The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

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  • @faisalhasan5969
    @faisalhasan5969 9 років тому +231

    Your voice has an air of experience, of pain , of love , or just another rigmarole of emotions. But whatever it is, it is one of the things that define my life. I have heard and learned from so many poems , all in your warm, expressive, experienced voice, thank you sir, for all that you have done.

    • @_devolve
      @_devolve 6 років тому +12

      I absolutely love his voice

  • @1RadicalDreamer
    @1RadicalDreamer 12 років тому +101

    The second "This is the way the world ends" gave me chills.

  • @talhandaq13
    @talhandaq13 11 років тому +51

    Perhaps the greatest poem of the 20th century - and beautifully read to make it even more memorable. A 1000 thousand thanks.

  • @tardiskeeper6
    @tardiskeeper6 10 років тому +95

    The voice works particularly well for this poem. Kind of chilling, in a good way

  • @gooseberryjaml
    @gooseberryjaml 13 років тому +18

    Whoever's reading this... I love your voice! I could listen to this poem over and over... It puts me in a sort of trance. I don't think anyone could have captured the tone and meaning of this poem better than you.

  • @mkzhero
    @mkzhero 14 років тому +23

    This is the way the world ends not with a bang but with a whimper.. Such strong words...

  • @angelrwbf
    @angelrwbf 11 років тому +12

    Of Eliot and Neruda that I find myself returning to again and again, sometimes several times in a row. Thank you so much for sharing these with us all. It's also nice to now have a name to go with the voice I've grown accustomed to hearing so often. In fact sometimes it is your beautiful rendition of The Waste Land or Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines that helps lull me from my frequent insomnia into slumber. So again, thank you, and best regards, from your fan in Oklahoma.

  • @oxfordye
    @oxfordye 12 років тому +16

    The way you read that last stanza was fabulous.

  • @Raiyun166
    @Raiyun166 15 років тому +11

    The way you did the last three lines...sounded almost defeated and withdrawn. I loved it. sent shivers down my spine :)

  • @geoffck6969
    @geoffck6969 13 років тому +17

    Whenever I'm in the doldrums, when the sun is shining, the laughter of children fills the air, folks are enjoying life, the neighbors bbq'ing, I blacken my windows, find solitude and I listen to this and all becomes well with my world once again. LOL!! But seriously, this is an excellent reading that captures the essence of this literary work in an uncanny fashion. Just excellent!

  • @angelrwbf
    @angelrwbf 11 років тому +5

    Dear Mr Tom O'Bedlam- I believe that I have now listened to each of the fantastic recitations you've so kindly shared with us, many repeatedly, and I felt compelled to thank you for posting them. I found your videos while searching for a recording I had listened to daily during grad school of Eliot reading The Waste Land, and though I still haven't come across that recording, finding yours was an absolute treat. I have greatly enjoyed all of your videos, but I must say it is your recitations

  • @VulcanWolf
    @VulcanWolf 12 років тому +9

    Wow... I can't remember how many time I've heard, read or recited this poem, but EVERY time I find it to be both riveting and haunting for lack of better words.

  • @krvillanueva
    @krvillanueva 15 років тому +2

    the last line of this poem, together with your voice made me feel T.S Eliot's meaning in an amazngly painful, beautiful, honest way. thank you. thank you. thank you

  • @MrVerleed
    @MrVerleed 9 років тому +36

    I very much enjoyed the way you expressed the final stanza.

  • @pianoshaman2807
    @pianoshaman2807 7 років тому +71

    I interpret this poem as a warning against vacillation or indifference to the world. There are people who lived fully and done amazing things, or there are people who committed crimes against humanity. Nonetheless, people who did not live their lives to maximum extent are the hollow men, who are bond by constant hesitation about their capabilities.

  • @garrymoore-eroomyrrag
    @garrymoore-eroomyrrag 8 років тому +31

    Oh my god, the part where the lines were completely cut off in mid-speech... (3:45)
    "For thine is
    For Life is
    For Thine is the"
    That stanza, I feel, congregates all of the emotion of disparity and somberness displayed by this poem.. it is fragmented, but it that very fragmentation that speaks exactly for what the poem (and the author) is trying to say about life's terminus.

