The Dead Chatty Poets' Society

[MTGuru]

This may be the most disturbing collection of videos I've ever seen:

http://www.youtube.com/user/poetryanimations

[Walden]

wow... umm...

[Jim Troy]

loved the Jabberwocky ! now , that was good ..

had a shaky , senior moment , when i heard the voice of T.S. Eliot .

but at least he sounded a little more like a living person , when compared to Billy Yeats , whose sepulcheral tones would bring even Chuck Norris to a stand still .

what i remember of recordings of Yeats reading his own work , was the chanted, dead , dread intoning , of a thousand years of memories , all piled into one short moment .

i'd be interested in hearing what other , ahem ... senior people think of the voices , original or not , in the vids .

and hey , hungry philosopher , thanks for the link .
well done ( even if you don't think so yourself )

[Innocent Bystander]

Hardy ended up with a "nevermore"!

Extremely creepy. The lip-synch is so bad I can't decide if that redeems it or makes it worse. No sock-puppets. That's a mercy.

[emmline]

Some of their mouth/cheek apparatuses appear to be operated by some sort of early 20th C. hydraulics.
A freak show indeed.

[izzarina]

If you don't look at the video (which I realise is supposed to be the point of the whole thing), it's actually very good. He even has Wilde, which is lovely But I can't watch the video...too weird.

[mutepointe]

Great Concept. Thanks. The only downsides:
1. I don't much like poetry.
2. I really don't like snooty British accents from previous centuries. Sylvia Plath was OK.

Something modern American that wasn't poetry would be great. Two heads doing a dialog, twice as good.

[izzarina]

1. I don't much like poetry.

What? I'm not understanding this...whatever does it mean????

[mutepointe]

I don't like poetry. Maybe it's just that all the poetry that I've ever been exposed to has sounded stilted, stuffy, self-absorbed, and too contrived. I like song lyrics. Lyrics sound more natural. I'm OK being unevolved on this issue. Maybe I'll get struck by lightning and I'll come to my senses or something.

[Agio]

Maybe I'll get struck by lightning and I'll come to my senses or something.

Your wish is my command:


Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---
success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind---

Emily Dickinson

[mutepointe]

It only took you 27 posts to throw a curse of poetry at me. I have your name. A few people will give you endearing love.

[Innocent Bystander]

I really don't like snooty British accents from previous centuries.

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him! The moment that he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him...

Still true down the ages and across continents.

[Walden]

Longfellow had about as much mouth movement this way || as that way=.

[dubhlinn]

I really don't like snooty British accents from previous centuries.

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him! The moment that he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him...

Still true down the ages and across continents.

So true Bro..so true.

Slan,
D.

[Nanohedron]

Longfellow had about as much mouth movement this way || as that way=.

Right. Yeats, too. Creepy. Creepy, and weird.