LIVE Valentine's Day Poetry Reading with Jennifer - By JenniferESL
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| 00:04 | Yeah . Mhm Well , good morning everybody and Happy | |
| 00:29 | valentine's day . Good morning from boston massachusetts and thank | |
| 00:32 | you so much for joining me here . I'm going | |
| 00:35 | to be looking sometimes off to the side because I | |
| 00:38 | have my laptop here and I want to make sure | |
| 00:40 | that what you see and what you hear is everything | |
| 00:43 | that I want you to see and hear . So | |
| 00:46 | , thank you for joining me . Some of you | |
| 00:48 | came early . Thank you so much . Let's go | |
| 00:50 | up and see who all came . English , Kavita | |
| 00:57 | Prescott . I see you there . Abdulhadi , lean | |
| 01:05 | , lean , Mohammed and Eunice , amoroso , Claudia | |
| 01:09 | creeper , herat tube . I'm fine . Thank you | |
| 01:14 | . Ray . Hi there , stunning lad . One | |
| 01:19 | , Happy valentine's Day to everybody . It is February | |
| 01:23 | 14 and I thought it would be wonderful to take | |
| 01:26 | just a little bit of time today and um celebrate | |
| 01:30 | Valentine's day together in a special way . And why | |
| 01:34 | not choose poetry ? Uh today is a day of | |
| 01:37 | celebrating love . There's different kinds of love in our | |
| 01:40 | life . Um that love of poetry . Why not | |
| 01:43 | share that ? There are some so many beautiful poems | |
| 01:47 | . And I'd like to share two poems with you | |
| 01:49 | today . So we'll do the readings and then afterwards | |
| 01:52 | . It would be wonderful if you take the time | |
| 01:54 | if you took the time to practice reading the poems | |
| 01:57 | on your own , you could extend practice beyond this | |
| 02:00 | session . So we will be together for maybe about | |
| 02:03 | a half hour today . But you can certainly practice | |
| 02:06 | more . And I will make sure that the poems | |
| 02:10 | or the links to the poems are in the video | |
| 02:12 | description so that you can get a copy and practice | |
| 02:15 | more easily . Okay . And by the way , | |
| 02:20 | I see some of my Patreon members here . Another | |
| 02:23 | place to practice is on the Patreon page . So | |
| 02:25 | you Patreon members . If you wanted to use the | |
| 02:28 | recording tool that I told you about Vokoun create your | |
| 02:32 | recording and share it with the group , that's another | |
| 02:35 | way to get some practice . Okay , more on | |
| 02:37 | that later . All right , Quetta is here . | |
| 02:41 | Hello Mohammed . Thunder high . It has been a | |
| 02:44 | while . Thunder . I've thought of you . I | |
| 02:46 | hope everything is fine and peaceful in your country . | |
| 02:50 | I hope you're doing well . Thunder ! Thanks for | |
| 02:52 | being here . Happy valentine's Day . Herat Hamidi ahmed | |
| 02:56 | . Thank you for the warm support Zachariah , Omar | |
| 03:00 | Hello to you , Quetta . Is it key to | |
| 03:04 | give Markova ? God , I'm sorry you have such | |
| 03:06 | a long name . Let me try that again . | |
| 03:08 | Gear me Canova . Happy valentine's Day to you . | |
| 03:12 | Bedoya is here glad to have you and h . | |
| 03:17 | N . Just came . Hello to you . Thank | |
| 03:18 | you for the wave . Mayor De is from Istanbul | |
| 03:22 | . Turkey , Glad to have you here . Thank | |
| 03:25 | you guys . I'm happy to share Valentine's day with | |
| 03:29 | you in this special way . Mhm . All right | |
| 03:33 | , so I would love to share my screen . | |
| 03:36 | Let's see how well I can do that . Work | |
| 03:37 | my little bit of magic here and take you to | |
| 03:41 | my screen and make sure that what you see is | |
| 03:44 | what I see Maxwell from brazil . Glad to have | |
| 03:52 | you here say hello to you , pavel Hello from | |
| 04:02 | Moscow . Thank you for joining me . I think | |
| 04:04 | it's evening for you there . Thanks for being here | |
| 04:06 | and L shall musk bron . Hello , Django , | |
| 04:10 | Django , Happy Valentine's Day to you . Mhm . | |
| 04:21 | Abdul Qadeer . Hello and Happy Valentine's Day . I'm | |
| 04:26 | doing well and I hope you all are doing well | |
| 04:28 | to Zayed al hamdani . Happy valentine's Day to you | |
| 04:34 | Audrey . Hello to you . Oh guys . You | |
| 04:37 | have such beautiful names but I wonder if I can | |
| 04:39 | say them correctly , joe tear moy Hello to you | |
| 04:44 | , Fiona Emilio . Hi there . Mhm john Brett | |
| 04:52 | , can I say ? Ola Yeah that's about all | |
| 04:54 | I can say oh letter you all . And Wilbert | |
