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Ecstasy and Death Keats Trailer 1
Jack Ramey, poet and spoken word artist, brings to life the poems of Keats & Shelley and the revolutionary times in which they lived, with parallels to his own life in the late ‘60s at Kent State. Rome was of special importance to these two poets. Shelley wrote some of his greatest works in Rome, Keats died there, and they both are buried there in the Protestant Cemetery. This film shows how they live on as bright stars in the poetic firmament, as beacons for humanity, for truth, and for beauty.
If you like the trailer and would like to see the 56 minute video, please contact Nancy Rodgers at rodgers@springwoodpress.org.
Part 1: Shelley
Mask of Anarchy, Prometheus Unbound, Ode to the West Wind
Part 2: Keats-Shelley House
Ozymandias, Bright Star, Endymion, Ode on a Grecian Urn
Part 3: The Final Act - The Protestant Cemetery
Ode to a Nightingale, This Living Hand, Adonais
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Poet and spoken-word artist Jack Ramey brings to life one of the saddest and most beautiful poems in the English language, John Keats' Ode to a Nightingale.
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  • @mohammedkoduvamparambath4271
    @mohammedkoduvamparambath4271 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful rendering. Few can give voice to the words in the poem. Thanks

  • @plantsart5377
    @plantsart5377 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazingly read out.

  • @mdhuzaifanaseer
    @mdhuzaifanaseer ปีที่แล้ว

    wundershone

  • @mdhuzaifanaseer
    @mdhuzaifanaseer ปีที่แล้ว

    wundershun

  • @haddockpaddock
    @haddockpaddock ปีที่แล้ว

    And the reader's name is...?

  • @bdumontpoetry
    @bdumontpoetry 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I find this an exciting reading. Thank you! And the contextualization of each poem to prepare us for what we're about to hear was an excellent idea.

  • @philiprostek
    @philiprostek 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautifully described and dramatically performed. Thank You.

  • @krishnadundur3694
    @krishnadundur3694 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lovely

    • @krishnadundur3694
      @krishnadundur3694 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for your sensitive appreciation of Shelley

  • @djpokeeffe8019
    @djpokeeffe8019 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Two minutes in. The artist's name is Severn, like the river, not Severin like the explorer.

  • @greatedges
    @greatedges 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant recitation! Thank you.

  • @ticoalochancho
    @ticoalochancho 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful!

  • @ilariafagiolini7541
    @ilariafagiolini7541 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maybe he wrote it when he was in Pisa, he lived in Pisa and loved the San Rossore Park. He often visited the pine forest with Byron.

  • @horacioh1
    @horacioh1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you

  • @vanicalucas4614
    @vanicalucas4614 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:30

  • @JohnReadsPoetry
    @JohnReadsPoetry 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the best reading of "Ode to a Nightingale" that I've been able to find on TH-cam. Not only are the emotions of the poem expressed excellently, but Jack Ramey also brings to life the intricate formal characteristics of the poem, with his sense of meter, pace and timing. Thank you very much, sir.

  • @JohnReadsPoetry
    @JohnReadsPoetry 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a beautiful reading, thank you very much for sharing. I find the tone and message of the poem invigorating, and I think you expressed that feeling perfectly. I also think that you pointed out some important facts in your introduction. Percy Shelley was indeed one of the few of his contemporaries to recognize and acknowledge Keats' poetic genius, and he was furious at the way critics had treated his work. Some people in the literary establishment continued to dismiss Keats long after his death. Even W. B. Yeats scornfully dismissed him as a stablekeeper's son, and he was born more than two generations after Keats. It's also very true what you said about Shelley's concept of "communing with the divine spirit" present in nature. Although he was politically a radical and famously got himself expelled from Oxford for writing a pamphlet "On the Necessity of Atheism", I think it's quite clear from his writing that he saw the divine as a force at work within nature, and quite possibly as a force inseparable from or even identifiable with nature itself. A force of which humans are very much a part of.

