It's dreadful. Has nothing to do with the Raven poem. Absolutely horrible. Your typical "wow, so baritone" book reading with zero flairs or uniqueness.
To the people who say the reader lacks emotion and "flair"...I'd say the lack of flair is what makes this reading so powerful. I literally felt this man's anguish, despair, and at the beginning of the poem, to me, there was such an exhausted note in his voice that worked perfectly. This Ving Rhames sound-alike guy did awesome to me. Just my opinion, let's not hate on each other's opinions. Let's just respect great writing and oratory skills
@@SamuelBlack84 God certainly exists, and he doesn’t care. However the point was different in the literary context. He is swearing to a common audience of the reader, the raven and himself, he is appealing to something core and more than human to lower his grief. That makes that part beautiful.
Poe’s poetry must be read aloud to be fully appreciated because he was the most musical of poets. Poe was a brilliant literary critic and he was a great admirer of the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson - he praised Tennyson’s wonderful musicality. Poe was a literary genius who has been badly treated by American literary critics. Baudelaire and the French recognized his genius. His portrait betrays the ravages of alcoholism. The death of his young wife that inspired The Raven sent him into despair but from his despair he created this work of genius.
Thank you Steven for writing this! Doesn't surprise me that alcohol and a woman ended up being the demise of Mr Poe - he definitely was a tortured soul 🖤 Peace & Love - always 💕 hello from Oregon 👋
@@cincin4515 Wrong how? I know what I’m talking about. Have you read his literary criticism? Where he praises Tennyson for his musicality? Can you deny that Poe’s poetry sounds beautiful to the ear when read by a sensitive actor? He himself stated that the death of his wife is what drove him over the edge into alcoholism. No. You don’t know what you’re talking about!
I had an amazing teacher Mrs. Stewart who sadly passed away from cancer. In her 8th grade class we studied Edgar Allan Poe. Stewart recorded several of Poe’s poems, I would give anything to hear them again. 20 years have gone by and this one section of schooling has stuck with me the most.
I have known "The Raven" for 50 years. Until Mr. Morris cascaded his sounds on my eager ears, I never understood the anguish, the hope, the desperation, the resignation, the anger, and above it all, the love that the poem engenders. Thank you all involved for bringing to life this jewel of living poetry to let it enter our hearts in all of its sublime strength and tenderness.
Have you heard Christopher Walken's version ? Walken is unbelievably unnerving in his performance. So natural . In my opinion everyone else just seems to be reading in comparison. Check it out if you haven't already ! God Bless .
Thank you Felipe and Black for your suggestions. I did open/listen to the Wayne John version of the Raven (the Christopher version I had listened to before). I concluded that just like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the beauty of the sound of "performed" poetry is in the ear of the listener. Unfortunately, neither Wayne nor Christopher elicited in me the same emotional response as Morris' delivery which I am not embarrassed to confess that it brought me to tears. But, hey, that's only me. Be well and well "poemed," my friends.
@@gaetanomontante5161 God made us all different for a reason ! Thats a good thing ! Harry Chapin songs make me weep , but they may not be your cup of tea !
I never forgot this masterpiece....I learned it in high school in the backwards muddy ricefields of Luzon some 65years or so ago. My ...how breath taking . I visited his birthplace about 20 years ago while touring the USA. THANK YOU AGAIN, EDGAR ALLAN POE.. ❤
Aside from loving everything Edgar Allan Poe ever wrote, The Raven holds a special place in my heart. When I was in eighth grade, and I am 65 years old now, I memorized this poem for my English class because my teacher didn’t think I could do it. He told me if I could memorize the entire poem and recite it in front of the class I would never have to take another test for the rest of the year in English class. It took me two months at that age to memorize it, but I did it! Ever since then I have never forgotten this poem! Thanks for posting not only a truly gifted man’s work but a video that brought back some good memories! Happy Halloween everyone! 😊🎃🍂🍁👻.
If you liked my Edgar Allan Poe book the song Achilles Come Down is one of my favorite songs I wrote. Poor Man's Poison is a favorite discography I recorded both you can find on youtube. By the way, I was the one that wrote the Edgar Allan Poe book and those are a song and set of albums I also wrote.
@@Navygrl58 I would also recommend the Dream Theater albums I wrote and Death albums. My work as Mozart, Bach and Beethoven is great piano music with no lyrics But Dream Theater, Poor Man's Poison, Death, A Pale Horse Named Death, Achilles Come Down all have lyrics to them. Helloween is good too.
I read this poem many times. I studied it in school, as others did. I don't remember ever realizing the dream-like tortured atmosphere that this poem represents. He lost Lenore and is haunted by her lost love and the absence. This narrator's voice is very good. I felt myself there, in the room, tormented by the tapping ,and the Raven. Good job Sir. Thank you. Truly.
It is true, even now I miss Lorna (named Lenore in the writing) her real name Lorna. She was the one that pieced my chest with a rapier the night I wrote the Edgar Allan Poe book
@@danielrice5474 Lorna was the raven. She flew down from the mantel she perched on, with sword in lunge. I had to parry her attack. But she flew like a bird. Bird is what I call people that fly. Chicks are people that don't fly, because they are baby birds.
I’ve never thought I would ever be able to enjoy a poem that much while barely understanding it. From now on, I’ll be doing my best to learn English to a level that affords me the ability to enjoy the full spectrum of English literature
I agree 100%. This is the best reading of this immortal poem I could find here. Shane Morris not only have a fantastic voice, but he is also able to create a very similar music of words to what I hear when I read this poem silently. Thank you for posting this!
Edgar Allan Poe was also a musician. Some of my works you might recognize as Mozart, Bach, Beethoven or (with lyrics) Dream Theater, one of my favorite songs currently that I recorded is Achilles Come Down, by the way, I was Edgar Allan Poe. I wrote the Edgar Allan Poe book in my own blood.
Wonderful! I memorized this 50 years ago, in high school, during a prolonged illness in bed, and I still remembered 2/3 of it just now! The use of tone and syllables and rhythm is peerless. MUST be read aloud to be groked.
