Worlds Worst Poet - William Topaz McGonagall
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Here's a video I made years ago, but I thought I'd give it another show.
I wanted to bring to the world's attention;
the works of the World's Worst Poet who had little retention - William Topaz McGonagall, I have to mention.
Enjoy my recitation of McGonagall's famous accounting of 'The Tay Bridge Disaster', even though, as a reciter, I am no master.
#ScottishPoetry
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This reads like someone who only JUST discovered rhyming and thinks it's the best thing ever.
He believed rhyming was the only necessity to creating poetry.
McGonagall is such a treasure. I like the description I read once, where it's like he basically got it into his head that the *_ONLY_* salient feature of poetry is that it rhymes, and steadfastly ignored every single other possible feature. 🤣
On the topic of lesser-known Scottish poets, I quite love James Clerk Maxwell…yes, the third-greatest scientist of all time after Einstein and Newton also penned some _fantastic_ verses. (Including the only treatment of college-level physics in poetry I've ever seen done justice!)
This is a classic! love it, lol! 😂 he was right on one thing... that last day of 1879 WAS remembered for a very long time!
It never got the love I thought it deserved, John, so I've re-packaged it and put it back out :)
I remember Billy Connolly doing this on a tour of Scotland tv programme, it was snowing as he recalled this poem. You both do it justice Robert.
Thanks very much. Mine is not in the same class as the Big Yin's - of course! But it's still nice to be mentioned in the same sentence as him :)
Thanks for introducing me to this doggerel. From what I've read, he was pelted with eggs when reading his works. Some of his "fans " were ironic in their "appreciation ".
In the US in the 1940s there was a wealthy widow who fancied herself a concert singer. She ALSO had an ironic "fandom " among critics who attend her vanity recitals scarcely concealing their contempt. A recording of her work used to be available under the title "Florence Foster Jenkins: The Glory of the Human Voice?" A biopic was released starring Meryl Streep was released some years ago.
Perhaps someday we'll get a film of your poet.
And now I MUST watch that movie! ;)
Your reading of this epic poem on the sixth day of May twenty twenty three
Will, for a very long time, be celebrated by the awarding of a bachelor's degree.
Anon.
the locomotive was salvaged and fixed up - it got the nickname 'the diver'!
Excellent! Thanks for the info, martin :)
I just saw this. Now my world is complete having been introduced to William Topaz McGonagall 🤣. I looked him up and I think I found the problem. I found this:
"McGonagall was not the first and certainly not the last of a long line of “Scottish bad poets”. Born in 1825, we know precious little about his early life as he appears to have faked his birthplace as Edinburgh when it is more probable that his Irish parents brought him to Scotland as a youngster. " So maybe, just maybe, he was not a proper Scottsman to begin with. Just sayin...😗
Best reading ever!
I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. This is golden! Sir you read it so well, thank you :) A new sub!
Thanks so much! Don't miss McGonagall's classic on Applying to Queen Victoria for the 'job' of Poet Laureate here: czcams.com/video/VXg4D_mk0JM/video.html
@@WindsweptRobert Oh, yes! I started laughing already, I'm going to watch it right now! Thank you so much! XD
Outstanding reading! Hilarious ending lol
LOL great reading Robert, was laughing all the way through LOL
Gotta love me some McGonagall!
Scottish ASMR. 😂 ❤️ Need to find some Scottish audiobooks! This is very calming, plus baaagpipes. 🙏🏼
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@@WindsweptRobert oh thank you kindly! 🙏🏼☀️💫
hahaha I do love him so. Good effort for laughing so little. It's a right bugger to read out loud. I've tried it and never got to the end
Here's the tale of when he applied for the 'job' of Poet Laureate! czcams.com/video/VXg4D_mk0JM/video.html
Windswept Robert loved McGonagall’s verse, But others thought it was quite perverse. They wanted him to read something more grand, Like “The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck” at hand.
But Robert was stubborn and refused to change, He’d read what he liked, no matter how strange. He’d sit in his chair, with a book in his hand, And read McGonagall’s poems so grand.
The wind would blow through his hair so wild, As he read of the Maid of the Mountains so mild. He’d laugh and he’d cry at each silly rhyme, And think to himself, “I’m having a good time.”
So let us all learn from Windswept Robert, And read what we like, no matter how odd. For poetry is meant to bring us joy, And that’s something we should never destroy.
Now, don't blame me for that effort, it was Chat GPT! ;-)
It was better than McGonagall - but no' as funny!
@@WindsweptRobert Hehe! Agreed, and I don't think we'll be talking about Chat GPT's one in 150 years time!
Haggis and a wee dram of Balvenie double wood 12 required...ohh my ears 😂
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oo nice!
We read this every night on our Burns Supper. LOL
The poems of McGonagall just dinny sound right, Most would say they were a pile o S**t* . But you're reading of it Robert has given it Justice 🙂
I love the story of how he hiked all the way to Balmoral, over some extremely rough terrain (just like me on ma odyssey over (Aird's Moss) and when he finally arrived - half deid, he demanded to see the Queen so that he could apply for the job as Poet Laureate! I think I mention this in my other McGonagall recitation linked at the end of this video.
A little Scottish history for this American boy and some interesting poetry as well.
"interesting" is a way to describe it, for sure! :)
@@WindsweptRobert The only poet to ever hold my interest was Edgar Allan Poe. 🤣🤣🤣
Dark!
@@WindsweptRobert I was in the 4th grade (year 5 UK) when our teacher introduced us to Poe's Tell-tale Heart. It was shortly after that I discovered Stephen King. 🤣🤣
I was a huge Stephen King fan and had read everything he had published - including the Bachman books. I particularly enjoyed his collaboration with Peter Straub to produce 'The Talisman'. I kinda fell away from him when he produced the Dark Tower series. I struggled through the Gunslinger, but it just couldn't keep my interest. I never did finish that series and I haven't read any Stephen King since then :(
Cheers 😎🤝
Cheers right back! 🙃😉👓
😂
Better than Burns Rab... At least it doesn't need translation for the non Scots ears.
In the description of the video, I've tried to emulate McGonagall ;)
And not a drone in sight !!!!
I think there was one flying right close to the train and that's what distracted the driver, causing him to jerk the steering wheel to the left and plunge the train into the silvery Tay.
I don't think it's the poet's fault you messed that up.
What did I mess up?
That poem of McGonagall's
Was actually a load of b.....
At least it made a laugh about a terrible even.
Buried in greyfriars cemetery in Edinburgh. In yonder field there stood a coo it moved awa it’s no there noo.
😂