  • @herodotus53
    @herodotus53 14 років тому +3

    SpokenVerse, thank you for this thoughtful and engaging recitation. Your interpretation of the final stanza was particularly arresting.. I have already listened to your Hart Crane videos, and your Eliot readings continue to draw me into the web of the poet's imagination. Please keep at it!

  • @ericabramson7136
    @ericabramson7136 8 років тому +32

    Think of this poem like a lone satellite with human voices drifting through space with nobody to hear it.
    "Let me be known era"

  • @NicolasCurcioWriter
    @NicolasCurcioWriter 13 років тому

    Was assigned this poem yesterday- knew you'd have it up on your account. You never cease to please with me your readings. Greatest channel ever.

  • @mrnosaj
    @mrnosaj 15 років тому +2

    I went to work earlier in the night, and your voice kept repeating in my head. I'm subscribing to you.

  • @JohnCTurbine
    @JohnCTurbine 12 років тому +5

    I just wanted to say, this reading is absolutely fantastic. It gives me chills!

  • @Natashahoneypot
    @Natashahoneypot 3 роки тому +2

    Brought me to weeping tears. Great reading, great work of art.

  • @gooseberryjaml
    @gooseberryjaml 13 років тому

    Whoever's reading this... I love your voice! I could listen to this poem over and over... It puts me in a sort of trance. I don't think anyone could have captured the tone and meaning of this poem more than you.

  • @Amothyrie
    @Amothyrie 15 років тому +6

    Once again, thank you for doing a reading of a poem that I picked to research for class, so I can bring it into class. You do a remarkable job of capturing the mood.

  • @zossimov
    @zossimov 14 років тому +5

    great reading. especially the final lines. i love the variety of interpretations.

  • @kontrapunkti
    @kontrapunkti 12 років тому +1

    One of my absolut favorite chanels on UA-cam,
    keep up the good work!
    Cheers from Finland!

  • @2bsbc
    @2bsbc 15 років тому

    I appreciate the meter you use in your reading of this piece. I especially like your delivery of the last stanza. I never imagined it read it that manner. Powerful.

  • @ReApErChilLS79
    @ReApErChilLS79 13 років тому +2

    @Thinkify1 That 'Prickly pear' line is saying how children will go around the prickly pear, not the mulberry bush. The mulberry bush represents fertility, the prickly pear represents infertility. What this line is saying is how, the children do not want to be born into such a world, filled with war and such. So they go around the prickly pear, not the mulberry bush. It is a reference to the mulberry nursery rhyme. I know this because this year in my 9th grade English class we analyzed this poem.

  • @superangora
    @superangora 15 років тому +1

    ive been meaning to look for a good poem to read and let sit in my heart and i fel this is the one true remarkable the raw voice is a really nice touch

  • @caltiki7914
    @caltiki7914 8 років тому +10

    That's a timeless poem

  • @topsone3428
    @topsone3428 3 роки тому +5

    This version of Tom O'Bedlam reading this poem is so much more emotional than of Eliot's reading. Love this poem so much!

  • @tshhtf
    @tshhtf 12 років тому +1

    This is shockingly beautiful. Thankyou

  • @sbracco77
    @sbracco77 8 років тому +7

    Once again, a great reading clarifies a poem. Thanks for posting.

  • @bummercucumber
    @bummercucumber 14 років тому +1

    Your reading is the greatest I've heard.

  • @whythewar1
    @whythewar1 13 років тому

    @SpokenVerse This is the first time listening to a poem you read, I actually, swelled up and let a tear.

  • @astrophonix
    @astrophonix 10 років тому +26

    I had imagined the "here we go round the prickly pear" and the last lines should be sung like a nursery rhyme, not spoken, but what a great voice!

  • @JimJWalker
    @JimJWalker 8 років тому +77

    Who else came here because the T.S. Eliot's spoken version had music was so annoying?

  • @latebloomer4755
    @latebloomer4755 8 років тому +15

    i think its about becoming confined to silence and a world filled with alienation from each other.

