Alone - Edgar Allan Poe (Powerful Life Poetry)

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  • Опубліковано 31 жов 2020
  • Read by Shane Morris
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    Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for evocative short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world.
    Alone’ is often considered Poe’s most revealing work and with good reason. Here the tormented mind of the literary genius is pulled back and we have a glimpse into the early hours of an abrupt and troubled life.
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    Full Poem:
    From childhood’s hour I have not been
    As others were - I have not seen
    As others saw - I could not bring
    My passions from a common spring -
    From the same source I have not taken
    My sorrow - I could not awaken
    My heart to joy at the same tone -
    And all I lov’d - I lov’d alone -
    Then - in my childhood - in the dawn
    Of a most stormy life - was drawn
    From ev’ry depth of good and ill
    The mystery which binds me still -
    From the torrent, or the fountain -
    From the red cliff of the mountain -
    From the sun that ’round me roll’d
    In its autumn tint of gold -
    From the lightning in the sky
    As it pass’d me flying by -
    From the thunder, and the storm -
    And the cloud that took the form
    (When the rest of Heaven was blue)
    Of a demon in my view -

КОМЕНТАРІ • 217

  • @revertingthemoldways
    @revertingthemoldways 3 роки тому +275

    My all time fave from Edgar Allen Poe. "And all I loved, I loved alone"

    • @patrickobermiller
      @patrickobermiller 3 роки тому +3

      We all do.

    • @Omni-King2099
      @Omni-King2099 2 роки тому

      So what do you think it means?

    • @joshuacantos5204
      @joshuacantos5204 2 роки тому +3

      @@Omni-King2099 i think he meant that all (person) he loved, he was always the one who fell in loved but the other (person) do not feel the same love as him.

    • @stynershiner1854
      @stynershiner1854 Рік тому +8

      @@joshuacantos5204 Interesting interpretation, but to me this is about one's own hobbies and passions. Like for Poe, maybe writing and poetry was a hobby which no one close to him understood and so he was always left to love these things, alone.

    • @toonmati
      @toonmati Рік тому +3

      @@stynershiner1854 especially considering that Poe was the first American to live solely from his earnings as a writer. Not many loved literature like he did in the 1800’s

  • @arizhasan6988
    @arizhasan6988 3 роки тому +339

    Sometimes I feel bad that UA-cam doesn't have a heart button.

  • @andreafox3835
    @andreafox3835 3 роки тому +44

    This man. I hurt for him.

    • @LunarWilderness457
      @LunarWilderness457 3 роки тому +8

      He wrote words the way Chopin composed music.

    • @j.d.thompson3505
      @j.d.thompson3505 3 роки тому +6

      I read his complete short stories collection. Absolutely staggering. Anyone who disagreed at the time was clearly jealous. Not a syllable of his writing could be improved.

    • @j.d.thompson3505
      @j.d.thompson3505 3 роки тому +1

      @UCY6eRghSJ1YzD3M-6Tlnvvw I found the complete tales and poems book in a store. But there are used ones on eBay. Also try your library. There's even an audio book version.👣

    • @lowrispooner2279
      @lowrispooner2279 2 роки тому

      @@j.d.thompson3505 hi ..I also purchased the complete tales and poems on ebay for £3 ..ohh what a find ..
      Will treasure this gem forever...

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup 3 роки тому +28

    “A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.” “It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”..................

  • @mysimplelife8266
    @mysimplelife8266 2 роки тому +22

    And all I loved
    I loved alone
    .....
    Sad, but it's a masterpiece of a great poet !

    • @MyKneeGro
      @MyKneeGro 2 роки тому +3

      It's my most cherished line of this masterpiece. He has always been my favorite mind in poetry, as well as a free spoken thinker.. After my auto accident I now feel alone in a world of continuous poetry flowing through my entire being as I see the world around, which is why this line soothes me in an odd saddening way.