| 04:58 | came here from Bolivia rond . Happy valentine's Day to | |
| 05:02 | you . Fiona's here from Kosovo . Mhm . Oh | |
| 05:07 | john I'm not a test specialist but I'm happy to | |
| 05:10 | help you with general english . And today's a special | |
| 05:13 | way to um today we'll be doing a special form | |
| 05:16 | of pronunciation . Practice poetry is a beautiful way to | |
| 05:20 | learn rhythm right ? Rhythm is one of those aspects | |
| 05:23 | of our speech that if you don't have the correct | |
| 05:26 | rhythm it doesn't sound natural . So learning rhythm through | |
| 05:30 | song lyrics through poetry um really helps you develop a | |
| 05:35 | sense of how english flows . Right , so poetry | |
| 05:40 | is a wonderful way to learn and practice rhythm from | |
| 05:44 | news New Zealand . Well thank you for joining me | |
| 05:47 | is probably quite late for you . So thank you | |
| 05:50 | for being here Ahmed yousef . And is it muka | |
| 05:54 | Heat Golson ? Hello to you , Alex joined us | |
| 05:57 | high . They're happy valentine's Day to you and from | |
| 06:01 | Algeria I see you . Hello . I'm going to | |
| 06:04 | take a sip of my favorite t before we start | |
| 06:07 | reading . Uh huh . So guys , what I'd | |
| 06:14 | like to share with you now are two poems . | |
| 06:17 | These are two American poets and yes , these are | |
| 06:20 | love poems because this is Valentine's day . And the | |
| 06:24 | first poet is Paul Laurence Dunbar . He lived from | |
| 06:28 | 1872 to 1906 . Paul Laurence Dunbar is an african | |
| 06:33 | american poet and I only came across his work recently | |
| 06:37 | . I wasn't aware . Um and I really liked | |
| 06:40 | this poem for its rhythm for its simplicity and beauty | |
| 06:44 | . Um I like the structure and I hope that | |
| 06:47 | you enjoy it too . I'd like to read it | |
| 06:50 | once through . Then we'll talk about some of the | |
| 06:52 | words that might be new for you . And then | |
| 06:55 | I'll read it once more so you'll have to readings | |
| 06:57 | okay . Um and then hopefully you will practice after | |
| 07:01 | this live stream and you can do your own reading | |
| 07:04 | . All right . So let's go through . Just | |
| 07:06 | listen and try to understand . What is the poet | |
| 07:09 | saying ? What is his message ? Who do you | |
| 07:12 | think he's speaking to ? Okay , invitation to love | |
| 07:21 | Come when the nights are bright with stars or when | |
| 07:24 | the moon is mellow come when the sun , his | |
| 07:28 | golden bars drops on the hayfield . Yellow come in | |
| 07:33 | the twilight soft and gray . Come in the night | |
| 07:36 | or come in the day come o love whenever you | |
| 07:41 | may and you are welcome . Welcome , You are | |
| 07:45 | sweet . Oh love , dear love . You are | |
| 07:48 | soft as the nesting dove come to my heart and | |
| 07:52 | bring it rest as the bird flies home to its | |
| 07:55 | welcome nest . Come when my heart is full of | |
| 08:00 | grief or when my heart is mary come with the | |
| 08:04 | falling of the leaf or with the reddening cherry come | |
| 08:09 | when the year's first blossom blows , when the summer | |
| 08:13 | gleams and glows come with the winters drifting snows and | |
| 08:18 | you are welcome . Welcome . I hope you agree | |
| 08:24 | . It's really beautiful . An invitation to love . | |
| 08:27 | When would you want love to come ? Any time | |
| 08:30 | right , anytime is a good time for something so | |
| 08:33 | beautiful . So he's simply listing all the possible times | |
| 08:38 | that it would be good um for love to come | |
| 08:41 | into his life to come to him . You are | |
| 08:43 | welcome . Welcome any time . Okay , let's see | |
| 08:48 | which words could be new for you . I'll highlight | |
| 08:51 | some that I think are of interest and I'll also | |
| 08:54 | be looking at the text chat or the comments um | |
| 08:57 | to see if you have further questions as I'm reading | |
| 09:01 | . I know more people have joined in , so | |
| 09:02 | welcome and happy valentine's Day to you . Um lots | |
| 09:07 | of people just showed up , lovely to see you | |
| 09:11 | all here , Ali from Iraq and Salim from Yemen | |
| 09:15 | . I'll try to take some questions towards the end | |
| 09:17 | . Okay , merit , I'm glad you love poetry | |
| 09:20 | and you're excited to read as well . DNS jaime | |
| 09:25 | , is it from Argentina is here ? Welcome liliyana | |
| 09:29 | . Hello liliyana , one of my super members . | |
| 09:32 | Good to see you here . Salim Zayed . Um | |
| 09:36 | good to have you here . H n what a | |