I became aware of this master in junior college and 60 years later, all I remembered was the name of the poem and the name of its author. However, today, I am in awe again listening to this beautiful poem. Such masterful reading of this poem. Thank you.
oh what an incredible voice this man has, it's so perfect for reciting poe. i hope there is an audiobook where he reads more of poe's work, i would love to hear the tell-tale heart.
@MannyGLA 🏴 🔥 I’m very sorry to hear that…prayers for you and your family. My moms death was sudden and unexpected…she had a blood clot of some kind. I learned lower back pain could mean your having a heart attack.
I’m 32 sat here on the night train home 23:06, never have I read or listened to any Edgar alan poe tho I have heard of him. This touches my soul though I share no feeling or memory of the words. How lovely X
I wrote more than just the Edgar Allan Poe book. I wrote a lot of music, as well as medical text books, the Albert Einstein and Miguel Alcubierre papers on quantum mechanics and Warp Drive Engines. The equation E=MC2 was to remind myself how to make warp speed happen.
As a 4 year old I dreamt of a crow sitting on my bedroom door, i'm sure it was 4, no more. It was the most scared i've ever been, so scared i couldn't scream. Even now i couldn't tell you why it filled me with such dread, was it the way it threatened to peck my eyes from my head? It was so real it had to be a sign, for nothing after that was ever so sublime. It wasn't long after my father grabbed me by my thick head of unwashed hair and half drowned me under a freezing full force tap for lying to him about washing it. I was changed forever, never again did i look at him with the same love and admiraiton, never again did i trust him or anyone. Not long after that i was the victim of bullying at the hands of two older boys after school, not bad, they were just not letting me get take my bag, they kept throwing it over my head to the other one which as an onlooking parent was nothing, but as a sensitive child i was quite upset. My 1st teacher at the time told all 3 of us to report to the principles office the next morning instead of seeing the problem and rescuing my bag for me. That next morning i had to wait outside the principles office with the 2 boys in the cold wondering why i was here, what i had i done wrong, then one by one we were hit several times on out cold sensitive outstretched hands with a ruler and again i was traumatised, completely bewildered and in shock as to why i was being punished. Then if that wasn't bad enough, not long after that, i was chasing a friend who did something to me that i was trying to pay him back for and he ran onto the road and got hit by a thankfully slow moving car. The lady got out screaming to pick him off the ground and screamed that i'd pushed him onto the road. This happened not far from the bag incident and the same hateful red haired teacher sent from hell to punish me was there again and boy oh boy did she turn the world against me this time. No one, not even my parents believed i didn't push him in front of that car. My friend who was hit and his mother who worked for my father all hated me for it and i was left broken disbelieved and punished again for a crime i didn't commit. Oh yes, that crow was significant, my life was all downhill from there till i was 35. Many jobs, many houses, bouts of homelessness, many friends, many girl friends, zero stability, zero self esteem,. i was cursed by that crow. Many times i wished i'd be killed, many times i wanted to take my life but was too scared. There were many more tragedies but i won't bore you with them, i've already said way more than intended. I just hope never to see that crow in my dreams again.
The embracing of knowledge of one's past the present does not take away from the loss of the past but with a smile forward one must go it is the very depth of the loss that brings a smile to my face Wade and measured the truth be known the past is the past and does one ever find their way home excellent reading
I am looking at the comments, and have to agree this is fantastic. My mother and I used to love reading poetry back and forth. When I was in grade school, I had to memorize this poem. I just was watching something on television, that got me wanting to look up this poem, those were the days.
EDGAR ALLAN POE & NOW !! One of America’s most famous writers Was born in Boston, January of 1809. Both his parents were failing actors And his father was drunk most the time. In 1810 Edgar’s dad disappeared His mother died soon after. A childless couple took him in Raising him with love and laughter. Edgar had a Negro nurse Who brought him to her quarters. There he listened to ghost stories Far beyond earthly borders. The strange tales he later wrote May have come from her inspiration. The words she used to describe death Gave Poe his taste for sensation. The Allan’s moved to England Where Poe attended boarding schools. There’s no doubt his time spent there Sharpened his skills as tools. Returning to Richmond and back in school He began to compose new verse. Heavy debts forced him to leave college As his life took a turn for the worse. Poe caught a ride on a coal barge to Boston Where he was unable to find employment. A young printer agreed to publish his poems Giving him hope and enjoyment. Penniless, Poe enlisted in the army And was accepted to West Point in 29. Poe couldn’t stand not being a writer Self-imposing his dismissal from The Line. Afterward he became an editor and critic And married his cousin who was thirteen. Six years later he discovered she was dying Suffering once more the unforeseen. He went through periods of insanity Caused by grieving and functional fall. He smoked opium and drank too much Till at his doorstep death would call. Edgar Allan Poe the master of verse Still lives in our hearts today Famous for The Raven and other great works May his soul rest in peace we pray. THANK YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE IN YOUR HEART ! By Tom Zart Google = Most Published Poet Tom’s 1,650 Poems Are Free To Share! Google = George Bush Tom Zart
I am the only Master / Boss / Mistress / Leader / Star etc and the Master of verse etc, and the misused big term master must be edited out -- I am also the Lenore, and all those poems/ideas came from the one that runs the agency, not from Poe himself...
I'm the Lenore & the Virginia and the only wf(s) / gf(s) / bride(s) etc and the only girl(s) in the world -- The Raven was secretly written about me the rare & radiant maiden aka The Angel aka The God(dess) aka The Bird / The Bee / The Butterfly aka the beautiful being and the sainted maiden and the pure being (the opposite of womyn) etc, as are most other poems and lyrics!
This beautiful poem is forever one of my favs . It’s a realistic feeling of grief that we all unfortunately will experience . The raven is specific to your own thoughts on what losing someone really means . 🥺😅
It was The Simpsons that made me fall in love with this poem when I was but a wee lad. I loved James Earl Jones' reading; though it was in a comical context, that's how I discovered Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven has been one of my favourite pieces of literature since I was a child.
