"I am the self consumer of my woes" - captures the essence of loneliness and isolation in a single sentence

2024 and still can’t get over Penny Dreadful

Rory Kinnear became one of my favorite actors after watching this show. His performance as "John Clare" (Frankenstein's Monster) was outstanding!

2019 and I still cant get over Penny Dreadful

John Clare is a kindred spirit! His story was the best part of Penny Dreadful! One of the most memorable characters in tv history!

2023 and I’m still here. I love Penny Dreadful tv show

This show will forevermore literally hold my heart.

This man is just talking... yes it is just voice but every single freakin time when I listen to this, i don’t even know why and I am not a native speaker so do not understand all the meanings, but my heart tear apart. It’s just fucking sad but at the same time, beautiful.

Vanessa and john had great chemistry together. I like all their scenes in this show.

A wonderful poem. Not at all freaky. He was known as the Peasants Poet. Not respected enough. His poem I Am ,is special to me as I have spent a long time in Mental Hospitals and he reflects how I felt. I am better now but I still remember how it felt. Unfortunately in John Clare's time there would have been no drugs to help. It is thought that he might have had Bi Polla. He died in the Assylum. He loved nature and the country side. .It is worth visiting Helpston where he lived. You can go round his cottage. His grave is in the church Yard and every year the local children put flowers round his grave. He was very poor and undernourished. That is probably why he was so small .He married and had children.Not at all strange or freaky. Maybe if he had been richer he may have been more respected and of course mental illness would have caused rejection as it still does today. He did have a period when he went to London and published a book. But reading between the lines I think he was laughed and ridiculed. Un fortunately the Mone y he made from his book was spent. Anyway it s well worth looking him up Thank you for the wonderful rendition of I AM spocken with such feeling.

I will never get over Penny Dreadful. 💔

I feel so bound to these characters... I find a little bit of myself on each one of them

This scene really stuck out to me from all the rest

If I were to ever meet Eva Green I would thank her for Vanessa Ives and what amount of herself she put into the character. She is beautiful on the inside, not just the out.

Rory is a darling and an exceptional Actor. If this was a live show, I would have got up from my seat and clapped and cried like crazy.

sad people like poetry, happy people like songs

Penny Deadful was a work of art itself!!!

"The grass below, above the vaulted sky." This is my best part of the poem..

I am-yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes- They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes And yet I am, and live-like vapours tossed Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems; Even the dearest that I loved the best Are strange-nay, rather, stranger than the rest. I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below-above the vaulted sky.

So cool! The Creature is the best part of the show.

I miss this series! So underrated!

It's so genius how Vanessa Ives knows this poem, mentioning it in the flashback episode "A Blade of Grass" in season 3: "I am nothing. I am no more than a blade of grass. But I Am."

Am I the only one still watching this in 2018?

Into the nothingness of noise and scorn, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joy; But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems. Even the dearest that I love the best Are strange - nay, rather stranger than the rest.

Nothings warms my heart more than an intelligent zombie in a coat

Superb! How amazing poetry can be, all that old and forgotten Words, wrotes by a beautiful outsider like John Clare. Thanks John Logan for Penny Dreadful, Thanks Rory and Eva for this performance and Thanks to you for share this scene.

Best character i ever watched or read, perfectly performed by a gifted actor to an amazing production🤘🤘🤘Thank you all for the masterpiece of Penny Dreadfull🥺️🥺️🥺️🤘🤘🤘🤘

Rory does an exceptional job at John Clark. What a Beautiful Man, What a Beautiful Character❤

2021 and I still can't get over John Clare's poem.

Awesome scene, awesome actors, outstanding performance..And I think it has one of the best series finale I've ever seen..

I guess I can relate to John Clare too. Especially the line when he writes about being forgotten.

Best series I've ever seen

2022 and still having chills on this scene

2022 and I am still on about Penny dreadful.

