Ode to the West Wind
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- čas přidán 5. 12. 2015
- Poet and spoken-word artist Jack Ramey brings to life Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind," which he wrote in Florence after a walk through the woods that skirt the Arno River during a fierce wind and rain and hail storm. The physical storm and its metaphorical possibilities excited his great poetic imagination, and he went home and this poem literally poured out of him. The violence in the transition of the seasons from autumn into winter is seen as a revolutionary act that will benefit mankind in the coming peace of a symbolic spring.
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Beautiful rendering. Few can give voice to the words in the poem. Thanks
The best thing one can find on the internet regarding Shelly's ode to the west wind.
Wonderfully modulated, meditative yet impassioned reading of this majestically wild apostrophic poem.
Appreciate your explanation on this fascinating poem. Love your reading!
I love your way of reciting, love you
A beautiful reading of a beautiful poem.
that was such a mesmerizing performance. thank you for sharing.
Amazingly read out.
Wonderful!
Marvelous !
Such a beautiful reading, thank you very much for sharing. I find the tone and message of the poem invigorating, and I think you expressed that feeling perfectly.
I also think that you pointed out some important facts in your introduction. Percy Shelley was indeed one of the few of his contemporaries to recognize and acknowledge Keats' poetic genius, and he was furious at the way critics had treated his work. Some people in the literary establishment continued to dismiss Keats long after his death. Even W. B. Yeats scornfully dismissed him as a stablekeeper's son, and he was born more than two generations after Keats.
It's also very true what you said about Shelley's concept of "communing with the divine spirit" present in nature. Although he was politically a radical and famously got himself expelled from Oxford for writing a pamphlet "On the Necessity of Atheism", I think it's quite clear from his writing that he saw the divine as a force at work within nature, and quite possibly as a force inseparable from or even identifiable with nature itself. A force of which humans are very much a part of.
It's really amezing👌👌👌
Wonderful reading. I love how you change the dynamics of your voice to capture the ebb and flow of the whooshing wind throughout the verse.
Loved your rendition of poem
Beautiful 🤗🤗
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and this Vid
Thank you thank you a lot for sharing
I've watched all the videos in the channel. Some, several times over. I would love to take all of my English literature classes from you, please and thank you.
Beautifully described and dramatically performed. Thank You.
Brilliant recitation! Thank you.
Thank you
love ur tone!
Maybe he wrote it when he was in Pisa, he lived in Pisa and loved the San Rossore Park. He often visited the pine forest with Byron.
Lovely
Thank you for your sensitive appreciation of Shelley
My appreciation for your most adequate reading is muted only by my inability to explain to you how terribly terribly heavy all other readings were and how they made these words fall as lifeless bricks to my sorely disappointed ears ....I thank you as best I know for your passion is to my ears most enjoyable...
wundershone
I wanna know what is the two mood on this poem..its hard to analyze and im not into poetry or cant understand english that well..
wundershun
Entschuldigung -- wenn a me nird bis zur rage ärgern meissad, dann kannte moz lacha.
Hätte nicht gedacht, dass es nicht noch viel schlechter auch geht als hier vorgeführtt. Tuts aber. Danke immerhin für die erhellende Einführung.
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