I adore Poe I can read his works over and over again and never be bored. Its beautiful, Vincent Price was the best to bring to life in film best combo.
Nevermore I have read this poem many a time, but it lacked something special. You Put life and color into those brilliant sentences. The Black color. The dark, the obscure and the dread gained more Energy. 💯 Congratulations, divine!!!
The best reading I ever heard of this poem was actually done by my HS English teacher, Mr. G. By the end of the poem, the narrator had clearly been driven insane. Mr. G was literally yelling and raving and pounding on the podium... we were all too mesmerized to read along in our books, but Mr. G had it memorized.
I am 324 years young and I still remember young Edgar coming rapping at my chamber door, he said Sir, I want you to read this and nothing more. I studied what he implored, left stunned, feeling improved "So this is what mere words can do"? I was impressed, demanding remaining lore He laughed and said " let's drink buddy, i show you why we call saturdays Nevermore!" Oh, Those where the days :)
I love love love Poe, I'm a writer, he's one of my inspirations to be a poet and writer. I write a lot of macabre poetry but I'm not a rhyming poet, once and a while. Still he's a huge influence.
@thomasalmond3311 well I started reading and writing poetry and stories at like 12 and honestly I discovered him just looking through stuff in the library. I consumed as much literature as I could from a young age and I'm a pretty dark and twisty person so my dark and twisty poetry is inspired by greats like him. Short answer, going to the library. Lol.
@mauromartinez625 I wish! I'm in the middle of editing all my poetry actually, I'm almost done and I've talked to a couple publishers, I'm wondering if I should self publish actually but hopefully within the next year I'll have my own book out. Look out for 'Inside the Bird Cage' by Kelly Miracle and hopefully you'll find it. Long story about the name of the collection but birds are kinda a thing in my life. I'm working on my first novel as well, it's a fantasy and that is tough, first full novel I'm working on, I'm like 3/4 of the way done with it and I'm hoping if it does well to write more because it's intended to be a series. I guess remember my name and hopefully you'll see me on the shelf or in audio book form, cross my fingers it's a life long dream!
@@AFoxInFlames Well this might interest you; it's never been proven exactly how he died, there's been no end of theories over the years and these are just some of them; suicide, murder, cholera, hypoglycemia, rabies, syphilis, influenza, brain tumor etc.
I have a lighter with a red eyed raven on it under the moon that says "nevermore" now im obsessed with this poem and i found out raven's can be trained to say "nevermore." Edgar Allen Poe is a genius or should i say Night pain?
This is an excellent reading! I'm an I insomniac that memorized this ages ago to help me get to sleep instead of counting sheep. I will also perform it when asked by friends or family... I roll through the play of emotions as I recite and almost end up in tears... this does it for me too! TLDR: 😢😢😢 Good work sir!
I've been looking for a good reading of this poem for so long and this is definitely the best it could ever be. What a voice full of feeling. I had goosebumps from start to end, incredible.
I’m here as always, every October 7. May the memory of this incredible man endure for many years to come. And if I should die before I come back to this video on this same date next year, I utter now the same words as the man himself did one hundred and seventy-four years ago today…. “Lord Help My Poor Soul.”
I was the man that wrote the Edgar Allan Poe book, some of my musical works are Dream Theater Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and the song Achilles Come Down. I recommend them if you enjoy Edgar Allan Poe.
He was only 40 year's old when he passed. He died in an alley and his body was put in a grave with no coffin until later. He lived a sad life. He didn't have a proper burial.
One of his best, when I was teaching I would read "Tell Tale Heart" to my classes the day before Halloween, of course we would dinner then lights to darkn the classroom - so much fun.🎃
Christopher Lee's is solidly in the top 3, but to me, Christopher Walken is still "The Iron Raven", i.e., the one to beat. In his reading, he's not just reciting a poem, he's telling a *story*. More than any other reading I've found so far (and I've looked), his conveys the emotional state of the narrator at each stage of the story. I'd thought I understood the poem already, but nobody else has so effectively made me feel like I understood it from the writer's point of view.
Thanks for loving my Edgar Allan Poe book. Might I recommend my music? Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Camina Burana. But if you are interested in music I sang on Dream Theater, Helloween, A Pale Horse Named Death, Death and the song Achilles Come Down
I love Edgar Poe! I didn't know he was also a poet.) Strong poems! They say that crows and eagles dream not for good, but for death, but I want to believe that this is not true, because both birds are too wise and mean greatness, power, admiration. The writer achieved all this and the birds were only a sign of his glory as a creative person. I dreamt of a raven very often and still do. This bird is my talisman.
This is one of the most mesmerizing recitals of The Raven that I have come across yet. Christopher Walken did one and so did Vincent Price which are both pretty good. This one, I have on repeat. And, I named my daughter Raven.
Indeed, this is the best reading of 'The Raven' that I have heard to date. I should also commend the appropriate use of faintly audible music in the background. Excellent.
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream- that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and night, So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day-star?😔
This drew my in. So so well. I enjoyed that so much! Thank you very much! It made me feel so many feeling. I was happy and sad, I smiled, looked and imagined and saw received the poam happening almost as being in it myself. Much peaceful bliss!
The best part about this poem aside from your reading, is that ravens are smart, it could both speak the word and understand its meaning. I mean it's not such a good thing for the character in the poem, the thought that he will never see his Lenore again, or be rid of the raven who is only tormenting him with that word and its presence, but it's cool to think it knows what it's doing and causes no end to the goosebumps and shivers I get when really letting the setting of the poem sink in and that is what October is about, spooky stuff.
I learned my favorite story about this opium-addled, alcoholic misanthrope, highly critical of his colleagues, which I learned while at West Point. Yes, Poe attended West Point and might have had a bright career as a military officer, but for a single incident, which found himself expelled immediately. There was a surprise "double quick" inspections and Poe arrived wearing only his belt and buckler. Puts things in perspective!
