Amanda Gorman reads a poem at the DNC

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@RoverWaters 5 ай бұрын

she is the raygun of poetry

@OLBK 5 ай бұрын

❤😂

@fabriziomartelli8472 5 ай бұрын

Wake up you're dreaming 😂😂😂

@MirridonOnslaught 5 ай бұрын

She really is. This is awful

@doctrui 5 ай бұрын

As a foreigner, I'll make a poem myself: If the great people of America Say in freedom they believe Patriots shall stand and fight From woke shall seek relive!

@RoverWaters 5 ай бұрын

@@doctrui approved

@paulv7554 5 ай бұрын

If this qualifies as a poem, then every speech ever given qualifies as a poem.

@rickicoughlan 4 ай бұрын

Welcome to "Prose"

@adi2.054 5 ай бұрын

There is no beginning to her talent

@marriedkiwi 5 ай бұрын

@@irislake7387 we can pray for end times.. because there are some of the worse jokes following her

@BOBMAN1980 5 ай бұрын

Your statement is more poetic than anything I've heard from her.

@xyzct 3 ай бұрын

Best KZbin comment I've read all year.

@xyzct 3 ай бұрын

Words, words everywhere And not a thought to think. Words, words everywhere And all the brains did shrink

@mollkatless 5 ай бұрын

That wasn't poetry, that was seventh grade word play for people who put a great deal of import on how a poem makes them feel, rather than what it makes them think. Believe me people, in a generation this poem and it author will be entirely forgotten. That's what happens to the mediocre.

@sillysod33 5 ай бұрын

In a generation? It will be forgotten in a month.

@estherroberts8466 5 ай бұрын

Jealousy....what have you ever done?

@bellascoolig 5 ай бұрын

ah hatred...

@sillysod33 5 ай бұрын

@@estherroberts8466 well, I have translated multiple volumes of poetry, all published. So yeah, there’s that.

@estherroberts8466 2 ай бұрын

@@mollkatless Best to spend time improving your writing skills rather than tearing others down.

@Conker204 5 ай бұрын

This lady Amanda sounds like my aunt post drug binge ranting nonsense about her week; but a slightly dumbed down version of it.

@YeTism 5 ай бұрын

So cringe

@PamelaClarke-p3u 5 ай бұрын

Just the level of comment expected from the inarticulate.

@marriedkiwi 5 ай бұрын

@@PamelaClarke-p3u 26 years I studied literature. Find me a line that should resonate with a conherent human being.

@hoibsh21 5 ай бұрын

@@marriedkiwi When we ream we scream of the American ice cream of dreams and seams woven by Betsy Ross -- who never flossed -- but dared to dream and sowed the American seam.

@marriedkiwi 5 ай бұрын

@@hoibsh21 are you taking the piss with more nonsense?

@hoibsh21 5 ай бұрын

@@marriedkiwi YES !

@richardjames4090 5 ай бұрын

She's proof that half of America has dumbed down to the point of no return. How in any way was this inspiring, amazing, great or any other adjective people are using? It was horrible.

@PamelaClarke-p3u 5 ай бұрын

You will never understand.

@richardjames4090 5 ай бұрын

@@PamelaClarke-p3u of course I do…. It’s YOU that will never understand because you’ve been dumbed down just like I said…

@MarkLewis-l3f 5 ай бұрын

You're that proof yourself.

@MarkLewis-l3f 5 ай бұрын

@@richardjames4090 I know exactly what her poem meant because I understand spoken word poetry, a genre that demands a high level vocabulary & critical thinking to digest. No wonder you can't comprehend it.

@linsay2718 5 ай бұрын

@richardjames4090 dearheart, you're the proof you speak of.

@irontail06 5 ай бұрын

One, two… buckle my shoe

@sillysod33 5 ай бұрын

Three four, she hasn’t got any more… Rhymes.

@user-fp5do5ie3p 5 ай бұрын

Cliche after cliche after cliche after cliche. There are so many wonderful poets out there that will never be given "a shot". I just didn't find anything special about this at all.

@justintasker2347 5 ай бұрын

“If our earth shall perish from this country.”

@bradspringer2372 5 ай бұрын

That sounds rather incoherent to be inspirational.

@PamelaClarke-p3u 3 ай бұрын

So many ignorant people here !

