TS Eliot :: The Waste Land

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  • čas přidán 31. 07. 2024
  • "The Waste Land", by T.S. Eliot, is widely regarded as "one of the most important poems of the 20th century" and a central text in Modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and the mantra in the Sanskrit language "Shantih shantih shantih"
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Komentáře • 36

  • @timothypoulter8285
    @timothypoulter8285 Před rokem +8

    Though many others have recorded this ground breaking poem, none come close to hearing the voice of the poet himself. I have kept this recording close to me for over 40 years and I've never grown tired of it.

  • @carolinesawyer3066
    @carolinesawyer3066 Před 7 lety +41

    Contents:
    00:02 - I. The Burial of the Dead
    05:00 - II. A Game of Chess
    10:22 - III. The Fire Sermon
    18:15 - IV. Death by Water
    18:55 - V. What the Thunder Said
    Epigraph:
    "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: respondebat illa: Σιβυλλατι θελεις; respondebat illa: αποθανειν θελω."
    For Ezra Pound
    il miglior fabbro.

  • @redwatch.
    @redwatch. Před 8 lety +44

    Just what I wanted. Beautiful recording. Thanks. After hearing T.S. read his own poem--no other rendition is as good.

    • @t0xicbimb0
      @t0xicbimb0 Před 4 lety +3

      100%, we are blessed to have the technology to hear such a genius speak his own words.

    • @saimariaz5299
      @saimariaz5299 Před 3 lety +3

      Yes, we are very lucky that we can hear Waste Land in T.S Eliot's voice.

  • @1968KWT
    @1968KWT Před rokem +4

    The poem was published exactly 100 years ago in the October issue of _The Criterion_ #TheWasteLand100

  • @thewhobeat
    @thewhobeat Před 5 lety +6

    he is quite uptight during the first chant but it's very funny to hear him loosen up a bit by the middle of the second chant, even doing the drunken 'good nights'

  • @drshivmohanmishraabodhaeng1985

    Wonderful Experience to listen Eliot The great reading his own poem ! Thanks a lot you tube.

  • @t-virus7098
    @t-virus7098 Před rokem

    It’s genius, connecting to the sound of thunder and the message given. Truly, a work of art

  • @TheGroborg
    @TheGroborg Před 8 lety +8

    "Sibyl, what do you wish?" ... "I only wish death". Great poem! The more I read on the allusions the more I love it.

    • @MiataBRG
      @MiataBRG Před 2 lety +5

      The Greek is more simple, it translates to 'Sibyl, what do you want?', 'I want to die'.

  • @chinneths1
    @chinneths1 Před 9 lety +15

    much better than the different readers posts....

  • @drshivmohanmishraabodhaeng1985

    Great! Grand! Superb! I am enthralled, I am enchanted to listen Mr.Eliot's own voice.

  • @MrStevemur
    @MrStevemur Před 2 lety +2

    You’ve cleaned up the recording beautifully. The hiss is gone but he’s all there. Excellent

    • @TrojanHell
      @TrojanHell Před 2 lety

      And the warm crackle... Just perfect

  • @featherycoffee1401
    @featherycoffee1401 Před 2 lety +1

    His voice is so beautiful, especially combined with the lo fi recording quality. Amazing video all around. Thanks

  • @pbghosh5305
    @pbghosh5305 Před 9 lety +1

    wonderful experience to hear poet heart out with his lyrics!!!

  • @andrews527
    @andrews527 Před 6 lety +5

    Curious. Even to an American aware of Eliot's Anglophilia, these modernist lines have never sounded in the voice of an Oxford don. I should have known, however, that What the Thunder Said was meant for a High Church enunciation, though the minimal wording suggested dissipation. Interesting the clash between Eliot's ambitions and the reader's.

  • @Myers-ft6vm
    @Myers-ft6vm Před 4 lety +7

    The last stanza of this poem is the most beautiful use of language in all of literature.
    I sat upon the shore
    Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
    Shall I at least set my lands in order?
    London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down
    Poi s’ascose nel foco che gli affina
    Quando fiam uti chelidon-O swallow swallow
    Le Prince d’Aquitaine à la tour abolie
    These fragments I have shored against my ruins
    Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo’s mad againe.
    Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
    Shantih shantih shantih

  • @sanjaykc7087
    @sanjaykc7087 Před 8 lety +1

    Need more discussion about this poem.

  • @itzallai2397
    @itzallai2397 Před 3 lety +1

    I understand everything and nothing at the same time!

  • @BushyHairedStranger
    @BushyHairedStranger Před 3 lety +1

    Here comes April!

  • @the.sisyphus
    @the.sisyphus Před 2 lety +1

    HURRY UP PLEASE , ITS TIME!

  • @moicecibon4768
    @moicecibon4768 Před 5 lety

    Thank you

  • @MrMart1790
    @MrMart1790 Před 7 lety +1

    Exquisite

  • @planetburbidge2584
    @planetburbidge2584 Před 7 lety +2

    A flickering haunted cut-up

  • @user-yc6wv5wv7h
    @user-yc6wv5wv7h Před 4 lety

    7:55

  • @rajahya
    @rajahya Před 4 lety +8

    1 second ago
    April was our cruellest covid month full of death and isolation,stay at home,protect the NHS,SAVE LIVES said the hollow men who tested no one in care homes

  • @user-ct1nv1yb7n
    @user-ct1nv1yb7n Před 11 měsíci

    เขาอาจจะยิงเครื่องบิน f16ยิงโจมตีสนามบิน