The Wasteland by T S Eliot - the complete poem read aloud.

Classic Ghost Stories Podcast - Tony Walker

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The Wasteland by T S Eliot here narrated by Tony Walker of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast. This ground-breaking modernist poem brought Eliot fame. The Wasteland is a complex existentialist poem based in part on the myth of the Fisher King and Arthurian legend.
The Wasteland by T S Eliot is the poem that brought him fame. It is an existential meandering in which the smart-boy quotes in Latin, Greek, Italian, French, German and Sanskrit. Who knows what it means, but it sounds nice and parts even make me shiver.
00:30 1 The Burial of the Dead
04:57 2 A Game of Chess
09:46 3 The Fire Sermon
17:05 4 Death by Water
17:44 5 What the Thunder Said
23:20 End
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@MSYNGWIE12 2 года назад

You did it! You added to one of the greatest poems ever written. Marvellous- I am at a loss for words. "We are the hollow men and women..." Namaste

@beckymartin1810 2 года назад

Thank you for this narration! I love this work and you have made it even more precious!

@4444marla Год назад

Glad to hear you reading this and actually I always wanted to read it but never did so this is outstanding for a double reason….. now I know Your allusion for your own “unreal city”.Thank you!

@ClassicGhost Год назад

Yes that is so!

@moniquemacdonald7893 2 года назад

How are you and your family Tony? I hope this finds you all finally unpack and organized. More importantly healthy, warm and dry. Thank you again for keeping us as sane as possible during the last couple of years. I look forward to new podcasts from Classic ghost stories. As always your choice of accents today, along with pitch, and Cadence was Fabulous. This is one of my favorite poems, along with 'little Gidding' and I believe it's called 'naming cats'... Stay safe during these historic weather systems slamming our coasts. I across the pond from you. Both of Canada's coasts are being hit. It's like a real calideh this evening. Forgot to tell you the story 'clowns?'. Much fun. Your patience are going to miss you soon.

@ClassicGhost 2 года назад

I'm glad you liked the clowns story. A lot of my own stories have threads of humour in them, which is intended. Yes, we had a big storm but we were ok here, all me and mine anyway. The poetry was a holiday excursion. I did a more straight up ghost story in Harry so I thought I could have some fun with this and the forthcoming Sir Gawain and The Green Knight.

@bloke1348 2 года назад

Often heard this story mentioned by other writers like Lovecraft...wondered what the fuss was about...now I can understand why... probably merits listening to over and over..sort of Joycean flow of consciousness. Excellent reading btw.

@alisonduffy6206 2 года назад

So excited to hear this later. Fantastic! Thank you Tony.

@martiwilliams4592 2 года назад

Fantastic presentation. Again, coming back to the pc. from the t.v. so I can give thumbs up. Will hear again with original text before me.Thank you for this experience.

@annabellreads 2 года назад

A lovely reading, as always. Glad to see you expanding your repertoire into non-ghost stories! As to what it means, one thing I've found about classic lit is that, in some cases, a lot of the explication involves, "well, he was doing a whole lot of drugs at the time, so..."

@ClassicGhost 2 года назад

Old Tom. We don't know what he was up to on the side.

@annabellreads 2 года назад

@@ClassicGhost When asked, he famously retorted, quote, "gin and drugs," so it's a good guess, haha. (& side note, re: poetry channel, it's a catch 22, because you have a good strong channel here, and it's really tough to get audience buy-in across multiple channels. However, my experience with a combined poetry and prose channel is that the youtube algorithm hates it. Poems tend to be much shorter than prose -- if you go fast, you can plow through a sonnet in under a minute. Even making the chat/analysis portion deliberately on the long side, RU-vid starts freaking out that people only watched 5 minutes of a 5 minute poetry video, as opposed to 10 of an hour-long short story! That's much less watch time! We'd better not recommend it! But of course, as always, I am too stubborn for my own good).

@PhilipLawsonArt 2 года назад

This is the only good reading I’ve heard of this other than the one Tom Elliot read himself . Tony you are amazing . Thank you .

@ClassicGhost 2 года назад

Wow, that is high praise!

@PhilipLawsonArt 2 года назад

Mr. Walker, do you know the work of Frank Stanford ? He is an amazing poet. His poems are dark in a very southern way. I grew up in the places he described. Since I have heard you reading poetry, Id like to tell you about him. His first poem is called "Battlefield where the moon says I love you". It is a 15,283 line poem (542 pages) with no stanza or punctuation. Genius. I would love to hear you read poems like "Death and the Arkansas River". This poetry runs up and stands next to you, you can feel its breath. Even if this something you wouldn’t read here, I believe it is something you would like to examine. If you put Frank Stanford poetry in the you tube search you will find several readings. One actually is read by me in my studio. Don’t laugh to hard at me ;-) . Thank you for your great work.

@ClassicGhost 2 года назад

I didn't know him. I've just looked him up at the Poetry Foundation and read a couple. I like what I see. I do love poetry and always have though I've wandered away from it in recent years. I would love to do more poetry, but I suspect that I would need a separate channel. Thats possible of course.

@Firecracker66 2 года назад

Insomnia all night finally what I need thank you

@ClassicGhost 2 года назад

Sleep sleep sleep

@4444marla Год назад

Would you consider reading the “Four Quartets”? How do you think Eliot would have thought of this modern period of 2022 as comparison wasteland?

@ClassicGhost Год назад

I would but not on this channel. Try my poetry channel ru-vid.com/show-UCPdAFamaAyh2hp57DTPpUNQ

@rayswoop4947 2 года назад

This was mentioned in Stephen kings the dark tower

@ClassicGhost 2 года назад

+Jesse Ard I like those books. I liked the film With Idris Elba and Mathew McConnachie too

@rayswoop4947 2 года назад

@@ClassicGhost oh most definitely, but...i really wish they would have done an epic production to it like lord of the rings and made about 3 to 4 movies over time and have either Viggo play Roland, or hey, even better Daniel Day Lewis play him, oh man, that would have been epic, those books effected my life greatly, such a great series.

@rayswoop4947 2 года назад

@@ClassicGhost that dark tower movie also came out on my birthday 😁but yeah it was still good for what it was. Loving ur channel brother, CHEERS!!!

@ClassicGhost 2 года назад

True, I was surprised and disappointed it was only a short film. They could have done a Wheel of Time

@rayswoop4947 2 года назад

@@ClassicGhost exactly, and man, i think Daniel Day Lewis would have been an exceptional Roland