I understand Prufrock more and more the older I get...which terrifies me.
@TorontoIam
8 жыл бұрын
+SwitcherooU Well said.
@amandela55
8 жыл бұрын
Isn't that the point, my friend?
@billhaywood3503
5 жыл бұрын
yes
@bab008
4 жыл бұрын
I first heard it at 16...now many years ago. I appreciate it more each year. Dang that footman!
@JeffreyGillespie
4 жыл бұрын
That's a good sign. Don't worry about it.
@heyheytaytay
6 жыл бұрын
"I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas." Still my favorite line. It's the lowest point of Prufrock's sad realization of his life and anxieties.
@singram
4 жыл бұрын
I love that that line also. But for me "I do not think that they will sing to me." always leaves me in tears
@markpolop5171
4 жыл бұрын
It hits me hard
@asbestosbunny
3 жыл бұрын
I discovered this poem after watching this movie The Lobster and that line to me symbolizes solitude, although a self-imposed one. (In the movie, The Lobster, the protagonist enrolls himself into a dating hotel, where they are matched based on a pre-profile questionnaire and other things, not on love. If they fail to find love in the 2 weeks or so they are allowed there, they turn into an animal. He chooses Lobster, so he can travel alone on the sea floor. And because they are “blue blooded”)
@DarkAngelEU
2 жыл бұрын
@@asbestosbunny He doesn't enroll himself, he's forced to attend the program after his wife leaves him for someone else. The movie implies being single is illegal in this society, as evident when they go shopping in the city and have to pretend to be couples or they will get arrested.
@JiMMY-my1ds
Жыл бұрын
@@singram great line 💯
@JoachimderZweite
5 жыл бұрын
I love to wander through this poem over and over again without any great depth of understanding but enjoying the images which are sometimes ruthless and sometimes comforting. As I grow older some parts seem prophetic and as I remember, some parts are unbearably sad. I love great poetry like a dragon loves its hoard and like the dragon there is never enough. When I was a young stupid boy I did not like this poet but that boy was killed.
@tangoseven70
11 жыл бұрын
I like the pacing, direct, to the point, not too self indulgent. Hopkins beautifully captures the resigned sadness of the poem's speaker. One of the best readings of a poem on youtube, in my opinion.
@alishanicole3887
3 жыл бұрын
To prepare a face to meet the faces you meet... We do that every day. This poem has been my favorite since college and I look forward to teaching it to my AP students every year.
@joseph-zoramcbride4029
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love that line. No interpretation required.
@Whatsinmypocket
5 жыл бұрын
It's a terrible feeling when every word of this poem strikes you with clarity and you know them to be true and happening.
@aw8585
3 жыл бұрын
Yes. He gets it. He understands this poem.
@artieash6671
2 жыл бұрын
22 years old when he wrote it. 22. Think of that.
@sumasuma20082008
9 жыл бұрын
Anthony Hopkins has by far the finest voice. I have heard reading. Prufrock. The more. I hear it the more. I'm convinced it's the reading that's the one for me. S
@theantracist
11 жыл бұрын
Excellent! The exact type of voice that is in my head when I read this poem.
@Dontevenaskmebro
3 жыл бұрын
The way Hopkins orates that last line gives me goosebumps
@joseph-zoramcbride4029
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah that line has stuck with me since i found this poem at 17. Such a haunting inescapable conclusion. He's got those opening and closing lines down pat. lol
@Ithinkimaybealesbian
9 жыл бұрын
I believe he speaks in a rapid verse because that would mirror the fast pace that life takes toward the inevitable conclude."My life had crawled past me till I looked up and it was over!".Our longevity is so often interrupted by death.
@patrickbrowne9308
3 жыл бұрын
This bloke has lived and noted in poetry the truth that people live...and it is a thing of beauty.
@OmnivorousReader
4 жыл бұрын
whew! that was one heart stopping '...I do not think that they will sing to me.' "....till human voices wake us and we drown."
@trevorbailey1486
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this impressive reading. To my ear, Hopkins strikes the right note of anxious melancholy. He becomes Pufrock, & leads me to that overwhelming question time & time again.