@jimmycotton9084 5 ай бұрын

No one there understood a thing she said, but they will act like they did.

@PamelaClarke-p3u 5 ай бұрын

Lol. Speak for yourself. Your comprehension skills must be limited .

@MarkLewis-l3f 5 ай бұрын

I understood every word of it. I understand spoken word poetry, which you apparently do not.

@Pegarexucorn 5 ай бұрын

crazy (not really) how it's all the uzer-afdhaoehjapoefhaofhaskdjfh's that keep commenting rebuttals to people criticizing the poem 💀

@kevinmagley5980 5 ай бұрын

I just got dumber

@PamelaClarke-p3u 5 ай бұрын

That’s impossible!

@Ravencroft-kt2ty 5 ай бұрын

What?

@aec5210 5 ай бұрын

I'm sure. We can't educated them all. Thank you Amanda!

@puckered6036 5 ай бұрын

@@aec5210 "can't educated" ironic

@cl5619 5 ай бұрын

I’m in my hollowed place getting dumber listening this 😂

@MagCynic 5 ай бұрын

She genuinely doesn't know the difference between "hollowed" and "hallowed".

@michaelweaver7500 5 ай бұрын

you figured it out, plus it's her poetry, not yours.

@Mare416 5 ай бұрын

So she slightly flubbed the pronunciation of one vowel. The subtitled video posted on her Instagram says “hallowed.” Get over yourself and go pick on someone else.

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

How the hell can the “earth perish from the country”? Didn’t she mean the other way around?

@brendaj8501 5 ай бұрын

@@andrewsteeves6982 because the country is destroying the earth it sits on.

@brendaj8501 5 ай бұрын

You wouldn't know the difference. It's her pronounceciation that has your pants in a bunch. You are not worthy of her message.

@puckered6036 5 ай бұрын

I genuinely believe that if you actually like this poem, you have no taste.

@Helyob.castenelli3525 5 ай бұрын

Black to black. Go figured!😅

@PamelaClarke-p3u 5 ай бұрын

First you have to have the intelligence to comprehend.

@ИгорьИжщенков 5 ай бұрын

You forgot to put parentheses around the word poem, because this garbage is NOT poetry.

@ИгорьИжщенков 5 ай бұрын

@@PamelaClarke-p3u Intelligence is what makes it glaringly obvious that this “poem” is 100% 💩💩.

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

@@PamelaClarke-p3u Nah, first Amanda had to have the intelligence to WRITE

@luckijl5670 5 ай бұрын

The Hill We Climb is a great poem and The Audacity Of Hope is too. Shes really is amazing

@tiadube 5 ай бұрын

She is such a light

@bernadetteloia330 5 ай бұрын

How so.? That a word salad like KAMALA😂😂😂😂

@suecollins8482 5 ай бұрын

@@bernadetteloia330So you would rather hear about Hannibal Lecter, batteries, boats and a shark. Not to forget the snake 😂

@ColinsMom1985 5 ай бұрын

@@bernadetteloia330only to people with limited ability to comprehend, like you.

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

@@suecollins8482huh?

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

How the hell can the “earth perish from the country”? Didn’t she mean the other way around? And it’s “Hallowed” not “Hollowed”

@JLBiddle 5 ай бұрын

Word salad.

@MrDistill 5 ай бұрын

Her words are like a soul soothing hug. I’m so grateful she is on this planet in this time.

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

It was word salad 🥗

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

How the hell can the “earth perish from the country”? Didn’t she mean the other way around? And it’s “Hallowed” not “Hollowed”

@PamelaClarke-p3u 5 ай бұрын

THINK!

@aliasrose 5 ай бұрын

@@andrewsteeves6982She writes Kamala's speeches.

@paulgrant666 5 ай бұрын

its poets like this that turn so many people off of it.

@mikeluster2008 5 ай бұрын

Platitudinous doggerel

@PamelaClarke-p3u 5 ай бұрын

Jealousy-filled hate

@Logan_93 5 ай бұрын

@@PamelaClarke-p3u No dude. It was just genuinely bad.

@marshawhite2670 5 ай бұрын

She’s a breath of fresh air and a ray of sunshine

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

Cringe

@PamelaClarke-p3u 5 ай бұрын

Just the level of comment expected from the inarticulate!