| 09:38 | cute little sticker with the cat coming out . Okay | |
| 09:44 | , all right , someone's asking about apostrophes to love | |
| 09:49 | is a splendid thing . Yes , ray . Okay | |
| 09:52 | , come when the nights are bright with stars or | |
| 09:55 | when the moon is mellow , there's a contrast here | |
| 09:58 | bright , right ? The night sky can be bright | |
| 10:02 | with stars or the moon is mellow . Mellow is | |
| 10:06 | less bright , it's not harsh . You know ? | |
| 10:08 | The moon sometimes shines very brightly or it could be | |
| 10:12 | subdued , it can be shining less brightly . So | |
| 10:16 | mellow is calm , peaceful and less bright . Okay | |
| 10:21 | , mellow . So mellow is just calm , not | |
| 10:23 | bright . Come when the sun . His golden bars | |
| 10:29 | . This is interesting because son is a thing , | |
| 10:33 | right ? And the poet chose to write his golden | |
| 10:36 | bars . It's like a bit of personification . They're | |
| 10:39 | treating the sun like a person . The sun has | |
| 10:42 | these golden bars . His golden bars bars as you | |
| 10:46 | know our long um strips or pieces of things like | |
| 10:50 | a bar line golden bars . And those golden bars | |
| 10:54 | drop on the hayfield . Yellow , there can be | |
| 10:57 | a field full of hay and the hay is yellow | |
| 11:03 | . Come in the twilight . Who knows what time | |
| 11:06 | of the day Twilight is ? Do you know twilight | |
| 11:10 | ? It's not necessarily a conversational word , but twilight | |
| 11:14 | think of dusk perhaps right . Um Just as the | |
| 11:18 | night is coming twilight , so it's the later part | |
| 11:22 | of the day as the evening comes . All right | |
| 11:26 | , come in the night , come in the day | |
| 11:27 | . Comeau love when there you may . This , | |
| 11:30 | you will not be saying in everyday modern english . | |
| 11:34 | You can see there is an apostrophe there , this | |
| 11:36 | is a contraction . Um This is a contraction for | |
| 11:39 | whenever um poets sometimes need a certain rhythm so they | |
| 11:45 | can take out a syllable and get the rhythm that | |
| 11:49 | they want . So he chose to write when air | |
| 11:52 | instead of whenever . Um It also sounds like old | |
| 11:55 | english to my ears , but again part paul Laurence | |
| 11:58 | . Dunbar lived quite some time ago , but in | |
| 12:01 | poetry um it's not a surprising to come across this | |
| 12:05 | kind of language , but it means whenever , so | |
| 12:08 | come whenever you may come , whenever you can , | |
| 12:13 | you're welcome , you're welcome . Okay , so pavel | |
| 12:17 | I hope that answers your question . Abdul is it | |
| 12:25 | Abdul Qadeer ? Thank you for that . Happy valentine's | |
| 12:28 | Day to you . So if you count , look | |
| 12:31 | at that , there's eight lines here and you'll see | |
| 12:33 | what comes up is another eight lines in the middle | |
| 12:36 | , full four . So I like that kind of | |
| 12:38 | balance and symmetry . You have that middle verse and | |
| 12:42 | then the 1st and 3rd balance each other out and | |
| 12:45 | they also follow the same rhyme scheme , right ? | |
| 12:49 | Um A lot of poems use a rhyme scheme , | |
| 12:52 | words rhyme , they sound alike and that also creates | |
| 12:55 | the music of a poem . So you can see | |
| 12:58 | that the final words rhyme . Um there can be | |
| 13:01 | different patterns , different rhyme schemes . This poet um | |
| 13:05 | chose to do a B . B C . C | |
| 13:11 | . C . And then we have this , it's | |
| 13:13 | different D . And the pattern follows again . Down | |
| 13:16 | here , grief rhymes with leaf mary rhymes with cherry | |
| 13:20 | . So A B . A . B . And | |
| 13:23 | then blows glow snows C . C . C . | |
| 13:27 | And then we have that last line again that repeats | |
| 13:30 | . So there's a lovely structure to this poem . | |
| 13:33 | Um And again rhythm is a pattern and the rhyming | |
| 13:37 | also helps create that unity . It just really flows | |
| 13:41 | so beautifully . Okay , back to vocabulary . Um | |
| 13:45 | you are soft as the nesting dove . Right ? | |
| 13:49 | Picture a dove in your mind . I hope you're | |
| 13:51 | picturing a bird the beautiful white bird . It's often | |
| 13:55 | a symbol of peace . Um I guess doves come | |
| 13:58 | in great colours to write . But the nesting dove | |
| 14:02 | birds go in their nest . So if a bird | |
| 14:05 | is in its nest it is nesting , you are | |
| 14:08 | soft as the nesting dove come to my heart and | |
| 14:12 | bring it rest as the bird flies home towards welcome | |
