Roland of Gilead. I solute you. Thank you for the poem. Thankie Sai for the adventure. I am the second generation to understand, love, and renew the world/worlds it implies. For you Lachesis, and Clotho for being a true faith with me, my mama, and my grandma. Truly a bible story in its own right.
I do not listen with my ears; he who hears with his ear has forgotten the face of his father. I hear with my thoughts. I do not see with my eyes; he who sees with his eye has forgotten the face of his father. I see with my feelings. I do not speak with my voice; he who speaks with his tongue has forgotten the face of his father. I cry out with my soul.
After recently finishing the dark tower series, I can definitely tell that Steven King took inspiration from this poem and surprised he got 9 books out of it.
@@PoetrySpokencom well you do a great job, sir! I think what I enjoy the most is hearing a poem I other wise never would have known without your videos. Happy holidays to you and your family, old friend!
Dude! Great job on a difficult poem to both memorize and deliver with authenticity. Cadence is good, inflections too. You well managed bringing it to life with a storyteller's sensibility that serves the material. Right on. I look forward to more.
Richie Rosencrans , Thank you!!!! Every comment I get means the world to me. If there is anything special you would like to hear, do let me know. My Best.
You are amazing. This is my favorite poem and so are the books inspired by it (I love Stephen King's work) and you completely brought this to life. I actually saw Roland of Gilead in my mind making his journey with his ka-tet and finally reaching the Tower.
+Kelsey Woods Thank you very much! It's my favorite as well. Every time I recite it, Browning reveals some new facet of Roland's world. :) "The Gunslinger" is still my all-time favorite book. King did an amazing job not just translating the story, but translating the romantic language into beautiful prose. (yeah, preaching to the choir!) Thank you for your comment. If there's anything you would like to hear, do let me know. I'm trying to get through my backlog of requests. My Best.
+PoetrySpoken.com I would love for you to do one of these "She walks in Beauty, Like The Night " by Lord Byron or To The Reader at Parting by Walt Whitman (even though its only a few lines). The novelist in me also loves Earendil by J.R.R Tolkien. P.S The "choir" knows that "The Gunslinger" is the best of the books as it is both the beginning and end of the saga! "Long Days and Pleasant Nights to you sir"
That comment made my morning, Cory. Thank you. I focus on the goal of a stanza, or "X" lines per day, not paying attention to the overall length. When I have private time (mostly driving and showering), I do my best to recite from memory. Usually, the words are wrong and the flow : stilted, but getting the cadence and the basic "idea" together starts working a rut in the tangled ground. The more I exercise the path the easier it is to revisit on demand, the more it becomes a paved road.
Thanks a lot, +chris steffes . Just checked out your channel. You've got serious talent, man. Good luck with all. Anything you'd like to hear, do let me know. My Best - Seth.
Thanks a lot, +chris steffes . Just checked out your channel. You've got serious talent, man. Good luck with all. Anything you'd like to hear, do let me know. My Best - Seth.
Dear Seth, you have always inspired me and my English talks in Tehran. please please please cintinue what you are doing for people like you are rare and are inspiring . and I have just started thinking about having a talk on this poem and MR.BROWNING...
oooo. Browning would be INCREDIBLE for you to teach. This is and "The Waste Land" are my favorites. Thank you so much for your continued support, Navid, and, as always, best of luck to you. - - Seth
This is fantastic, you really brought the poem to life. The Dark Tower saga are my all-time favourite books and this was just perfect. Your voice is incredible!
+Lizzie Bathurst : ) Thank you, Lizzie. Me too : The first chapter, of the first book sunk into my brain when I first read it, as if King were channeling all the romantic soul of Browning. I can recite that chapter just as well as the poem that inspired it. -- Seth
Hello, I've started reading the Dark Tower series and it made me curious of its inspirations. I found a bilingual edition of Browning's 'Men and Women' at the library (printed in 1938, with a leather binding) (it was overly exciting to hold it in my hands) and read Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came... An uncountable amount of times. I tried to read it out loud many times, but my voice is too high-pitched so it doesn't sound like Roland's voice would at all. But I really wanted to hear it spoken in a way that would... I can't find my words, but, like, in a way that would make the feelings that the poem carries even more intense and that would give me thrills and really let me picture the scene. And that's how I entered the title of the poem in the search bar on RUclips and found your video ! And I have to say that... Wow. When you started talking your voice surprised me. I don't know, I wasn't expecting to hear a voice that would fit SO PERFECTLY to the poem, and that would give me such thrills in its every variations and jdhfkj (I wish I had the words) Thank you alot ! I've subscribed, and I'll check out the rest of your work soon. You're fantastic !
