilliant beautiful respectful loving caring kind people ALL. THIS is what the world needs right now. Thank you America xxx🇦🇺🏴
lolol Talking about being loving and caring in the exact same comment that started off by saying how one side "SHAT" on the other side. Wow.
You’re right, this dnc was certainly full of sh!t!
Inspirational, draws you in, and you know why and what you need to do!
Yes I definitely know what to do. I'll vote for Trump!
I do not like green eggs and ham I do not like them Sam I am!
Her words are like a soul soothing hug. I’m so grateful she is on this planet in this time.
It was word salad 🥗
How the hell can the “earth perish from the country”? Didn’t she mean the other way around? And it’s “Hallowed” not “Hollowed”
THINK!
@@andrewsteeves6982She writes Kamala's speeches.
Has anyone been able to find the video that played after she delivered her poem?
So lovely, articulate and powerful.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
She would make a good model of some kind. Maybe a hand model. She DOES have pretty hands and good skin. Why not?
Who knows?
She’d make a good model for skincare products with that immaculate complexion.
My grandkids are going to read this in their history class. I got James Baldwin chills listening to this. I feel blessed to be alive at the same time as Amanda.
I hope not
When they read it I hope they explain the difference between hallowed and hollowed
Are you insane? It was awful. Her teachers have failed her.
The Hill We Climb is a great poem and The Audacity Of Hope is too. Shes really is amazing
We are people, people of black, not refined to shacks, nor shackles, nor pigeonholed... We must rise, rise all the time. Sometimes in rhyme. Then passes is time..... Trump is BAD!
Hollowed?
Harry Baker's most important influence, I'm sure.
❤❤
DEI poetry hire 😂
Is she a DEI hire in slam poetry?
also she looks 15 years old
🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷💙💙💙💙
Very touchable speech goes to heart.
Beautiful! Soo much intelligence ❤
lmao
It was world salad 🥗
@@philly442 lol. lmao, even.
I wish Joe Biden wrote his own poems instead of exploiting the labor of others.
so stunning, so brave...so nonsensical
😊
Most overrated poet ever
Amanda Gorman 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 a philosopher
RayGunn of poetry
💯💯💯💯❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😁
Hollowed instead of hallowed. Oh the irony. 😂
It would have been better if she added: We are one country regardless of politics.
🔥🔥🔥
Doggerel 😮
"if our earth shall perish from this country"? wtf does this even mean
that the decisions that US takes more often than not have a global impact, and if wrong decisions, that means billions of people across the earth can be affected.
I think she means the soil will just dissolve from under our feet😂
Now you have proved to me that you have limited comprehension skills ! Of course the Earth can perish from a country that abuses it and denies climate change ! What is wrong with you ?
@@PamelaClarke-p3uSo the entire earth is contained within the United States? I can imagine she would think that, her race infamously struggles with object permanence. Plenty of testing has shown that her kind can’t comprehend that objects can exist outside of their view.
@@PamelaClarke-p3u The Earth will be fine womp womp.
This is objectively horrible. Am I losing my mind? How is this good poetry?
It call poetry. Not easy to listen. When you sit close your eyes and listen to it then you will l enjoy it
You are correct. Walt Whitman rolling in his grave if this is what passes as poetry in America.
No, you're not, it's very bad. But the general public doesn't know good poetry, so dreck like this gets gobbled up.
It is the same quality of someone parodying slam poetry. It is beyond embarassing
Comprehension skills available?
lol
Lol. Lmao, even
If Mao had a daughter
She’s a terrible “poet,” but come on. She’s not a Maoist, she’s a Harvard educated neoliberal Instagram poet, at best. Not a hardened leftist guerrilla. She doesn’t know the first thing about Marxist theory or probably even who Mao was
Hallowed, not hollowed 😂
Yes we know! She is semantically correct- but thank you for being the pronunciation police .🙄
well, those two words don’t really have the same meaning either, quite opposite actually
She recited her poem so beautifully, not to mention the message in her poem!!
“Hallowed”, not “Hollowed”😅
And how can the “earth perish from the country” doesn’t she mean the other way around?This woman failed grammar. Everything else was just platitudes.
You’ve got to be kidding me. There’s so much wrong with that, but anyone with intelligence knows. I don’t have to break it down.
“We, Black people, can make it work
Come together and make it work,
We can make it work …” Bob Marley …
Vote Kamala Harris ….
Don’t bring Bob into this
you built nothing you get nothing, the tide is shifting and you're all going to get some.
@@philly442 what'd you build exactly?
All I can say is GIFTED she'll be at the Harris inauguration ❤❤❤❤❤
How the hell can the “earth perish from the country”? Didn’t she mean the other way around? And it’s “Hallowed” not “Hollowed”
@@andrewsteeves6982 because the country is not protecting the earth. Get it??!!
THINK
@@brendaj8501
No because it's crap. Look at what you're trying to defend...😂
🥹🤺💙🤺💙
It was just okay. As a poet , I found it underwhelming . Some of her other writings were much better.