Okay so here is a fragment of a larger video that I just couldn't put together and get onto youtube for some WEIRD REASON...it just wasn't accepting the cut and pasted version of quicktime...oh well!!
Originally this had a video of me talking a bit before and after the poem but alas it is no more...so you just really have the reading of the poem now.
Rather than "talk about" my opinions and views towards this poem, I will instead leave you with a few (hopefully) thought-provoking questions to maybe lead you into the text a bit further. Man when I read this I really FELT the poem in my bones if you will...and really that is the best way to read poems...through YOUR BONES!!! Let great poetry really sink into you that deeply so you can really FEEL IT reverberating inside your very sinews!! yeah! That's what poetry is really all about. :D One of my professors from college said that you can't even BEGIN to understand a poem until you've read at least 20 times...so there you go!! A reading of Tintern Abbey for you to watch 20 times over!! haha!! happy poetry to ya!!
P.S.--I hope to get at least one poem out each week for ya'll just to keep things rolling and moving for your viewing pleasure and I hopefully can get 1 reading session of Walden Pond out each week as well...that's the intention...let's see if we can make it.
P.S.S--I don't necessarily intend to do much "talking and analyzing" of the poems I post up here for ya'll...I really just more intend to read them and let them "be" if you will...let them stand on their own ground and muster and let you grapple and work with them and manipulate (or not) them as you deem fit. Of course any questions, comments, ideas, thoughts, feelings, inspirations, pains, memories YOU GET from reading the poems would all be welcome and enjoyed over here at the blog. Feel free to post away! (also if you have any poetry or poet requests feel free to post them as well here at the running reading list post too!)
Much Love, Enjoy, and happy reading!!!
#1. Does this poem praise or condemn the “common man,” the ramhackle ordinariness of life? And WHY (on what grounds) does this poem seek to praise or condemn that?
#2. What does this poem state is the value of "Nature" to man…to this very speaker in the poem?
#3. What is the relationship between this speaker and the world around him? Does a relationship between inner and outer worlds for him work in his favor or to his detriment? How and why?
#4. Consider how your answers to question #3 relate to POLITICS and ECONOMICS. Do your conclusions lead you into new or "revolutionary" ideas about the individual and his (or her) relationship to society? How, if at all, does these ideas relate to the hopes (as well as the actual outcomes) of the French Revolution?
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