@bloui1033 5 ай бұрын

yeah, she's a real RayGunn of sunshine

@victoriagallop9164 5 ай бұрын

Love this beautiful young lady. Her words echo Maya Angelou. ❤

@eschneir 5 ай бұрын

She is a gift to us all

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

Hallowed. Not “hollowed”

@fabriziomartelli8472 5 ай бұрын

Maybe for you. She definitely isn't a gift for me!

@ruslan--belik 5 ай бұрын

Well, leave her to yourself.

@BOBMAN1980 5 ай бұрын

I hope you're being sarcastic with that.

@MirridonOnslaught 5 ай бұрын

No wonder why poetry is dead. This is garbage. I should have put my 2 cents in

@bobklahn42 5 ай бұрын

Gorman is a good Irish name. My grandmother was a Gorman, I wonder...

@barbaraholowack5625 5 ай бұрын

Such poise. A gift to listen. Powerful and emotional. Dream.

@dinsdag6juli2010 5 ай бұрын

Maybe she has a gift to listen, certainly not to speak tho

@javagirl 5 ай бұрын

She is like the Lin Manuel Miranda of poetry. One in millions.

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

It was word salad

@carmenletcher6243 5 ай бұрын

She is wonderful. So great at speaking her ideas. Amazing!!

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

Cringe

@PamelaClarke-p3u 5 ай бұрын

Jealous! Hater!

@Pegarexucorn 5 ай бұрын

chat-gpt aaaah comment

@rv706 5 ай бұрын

"For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors." Walter Benjamin

@zachgrewell1698 5 ай бұрын

Yoooo. This could tank dems in 2024. Wtf.

@syrenasketches6902 4 ай бұрын

We gather at this HOLLOWED place ... 😂

@BettyofOOO 5 ай бұрын

My grandkids are going to read this in their history class. I got James Baldwin chills listening to this. I feel blessed to be alive at the same time as Amanda.

@jeniferjoseph9200 5 ай бұрын

I hope not

@garydalie7051 5 ай бұрын

When they read it I hope they explain the difference between hallowed and hollowed

@syrenasketches6902 4 ай бұрын

Are you insane? It was awful. Her teachers have failed her.

@amatullahkarriemcampbell8840 5 ай бұрын

This is our Maya Angelou Lawd have mercy and my Langston Hughes 🖤😴❤️✊🏽🥲

@shawnh9590 5 ай бұрын

She's closer to Rupi Kaur than Maya Angelou

@Ethan-fh9lq 5 ай бұрын

Please don’t speak I’ll of Maya Angelou

@syrenasketches6902 4 ай бұрын

Maya Angelou was a real poet.

@memphizbrummell3263 5 ай бұрын

All I can say is GIFTED she'll be at the Harris inauguration ❤❤❤❤❤

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

How the hell can the “earth perish from the country”? Didn’t she mean the other way around? And it’s “Hallowed” not “Hollowed”

@brendaj8501 5 ай бұрын

@@andrewsteeves6982 because the country is not protecting the earth. Get it??!!

@PamelaClarke-p3u 5 ай бұрын

THINK

@garydalie7051 5 ай бұрын

@@brendaj8501 No because it's crap. Look at what you're trying to defend...😂

@scottross4374 4 ай бұрын

Her talent knows no beginning 😂😂😂

@feeshunter1508 5 ай бұрын

“Hollowed….”????? Did she mean “hallowed”?😂 That sounded like an 8th grade project that a kid threw together to get a passing grade they don’t care about.

@hibosdahir5960 5 ай бұрын

Amazing, she is a legend

@conor7154 5 ай бұрын

She can’t differentiate hallow and hollow. She thinks they’re the same word. She has the vocabulary of a child.

@bernadetteloia330 5 ай бұрын

I know that what democrats about they tell u wat to do and wat to think and say.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@ColinsMom1985 5 ай бұрын

@@conor7154here’s a transcript of the first two lines of the poem; it’s a matter of pronunciation which you have NO BUSINESS criticizing. The entire poem is available online but I guess the five seconds it takes to research that is too much for your narrow & rude self: We gather at this hallowed place because we believe in the American dream.

@e0n555 5 ай бұрын

She has blossomed, her words brought tears.

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

How the hell can the “earth perish from the country”? Didn’t she mean the other way around?

