Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen

Anthem for Doomed Youth

by

Wilfred Owen

read by

Alex Hayes

Category:

Education

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[WanderingWarg]

@WillShakespeare2007 Yes, I prefer this poem read in a more performative style, as in my version. But of course that does not mean I believe my reading abilities to be superior to Branagh's, such would be folly. Feel free to comment, all opinions are welcome, those from persons with such prestigious qualifications even more so!

[WillShakespeare2007]

@WanderingWarg You state on Branagh's version you "prefer" your version. What is you definition of "better". As I am the artistic director of the British Shakespeare Company I think I know a little about verse performance thank you. My opinion stands. If you do not want people to comment turn them off, and then you can continue to believe whatever you wish about your comparative abilities.

[WanderingWarg]

@WillShakespeare2007 Better than Branagh? Hardly. Merely more performative and dramatic, qualities which you see as "fake", as is entirely your right. Branagh plumbs depths of emotion I cannot hope to reach, whereas I revel in the surface detail.

[WillShakespeare2007]

You think this is better than Branagh? Sounds like you are doing "round the ragged rock." Forced illiteration on every line. Not awful just fake.