@thepalantir7321
7 жыл бұрын
Perhaps one could argue that Hopkins' rather fast speed in reading is reflective of the very theme of time itself within the poem. Time passes by quickly and without mercy. You can't take a time out or ask for temporary respite from time like Prufrock tries. Before you know it, much like Prufrock, you find that everything has ended before you even knew it. So in a way, Anthony Hopkins' delivery may have been quite purposeful in drawing greater emphasis to the irony of Prufrock's claims that "there will be time" when really, in his heart he knows that that's just an excuse. Any way, that's how I look at it personally.
@letinhsong8024
5 жыл бұрын
maybe it was purposeful, but I did not like it at all. I felt he murdered this poem. It did get bet further on, when he slowed down.
@christinedidur364
5 жыл бұрын
agreed.
@user-ru3qw9of3w
4 жыл бұрын
I can't agree with u more
@tylerd541
4 жыл бұрын
I can't disagree with all of you more!
@the-blackbird1534
4 жыл бұрын
Damn it felt like u pinned it
@EVAAGUILERA1
7 жыл бұрын
hearing him read my favorite poem it sent shivered to my spine...
@jamestown8398
6 жыл бұрын
I agree. This poem resonates to my core. Sometimes I still find myself repeating a few of the lines of it when I'm walking alone on cold days.
@jamestown8398
6 жыл бұрын
+Torretta13 Where did that hostility come from? We were just saying how we like the poem. Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed today?
@massiwilliams6458
5 жыл бұрын
Eva T Silva weak ass poem #fuckscho9l
@threeletteragent
4 жыл бұрын
A woman could never truly understand this poem
@andrewtucker94
4 жыл бұрын
Misogynist trolls (probably the same one with several accounts), you aren't welcome.
@anishabanerjee8049
10 жыл бұрын
The inconsequential nature of human pursuits and life. Couldn't have been explained better. Our words can stand nowhere close to explaining what Sir Eliot put forth so beautifully in words.
@deroconnor4621
3 жыл бұрын
A truly great poem, one that everyone should reflect on before it's too late.
@polorolo3690
9 жыл бұрын
This is so perfect...he really captures the anxiety of this poem. LOVEIT
@fresuf2
10 жыл бұрын
My take is that Eliot, who was also a playwright, has created a dramatic character who is brimming over with bitter resentments and disappointments, and who is in a hurry to tell us about them. The quick pace also suggests that time is rushing by Prufrock, though at certain points Hopkins slows down to catch the underlying sadness. Perhaps we've become so used to elegaic readings of almost all poetry that we fail to see the poem's dramatic core, which Hopkins' fine reading reveals.
@JayVBear45
3 жыл бұрын
It's actually a comedy of manners in an age when manners were seen to the door and handed its hat. Getting ever closer to the middle of the 20th century and the end of the world as we know it. Do you feel fine?
@EnyawtheGreat
11 жыл бұрын
I have to listen to this poem/ reading at least twice a day. I think Eliot knew something profound and deep that he just gives us hints about in Prufrock. Blows my mind what words can do!! Blows my mind that he was only 22 when he wrote this!!!
@peecee1384
2 ай бұрын
22? Really!? Wow.
@peecee1384
2 ай бұрын
Studied this at school when I was 15... 40 years later am hearing it again. Brings back a lot of memories....
@bigjimswafflehouse
8 жыл бұрын
"Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse" Words which I live by.
@jamestown8398
6 жыл бұрын
"At times, indeed, almost ridiculous- Almost, at times, the Fool." Yes, words for the human experience.
@rojh9351
5 жыл бұрын
Specifically Polonius, but yes, a common manner of behaviour.
@Hepi-px3pl
9 жыл бұрын
Love the imagery - so many favourite lines.
@jamestown8398
6 жыл бұрын
This is by far my favorite poem, resonating with me and filling me with dread and sorrow all at once. I think Hopkins did a good job reading this; I can hear the weariness in his voice.
@patrickbrowne9308
2 жыл бұрын
This reading is as good as it gets... beautiful .. I love this voice
@jtaylor5966
5 ай бұрын
Thank you for the Eliot's poem, spoken by Anthony. Beautifully spoken and captures the eulogy of life and death.
@rgaleny
11 жыл бұрын
He seems to say, "I get no respect," "Where is the sacred," "Where is a euphoric moment?" "I fear my mortality." "I make no connections with people." "I am Mediocre, I must live with it."
