TS Eliot :: The Waste Land

[@ian87294]

I played this at full volume in the warehouse last night after everyone had gone home. As the lights timed out and switched off Eliot's voice filled the darkness. It was the best part of the whole shitty fucking day.

[@timothypoulter8285]

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]

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.]

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

[@t0xicbimb0]

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

[@saimariaz5299]

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

[@MrStevemur]

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

[@TrojanHell]

And the warm crackle... Just perfect

[@t-virus7098]

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

[@featherycoffee1401]

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

[@1968KWT]

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

[@drshivmohanmishraabodhaeng1985]

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

[@drshivmohanmishraabodhaeng1985]

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

[@thewhobeat]

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'

[@TheGroborg]

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

[@MiataBRG]

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

[@CesiDami]

From Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon book

[@chinneths1]

much better than the different readers posts....

[@Myers-ft6vm]

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

[@pkchoudhary1675]

Exactly! These lines are simply just remarkable

[@mellonclarinet4303]

I dont understand it

[@suqma]

​@@mellonclarinet4303me neither bro

[@pbghosh5305]

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

[@andrews527]

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.

[@sanjaykc7087]

Need more discussion about this poem.

[@itzallai2397]

I understand everything and nothing at the same time!

[@the.sisyphus]

HURRY UP PLEASE , ITS TIME!

[@BushyHairedStranger]

Here comes April!

[@MrMart1790]

Exquisite

[@planetburbidge2584]

A flickering haunted cut-up

[@moicecibon4768]

Thank you

[@rajahya]

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-yc6wv5wv7h]

7:55

[@มดดํา-ภ5ต]

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