Walt Whitman "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" Poem animation Complete Poem
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Here's a virtual movie of the great Walt Whitman reading his exquisite poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
This poem was written in 1859 and incorporated into the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. It describes a young boy's awakening as a poet, mentored by nature and his own maturing consciousness. The poem is loose in its form, except for the sections that purport to be a transcript of the bird's call, which are musical in their repetition of words and phrases. The opening of the poem is marked by an abundance of repeated prepositions describing movement-out, over, down, up, from-which appear regularly later in the poem and which convey the sense of a struggle, in this case the poet's struggle to come to consciousness.
"Out of the Cradle" can be described as a poem about the birth of the poet, it can also be read as a poem about the death of the self. In the end, on the larger scale, these two phenomena are one and the same.
Unlike most of Whitman's poems, "Out of the Cradle" has a fairly distinct plot line. A young boy watches a pair of birds nesting on the beach near his home, and marvels at their relationship to one another. One day the female bird fails to return. The male stays near the nest, calling for his lost mate. The male's cries touch something in the boy, and he seems to be able to translate what the bird is saying. Brought to tears by the bird's pathos, he asks nature to give him the one word "superior to all." In the rustle of the ocean at his feet, he discerns the word "death," which continues, along with the bird's song, to have a presence in his poetry.
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
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PLEASE NOTE - The image used in this animation is not actualy Walt Whitman it is a lookalike of Walt Whitman and is not to my knowledge a copyrighted image please write to me if you have bonafide information to the contrary. at my email address of hyperbolelad@hotmail.com
My favorite Whitman poem
Terry Westbrook-Lienert Me too. I heatd it as a child and remembered it again thirty yeats hence.
Why no mention of the man who brings this to life: Marvin Miller. I have a collection of poetry on four LPs entitled, "A Treasury of the World's Best Loved Poems" that were produced in 1961 by Crown Publishers by, or for, Living Literature. The reader for all of the poems is Marvin Miller, who has to be the best poetry reader of all time. He has the voice and intelligence to do it right. It was his recording of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that taught me what poetry was all about.
Yes he had a wonderful voice,This comes from the 16 2/3 rpm set of great poems he recorded that was later released on an LP set. David Allen was another great reader of poetry several of my Whitman animations are recited by him.These two readers were in a class of their own. Marvin Miller was also the voice of Robbie The Robot.
Thankyou.
Kind Regards
Jim
Oh, Marvin Miller. I never thought I'd find him again. TH-cam is full of wonderful surprises. Now I have to see how many of his recordings are here. I have his Living Literature four 12-inch LP collection entitled, "A Treasury of the World's Best Loved Poems." which I must have bought over forty years ago. I can upload my favorites here. Hell, my recording of this poem is better than this one. It doesn't have all of the static. Get ready TH-cam, here I come. Oh, I just noticed that I was here five years ago.
hello, im a young reader and i was wondering if you are still alive. i was wondering if i can get some tips about understand his works
on the internet, no-one knows that you are dead