| 14:15 | nest . So just like a bird um take shelter | |
| 14:18 | in its nest . He wants love to come to | |
| 14:21 | him and nest with him . Right ? Yes . | |
| 14:28 | The links to these poems will be in the video | |
| 14:31 | description . I'll make sure of that . Okay . | |
| 14:33 | And also if you come to Patreon , I'll share | |
| 14:35 | it there . Okay , Alright . The last verse | |
| 14:39 | , the last stanza actually , I'm saying stanza , | |
| 14:42 | guys , I'm not sure if you're familiar with that | |
| 14:44 | kind of language . When we talk about poetry's , | |
| 14:46 | we can talk about verses and lines . Um we | |
| 14:49 | can also say stanza instead of a paragraph . We | |
| 14:53 | have a stanza . So here in this last stanza | |
| 14:56 | , let's see which words might be unfamiliar to you | |
| 14:59 | full of grief , grief . I hope you recognize | |
| 15:03 | that um grief is a negative feeling , full of | |
| 15:06 | sadness . The opposite of grief mary , right ? | |
| 15:12 | Happiness . You see the contrast here we went from | |
| 15:15 | bright to mellow and here's another contrast grief mary . | |
| 15:19 | So there's a lot of contrasts being set up in | |
| 15:22 | this poem . He's also setting up contrast to say | |
| 15:26 | , when can you come at any time , night | |
| 15:29 | or day or you can come when the leaves are | |
| 15:32 | falling or when the cherries are right here we have | |
| 15:36 | another contraction . You see that apostrophe , what he | |
| 15:39 | left out was the E red , you know , | |
| 15:42 | as the color red and is the verb , it | |
| 15:46 | turns red . Um but he again chose to take | |
| 15:51 | out a syllable further rhythm And it said as reddening | |
| 15:56 | two syllables . Reddening Cherry blossom like flowers , blossom | |
| 16:03 | blows blossoms right ? When um you know all of | |
| 16:08 | the blossoms first come when everything is um gleaming and | |
| 16:13 | glowing during the summertime or in the winter again , | |
| 16:16 | he's setting up these contrasts . You can come any | |
| 16:19 | time . Spring , summer , fall , winter , | |
| 16:22 | you're welcome . You're welcome . Um gleam and glow | |
| 16:27 | . This also has to do with shining and being | |
| 16:30 | bright gleam and glow is shining , shining brightly . | |
| 16:35 | Come with the winters drifting snows , snow moves with | |
| 16:39 | the wind , it can drift , drifting snows , | |
| 16:44 | drifting snows . Okay . Yes . The letter G | |
| 16:48 | . You have to be careful when you see it | |
| 16:50 | with Engy . Remember there's that sound , It's a | |
| 16:54 | nasal sound in the back of our throat , towards | |
| 16:59 | the back of our mouth . Our tongue goes up | |
| 17:02 | and you don't want to say bring good and add | |
| 17:05 | a syllable there , but bring bring same thing here | |
| 17:10 | . Reddening , reddening , drifting drifting , that Engy | |
| 17:15 | sound . Okay . A liberation . Yes . If | |
| 17:20 | you really start looking at the poem , you appreciate | |
| 17:22 | um the symmetry , the contrast the rhythm um the | |
| 17:27 | way he plays with words . That's what poets do | |
| 17:30 | . Um And it's just this really simple thought of | |
| 17:32 | saying , you know , I'm open to love come | |
| 17:35 | anytime . That's the basic message . But look how | |
| 17:39 | beautifully he says it . He takes 1-3 stanzas to | |
| 17:43 | do that . So it's a really beautiful poem . | |
| 17:47 | All right . I'd like to read it once more | |
| 17:50 | so you can now appreciate and understand um what it | |
| 17:54 | is about . Are there any questions about any other | |
| 17:58 | words that I missed ? I don't think so . | |
| 18:05 | Mhm . Amina . Thank you for the heart . | |
| 18:09 | I appreciate . I like stickers , colorful pretty stickers | |
| 18:13 | . Okay , once more invitation to love by paul | |
| 18:16 | Laurence Dunbar come when the nights are bright with stars | |
| 18:21 | or when the moon is mellow . Come when the | |
| 18:24 | sun , his golden bars drops on the hayfield . | |
| 18:28 | Yellow come in the twilight soft and gray . Come | |
| 18:33 | in the night or come in the day come o | |
| 18:37 | love whenever you may and you are welcome . Welcome | |
| 18:42 | . You are sweeter , love dear love . You | |
| 18:46 | are soft as the nesting dove come to my heart | |
| 18:50 | and bring it rest as the bird flies home to | |
| 18:53 | its welcome nest . Come when my heart is full | |
| 18:57 | of grief or when my heart is mary come with | |
| 19:02 | the falling of the leaf or with the reddening cherry | |
