GO WIT DA FLOW

For some reason the music didn't export. :( No dope beatz!
Oh, well. Now, did you ever write anything that was like SO embarassing and put it on the internet? Maybe I did. Maybe that's the theme of tomorrow's video.
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[@kelseymcivor]

I love having poetry explained to me! Because otherwise, most of the time, I don't always get it and I think "Just say what you mean!" But then some people use words and language so much better than I could ever hope to and then I'm like, "Okay, well done sir/madame."

[@laurenv20]

"TOMORROW COULD BE THE SOMEDAY YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR" THAT'S A GREAT QUOTE I HAVE TO WRITE THAT DOWN

[@ThePandaDen]

It's almost like Hannah is afraid to get kinda deep sometimes. She'll drop this nugget of wisdom & then immediately follow it with silliness to yank us out of the rabbit hole. I beg you, PLEASE TAKE US DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE JUST ONCE!!!

[@sct9852]

I love that we'll be listening to poetry in walking book club because really, poetry is meant to be spoken and listened to, not read. It's much more powerful when you listen to it with its cadence and inflections. Some of my favorite poets are Billy Collins, Frank O' Hara, Nikki Giovanni, and Henry Rollins. Can't wait to see what kinds of poetry you enjoy!

[@orangeelliot]

STOKED. Hannah, thank you so much for wanting to share this kind of stuff with us. I want to learn.

[@marmalade-skies]

Analysing poetry is just, ugh, so good - SO GOOD. Poetry is an art form that I truly think benefits most from analysis. People think it's boring and like being back in school, but guys, seriously, you will get so much more out of poetry from looking into its background and context and use of imagery and what the poet was trying to convey. I mean, I thought Keats was pretty okay but then I studied his works and the idea of negative capability totally blew my mind and later helped me come to terms with, like, life and human existence, while recovering from a really rough time in my life. Poetry is like any other art form - you're not going to like all of it, and yeah, some of it can be boring, just like some of it can be so freaking cool. But you're also not gonna know what you like and don't like until you can really start understanding it. I'M JUST REALLY EXCITED FOR ANALYSIS AND POETRY. ANALYSING TEXTS CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING. IT'S SO COOL.

[@rnmarch22]

"Tomorrow could be the someday youv'e been waiting for" That just stood out to me

[@actualhumangirl]

I cannot even express how excited and happy I am that you're prioritising poetry like this. If it's possible, I've never loved you more.

[@othgyal12]

"Tomorrow could be the someday you've been waiting for" I likeeee

[@itsFlycatcher]

"Tomorrow could be the someday you've been waiting for." That's actually one of my favorite quotes to day. :) Love you so much, Hannah.

[@KitziaM]

Ooooh girl, you always get me in your closing thoughts. "Tomorrow could be the someday you've been waiting for." What???! Your words pour out of your mouth directly into my heart lol.

[@rtrosino1]

And now I'm obsessed with you. I started watching MDK in college, then got too busy to keep up with anything on KZbin, and now I'm an English teacher. In an effort lately to find things that make me laugh and make my brain feel less oozy (yep - that's a clinical term), I came back to KZbin for a break from the drama of work life. I found MDK again, then this channel, this video, and now I'm going to start doing this Walking Book Club thing with you. Hannah Hart and English readings?! My two favorite things!!! Thanks for sharing. xoxo

[@yeahthatkels]

My college Honors English teacher told us to keep a journal of everything we felt ,and he was saying how your feelings in the present time aren't going to be there later, so its good sometimes to look back and reflect on how far you have come. So since then i have been keeping a journal and its really helped me in the past 4 yrs up till now things are really hard for me.Its nice to write down my feelings through the happy and hard times

[@carolinea3906]

"It turned out infinitely more spectacular than you could have ever imagined." I may have teared up at that... you are so special, Hannah.

[@kabrillowski723]

I'm with you on this one. One of my favorite things to do is look back at old poetry and see how much I have grown....if your too close to the painting of your life you will only see random brush strokes but when you take steps back you get more of the picture

[@MollyBlueDawn]

"Tomorrow could be the someday you've been waiting for." That is a thought which could get a lot of people through a lot of hard times.

[@weebowll]

Whenever I read poetry from my angsty youth I'm always like "whoa- simmer down..." But anyway- I just wanted to say that I love your videos and I love how you try to put so much positivity put into the ether that is the internet. You use your fame to make the world a better place. Kudos.