@juday1ka 5 ай бұрын

National Treasure!!! ❤️🤩🥰

@yelinmanu7204 5 ай бұрын

Exactly 😊

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

Hallowed. Not “hollowed”😅

@godsmacks1000 5 ай бұрын

I feel like I need an interpreter to make sense of her jumbled mess of words. Could you imagine her trying to teach English to a class of foreign students?🤣

@todd6338 5 ай бұрын

moroon

@ruslan--belik 3 ай бұрын

@@todd6338 you

@highschoolbigshot 5 ай бұрын

I do not like green eggs and ham I do not like them Sam I am!

@davidjacobs828 5 ай бұрын

" hollowed place " Damn right .

@aliasrose 5 ай бұрын

Very hollow.

@linsay2718 5 ай бұрын

Wow. That's all. Just. Wow.

@linsay2718 5 ай бұрын

@@adriaticace wow. Just wow.

@markayzenshtadt7200 5 ай бұрын

She learned poetry from Kamala Harris.

@freedomisnotfree3536 5 ай бұрын

The coments say it ALL... EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!!

@Felmania1 5 ай бұрын

My ears are bleeding.

@lucitaferguson1025 5 ай бұрын

Awesome ❤❤❤

@angrykermit3192 5 ай бұрын

Hollowed? I think she meant hallowed. And it's a sports arena, not Mecca.

@sillysod33 5 ай бұрын

If this is poetry, my pancake batter is Shakespeare.

@PStew262 5 ай бұрын

Empathy emancipates! Brilliant! I always look forward to hear her recite her poems.❤

@justlivelife9512 5 ай бұрын

“Hollowed place”? Lmao DEI

@Corkfish1 5 ай бұрын

Wow How profound 😂😂😂

@franklee1550 5 ай бұрын

In 1960 Robert Frost wrote and read a poem for JFK’s inauguration:”The Gift Outright”. This is where the Democrat party is now. Pathetic!

@webbs120 5 ай бұрын

We are people, people of black, not refined to shacks, nor shackles, nor pigeonholed... We must rise, rise all the time. Sometimes in rhyme. Then passes is time..... Trump is BAD!

@malyse80 5 ай бұрын

Inspirational, draws you in, and you know why and what you need to do!

@fabriziomartelli8472 5 ай бұрын

Yes I definitely know what to do. I'll vote for Trump!

@NancyLittrell-sw6tk 5 ай бұрын

She recited her poem so beautifully, not to mention the message in her poem!!

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

“Hallowed”, not “Hollowed”😅

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

And how can the “earth perish from the country” doesn’t she mean the other way around?This woman failed grammar. Everything else was just platitudes.

@builditwell 2 ай бұрын

The vacuousness of Gorman is an apt image of the past 4 years. I recommend she write a valediction forbidding mourning on this administration’s departure and let a better poet speak to the anxiety that Trump’s inauguration will bring to a world that has no need for his chaos and narcissism.

@JunoDiovonaDemihof 5 ай бұрын

‼️ brilliant young woman ❤️ She speaks the truth❤ brilliantly choosing each word❤

@somebody.u.used2know 5 ай бұрын

What in the name of Sam hell was that??? Harvard are you serious?? 😂😢

@lisafennimore4011 5 ай бұрын

Spell checker captions are unsatisfactory. It's HALLOWED PLACE... NOT HOLLOW

@michaelpagan3914 5 ай бұрын

🗑

@dennisreed3382 5 ай бұрын

Doesn't hollow mean nothing, empty or worthless?

@wyld-fv6fp 5 ай бұрын

thought she said hallowed, but i could be wrong

@PamelaClarke-p3u 5 ай бұрын

Semantically the meaning is “ hallowed” so OBVIOUSLY we apply comprehension, not not-pick pronunciation

@PamelaClarke-p3u 5 ай бұрын

Read with the aim to comprehend. Semantically “ hallowed “ is the word of course .

@yelinmanu7204 5 ай бұрын

❤❤

@EricWTwiss 5 ай бұрын

Andrew Dice Clay rattles off poems better. This is terrible

@rocke7398 5 ай бұрын

Good speech. Her party should practice it.

