Sonnet-To Science - Edgar Allan Poe poem reading | Jordan Harling Reads

Poetry reading of Sonnet-To Science by Edgar Allan Poe. Classic poem readings uploaded at midday (UK) every day.
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Full poem text, public domain (also available in subtitles):
Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car,
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
Sonnet-To Science - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by Jordan Harling
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Background music:
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String Quintet, Op. 11 - I. Molto moderato ed espressivo - composed by Aleksandr Winkler performed by Steve's Bedroom Band (CC BY 3.0)
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Author image:
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By Edgar_Allan_Poe_2.jpg: Edwin H. Manchester derivative work: Beao (Edgar_Allan_Poe_2.jpg) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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[@adam49654]

1829 poem by Edgar Allan Poe, published in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems 🤯 according to wiki. But I have read I thought, all of his work and never heard this before... I don't know, it doesn't sit right with me. That it's princess Diana as ones mind can't help but connect to. Okay so this might help put it into context of the time it was written. Gurney’s steam buses started the early 1800s automobile boom in the UK, offering the first motorised bus service in 1829, from London to Bath, averaging 14 MPH, which is pretty damn good for the era. A boiler explosion of one of his steam coaches (notably not operated by him, and ignoring some key safety considerations) killed two people, which gave rise to at least one parody song: Instead of journeys people now go upon a Gurney With steam to do the work by power of attorney But with a load it may explode And you may be undone And find you’re going up to heaven Instead of to London. The incident also led to a re-design where the passenger car was pulled behind the engine-car, so in case of a boiler explosion, only working-class people would die, an acceptable compromise in England

[@evemander1221]

Ummm Diana Car Wasn’t he 18/19 century poet

[@karlpaulsson4108]

Late reply but better than never. Car refers to chariot, a two wheeled vehicle drawn by horses in ancient times. In roman myth Diana the moon goddess was drawn by a chariot across the sky to symbolize night passing.

[@TheLamstyle]

"Vulture, whose wings are dull realities."

[@timmy18135]

I heard the poems hides pi

[@jamesconnolly5164]

Feinman disagreed.

[@cafepoem189]

The speaker condemns science for the damage it caused by revealing scientific truths behind artistic and mythical imagination.