A stunning piece of work delivered most admirably by Alec Guinness. But Alec had great content to work with; a poem that is a Picasso, a Rembrandt or a Michelangelo of the written word. Art at its most sublime.
The most perfect diction in speech of any English language speaker in history. What a splendid actor he was, and what a perceptive human being! Dr Sudevan Wisconsin
We were lucky as smelly school boys to suffer Poetry.. in later life we appreciate it. Thanks for reminding us of how good those teachers were. "The burnt out ends of smoky days" can describe old age unless you're positive about it.
I love your description but don't think that his reading is good. Prufrock is lost and self deprecating and is only speaking to himself. He cares and worries about the triviality of his particular world and longs for a freedom of thought which could be examined and debated but with whom?
@@peterhixon371You raise an interesting point! But if a performance artist adheres to realism at the expense of projection, the result would lack impact. And, in this poem, Prufrock is obviously genteel, so the splendour of intonation is not unsuitable.
It IS rushed, and I really did miss whole lines as my brain paused to reflect for a moment and completely skipped over the next one! - but there is something about AG’s stunning diction that makes up for a lot - those exploding plosives - Puh, Buh - and the perfect vowels - that made me smile and even a few times laugh, and sometimes I need the to appreciate the comedic aspects of this poem. It can really be so funny but we all take it so seriously - like life itself, I suppose! 😜
A stunning piece of work delivered most admirably by Alec Guinness. But Alec had great content to work with; a poem that is a Picasso, a Rembrandt or a Michelangelo of the written word. Art at its most sublime.
Arguably the best reading of this poem.
The most perfect diction in speech of any English language speaker in history. What a splendid actor he was, and what a perceptive human being! Dr Sudevan Wisconsin
The best ❤❤❤
I am reminded, sometimes. That we humans are capable of the sublime. And there is, hope.
We were lucky as smelly school boys to suffer Poetry.. in later life we appreciate it.
Thanks for reminding us of how good those teachers were.
"The burnt out ends of smoky days" can describe old age unless you're positive about it.
No argument, this is the best reading.
TS Eliot wrote his poems to be read by Alec Guinness and nobody else
Yes and no. Jeremy Irons is masterful, too.
The perfect voice to enhance this elegy for a life dissipated on the trivial necessities of existence and tormented by its own self-knowledge.
I love your description but don't think that his reading is good. Prufrock is lost and self deprecating and is only speaking to himself. He cares and worries about the triviality of his particular world and longs for a freedom of thought which could be examined and debated but with whom?
@@peterhixon371You raise an interesting point! But if a performance artist adheres to realism at the expense of projection, the result would lack impact. And, in this poem, Prufrock is obviously genteel, so the splendour of intonation is not unsuitable.
Alec Guineness is great.
I can only hear kenobi
*Anakin* , let us go then, you and I...
@@Hawkwood96 Would It Have Been Worth Wile After all, Master?
****SUBLIME***^
Crap. Horrible reading
Why do people RUSH THIS? Ugh.
It IS rushed, and I really did miss whole lines as my brain paused to reflect for a moment and completely skipped over the next one! - but there is something about AG’s stunning diction that makes up for a lot - those exploding plosives - Puh, Buh - and the perfect vowels - that made me smile and even a few times laugh, and sometimes I need the to appreciate the comedic aspects of this poem. It can really be so funny but we all take it so seriously - like life itself, I suppose! 😜
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@@lemartin3827 Eliot, despite being 'the man in the four-piece suit' as Virginia Woolf dubbed him, would approve. Thank you.
Not impressed by any of them