W.B. Yeats: 'The Fisherman' read by Jeremy Irons

[@DanielAvinashVOX]

Perfect read! Thanks for sharing!

[@RuaidhriOSioradain]

Wonderful Jeremy ,you capture the essence of the poem. You must have Celti blood in you!!

[@franksadlier100]

What a beautiful reading of this poem. I think W.B.himself would have responded, as he did on news of his Nobel award, "How much is this Irons chap going to pay me, and what is it worth!!

[@mtkelly]

Vulgarian, a disgrace with mind state Yeats despised

[@eugeneclasby518]

This is for “Gerry” below. You don’t make sense. I think you don’t know what a cadence is. You certainly don’t know apostrophes or their appropriate use. A display of ignorance like this is not a recommendation of your wit. I’m betting you never read a poem out loud for any audience anywhere. If you had you would have acknowledged this quite beautiful reading by Jeremy Irons.

[@gerrygrimes8689]

There’s a habit amongst poetry readers of imposing this curious mournful tone and misplaced lilt to poetry. No matter the poets intent or the readers interpretation, that cadence is employed. Then lauded, as automatically, by those who ‘enjoy that type of thing’. I wonder did Jeremy muse quietly about the psyche of a man near daily death yet who spurns the cloying sanctuary of small minds in a small village. And why. Or maybe his ‘one size fits all’ cadence is a comment of itself.

[@aclark903]

I think you would have objected if he had tried an Irish accent..?

[@gerrygrimes8689]

@@aclark903 why would you think accent is important?

[@aclark903]

@@gerrygrimes8689 Clearly Yeats read them himself in an Irish accent.

[@gerrygrimes8689]

@@aclark903 I’m sure he did. But why do you think accent is important?

[@mtkelly]

Not a good reading, Mr Irons does not seem to understand what he is reading, so disappointing