xRobot: Christina Rossetti "Song" Poem Animation Videos

Added: Nov 19, 2008

From: poetryanimations

Duration: 0:48

Heres a virtual movie of the great Christina Rossetti 1830 - 1894 by far my favourite female poet reading her lovely sad poem "Song" which to my ears is as the title suggests should realy be sung or chanted rather than just given the rather dry and lifeless recitation performed here by Peggy Ashcroft.I do think however that this reading probably sounds rather like Christina may have sounded when the photograph I have used in this virtual movie was taken towards the end of her very creative life and works well to give an impression of how Christina may have looked and sounded had she been filmed at this stage of her life.Kind RegardsJim ClarkAll rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2008Song "When I am dead my dearest"...When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me;Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree:Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet;And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain;I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on, as if in pain:And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set,Haply I may remember, And haply may forget.

Channel: Music

Tags: animation  beddoes  bosie  bronte  christina  dolben  dowson  ernest  mackworth  patmore  poe  poem  poetry  remember  rossetti  song 

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