Hello Sarra, Thank you very much for writing. That bilingual edition sounds incredible to touch. Glad you found it! There's something magical about Browning... when I read his works, it's almost as if some part of me wrote them. I FEEL them as if they're reaching from my heart and from my past and from that part of my soul that no one knows. He's incredible and I wish more people appreciated him. When you say your voice is "too high-pitched", I feel your pain, there are plenty of poems I try to read aloud where I don't have the right tone, maybe my voice is too low, or very often I can't do the appropriate accent, but that shouldn't stop us from enjoying our reading for our own sake. Most of the poems on this channel, I'm reading, "Childe Roland..." and a few others, I memorized. That's the way to really know and experience a poem : make it yours so that at that random time you're staring out a window on the train, you can start reciting when the muse touches you. There are things you can uncover in that poem which I will never know. There are things you have experienced in your life which will let you see things in Browning that I could never see. I'm a little envious at that. I hope you enjoy! Thanks again for writing. If there's anything you would like to hear, let me know. As I told others : I'm getting over a nasty sinus infection, but will be back to reading online soon! My Best, Seth
oh, and if you like Nirvana and "Childe Roland", I hope you've listened to Nirvana's rendition of Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" ruclips.net/video/fregObNcHC8/видео.html one of my favorites!
Thank you! If you're interested in The Dark Tower, do also check out my reading of The Waste Land by T S Eliot and if there's anything specific you'd like to hear, let me know. My Best. ruclips.net/video/9w86ENDzYJw/видео.html
4:37 great stanza -- but can we take a moment to appreciate the cruelty of the fact that Roland has a random encounter with a poor, unhealthy horse and, for no reason at all, decides that he hates it?
Thanks, Curtis! and, yes, I do take requests, albeit, I've been on hiatus for a while now as I wrap up another very large project. I do intend on getting back here soon so please do let me know what you'd like to hear.
Very well done. The silhouette-style was a great choice, it allows the viewer to still see some of your expressions without being a distraction. I enjoy exercising my mind with memorizing poems, any tips that helped you with this one?
This is... I have no words for how this has affected me... Have you ever considered/taken part in voice acting work? I seriously think you could add such depth of character to a serious detective game or animation. Either way, good job! Loved it :)
+PoetrySpoken.com im kinda wondering if you would be willing to read the poem excelsior... ive never heard somebody recite it especially not in such an awesome way :P i any case keep doing what you do !!
awesome! could you give me a succint interpretation. Also, do you know of a prose version of the Dark Tower? I read it in high school in the 70's and I've been looking for it ever since.
Hi Robin, My interpretation constantly changes. Lately, when I recite it... I'm seriously doubting Roland's sanity. Sometimes I think he is the tragic hero with a romantic/flawed view of the past (a la Stephen King), other times, I think he's sadistic with a indelible devotion to his past combined with a smoldering hatred. As far as prose... I've never heard of one outside Stephen King's Gunslinger. If you find one, do let me know. My Best.
I just wanted to say, I really appreciate this. I have learned to love this poem over the years, and never could read it aloud and be happy with my telling. I think your inflections and passion are spot on, my only complaint are some of the changes in volume due to moving your head back and forth around the mic. I'm not trying to be a dick, I just think some of the moments where you move forward cause the volume to rise abruptly in a more harsh way than intended. Honestly though, still 100x better than I can get myself to sound.
Thanks Sean G and thanks for the constructive feedback : I agree. This was my FIRST recording on this channel, and I've learned a little bit since then around mic technique. If you like this one, do also check out my reading of "The Waste Land" by TS Eliot. (a little more recent). If there's anything you'd like to hear, do let me know. My Best.
