[lit-ideas] Re: The medium is the message (?)
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- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:12:59 +0100
On 19-Nov-10, at 8:55 AM, David Ritchie wrote:
On Nov 18, 2010, at 3:19 AM, cblists@xxxxxxxx wrote:
I keyed the name 'Keats' into the YouTube search field. This came
up as the first item:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asGolDPXMoo&feature=related
I was sure that the video would culminate in, "Well bugger me," or
some similar change of register. Quite strange. So I went in
search. I quite like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy8lehO7nqg
Very nice! Thanks for that.
But then, goodness, this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh13dOfuVXk&feature=related
"Goodness"is not the word for it!
There's plenty more animation of the type found in the Keats clip at
the animator's YouTube account (poetryanimations):
http://www.youtube.com/user/poetryanimations
I can't say that I like any of them - and I think that it's more than
just a matter of taste. But if it get's YouTubers (a variety of couch
potato?) listening to and reading poetry, well ....
Chris Bruce,
Kiel, Germany
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