  • @jdncoke2
    @jdncoke2 9 років тому +1

    you read wonderfully, thank you for your channel! :)

  • @YGriffiny
    @YGriffiny 12 років тому +1

    Our lecturer put Marlon Brando's recital of this poem on the screen for us yesterday. The best compliment I can give you is that I was disappointed in his failure to perform the last stanza the way you did. Keep up the good work, It really helps.

  • @IskalkaQuest2010
    @IskalkaQuest2010 4 роки тому +2

    Love your recitations! You have a gift. Thank you so much for sharing it. Blessings.

  • @marie-louisenieuwhof8510
    @marie-louisenieuwhof8510 10 років тому +1

    Just subscribed.
    Love your clear reading. Thank you.

  • @paripartizan
    @paripartizan 6 років тому +1

    your reading makes me shiver and gives me goose bumps! Im sure Eliot is proud of you in death's other kingdom

  • @Atarius
    @Atarius 10 років тому

    Haven't regretted subscribing to you once and I don't feel that I ever will.

  • @isarte2007
    @isarte2007 14 років тому +2

    if you are already dead inside, a physical death completes the end of your world and life... the last line made me think of death by murder = bang vs by illness = whimper.

  • @AQWoy
    @AQWoy 14 років тому +1

    I'm 13, I never thought I'd be into poetry, until I heard this...

  • @tatianadekun435
    @tatianadekun435 7 років тому

    The Illustrations are really suitable. Voice and manner of reading!! great)

  • @pirateprincess2149
    @pirateprincess2149 13 років тому

    @slayerdart i find part V with the nursery rhyme weaved within it to give it an entirely eerie air... the last stanza especially

  • @Sybl_X
    @Sybl_X 13 років тому +2

    what a nice way to learn for my setwork exam :-D love this poem!!!

  • @absolutfx
    @absolutfx 4 роки тому +1

    The experiences of a man who already knew existence was temporary the day he was born.

  • @kenruneck
    @kenruneck 14 років тому +1

    This poem is haunting.

  • @steveshaw9329
    @steveshaw9329 10 років тому +1

    Thank you, Tom

  • @kooroshrostami27
    @kooroshrostami27 4 роки тому +7

    This poem must have inspired Dark Souls series

  • @danbuter
    @danbuter 10 років тому

    Fantastic reading of Eliot's "The Hollow Men".

  • @Razzorzful
    @Razzorzful 12 років тому +1

    He is absolutely brilliant! Do you know if he has read any others?

  • @Oscar301
    @Oscar301 15 років тому

    Beautiful reading, thanks. You have a very rich voice - a fine blend of raw knowing and subtly growling despair. Bet you could do a Hamlet soliloquy serious justice...

  • @angelrwbf
    @angelrwbf 11 років тому

    rise54321- I thought I'd done a decently extensive study of both of those writers and yet somehow missed that bit of information, I was familiar with Eliot's viewpoint in this regard but not with it's specific relation to Orwell. Thank you for your comment, as I can now seek out and read further into this subject.

  • @FernandoBalderama
    @FernandoBalderama 14 років тому +1

    the last stanza gives me chill to the bones.. for some reason.. >.

  • @Byenia
    @Byenia 10 років тому

    Very cool reading of this poem. Thanks for sharing.

  • @barakvesh
    @barakvesh 15 років тому

    Flashing the image of the hollow men again at the end was very effective.

  • @theNewCruelty
    @theNewCruelty 14 років тому +2

    Outstanding reading. I've enjoyed listening several times now.

  • @danielgnfr
    @danielgnfr 9 років тому +1

    COuld you do a rendition of 'Song' by Allen Ginsberg, I'd love to hear from your voice. Thank you. And thank you for your beautiful channel!

  • @WaddedBliss
    @WaddedBliss 12 років тому +1

    Great poem, great reading. Favourited. Thanks for the u/l.

  • @tardiskeeper6
    @tardiskeeper6 10 років тому

    I kept getting that falls in the shadow bit in my head

  • @lewiszim
    @lewiszim 15 років тому

    @SpokenVerse there is also a reference to Dante's inferno

  • @magencrisis1682
    @magencrisis1682 4 роки тому

    Amazing poem and reading. Maybe not the most uplifting thing to listen to while quarantined during a pandemic tho

  • @adrianpowell3039
    @adrianpowell3039 9 років тому +6

    Favorite poem of all time right here.

