O Tell Me the Truth About Love by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

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  • Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024

Комментарии • 25

  • @nelson587
    @nelson587 15 лет назад +2

    Thank you for reading of these poems ... The world needs to hear more of the poems with heart , so we can begin to heal ourselfs with the magic they hold with in them ..

  • @BrokenInTheBox
    @BrokenInTheBox 4 года назад +2

    I wish that I could get you to do a reading of some of my poems! You've got the perfect voice for reciting poems. Thank you for sharing your voice with us, your fans. Wonderful job on this one; as well as all the others you've recited on this channel. Wishing you & yours much peace and many blessings from the Sunshine State! 💙

  • @nguyener11
    @nguyener11 14 лет назад +5

    It has altered my life altogether... That is my truth about Love.

  • @Claire-ing
    @Claire-ing 14 лет назад +3

    I love all your readings that i've come across--and i must say, this one is definitely a stand out. Well done.

  • @sidrakhan202
    @sidrakhan202 13 лет назад +8

    we have a word in Urdu for absolutely awesome things that brings you sudden and inexplicable joy, "zabardast!"
    that was the first word i said as i finished listening to this one.. :)

  • @wingedwolf4719
    @wingedwolf4719 4 года назад +2

    You’re here there’s nothing I fear and I know that my heart will go on we’ll stay forever this way you are SAFE in my heart and my heart will go on and on

  • @nikamini6
    @nikamini6 6 лет назад +4

    I love this one!
    Your reading is really amazing, thank you!

  • @SpokenVerse
    @SpokenVerse  13 лет назад +3

    @jacobwhitnall Well, not a sestina, but an unusual ballad form. The stanzas are in pairs, the first being in iambs, the second in anapests. I don't know of anything else like it.

  • @agrlfmtx
    @agrlfmtx 13 лет назад +12

    I love that this poem was rhymin'
    Snapped my fingers to the rythmic timin'
    Melancholly at the ending above
    Never told us the truth about love....T:)

  • @SpokenVerse
    @SpokenVerse  14 лет назад +2

    @junjinho1 The odd lines have three anapests and an extra unstressed syllable. The even lines have three anapests ending on a stressed syllable. But it's not that rigid. Count the syllables on your fingers - a syllable being the least amount you can utter and still make the poem sound intelligible.

  • @karyne826
    @karyne826 6 лет назад +1

    Loved it. Thank you. Beautiful voice,

  • @FaDiezeMineur
    @FaDiezeMineur 13 лет назад +8

    Can you please explain the meaning of "the ham in a temperance hotel", especially "the ham" ? (an overacting actor or a piece of meat or neither?...)
    Thank you for your beautiful readings !

  • @wasteland70
    @wasteland70 14 лет назад +1

    @SpokenVerse You did an amazing job!!!! Really, truly, well done!!! LOVE IT!!

  • @surrected4526
    @surrected4526 15 лет назад

    FANTASTIC READING! Oh, how I loved the way you read this poem. Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @SpokenVerse
    @SpokenVerse  14 лет назад +2

    @MrHeslopian It's called "Letter to My Aunt"

  • @SpokenVerse
    @SpokenVerse  13 лет назад +1

    @audiofile7 A saw is a musical instrument - but you knew that, right?

  • @rader55555
    @rader55555 15 лет назад +1

    Although I would rather here the original poets' voices in these clips I think your voice is well suited for reading poetry aloud (the only way it should be read). You are doing a service here, putting these up on youtube which has been inundated by hate and triteness. They say there's no glory in poetry, only achievement. You sir, have definitely achieved something here.

  • @SpokenVerse
    @SpokenVerse  15 лет назад +2

    No, it was read by me - I read all the poems in this channel

  • @255ad
    @255ad 12 лет назад +2

    I wish I'd taken more of interest in such things well I was at school, maybe I would have understood what all of this poem meant better

  • @EdNortonisMineLol
    @EdNortonisMineLol 13 лет назад +1

    This is fab, well done

  • @Iphonekura
    @Iphonekura 12 лет назад +1

    i adore this poem... is this love?

  • @junjinho1
    @junjinho1 14 лет назад

    anapestic tri meter, for the second stanza am i right?

  • @wanranma
    @wanranma 14 лет назад +1

    haha it's a really fun poem to listen to.

  • @redsonha
    @redsonha 15 лет назад

    thank you so so much !!!

  • @lordlightning2339
    @lordlightning2339 8 лет назад +1

    my academic professor hates poetry; he constantly bashes it, exclaiming "poetry is written for thr person and not the audience"