It won't happen, the woman that inspired it out of me in our encounters hates me. I did too many unforgivable things to her and thus I stopped writing. Because she was always what inspired me to. To try to create a lasting legacy so everyone would know Lenore is the greatest sword fighter the world ever knew. Lenore still hasn't realized, she was right long before she walked out of my house and left me heartbroken knowing she wouldn't be back. But the second time, the heart break wasn't from a sword. Just the knowledge she wanted me to suffer, because she thought I wasn't in love with her already.
Only my favourite poem of all time. I heard a reading of this once by the late Sir Christopher Lee. Chilling. Rhyming ‘window lattice’ with ‘what thereat is’ is a great rhyming couplet. Thank you. 6
I'm not an English native speaker, however I considered myself a fanatic of English poetry. Well, of the English poetry whose meaning I can access. This is my first encounter with this poem, I enjoyed its musicality, its rhyme and I thought the raven he was talking about was exactly that, a raven tapping on the window lattice of his room. lol
An absolute favourite. This and nothing more.
I used to think old poems are boring. But after hearing The Raven? Nevermore.
Nevermore:)
Brilliant comment.
❤❤❤❤
@@emrys6801😅
@@raymondcarranza2821 damn that was a year ago
This reader's voice is truly immaculate.
Nah
It's dreadful. Has nothing to do with the Raven poem. Absolutely horrible. Your typical "wow, so baritone" book reading with zero flairs or uniqueness.
Agreed
The voice soon becomes an irritating bore.
I wish u can make my voice like that when I want ;)
I've loved this poem for over 40 years, and this is one of my favorite readings.
❤️👍 Beautiful
Please Visit Once And Give Your Feedback 👍
Have you listened to the reading of this poem by the late Sir Christopher Lee? It really is remarkable.
@@SIX622 of course he has and James Earl Jones aswell. Every one has heard thoose two. I prefer this over both of them.
@@Faiz_Alii f
8
I've been listening to it everyday and somehow calms my anxiety. Now I want to memorize it.
I memorized it in 7th grade and now at 65 years I still know it!
Same
@@anna-leighlondon8383 That’s really impressive!
I attempted memorizing it, but ended up quitting at the 9th verse
im having to memorize it rn lol
@@josieluvsu This comment replies made me start memorizing it (again) too!
Good luck :)
To the people who say the reader lacks emotion and "flair"...I'd say the lack of flair is what makes this reading so powerful. I literally felt this man's anguish, despair, and at the beginning of the poem, to me, there was such an exhausted note in his voice that worked perfectly. This Ving Rhames sound-alike guy did awesome to me. Just my opinion, let's not hate on each other's opinions. Let's just respect great writing and oratory skills
Some people need to realize Edgar Allan Poe writes depressing and Gothic poems
Can you listen to mine please ❤
"By that Heaven that bends above us
By that God we both adore-"
I broke down
It’s my favorite part as well
He isn't up there
And even if he was
He doesn't care
@@SamuelBlack84 God certainly exists, and he doesn’t care. However the point was different in the literary context. He is swearing to a common audience of the reader, the raven and himself, he is appealing to something core and more than human to lower his grief. That makes that part beautiful.
Poe’s poetry must be read aloud to be fully appreciated because he was the most musical of poets. Poe was a brilliant literary critic and he was a great admirer of the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson - he praised Tennyson’s wonderful musicality. Poe was a literary genius who has been badly treated by American literary critics. Baudelaire and the French recognized his genius. His portrait betrays the ravages of alcoholism. The death of his young wife that inspired The Raven sent him into despair but from his despair he created this work of genius.
I've been reading Poe for 50 years. Never aloud. You are wrong on so many levels.
Thank you Steven for writing this!
Doesn't surprise me that alcohol and a woman ended up being the demise of Mr Poe - he definitely was a tortured soul 🖤
Peace & Love - always 💕 hello from Oregon 👋
@@cincin4515 Wrong how? I know what I’m talking about. Have you read his literary criticism? Where he praises Tennyson for his musicality? Can you deny that Poe’s poetry sounds beautiful to the ear when read by a sensitive actor? He himself stated that the death of his wife is what drove him over the edge into alcoholism. No. You don’t know what you’re talking about!
@@peacelovejoy8786 He was certainly a tormented soul. He needed a good woman to look after him.
@@stevenyourke7901 good women actually existed in his day. Feminism has destroyed women and femininity.
I love Edgar Allen Poe. I will never forget hearing The Tell Tale Heart for the first time. Incredible.
That was so beautiful I cried
shaun pfaff
I had an amazing teacher Mrs. Stewart who sadly passed away from cancer. In her 8th grade class we studied Edgar Allan Poe. Stewart recorded several of Poe’s poems, I would give anything to hear them again. 20 years have gone by and this one section of schooling has stuck with me the most.
I have known "The Raven" for 50 years. Until Mr. Morris cascaded his sounds on my eager ears, I never understood the anguish, the hope, the desperation, the resignation, the anger, and above it all, the love that the poem engenders. Thank you all involved for bringing to life this jewel of living poetry to let it enter our hearts in all of its sublime strength and tenderness.
Have you heard Christopher Walken's version ? Walken is unbelievably unnerving in his performance. So natural . In my opinion everyone else just seems to be reading in comparison. Check it out if you haven't already ! God Bless .
I strongly recommend Wayne June's version! Not nearly enough people are aware of his reading, but I consider it a true Gem!
Check It out
Thank you Felipe and Black for your suggestions. I did open/listen to the Wayne John version of the Raven (the Christopher version I had listened to before). I concluded that just like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the beauty of the sound of "performed" poetry is in the ear of the listener.
Unfortunately, neither Wayne nor Christopher elicited in me the same emotional response as Morris' delivery which I am not embarrassed to confess that it brought me to tears. But, hey, that's only me.
Be well and well "poemed," my friends.
I got into this through The Strangelrs awesome album The Raven. Intriguing poem too.
@@gaetanomontante5161 God made us all different for a reason ! Thats a good thing ! Harry Chapin songs make me weep , but they may not be your cup of tea !