  • @sasukegutszerolevialucod6927
    @sasukegutszerolevialucod6927 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wanna know what is the two mood on this poem..its hard to analyze and im not into poetry or cant understand english that well..

  • @AllergicToMango
    @AllergicToMango 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:14

  • @caoticaxeda
    @caoticaxeda 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've watched all the videos in the channel. Some, several times over. I would love to take all of my English literature classes from you, please and thank you.

  • @muhammadirfannoor33
    @muhammadirfannoor33 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love your way of reciting, love you

  • @andreasraab5294
    @andreasraab5294 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Entschuldigung -- wenn a me nird bis zur rage ärgern meissad, dann kannte moz lacha. Hätte nicht gedacht, dass es nicht noch viel schlechter auch geht als hier vorgeführtt. Tuts aber. Danke immerhin für die erhellende Einführung.

  • @johnc6339
    @johnc6339 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This channel has only 116 subs, and that dear folks is a travesty. Lovely interpretation as ever.

  • @saraswati2506
    @saraswati2506 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Eloquently delivered.

  • @saraswati2506
    @saraswati2506 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Second

  • @bredamaune2028
    @bredamaune2028 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    A beautiful rendition of the poem. Thank you.

  • @anitapandey5261
    @anitapandey5261 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful 🤗🤗

  • @pandapanda1396
    @pandapanda1396 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful reading. I love how you change the dynamics of your voice to capture the ebb and flow of the whooshing wind throughout the verse.

  • @EUNICEbooksandwords
    @EUNICEbooksandwords 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Keats seems to be saying that art is eternal - the nature of art and itself is eternal, and the nature of life and reality is fleeting." Your short explanation made me get the whole poem. I was wondering what the poem was saying throughout the 5 stanzas. Very clear :) Thank you, sir.

  • @pleasingsuta7506
    @pleasingsuta7506 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's really amezing👌👌👌

  • @leeolivia6803
    @leeolivia6803 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    love ur tone!

  • @stacylarge5636
    @stacylarge5636 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    My appreciation for your most adequate reading is muted only by my inability to explain to you how terribly terribly heavy all other readings were and how they made these words fall as lifeless bricks to my sorely disappointed ears ....I thank you as best I know for your passion is to my ears most enjoyable...

  • @doortostudy3855
    @doortostudy3855 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and this Vid

  • @passionsofafzal7780
    @passionsofafzal7780 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Marvelous !

  • @wkenneth7916
    @wkenneth7916 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nice. I recite this internally every morning. It keeps my memory sharp and gives me something beautiful to reflect on for later.

  • @matepavic6929
    @matepavic6929 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    First.

  • @JudgeJulieLit
    @JudgeJulieLit 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderfully modulated, meditative yet impassioned reading of this majestically wild apostrophic poem.

  • @secret3333333333
    @secret3333333333 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a passionate reading. Thank you

  • @Listener-bl2vu
    @Listener-bl2vu 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Appreciate your explanation on this fascinating poem. Love your reading!

  • @johngray9371
    @johngray9371 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    A beautiful reading of a beautiful poem.

  • @NidhiShastri1825
    @NidhiShastri1825 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved your rendition of poem

  • @hayleyadouglas4706
    @hayleyadouglas4706 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very informative, thank you

  • @johnc6339
    @johnc6339 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    A great reading, very insightful interpretation. Thank you Mr R

  • @asiacareri3880
    @asiacareri3880 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you thank you a lot for sharing

  • @prabhatshukla9740
    @prabhatshukla9740 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    The best thing one can find on the internet regarding Shelly's ode to the west wind.

  • @cindrella92
    @cindrella92 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    that was such a mesmerizing performance. thank you for sharing.

  • @vishalkumarjha8684
    @vishalkumarjha8684 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    plz upload more videos kindly

  • @deltac77
    @deltac77 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I found this video to be highly enlightening and enjoyable.