I used to wonder why noon would be "a purple glow", until I learned that the Gaelic word for heather is "fraoch", which is generally pronounced as "free", and "Inis" means "island", so Inisfree just means "The Island of Heather". Suddenly it all made sense.
@ruairidhirwin1767
7 ай бұрын
This is exactly right and what Yeats says himself in the other part of the recording
@jenniferphillips7162
2 жыл бұрын
I had the pleasure of writing about Yeats at university, and I chose to examine his occult interest and how he chose his art to project into the world a spiritual energy. As I hear him read this poem, I feel that his rythym and incantation style uses that energy to his creative purpose. I love his poetry and he was a fascinating man.
@lilo7741
2 жыл бұрын
That makes two then
@helenamcginty4920
10 ай бұрын
This style of poetry reading was popular. I hated hearing poetry recited on the wireless when I was a girl. It was so weird.
@helenamcginty4920
10 ай бұрын
Yeats interest in spiritualism came much later in life. He was a very young man when he wrote this. I know some think that his wife did all that automatic writing because it made him happy but that she faked it. Have you read A Vision?
@STOFLI
9 жыл бұрын
The Lake Isle of Innisfree W. B. Yeats, 1865 - 1939 I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee; And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
@elansings
5 жыл бұрын
OF bless you
@raincoatsxumbrellas
11 жыл бұрын
His method of recicitation is very specific, and he employed it for the purpose of rhythmic emphasis and to give the effect of conjuring the poem's theme. I find it breathtaking.
@ginamalkeschmiedeberg
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the explanation. But I still prefer Hopkins' version...
@cracklequartz1336
2 жыл бұрын
cap
@helenamcginty4920
10 ай бұрын
I find it over dramatic. But as I commented above it was the fashion then and for a long time. Like reciting Shakespeare in RP. Just so silly. 😊
@lochyg5046
3 жыл бұрын
For anyone wondering why Yeats is reading so strangely, here is a quote from him to explain: "I am going to read my poems with great emphasis upon their rhythm, and that may seem strange if you are not used to it. I remember the great English poet, William Morris, coming in a rage out of some lecture hall where somebody had recited a passage out of his Sigurd the Volsung, ‘It gave me a devil of a lot of trouble’, said Morris, ‘to get that thing into verse’. It gave me a devil of a lot of trouble to get into verse the poems that I am going to read, and that is why I will not read them as if they were prose."
@ginamalkeschmiedeberg
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for clarifying!!
@jackbuckley7816
2 жыл бұрын
At first his reading struck me as over-theatrical but now I understand. I've noticed in my own attempts at poetry, when I read it back to myself, after some distance from the original writing, the rhythm I felt it had just isn't there. So I sympathize with Yeats' concern. To hear the poet's actual voice is like discovering a recording of Homer reciting "The Iliad". Truly mind-boggling!
@eamonmacdonnell2627
2 жыл бұрын
Very true,W.B. said something similar as an introduction to that recording, but it isn't included in that clip..
@balachandranbalan
Жыл бұрын
Very true.
@MsBaroque
Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU! I love this recording so much; I cried the first time I heard it. I've just finished quoting this exact same passage on another video of it where uninformed people were mocking it for not sounding like - what? I can only think they wanted it to sound incidental, casual, trivial, and that's exactly what Yeats didn't want.
@superfluffycow9021
4 жыл бұрын
It sounds like he's trying to be a ghost👻👻
@dylanbeard9770
4 жыл бұрын
lmao
@KedamMaheshRahul
Жыл бұрын
🙂
@TheHairyLemon
Жыл бұрын
As an Irish person, I can confirm that we all sound like ghosts woooooooooooo😂😂👻
@oilch1621
7 ай бұрын
thats very on brand for Yeats
@perievonpeggie1341
3 ай бұрын
Yeah! A trembling rapey giddy paedo ghost
@yanissalah6125
5 жыл бұрын
Best poem I’ve ever read. Makes me cry everytime. I want to go to innisfree and build a cabin
@margkropf5541
4 жыл бұрын
Yanis Salah so do I. I sit here in the midst of the world wide pandemic, house bound, and only long for peace.
@marcphelan9883
Жыл бұрын
Hard to get planning permission but if you can ,I know a good builder
@silverkitty2503
Жыл бұрын
Your cabin is in the deep hearts core ...yeats had to keep it with him in his heart when he too worked in the city. that is the gift he wants to give you.
@silverkitty2503
Жыл бұрын
@SuperVHSchannel The whole point is ...its in the deep hearts core ..you take it with you ..that cabin...
@craigpsimpson
13 жыл бұрын
First poem I ever memorised, awesome stuff.
