Annabel Lee

[hunteraceved49]

This is a "callous" video. =p

[MaddyOHara]

best one I've watched so far.

[nikiforrest]

Beautiful voice.

[chickachicka54]

Ohhh beuatiful beuatiful!!!

[Nergaladdictchic]

Can you tell me where I can get the MP3 of Basil Rathbone narrating this?

[MisterBeaucoup]

Wow, I'm speechless. Lovely interpretation.

[TedNewsom]

Excellent work, all-- keep at it.

[thirty6min]

A poem? It is worse than a nursery rhythm. "Kingdom by the Sea" is repeated over and over again for no good reason other than the composer ran out of rhythm. Edger Allen Poe was no poet.

[BornToDie90]

@thirty6min ignorant fool

[rillera25]

@thirty6min It's a masterpiece. I quite like it, I didn't know it was possible to dislike something such as this. It's a beautiful poem.

[ajn43us1]

loved it

[Killerkurenai]

I absolutely adore this poem. It's so odd that such a brilliant man was so hopelessly in love with his cousin. Nothing wrong with incest I suppose, but, honestly, his cousin?

[justplainoldliz]

it wasn't uncommon to marry one's cousin in Poe's time

[GhostofVoorhees]

U no people say this is this is the most romantic poem and it is beautiful(which it is) but itis about his cousin

[crmfghtr]

Who did he do these recordings for, very cool

[tuscatom]

Really nicely done. There is no better narrator on spoken word recordings than Basil, and your music add and video add make this a really well-done presentation. Hope to see more!

[epytim]

I am in awe at the quality of the spoken words

[TRKWP]

haunting

[Acquiescence80]

Very good!

One of my favorite poems and one of my favorite readers of it. He does justice to The Raven that would make Edgar himself cry...

[oprahwinfreyrocks]

wow... that's awesome.

and my name's annabelle!

but it's spelled differently... apparently! lol

[tawnteens]

This is lovely!

[diamond8002]

I love this poem so much!!!

[ecuway]

mola mas la de radio futura

[septdon]

Beautifully done! BRavo!

[vanhalenkid]

halo music?

[aretrospection]

Basil, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways...

[maggiemcrlover]

I like iit!

[gnikcohs]

Basil's reading is richly dramatic, the music of the poem itself requires no dubbed music although it is not too distracting. The weakest link is the video. The poem is timeless, that's true, but this imagery certainly isn't. Less is more here, just the sea maybe, in b&w.

[lachattenoire27]

Really nice job!

[BethnJulia]

Great video. Ignore the comments of those who don't understand you, the poem, or Poe.  Thanks for posting.

[stacey39]

Good attempt... but Annabel Lee wasn't taken away by a man, she dies of tuberculosis...

[perhocks]

Annabel Lee wasn't meant to be Poe's wife. None of his poems or stories are supposed to be autobiographical. Some people laugh at the phrase "I was a child, and she was a child", but again, Annabel Lee wasn't meant to be his wife.

[Sing4ever9]

Yes, true, but here's something I've heard from many; Writers write out of their misery. In other words, they take something from their lives and put it in their stories. And clearly Poe was distraught over the loss of his wife so he wrote of how he felt that she was taken from him. Or at least, that's what I believe. ^^

[kavudiego]

its art not history, so you are both right.

[darkloverstephy]

well when he says "I was a child, and she was a child" it represents him and his wife because they were young when they married i believe she was 14

[lokinkid]

hahahah halo music!

[metumadenci]

hey i was rode this song at 04.04.2008 night. everybody clap me

[moshe1a]

It`s the voice of the unforgotten Basil Rathbone, the famous actor!He also had a beautiful singing voice !

[yingwudaying]

I just close my eyes and listen

[bluewolf130]

im playing this song in my band at school

[silverandcold12345]

really cool

[petrobabe]

I love the narrator! He's great!!!

[jellybeen1293]

my favorate poem that i hav come across so far.

[HotBabeSophia]

This is the version of Annabel Lee on my language :

Prije mnogo i mnogo godina, u carstvu kraj mora to bi. Živjela je djeva imenom Annabel Le. S tek jednom je živjela mišlju : da voli i da se volimo mi. Bio sam dijete i bila je dijete...

I don't know anymore =)

[bandoSquirrel]

This narrator, I want to hug him. This guy should narrate more stuff 5 star work, one of the best Poe recitations I've heard in along time

[VBZBII]

@bandoSquirrel

His version of The Raven is exquisite. Sir Basil Rathbone is excellent.