Nice work! you have a brilliant reciting voice! i used to read my own little poems at open mic nights and i was never that good. i'd like to hear you do the second coming by Yeats. my interpretation of that particular poem has always been one of slow depression or hopelessness rather than horror
ruclips.net/video/I9g1WElhXo4/видео.html here you go. It's still a rough demo where I played everything myself. Hopefully someday I can start a band and play these songs for real!
thanks for that @@repellomuggletumify . It's one of my all-time favorites : every time I recite it, I find something new in Browning's words! Good luck with class!
You just made my day, Maurice, and my day included climbing to a glacier on Mount Baker, so, hopefully you get the idea how much I appreciate these comments 😁
I appreciate your video, passion, delivery, research, intelligence, gusto, and so many other positive words I could hammer away at and flatter you all day because you deserve it!!. The only one bad thing for me was I wish there was at least a slight couple of layers of light on ya face dude. I'm gonna be the only person who ever says this (unless someone reads my comment and then completely agrees with me) is that Straight away (and I mean straight away - which is not your fault but at the same time for me ruined my experience) is that I just heard this amazing poem spoken brilliantly by Matthew Perry from Friend's silhouette............... Sorry dude.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. (taking a breath) But, I AM Matthew Perry! . . . (sigh) wow... Matthew Perry, you ruined my silhouette! Sean, (thanks for the comment) I've got to mull this one over. Obviously, I don't want to summon thoughts of "Friends" while reading Browning, et al, but dammit, I don't want my face in the way of the words... Let me see what I can do. If you've got an idea, kick it my way.
Honestly man, I am so super appreciative that you even commented back to me. I did feel like a bit of an A-Hole for a sec. When I hit enter and posted the comment I had what you might call "RUclips commenter's remorse". You are doing a great thing here that I kind of felt I then ripped on, but then again it was something that hit me pretty hard so I felt I had to make that comment. I am now glad I did because you straight up hit me back, which to me means you are a true sport and nothing shakes you. 100% commendable!! If it wasn't for the silly (and way random) first impression about the silhouette in the video I would have never said a word and just enjoyed. (Not to say I didn't enjoy because I thoroughly did). But I guess one thing I would add is that I can sense your passion for poetry and the verses you love (and your talent for reciting them) from this video, even without your face. May I be so bold to suggest that being who you are and doing what you do, I would personally prefer you to become the not only the voice, but the face of someone that speaks these powerful onslaughts of literature and lyric with his full, raw persona speaking not only to me but through me, rather than just his shadow. Don't ever feel like you would get in the way of the poem. I feel it is no different from singing a cover song on RUclips like so many people do. Only I think what you do is far more prolific and unique and that is coming from a musician who does in fact do RUclips cover songs. I honestly think YOUR medium is a smaller market so why not be THAT GUY who fucking owns it on RUclips!! That's my idea, and if I could turn my A-Hole comment around 360 degrees and make it into something positive, that's the one thing I would say. Either way man, keep doing what you're doing and it was nice to have the opportunity to chat with you. Feel free to rip on a video of mine if you want to. I heckled you first heh heh.
Sean Michael Millar Hahahaha. Thanks a lot, Man! Seriously, that was a great way to wrap up the work-week. I hadn't really thought of creating an actual "poetry guy" persona. I dig it. I'll see what I can do. Meanwhile, likewise, keep doing what you do. I only had time to check out Love You Like a Hurricane on your channel, but great work! (and that's coming from a guy who's escape from stress is often his upright piano). I'll get back to your channel shortly. Great "meeting" you, enjoy the weekend! - Seth
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the working of his lie On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford Suppression of the glee that pursed and scored Its edge, at one more victim gained thereby. II. What else should he be set for, with his staff? What, save to waylay with his lies, ensnare All travellers who might find him posted there, And ask the road? I guessed what skull-like laugh Would break, what crutch 'gin write my epitaph For pastime in the dusty thoroughfare, III. If at his counsel I should turn aside Into that ominous tract which, all agree, Hides the Dark Tower. Yet acquiescingly I did turn as he pointed: neither pride Nor hope rekindling at the end descried, So much as gladness that some end might be.