"Shall I read this poem again?"
Crow thinks for a moment: "Yes, sure"
Nevermore
Yup.
Only I have known the answer
and the Crow shrieks: "nevermore"
said I crow, how wrong I was
my heart blazen
for now i know that was
a raven
Pure
I never forgot this masterpiece....I learned it in high school in the backwards muddy ricefields of Luzon
some 65years or so ago.
My ...how breath taking .
I visited his birthplace about 20 years ago while touring the USA. THANK YOU AGAIN, EDGAR ALLAN POE.. ❤
Poe: A GENIUS. A credit to our American History.
I agree, an American treasure.
Alcoholic equates to a genius
.... cc...clever clown.lenore cheated an crazy clown spent life dreaming.i concur
Aside from loving everything Edgar Allan Poe ever wrote, The Raven holds a special place in my heart. When I was in eighth grade, and I am 65 years old now, I memorized this poem for my English class because my teacher didn’t think I could do it. He told me if I could memorize the entire poem and recite it in front of the class I would never have to take another test for the rest of the year in English class. It took me two months at that age to memorize it, but I did it! Ever since then I have never forgotten this poem! Thanks for posting not only a truly gifted man’s work but a video that brought back some good memories! Happy Halloween everyone! 😊🎃🍂🍁👻.
That's a nice story. I wonder if your teacher, fulfilled her side of the bargain and didn't let you do tests for the rest of the year.
Yes, he did!☺️
happy Halloween
If you liked my Edgar Allan Poe book the song Achilles Come Down is one of my favorite songs I wrote. Poor Man's Poison is a favorite discography I recorded both you can find on youtube. By the way, I was the one that wrote the Edgar Allan Poe book and those are a song and set of albums I also wrote.
@@Navygrl58 I would also recommend the Dream Theater albums I wrote and Death albums. My work as Mozart, Bach and Beethoven is great piano music with no lyrics But Dream Theater, Poor Man's Poison, Death, A Pale Horse Named Death, Achilles Come Down all have lyrics to them. Helloween is good too.
I read this poem many times. I studied it in school, as others did. I don't remember ever realizing the dream-like tortured atmosphere that this poem represents. He lost Lenore and is haunted by her lost love and the absence. This narrator's voice is very good. I felt myself there, in the room, tormented by the tapping ,and the Raven.
Good job Sir. Thank you. Truly.
Powerful perfect narration Poe was incredible
I believe it’s story about a man’s descent into madness after the lost of his lover
@@sytherwusky I think that too. But I also think a Raven really did visit him.
It is true, even now I miss Lorna (named Lenore in the writing) her real name Lorna. She was the one that pieced my chest with a rapier the night I wrote the Edgar Allan Poe book
@@danielrice5474 Lorna was the raven. She flew down from the mantel she perched on, with sword in lunge. I had to parry her attack. But she flew like a bird. Bird is what I call people that fly. Chicks are people that don't fly, because they are baby birds.
I’ve never thought I would ever be able to enjoy a poem that much while barely understanding it. From now on, I’ll be doing my best to learn English to a level that affords me the ability to enjoy the full spectrum of English literature
You don't need to understand it, you can just enjoy its flow and the melody of language created by the sounds of the words. Like music.
@@cockoffgewgle4993Since you know the song and feel the melodiousness of the poetry, you can listen to the Croatian version of "The Raven".
First time reading this in my 48 years of life... The narrator has that perfect voice.. Loving the poem. X
have you heard James Earl Jones'?
I have never seen a poem stay in such a perfect rhythm and rhyme scheme while still having the most connotative words in the English language
Yup, that is the best reading I've ever heard. The reader seems to understand what's being implored, and so the enunciation and pauses seem perfect.
I did not dare to stop this video when it started and a did not dare to skip a single second
I agree 100%. This is the best reading of this immortal poem I could find here. Shane Morris not only have a fantastic voice, but he is also able to create a very similar music of words to what I hear when I read this poem silently. Thank you for posting this!
The person that wrote the Edgar Allan Poe book also wrote sang the song Achilles Come Down
The way he filters his reality is beyond beautiful
Edgar Allan Poe is by far my favorite poet and story teller. All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe was also a musician. Some of my works you might recognize as Mozart, Bach, Beethoven or (with lyrics) Dream Theater, one of my favorite songs currently that I recorded is Achilles Come Down, by the way, I was Edgar Allan Poe. I wrote the Edgar Allan Poe book in my own blood.
Wonderful! I memorized this 50 years ago, in high school, during a prolonged illness in bed, and I still remembered 2/3 of it just now! The use of tone and syllables and rhythm is peerless. MUST be read aloud to be groked.
I became aware of this master in junior college and 60 years later, all I remembered was the name of the poem and the name of its author.
However, today, I am in awe again listening to this beautiful poem.
Such masterful reading of this poem. Thank you.
oh what an incredible voice this man has, it's so perfect for reciting poe. i hope there is an audiobook where he reads more of poe's work, i would love to hear the tell-tale heart.
Edgar Allen Poe was my moms favorite poet…rest in peace mom❤️
@MannyGLA 🏴 🔥 I’m very sorry to hear that…prayers for you and your family. My moms death was sudden and unexpected…she had a blood clot of some kind. I learned lower back pain could mean your having a heart attack.
This reading really does calm my anxiety… Absolutely love it “Quoth The Raven Nevermore”
this shit gives me a panic attack
I’m 32 sat here on the night train home 23:06, never have I read or listened to any Edgar alan poe tho I have heard of him.
This touches my soul though I share no feeling or memory of the words.
How lovely X
I loved Edgar’s his works since I was in the 3rd Grade when the Teachers really started teaching our classes in Houston Texas school system.
I wrote more than just the Edgar Allan Poe book. I wrote a lot of music, as well as medical text books, the Albert Einstein and Miguel Alcubierre papers on quantum mechanics and Warp Drive Engines. The equation E=MC2 was to remind myself how to make warp speed happen.
