Silence: A Fable

Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering story-poem. Inspired by Tom O'Bedlam's readings on the SpokenVerse channel, I tried to do this in one take, leaving in the mistakes. Thank you for listening.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Silence
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Poe
• skull
• Gordon Grice

[DeadlyKingdom]

What are your favorites? I'm big on "Alone" these days.

[avery9819]

I love this poem. Its one of my favorites :P

[DeadlyKingdom]

@avery9819 Me, too. I wish more people were aware of it.

[bertini51]

I love that poem, nice job :) 

[DeadlyKingdom]

@bertini51 Thank you!

[TheRisingforce2000]

is the skull real?it sure looks like it

[DeadlyKingdom]

@TheRisingforce2000 Thanks! I love that skull, but it’s totally fake. We started with a plastic anatomical model, which I ingeniously left in the back window of my car. The heat warped it so the bones wouldn’t fit together anymore. I thought it was a total loss, but an artist friend asked me to let him have a crack at it. He re-shaped it over heat and aged it with smoke and food dyes.

[avery9819]

@DeadlyKingdom I know! Most people only know The Raven by Poe which is pretty sad, because that's an amazing poem, but there is still better ones by him in my opinion.