An Audio Guide to Poetry Recitation - 4. “The Lake Isle of Innis

Audio Source:
   http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/listen-to-poetry


Here is poet David Mason.

[voice of David Mason] "It seems to me that there is a lot you can do when you're performing poems. There is a lot of range you can have. But you got to listen the poem for a while for a few readings and decide for yourself if it's a quiet poem,  or if it's a voicetrous poem, or if it's a fast poem, or if it's slow poem, and something of that has written into the poem itself. For example, there is a famous poem by William Butler Yeats called The Lake Isle of Innisfree, or Innishfree as some Irish people say, and it always seemed to me that whatever else you can say about this poem, it's  not a loud voicetrous poem. It's probably a quieter poem. So when you try to say it, you might want to say it with some sense of the quietness of the language."

Now the actor Anthony Hopkins reading "The Lake Isle of Innisfree".

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
by William Butler Yeats
[Read by Anthony Hopkins]

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

所有跟帖： 

• performing poems--a secret in it. -走马读人- ♂ (165 bytes) () 12/17/2014 postreply 19:21:33

• You are always a winner. -肖庄- ♀ (144 bytes) () 12/17/2014 postreply 19:48:06

• Thx, listened again. 一月rush篤定，二月publish讀到, 三月長征plus, 四月blush赧顏佔領 -走马读人- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/18/2014 postreply 04:28:59

• 以前只读过叶芝的“When You Are Old",今天读到了“The Lake Isle of Innisfree",谢。 -紫君- ♀ (824 bytes) () 12/18/2014 postreply 07:21:24

• 这两个翻译版本都很精湛！收藏了。 -肖庄- ♀ (432 bytes) () 12/19/2014 postreply 09:54:01

• 颇有同感，他们俩都译得好。 -紫君- ♀ (154 bytes) () 12/19/2014 postreply 18:46:52

• 好！ -随意- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/18/2014 postreply 11:03:43

• 谢谢！ -肖庄- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/19/2014 postreply 09:54:33

• 谢谢！ -yuanxiang- ♂ (147 bytes) () 12/18/2014 postreply 20:32:34

• 看新帖吧。 -肖庄- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/19/2014 postreply 09:55:31