Forgetfulness - Billy Collins Animated Poetry

[radleyholla71b]

I want this video on my E378i unit.

[MuslimsAgainstTerror]

I wish I could have the imagination to write poetry such as this. Wow.

[juliantrevin38]

Your video is a favorite on Sarajevo

[SearchingForBlood]

nerds:))



[vudu8ball]

I realize I have forgotten the name of my first lover. It was Donna or Debbie or something.

Makes me sad

[Wallflower1922]

This is really great! Perfect animations! Love it

[smileeyesclosed]

Needs music! But great poem!

[breeeegs]

beautiful poem

[EricSchwin22]

Wish there was nice music in the background, but anyways...great stuff.

[christianzajdek]

Prose.

[donhonki1]

"Donhonki" "First ever crown court banned uk rap-poet" (2009-2014) #SuperInjunction

[CMLacinaPoetry]

This is very well portrayed. It inspired a video poem assignment in my video production class.

[chelseamuse72]

the animation captures the nature of memory so perfectly. so genius.

[TriCountyScholar]

This had me fall in love with Billy. I need a person to do this kind of animation for a doc I'm shooting. There is a poem being read there as well! I will pay good money, per hour. Is there any chance, PLEASE, that you would be interested?

jaredcasey64 at g mail

[TheJanstie]

@kristijanadrian forgive, but is this tongue-in-cheek nonsense or are you on something?

[nifiah]

Awesome

[keylimepie1008]

sad and funny and wonderful, just like the author

[ubiquim]

I could never memorise them anyway, There was no way to repair the cracked windshield, so it goes.

[Fall3n4H1m]

Awesome.



[geoffpeterstrio]

I love this!

[LadyVixxen]

His Ben Stein tone actually gets old sometimes, I have to admit, but it is very effective otherwise. Please don't yell at me. ><

[breeeegs]

Actually it reminded me more of Kevin Spacey

[macnolds]

@breeeegs if there is ever a movie about billy collins, kevin spacey will surely play the lead role. has both the look and the voice. irnoically, i wrote a poem about spacey recently. o0.

[breeeegs]

What did you say in it?

[cateliper0114]

his work always makes me laugh - but this time, genuine tears from such a poignant, touching, moving piece.

[turina831steve]

I love this one!

[juudtoo]

Brilliant poem. One of my favorites.

I think BC and JWTNY go well together. I enjoy these video's ; hearing the voice and seeing a fitting poetic animation. Well done. Thanks.

[menderfire9]

twenty-four people accidentally hit the dislike button by mistake.

[ridhididi]

That was brilliant! Thank you :D

[CBroganperformance]

I forgot that how i knew this poem but then I remembered, he was great at Ledbury poetry festival, he had a packed room laughing

[poeticjournalism]

first collins poem I read, and I've been hooked since :)

[ShifaaBashir]

awsome animation for a lovely poem!

[palaviye]

"Not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen" LOL cracked me up.Two thumbs up for that!!!

[AuntieN2]

WELL, I just forgot if I posted this to FB or not so I'll post again and fix it later! I was very happy to stumble into this! Thanks!

[MiNiMaLsAnItY]

I watch this video almost everyday, lest I forget.

[ArrozConPollo89]

is this a computer talking ?

[amara2021]

He sounds like MS word XD

[wrybred]

this poem scares the crap out of me - i love hoee he reads it so matter of factly and full of banality like he's not talking about our inevitable mental holocaust for it will happen just outside our periferals, like when we wait in line to buy a bag of tomatoes.

[circethesorceress]

@wrybred i think the best poetry is supposed to scare the crap out of the best audience. ;)

[beachesrme]

Phew, thank goodness, was afraid it might be 'early onset'... good one!!! :))

[gayfishyUK]

What is the best poet to do a presentation on for school?

any suggestions

[Verruckt20]

Taylor Mali is great

[gayfishyUK]

thanks

[ClearMindMeditation]

Charles Bukowski - his work is beautiful and ugly at the same time.

[DeepRedBlue]

He speaks like a machine/train announcer! Sorry but its toooo enunciated! I love the poem and the visuals but not his voice for it

[yorylein]

Learn things by heart + forget +recall+ learn things by heart+ forget... :-(

[webeee01]

i'm a young poet that wants to sell my writings.. can anyone help me to?

[yorylein]

You don´t need help, you can do it by yourself. Look for an editory house, and talk to evryone. If you don´t find anyone interested in them, take your poems, print them in a printer and sell them per e-bay for example ...

[JbobsFunnyFarm]

very nice!

[PeaceboneGotFound]

I love it.

[PrinceVice]

now THAT was beautiful

[mado9111]

hi

peace be upon you all

this is a poem made by my friend, can you plz if you have time view it and tell me what you think

watch?v=cQ5uuFbpemM

thx

[batmanthecool]

what's this poets name again?

[alsklant]

haha, good one!

[annpham]

I'm sorry, I mean will YOU make one video of the poem nostalgia? I really like that one :). Thanks for those great videos

[annpham]

I love it! A lot actually. Will come make one video of Nostalgia sometime?