@PuchiPagan
4 жыл бұрын
I love this comment. Thank you :)
@ruthgawler6955
3 жыл бұрын
yes, well put
@alishanicole3887
3 жыл бұрын
And he realizes how truly inept he is...well done, Robert!
@ChrisProfrock
9 жыл бұрын
I first heard this poem from my 7th grade English teacher. The first time he did attendance for the class when he got to my name he started reciting the poem, I was completely confused until he explained the poem to me and since then I have loved it. It really makes me wonder if J Alfred Prufrock was a real person and if there could somehow be a relation if he was.
@LexyconDevil
12 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. One of my favorite poems and the perfect voice to recite it.
@rebeccab1711
6 жыл бұрын
I love Mr. Hopkins! His voice is so relaxing!
@lexigeorgiou1786
5 жыл бұрын
I thought it was a bit too fast until I heard it a second time...eyes shut laying on the sofa. I then realised the tone and mood was perfect...slowing down when necessary. It is after all a reflective poem so one's speed of thought is generally rather fast...therefore the pace was pretty accurate...he is after all Prufrock and Prufrock I feel would have been thinking at a fairly rapid pace, reflecting on what may or should have been....
@mynewphone2013
2 жыл бұрын
"I've seen the moment of my greatness flicker" is my favourite part
@Summerxox2002
3 жыл бұрын
This poem really embodies the dread and anxiety of holidays with my judgemental family. Had to read it for class and I’ve read it like 10 times now and it just hits me every time. Love literature that evokes emotion.
@EthanMarkMusic
9 жыл бұрын
You can feel his regret in the final lines. Wonderful reading.
@buzzawuzza3743
5 жыл бұрын
Never heard it read so quickly before but his voice is so expressive
@teddyferdinan3193
4 жыл бұрын
I had no idea this existed! Anthony Hopkins is my favorite actor and perhaps even my favorite person, and I can't sleep at night and just randomly think, hey maybe he has ever read a book or something. This is awesome!
@gommel8780
8 жыл бұрын
wonderfully read. Thank you Debbie.
@kategarrett2097
3 жыл бұрын
This poem is a shock to the system, and Hopkins’ perception is quite breathtaking !
@aayush7645
3 жыл бұрын
The mental image of George Costanza comes to mind each time I have read it since my English Major days
@Biosynchro
2 жыл бұрын
You know, that actually works.
@aayush7645
2 жыл бұрын
@@Biosynchro somebody should make a video of Costanza's shots synced to the poem
@edoardotrabucchi1648
4 жыл бұрын
absolutely my favourite poem in English language, and probably one of my favourite in general. Eliot was a genius
@markpolop5171
4 жыл бұрын
Edoardo Trabucchi took him 10 years to complete. His writing is so rich.
@roseleenism1
4 жыл бұрын
Read beautifully in the main, but in parts to fast and yet still beautiful. Always beautiful.
@marianneritavanvliet4554
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing poetry
@imjusthere182
11 жыл бұрын
This poem.... WOW!
@geekymetalhead5112
8 жыл бұрын
Id listen to a podcast of this Guy.
@shadrach6299
4 жыл бұрын
This was my favorite poem in college. When my son was in college, this his favorite poem. What a coincidence! He wrote this poem at 19.
@JoeWoodStL1
3 жыл бұрын
I find myself crying at the end, even tho I almost know it by heart.
@wolffang489
5 жыл бұрын
I love these Hopkins readings.
@Davidporterse1
12 жыл бұрын
This is amazing thankyou, I also think it's perfect!
@draft1643
3 жыл бұрын
i had to play @ .75x, and it made all the difference
@bossendenwoodconvict
11 жыл бұрын
The pace is just right (for me!)
@F4collector
7 жыл бұрын
thanks for posting - i really enjoyed listening Tom (F4collector)
@belchtopturtledown
12 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I had read this to myself before, but other than the ending where the mermaids come into it and the brief line about spoons I was not able to sail through the entire sea of words and feel each one until hearing it now. Thank you for sharing this.