  • @giddycadet
    @giddycadet 5 років тому +1

    i came here from the axel thesleff version. this is wonderful

  • @adamm2091
    @adamm2091 9 років тому +3

    MGS2 quotes this, so good.

    • @HarryBillyBobGeorge
      @HarryBillyBobGeorge 8 років тому +2

      +Adam Miller And Halo 3. And Babylon 5. And just about everything ever.

  • @YouToastToast
    @YouToastToast 12 років тому

    This is fantastic!

  • @CIOWhitepapers
    @CIOWhitepapers 12 років тому

    thank you so much!

  • @HobTecCars
    @HobTecCars 14 років тому

    @SpokenVerse Best reading on the UA-cam, welldone.

  • @serendipity91000
    @serendipity91000 12 років тому

    Many thanks!

  • @gayakah
    @gayakah 12 років тому

    does anyone know what is the name of the reciter?

  • @gayakah
    @gayakah 12 років тому

    oh, at first I didn't get that it is you who recites these poems. well, thank you very much for such a great delivery of them.

  • @ofelipedbzgt1
    @ofelipedbzgt1 12 років тому +1

    Amazing!

  • @carlo88moe
    @carlo88moe 15 років тому

    great reading, really. pronounciation and tempo compliment each word and mood so dearly. i'd like to think of the reading in eliot's head, on its conception, as a very close relative to this version.
    thankyou, dont stop.

  • @angelocatania4772
    @angelocatania4772 10 років тому

    Speachless.

  • @johnnymarlin819
    @johnnymarlin819 5 років тому

    Up there reading as Brando reading it as Kurtz in Apocalypse Now !

  • @thomassimmons1950
    @thomassimmons1950 5 років тому

    THANK YOU
    BLESS YOU

  • @nopshere
    @nopshere 15 років тому

    Did T.S Elliot recite this himself?
    If so, the reader is amazing!

  • @serendipity91000
    @serendipity91000 12 років тому

    This is a great reading of the poem. i would like to use it for an art piece I am doing. Can this be arranged?

  • @heyheytaytay
    @heyheytaytay 14 років тому

    @2bsbc It's the best part. I lost it. "This is the way the world ends..."

  • @1984jimmyjet
    @1984jimmyjet 13 років тому

    Hi Tom, I hope you dont mind but Ive used your reading in my uni animation, its a great reading and I think my animation suits it quite well please check it out I'd love to hear your thoughts perhaps I can animate some more of your readings in future If you don't mind. Thank you.

  • @Asidian
    @Asidian 12 років тому

    This is a fantastic reading of this poem.

  • @kgk4L96
    @kgk4L96 11 років тому +3

    not much into poetry, but damn that thing is amazing.

  • @Pi10sco
    @Pi10sco 13 років тому

    Awesome.

  • @bullmoosevx
    @bullmoosevx 13 років тому

    Brilliant

  • @2Carny
    @2Carny 8 років тому +6

    haunting poem. This is" about" ww1 right?

  • @viverridae
    @viverridae 11 років тому

    also, eliot is public domain, so it's fair game.

  • @oblivious108
    @oblivious108 12 років тому

    BEST POEM EVER!

  • @fattoumabidi6990
    @fattoumabidi6990 5 років тому

    Magic

  • @TXLuster
    @TXLuster 11 років тому

    Fucking beautiful

  • @CSNA4U
    @CSNA4U 13 років тому

    entrancing /bow

  • @jonaxfred
    @jonaxfred 10 років тому

    so beautiful !!!!

  • @invoiceverse5363
    @invoiceverse5363 4 роки тому

    Marlon Brando in Apocalipse Now. Now you. Just great!

  • @dancedelirium
    @dancedelirium 12 років тому

    you should've been hired in lord of the rings.

  • @somor98
    @somor98 16 років тому

    Ummmm, me likes!!!

  • @CIOWhitepapers
    @CIOWhitepapers 12 років тому

    thank you so much!