You just couldn't leave well enough alone, could you, +razorlikeblue ? Several thousand other people have managed to overlook my tiny headgear and enjoy the words of Mr Browning, but, yes, if you must know, I've had to wear the bowler since I was little to conceal the antenna growing out of my head with which I communicate with orbiting satellites. Thank you for ruining my morning.
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I find I understand this poem more as I read Stephen King's Dark Tower books. One of the best poems ever!
That's what brought me to this. I read it every time I cycle through the tower
Roland of Gilead. I solute you. Thank you for the poem. Thankie Sai for the adventure. I am the second generation to understand, love, and renew the world/worlds it implies. For you Lachesis, and Clotho for being a true faith with me, my mama, and my grandma. Truly a bible story in its own right.
Man you are a beautiful human. Traveled 1600 miles and it's been a bitch,this honestly made my night and made life alot better. Thank you.
Good luck Roland, may you reach your tower and finally attain your goal. Climb to the top and reap your reward.
But forever looping,God did that series destroy me.
Is the room at the top empty?
Ah but he did make it to the top and we have him to thank for our life for if he never makes it that is the end
@@drakoinx still haven’t been able to pickup a book the same way
Still coming back here to this day. So many feels
I randomly recite it in the car (when I'm alone!) and need a zap to the nervous system.
I feel like I'm looking at a silhouette of Matthew Perry...
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
+Robert Courson exactly what I was thinking
+durthang1000 you guys are killing me...
+Robert Courson i thought so too.
You've now ruined my life, rajawaqasrauf1 Thank you.
thankee-sai!!!! All things serve the beam.
I do not listen with my ears; he who hears with his ear has forgotten the face of his father.
I hear with my thoughts.
I do not see with my eyes; he who sees with his eye has forgotten the face of his father.
I see with my feelings.
I do not speak with my voice; he who speaks with his tongue has forgotten the face of his father.
I cry out with my soul.
That was epic, this deserves more likes.
After recently finishing the dark tower series, I can definitely tell that Steven King took inspiration from this poem and surprised he got 9 books out of it.
Brad Emond 9? I thought there were only 8. What's the 9th one?
I counted the little sisters of eluria as part of the series. it's only a short story but it still follows Roland
Brad Emond Ah, ok, makes sense. I never read that one but I've heard of it.
By the time the "wolves of" the bools had gone down hill.
@hjameslallierjr2525 tell me you don't understand without telling me you don't understand lol😂
Goosebumps every single time. And this must be the tenth or so time I’ve listened to this particular reading.
(this is a good start to a Friday!) Thank you so much for taking the time to write, Dustin! Glad you enjoyed.
for we are well met today. HILE GUNSLINGERS!!
Hile!
For Gilead!
Forever walking my path in the desert....
UltraSheenLord064 long days, pleasant nights stranger
May you have twice the number
Wow, I have read Child Roland to the Dark Tower Came, a dozen times. You breath new life into it with your passionate reading. Well done.
play it on a loop.... forevermore
My favourite poem since teenage years. Love this reading
This was a masterful reading!! I just discovered this poem today, can't believe I've never read it before. Amazing
I loved this telling! Thank you! This poem has always inspired me and to hear it spoke aloud and with such emotion in each phrase was beautiful.
thanks for that, Cory!
Wonderful!!
HA! Not often I get a comment from my real world!
@@PoetrySpokencom well you do a great job, sir! I think what I enjoy the most is hearing a poem I other wise never would have known without your videos. Happy holidays to you and your family, old friend!
Cool to hear this spoken for the first time. Almost done with thr last Dark Tower book so this poem has been on my mind the past month.
Glad you enjoyed, Dustin!
It's amazing that one of the greatest literary series came from a poem like this.
Dude! Great job on a difficult poem to both memorize and deliver with authenticity. Cadence is good, inflections too. You well managed bringing it to life with a storyteller's sensibility that serves the material. Right on. I look forward to more.
Richie Rosencrans , Thank you!!!! Every comment I get means the world to me. If there is anything special you would like to hear, do let me know. My Best.
All I can say is that was awesome.
