The Dead -- Billy Collins Animated Poetry

Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem "The Dead" with animation by Juan Delcan of Spontaneous.

Noted for their intelligent humor, accessibility and observations on daily life, Collins' popular poems come alive further in a series of animated poems produced by JWT New York.

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The Poem - The dead are always looking down on us, they say, while we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich, they are looking down through the glass-bottom boats, of heaven as they row themselves slowly through eternity. They watch the tops of our heads moving below on earth, And when we lie down in a field or on a couch, Drugged perhaps by the hum of a warm afternoon, They think we are looking back at them, which makes them lift their oars and fall silent and wait, like parents, for us to close our eyes.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• poet
• laureat
• poetry
• Billy
• Collins
• animation
• JWT
• NY

[ilovebobthecat]

loved

[havard12345]

i have tried this type of drawing but i cant get it that good. NICE work

[themange59]

You sir are very wrong.

[blazedshuriken]

Not a very good poet

[hardstreetbambi]

oh efex2007.

[efex2007]

This is the democratic armed peace, or today they'll walk into your garden and pick a flower, tomorrow they'll call you a little pretentious, . . .

[hardstreetbambi]

the democratic don't attack.

[efex2007]

Art may be free of constraints (just as jazz seems to be, in comparison to classical music), but it is still more certain that there must be freedom for art criticism.

The democratic attack the art they don't like, while the fascists attack the ones who don't like the same art they do.

[hardstreetbambi]

and you're a little pretentious. beauty is beauty, art is art, it doesn't need a set and structure.

[buzz20987]

Beautiful animation. So simple but yet so effect! It really draws the viewer in. I have tried this effect with my 'Talent' hand drawn animation.