Saturday, February 8, 2014

Song of Myself - Walt Whitman

    
                                     and excerpt from "Walt Whitman" An American Experience 


Annabel Lee - Edgar Allan Poe



                                                     
                                                            "Annabel Lee" a short film



                                                         Joan Baez sings "Annabel Lee"  

                                                 

Ulysses - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 
                                                      performed by John Gielgud (1996)

Porhyria's Lover - Robert Browning

     
                                                              "Porphyria's Lover"

Tintern Abbey - William Wordsworth

 
                                                                 read by Ted Hughes

To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell

                 
                                                   "To His Coy Mistress" - a short film



                                                   A short analysis of part of the poem

She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron


                                                               read by High Dancey


                                                "Vanity Fair" starring Reese Witherspoon

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time - Robert Herrick


                             Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins" as found in "The Dead Poet's Society"

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

                                            
                                                        read by Richard Burton (part 1)


            
                                                                     (part 2)



                                                                     (part 3)

How Do I Love Thee? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

       
                                                          as read by Sally on the "Peanuts"



                                               performed @ 2012 NJ POL State Finals

On His Blindness - John MIlton

                                                   
                                                                  read by John Neville

Death Be Not Proud - John Donne

                                  
                                                              read by Julian Glover


                                             
                                                    Emma Thompson in the film "Wit"

Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

                             
                                    "Ozymandias" as read by Bryan Cranston of "Breaking Bad"


                                           
                                           A quick analysis of the poem. Worth your listen.