Animated poets? (3)

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Posted by spirifer on Wed 24 Feb 10, 10:01 PM to the Informed_Debate group.

Not really an ID subject, possibly, but I am transfixed by this youtube user's stuff.

The Blake poem above is just remarkable, with its author narrating it.

There are just so many riches here, from Arnold's Dover Beach, to Owen's WW1 poetry, to Sir Walter Raleigh's frightening modern "rap" take on political cynicism in The Lie.

And Queen Victoria describes John Brown, as if she were sitting chatting to us.

Enjoy.

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25 Feb 10, 1:58 PM
Lex_Magister
UK(M), 7 yrs

Thank you so very much for this link, a wonderful introduction to writers for a none reader like me.

For me it holds a great deal of relevance to the debates which I respond to and that are posted on this group, it mirrors through out time how we endlessly search for the answers that timelessly evade us.

I liked Walt Whitman.

As I type I reach out my hand, so as you read, you are then touched.

27 Feb 10, 12:50 AM
celestialblue
UK(WC), 2 yrs

Yes, thanks very much for this. The sound is very good, especially on headphones, with the piano reverb giving a feel of night and even terror. The animation gripped me at first but then after a while it started to lose me, so that it got to a point when I had to close my eyes to hear the Blake better, because the animation and the piano seemed to compete so much. Perhaps it is asking a lot, almost like animating a ghost. Did anyone notice the reading of the wasted and lost Ernest Dowson's Cynara? I thought it faster than I expected, but not a bad try at trying to conjure up this very strange, truly decadent poem. Any excuse to hear poetry is justified! I hope he gets lots of encouragement.

27 Feb 10, 9:16 AM
spirifer
UK, 6 yrs

celestialblue wrote:
Yes, thanks very much for this. The sound is very good, especially on headphones, with the piano reverb giving a feel of night and even terror. The animation gripped me at first but then after a while it started to lose me, so that it got to a point when I had to close my eyes to hear the Blake better, because the animation and the piano seemed to compete so much. Perhaps it is asking a lot, almost like animating a ghost. Did anyone notice the reading of the wasted and lost Ernest Dowson's Cynara? I thought it faster than I expected, but not a bad try at trying to conjure up this very strange, truly decadent poem. Any excuse to hear poetry is justified! I hope he gets lots of encouragement.

Thank you for pointing us in the direction of this poem. I didn't know it and, as you say, the reading is fast, but incredibly engaging.

I do wish that the site's creator didn't add the piano or "rap" style music to so many of the poems. It fits The Lie well, but on Wyatt's They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seek it's bloody irritating!

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A denizen of a right little, tight little island.