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A reading of the poem by Robert W. Service (Jan. 16, 1874 - Sept. 11, 1958).
Most people reading this poem treat it as li...
[UPDATE: I'm not accepting video responses to this video. Sorry folks.]
A reading of the poem by Robert W. Service (Jan. 16, 1874 - Sept. 11, 1958).
Most people reading this poem treat it as lightweight fare, a funny parody of a horror story. Service probably intended it that way.
But for my own amusement, and as a gesture towards Halloween, I've attempted to reinterpret the poem as genuine horror. It wasn't easy! The climactic stanza is hilarious, not scary. I'll rely on you folks to tell me if I succeeded.
Once again, folks who like their poems read as though they were songs, adhering tightly to their rhythmic structure, will be disappointed. I don't read poems that way very often.
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I post your vid every Christmas. Love Robert Service and you did a GREAT job on this one. I did it in grade school for public speaking. I wish I could have heard your version at the time...Oh, that was pre-home computer and pre-internet.
A 70 year old hunting buddy would recite this too us every year at the camp. Great memory. He had to memorize it in school back in the dai...say 1950? Love it.
I memorized this poem in 1958 when I was a fifth grader in Fort Greeley, Alaska....this was soooo much better than my reading of it and just brought back wonderful, cold memories of nights of 70 below and warm fires and fine friends.
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well done.
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