| 19:07 | come when the year's first blossom blows come when the | |
| 19:11 | summer gleams and gloves come with the winters drifting snows | |
| 19:17 | and you are welcome . Welcome him beautiful isn't it | |
| 19:23 | ? So I invite you to read it again when | |
| 19:26 | the livestream is done , practice it , read it | |
| 19:28 | aloud , take your phones and record yourself . Listen | |
| 19:31 | um you see if you can make it flow . | |
| 19:34 | Another thing I'm doing is I am linking my words | |
| 19:37 | . If you haven't practiced or if it's been a | |
| 19:38 | while since you've practiced linking , you can go to | |
| 19:41 | my fast speech series . Um The first few lessons | |
| 19:44 | are about linking connecting words so that our words are | |
| 19:49 | not cut up but they connect and flow right ? | |
| 19:53 | For example nights are nights are right or what would | |
| 20:00 | be in drops on . I'm linking continent to vowel | |
| 20:03 | sound there drops on the hayfield yellow , Right ? | |
| 20:07 | So there's lots of chances to link our words capture | |
| 20:11 | the rhythm , something that I did with my Patreon | |
| 20:13 | members this month . If we've been talking about content | |
| 20:16 | words versus function words , the words that we stress | |
| 20:19 | are the words that carry meaning . They carry content | |
| 20:23 | . These are pretty much the now sounds verbs , | |
| 20:26 | adjectives , adverbs , these are the words that we | |
| 20:29 | stress and that's why you hear a rhythm like dan | |
| 20:32 | , to dun , dun , dun , dun , | |
| 20:34 | come when the nights are bright with stars . You | |
| 20:38 | know that words like nights , bright stars are content | |
| 20:42 | words . So if you go back and listen to | |
| 20:44 | my reading again , you hear the words that I | |
| 20:47 | stress . Those are the content words . Okay , | |
| 20:50 | it is beautiful . All right . Um Speaking of | |
| 20:54 | of someone wrote something about mental health , Mohammed poetry | |
| 20:58 | is soothing for the soul , you know ? Um | |
| 21:01 | there's a reason why we have poems and music . | |
| 21:03 | It's it's what we need inside of us . They | |
| 21:06 | can heal , they can help and they can give | |
| 21:08 | us strength . So reading the poem I hope will | |
| 21:11 | fill you with positive feelings And just the musical quality | |
| 21:15 | should make you happy . Um so I invite you | |
| 21:18 | again to read , to listen and let's move on | |
| 21:21 | to the next poem . It's much shorter . This | |
| 21:23 | is another American poet , her name as Sara Teasdale | |
| 21:27 | and she also lived some time ago from 1884 to | |
| 21:31 | 1933 . Okay . You see um the spelling with | |
| 21:36 | the hyphen is unusual . Um , it's not how | |
| 21:39 | we write it in modern english today . Um I | |
| 21:42 | don't know if it was just , she was playing | |
| 21:44 | around or if that was standard back then . I | |
| 21:46 | don't have an answer to that . But it does | |
| 21:49 | catch your attention , doesn't it . Again ? I'd | |
| 21:54 | like to read the poem twice . I'll read it | |
| 21:56 | once . Then we'll talk about any new words and | |
| 22:00 | then we'll read it again . I told you about | |
| 22:03 | rhyme scheme before . Look for words that rhyme . | |
| 22:06 | What's the pattern ? See if you can identify that | |
| 22:09 | as I read it this first time . Okay . | |
| 22:12 | Tonight the moon is a curving flower of gold . | |
| 22:17 | The sky is still in blue . The moon was | |
| 22:21 | made for the sky to hold and I and I | |
| 22:25 | for you . The moon is a flower without a | |
| 22:29 | stem , the sky is luminous . Eternity was made | |
| 22:35 | for them tonight for us . Interesting . Does anyone | |
| 22:42 | see the rhyme scheme ? Ashwari a no worry . | |
| 22:49 | The good thing if you're late you can always catch | |
| 22:51 | up and watch the recording later . Happy valentine's Day | |
| 22:54 | . What's the difference between a song and poetry ? | |
| 22:57 | Poetry is what we read song is what we sing | |
| 23:00 | right ? But they both have um lyrics , they | |
| 23:02 | both have um words . It's it's playing with words | |
| 23:06 | and um I want to say exploit but really using | |
| 23:10 | rhyme and imagery . So it's just a beautiful way | |
| 23:14 | to string words together When you add music it becomes | |
| 23:17 | a song . So song lyrics are like very much | |
| 23:20 | like poetry and and of course these are love poems | |
| 23:24 | I like the poems that are really beautiful . They're | |
| 23:26 | also poems that are very strong , profound and sad | |