I watched this series when it came out years ago, and only recently came across the poetry of John Clare. I'd forgotten he was referenced in this show and it only just clicked when this video came up. This particular poem is, I think, the last that he wrote, during the last of his days which he spent in a mental asylum.

And If u realise that in the end, the only friend that John had is Vanessa and she is dead, broked my heart so bad.

To know poetry by heart like that!

one of my favorite character and one of the most perfect witch drama

Untroubling and untroubled , just hit right in the heart , this poem aches me so much

Everytime I listen to him gives me chills in my spine .

So wonderful ,so deeply soul-soothing ....

What a deep conversation!

One of our tutors favourite shows, and an incredible performance of a hauntingly beautiful poem!

Am I alone here in 2021?

This show got me into poetry.

2022 and I am still not over it.

Beautiful

In 2023, I've already been a memory that has been forsaken by all and I've remembered 'Jhon Clare'. Yes 'I Am' 😊

absolute genius

2021 and I still come back here when I need to feel like I am being understood.

What a beautiful act by both of them throughout the series

2022...

perpetual goosebumps!

I love him He was the best one

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise Into the sea of waking dreams Where there is neither sense of life or joys But the vast shipwreck of my life's steams Even the dearest that I loved the best Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest John Clare ❤❤❤

Can we get a show of these two just reciting poetry from the 1800s

so sooo beautyful!!

He is beautiful

Loved it, and the whole series, and I stil love it!!!!!

This is now my favorite poem.

Wow wow I’m in love with this show!!! One of the best ever to be made

A beautiful scene. No malicious dislikes. An honour well earned.

OMG my feelings... *.* Beautiful poem and great actors!

Stunningly moving poem, beautifully read.

what a poetry.

The way he goes right in. This gentleman is amazing.

This scene alone was such an explicit depiction of broken they both were. Loved to the deepest recessess, yet unable to freely love another.

Ugh I love this poem

A masterpiece

Beautiful poetry

Still the best dialogue in the show

My favorite edition

where are those series nowadays? :(

I really wish that KZfaq and Showtime hadn't yanked all the clips that are longer than a minute and some change, you don't get the essense of the scenes with these short clips.

How I wish for the warmth of the friendship of one such as Vanessa Ives. The longer I draw breath the colder and emptier I realize that this world seems to be, yet I cling to it like a life ring for the horrible fear that is beginning to set in that there might be nothing at all waiting on the other side should I choose to leave it. Why must I be so cursed? Nevermind, I forgot the anwser for a second. It's "Why not?".

Farewell little scorpion

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Eva green you make me soo blue in this scene...

perhaps due to this he felt singular affinity with the outcasts and the unloved ones. The ugly animals, the broken things. John clare is forgiven for all the murders in the series.

Im having a lot of trouble picturing him as Tom Bombadil, but i look forwrd to seeing how it goes

“I wonder if he found it, his secret place with God?” “…the poem tells me he did.” 😭 😭 😭

It's slightly different to the version I know, but I think John Clare tinkered with his verses a bit.

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2020

Wonderful poem! (As an aside, its s02e05 not e04)

Does anyone know the music playing background? It's hauntingly beautiful

What is the song being played as they converse with each other so deep?

When I see these two together, I always think of the unlikely friendship between a Ravenclaw (Vanessa) and a Slytherin (Caliban).

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Isn't it said that God created man because he was lonely? If even God can get lonely, then well... Seems to me that loneliness is a requisite for self aware consciousness. Others did not spurn or abandon you, they were never yours to begin with. The difference lies in the illusion into which we flee, and in which we suffer the precariousness of the existential premise of a narcissist. It's cowardice in its most clarified form.

I'm 5 feet tall so I guess I'm freakish??? I do get mistaken for fifteen year olds.

A frustrating show... Perhaps too much of it was too far "over the top", but it's moments like this were of incomparable beauty. What a lovely and great scene.

why oh why did they rushed the ending....... they've ruined it...

I like beans on toast