  • @vivekamar99
    @vivekamar99 3 роки тому +35

    Khalil Gibran's Defeat recited by Shane Morris gives me goosebumps

  • @coolfitt1600
    @coolfitt1600 3 роки тому +97

    Shane Morris is one of the best narrators
    He narrates based on his own soul level relation with poems. I often listen through his voice to a piece more than I listen to a music perhaps everyday in the past few months. God bless you man looking forward to hear more from you.

    • @sherrykeeton4150
      @sherrykeeton4150 Рік тому +1

      I'm becoming accustomed.....I prefer the flow of words thru my Own Sensibilites....

  • @romaniousvald-mont6718
    @romaniousvald-mont6718 3 роки тому +92

    Why is not a spotify playlist!?!? Please!!! I love the content of this channel, the poems and narrators are superbly deep and amazing.

    • @duwiraa5362
      @duwiraa5362 3 роки тому +1

      YES PLEASE

    • @z1sania
      @z1sania 3 роки тому

      YES PLEASE!!!!

    • @karensmith3565
      @karensmith3565 3 роки тому +1

      That’s true! The narrators are truly expressing the poems with great emotion! Love listening to them!

    • @karensmith3565
      @karensmith3565 3 роки тому

      You are absolutely right! They do a wonderful job, all.

    • @karensmith3565
      @karensmith3565 3 роки тому

      You can’t go wrong with Whitman poems. Lots of emotion!

  • @armymoa6589
    @armymoa6589 2 роки тому +8

    " I could not bring
    My passions from a common spring"
    This line tells everything !!!

  • @thomaskelly1299
    @thomaskelly1299 2 роки тому +5

    How this man took tremendous pain and sorrow, and made it art. I grew up just a few blocks from Poe cottage in the Bronx. I wish I had an outlet for my pain. I love this man. A true genius. I probably memorized everything he ever wrote.

  • @mehrajdin3632
    @mehrajdin3632 Рік тому +4

    One of my favorites 💕💖💯....
    Cried 😢

  • @Enigmalake
    @Enigmalake 3 роки тому +7

    Listening to this in the dark alone. It’s haunting

  • @cinemaskull9886
    @cinemaskull9886 3 роки тому +23

    Listening to this breaks my heart, Poe truly was a genius

  • @onlyjames702
    @onlyjames702 3 роки тому +58

    🔥The reader makes this piece come to life

    • @smoothie3376
      @smoothie3376 3 роки тому +2

      He's the reason I've started listening to poetry on UA-cam. It makes much more sense than when you read it to yourself it's true!! 😅❤️

    • @onlyjames702
      @onlyjames702 3 роки тому +1

      @@smoothie3376 I know right 😂

    • @weshuckabay5416
      @weshuckabay5416 3 роки тому +1

      Don't stop there.
      Challenge your mind.

    • @bluesque9687
      @bluesque9687 3 роки тому

      Actually, the opposite. The reader fuckd it up

    • @karensmith3565
      @karensmith3565 3 роки тому

      Yup!

  • @patrickwolf5796
    @patrickwolf5796 2 роки тому +6

    My Favorite poem...It's my whole life in a few short sentences.... I've loved alone.

  • @swanh7496
    @swanh7496 2 роки тому +14

    From childhood’s hour I have not been as others were
    I have not seen as others saw
    I could not bring
    My passions from a common
    From the same source I have not taken my sorrow
    I could not awaken my heart to joy at the same tone
    And all I lov’d
    I lov’d alone
    Then in my childhood-in the dawn of a most stormy life
    Was drawn from every depth of good and ill
    The mystery which binds me still
    From the torrent, or the fountain
    From the red cliff of the mountain
    From the sun that ‘round me roll’d
    In its autumn tint of gold
    From the lightning in the sky as it pass’d me flying by
    From the thunder , and the storm and the cloud that took the from
    When the rest of heaven was blue
    Of a demon in my view
    Alone
    by “edgar allen poe”🖤🖤

  • @BLURTHEGHOST
    @BLURTHEGHOST 3 роки тому +23

    Wow, the demon part really 'took the cake'.

