Stephen Fry tells Jonathan Bate about how he has turned to poetry in dark times. He ends by talking about John Keats, whose "Ode to a Nightingale" he reads in the next film.
Just seeing it pop up on RU-vid instantly lifted my depression before I have even viewed it Stephen is such a chap one of the true bastions of our great country. Now I'm off to phone spike 😉
Wow. Thank You for this and bless you, Stephen - you are a beautiful man who’s wit and expression of language covers a very wide spectrum of the human experience. Your honesty is deeply inspiring.
Mr Fry, thank you for having the courage to frankly express your issues with bipolar disorder & also drug & alcohol issues & a means of your own to deal with such things
B"H Xmas is past.We thought, we sought ,we planned, we wished and we BOUGHT but still we didn't get what we wanted. We now HOPE for new Year's Eve and hope for the New Year to find a "better life" We all know what we need but who knows what we are needed for We are ALL Equal in that we have the same soul We are all different in tht no one shares the same kind of human body we have All Created beings NEED hope or we can't go on The Grass is greener On The Other Side, its what we HOPE will give us what we want When we get to the other Side we find that we didn't get all that we wanted Once KINGS and Emperoros ruled us as slaves NOW we are all slaves to our desires, we have hope that the next thing we are enslaved to buy and purchase will make us "happy" The new World Order is again King over us, were we ever free of kings? We all know what we NEED but do we know what we are NEEDED for? IF you ask yourself WHAT you are needed for as an Eternal Soul enclothed in a Human Physical Body, you will find the answer. As souls we are all one.
What has being British got to do with depression? You might invest in a dictionary. The word "your," in the sentence above, is misspelled; the correct spelling is "you're."
I don't subscribe to the idea of poetry as therapy, but if some wish to look at it like that, okay. Phillip Larkin was an alcoholic; he died of alcoholism. Alcohol is another bad choice for treating melancholia. Exercise, reading, doing something for someone else speaks volumes.