| 23:30 | . Um Some people wrote poems when they're angry and | |
| 23:33 | they're full of strong emotions uh like a fighting tone | |
| 23:38 | . So there are all kinds of poems people right | |
| 23:40 | ? People sing when they want to express their feelings | |
| 23:44 | . So the beauty of of poetry is that there | |
| 23:47 | are emotions that we all should be able to identify | |
| 23:50 | with . Um These are poems of Love and hopefully | |
| 23:54 | you can appreciate um how she's seeing love . We | |
| 23:57 | saw how um paul Laurence Dunbar was making an invitation | |
| 24:02 | , giving an invitation saying I'm open , come any | |
| 24:04 | time into my life , I am ready . Um | |
| 24:07 | I think we all have felt that in our lives | |
| 24:09 | , you know , you're open to this . Um | |
| 24:11 | and there's never a bad time for love tonight . | |
| 24:14 | What is sara Teasdale telling us the moon is a | |
| 24:18 | curving flower of gold uh imagery picture that a curving | |
| 24:23 | flower of gold , the moon is already beautiful itself | |
| 24:26 | . Right ? But she's saying it is this is | |
| 24:28 | a metaphor . It's a curving flower of gold . | |
| 24:32 | She's comparing it to this curving flower of gold . | |
| 24:36 | The sky is still meaning not moving and blue . | |
| 24:41 | The moon was made for the sky to hold again | |
| 24:44 | a bit of personification as if the sky has hands | |
| 24:47 | or arms to hold the moon . And now there's | |
| 24:51 | this comparison . If the sky can hold the moon | |
| 24:55 | then I can hold you . That's what I was | |
| 24:57 | made for . She's saying the voice of the poet | |
| 25:00 | is um coming through making this comparison . Okay , | |
| 25:05 | the moon is a flower without a stem . Another | |
| 25:09 | image . Okay , so a picture . A flower | |
| 25:11 | without a stem , right ? Flowers are beautiful . | |
| 25:14 | They're usually held up on a stem but in this | |
| 25:16 | case the moon is just there in the sky . | |
| 25:19 | A flower without a stem that long part of the | |
| 25:22 | flower that holds the blossom . The sky is luminous | |
| 25:27 | . Who knows that word luminous , luminous . Well | |
| 25:34 | , Ziad , you're asking for similar words , synonyms | |
| 25:39 | . We had some grief above . I told you | |
| 25:41 | is another word for um sadness , luminous . Who | |
| 25:45 | knows ? The word luminous , luminous . It's shining | |
| 25:51 | . There's a there's a lot of shining going on | |
| 25:54 | in these poems today . Right . The sky is | |
| 25:56 | shining brightly , It's lit up , it has light | |
| 25:58 | and it's shining . Eternity , meaning forever was made | |
| 26:03 | for them . And tonight for us , another comparison | |
| 26:07 | . The sky and the moon are things that are | |
| 26:10 | always there and they will be there even after we | |
| 26:13 | go from this world . Right ? So eternity is | |
| 26:16 | for the moon . For the sky . We may | |
| 26:19 | not have eternity . You and I , but we | |
| 26:21 | have tonight . Eternity was made for them tonight for | |
| 26:26 | us . Mhm . Very simple , very short and | |
| 26:32 | yet very pretty and very beautiful . We have two | |
| 26:36 | interesting images . Right ? And there are these comparisons | |
| 26:40 | between the sky and um the moon . And she's | |
| 26:44 | speaking about her and her love . Okay . Yes | |
| 26:50 | . Okay . Her Irving Happy valentine's Day to you | |
| 26:52 | glow . Yes . If the sky is luminous it's | |
| 26:55 | it's all lit up , it's glowing , right ? | |
| 26:58 | Rhyming gold hold blue . You very simple . A | |
| 27:04 | B a B rhyme scheme , stem them . And | |
| 27:08 | here we kind of like fudge . It a little | |
| 27:10 | bit luminous for us . It's close enough again . | |
| 27:15 | Poets play with sounds , they play with rhythm and | |
| 27:18 | they can get away with close matches . Right ? | |
| 27:21 | Let me read it again . Now that the words | |
| 27:24 | are clear and you understand the rhyme scheme , let's | |
| 27:27 | also try to capture the rhythm right ? You know | |
| 27:31 | if you're just looking at these words , the words | |
| 27:34 | that catch your attention are those words that carry content | |
| 27:38 | like moon curving flower , gold sky still blue . | |
| 27:44 | These are the words that I will emphasize and as | |
| 27:47 | I stress them , you'll hear a rhythm develop Okay | |
| 27:51 | tonight by sara Teasdale , the moon is a curving | |
| 27:56 | flower of gold . The sky is still in blue | |
| 28:01 | . The moon was made for the sky to hold | |