  • @sociologica4247
    @sociologica4247 6 місяців тому +2

    my favorite poem of all times... magestic

  • @janiceward2169
    @janiceward2169 3 роки тому +62

    POE what a mind, absolutely deep as the ocean..Genius.!! read perfectly by Shane Morris..T.Y.

  • @it46vistargupta19
    @it46vistargupta19 3 роки тому +31

    "When the rest of heaven was blue, of a
    Demon in my view"
    I can relate
    Shane I also recommend a poem called "Rendezvous With Death,"

    • @hidan696
      @hidan696 3 роки тому +2

      Can you please explain that line?

    • @it46vistargupta19
      @it46vistargupta19 3 роки тому +8

      @@hidan696 when others see fun, or something beautiful, i am lost in my own demons that only i know and don't wanna share here,
      So that's"what others see blue heaven, i see my demons"

    • @lenasthy4146
      @lenasthy4146 3 роки тому +4

      @@hidan696, the human eyes often sees familiar shapes in clouds. Sometimes a hat, a tree, your house - anything. The person from the poem, however, saw a cloud that took the form of a demon. And, to add to that, he saw this "when the rest of heaven was blue"; in other words, in his childhood. It just intensifies how this person, which I deem to be Poe himself, differed from the others since childhood. A kid would've seen something bright, probably, yet he saw a demon. And then, you have the key verse of this poem "And All I lov'd, I lov'd alone".
      A complete masterpiece of a poem! No less skillfull or impactful than The Crow, his most famous one. A poet who resembles him is Fernando Pessoa, a portuguese poet. He so much dominated portugueses that, translated, almost all of his poems lose their essence, their strenght - ther impact. He also translated The Crow to portuguese. Had to make a few changes here and there, obviously, but, given the difficulty of it, the finished product is prideworthy.

    • @keepcalmandcarryon132
      @keepcalmandcarryon132 3 роки тому +1

      @@lenasthy4146 Edgar Allan Poe being different since childhood.
      I can relate to this so much I'm an INFP too
      But being idealistic is like living reality when you're actually an utopian

  • @esmaelotom6792
    @esmaelotom6792 Рік тому +2

    All I love, I love alone a line that hits me differently

  • @Squigglydodah
    @Squigglydodah 3 роки тому +15

    The last few months I've found myself listening to the poems Shane Morris reads as often as I listen to music. He has his own playlist on my phone 👍

  • @patrickbertlein4626
    @patrickbertlein4626 3 роки тому +18

    I have the word Alone tattooed on me, because of this poem. I know none would get it, but this poem as a whole has defined my life.

    • @paulanthony5274
      @paulanthony5274 Рік тому

      I think it defines a lot of us.

    • @patrickbertlein4626
      @patrickbertlein4626 Рік тому

      @@paulanthony5274 Maybe?

    • @paulanthony5274
      @paulanthony5274 Рік тому +1

      @@patrickbertlein4626 Meaning you aren't alone my friend. No pun intended. Or rudeness. I feel many of us are this way, I am too.

    • @DeeDeex007o
      @DeeDeex007o Місяць тому

      ❤❤

  • @42BETWO
    @42BETWO 3 роки тому +13

    POE…
    From childhood, grew his knowledge of good and evil as inseparable opposites. He saw that each defines the other to form a unity in the tension of their polarity. Poe embraced the good as accentuated and contrasted by its opposite. He saw that you can’t have one without the other. He realized that only truth can tell them apart. He learned to indulge the ‘light’ by embracing the ‘dark.’

  • @vimalasuppiah3228
    @vimalasuppiah3228 3 роки тому +5

    So powerful and sad --- brings tears to my eyes. Reminds me of someone I know --- he doesn't even know I care 😭

  • @Shavoyrussell
    @Shavoyrussell 3 роки тому +10

    I lost my job because of the pandemic so I started a meditation and healing channel🙏🏽

    • @karensmith3565
      @karensmith3565 3 роки тому

      Sorry about your job, but poetry has the power to heal, don’t you think?

