Helena Bonham Carter reads 'Letter to NY' by Elizabeth Bishop for A Poem for Every Autumn Day
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Helena Bonham Carter gives a pitch-perfect rendition of the wonderful poem, 'Letter to NY' by the American twentieth-century poet, Elizabeth Bishop. The poem appears in Allie Esiri's anthology A Poem for Every Day of the Year. This was filmed in the lockdown summer of 2020 in Wiltshire, England. Directed by Paul Weiland.
Despite being welcomed with open arms to the pantheon of all-time greats, much of Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry plots a struggle to find a sense of belonging, and is marked by an underlying sense of loss and alienation. This poem written to her female friend and object of her affection is powerful in its expression of loss, anxiety and longing.
Letter to NY
By Elizabeth Bishop
Read by Helena Bonham Carter
For Louise Crane
In your next letter I wish you'd say
where you are going and what you are doing;
how are the plays and after the plays
what other pleasures you're pursuing:
taking cabs in the middle of the night,
driving as if to save your soul
where the road goes round and round the park
and the meter glares like a moral owl,
and the trees look so queer and green
standing alone in big black caves
and suddenly you're in a different place
where everything seems to happen in waves,
and most of the jokes you just can't catch,
like dirty words rubbed off a slate,
and the songs are loud but somehow dim
and it gets so terribly late,
and coming out of the brownstone house
to the gray sidewalk, the watered street,
one side of the buildings rises with the sun
like a glistening field of wheat.
--Wheat, not oats, dear. I'm afraid
if it's wheat it's none of your sowing,
nevertheless I'd like to know
what you are doing and where you are going.
I could listen to her speak forever
I love her, she's is beautiful, that look at the end, wow... She makes me feel good somehow, its her voice, her looks, her energy. the way she dresses, she has an original and rare personality. I wish she would do more fantasy films again, pity herself and Tim split up.
I could listen to her read for hours, her voice is so soothing!
They should ask her to do this more often.
more of this please! Can we get like a entire reading of each poem. Set up a gofundme or something so we can pay HBC and Allie Esiri. I am dead serious :) lol
I ADORE READING
Love your hats
Listening to you read poetry has been such a treat recently. Watching from the Philippines
The last one got me. Her voice was so rasped "where you're going?" It's so... Sexy😍
i wish she would read more Elizabeth Bishop poetry my two favorite artists hbc and bishop :)
So comforting to see my work is a secret you guys have no clue - don't disturb the framework and let it unfold itself❤❤🎉🎉
I love you Helena😍
Love her
Thank you
Lovely reading. So rich and beautifully articulated. My one quibble is the metronomic adherence to pausing at the end of each and every line. That's the poet's structure. But sometimes, another approach might be to read the entire sentence as if one were speaking more conversationally. One could argue, but then why didn't Elizabeth Bishop just write the frequently used long phrases as very long lines. Perhaps, because it destroys the look of the page. I make an analogy to Bach's St Matthew Passion. A loud chord punctuates a section of homophonous sounds. Looking at the score we can see that JS Bach created a fascinating graphic with the page--it's very center now is a cross. We can visualize the crucifixion. Sort of an inside reference the conductor will appreciate. But the listener needn't know that. And the conductor would be hard pressed to figure out a way the listeners will get the "sight-gag." (ok, not really to the very devout Bach). But here, I think the talented Ms. Carter might look at other Bishop poems, say about nature and the fish, and realize that avoiding being hidebound by the visual appearance of the poem allows the thoughts to breathe all the more. I love the lovely British diction. But Bishop is an American poet. And I submit a different use of cadences might capture those Ms Bishop might have used. That said, I'm no Helena Bonham Carter. There's only one of her!
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I'm conflicted...HBC didn't read it as a poem, enunciating properly and milking the writers intent for all she could. Instead, she leaned, her hand supporting her chin, muffling her words, occasionally pushing her glasses back up the beautiful bridge of her nose. Am I supposed to like this? Maybe I will watch it a few more times, just to make sure.
I bet she smells wonderfully
Like a rose.
Much better in Real English, isnt it.