@judekalyesubula8646 5 ай бұрын

Poem not speech

@keithlanier1399 5 ай бұрын

Right the Republicans should practice it

@doctrui 3 ай бұрын

"We vote for Kamala Because she is good We hate Donald Trump cause he's an orange dude" -- Nobel Prize 2025

@anitajanke6112 5 ай бұрын

Beautiful! Soo much intelligence ❤

@philly442 5 ай бұрын

lmao

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

It was world salad 🥗

@Pegarexucorn 5 ай бұрын

@@philly442 lol. lmao, even.

@davidmitnick868 5 ай бұрын

This is objectively horrible. Am I losing my mind? How is this good poetry?

@sireconde5969 5 ай бұрын

It call poetry. Not easy to listen. When you sit close your eyes and listen to it then you will l enjoy it

@pend8484 5 ай бұрын

You are correct. Walt Whitman rolling in his grave if this is what passes as poetry in America.

@shawnh9590 5 ай бұрын

No, you're not, it's very bad. But the general public doesn't know good poetry, so dreck like this gets gobbled up.

@puckered6036 5 ай бұрын

It is the same quality of someone parodying slam poetry. It is beyond embarassing

@PamelaClarke-p3u 5 ай бұрын

Comprehension skills available?

@esausjudeannephew6317 5 ай бұрын

She would make a good model of some kind. Maybe a hand model. She DOES have pretty hands and good skin. Why not? Who knows?

@cl5619 5 ай бұрын

She’d make a good model for skincare products with that immaculate complexion.

@francinemilsette7437 5 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@ProximaCentauri88 5 ай бұрын

inedible word salad

@ElectroBusta 5 ай бұрын

Is she a DEI hire in slam poetry?

@christineirmler7174 5 ай бұрын

DNC totally SHAT on RNC at this convention and beyond!!! Brilliant beautiful respectful loving caring kind people ALL. THIS is what the world needs right now. Thank you America xxx🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@pend8484 5 ай бұрын

lolol Talking about being loving and caring in the exact same comment that started off by saying how one side "SHAT" on the other side. Wow.

@franklee1550 5 ай бұрын

You’re right, this dnc was certainly full of sh!t!

@jmcmillan8713 5 ай бұрын

I will never forget her speech at the inauguration. Just riveting.

@aliasrose 5 ай бұрын

What was your favorite part?

@jmcmillan8713 5 ай бұрын

@aliasrose She was mesmerizing to watch. Her elegant hands, her determined, earnest speech. I went online and ordered her book.

@Mloofylicious 5 ай бұрын

Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison couldn't touch this if they tried. Which they wouldn't want to anyway because it's as profound as Ikea's assembly instructions.

@Wednesdayschild1325 5 ай бұрын

💯💯💯💯❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😁

@vanessadebrino7231 5 ай бұрын

She started off by misusing the word hollow. Its hallow smh 😢someone forgot to tell this child this is not poetry. Talk about no self awareness 😆😆 She could be reading my grocery list and this crowd would give a standing ovation. Pathetic

@cheehee808_ 5 ай бұрын

DEI poetry hire 😂

@imsurfingontheearthimasurf5975 5 ай бұрын

also she looks 15 years old

@SarahSaratha 5 ай бұрын

🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷💙💙💙💙

@GevonMorgan 5 ай бұрын

So lovely, articulate and powerful.

@ninjapunk76 5 ай бұрын

Harry Baker's most important influence, I'm sure.

@pend8484 5 ай бұрын

"if our earth shall perish from this country"? wtf does this even mean

@aldanikollori4906 5 ай бұрын

that the decisions that US takes more often than not have a global impact, and if wrong decisions, that means billions of people across the earth can be affected.

@andrewsteeves6982 5 ай бұрын

I think she means the soil will just dissolve from under our feet😂

@PamelaClarke-p3u 5 ай бұрын

Now you have proved to me that you have limited comprehension skills ! Of course the Earth can perish from a country that abuses it and denies climate change ! What is wrong with you ?

@conor7154 5 ай бұрын

@@PamelaClarke-p3uSo the entire earth is contained within the United States? I can imagine she would think that, her race infamously struggles with object permanence. Plenty of testing has shown that her kind can’t comprehend that objects can exist outside of their view.

@Pegarexucorn 5 ай бұрын

@@PamelaClarke-p3u The Earth will be fine womp womp.