  • @esmaelotom6792
    @esmaelotom6792 Рік тому +6

    Sometimes a single poem is enough to tell my life story 💔

  • @freespirit8436
    @freespirit8436 3 роки тому +3

    Poe’s tales may seem as a nightmare full of illnesses,madness,death ,ugly murders,searches in the depth of tombs,and mysterious cries at midnight.His imagination is remarkable,his use of metaphors is striking...his heroes are insane ,neurotic or about to be such...it is thought that his characters are nothing but a reflection of himself...he makes the reader face the extremes of known and unknown,visible and invisible,fancy and reality in other words the twilight of the human mind...mostly using at ending Reason as a guide to solve Issues ...Edgar Allan Poe is the greatest investigator of the human psyche and remains my favorite short story teller .

  • @user-hd8fj2mb5p
    @user-hd8fj2mb5p 3 місяці тому

    What a poem! I send love to the soul of Edgar Allen Poe. Dear, tortured man that he was, I hope that love can give him some peace and dearly-earned rest.

  • @melo-9286
    @melo-9286 2 роки тому +1

    With this voice, the verses get more deep..with this voice, all the words goes straight in the heart 💙

  • @benmorgan4836
    @benmorgan4836 3 роки тому +3

    I love these so much , please God keep these on youtube. Keep making more! Thank you! Thank you!

  • @adityasurve8106
    @adityasurve8106 3 роки тому +1

    What a strong, deep, scholar, and truly powerful life poetry by Edgar Allan Poe.
    Thanks for uploading This poetry.

  • @elielben-dan1597
    @elielben-dan1597 3 роки тому +12

    I mistakenly thought that I’d read everything that he published. I stand corrected. Read his treatise explaining how he composed poetry if you care to gaze into the mind of a super genius.

  • @fahimfaysal7934
    @fahimfaysal7934 3 роки тому +2

    that voice! Touches the soul

  • @louismj3727
    @louismj3727 3 роки тому +2

    This is pure poetry...One can feel it flow in the blood stream

  • @SimpleSouthernReflections
    @SimpleSouthernReflections 3 роки тому +7

    This is absolutely beautiful, thanks for sharing.

  • @bastardwhoreson
    @bastardwhoreson 2 роки тому +1

    My favorite piece. Feel it. really feel it.

  • @sherrykeeton4150
    @sherrykeeton4150 Рік тому +1

    FANTASTIC......

  • @ioogy
    @ioogy 3 роки тому +3

    Poignant, and very relatable.

  • @evaneluna6823
    @evaneluna6823 3 роки тому

    Shane Morris a une voix superbe, profonde!

  • @maylin4217
    @maylin4217 3 роки тому +2

    what a beautiful voice,well said

  • @Bennesara
    @Bennesara Рік тому +1

    I love his poems and I love his face ❤️

  • @mahinzandi2829
    @mahinzandi2829 3 роки тому

    Deep feelings, out there’s is such a sadness in the voice of the narrator!

  • @Karelja
    @Karelja 3 роки тому +5

    I once made a song to this poem using a crappy 6 quid guitar and recorded it in 1 take. It sounds great considering that it was recorded with a terrible laptop and no studio effects whatsoever. But still today, every time I listen to that song I have the sense that it's the most beautiful song I have created. The chorus uses a mesh up picking up from Jeff Buckley's 'Grace'. The song I made to Edgar Alan Poe's poem "Alone" speaks so deeply to me because it goes back to a time I was a university student completely lost, lonely and utterly depressed. Every time I hear that song I remember the 'mountain' I had to beat to become what I am today.

  • @tatianadejanac8474
    @tatianadejanac8474 Рік тому +1

    Every time i hear this poem or read i cry…. It is like he knew my deepest sorrow… thank you EAP

  • @GNeis7345
    @GNeis7345 2 роки тому

    I take English class and i am pleased to have the opportunity , to have known about Edgar Allan Poe !