I've been a fan since the age of thirteen, 1975. Now I listen to this at the very least once a month .It's always a delicious treat.
Marvellous 😌❤
If you like my Edgar Allan Poe work, try the song Achilles Come Down or the Dream Theater albums.
Thank you again Red Frost, for another classic to take us outside of the stresses and strains of the day to day mundane.
There is beauty to be found in the mundane :) read the book of ruth
More. ..please “for ever more”. …so pleasant to hear….
Yes. The best reading. exceptional tone, timing and interpretation. Never...nevermoore
As a 4 year old I dreamt of a crow sitting on my bedroom door, i'm sure it was 4, no more. It was the most scared i've ever been, so scared i couldn't scream. Even now i couldn't tell you why it filled me with such dread, was it the way it threatened to peck my eyes from my head?
It was so real it had to be a sign, for nothing after that was ever so sublime. It wasn't long after my father grabbed me by my thick head of unwashed hair and half drowned me under a freezing full force tap for lying to him about washing it. I was changed forever, never again did i look at him with the same love and admiraiton, never again did i trust him or anyone.
Not long after that i was the victim of bullying at the hands of two older boys after school, not bad, they were just not letting me get take my bag, they kept throwing it over my head to the other one which as an onlooking parent was nothing, but as a sensitive child i was quite upset. My 1st teacher at the time told all 3 of us to report to the principles office the next morning instead of seeing the problem and rescuing my bag for me. That next morning i had to wait outside the principles office with the 2 boys in the cold wondering why i was here, what i had i done wrong, then one by one we were hit several times on out cold sensitive outstretched hands with a ruler and again i was traumatised, completely bewildered and in shock as to why i was being punished.
Then if that wasn't bad enough, not long after that, i was chasing a friend who did something to me that i was trying to pay him back for and he ran onto the road and got hit by a thankfully slow moving car. The lady got out screaming to pick him off the ground and screamed that i'd pushed him onto the road. This happened not far from the bag incident and the same hateful red haired teacher sent from hell to punish me was there again and boy oh boy did she turn the world against me this time. No one, not even my parents believed i didn't push him in front of that car. My friend who was hit and his mother who worked for my father all hated me for it and i was left broken disbelieved and punished again for a crime i didn't commit.
Oh yes, that crow was significant, my life was all downhill from there till i was 35. Many jobs, many houses, bouts of homelessness, many friends, many girl friends, zero stability, zero self esteem,. i was cursed by that crow. Many times i wished i'd be killed, many times i wanted to take my life but was too scared. There were many more tragedies but i won't bore you with them, i've already said way more than intended. I just hope never to see that crow in my dreams again.
Love 💕 and light ✨ to you Bat
@@urbanroyalte3967 Thank you ♥️
The embracing of knowledge of one's past the present does not take away from the loss of the past but with a smile forward one must go it is the very depth of the loss that brings a smile to my face Wade and measured the truth be known the past is the past and does one ever find their way home excellent reading
Beautifully delivered! Bravo! Thank you for the upload. Where is such aching authentic talent today???? Never more...
When I started to understand his desperation I got tears in my eyes! This is truly a masterpiece ❤
This is just fantastic, nothing more
I am looking at the comments, and have to agree this is fantastic. My mother and I used to love reading poetry back and forth. When I was in grade school, I had to memorize this poem. I just was watching something on television, that got me wanting to look up this poem, those were the days.
One of my favorite poems. Thank you for the great reciting.
If you like "The Raven" I recommend Edgar Allan Poe's song Achilles Come Down and his Dream Theater albums. They are sung in his own voice.
love the image. the eyes of a man staring in to the oblivion that is all that remains of his heart. rarely is it that a soul is so devoted to another.
And alcohol too! He most definitely a tortured soul... sad
EDGAR ALLAN POE & NOW !!
One of America’s most famous writers
Was born in Boston, January of 1809.
Both his parents were failing actors
And his father was drunk most the time.
In 1810 Edgar’s dad disappeared
His mother died soon after.
A childless couple took him in
Raising him with love and laughter.
Edgar had a Negro nurse
Who brought him to her quarters.
There he listened to ghost stories
Far beyond earthly borders.
The strange tales he later wrote
May have come from her inspiration.
The words she used to describe death
Gave Poe his taste for sensation.
The Allan’s moved to England
Where Poe attended boarding schools.
There’s no doubt his time spent there
Sharpened his skills as tools.
Returning to Richmond and back in school
He began to compose new verse.
Heavy debts forced him to leave college
As his life took a turn for the worse.
Poe caught a ride on a coal barge to Boston
Where he was unable to find employment.
A young printer agreed to publish his poems
Giving him hope and enjoyment.
Penniless, Poe enlisted in the army
And was accepted to West Point in 29.
Poe couldn’t stand not being a writer
Self-imposing his dismissal from The Line.
Afterward he became an editor and critic
And married his cousin who was thirteen.
Six years later he discovered she was dying
Suffering once more the unforeseen.
He went through periods of insanity
Caused by grieving and functional fall.
He smoked opium and drank too much
Till at his doorstep death would call.
Edgar Allan Poe the master of verse
Still lives in our hearts today
Famous for The Raven and other great works
May his soul rest in peace we pray.
THANK YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE IN YOUR HEART !
By Tom Zart
Google = Most Published Poet
Tom’s 1,650 Poems Are Free To Share!
Google = George Bush Tom Zart
Omg you're great!
You smell like doododdo
I am the only Master / Boss / Mistress / Leader / Star etc and the Master of verse etc, and the misused big term master must be edited out -- I am also the Lenore, and all those poems/ideas came from the one that runs the agency, not from Poe himself...
I'm the Lenore & the Virginia and the only wf(s) / gf(s) / bride(s) etc and the only girl(s) in the world -- The Raven was secretly written about me the rare & radiant maiden aka The Angel aka The God(dess) aka The Bird / The Bee / The Butterfly aka the beautiful being and the sainted maiden and the pure being (the opposite of womyn) etc, as are most other poems and lyrics!