[@TLWJUNKIENUMBA1]

she makes me smile:D, I needed this video today, Hannah, and my GOD! that vest is AMAZING!!!

[@DragonflyJayne]

Hannah, your intelligence and enthusiasm for poetry attracts me deeply. This is one of my most favourite videos of yours

[@TheRedeye6]

In which Hannah applies to be the host of the next CrashCourse Literature series.

[@soyuncatacol]

I'm not big on audio books, but I LOVE Walt Whitman, and I'm glad to see that you're making the effort to give his writing more context so it's more enjoyable for the (for lack of a better term) "less savvy" reader. I feel like too often people write him off as being self indulgent and superfluous, but he was a remarkable and kind man. Anyway, I'm fangirling a bit so I'll stop now. :D

[@cstereo4942]

did she just put "great feelings" and "period" in the same sentence?

[@emmadalby4325]

It is so wonderful (and somehow attractive...) to hear you talking about something so passionately. I'm not the hugest fan of poetry, but books/fiction etc are my greatest loves in life and it's refreshing to hear someone speak so enthusiastically about things they love with no shame.

[@em18-h9w]

My favorite poet is Richard Brautigan; I love his collection of short stories/poems, "Revenge of the Lawn." It's even more insightful and meaningful when you learn about his background and the time and setting he was writing in. He loved to write about San Francisco too!! He definitely inspired me to write more of my own poetry :) Love this idea for WBC

[@mmmstar22]

I really love the Hannah that tells us it's all gonna be okay, and accepts life for the way it is. I hope the study of poetry lets us see even more of this side of you, Hannah!

[@narcisssaa]

I appreciate that this small poetry lesson came with the dorkiest vest ever. Lookin' suave, Professor Hart.

[@mcbridechelsy]

Oh hannah you always manage to put a life lesson in everything you say and do. Why cant you be a world leader? I would vote for you!

[@stevefranklin274]

She can't run for President until she's 35.

[@mcbridechelsy]

Steve Franklin oh well it was a nice dream though. Can you imagine her campaign? It would be awesome.

[@stevefranklin274]

Chelsy McBride Totally agree. If I'm still around, she's got my vote!

[@sophiaclark3948]

She will be eligible for the presidency in 2020, which will also be the first presidential election I can vote in. YAY 2020!

[@juliehall8438]

My poetry class in college studied a lot of Whitman because the professor was doing an intensive class on him at the same time. He became one of my heroes! Also, I would also argue that we never truly lost our love of drawing on walls, petroglyphs just became graffiti and who knows what poetry will become! Hopefully it will remain as emotionally charged and sensual. God, I miss bumming around the poetry section late at night when my roommate had her boyfriend over.... Definitely going to check this out when I get my next Audible credit!

[@shuchinsk]

As a literature teacher, I now love you even more. I didn't think that was possible.

[@internetnicola]

'Tomorrow could be the day you've been waiting for' what a super duper cute quote from hannah

[@whateverXmatters]

I am LOVING your vest!

[@mildlywild2662]

I kind of love everything about this video. Literally was thinking about how wonderful poetry is today. Analyzing poetry is definitely an important part of understanding not only the poem, but the poet. Super pumped for the main channel video :)

[@emeliemustdance]

your voice is so calming and you make me so happy

[@ellararooroo]

I know at my school (England) we study poetry a lot and you're 100% right Hannah, being walked through it makes everything so much more clear and incredible 💕💕

[@joannamarierogue]

This made me smile Hannah :) I studied poetry at uni too. I quickly got tired of overly structured poems, although I loved and still love writing rhyming free verse. I might even have some of my university text books hidden somewhere.

[@sjdiamond3275]

So happy you chose this book; I am studying poetry in college now! Walt Whitman is my favorite poet by far!

[@SomeoneCalledDana]

I really do love poetry, and have come to appreciate it much more, even in the last year. It is really a gift to learn how to analyze and appreciate it. And please do post some of your own poems tomorrow!

[@f_raaa_n]

I love this new direction Hannah, I think it's wonderful to read poetry for the art but it's another level of understanding when you analyse it. Double the wonderful, looking forward to it :)

[@purplepop1234]

Can we just take a moment to admire how gorgeous and smart Hannah is :*

[@ZoeFell]

"Tomorrow could be the someday you've been waiting for?" RIGHT IN THE FEELS, HANNAH.