  • @sara_polverini
    @sara_polverini 2 роки тому +2

    I guess I have never related to a poem so much. One of my favourite authors 🖤

  • @carlenewilliams7093
    @carlenewilliams7093 3 роки тому +2

    This was beautiful

  • @l.correll
    @l.correll 3 роки тому +5

    Finally, an awesome voice for beauty. I request The Prophet.

  • @sarascarpati887
    @sarascarpati887 2 роки тому

    my god, you can't make me cry like this...

  • @jamiepoems
    @jamiepoems Рік тому +1

    Beautiful poem

  • @jenishamaharjan597
    @jenishamaharjan597 3 роки тому +2

    Got goosebumps 😮😮

  • @darylcumming7119
    @darylcumming7119 2 місяці тому

    Thank you.

  • @BoJack594
    @BoJack594 3 роки тому +2

    We want more!

  • @cambuurrinse
    @cambuurrinse 2 роки тому

    this is my favorite guy, really. i love making poems myself, i've also seen his quote video. and this also inspires to write music i create

  • @literatureclub4543
    @literatureclub4543 3 роки тому

    Voice is so good .

  • @islamicmotivationalquotes
    @islamicmotivationalquotes 3 роки тому +1

    The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

  • @bennynag9891
    @bennynag9891 3 роки тому +1

    Your voice is awesome sir.

  • @WafasPoetry
    @WafasPoetry 3 роки тому +2

    new friend here. liked your poetry

  • @JOHNBURNS67
    @JOHNBURNS67 6 місяців тому

    And all I lov'd, I lov'd alone.....

  • @kishork7713
    @kishork7713 3 роки тому +2

    The voice is on 🔥🔥🔥

  • @n.u.k.2188
    @n.u.k.2188 3 роки тому

    Please narrate more of his Works ❤️

  • @kevingutuollocu8219
    @kevingutuollocu8219 2 роки тому

    It's really inspiring

  • @mrShihamDiamond
    @mrShihamDiamond Рік тому +1

    Everything I have forgotten in my mind:
    But I can't forget your face in my eyes!
    Because I'm alone ❣️
    By: Shiham Hisham
    This poet for my mom from long distance miss you ❣️❣️

  • @asamarabelemdeoliveira3297
    @asamarabelemdeoliveira3297 3 роки тому +3

    Amazing, poem and voice.

    • @sunshine-om7jg
      @sunshine-om7jg 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/tvP7oI6XVEw/v-deo.html
      I hope you would like this poem too

    • @marcvolpe8252
      @marcvolpe8252 11 місяців тому

      ASAMARABELEMDROLIVEIRS YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL ADORABLE SEDUCTIVE RAVISHING SENSUAL SEXY CAPTIVATING AND PASSIONATE ❤

  • @BioskopTanpaNama
    @BioskopTanpaNama 3 роки тому

    very nice edgar allan poe

  • @HistoryExplained
    @HistoryExplained 2 роки тому

    Why haven’t you continued posting on this channel? I’m impressed by it’s growth with only 3 videos!

  • @freespirit8436
    @freespirit8436 3 роки тому +3

    ...the Raven: ...nevermore,nevermore...

  • @pinkcard590
    @pinkcard590 2 роки тому

    Thank you for explaining my carnal fear

  • @freespirit8436
    @freespirit8436 3 роки тому +1

    ...neither the angels in the heaven nor the demons down under can ever dis ever my soul from the soul of Annabel lee...thats deep...

  • @hetvin9453
    @hetvin9453 4 місяці тому

    If I were a poem, I would be this one!

  • @alivcor
    @alivcor 2 роки тому

    Upload a poem on LOVE. love your work❤️

  • @jamesbrown-te4nq
    @jamesbrown-te4nq 3 місяці тому

    Someone to love Me the way I love You.

