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Here's a virtual movie of the great Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poet and artist reading his beautiful poem "The Sea Limits" The poem proclaimsus the connection between the sea, earth and mankind. He shows us how each has a voice if we listen. And he offers as proof the simple yet profound sound haunting a seashell when its placed at ones ear.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (/ˈdænti ˈɡeɪbriəl rəˈzɛti/;[1] 12 May 1828 -- 9 April 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.
Here's a virtual movie of the great Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poet and artist reading his beautiful poem "The Sea Limits" The poem proclaimsus the connection between the sea, earth and mankind. He shows us how each has a voice if we listen. And he offers as proof the simple yet profound sound haunting a seashell when its placed at ones ear.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (/ˈdænti ˈɡeɪbriəl rəˈzɛti/;[1] 12 May 1828 -- 9 April 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.
![Ode to Psyche By John Keats Poem - Animation
Heres a virtual movie of the great John Keats reading his Ode to Psyche
Ode to Psyche is a poem by John Keats written in spring 1819. The poem is the first of his 1819 odes, which include Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale. Ode to Psyche is an experiment in the ode genre, and Keatss attempt at an expanded version of the sonnet format that describes a dramatic scene. The poem serves as an important departure from Keatss early poems, which frequently describe an escape into the pleasant realms of ones imagination. Keats uses the imagination to show the narrators intent to resurrect Psyche and reincarnate himself into Eros(love). Keats attempts this by dedicating an untrodden region of his mind to the worship of the neglected goddess.
The poem does not describe the plot of the original Cupid and Psyche myth: according to Harold Bloom, the poem has little to do with the accepted myth.[10] In the original myth, Aphrodite punishes Psyche, a well admired girl, by having Cupid use his power to make her fall in love. Cupid, instead, falls in love with her, but he could only be with her in the cover of darkness in order to disguise his identity. Curious, she uses a light to reveal Cupids identity, but he flees from her presence. Psyche begins to search after Cupid, and Aphrodite forces her to perform various tasks before she could be united with her love. After nearly dying from one of the tasks, Cupid asks Zeus to transform Psyche into a goddess so the two can be together.[10]
The action of Ode to Psyche begins with a narrator witnessing two individuals embracing. The narrator immediately recognizes Cupid and is astonished when he recognizes Psyche:
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![Loves Sweet Effects - WW1 - Poem - animation
Heres a virtual movie of a recitation of the beautiful World War 1 Poem Loves Sweet Effects The Poem dates from the early part of World War 1,The author is unknown,The Poem was found in a Royal Medical Corp magazine issue in 1917 at the height of the Great War it is thought to have been written by a nurse at a base hospital.
What was a Base Hospital?
The Base Hospital was part of the casualty evacuation chain, further back from the front line than the Casualty Clearing Stations. They were manned by troops of the Royal Army Medical Corps, with attached Royal Engineers and men of the Army Service Corps. In the theatre of war in France and Flanders, the British hospitals were generally located near the coast. They needed to be close to a railway line, in order for casualties to arrive (although some also came by canal barge); they also needed to be near a port where men could be evacuated for longer-term treatment in Britain.
There were two types of Base Hospital, known as Stationary and General Hospitals. They were large facilities, often centred on some pre-war buildings such as seaside hotels. The hospitals grew hugely in number and scale throughout the war. Most of the hospitals moved very rarely until the larger movements of the armies in 1918. Some hospitals moved into the Rhine bridgehead in Germany and many were operating in France well into 1919. Most hospitals were assisted by voluntary organisations, most notably the British Red Cross
The Female poets of the Great War is a neglected area of poetry,yet their are many outstanding poems by women poets of the era as in the case of the anonymous author of this poem who is believed to have been a nurse. Women did see the horrors firsthand at the front treating the terrible casualties and and were exposed to the dangers of attack being so close to the action. On the home front they were to suffer the terrible psychological trauma of losing their loved ones. Women were also to take on the heavy industrial work in the civilian and and arms factories with all the hazards.Their were many reasons why women were inspired to express their emotions through poetry. There are numerous female poets that remain popular today. Dissimilar to the idea that their writings would be overshadowed by war stories told by men, these poets have many publications. Vera Brittain has written poems and stories about the Great War.[14] Not only was Brittain a writer, she was a nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment.[14] This shows the support women had for the war and the importance they played in a non-combative manner. In addition, Lady Margaret Sackville refers to the women during the Great War as life-savers.[31] More specifically, Sackville believes that women are supporting a war that is unnecessary in her poem The Pageant of War.[32] Rupert Brooke attributed women with more credit than had previously been given in his poem There’s Wisdom in Women which he published in 1914 & Other Poems.[33]
The bombing of England during World War One by the zeppelin raids provided citizens at home to see first-hand the devastation of war. Rose MaCaulay explains this in her poem The Shadow.[34] There was an attempt to show the relationship between the sufferings of soldiers on the battlefield with the suffering of British citizens at home. The Shadow was not MaCaulay’s only poem on the Great War. Many Sisters to Many Brothers expresses her distaste to the fact that the societal norm was to determine that women were more disabled than men in the war effort.[35] More specifically, there was an idea that the war was specifically fought and won by soldiers on the battlefield. Women played an important role in supporting the war, both at home and abroad. Vera Brittain’s poem The Sisters Buries at Lemnos is a poem about the heroics displayed by women during the war.[36] The role that women played in supporting the war must be remembered because many women were killed during the conflict. Brittain’s poem expresses disappointment that there is no memorial to remember the women that fell alongside the soldiers.[37]
The following is a list of a few popular female British poets writing about or during the Great War:
Vera Brittain
May Wedderburn Cannan
Margaret Postaget Cole
Rose MaCaulay
Alice Meynell
Jessie Pope
Margaret Sackville
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![The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Oscar Wilde - Poem - animation
Heres a virtual movie of the great Oscar Wilde reading his bittersweet poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
he Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol (pronounced redding jail) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years hard labour in prison.