You are amazing. This is my favorite poem and so are the books inspired by it (I love Stephen King's work) and you completely brought this to life. I actually saw Roland of Gilead in my mind making his journey with his ka-tet and finally reaching the Tower.
+Kelsey Woods Thank you very much! It's my favorite as well. Every time I recite it, Browning reveals some new facet of Roland's world. :) "The Gunslinger" is still my all-time favorite book. King did an amazing job not just translating the story, but translating the romantic language into beautiful prose. (yeah, preaching to the choir!) Thank you for your comment. If there's anything you would like to hear, do let me know. I'm trying to get through my backlog of requests. My Best.
+PoetrySpoken.com I would love for you to do one of these "She walks in Beauty, Like The Night " by Lord Byron or To The Reader at Parting by Walt Whitman (even though its only a few lines). The novelist in me also loves Earendil by J.R.R Tolkien. P.S The "choir" knows that "The Gunslinger" is the best of the books as it is both the beginning and end of the saga! "Long Days and Pleasant Nights to you sir"
+Kelsey Woods ... took me a little while but... ruclips.net/video/ceXV-HGTOdg/видео.html
That comment made my morning, Cory. Thank you.
I focus on the goal of a stanza, or "X" lines per day, not paying attention to the overall length. When I have private time (mostly driving and showering), I do my best to recite from memory. Usually, the words are wrong and the flow : stilted, but getting the cadence and the basic "idea" together starts working a rut in the tangled ground. The more I exercise the path the easier it is to revisit on demand, the more it becomes a paved road.
Glorious!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!
This is frikkin rad!
You'd almost think this was about me Sai.
fantastic reading, really encapsulates the feeling of a tired old depressed soldier accepting his fate.
Thanks a lot, +chris steffes . Just checked out your channel. You've got serious talent, man. Good luck with all. Anything you'd like to hear, do let me know. My Best - Seth.
Thanks a lot, +chris steffes . Just checked out your channel. You've got serious talent, man. Good luck with all. Anything you'd like to hear, do let me know. My Best - Seth.
Dear Seth,
you have always inspired me and my English talks in Tehran.
please please please cintinue what you are doing for people like you are rare and are inspiring .
and I have just started thinking about having a talk on this poem and MR.BROWNING...
oooo. Browning would be INCREDIBLE for you to teach. This is and "The Waste Land" are my favorites.
Thank you so much for your continued support, Navid, and, as always, best of luck to you. - - Seth
This is fantastic, you really brought the poem to life. The Dark Tower saga are my all-time favourite books and this was just perfect. Your voice is incredible!
+Lizzie Bathurst
: ) Thank you, Lizzie. Me too : The first chapter, of the first book sunk into my brain when I first read it, as if King were channeling all the romantic soul of Browning. I can recite that chapter just as well as the poem that inspired it. -- Seth
This is wonderful
Hello,
I've started reading the Dark Tower series and it made me curious of its inspirations. I found a bilingual edition of Browning's 'Men and Women' at the library (printed in 1938, with a leather binding) (it was overly exciting to hold it in my hands) and read Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came... An uncountable amount of times. I tried to read it out loud many times, but my voice is too high-pitched so it doesn't sound like Roland's voice would at all. But I really wanted to hear it spoken in a way that would... I can't find my words, but, like, in a way that would make the feelings that the poem carries even more intense and that would give me thrills and really let me picture the scene. And that's how I entered the title of the poem in the search bar on RUclips and found your video !
And I have to say that... Wow. When you started talking your voice surprised me. I don't know, I wasn't expecting to hear a voice that would fit SO PERFECTLY to the poem, and that would give me such thrills in its every variations and jdhfkj (I wish I had the words)
Thank you alot ! I've subscribed, and I'll check out the rest of your work soon. You're fantastic !
Hello Sarra,
Thank you very much for writing. That bilingual edition sounds incredible to touch. Glad you found it! There's something magical about Browning... when I read his works, it's almost as if some part of me wrote them. I FEEL them as if they're reaching from my heart and from my past and from that part of my soul that no one knows. He's incredible and I wish more people appreciated him.