  • @ivanapetakova3340
    @ivanapetakova3340 2 роки тому

    the dearest Edgar, you are not alone

  • @yamant2661
    @yamant2661 2 місяці тому

    And the cloud that took the form (when the rest of heaven was blue ) of a demon in my view
    That's epic

  • @MockTheGoat
    @MockTheGoat 3 роки тому +4

    Interesting poem. Did you know it is an internal look at Edgar Allan Poe's life, especially childhood

    • @MockTheGoat
      @MockTheGoat 3 роки тому +1

      Didn't know before you have for specifics poem channel for motivation @Beknown @Redfrost Motivation

    • @keepcalmandcarryon132
      @keepcalmandcarryon132 3 роки тому

      Yeah, Edgar Allan Poe is an INFP & me too.
      So basically INFP is the most idealistic personality in the world.
      & The poet is so true we're really different even as children (INFPs)

  • @leroyanderson2843
    @leroyanderson2843 Рік тому

    For the life I have, I have loved alone. The forsaken soul that was or is, is not alone when being lonely is never the same as being left alone. Lonely is being left out, in my experience to the word ALONE discloses self to the world around you.

  • @gildaafonso989
    @gildaafonso989 2 роки тому

    Obrigada🙏🙋‍♀️💖🇵🇹🍀🍒🦅

  • @Film-Today
    @Film-Today Рік тому

    Best

  • @kevingutuollocu8219
    @kevingutuollocu8219 2 роки тому

    Please we want more

  • @weshuckabay5416
    @weshuckabay5416 3 роки тому +1

    If you need it on spotify, you don't need it.

  • @isthisi2942
    @isthisi2942 3 роки тому

    I physically felt hurt after listening to him!!!!!

  • @chappy5966
    @chappy5966 Рік тому

    I’m with you…..

  • @nassimabk3714
    @nassimabk3714 3 роки тому

    I have no clue why I relate to this.

  • @ruthelizabeth8402
    @ruthelizabeth8402 Рік тому

    "When the rest of heaven was blue of a demon in my view" and this for me hits more

  • @jayantadey0101
    @jayantadey0101 Рік тому

    The lines which I often feel one with:
    "I could not bring my passions from a common spring--
    From the same source I have not taken my sorrow--
    I could not awaken my heart to joy at the same tone--
    And all I loved
    I loved alone--"

  • @niemand3949
    @niemand3949 2 роки тому

    Edgar Alone Poe,
    The Mylène Farmer 's song, Allan, is so true that my heart bleeds for you .

  • @NoOneIsHome
    @NoOneIsHome 2 роки тому

  • @gayathriy4507
    @gayathriy4507 3 роки тому

    👌👌👌👌👌
    A new subscriber here.

  • @Deepakyadav-vp8xx
    @Deepakyadav-vp8xx 3 роки тому

    It is difference in perception

  • @valdirbergamobergamo5396
    @valdirbergamobergamo5396 3 роки тому

    Brilliant narration, as deep as the content. 💯
    ... Do you have , or could you narrate something about HP Loverkraft? 💯 Thanks in advance.

  • @cambuurrinse
    @cambuurrinse 2 роки тому

    Amazing and incredible, the voice telling this is also great who does it? I recently started singing but my voice sucks

  • @quoteswise5799
    @quoteswise5799 Рік тому

    FROM THE SAME SOURCE I HAVE NOT TAKEN MY SORROW I COULD NOT AWAKEN MY HEART TO JOY AT THE SAME TONE AND ALL I LOVDI LOYD ALONE....

  • @glennrobinson198
    @glennrobinson198 3 роки тому

    🌱

  • @elainebowen5234
    @elainebowen5234 3 роки тому

    💐🕊🐚❤

  • @wisdom10x17
    @wisdom10x17 3 роки тому +4

    “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
    ― Rumi

  • @jordanward855
    @jordanward855 3 роки тому +8

    What do you call an alligator with a vest?
    Investigator!!

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup 3 роки тому

    My Emptiness

  • @weshuckabay5416
    @weshuckabay5416 3 роки тому +1

    It was written to provoke thought from those that say they are alone.
    It was written to remind some that perhaps they aren't as alone as they think.
    It was written to
    Promote thought.
    That's what poetry is.

  • @milcanugurbascil9243
    @milcanugurbascil9243 2 роки тому

    Müziksiz halini nasıl bulabilirim ?
    How can I find the version without music?