The Hollow Men - T S Eliot

[masterconfectionist]

Great job! This is my favorite poem and you did an awesome interpretation of it. The mask is haunting, and the way you read it brings out a whole new level of horror that i hadn't even thought about before. I just put up a recording of myself reading it, but I think i put a little too much effects on my voice- I like how you were able to keep the poem interesting just by the way you read it and not what you did to your voice.

[voxinabox]

Thanks for watching and glad you liked it. Pleased you got a bit of horror out of it but not too much I hope :)

[lurkerb]

In the beginning, you should burn yourself in effigy as you say "a penny for the old guy".

[jastaiti]

Excellent reading, great video, and appropriately haunting music.

If I remember what we were told in school, the poem has a little bit to do with a certain notorious military order.

[jedi4Iife]

This is pretty disturbing, but that's what makes it so penetrating.. Nice work.

[voxinabox]

Thanks, appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment and yes, it still comes across to me as pretty disturbing in places. May the force be with you :)

[centervilletn]

sounds like an obit for America..sad, dark days indeed..

[clashcitywannabe]

That was very powerful

[alexp9999]

boo, marlon brando's reading wins

[claitontesch]

I have recommende this video to my students. They loved it, they got scared , though

[ion4]

i thought it was a comedy at first hah but its very good :)

[ipreach4ever]

Creeped me out.

Well done.

[Sypher12]

this reading helped me understand it more. amazing and i thank you for it

[binashah]

Very well recited. And I liked the music. Understated and haunting.

[claitontesch]

Wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[voxinabox]

Glad you liked it :)

[TristanTane]

Magnificent.

[voxinabox]

Well I'm glad you like it :) Thanks for watching.

[LaTaye23]

i heard that music before who composed it

[sparkofmessiah]

A haunting piece of work. The hooded man reminds me of the Elephant Man and the desolation he must have felt.

[hartistry]

I liked the presentation!

[bigtallcubsfan]

Tolstoy, your interpretation is only half right. Eliot's fear, in this poem, is not one of "suburban mediocrity". Remember that the narrator is or was a soldier (buried in his headpiece, a "lost, violent soul"). Suburban mediocrity was not a thing this fellow knew. Eliot's fear was that death rendered both the great soul and the "suburban" soul into the same sort of nothingness. (between the emotion and the response falls the shadow)

[Exhia]

BRAVO !! yet again !! ... Excellent performance.

[leostoltoy]

In the immortal words of This Is Serious Mum, "Mistah Elliot, he wanker".

Worse still than mortality is mortality preceded by suburban mediocrity. The horror indeed.

Your video is reminiscent of TISM's early live performances.

[trisoctehedron]

Others have said it. You used simple means to make an objective correlative of the terror I believe Eliot was feeling (had felt?) that took form in this poem.

[Freelancer824]

The Hollow Men plays a big role in halo, The Hollow Men are the Spartans. (Master Chief) The way world ends and other parts of this poem are also in halo. Halo is really big and complex if you dig deep into the story.

[imxsoxstupid]

great interpretation. love the visual and the music really sets the tone for the poem

[dogpatchdebbie]

that was really wild:)

excellent work again sir!

[podpictures]

I like the visuals Sir Vox, it has a dance macabre quality about it, and the mask can be both uncomfortable yet also sad.

[pinklantana]

I've not read that poem. It seems very sad. Well done on the video; it felt surreal watching it. :)

[etourist2]

I think you certainly achieved the effect of nightmare vision. You've created something quite powerful even though it appears very simple in its execution (which is not to say it was simple to make but it does appear that way). Favorited this one :)

[voxinabox]

Thanks TET, glad you got something from it :)

[katylied66]

I loved it!!

And the music was perfect as well. But spooky and creepy are things that I enjoy!

Glad to see you back too!!

Dianne

[voxinabox]

Thanks Dianne, its nice to be back from self-imposed exile :)

[mikma]

mikma was here

[voxinabox]

Hi Mike, thanks for calling by :)

[SohoSquare]

I can't say whether T. S. Eliot would have approved - not by a long chalk. But it was exceedingly well read (I love your voice - and I mean that in a very heterosexual slap-on-the-back type way) ;-) This is the way the world ends - not with a bang but with a whimper. Probably the most quoted of Eliot and probably the most poignant - as it looks as though that is exactly how the world WILL end if we don't pull our socks up and start caring for our planet/environment. So glad to have you back.

[voxinabox]

Thanks Nathan :)

[popsuckits]

Moody...Filled with velvet...

[voxinabox]

Thanks. Such a poetic comment ;)

[gstockton]

I remember this poem from school perhaps. It was spooky. I remembered it from the opening line instantly, and probably have not heard it since I was 14 or 15.. Great video.

[voxinabox]

Thanks Gary. Its good to be back :)