Forgot to mention in the video, but no need to spend lots of money on an anthology for poetry! I linked two great websites where you can find all these poems (and many more) in the description. Not sponsored, I just like free resources.

Hopkins ended up in my home town and in fact is buried here.When a teen at school I enjoyed reading his Windhover and That Nature Is A Hearaclitean Fire.As for Matthew Arnold's On Dover Beach,it's used at the beginning of one of my favourite TV documentary series called The Sea Of Faith.❤️

i love that you picked two poems with ocean imagery, it's one of my favorite symbols. it reminds me of a scene in possession of a character on a beach being overcome with grief every time they hear the crashing of the waves

Good job, Valerie! I truly enjoyed this poetry video and hope you continue to do more of them. The selection of poems was varied and your comments stimulated my thoughts and other’s as well, I’m sure. I mulled over the second stanza of Gerard Manly Hopkin’s poem and I am probably miles away from his intent but it spoke to me as if he’s comparing our lives (psyche, mind, awareness, etc.) to a mountain, with fearful dangerous outcroppings, the choices (cliffs of fall) we make, where it’s easy to plunge to our death (failure) even though we cannot fully comprehend dying (the possibility of failing). And those who never experienced the fear of death or appreciate the danger (those who do not live life wisely) are disdained. Yet, even those who do understand, life doesn’t last forever, and we eventually die because every day, in essence, dies by going to sleep, (Bible term for death). Please pardon the ramble, and take it with a grain of salt, for I have no idea, whatever, of the author’s intent-I guess that’s why I love poetry-it can speak differently to every reader. My mood frequently colors how the same poem will affect me another way from the first time I read it.

Thank you for reading and sharing these poems.... I would love to read poetry, I looked up Emily Bronte poems and it turns out there was a book released on Jan. 10 2023 called "Brontes' Selected Poems" once I read a few books off my shelf I may have to get this one

i find poetry so intimidating

Christina Rossetti is my mom's favourite poet, so she must have better ones than that. I think Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote that poem while suffering a deep depression. (I'm not being sarcastic, I think that's the story behind it!) There's nothing worse than what he's feeling, completely comfortless, but at least he will die someday, and until then, this awful day will die when he falls asleep.

~Great video.