John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn

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Uploaded by on Dec 13, 2008

My recital of John Keats' 1819 poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

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  • You have to sound more enthusiastic when you recite poetry. You sound like Ben Stein!

  • You're right.....I was just happy to articulate every syllable...say each word properly. It's hard to get through without a flub and I intentionally left out the histrionics or interpretation so it's more educationally neutral. A literal delivery on my part. Let's here your interpretation; a video response?

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  • Great poetry but you are taking away my soul with the lack of enthusiasm!

  • As Thomas De Quincey notes in The Confessions of an English Opium Eater, "Wordsworth by the bye is the only poet I ever met who could read his own verses: often he reads admirably." Literature is dialectical, it requires a reader to turn the half truth into art, therefore reading is as subtly nuanced as writing itself. We do not expect it of ourselves to compose texts as magnificent as Keats', so we should not pressure ourselves to read it so. To read is enough. Good on you old bean.

  • the syllable structure is important, your right!

    But just try to imagine what your speaking about in the poem when your reciting it. I'd love to put my version up, but i need a microphone! haha

    it was good =) easy to follow.

    cheers.

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