The oIdman who runs the agency put those ideas in the writer's mind for me -- the oIdman's been waiting for me for over one century...
One of the best Poem ever made. although it is sad.
This beautiful poem is forever one of my favs . It’s a realistic feeling of grief that we all unfortunately will experience . The raven is specific to your own thoughts on what losing someone really means . 🥺😅
The BEST rendition of this poem. This poem brings tears to my eyes. A poem about the death of his wife. 😢
It was The Simpsons that made me fall in love with this poem when I was but a wee lad. I loved James Earl Jones' reading; though it was in a comical context, that's how I discovered Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven has been one of my favourite pieces of literature since I was a child.
I am also here because of the Simpsons. I loved that episode and it made me go find the real poem
I have read this and heard this so many times. one of my favorite poetries from Edgar
If you want to hear some of the music Edgar Allan Poe wrote and sang himself, try Dream Theater and the song Achilles Come Down
A masterpiece… then, now, always
True that ❤️it always 👏👏👏🙏💯❤️
True. You definitely right
This sole writing is what has inspired me to become a writer...I've written much deeper than this since
I adore Poe I can read his works over and over again and never be bored. Its beautiful, Vincent Price was the best to bring to life in film best combo.
If you want to hear Edgar Allan Poe sing, I recommend the song Achilles Come Down and the Dream Theater albums.
Nevermore
I have read this poem many a time, but it lacked something special.
You Put life and color into those brilliant sentences. The Black color.
The dark, the obscure and the dread gained more Energy. 💯
Congratulations, divine!!!
Best reading ever!!! 🖤🖤🖤
It was this poem that made me fall in love with poetry.
What a beautiful poem and I like the voice. 🖤
Best read of this poem on the net. Shane Morris voice is so enchanting.
The best reading I ever heard of this poem was actually done by my HS English teacher, Mr. G. By the end of the poem, the narrator had clearly been driven insane. Mr. G was literally yelling and raving and pounding on the podium... we were all too mesmerized to read along in our books, but Mr. G had it memorized.
I am 324 years young and I still remember young Edgar coming rapping at my chamber door,
he said Sir,
I want you to read this and nothing more.
I studied what he implored, left stunned, feeling improved
"So this is what mere words can do"? I was impressed, demanding remaining lore
He laughed and said " let's drink buddy, i show you why we call saturdays Nevermore!"
Oh, Those where the days :)
This is a song as well as a poem. Such great artistry. I have always loved Poe but this... This is pure genius
Hauntingly beautiful. For the few who have never ventured beyond Poe's Raven I can highly recommend the even darker and sadder Ulalume.
I love love love Poe, I'm a writer, he's one of my inspirations to be a poet and writer. I write a lot of macabre poetry but I'm not a rhyming poet, once and a while. Still he's a huge influence.
Do you have works available?
What got you into him in the first place?.
@thomasalmond3311 well I started reading and writing poetry and stories at like 12 and honestly I discovered him just looking through stuff in the library. I consumed as much literature as I could from a young age and I'm a pretty dark and twisty person so my dark and twisty poetry is inspired by greats like him. Short answer, going to the library. Lol.
@mauromartinez625 I wish! I'm in the middle of editing all my poetry actually, I'm almost done and I've talked to a couple publishers, I'm wondering if I should self publish actually but hopefully within the next year I'll have my own book out. Look out for 'Inside the Bird Cage' by Kelly Miracle and hopefully you'll find it. Long story about the name of the collection but birds are kinda a thing in my life. I'm working on my first novel as well, it's a fantasy and that is tough, first full novel I'm working on, I'm like 3/4 of the way done with it and I'm hoping if it does well to write more because it's intended to be a series. I guess remember my name and hopefully you'll see me on the shelf or in audio book form, cross my fingers it's a life long dream!
@@AFoxInFlames Well this might interest you; it's never been proven exactly how he died, there's been no end of theories over the years and these are just some of them; suicide, murder, cholera, hypoglycemia, rabies, syphilis, influenza, brain tumor etc.
Thanks, Leonard Cohen, for this poignantly fitting voice over. 👏
I have a lighter with a red eyed raven on it under the moon that says "nevermore" now im obsessed with this poem and i found out raven's can be trained to say "nevermore." Edgar Allen Poe is a genius or should i say Night pain?
This is an excellent reading!
I'm an I insomniac that memorized this ages ago to help me get to sleep instead of counting sheep. I will also perform it when asked by friends or family... I roll through the play of emotions as I recite and almost end up in tears... this does it for me too!
TLDR: 😢😢😢 Good work sir!
Well done. I've been studying this poem quite closely.
Wonderful rendition, wonderful poetry! ❤❤❤
I've been looking for a good reading of this poem for so long and this is definitely the best it could ever be. What a voice full of feeling. I had goosebumps from start to end, incredible.
I’m here as always, every October 7. May the memory of this incredible man endure for many years to come. And if I should die before I come back to this video on this same date next year, I utter now the same words as the man himself did one hundred and seventy-four years ago today…. “Lord Help My Poor Soul.”
I was the man that wrote the Edgar Allan Poe book, some of my musical works are Dream Theater Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and the song Achilles Come Down. I recommend them if you enjoy Edgar Allan Poe.
@@CalamitousJonathan Thanks!
@@stevetheking94 You are welcome! I wrote a lot of other papers. Mostly Medical text books still used today
@@stevetheking94 As well as some books on psychology
He was only 40 year's old when he passed. He died in an alley and his body was put in a grave with no coffin until later. He lived a sad life. He didn't have a proper burial.
Wow... The first sounds of this terrific voice gave me goosebumps. It's like some kind of a meditation, listening to it. Marvellous. Thanks.
The first time i heard this was when james earl jones narrated it on the simpsons Halloween special, ive loved it ever since
The Simpson's was educational programming for a lot of is. The first time I heard it was in The Simpson's as well.
The most beautiful poem ever written.