[dammee]

if its important it will come back to you....

[Koribaby1]

very interesting poem. and thought. the more you memorize, the more old memories drift away. huh. >.>

[whsdancer123]

BECCA WAS HERE D;< (hurrah for steigel!)

[papaduke12]

So true. i ave read more books twice by accident than i have read once on purpose and im a friggin reader.

[OracleX]

lol, just wondering, how can you read something on purpose?

[hcronos]

this is how the world end, this is how the world end not with a bang but with a whimper.

[ilovebobthecat]

wonderful wonderful thank you

[forestgumpaed]

i see your point,its basically yesterdays news and its like life,a never ending cycle of imformation absorbed into the brain and transferred to another chapter in your life...............the brain is an incredible source of knowledge.

[forestgumpaed]

books are knowledge and knowledge can be dangerous.

[mbuckowski]

I love this poem!

[ivahedableful]

great animation

[JackSnipsnapper]

Most appropriate for me!

[lopito37]

EXQUISITE AND TRULY LOVELY!

[sammu5]

Perfection!

[signjay]

Soon the art of the written word will disappear entirely, as we become a generation unable to comprehend anything, poetry, conversation, literature, etc. , without the omnipresent "aid" of video. We are all better off and worse off for this damn little box.

[ponchosuperstar]

Wow man, that's really deep. It's not like these poems could possibly be a really cool thing that illustrates and visulaizes poems we've all come to know and love in their text form.

[RhymeAnonymous]

Perhaps you're wrong my friend. Perhaps without the promotion of this "damn little box" your idea of the art of the written world slipping out our grasps will become a reality. Poetry lives through everything, inspiration can be drawn from anything, even nothing. The art of the written word isn't going anywhere.

[nijrose]

Love the poem, but Mr Collins' delivery always seems neutral and robotic, which gets in the way a little for me.

[unintendeddream]

i felt that the way he narrated this poem really suited it though. especially the way he delivered the last line. it really brings out the sad but resigned fate of forgetting...

"no wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted out of a love poem that you used to know by heart."

[kkigirl]

this is absolutely beautiful

[Mugenwind123]

lol damn man,

THIS and the dead i can understand perfectly,

his voice makes me feel so synchronized and peacful

[krishnabaalu]

EXCELLENT-WONDERFUL

KRISHNA BAALU

[acousticbill]

I love this poem, but the animation mostly serves only to distract from the text ...

[thisisacunt]

this is the best on youtube

[thisisacunt]

thius is the best on youtube

[deniseinparsons]

This is just toooo much After Effects... A nice one however could have been more natural if it was stop motion...

[meanderingspark]

this is one of my favorite billy collins poems. i like how everything is constantly flickering, just like how memory is being described.

[myrionymos]

this is beautiful it hurts.

[Freeasabird17]

This has become some of my favorite artforms.

Poetry/visualized.

Kudos to these merged artists.

[sassMay]

brilliant!!!!!

[voltazmiq]

that last line always breaks my heart...

[somanymovies11]

This is so sad. so perfect.

[Poesiefilmchen]

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[Elaina43]

Thank you for not removing this video - it is one of my all-time favorites and I'd hate to forget about it!

[Shinnyuu2]

btw the river "who's name begins with an 'L'" he is refering to is the river "Lethe" which is one river in Hades (the underworld of the dead) in greek mythology. the river causes complete forgetfulness to whoever drinks from it.

[good4we]

More please. The images complemented the verse so well.

[globaleyes]

superb stuff. more!

[ztillfe]

I love this Vdo very much. I love the color and graphic.!

GREAT!

[Oxygum]

sounded abit like Steven Hawking

[b88104044]

holy fucker this is too awesome ！

[alejandre321]

Your creations are fantastic!!! I love it - the choice of subject, the graphics, and most of all the excellent delivery.  I am out of superlatives - so thank you for sharing with us your poetic creations.

[LEDPENNY]

Ale...well said. Since I can't say it any better, I won't.

[bhangrachick]

can sum1 plz plz plz help me understand da ful meaning behind this poem...i need help understand it plz can sum1 help fanx

[hardstreetbambi]

hi again! i reckon it is about growing old.

[silasiscool]

To me it seems as if he is trying to say if you give up on "life" in a scence you must give up on the other muses that tickle your fancy or loved ones you wish to keep in your memories

[Shinnyuu2]

id have to say its not so much about the fear of forgetting but the fear of being forgotten...hes saying thats why we obsess over remembering things we forgot...its why we "raise in the middle of the night to look up the date of a famous battle"...because we fear our own death and being forgotten about.

[seijisanti]

Forgetfulness makes me think of my not so distant childhood in Ecuador. Touching and true even more so with the passing of time.

[rosettap]

BRAVO!

[Enright9591]

I love this man's work ... it's so intriguing.

[CatRandle]

A evocative gorgeous voice, a bittersweet poem, fabulous graphic, a taste treat sensation

[accesssacramento]

Bravo. Good from begining to end.