When you say your voice is "too high-pitched", I feel your pain, there are plenty of poems I try to read aloud where I don't have the right tone, maybe my voice is too low, or very often I can't do the appropriate accent, but that shouldn't stop us from enjoying our reading for our own sake. Most of the poems on this channel, I'm reading, "Childe Roland..." and a few others, I memorized. That's the way to really know and experience a poem : make it yours so that at that random time you're staring out a window on the train, you can start reciting when the muse touches you. There are things you can uncover in that poem which I will never know. There are things you have experienced in your life which will let you see things in Browning that I could never see. I'm a little envious at that.
I hope you enjoy! Thanks again for writing. If there's anything you would like to hear, let me know. As I told others : I'm getting over a nasty sinus infection, but will be back to reading online soon!
My Best,
Seth
oh, and if you like Nirvana and "Childe Roland", I hope you've listened to Nirvana's rendition of Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" ruclips.net/video/fregObNcHC8/видео.html one of my favorites!
Wait a couple hundred years,your voice will suite love.
Wow. Even better than George Guidall; certainly in the same league with the great reading by James Mason and arguably even greater. Just magnificent.
A truly awesome reading. Great job.
Thank you! If you're interested in The Dark Tower, do also check out my reading of The Waste Land by T S Eliot and if there's anything specific you'd like to hear, let me know. My Best.
ruclips.net/video/9w86ENDzYJw/видео.html
Spark-a-dark, where's my sire? Will I lay me? Will I stay me? Bless this camp with fire.
Such a masterpiece of a poem.
This reading really takes into another level of greatness. Excellent work sir. Excellent, excellent work. :)
Made my evening, +Daniel M. Hill ! Thank you. If there is anything you would like to hear do let me know and good luck with your work! My Best, Seth.
I love it!
Something by G. M. Hopkins maybe? :)
Mauro Zanchetta I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day by Gerard Manley Hopkins performed by Seth Hunter Perkins
Thank you for this!
Glad you enjoyed, Aurora. One of my favorite poems.
Thank you for this.
you're welcome! Thanks for taking the time to comment
I really like your voice....and like this poem very much..and loveee Dark Tower...anyway... great job! Like very much ;) Very inspirational
Thankee-sai, you speak true
4:37 great stanza -- but can we take a moment to appreciate the cruelty of the fact that Roland has a random encounter with a poor, unhealthy horse and, for no reason at all, decides that he hates it?
I love that moment.
you're voice sounds how heaven looks.
+redemption's messenger jeez. Now that's high praise! I always thought it'd sound a little more feminine, but maybe not.
you have not forgotten the face of your father. Good read!!!
This is awesome
Thank you! Was just giving The Second Coming a read. I'm going to do The Raven this weekend, then absolutely, I'll do TSC.
Amazing job, well done! My first time reading this poem too
This is great! Do you take requests?!
Thanks, Curtis! and, yes, I do take requests, albeit, I've been on hiatus for a while now as I wrap up another very large project. I do intend on getting back here soon so please do let me know what you'd like to hear.
I would love it if you would do my favorite poem. 'A kind of Meadow' By Carl Phillips
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47858/a-kind-of-meadow
This get's a thumbs up from me, great passion. My dream reading of this would be from Kenneth Branagh.
Bloody hell man, you are really awesome, you make this poem sound so cool I wish I could download this and listen to it anywhere
Thanks a lot! Love the comment. Ka IS a wheel.
where can I get one of those tiny hat's Chandler is wearing?
(i've forgotten the face of my father...)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! THAT made my afternoon!!
WOW...
Your sound is wonderful Mashallah, it make me feel the poem..
keep going
Very well done. The silhouette-style was a great choice, it allows the viewer to still see some of your expressions without being a distraction. I enjoy exercising my mind with memorizing poems, any tips that helped you with this one?
This is... I have no words for how this has affected me...
Have you ever considered/taken part in voice acting work? I seriously think you could add such depth of character to a serious detective game or animation.
Either way, good job! Loved it :)
mannnnnnnn now i have to read the dark tower again..........
+fonkyman me too.
+PoetrySpoken.com im kinda wondering if you would be willing to read the poem excelsior...
ive never heard somebody recite it especially not in such an awesome way :P
i any case keep doing what you do !!