[@thesarahssmile98]

This was a really good video to watch in the morning. I don't know why, it just made my morning better

[@louisefey9411]

I don't like poetry, but I'm excited Hannah is opening herself up even more and making this channel into an accurate portrayal of her wonderful being ;) Also, I only don't love poetry because no passionate person has ever tried to "win me over". Guys, Hannah seems hella-passionate, prepare to love poetry I guess! =D

[@angiepie111]

This is the first time I've ever found poetry interesting. You make it sound fun!

[@thewinterizzy]

I took two poetry classes in college and loved it. We had a very small group for the second course and we are pretty close by the end of the term. We'd often have really deep meta discussions and then when classes was over laugh about how we were supposed to just go out and off to our next activities in life after spending two hours discussing what rain can mean, or the thought of light or why the detail of an oak is more startling that saying a pine. Poetry is a lot to take in but super great! One I would recommend to you Hannah is Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith. Her poems are very lovely. Wrote a paper about her once. :)

[@lgnzr]

Can we please take a moment to tell the lady Hannah chooses to spend the rest of her life with that she is the luckiest woman to have ever lived? You're so perfect Hannah

[@oliviawilson2201]

yes yes yes. thank you for trying to introduce people to poetry Hannah- it changed my life. I think a lot of the time it takes people hearing it from someone they think is "cool" or that they respect that poetry is worth while and important, even FUN. WHAT??? :) much respect!

[@sockelf]

Ok my love for poetry is growing more and more. I'm Italian and I don't know much about American poetry, but I would love to since slam poetry started there and I'm in love with it.

[@TheUntameableOne]

I absolutely love poetry, but i can't write it!! I come up with ideas that i think are cool, but i just can't put them into words!!

[@manoelamiranda2417]

Thanks for this new channel/group, you've got some awesome recommendations, especially this one, I've always had trouble understanding poetry. Keep being awesome!!

[@Cutie50135]

The only good part of today, thank you for making my Monday end on a high note! Thank you you're so inspirational.

[@lara8403]

I like when you just sit down and talk it's lovely xxx

[@etherealtendencies]

The fact that you love poetry has made you 10,000X dreamier in my eyes. I love you, Hannah. Thanks for being amazing. :)

[@itsLynzi]

I'm totally down for this! Awesome idea Also that vest + your eyes = majestic

[@ohmahworddd]

You're so nerdy and I love it. Keep being your adorable, passionate self. :)

[@andthentheresthis]

Thank you so very much for sharing so much of your life with us, Hannah. It's absolutely genuine and these videos on youharto help so many people (including me). + this video reminds me of when I used to go back and read journals from when I was like 10...that's not always fun. :)

[@Cutie50135]

The grass thing blew my mind, wonderful outlook of an intellect.

[@TheTessitura]

I'm so excited for all this (I'm such a poetry nerd - particularly spoken word) and I super happy to hear you are too.

[@bo5ticliz]

I love Walt Whitman but the study guide is a GREAT idea, to truly appreciate the layers involved.

[@zednott688]

i think doing a lot of poetry in gcse english lit has really changed the way I look at poems. i used to think they were boring, not worth studying, worse than shakespeare etc., but really deeply analysing a whole bunch of like war poems and romantic poem and stuff has really made me kinda love it. like, i really liked dulce et decorum est, and the manhunt, and ozymandias, and afternoons, and hawk roosting, and definitely my experience of doing gcse english lit with a class of intelligent people who want to learn really made me enthusiastic about poetry for the first time in my life.

[@pineapplecats7454]

I love poetry!!! And I love having it explained to me/analyzing it so I'm super pumped about this book! :)

[@Scruz129989]

Yay poetry!! Yay Walt Whitman!! For me a lot of poetry speaks to my heart and i love it when it reaches down deep into my soul and leaves a lasting impression.

[@INSAINNIKKI]

I am so glad that this is the road your taking it down I do love to learn but i am also lazy. And poetry is such a great medium.

[@bettypriss]

So excited for our lesson in poetry. I was some one who wrote a lot of poetry when I was younger and reading them now is a great look into who I was, who i thought i wanted to be and who I thought I was going to be.

[@Something2look4ward2]

This was awesome! I'd love to hear more poems you wrote!

[@stevefranklin274]

I don't care for poetry but I'm happy that you enjoy it. Cheers from St. Louis!

[@Nannaisbored]

you're so great, Hannah. i really think you are. i also think that it generally is a good idea to write things down i your life, whether it's in shape of a poem or just thoughts and words on paper. for many reasons really...

[@lozshirbster]

I studied some Walt Whitman in my senior year of high school (Year 12). Absolutely loved it! xx

[@JenniferHaselton]

all the feels!!! you are so amazing! your a teacher of life my friend!!

