Short Story of Isabella Read Aloud

For those who want the quick and easy way of getting the main points of John Keats's "Isabella" without actually having to read the poem, I found a video that tells the cheat sheet version.  Searching "Isabella and A Pot of Basil" does not result with many videos "found" on YouTube. 

Although romanticism is not the most celebrated genre of literature, I still expected more than what I found.  I searched YouTube before for resources and knew that videos relating to "Isabella" are scare, but I found myself dumbfounded when there were only three or four decent videos that really connected back to the original poem. 

Why are all the most popular videos on YouTube just about absolute stupidity?  The most streamed videos are always pointless and have no meaning to them.  A laughing baby?  Seriously, society is need of a reality check on what values are important to care about. 

A literature boost is needed for everyone.  More videos helping to educate people on the deeper themes in life need to be deemed "Most Popular" and given a fair trial under the spot light.  Sorry for going off on a tangent like that, I was just blogging in the moment.

Back to the video, "Isabella" has been heard and told in many forms.  Some have heard its soft nature through their ears, while others have experienced John Keats's original poem in its whole being.  Some may have even seen that Strange Short Film I mentioned in one of my other blog posts, which did a very awkward job of portraying John Keats's "Isabella."  That film was too difficult to follow as to what was going on and why.  If the viewer was unfamiliar with John Keats's works, then I am positive the audience would have been lost within the first two minutes. 

Unlike that film, the video pictured above, rightfully titled "Isabella and The Pot of Basil," does a fantastic job of translating John Keats's masterpiece "Isabella" into simpler terms that even a child can understand.  Instead of poem verses, the poem is rendered into a story line, which makes it easier to comprehend in straightforward terms.

Overall, the video does a satisfactory job of presenting the main events in the poem.  With an easy to follow vocabulary, anyone will understand the gist of what the poem is about.  Although some of the main themes aren't prominent in the video, that's something that only the poem can clearly present.