Now, you gotta read the Gunslinger. This is Roland.
"Vá então, há outros mundos além deste"
- O Pistoleiro
awesome! could you give me a succint interpretation. Also, do you know of a prose version of the Dark Tower? I read it in high school in the 70's and I've been looking for it ever since.
Thank you very much!
For some reason your voice really reminds me of Karl Urban. Excellent reading, sir!
Thank you, Natasha! Certainly, if you have any contacts in that industry, let me know : )
Hi Robin,
My interpretation constantly changes. Lately, when I recite it... I'm seriously doubting Roland's sanity. Sometimes I think he is the tragic hero with a romantic/flawed view of the past (a la Stephen King), other times, I think he's sadistic with a indelible devotion to his past combined with a smoldering hatred. As far as prose... I've never heard of one outside Stephen King's Gunslinger. If you find one, do let me know. My Best.
You are very good.
there are also software programs, free I think, that let you download youtube videos.
I just wanted to say, I really appreciate this. I have learned to love this poem over the years, and never could read it aloud and be happy with my telling. I think your inflections and passion are spot on, my only complaint are some of the changes in volume due to moving your head back and forth around the mic.
I'm not trying to be a dick, I just think some of the moments where you move forward cause the volume to rise abruptly in a more harsh way than intended. Honestly though, still 100x better than I can get myself to sound.
Thanks Sean G and thanks for the constructive feedback : I agree. This was my FIRST recording on this channel, and I've learned a little bit since then around mic technique. If you like this one, do also check out my reading of "The Waste Land" by TS Eliot. (a little more recent). If there's anything you'd like to hear, do let me know.
My Best.
Thank you :)
thankee-sai!!!!
Nathan Drake has a really good voice.
+MaQuGo119 I totally missed that comment! : ) Love it.
Nice work! you have a brilliant reciting voice! i used to read my own little poems at open mic nights and i was never that good.
i'd like to hear you do the second coming by Yeats. my interpretation of that particular poem has always been one of slow depression or hopelessness rather than horror
I would love to sample a piece from this to a song I'm working on!
go for it! Send a link along when you get it together! good luck
ruclips.net/video/I9g1WElhXo4/видео.html here you go. It's still a rough demo where I played everything myself. Hopefully someday I can start a band and play these songs for real!
Thankee-sai.
Chandler?
Khild565 Close, actually I'm a clone of Captain Picard wearing a toupee.
PoetrySpoken.com haha great reading though dude!
Khild565 thanks! : )
Hello, can i help you to add spanish subtitles? There's a lot of spanish speakers who wants to find a video like this in spanish. Thx.
Absolutely, Carlos! Great idea! Here you go and thank you : ruclips.net/user/timedtext_video?v=nY3oMRLfArU&ref=share -S Hunter
ah the raven! good choice!
Unfortunately, RUclips doesn't provide download links, but Vimeo does. I'll add the download link to the description.
Well done Mell G Hows that rehab going guy ? Aye Word Up Great but of course better read
I'd like to know where I can find Public Waste, by Rudyard Kipling.
I want to share it with the U.S House of Representatives and then the Senate.
Could this *BE* more Chandler?
(oh look, someone commented on Childe Roland! . . . I wonder what they had to say) AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! (passes-out)
@@PoetrySpokencom seriously, though, great reading. I''m doing this in Victorian Literature right now, and your voice captures the tone perfectly!
thanks for that @@repellomuggletumify . It's one of my all-time favorites : every time I recite it, I find something new in Browning's words! Good luck with class!
I like your voice :)
2:57 damn
You just made my day, Maurice, and my day included climbing to a glacier on Mount Baker, so, hopefully you get the idea how much I appreciate these comments 😁
Go, then. There are other worlds than these.