[Meri3z3]

bellísimos tus poema

adore your poetry

maría

[RachelVouge]

I love the poems. Amazing. And so is your video work. What do you use?

[wyunot]

I totally understand,very good,and yet very sad.

[snev0004]

I stumbled onto these videos a month or so ago. Now when ever I have a crappy day I watch them and I feel much more peaceful, hell of a job on all of them. Thanks for doing it.

[yetiamchosen]

I am a cynical, miserable person that hands out positive criticism five times a year, and means it once. And I mean it now. That was brilliant.

[Aravadia]

Oh, how terribly true, and yet, strangely comforting!

[gabstaricious]

I'm from Paraguay and I stand up and clap for this :P

[DanielleMulcahy]

SO AMAZING

[RachelJadeSots]

Wow!!

[atonaltritone]

This is my favorite poem ever. Billy Collins remains my favorite poet ever. Amazing.

[McMac10]

i love this. what program was used, and how was it done (frame by frame!)???

[timcookie]

awesum

[lili4trees]

excellent.

[abstractelysium]

Yeah, assuming your crushes' name is also your background image.

[DanielleMulcahy]

that was soo amazing. ilove it!

[binsbai]

how old was he when he wrote it?!

i am fearful this will happen to me as I age!

[saturday514]

I love these.

[icethey]

Great poem! so sad...

[Bayso]

I forgot how to type...damn!

[gabongation]

This is so true, a lot of times we forget bunches of memories for other things our mind prefer to use. But them are still in us, waiting the exact time in the exact moment. I love this guy.

[fuzzygreendude]

Dont toke so often, let your short term memory have a rest lol. awsome video man! thats the definition of my brain now.

[constert111]

its true!

[time4sumluvv]

this is so beautiful

[buelligan123]

That was great, I have days where I feel like that!!

[dnrinnaples]

Careful -- days turn into years...

[AnimeYuuki]

amazing.

[CaptPoco]

Whoa, that was trippy. I don't want to join those who have forgotten how to ride a bicycle! BTW, the mythological river is Lethe

[themightyhun22]

thats really nice. im inspired. =]

[dnrinnaples]

Inspired? Inspired to do what?  Forget more often and to greater extent?

[michywhacks]

ANG GANDA! that's beautiful in Tagalog, remember that. Saying REMEMBER is so much more beautiful than saying DON'T FORGET...

[skatalyte]

Wow, this is awesome. Number one, the poem is great. Very clever. And the animation is really impressive too... looks kind of retro, like something from the '60s.

[msafavid]

Amazing vid---the visuals worked well and added to the poem. Keep it up!

[spapr]

Fantastic, both words and pictures. And the last phrase, forgetting love poetry, (perhaps even love?) is a heart thumper.

[tmonkeypunch]

You are brilliant...

[patt0x]

Simply beautiful.

[nancywillis]

a pleasure

[BassistNick]

What the heck!? Not even in my spleen? I'm afraid I don't personally keep book information in my spleen.

[junction2x]

amazing...plz put on more of these man...and the animationi s just AMAZING..it makes it so much nicer to hear..Bravo!

[tyrex3679]

very true... collins is the poet of the ordinary folk...

[HulaBabe890]

OH NO!! i DID forget the capital of paraguay!!

[Squin52X]

that's really depressing

great job!

[dappadan123]

I really loved this poem but it made me a little sad. It's strange to reflect and try to remember stuff you've forgotten. Elementary school teacher's names for example.

[finalityx]

i'm not fond of poetry, but your stuff always hit home with me.

[Mexilexigurl]

I liked this one lots...but i know 4 a fact ill foget this =]

[uNdEnIaBlYiNsAnE]

I really actually like this poem. It's very nice. It's just almost over my head, but not quite, which is the best kind of poem to read, in my opinion

[RevolutionDsquad]

what just happened in the video? I don't remember...

[brera28brera28]

so nice

[leomcallister]

It reminds me of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

[Rmasternick]

nice, keep up the good work

[nobirdbutt]

I forget every thing.. -__- I'll probubly even forget this vid in a few hours >.<

[markgoldrup]

Damn, that was heavy. Somebody been smokin something. One thing though -- I never forget the details of books I loved. Never.

[nikferh]

cool...cognitive cideo

[orchid618]

very insightful

[germboy007]

its like alzhimers

[jackanme]

Fantastic! Thoroughly enjoyed this piece. Keep up the good work!

[artfuldown]

Hey! Your very gifted IMHO. Good job Billy. Work like your's gives youtube some class. Keep it up.

[jplp]

Simply beautiful

[webbedtoes]

good poem and nice animation.

why is the capital of Paraguay so important?

[solitairre]

How very true!

[makyanai]

nice poem, billy collins usually makes good poems, but the animation just makes me feel sick (not that it's bad, the colors and the swaying just...)

[KATSCALESskyScrapers]

awesome. creepy.

[seriago]

Brilliant!