Wystan Hugh Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
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- W.H. Auden reads his thought-provoking lyric 'As I Walked Out One Evening', written in 1937. I hope you enjoy the film, and please feel free to post a comment. I do not own any rights to the recording.
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I realize many find this poem depressing, yet I find it somewhat comforting knowing that I am not alone in my sadness of time slipping away.
In Buddhism we call this feeling “duhkha”. We all have it, and it is both a pleasure and a pain.
Im not a native speaker but I’m really touched by this English poem
Me too. Some emotions are universal regardless of language
You shall love your crooked neighbor
With your crooked heart
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That might be the single most powerful couplet in all of poetry.
true
I've come to this after re-watching one of my favorite films; "Before sunrise". Late in the film one of the Characters recites a misremembered part of this poem. When I first watched the film on (Sky) TV one late night/early morning many years ago it was nothing but a beautiful verse in a small romantic movie and it lined up perfectly with the plot, in which the two protagonists meet on a train in Europe and decide to get off in Vienna & spend a few hours together before one of them catches a flight. But now the literal meaning is abundantly clear to me and undoubtedly everyone else who is lucky enough to get older and be able to feel the sweet sadness of this💕
I just want to say that I don't think Jesse misremembers the poem in the film. He leaves out the lines "For in my arms I hold / The Flower of the Ages, / And the first love of the world." He's holding Celine in his arms as he /doesn't/ say this. I like to think those lines are lived and do not have to be said.
'Time watches from the shadow, and coughs when you would kiss.' How fucking brilliant.
I love that line, but I'm more impacted by "Stare, stare in the basin / And wonder what you've missed.."
Auden's poetry always cheers me up.
Absolutely stunning. Thank you.
I first encountered this poem on a recording, called A VISIT TO AMERICA, by Dylan Thomas. His reading, more dramatic and sonorous than Auden's, made an indelible impression on me. I like Auden's more understated reading, too, but if you find it flat, try Dylan Thomas's, also available on TH-cam.
just marvelous. thank you.
There was no more accomplished poet in English in the last century+ then Auden... a lovely example....Auden was one of the best readers of his own or other's poetry. It will be seen that his voice is superior to virtually all professional actors...Indeed, having a musician's ear enabled him to collaborate effectively on librettos/drama/opera...
Right, he speaks clearly and distinctly, without any "I am reciting poetry" affectations.
Auden was good, Yeats & Elliot were better.
O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer time.
Whenever Im inclined to underestimate Auden I read this, Auden overestimated light verse and wrote too much of it himself but this is not light, This is the real thing, It has the quality of the best nursery rhymes the best ballads, It is mythopoeic and archetypal, Truly as Plato said great poetry is thr gift of Apollo
I agree with you, Michael Boylan, save and except for your one mild criticism: an overestimation of light verse is impossible to judge for no less reason than that provided by GK Chesterton: 'Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly'.
just beautiful
BRILLIANT!
it's very depressing but so true at the same time Auden is amazing
The last verse...
It was late, late in the evening,
The lovers they were gone;
The clocks had ceased their chiming,
And the deep river ran on.
is the only piece of poetry I know by heart...
How true
The reader is W.H. Auden. In your opinion, Auden is not capable of reading his own poems with the right cadence? Wow!
Fully it was better read in my mind
Yes nice air
He was not twenty when this was recorded, man.
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time runs like a rabbit
It just occurred to me for the first time that "the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer" is a homophone for "the Lily-white Boy is Aurora". I don't know if that's anything, but maybe it'll help someone get more meaning out of a confusing stanza in what is otherwise a very fine and excellent poem with deep mythopoetic themes.
Edit: It also occurs to me that "harvest wheat" is a plant that's about to die, to be reaped.
A 'roarer' is a male homosexual, for what it matters. Good luck at finding 'meaning' in a 'confusing stanza'. Perhaps you might regard the odd mixture as 'soundlessly collateral and incompatible'; an example of 'the drunkeness of things being various', to borrow two lines from 'Snow' by Louis MacNeice, a friend of Auden's.
Privilege to have a neighborhood crooked.. Sometimes a miracle happening for a second even if you you trying all your life.. Small kind words can be more important than 1000 others words with out value. So keep the rest for a cap coffee.. Extra from Me.!
Noice!!!
Say, any you cats have W.H.A. reciting (reading) this in his youth? I heard a recording under *Poem From Another Time* wherein Auden's voice sounded almost juvenile, clipped; an affected homosexual accent. The recording exists, prob other iterations, Thanks.
Terrifying.
i'm here for Sylvia Plath
Hi there, does anybody know what the copyright situation is with this reading? Can it be used for non-profit projects? Thanks!
Yes,copyright ran out
Auden died in 1973, so his works are in copyright.
@@tomkent4656 thanks for info. I think you were right in the end. Used this for a little personal VR demo 8 years ago. Just as well that I never published it .
Krishan get a grip on youself!
Meh name is AUDEN '0'
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I guess you're better at reading it, aren't you?
Commonpetersaw poorpaypoor
This is ok, but I like happy poems more. Also, this one seems disjointed, like some things he says dont go very well with other things he said in this point. Seems you really have to use a lot of superglue to get it to all stick together, but then you have the feeling it is just a bunch of different objects someone glued together.
Dont you think so too, same as me?
Life is a 'bunch of different objects glued together', whether or not 'someone' is responsible. Don't you think so too?
yeats was a shitty reader of his own poetry. he was tone-deaf. so, yes, an actor -- a good one -- can do a better job than the actual poet. of course! a poet is just a speech writer. he needs a good speaker!
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Fsnetgotmywordes
who is the reader? a bit slow on the pace IMO
Krishan Bhattacharya Dylan Thomas
it's auden himself
cadence not quite right
It doesn't matter wether or not I'm better at reading it. Auden's rendition sounds plodding and somewhat monotonous. That he trills his Rs old school is pretty cool though.
Mediocre
Don’t put yourself down - you’re probably better than you think.
its not that good.