I appreciate your video, passion, delivery, research, intelligence, gusto, and so many other positive words I could hammer away at and flatter you all day because you deserve it!!. The only one bad thing for me was I wish there was at least a slight couple of layers of light on ya face dude. I'm gonna be the only person who ever says this (unless someone reads my comment and then completely agrees with me) is that Straight away (and I mean straight away - which is not your fault but at the same time for me ruined my experience) is that I just heard this amazing poem spoken brilliantly by Matthew Perry from Friend's silhouette............... Sorry dude.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. (taking a breath)
But, I AM Matthew Perry! . . . (sigh) wow... Matthew Perry, you ruined my silhouette! Sean, (thanks for the comment) I've got to mull this one over. Obviously, I don't want to summon thoughts of "Friends" while reading Browning, et al, but dammit, I don't want my face in the way of the words... Let me see what I can do. If you've got an idea, kick it my way.
Honestly man, I am so super appreciative that you even commented back to me. I did feel like a bit of an A-Hole for a sec. When I hit enter and posted the comment I had what you might call "RUclips commenter's remorse". You are doing a great thing here that I kind of felt I then ripped on, but then again it was something that hit me pretty hard so I felt I had to make that comment. I am now glad I did because you straight up hit me back, which to me means you are a true sport and nothing shakes you. 100% commendable!! If it wasn't for the silly (and way random) first impression about the silhouette in the video I would have never said a word and just enjoyed. (Not to say I didn't enjoy because I thoroughly did). But I guess one thing I would add is that I can sense your passion for poetry and the verses you love (and your talent for reciting them) from this video, even without your face. May I be so bold to suggest that being who you are and doing what you do, I would personally prefer you to become the not only the voice, but the face of someone that speaks these powerful onslaughts of literature and lyric with his full, raw persona speaking not only to me but through me, rather than just his shadow. Don't ever feel like you would get in the way of the poem. I feel it is no different from singing a cover song on RUclips like so many people do. Only I think what you do is far more prolific and unique and that is coming from a musician who does in fact do RUclips cover songs. I honestly think YOUR medium is a smaller market so why not be THAT GUY who fucking owns it on RUclips!! That's my idea, and if I could turn my A-Hole comment around 360 degrees and make it into something positive, that's the one thing I would say. Either way man, keep doing what you're doing and it was nice to have the opportunity to chat with you. Feel free to rip on a video of mine if you want to. I heckled you first heh heh.
Sean Michael Millar
Hahahaha. Thanks a lot, Man! Seriously, that was a great way to wrap up the work-week. I hadn't really thought of creating an actual "poetry guy" persona. I dig it. I'll see what I can do. Meanwhile, likewise, keep doing what you do. I only had time to check out Love You Like a Hurricane on your channel, but great work! (and that's coming from a guy who's escape from stress is often his upright piano). I'll get back to your channel shortly.
Great "meeting" you, enjoy the weekend! - Seth
THE MAN IN BLACK FLED ACROSS THE DESERT, AND THE GUNSLINGER FOLLOWED.
I feel like you'd be really good at movie trailer voiceovers.
thx : )
We are well met along the path gunslingers!
I.
My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch the working of his lie
On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford
Suppression of the glee that pursed and scored
Its edge, at one more victim gained thereby.
II.
What else should he be set for, with his staff?
What, save to waylay with his lies, ensnare
All travellers who might find him posted there,
And ask the road? I guessed what skull-like laugh
Would break, what crutch 'gin write my epitaph
For pastime in the dusty thoroughfare,
III.
If at his counsel I should turn aside
Into that ominous tract which, all agree,
Hides the Dark Tower. Yet acquiescingly
I did turn as he pointed: neither pride
Nor hope rekindling at the end descried,
So much as gladness that some end might be.
Thanks, you'll have to send a Russian link my way!
Childe Roland read by Matthew Perry
🤣. yes. You found me out. 🙄.
Like if P.G Wodehouse sent you hear:
Poemat jest piękny i wielki, ale może się przyśnić jako koszmar
Are... are you wearing a tiny hat? Like an its-bitsy bowler?
You just couldn't leave well enough alone, could you, +razorlikeblue ? Several thousand other people have managed to overlook my tiny headgear and enjoy the words of Mr Browning, but, yes, if you must know, I've had to wear the bowler since I was little to conceal the antenna growing out of my head with which I communicate with orbiting satellites. Thank you for ruining my morning.
I need more synonyms for yuck
Thank you!