[@DrivingOnWires]

I feel the same way when I look back on my old poetry!

[@alexisalion]

Dear Hannah Hart; You're so very smart! Just become a teacher; you education preacher!

[@MrMooie]

When I heard the learn'd astronomer is one of my favourite poems.

[@dansenkat]

Song of myself is definitely one of my favourite Whitman poems. I always find myself re-reading it.

[@queendomprotista]

Read "Song of Myself" this past year in uni and it was like climbing a mountain. You are cursing everything on the way up but then when you see the view and look back on the journey you realize it was worth it.

[@daniellesampson8732]

Speaking of poetry, my school just had a poetry rumble last week and it was so amazing! Tons of students and even a few teachers performed their own poems for most the juniors.

[@Thesurryfam]

I love how you do the audible thing! With the whole book club and everything, I think I'll actually get an account now to start the poetry thing with you, It'd be a good place to jump in on the book club!

[@andrewcarden74]

Thanks for the uplifting message about what tomorrow could be

[@Maleblade]

Looking fine and fresh today Harto.

[@davidmay502]

I like when people talk too. I especially like when you talk! Love.

[@wakeruncollapse]

I would love to hear what you've written, but I also understand the need and desire for a certain level of privacy. If you decide not to share it, that's completely fine. There are things that I have written that will never see the light of day, even though I've kept them all this time. Do whatever makes you happy. :)

[@LiliGerard]

You are just SO wonderful.

[@keshiakeogh]

I really want to study poetry when i go to college thanks for sharing the poem with us :) cant wait for more stuff like this to come

[@jessicawylde9268]

I like this. More of this. please and thank you.

[@MsAnddi]

leaves me burning leaves me wanting ...oh the taunting haunting my inner core heart beats, eyes close, i faint, hitting the floor...

[@14219rose]

You da best Hanna! I love poetry myself. This should be fun! Woohoo!

[@shaunaaaah]

I'm definitely of the 'learning about the context around a work can make you appreciate it much more' school of thinking. I studied Whitman last semester and it was pretty interesting.

[@onedandylion]

Reading poetry can be an amazing, intuitive, emotional experience but I think sometimes it really does help to have context in poetry and to understand the poem's place in time. I teach poetry and creative writing in very low socio-economic/high crime areas where the kids have seen more 'real-life' drama than I can know, and I find poetry has a way of connecting myriad human life experiences and pulling them into a succinct word-moment. I like to tell the kids that reading poetry is like being a detective and finding all the clues that the poet has left for us to decipher the code and understand the poet's intent. They love being detectives :-)

[@Iluvbillkaulitz11210]

Hey have you heard of Watsky? I think he does some really great slam poetry, I would recommend Tiny Glowing Screens pt.2, and S is for Lisp :)

[@MentallyFive]

That's exactly what i commented! He's an amazing poet and rapper! On Thursday, its is Poem in My Pocket day and i'll be reading S For Lisp to my English teacher! I'm so excited!

[@starfightr7529]

For some reason i love your hands.. i don't know

[@MNDIMIND]

WBC Poetry Edition sounds REALLY awesome and different. I'm into it.

[@ThatGingerr16]

Quite possibly one of my favorite videos yet.

[@empteenet]

You might check out Mark Doty's "A Still Life With Oysters." It's a creative non-fiction book about visual art by a famed poet. Pretty awesome in the way it combines so many threads of art. Also, I heart Whitman, so thanks for the book rec!

[@IguessImight]

That was a great conclusion. Words of wisdom, Hannah, words of wisdom.

[@cutiemama2913]

Well this was the perfect way to accidentally stop procrastinating on my night full of college poetry! Hello, Poe! Oh, how I've missed your textual violence.

[@Officialencode]

I feel like i just sat through a college class. whoa. 11/10 Hannah high five

[@josiemorris1765]

Yes, this! I have always wanted to get into poetry and always felt like it was way over my head.

[@triggerhappysound]

You should check out some of El Guante's slam poetry here on the tubes. He's amazing; so eloquent and passionate.

[@juliea3414]

i stayed up all night to analyze poetry for class. kind of crushed my feeling of loving it.

[@TawnyPixie]

I've never really been into poetry... but this video piqued my interest!

[@maru-yay]

I feel like I should get college credit for watching this. It gave me more of the understandings.

[@zenrascal]

Hey Harto, you've hit a great new stride here! Go with it !!