| 28:04 | and I for you the moon is a flower without | |
| 28:10 | a stem . The sky is luminous . Eternity was | |
| 28:15 | made for them tonight for us . Simple right ? | |
| 28:21 | Sometimes simple poems are very beautiful for all their simplicity | |
| 28:26 | . Um These are the links that I will share | |
| 28:28 | these poems are in the public domain , which means | |
| 28:31 | um you can share them freely there for us to | |
| 28:34 | enjoy in the public . And um you can find | |
| 28:38 | more poetry if you just do a search for sara | |
| 28:41 | Teasdale . She has some other poems . Not all | |
| 28:43 | of them are so beautiful and happy . Um But | |
| 28:46 | they're they're very pretty in their own way . Um | |
| 28:48 | Sara Teasdale , you can search for her work . | |
| 28:51 | Um As I understand , I just discovered paul Laurence | |
| 28:53 | Dunbar fairly recently , but I understand that he was | |
| 28:56 | more than a poet that he has other writings , | |
| 28:59 | um works of fiction perhaps . Um So you could | |
| 29:02 | also search online for his work if you're curious and | |
| 29:06 | like to see what he wrote . Okay . All | |
| 29:09 | right . I'm saying you're I think that I'm sharing | |
| 29:13 | my interpretations . I am not um an english literature | |
| 29:17 | specialist and perhaps if there are those specialists out there | |
| 29:20 | , I apologize that perhaps I didn't do the best | |
| 29:22 | analysis possible , but as an english language teacher , | |
| 29:26 | I hope that I've explained enough so that you can | |
| 29:28 | appreciate and understand what these two poets have created for | |
| 29:32 | us . Um So please review the poems . Listen | |
| 29:36 | , listen for the rhythm , listen for the linking | |
| 29:39 | and just listen to enjoy please and then also practice | |
| 29:43 | . That's the practice you can do if you are | |
| 29:45 | one of my Patreon members , you can come to | |
| 29:47 | our Patreon page and um use the tools that I've | |
| 29:50 | been sharing with you and do your own reading , | |
| 29:52 | share with the group and we can all appreciate um | |
| 29:56 | the different readings and the different interpretations . I'm sharing | |
| 30:00 | my ideas about what these poets are trying to convey | |
| 30:04 | to us . Perhaps you have a different insights or | |
| 30:07 | you have a different way of wanting to read it | |
| 30:10 | . Um That's what poetry is for . Is allowing | |
| 30:12 | you to bring your own interpretation , your own spin | |
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| 35:05 | Can you finish this first ? Stunning glad asks me | |
| 35:08 | . Your love is like a red red rose ? | |
| 35:11 | No , so your love is like a red red | |
| 35:14 | rose . Um it fills my heart and forever grows | |
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| 36:42 | Okay , so I hope to add more sessions and | |
| 36:47 | um I do take request from my members , um | |
| 36:50 | what I asked them what they'd like to focus on | |
| 36:52 | , they voted on pronunciation for february , and that's | |
| 36:55 | what we've been doing in our live streams . We've | |
| 36:57 | been doing rhythm and intonation , so we'll take another | |
| 37:00 | vote and we'll see what happens in March . Okay | |
| 37:03 | ? Um Yes , Larry says they're stunning . Oh | |
| 37:09 | , robert Burns , another good poet , Django . | |
| 37:12 | Thank you . I'm glad you agree . It's a | |
| 37:14 | good opportunity . Okay , all right guys , um | |
| 37:17 | so I want to to scroll on back and remind | |
| 37:20 | you of the two poems that were b we were | |
| 37:23 | able to read and enjoy together today , invitation to | |
| 37:27 | Love by paul , Laurence , Dunbar , and Tonight | |
| 37:30 | by Sara Teasdale . I'll include these links in the | |
| 37:33 | video description and I hope that you'll take the time | |
| 37:36 | to enjoy them more even after this session ends . | |
| 37:40 | Okay , so I'm going to get back to this | |
| 37:43 | screen shot if there are any final questions , um | |
| 37:47 | I'll wait around for just a moment or two and | |
| 37:50 | see if there are other questions I can answer . | |
| 37:52 | Um Otherwise I thank you for being here and sharing | |
| 37:55 | valentine's day with me . Happy Valentine's Day to you | |
| 37:58 | all . No , that again , more videos are | |
| 38:01 | on their way . I share every thursday , tomorrow | |
| 38:04 | is monday , so I'll be posting on instagram . | |
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| 38:09 | with jennifer Lebedev . Um what else is coming up | |
