"Vampire" by Ted Hughes (poetry)

[stepsforslowdancing]

So visceral. I love his description of the blood taking as an ordeal, like the creatures hates to do it but has to anyways. Great reading.

[marktreanor19]

Nicely read.  Thank you

[Piquarian]

I was erroneous with that last post. I meant meditation 17.

[Piquarian]

Thanks for your reply. Yes, about the meditations. You'll probably be most familiar with meditation 18 - the line "...for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." etc. Keep up the good work. Oh, and here's one for you: the cat and the moon by W.B. Yeats... This will thing disallows my link for some remote reason...

[Piquarian]

Have you considered more of Donne? The Meditations, perhaps.

[SpokenVerse]

@Piquarian Thank you. I've done 12 poems by John Donne - to find them put donne into the search engine over the videos on my channel page. I'll consider Meditations.

[Piquarian]

What an immensely sensuous poem, as Hughes will tend to be...

''This fusty carcass stirs its shroud and swells.''

You slip into the drama of the piece very well.

If you decide to resume these recitations again, hopefully, I would like if you took stock of :

Patrick Kavanagh ( Inniskeen Road: July Evening, The hospital, Pygmalion, Who killed James Joyce?, In the same mood.)

You've recorded many of Yeat's very well.

Oh, and Yes I'm Irish, (to account for this little slant....)

No space...

[TheSingingCello]

his wife :)

[blainofski]

this drained my energy

[Mystakaphoros]

I love this poem. I'm in the midst of a Ted Hughes seminar at the present, and this one really jumped out at me.

[shalyma]

Ted Hughes...very very intense!

[ramenuet]

I love Ted Hughes. Especially "The Rag Rug."

[gingermosha]

love it .. I don't mean to be like a vampire .. but more Ted Hughes please