Though not in the vapid style of the rest of this blog, I want to share a video I found this morning. It's William Butler Yeats and "The Lake of Innisfree". This guy on YouTube made a bunch of videos with old recordings, many of poetry readings. Not all of them work, but this one's pretty mesmerizing.
I wish the mouth weren't moving because it looks ridiculous, but if you just listen to it, it captures... something.
I love that even he doesn't know what that line means.
ReplyDeleteI love Yeats, tho it's better when read in a Southern US accent. My fave:
Aedh Wishes For The Clothes Of Heaven
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
do you remember sad cello Martin? this was his favorite poem.
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