@FluturashDaniela
11 жыл бұрын
Among my favorite TS Eliot poems, along with Ash-Thursday and the Hollow Men. Love how Anthony reads it. I read it like that too, beacuse I like to read it aloud a lot!!! Poetry is such a necessary pang in our hearts. :)
@aevogultimate6908
7 жыл бұрын
absolutely perfect
@craigrichardson1196
4 жыл бұрын
My first and favourite poem I've listened to
@jeffreywebb7932
4 ай бұрын
A masterpiece
@writersblock26
12 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this, gloritarendon.
@GarnetJoker
11 жыл бұрын
TS Eliot's own belief was that once he composed his poem, it was its own living organism. It would be free to be interpreted by its readers. A poem can mean anything it wants. Although Hopkins does read it quickly, in his own way, he probably interprets it differently than others. That's how Eliot intended it to be. I believe that it's only respectful to go on that belief. :) Everyone has their own way of reading it.
@danieltodd1750
Жыл бұрын
It's a masterpiece
@AlexLoveTwilight
12 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! Prefect! I can't believe. :OOO
@JiMMY-my1ds
5 жыл бұрын
This may be the greatest piece of literature ever written. It’s seems to follow me - haunt me.
@jimnewcombe7584
Жыл бұрын
I could think of a 100 better.
@JiMMY-my1ds
Жыл бұрын
@@jimnewcombe7584 Okay. Go ahead. List 100 better. I’ll wait 🙄
@jimnewcombe7584
Жыл бұрын
@@JiMMY-my1ds Well, it wouldn't be difficult (time permitting) to list 500. To claim something as "the greatest piece of literature ever written" suggests that you've at least read all of Homer, Dante, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Euripides, Tolstoy, Chaucer, Aeschylus, etc, and for some reason I'm suspecting you haven't. Even sticking to poetry alone it would be easy. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is neither a song nor about love, and seems to be written from the vantage point of a procrastinator who gets hung up on domestic banalities like "Do I dare eat a peach?" and wondering how to wear his trousers. The man clearly wears his collar tight and is vacuous. The reading of the poem here is very fine, and the poem itself is original, though I can't help disliking the speaker. He himself admits he's less than a full crab.
@JiMMY-my1ds
Жыл бұрын
@@jimnewcombe7584 ahh I see what this is… you fancy yourself a bit of a literary buff and need to shit on others enjoyment of Prufrock to affirm your ‘superior’ knowledge and stroke your ego. What a joke. No doubt you sit round with ‘friends’ probably drinking wine and cheese reciting your favourite poems. Patting each other on the back. Stop with the wank. You have no way of providing any evidence that Prufrock is any worse than anything you’ve listed. Pretentious git. I’m still waiting on you 100 ‘better’ pieces.. or is it 500 now?🙄
@jeananstie
2 жыл бұрын
"Let us go then" ... but where and why and how long shall we go there and what happens when we finish? Such a moving poem read by such a wonderful man.
@gailpinto9379
7 жыл бұрын
Omg... His voice.
@themadwhistler
12 жыл бұрын
I want him to read me bedtime stories
@sootzbitz7770
4 жыл бұрын
Hmmm thats Hannibal Lecter ...
@tapplos
8 жыл бұрын
Do you talk of Michelangelo, Clarisse?
@geekymetalhead5112
8 жыл бұрын
Ever heard of the Ninja Turtles Clarrice?
@briancrocker3377
7 жыл бұрын
I ate his liver with some pizza, Clarice.
@99tubalcain
7 жыл бұрын
Have the ragged claws stopped scuttling, Clarisse?
@AndysamBlack
3 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@Ithinkimaybealesbian
Жыл бұрын
I often revisit our visits, these previous doubts of mine,. Where I had little experience and so little time.
@englishfromatoz8970
2 жыл бұрын
Superb!
@PhoenixProdLLC
6 жыл бұрын
Very good! Well done! Unsurprisingly :)
@Lenora1854
11 жыл бұрын
TS Eliot... *swoon* One of the Eternally Best Poems. I declare.
@emgie75
3 жыл бұрын
amazing!
@bwanna23
6 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@michaelkingsbury4305
Жыл бұрын
Pushing 60 and I'm no longer bored by this poem. I love hate and am I'm living it.
@Elton78
12 жыл бұрын
His voice is awesome! Just love it...it's so smoothing...and sexy! he could read the phonebook and make it sound intersting!
