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stonepicnicking_okapiAlas, we're coming to the end of poetry month!
My favourite poem is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. It has everything I like: rhythm and rhyme, image after image after image, so clever turns of phrases, references to other works of art, nails the beginning, nails the ending, and shines all the way through. Unrelenting art. Not a single word or line wasted.
And as a voice junkie, I prefer to hear it read by Eliot himself. When I hear him say, "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo," I get a shiver and my eyes start to tear, it so very beautiful and RIGHT. On the Youtubes, I listened to different versions: Anthony Hopkins (too fast and he sounds like one of those dudes from Shakespeare who wasn't very nice) and Jeremy Irons (better, but too slow and ACTING! and there was tinkly music in the background, no thank you!) but with Eliot's version I feel you hear what the poet himself heard in his inner ear when he wrote it.
My favourite poem is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. It has everything I like: rhythm and rhyme, image after image after image, so clever turns of phrases, references to other works of art, nails the beginning, nails the ending, and shines all the way through. Unrelenting art. Not a single word or line wasted.
And as a voice junkie, I prefer to hear it read by Eliot himself. When I hear him say, "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo," I get a shiver and my eyes start to tear, it so very beautiful and RIGHT. On the Youtubes, I listened to different versions: Anthony Hopkins (too fast and he sounds like one of those dudes from Shakespeare who wasn't very nice) and Jeremy Irons (better, but too slow and ACTING! and there was tinkly music in the background, no thank you!) but with Eliot's version I feel you hear what the poet himself heard in his inner ear when he wrote it.