You've got a great voice for this, but I wonder, why has nobody sang it to St Jame's Infirmary like the poem states? It seems like such a simple idea to do, I just tried it myself, and it fits perfectly.
I sometimes think Auden is closer to Bukowski than many people realise. In both cases the persona of callous b*stard allows the poet to feint his reader into feeling compassion for people the poem seems indifferent to.
I think, for once, you might be too nice a person to read this to its best advantage. I don't think you properly make fun of the inadequacy of Ms. Gee's few spoken lines.
Or perhaps that is a meta-technique you have slily slipped by me.
Now that's not the first thing one should listen to on waking up in the morning as I did just now. Kinda depressing but quite......... Anyway,thanks once again for leading us down this seldom traveled path with its haunted houses with frightening vistas, crumbling castles of forgotten past and humble huts erected on broken dreams. Thanks!
Already I'm googling cancer...I think I'm Miss Gee! Frightening.
pikit1a 6 months ago
I'll take the sun.
audiofile7 8 months ago
ye im doing this for my AS
level English Literature
This reading really helped - thanks!
residentevilgoddess 1 year ago
@residentevilgoddess
same here mines in 3days hope u did well in urs :)
16nwb1 9 months ago
Death reduces us to garbage. Made me cry.
vudu8ball 1 year ago
I adore this poem. Such a powerful statement about how buttoning up your emotions will lead to such a downfall! Amazing poem by an Amazing poet!!
J999ACK 1 year ago
I just did an essay on this piece for AS English Literature, and i must say its a really powerful poem, i really engaged with it.
Smallenface 2 years ago
You've got a great voice for this, but I wonder, why has nobody sang it to St Jame's Infirmary like the poem states? It seems like such a simple idea to do, I just tried it myself, and it fits perfectly.
SketchRoomAccount 2 years ago
I sometimes think Auden is closer to Bukowski than many people realise. In both cases the persona of callous b*stard allows the poet to feint his reader into feeling compassion for people the poem seems indifferent to.
I think, for once, you might be too nice a person to read this to its best advantage. I don't think you properly make fun of the inadequacy of Ms. Gee's few spoken lines.
Or perhaps that is a meta-technique you have slily slipped by me.
thallassocracy 2 years ago
a superb reader, you got a wonderfull knack for spinning a tale. I'm also loving the long paragraphs you always put in your sidebar these days.
TomRAFC 2 years ago
Now that's not the first thing one should listen to on waking up in the morning as I did just now. Kinda depressing but quite......... Anyway,thanks once again for leading us down this seldom traveled path with its haunted houses with frightening vistas, crumbling castles of forgotten past and humble huts erected on broken dreams. Thanks!
KnightHawkXIV 2 years ago 2
As Kingsley Amis said, "Nice things are nicer than nasty ones"
SpokenVerse 2 years ago