| 38:12 | ? The bonus video for my um Patreon members that's | |
| 38:17 | coming up this week and we do have one more | |
| 38:20 | livestream , I'll be meeting with my Patreon members for | |
| 38:22 | an exclusive youtube live stream . This kind of format | |
| 38:25 | um , on friday . So if you really want | |
| 38:28 | more , there is an opportunity to get more . | |
| 38:30 | You just have to sign up as a super member | |
| 38:33 | and you'll get the link . Okay . Um , | |
| 38:37 | there's more coming . You don't mean synonyms well , | |
| 38:41 | um , I do have some videos , older videos | |
| 38:45 | on synonyms , word families , so you might take | |
| 38:48 | a look at the different lessons I have in my | |
| 38:51 | vocabulary playlist again . Um , what I can do | |
| 38:54 | with my members is take requests this coming friday . | |
| 38:58 | We'll have our livestream to target pronunciation intonation specifically , | |
| 39:03 | but I will definitely make time for Q and A | |
| 39:06 | allowing my members to ask questions in advance and then | |
| 39:10 | I can give answers in real time at that live | |
| 39:12 | stream . So again , lots of learning opportunities on | |
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| 40:40 | I'm trying to create opportunities to reach everyone and to | |
| 40:44 | meet your needs for more learning opportunities . Okay . | |
| 40:49 | Um I don't have time to talk about William blake | |
| 40:53 | right now , but perhaps in a future , livestream | |
| 40:55 | will do more poetry and robert , Burns and William | |
| 40:59 | Blakes . Perhaps those could be poets that we feature | |
| 41:02 | . How can you improve your pronunciation ? Well , | |
| 41:05 | this was a start today to listen for the rhythm | |
| 41:07 | . If you can understand and feel the rhythm of | |
| 41:10 | english and start to replicate that start to follow the | |
| 41:14 | rhythm and produce that rhythm in your own speech . | |
| 41:17 | You will sound more natural . I've been practicing with | |
| 41:20 | my Patreon members um how to establish rhythm . What | |
| 41:24 | are the content words ? Um why we don't stress | |
| 41:27 | focus words ? And as we work on the rhythm | |
| 41:30 | , we also give attention to it intonation , knowing | |
| 41:33 | when our voice should rise and when our voice should | |
| 41:36 | fall . These are the things we've been practicing in | |
| 41:39 | the month of february and we will continue to practice | |
| 41:41 | on friday . Don't forget I do have a full | |
| 41:45 | playlist on intonation , on rhythm and intonation that's free | |
| 41:49 | to all check out my playlist on intonation . Um | |
| 41:53 | in the fast speech series will teach you about linking | |
| 41:56 | . So it's not just about having clear sounds . | |
| 41:59 | Remember that pronunciation is bigger than sounds . Um , | |
| 42:03 | as we start putting sounds together , we can link | |
| 42:05 | them , connect them . Um then we start talking | |
| 42:09 | about stressed words and creating a rhythm . Um , | |
| 42:12 | so rhythm intonation um are very important elements in pronunciation | |
| 42:18 | . I do have videos to help you um and | |
| 42:20 | if you follow those you can improve . Okay , | |
| 42:23 | I'm glad Murder that you enjoyed reading poetry with me | |
| 42:26 | today . Okay . Um all right , guys surprise | |
| 42:33 | me . I do have I have videos on surprise | |
| 42:35 | . I have um expressions of surprise and how we | |
| 42:39 | express um surprise and what our voice does with with | |
| 42:43 | that emotion , how it's often a strong rise fall | |
| 42:46 | like really ? Yes . Really ? I'm on Patreon | |
| 42:49 | . Patreon . Yes . Patreon . So there are | |
| 42:52 | ways that we use intonation to express surprise and I | |
| 42:56 | cover that in my conversation videos here on Youtube as | |
| 43:00 | well as the playlist on intonation . Okay . Live | |
| 43:04 | editing . I'm sure we'll do more of that . | |
| 43:06 | We did that in january . Um , perhaps we'll | |
| 43:08 | do that again in the springtime . Okay , Alright | |
| 43:12 | guys , it's time to wind down and I want | |
| 43:14 | to thank you all again for joining me . Um | |
| 43:16 | stunning . Glad , thank you so much for the | |
| 43:18 | very generous super chat . I appreciate that very much | |
| 43:22 | and happy valentine's day to all of you . I | |
| 43:25 | hope you enjoyed the poetry . I hope it filled | |
| 43:27 | your day with some beauty and I hope to see | |
| 43:30 | you back here soon . Thank you everybody . |
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