William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree

A reading of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by the Nobel Prize Winning author himself. I owe the images of the gyre to a website whose link will be at the end of the description. So if you would like a further explanation of the gyre and what the images mean go ahead and visit them.

http://www.yeatsvision.com/Geometry.html

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• William
• Butler
• Yeats
• The
• Lake
• Isle
• of
• Innisfree
• poetry
• reading
• broadcast
• gyre
• nobel
• prize
• modern
• era

[Panini6Pedant]

It was many years that I first heard that it is a strange experience to hear Yeats reading his own poetry. Now, I find that it is strange, yes, but also fascinating, even inspiring. Thanks for the experience!

[OmegaRed9]

Thank you, I totally agree. Poetry is something that is meant to be heard and it is unfortunate that most poetry is never read by the author, so we need to revel in what little recordings we actually have.

[seraphimsigrist]

the reading is grand

the images do not seem to be the

ones wanted for this poem belonging

more to the michael robartes poems or

something.

[OmegaRed9]

I wanted to point out his spiritualistic imagery which is why I use the gyres so much. I also wanted to point out some of his eastern influence, hence the ying-yang.

[DCBadger]

Interesting, after hearing this I asked around, and is the reason for him having more of an official and british accent that the higher class folks in Ireland, in his time, spoke in a british accent?

Or is it just because he was raised in london for a little bit of his childhood?

By the way, thanks a lot, this is really cool.

[OmegaRed9]

Well, as is with most Irish poets, there is always the question of what language they should write in. Many choose to write in regional Celtic dialects to try and maintain a sense of national pride.  Yeats on the other hand wrote in English arguing that the Irish now own the English language and are its new masters.

[rrrorkk]

In response to some earlier comments yeats accent is more of an educated Irish accent rather than a british one. Not every Irish person says begorrah and top o the mornin to ye, in fact none of them do.

[malutka112]

This is read by Ezra Pound. I have readings of his Cantos. This is definitely that poet's voice. It's very characteristic.

[toReasonWhy]

@Littlecrake

Haha true, but that's the prosody every poet used then and even 50 years plus or minus. Listen to clips of Eliot, Pound, Whitman, any of them, they have individual idiosyncrasies but generally they shared the heavy melancholic, surging, annunciatory reading method.

[stevejobsaccount]

@Littlecrake

Troll post

[colinrabun]

i don't think you knew him well enough to call him willie.

[Littlecrake]

Thought proving, lovely imagery but hey Willie ya think you were reading from a horror movie script or the obituary pages!

[XxXSizzlershitXxX]

Most defiently the best spoken version of the best irish poem ever.Possibly the best line of a poem ''I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore'' is the best line in any poetry ever written

[NoRosesForMe]

He's the best. I still keep my old book of Yeats poems around. One of the few things from my childhood that meant so much.

Few others stay so close.

[FISHMYMAN]

he also spent his childhood in Ingerland, slough i think