Dylan Thomas - A Refusal to Mourn

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[DanWagstaffe09]

Dylan Thomas plays with words like nobody else - breathtaking.

[manyhighhills]

I'll try to explain myself, then, on behalf of my previous comments. Has a sane man got room for war, no? So when it asks for accommodation, why does he give it it? Answer me that? Or rather don't, as usual, mute philistines.

[xshanghu]

I really appreciated the red banner 5****

[54spiritedwill54]

a great video!

[gentlemanranker]

That's an awesome reading by a brilliant man. The Welsh love of nature and music is evident. Stringing sounds and images together to invoke an emotional response with intricate construction is predominate in Welsh poetry for centuries. Its almost impossible to do in English, but he achieved it

[manyhighhills]

Auden did the postal train to Scotland, and Betjeman covered the outskirts of the London underground. Apart from that, the English appear to be slightly sterile, afraid of true, deep heart-felt, emotion.

[ysplse]

Affected? His sonorous voice IS Dylan Thomas his very being.

Is the red banner an aid to the deaf? It marred my enjoyment of an otherwise excellent vid.

[envsh03]

I love Dylan Thomas' voice /reading.

But, do you people out there think that it is a bit affected?

[manyhighhills]

Affection is what most sheep do. There is always a need for new path makers, even if sometime later they are then termed affected, by one of those ignorant multitudes that have travelled along his path, he has effected.

You are middlebrow, a pick and choose, whatever sounds best for you today. Are you not?

[inwoods]

What do you think about this poem? I'd like to know. To me it's about death but is it about someone close to him - he says 'After the first there is no other' and refers to 'daughter of london' I just wondered

[megaforcemedia]

It's not just the substance, but also the style, the declaratory sensibility, the sense of mystery and acceleration. Itrs value lies in the adrenaline that the poem makes you feel as much as its literary content. I agree that the end is the clincher, it's a useful description of the gravity of one's first encounter with mortality.

[manyhighhills]

It is concerntrated in on the bombing of London during the early '40s. Once the first death of an infant, all were anaesthetised to any further disgusting acts by the human race upon and against itself. Well, that is my interpretation, for what it is worth.

[nniuqn]

has anyone got thomas reading ' ballad of the long-legged fly'?

[manyhighhills]

Don't be shy, just ask.

[cpluseless]

I am from South Carmarthenshire and am perceptive about Dylan, and I will sell my birth-wisdom for............. nothing. What do you want to know friends?

[ancestralyuba]

Nice to find Dylan Thomas on YouTube. Thanks for posting.

[blokezed]

Basically, refined food is always, always crap.

[blokezed]

Thumbs down? POST A COMMENT INSTEAD.

[blokezed]

Heard pork or wild pig(as it was in those days) is good for high brain thiamine(Vit B1) levels. Watch the worms though, cook well, but it's only extra protein after all.

[blokezed]

Thats why maybe they start to refuse food, sodium is very close to nerve sensitivity.

[blokezed]

Eat a balanced diet that your genetics agrees with, some people cannot tolerate added salt at all, whatsoever.

[blokezed]

Oh for a metabolism of snails, acorns and greens.

[blokezed]

Or even molluscs, nuts and edible green-leaved plants.

[blokezed]

Remembrance of a drowned forest. Dylan Thomas' hidden secret memory. Carmarthen Bay. Oh my God!

[zaragarcia]

great video, nicely put together.. i heard theyre filming 'best time of our lives' in cardiff, does anyone know where??

[blokezed]

It's now going to be released as 'The Edge of Love'. They have been filming recently in New Quay (Ceredigion/Cardiganshire); then heard a bit in Laugharne and then back to the studios.

[blokezed]

You enter a village and ask where their local wordsmith is, and they point and answer that you will find him hammering away on his pencil next to the Inn.

[blokezed]

(edit) 'with his pencil'

[dougchapel1977]

...talking of pencils did you hear about the constipated mathematician ?

He worked it out by himself.

Also people talk aboout alcoholics having the DT`s . Nice of them to remember Dylan this way ...

[megaforcemedia]

Yeah, I'm the maker of this video. You're right. A few of those images are off. But I did not create this for the strut and trade of charms. I made it for lovers. Too much work to re-edit it now.

[tattoofthesun]

@megaforcemedia good answer, we hold the grief and we enjoy this video

[Finbarbarfin]

I think a few of the pictures are of some half-assed fringe show about D.T.; otherwise, yeah ... impressive.

[canfor5]

As with In My Craft & Sullen Art I am so glad someone has posted a true poetic master reading his work. Only Richard Burton in "Under Milk Wood" could come close.

[kikidylan100]

Dylan Thomas is a transcendent poet - the way he weaves words and chews syllables is spectacular. Hearing a recording of him read "Fern Hill" when I was sixteen began a lifelong entrancement with poetry. Is it wrong to lust after a dead man?

[ShaneyEtol]

a great video!

[7jacktar]

Proof that truth and beauty exist.

[bpyrad]

the giant of wales ,summoner of rolling thunder

[ehweven]

beautiful

[disparates]

fascinating. dylan thomas was a GENIUS

[leekel]

awesome.