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[View \| Download]	William Shakespeare "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" Poem Animation By poetryanimations Heres a virtual movie of the great William Shakespeare reading perhaps his most romantic sonnet "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?". William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist.[1] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays,[b] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. William Shakespeares eighteenth sonnet, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day?, is perhaps Shakespeares most famous sonnet of his whole complete works of one hundred and fifty-four. Shakespeares Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day is an intriguing sonnet that, though still comparing the beloved subject of the sonnet to a Summers Day, still finds its greatest virtue in the final two lines of the sonnet; the gift of immortality through Shakespeares written word. By concluding Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day with the fateful couplet that he so chose, it may be argued that, though, yes, Shakespeare was comparing his subject to a Summers Day, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day is a proverbial work on literary immortality. William Shakespeares Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day? opens with a four line stanza, or quatrain, with the first two lines, Shall I compare thee to a summers day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: (1-2), introducing the general premise of the sonnet; that his subject is, in many ways, far better than a summers day. Shakespeares subject is, as he describes, more lovely and more temperate (2); his subject being more beautiful and significantly more balanced or emotionally stable than the harsh extremes of a temperamental English summer. Kind Regards Jim Clark All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2009 SONNET XVIII SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMERS DAY? Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. (William Shakespeare, 1609) Tags: 18, animation, donne, dowson, james, keats, poem, poeme, poesie, poet, poetry, raleigh, rossetti, shakespeare, shirley, sonnet, thomas, walter, wyatt 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Walter De La Mare "The Listeners" Poem Animation By poetryanimations Heres a virtual movie of the celebrated British poet ans author Walter De La Mare (1873-1956)Reading his most loved poem "The Listeners" Walter de la Mare was born in Kent in 1873 and educated at St Pauls Cathedral Choir School. At the age of sixteen he began work in the Anglo-American oil company, where he remained for twenty years. In 1899 he married Elfie Ingpen, a woman some years his senior. Writing under the pseudonym Walter Ramal he published Songs of Childhood (1902), a volume that reveals his particular talent as a childrens writer. This he followed with Peacock Pie (1913) which remains to this day a well-known collection for children. Songs of Childhood and Peacock Pie emphasise the darker side of childhood, with recurrent strains of sadness, loss and cruelty. In his early poetry for adults, The Listeners (1912) and Motley (1918), de la Mare established the themes that typified his work in ensuing years: dreams, memory, vacancy, transience. There is a recurrent sense of ghostly presence, with strong tones of faerie and folklore. Few of his poems refer directly to events, people and places, and it is de la Mares ostensible divorce from social actuality that has probably led to his lengthy neglect. In his own time, however, this fey quality was viewed more positively, with early critics such as Middleton Murry and Forrest Reid valuing de la Mare for maintaining a hint of the magical in the midst of modernity. At the same time he was greatly admired for his virtuosity in traditional verse forms. His fluent but conventional prosody leads to a lyrical, song-like pitch that is deeply suited to his unashamedly romantic content. A friend of non-Modernistic English poets such as Newbolt, Edward Thomas, Wilfrid Gibson and Rupert Brooke, and contributor to Edward Marshs Georgian Poetry collections, de la Mares reputation is popular rather than academic. Several of his poems The Listeners, Arabia and The Mocking Fairy are frequently anthologised. Kind Regards Jim Clark All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2008 The Listeners (1912) "Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grass Of the forest's ferny floor; And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller's head: And he smote upon the door again a second time; "Is there anybody there?" he said. But no one descended to the Traveller; No head from the leaf-fringed sill Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes, Where he stood perplexed and still. But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight To that voice from the world of men: Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair, That goes down to the empty hall, Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller's call. And he felt in his heart their strangeness, Their stillness answering his cry, While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf, 'Neath the starred and leafy sky; For he suddenly smote on the door, even Louder, and lifted his head:— "Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone. Tags: animation, baudelaire, brooke, carrol, de, eliot, henry, la, lewis, mare, newbolt, poem, poet, poetry, rossetti, rupert, ts 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Walt Whitman "O Captain! My Captain!" Poem Animation Movie By poetryanimations Heres a virtual movie of the great Walt Whitman reading his celebrated poem "O Captain! My Captain!" Walt Whitman (1819-1892) wrote this dirge for the death of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Published to immediate acclaim in the New York City Saturday Press, "O Captain! My Captain!" was widely anthologized during his lifetime. In the 1880s, when Whitman gave public lectures and readings, he was asked to recite the poem so often that he said: "I'm almost sorry I ever wrote [it]," though it had "certain emotional immediate reasons for being." While Whitman is renowned as the most innovative of American poets, this poem is a rare example of his use of rhymed, rhythmically regular verse, which serves to create a somber yet exalted effect. Whitman had envisioned Lincoln as an archangel captain, and reportedly dreamed the night before the assassination about a ship entering harbor under full sail. Restlessly creative, Whitman was still revising "O Captain! My Captain!" decades after its creation. Pictured here is a proof sheet of the poem, with his corrections, which was readied for publication in 1888. The editors apparently had erred by picking up earlier versions of punctuation and whole lines that had appeared in the poem prior to Whitman's 1871 revision. On the back is written: Dear Sirs Thank you for the little books, No. 32 "Riverside Literature Series" --Somehow you have got a couple of bad perversions in "O Captain," & I send you a corrected sheet-- Walt Whitman Kind Regards Jim Clark All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2008 "O Captain! My Captain!"............ O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring: But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills; For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding; For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head; It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. Tags: abraham, alan, animation, crane, dickinson, emily, henley, john, kipling, lincoln, longfellow, mccrae, owen, poe, poem, poet, poetry, raven, riley, rossetti, sassoon, seeger, stephen, walt, we, whitcomb, whitman, wilfred, wyatt 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	16° Rally dell'Adriatico 2009 - PS Cingoli - 2° Parte By n2of15 Rally Adriatico 2009 super200 Show Traversi Peugeot 207 Fiat Abarth Luca Rossetti Paolo Andreucci Alex Raschi Simone Campedelli mistubishi group n4 Campionato Italiano Umberto Scandola Terra Drift Andrea Navarra subaru clio R3 Mauro Trentin s2000 Motors Cars Auto Spettacolo Tags: 2009, 207, 2°, abarth, adriatico, alex, andrea, andreucci, auto, campedelli, campionato, cars, clio, drift, fiat, group, italiano, luca, mauro, mistubishi, motors, n4, navarra, paolo, parte, peugeot, r3, rally, raschi, rossetti, s2000, scandola, show, simone, spettacolo, subaru, super200, terra, traversi, trentin, umberto 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)