During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen,[1] earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged 30 when executed.[2][3]
Wilde spent mid-1897 with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand, where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge; it moves from an objective story-telling to symbolic identification with the prisoners as a whole.[4] No attempt is made to assess the justice of the laws which convicted them, but rather the poem highlights the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share. Wilde juxtaposes the executed man and himself with the line Yet each man kills the thing he loves.[5] Wilde too was separated from his wife and sons. He adopted the proletarian ballad form, and suggested it be published in Reynolds Magazine, because it circulates widely among the criminal classes – to which I now belong – for once I will be read by my peers – a new experience for me.[6]
The finished poem was published by Leonard Smithers on February 13, 1898 [7] under the name C.3.3., which stood for cell block C, landing 3, cell 3. This ensured that Wildes name – by then notorious – did not appear on the poems front cover. small income in his remaining lifetime.
Wilde entered prison on 25 March 1895, sentenced to two years hard labor - a punishment that was considered more severe than mere penal servitude. He was first sent, briefly, to Newgate Prison for initial processing, the next week moved to Petonville prison, where hard labor consisted of many hours of pointless effort in walking a treadmill or picking oakum (separating the fibers in scraps of old navy ropes), and allowed to read only the Bible and Pilgrims Progress. Prisoners were not allowed to speak to each other, and, out of their solitary cells, were required to wear a cap with a sort of thick veil so they would not be recognized by other prisoners. A few months later he was moved to Wandsworth Prison, which had a similar regimen. While he was there, he was required to declare bankruptcy, by which he lost virtually all his possessions including his books and manuscripts. On November 23, 1895 he was again moved, to the prison at Reading, which also had similar rules, where he spent the remainder of his sentence, and was assigned the third cell on the third floor of C ward - and thereafter addressed and identified only as C.3.3 and not by name. Prisoners were identified only by their cell numbers and not by name.[11] About five months after Wilde arrived at Reading Gaol, Charles Thomas Wooldridge, a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards, was brought to Reading to await his trial for murdering his common-law wife (and promptly presenting himself and confessing to a policeman) on March 29, 1896; on June 17th, Wooldridge was sentenced to death and returned to Reading for his execution, which took place on Tuesday, July 7th, 1896 - the first hanging at Reading in 18 years. Wilde was released from prison on May 18th, 1897 and he promptly went to France, never returning to Britain. He died in Paris, at the age of 46, on 30 November 1900.
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![Ode to Shelley - Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Poem - Animation
Heres a virtual movie of the English poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes reading his Poem which I have called Ode to Shelley The Poem is usually referred to as Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of the Prometheus Unbound Dated 1822. As this exquisite poem would suggest Beddoes greatly admired the work of felllow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
This beautiful definitive recital of this great poem is by Alan Halsey
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (30 June 1803[1] – 26 January 1849) was an English poet, dramatist and physician.
Born in Clifton, Bristol, England, he was the son of Dr. Thomas Beddoes, a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anna, sister of Maria Edgeworth. He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Oxford. He published in 1821 The Improvisatore, which he afterwards endeavoured to suppress. His next venture, a blank-verse drama called The Brides Tragedy (1822), was published and well reviewed, and won for him the friendship of Barry Cornwall.
Beddoes work shows a constant preoccupation with death. In 1824, he went to Göttingen to study medicine, motivated by his hope of discovering physical evidence of a human spirit which survives the death of the body.[2] He was expelled, and then went to Würzburg to complete his training. He then wandered about practising his profession, and expounding democratic theories which got him into trouble. He was deported from Bavaria in 1833, and had to leave Zürich, where he had settled, in 1840.
He continued to write, but published nothing.