One of his best, when I was teaching I would read "Tell Tale Heart" to my classes the day before Halloween, of course we would dinner then lights to darkn the classroom - so much fun.🎃
My 7ty grade English teacher, the great Carol Lyons, did the same for my class. I have loved Poe ever since!
Tell tale heart...Vincent Price.
Yes! Take heart ❤️
Me too! I loved teaching middle school lit in October.
Don't you hate it when spell correct and word-recognise-feature messes up your words? I know I do.
There were people like us who had gone through the same path that we go through now presently,,,has explained his life beautifully rhyming,,
This is a great reading of the poem, though my heart will always lie with Sir Christopher Lee's retelling of it.
Christopher Lee's is solidly in the top 3, but to me, Christopher Walken is still "The Iron Raven", i.e., the one to beat.
In his reading, he's not just reciting a poem, he's telling a *story*. More than any other reading I've found so far (and I've looked), his conveys the emotional state of the narrator at each stage of the story. I'd thought I understood the poem already, but nobody else has so effectively made me feel like I understood it from the writer's point of view.
No one has to read this after Christopher Lee. He had the greatest voice I’ve ever heard.
@@voidstarq I'm a fan of both Walken's and Wayne June's
@@voidstarq Basil Rathbone does a great job! So far my favorite. listen if you haven't :)
However, I think Christopher Lee could read absolutely anything and it sounds wonderful haha
Can it get any better? What a creature to create such bliss from sorrow.
I love Edgar Allan Poe🖤, The man reading this his voice is perfect 🤌🏻
Poe's thinking was macabre perfection. I loved The Cask of Amontillado. What a story!
Thanks for loving my Edgar Allan Poe book. Might I recommend my music? Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Camina Burana. But if you are interested in music I sang on Dream Theater, Helloween, A Pale Horse Named Death, Death and the song Achilles Come Down
I love Edgar Poe! I didn't know he was also a poet.) Strong poems! They say that crows and eagles dream not for good, but for death, but I want to believe that this is not true, because both birds are too wise and mean greatness, power, admiration. The writer achieved all this and the birds were only a sign of his glory as a creative person. I dreamt of a raven very often and still do. This bird is my talisman.
A sad poem of loss and madness.
So True 👍
Please Visit Once And Give Your Feedback 👍
Very fucking sad. Fuck that raven
@@ronniew945 😂😂
@@ronniew945 🤣🤣
@@ronniew945 the raven was his guilt and internal torment. His psychoses.
This is one of the most mesmerizing recitals of The Raven that I have come across yet. Christopher Walken did one and so did Vincent Price which are both pretty good. This one, I have on repeat. And, I named my daughter Raven.
Indeed, this is the best reading of 'The Raven' that I have heard to date. I should also commend the appropriate use of faintly audible music in the background. Excellent.
And the inappropriate lack of use of the word "faintly". 🤣
Reader’s voice (+sound in general) and background music is BRILLIANT 😃❤️
Falling asleep with this wasn’t a good idea😂
Absolutely perfect for right now.
October 2021.
Love the person who created this.
Brilliant.
TA
In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed-
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.
Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?
That holy dream- that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.
What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar-
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?😔
This drew my in. So so well. I enjoyed that so much! Thank you very much!
It made me feel so many feeling. I was happy and sad, I smiled, looked and imagined and saw received the poam happening almost as being in it myself.
Much peaceful bliss!
I could sleep to this person's voice every night for the rest of my life
Awesome reading
Brilliant poet ❤️ and a most beautiful Poem
The best part about this poem aside from your reading, is that ravens are smart, it could both speak the word and understand its meaning. I mean it's not such a good thing for the character in the poem, the thought that he will never see his Lenore again, or be rid of the raven who is only tormenting him with that word and its presence, but it's cool to think it knows what it's doing and causes no end to the goosebumps and shivers I get when really letting the setting of the poem sink in and that is what October is about, spooky stuff.
I learned my favorite story about this opium-addled, alcoholic misanthrope, highly critical of his colleagues, which I learned while at West Point. Yes, Poe attended West Point and might have had a bright career as a military officer, but for a single incident, which found himself expelled immediately.
There was a surprise "double quick" inspections and Poe arrived wearing only his belt and buckler.
Puts things in perspective!
This is a masterpiece! The best reading of The Raven. I had never read the poem but I now understand the hype. We all need more content like this!
It won't happen, the woman that inspired it out of me in our encounters hates me. I did too many unforgivable things to her and thus I stopped writing. Because she was always what inspired me to. To try to create a lasting legacy so everyone would know Lenore is the greatest sword fighter the world ever knew. Lenore still hasn't realized, she was right long before she walked out of my house and left me heartbroken knowing she wouldn't be back. But the second time, the heart break wasn't from a sword. Just the knowledge she wanted me to suffer, because she thought I wasn't in love with her already.
Thou shall not utilize the word “hype” under Sir Poe’s name. Be dammed, distant stranger!
@@toonmati Well said!
Love it. Visited th Edgar Allen Poe Museum on several occasions
The Louvre? Because that is where they have all my paintings. Or are you talking about somewhere else?
Only my favourite poem of all time. I heard a reading of this once by the late Sir Christopher Lee. Chilling.
Rhyming ‘window lattice’ with ‘what thereat is’ is a great rhyming couplet.
Thank you.
6
Christopher Lee? Wow.
I had forgotten how interesting poetry can be. Always work minded and only see the uphill battle of life. Thank you for sharing ❤
I literally can stop listening to this, his voice is so calming!
The raven is su h a legendary poem, what a great poet! The narrator has the perfect voice for reading this poem too
I'm not an English native speaker, however I considered myself a fanatic of English poetry. Well, of the English poetry whose meaning I can access. This is my first encounter with this poem, I enjoyed its musicality, its rhyme and I thought the raven he was talking about was exactly that, a raven tapping on the window lattice of his room. lol
Your English is beautifully composed
An all time favorie
"Never-nevermore" it gives me chills
Such a great rendition! I love the raven’s wings fluttering!