@gwendolyn2001
2 жыл бұрын
I first heard this recording decades ago. My great age gives me not only more appreciation of the sentiments expressed in the poem, but also, how he read it. I want to go to Innisfree and have tried to make my own Innisfree.
@frankyflowers
Жыл бұрын
was it from a cd rom encyclopedia?
@gwendolyn2001
Жыл бұрын
@@frankyflowers nope, a record on a record player. It was in a high school English class circa 1970.
@ThatsaCryinShame
13 жыл бұрын
this brings tears.
@wolatnn8778
6 жыл бұрын
absout clatz
@baribach8701
5 ай бұрын
That place embedded in my heart that repetitively laps in my mind calling me to the Comforts of home.
@raincoatsxumbrellas
11 жыл бұрын
Yeats was an anti-modernist, and he recited his poetry this way for the specific reason of emphasizing the poetry's rhythm. He believed that if he spoke it without the incantatory emphasis it would reduce the poem to prose, which would defeat the massive amount of time and effort it had taken to create the verse.
@Garret00074
6 жыл бұрын
He sings it.
@JonahVideo2011
4 жыл бұрын
As Yeats explains in the same recording: kzitem.info/news/bejne/1mh8umiVjoeSZ34
@karlaperrichon9419
4 жыл бұрын
Anti modernist? Hahah
@JesseKellerFilms
4 жыл бұрын
@@karlaperrichon9419 Yeah, Yeats is kinda the O.G. modernist poet... My favorite modernist and my favorite romantic at the same time.
@mikkelalt
3 жыл бұрын
Anti-modernist? Ezra Pound actually copied Yeats' recitation style when reciting his (very modernist) poetry: kzitem.info/news/bejne/y39omYmCiqihm4o
@9340Steve
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful poem. About escape from the bustle of life: maybe a young Yeats wanting to escape for awhile from his family's summer home, or an older Yeats wishing to get away the bustle of London. It always brings to my mind the peace I hope to achieve when I retire, or the "rest in peace" we all must eventually share. Yeats' reading sounds like parody to me. Wikipedia says he was a bit annoyed at how ridiculously popular the poem became -- popular to the point where thousands of Boy Scouts recited it in his honor.
@joescott8877
6 ай бұрын
Thousands of Boy Scouts recited the poem in his honor?? Given Yeats' theme with this one, that DOES seem a bit bizarre, lol. Perhaps he was having a bit of fun with his public while reciting it!
@alastairgreen2077
3 ай бұрын
a while
@BernardFarrell
9 жыл бұрын
This is wonderful, I never thought of him with an accent though of course he'd have one. Towards the middle it starts to sound musical. Thanks.
@cracklequartz1336
2 жыл бұрын
cap
@genghisthegreat2034
Жыл бұрын
He has no accent
@SantaBarbaraSongbird
Жыл бұрын
I'll always love the gifts you've made
@danielmcgrath8527
5 жыл бұрын
The cadence is instructive, but I wasn't expecting such a growling, threatening tone in reading this poem of wistful longing. I'm left to conclude that this is the voice of the aging poet somehow angry at this work of his youth.
@nmaurok
5 жыл бұрын
Interesting interpretation!
@rahmamanaseer5002
5 жыл бұрын
I think it's just his aging voice. Yeats himself said that this poem remains his favorite, wrote it in his early 20's, as he matured as a poet, nd with perseverance and skill, he was able to reach this final outcome.
@richgoldman2299
4 жыл бұрын
I want to say he believed poems to have mystical powers and were to be chanted as if he were some kind of mystic cleric
@ruairidhirwin1767
7 ай бұрын
Think it’s an attempt to mimic the formalised Gaelic style of poetry recital
@genghisthegreat2034
Жыл бұрын
Now that you know how he intends his work to be read, chanted even, now revisit his Song of Wandering Aenghus.......and bathe in the long oo's.......and the dreaming word repetitions........and the childlike " And-s" ......which tell a dreamstory as a five year old might tell it. Irish poets learn your trade, ....and work, and work!..... towards what's well made.
@nusratjahankhan4954
Жыл бұрын
His voice gave me goosebumps! ❤️
@jameswhitney2450
2 жыл бұрын
From a different, past time...it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
@MrTemugin10
12 жыл бұрын
Wonderful moving words .. I hear it too ..........
@ZenGrammy
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Thank you. 🌹🌷🌹
@heimerblaster976
5 жыл бұрын
He reads it very much like the actors of his time did readings on stage.
@StamfordBridge
7 ай бұрын
It’s amazing to hear his voice, but I’m quite glad that declamation styles have shifted over the decades.
@Two_lights867
4 жыл бұрын
His voice touches my heart 💔
@someshkumar5770
4 жыл бұрын
Really ??