He led an itinerant life after leaving Switzerland, returning to England only in 1846, before going back to Germany. He became increasingly disturbed, and committed suicide by poison at Basel, in 1849, at the age of 45.[3]
For some time before his death he had been engaged on a drama, Deaths Jest Book, which was published in 1850 with a memoir by his friend, T. F. Kelsall. His Collected Poems were published in 1851. Ode to Shelley - Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Poem - Animation](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uRBBFWKkMCg/mqdefault.jpg)

![To the Old Pagan Religion by H P Lovecraft - Poem - animation
Heres a virtual movie of the great H P Lovecraft reading To the Old Pagan Religion The poem reflects Lovecrafts atheist views, many of his poems and stories play on our psychological fears and are of supernatural beings which are often more alien than demon, beings from the stars or other dimensions, of immense, but not truly supernatural, power.A dryad (/ˈdraɪ.æd/; Greek: Δρυάδες, sing.: Δρυάς) is a tree nymph, or female tree spirit, in Greek mythology. In Greek drys signifies oak. Thus, dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, though the term has come to be used for all tree nymphs in general.[1] Such deities are very much overshadowed by the divine figures defined through poetry and cult, Walter Burkert remarked of Greek nature deities.[2] They were normally considered to be very shy creatures, except around the goddess Artemis, who was known to be a friend to most nymphs.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (/ˈlʌvkræft, -ˌkrɑːft/;[1] August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) — known as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.
Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. His father was confined to a mental institution when Lovecraft was 3 years old. His grandfather, a wealthy businessman, enjoyed storytelling and was an early influence. Intellectually precocious but sensitive, Lovecraft began composing rudimentary horror tales by the age of 8, but suffered from overwhelming feelings of anxiety. He encountered problems with classmates in school, and was kept at home by his highly strung and overbearing mother for illnesses that may have been psychosomatic. In high school, Lovecraft was able to better connect with his peers and form friendships. He also involved neighborhood children in elaborate make-believe projects, only regretfully ceasing the activity at 17 years old. Despite leaving school in 1908 without graduating — he found mathematics particularly difficult — Lovecraft had developed a formidable knowledge of his favored subjects, such as history, linguistics, chemistry, and astronomy.
Although he seems to have had some social life, attending meetings of a club for local young men, Lovecraft in early adulthood was established in a reclusive nightbird lifestyle without occupation or pursuit of romantic adventures. In 1913 his conduct of a long running controversy in the letters page of a story magazine led to his being invited to participate in an amateur journalism association. Encouraged, he started circulating his stories; he was 31 at the time of his first publication in a professional magazine. Lovecraft contracted a marriage to an older woman he had met at an association conference. By age 34, he was a regular contributor to newly founded Weird Tales magazine; he turned down an offer of the editorship.
Lovecraft returned to Providence from New York in 1926, and over the next nine months he produced some of his most celebrated tales including The Call of Cthulhu, canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. Never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor, Lovecraft saw commercial success increasingly elude him in this latter period, partly because he lacked the confidence and drive to promote himself. He subsisted in progressively straitened circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was completely spent by the time he died at the age of 46.
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![Ode on Melancholy By John Keats Poem animation
Heres a virtual movie of my favourite poem by the great John Keats Ode on Melancholy. Ode on Melancholy is one of five odes composed by English poet John Keats in the spring of 1819, along with Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Indolence, and Ode to Psyche. The narrative of the poem describes the poet’s perception of melancholy through a lyric discourse between the poet and the reader, along with the introduction to Ancient Grecian characters and ideals.
While studying at Enfield, Keats attempted to gain a knowledge of Grecian art from translations of Tooke’s Pantheon, Lemprieres Classical Dictionary and Spences Polymetis. Although Keats attempted to learn Ancient Greek, the majority of his understanding of Grecian mythology came from the translations into English.[1] Ode on Melancholy contains references to classical themes, characters, and places such as Psyche, Lethe, and Prosperine in its description of melancholy, as allusions to Grecian art and literature were common among the “five great odes”.[2]
Unlike the speaker of Ode to a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, and Ode to Psyche, the speaker of Ode on Melancholy speaks directly to the reader rather than to an object or an emotion.[3] With only three stanzas, the poem is the shortest of the odes Keats wrote in 1819; however, the original first stanza of the poem was removed before the poem’s publication in 1820.[4] It ran as follows:
Though you should build a bark of dead mens bones,
And rear a phantom gibbet for a mast,
Stitch creeds together for a sail, with groans
To fill it out, bloodstained and aghast;
Although your rudder be a Dragons tail,
Long severd, yet still hard with agony,
Your cordage large uprootings from the skull
Of bald Medusa; certes you would fail
To find the Melancholy, whether she
Dreameth in any isle of Lethe dull.[5]
According to Harold Bloom, one can presume that the “harmony was threatened if fully half of [the poem] was concerned with the useless quest after “The Melancholy”.[6] Despite its adjusted length, Keats thought the poem to be of a higher quality than Ode on Indolence, which was not published until 1848, after Keats’s death. Ode on Melancholy By John Keats Poem animation](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ulQawFyp0xA/mqdefault.jpg)