@austinhalpin8921
6 жыл бұрын
He.s so right.slow it down it becomes hammy.Mr. Hopkins is so right on it.oz
@Zara12358
11 жыл бұрын
the pace is perfect, i listened to different version just before this one, and it was painfully slow.
@bboenzireed
10 жыл бұрын
Excellently, read....
@Ithinkimaybealesbian
5 жыл бұрын
Indeed generous to delineate greatness upon the ear of fools
@jimtruscott5670
8 ай бұрын
Overall an excellent reading. Hopkins’ voice is just right and he allows the poem to be itself, ie does not dramatize excessively, as Burton does with some of his readings. I do think this poem must be read a little more slowly for optimum effect.
@rokasbucelis5899
10 жыл бұрын
Pace is fine, he knows what he's doing. Just one of the variations I think :) I liked it
@pennyfreeland2966
10 жыл бұрын
Andrew--Eliot was an American poet:) He was born in St. Louis and moved to England as a young man. He goes down as both a British and an American poet. This is a great reading! I think it is better than Eliot reading it.
@TheFilmslinger
12 жыл бұрын
I think it's perfect; it captures the angst, desperation, and anxiety of Prufrock although I love T.S. Eliot's old, creeky voice.
@VinceLyle2161
3 ай бұрын
Ugh. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." I can't imagine a more elegant statement of regret.
@GetScarred13
11 жыл бұрын
Love!
@NJangel1991
11 жыл бұрын
Thankz for putting this up. Im in college in this is one of my papers. Helped alot ( :
@woodinthehood854
3 жыл бұрын
I took a test and there was a quote of this, I was curious and searched it up
@ohdang3822
5 жыл бұрын
I should have been a pair of ragged claws... My favorite line
@mikesvarflix3154
10 жыл бұрын
G' Job, Tony!
@raisa_cherry33
4 жыл бұрын
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍💖💖💖💖💖💖💖👏 fantastic read!
@19111960able
9 жыл бұрын
thx for this eliot was different yet ................................gr8
@jaipskd100
12 жыл бұрын
Perfect
@johnbrengelman1226
10 жыл бұрын
Great reading, maybe a bit fast, taking us to the ultimate question a little bit sooner than we might like. Mr. Hopkins can do no wrong.
@VonSaxenCoburg
10 жыл бұрын
I quite agree. One does tend to rush, thinking it fitting the rhyme, I made a recording of Prufrock a while ago and rushed through parts of it. Different parts, as it turns out. But Tony's timbre suits the poem quite well. I count this among my bery favourite poems, and it does my heart some good to hear it thus recited. Here's my most recent rendition: soundcloud.com/the-uzig-zag-wanderer/the-lovesong-of-j-alfred
@sueogden2758
4 жыл бұрын
He has such a great voice for this kind of thing. "Until Human Voices Wake Us" is a very good movie. Wish Anthony Hopkins had been in it, but but the main character is good, too. Bittersweet.
@phillipmax5122
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, because we are of a different generation, the pain and uncertainty is the same and we can all relate. Hopkins is gangster! And shows is just how gangster, Eliot was and is for eternity ; )
@FoxMedik
12 жыл бұрын
This is the perfect way to read this.
@kimqadir7543
3 жыл бұрын
I was a total flake and a stupid boy at school but my parents sent me to the best schools and sometimes in a mundane world I want to hear again the voice of my crazy old teacher so I activate the electric mist and listen to poems like this and I am comforted that out there excellence exists. I cannot remember how I once said in Latin - "She was always the fastest of ships" or in Ancient Greek "They sailed on a wine dark sea."
@manman478
Жыл бұрын
I have a similar story, and also took latin. This poem brings me back to when I was 15 in english class. We worked on the poem for a week. I still remember the first few lines word for word because of how many times we read it aloud in class.
@englishree6685
3 жыл бұрын
💕😍 Wow !
@cheerylittleone
6 жыл бұрын
This is actually perfect. The inner structure of the poem calls for urgency and a certain detachment from the words being said, as if the author does not wish to believe he is really sharing these thoughts with someone. Rushing doesn't spoil the meaning, it underlines it.
@driveagoodmanbad642
5 жыл бұрын
It is hard to read poetry well. Even excellent actors are sometimes prone to ponderous readings. I really like this one.
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