@Two_lights867
4 жыл бұрын
Somesh Kumar Really
@neoecw7463
26 күн бұрын
Oh really you crazy asshole @@Two_lights867
@swayamnath7018
3 жыл бұрын
I have a huge crush on Yeats.
@ChillieGaming
3 жыл бұрын
what the ---
@d0n0hare.49
3 жыл бұрын
Pure beauty in poetry.
@mjdelaney1
2 жыл бұрын
The best poem ever written.
@aclark903
2 жыл бұрын
#Wordsworth, #Keats, #Milton & #Shakespeare might have something to say about that..
@mjdelaney1
2 жыл бұрын
@@aclark903 The wonderful glorious thing about a good poem is that it speaks to us differently, often deeply. Perhaps it's best not to judge and lecture another when they express their respect for a poem and the sublime joy it delivers. I think Wordswoth, Keats, Miltoin and Shakespeare would agree with me.
@aclark903
2 жыл бұрын
@@mjdelaney1 You're the one writing paragraphs, Mary.
@mjdelaney1
2 жыл бұрын
@@aclark903 Lose the snark. Cheer up. Read a poem. Geez.
@aclark903
2 жыл бұрын
@@mjdelaney1 I understand that Irish people prefer Irish poets.
@obscurumstar
3 жыл бұрын
The Ghost The Ghost that haunts Innisfree Loooking for the peace
@boorackcadillac
3 жыл бұрын
If you are wondering about his reading voice... listen to Vachel Lindsey's Congo or Verlaine's tone poems. In these instances, the poet is making his delivery to enhance the poem.
@abbyho2332
4 жыл бұрын
My teacher seems to love depressing poems. She had us memorize "The Charge of the Light Brigade", by Alfred Lord Tennyson. And now we need to memorize this.
@svetadarling
4 жыл бұрын
lol
@moname56
Жыл бұрын
I don’t think this poem is depressing at all. His reading is!
@marykinsella417
11 ай бұрын
Variety is the spice of life ,enjoy😂
@jerma953
4 жыл бұрын
i???? idk what i expected yeats to sound like but it was definitely NOT this
@rasterbate87
3 жыл бұрын
I was surprised too, but I do like it actually. It fits his style of work - chanting, almost liturgical. It’s how I imagine the Odyssey might have been performed, all those years ago.
@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918
3 жыл бұрын
Classically educated, upper class Victorian, Anglo-Irish, reciting his poem in an expected cadence that is used to recite non-prose, present until this day. A work of sublime art.
@tchaivorakfauresohnsieg9532
8 ай бұрын
He doesn't read it, he chants as if he's singing, beautiful!!
@krautperker
3 жыл бұрын
beautiful Thank You
@Notemug
Жыл бұрын
His way of reciting it is, I think, quite usual for the time. Just listen to T.S. Eliot reciting The Waste Land. Or really any actor from that period reciting one of Shakespeare's soliloquies.
@hamzahmza9414
Жыл бұрын
His voice scares me
@robertwheeler412
3 жыл бұрын
I dig his alliteration in clay and wattles made: His like his line, I hear water lapping with low sounds by the shore: He is such a sonorous reader, maybe he wants to enchant his listener, and surprisingly , although I had not read it, but looked for this poem, from the youtube, it resembles my poetry in my poem, "SEA OTTER" I see I did write a poem, :"Yeats Hitting in a Sand Lot, a song for radicals" But I am deprived of a visit to Ireland.
@pavlemarina
10 ай бұрын
The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core.
@gypsyjazzer
12 жыл бұрын
A beautiful, wonderful poem...very much a favourite...however the dirge like old fashioned delivery by the poet is wonderfully modernised and musically updated by the Waterboys version on youtube. [for some reason YT doesn't allow me to post it as a link]
@jakescott1234
10 жыл бұрын
Does anyone else think he reads similarly to Pound?? Wonder if/who influenced who...
@josephobrien2084
8 жыл бұрын
+Jake Scott Pound was Yeats's secretary for a year or so - so what you say makes sense. Are you thinking, in particular, of Mouers Contemporaines? I think he sounds exactly like Yeats in that reading. Also, incidentally, he had written a parody of Innisfree. So there's that too.
@elansings
5 жыл бұрын
It’s authentic yeats
@Nike-bm5cg
5 жыл бұрын
@@josephobrien2084 I thought so as well, especially in the rhythm he reads with in his recording of Hugh Selwyn Muberley kzitem.info/news/bejne/jpptk62srGpefXo
@thaynagh
4 жыл бұрын
Both modernists. Also, there's scholarship on that parallel under English literature for British 20th century
@Aelredpatrick
3 жыл бұрын
@@pgbpriuvnri Tennyson read his poems like this as well, a haunting rhythmic chaunt driving the drama & colour of the poem.