[abbiamoquesto]

@bandoSquirrel Sadly he won't be narrating anything any more...at least not in this world. The great Basil Rathbone, 1892 - 1967

[annemiiek]

His voice gives me chills. I don't know if that's good or bad because it's such a beautiful poem

[boomoo2]

comon the poem is creepy not notice the part at the end were he sits by her grave thru the night

[tindulce18]

creepy.

[tindulce18]

creepy.

[musicismysavior1695]

the video was a little weird, but the poem is beautiful!

[Atemuthepower]

Basil has such a powerful, yet, calm and meaningful voice...i like it

[virulito]

What a wonderfull poem.

[isvetlac]

Truly great...

[many1994]

Yeah, this totally missed the concept of the speaker being so distraught over the loss of his love, that he lays with her rotting corpse, in the sepulcher by the sea.

And the "High Kinsmen" looked like some jock from high school picking up his girl.

Basil Rathbone has a good voice, but his tone didn't work in this feature.

The acting was corny, the directing was unoriginal, and the fact that you used some of the most recognizable music from Halo 2 makes this project seem feeble and mediocre.

[patfealy]

fantastic reading and elegant vidio

[Aisenu]

One of the better works of Poe. This poem is rather beautiful, I would say.

[celine16]

i love this poem!

love it!

[fatmaneatcake]

God can no one get how this poem is supposed to be read. Its supposed to be read more fast paced, like a crazy man singing in a crazed twisted happiness

[JLMmedia]

Yeah, this totally missed the concept of the speaker being so distraught over the loss of his love, that he lays with her rotting corpse, in the sepulcher by the sea.

And the "High Kinsmen" looked like some jock from high school picking up his girl.

Basil Rathbone has a good voice, but his tone didn't work in this feature.

The acting was corny, the directing was unoriginal, and the fact that you used some of the most recognizable music from Halo 2 makes this project seem feeble and mediocre.

[gnikcohs]

There is no one way this poem is supposed to be read. There may be some very bad readings, but there are many possible ways to interpret it.

Basil Rathbone reads it with a rich, powerful, emotionally charged voice that I am very grateful to be able to hear. I would not mind at all hearing it read like you suggest too.

I like Rathbone's Raven too, here on Youtube.

Since I am sensing that some people do not know him : Basil Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes in those great old 30's/40's films.

[Johnnynoir333]

Basil Rathbone voice bring me to tears...

[Vexclorion]

is that halo 2 music?

[Anriel2]

kingdom by the sees.. and when he say so when the highborn kings mans says gives me chills

[Leeisfree]

LOVE

[cynyrocx]

this is my fav of Allen's poems!!

[Theotokos86]

I agree with the above poster that the casting was a bit annoying, as it was too modern in my opinion and the kinsman bearing her away did not really seem heavenly or divine, hence a loss of effect. But the voice really made up for it. Very good reading.

[POETICxDEATH]

oh, yay! my favoite poem!

this is excellent!

[gerbilsqueex]

lol, i wanna go see lord of the rings again now...

inabit

[Cypher1014]

I loved it. Annabel Lee is my favorite poem and this man reads it like I have always heard it in my mind. PS - Nice touch w/ the Halo music.

[taekun77]

I have to recite it in a few days and this was great inspiration. thanx!!!

[debpoli]

awesome job!

[Meowyn]

I simply loved it...

It has a very sorrow sense... and the voice is great.

[bulduker]

Didn't like the cast at all,could be chosen among those wud do it better,

but the voice is really excellent

I love this poem,and every man wud love this as long as they have their own "ANNABEL LEES"

I love my own (((ANNABEL LEE!)))

[bou132]

I LOVE IT

[ncblkking252]

awesome

[grenadejxmper]

this was amazing. i was completely like blowen away when i saw it in class.

--lauren h.

[thepig]

Where did the audio come from? I would like to find the source so I can get a copy for myself.

Funny, I always imagined a recitation in Standard American Stage Speech. Though the reading is excellent it makes the story English in my mind, where I have always felt the kingdom by the sea was in another world entirely.

[Laura3109]

Lovely rendition. But is this your voice?

[chzchica]

brilliant! but i already told you that cause i sit behind you XD

[chzchica]

brilliant! i already told you this cause i sit behind you lol

[Urgelt]

Haunting. I think you should give credits for music and narration, as a courtesy. More thoughts coming by letter.