@danneil8778
Жыл бұрын
wow! wut the hell? I studied poetry and have a masters in English, so get what's happening in WBY recitation. But hearing it! I'm on my way to Inverness now. Can't wait to lay this on my friends.
@thomasmckiernan232
10 жыл бұрын
lovely poem
@JoachimderZweite
11 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your educated and elegant comment. I humbly withdraw mine and delete it.
@pentuplove6542
4 жыл бұрын
A great story.
@silverkitty2503
Жыл бұрын
This is the way the seanachai talk ..or recite ...in pubs and townhalls ..so he prob got it from them.
@alfarobrosstudios
3 жыл бұрын
This was recorded in 1932.
@robindale9352
Жыл бұрын
Did all poets in those days sort of sternly and proudly announce their poems like this? Very different to the present day....
@ECG3485
9 жыл бұрын
I couldn't hear poem at some points because of Yeats' thick Irish accent...but still there's nothing more amazing than hearing a famous poet read his or her own work ;)
@HipsterEatinShark
6 жыл бұрын
Strange--must be your speakers.
@missshauna5101
Жыл бұрын
When I go
@freqeist
10 жыл бұрын
For Alec.
@Urlocallordandsavior
4 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Medieval English ever sounded similar to this form of heavily Irish-accented English.
@jackfusco2906
4 жыл бұрын
Yourlocallordandsavior In short, Medieval English sounded mother nothing like this. It is almost indecipherable to a modern English speaker. If you want to listen to it go listen to the prologue of the Canterbury tales in Middle English kzitem.info/news/bejne/qJ-e2IursqWfpZg and that is the way English sounded. Also, being from Ireland his accent is quite neutral and not very accented.
@stevedavis8329
4 жыл бұрын
interestingly, medieval English, up through the Elizabethan age, likely sounded a good deal more like American English, with a fairly nasal quality to it. The "shakespearian" English one hears in modern renditions of his plays is the sad accident of British actors being educated to speak Received British Pronunciation English.
@BirdFlypath
3 жыл бұрын
Or lightly accented English Irish ,sounds like anyone from Connacht(Connaught) to me albeit first half of last century(Pre War)
@MsBaroque
Жыл бұрын
English is a Germanic language, so no, nothing like medieval Celtic Irish. It's easy to find videos of people reading in Anglo Saxon or Middle English - this one starts in the late Middle Ages and goes up to the present, and it's brilliant. kzitem.info/news/bejne/lKKO3GeKrWapZWU&ab_channel=SimonRoper
@yokeman6346
7 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the bone zone
@raymondwalsh7520
Жыл бұрын
It's amazing how lyrical, transcendental and beautiful the poem is, yet the poet himself butcher's it in his rendition. How is that possible
@josephsonoftheuniverse5541
5 жыл бұрын
33 is me..
@emilydam9968
8 жыл бұрын
The poem is beutiful but why say it like that
@TheChriscarr1210
5 жыл бұрын
Because he wrote it and he knows how it's supposed to be read!
@TheHairyLemon
Жыл бұрын
Why dosen't he have a Irish accent Like, why the hell is he rolling his r's? 😂 Although, I think I heard that he was living in London at the time, so maybe he's just trying to do a posh accent 🧐
@chris-n-racheledwards8818
2 жыл бұрын
Is it just me or does this sound like a black and white cartoon show from the 1930’s
@jaymee4315
2 жыл бұрын
hon the yeats
@markbrandus
8 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a song...
@luke7727
7 жыл бұрын
Mark Richard Beaulieu why shouldn't it?
@peterlynch1518
2 жыл бұрын
Yes just add some spanish guitar chords in the background and it could nearly pass as a Flamenco wailing tune☺
@lukeharrisonshaw
2 жыл бұрын
Beatrice Shaw is there alive in peace.
@user-su7zr3vz6v
Жыл бұрын
طلاب رابع علمي 🤪
@sofiai.1848
Жыл бұрын
THE FUCK AM I HEARING
@someshkumar5770
4 жыл бұрын
what is this ????????????????
@Mark-nm2yx
2 ай бұрын
I hate the leaving cert
@divinedefiance7069
6 ай бұрын
He was a genius but by God he sounds cre cre 😮
@xyzllii
13 жыл бұрын
I love the poet...but never liked him reading his own work...thanks for posting all the same.
@wolatnn8778
6 жыл бұрын
sound
@tommuscatello5999
9 жыл бұрын
lovely poem but the boris karlof-like voice is too much for me pleasure.
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