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The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poetry |
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Sunday, 25 March 2007 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuTNdHadwbk
Billy Collins, former
US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his
poem "The Dead" with animation by Juan Delcan of Spontaneous.
Noted
for their intelligent humor, accessibility and observations on daily
life, Collins' popular poems come alive further in a series of animated
poems produced by JWT New York.
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The Poem - The
dead are always looking down on us, they say, while we are putting on
our shoes or making a sandwich, they are looking down through the
glass-bottom boats, of heaven as they row themselves slowly through
eternity. They watch the tops of our heads moving below on earth, And
when we lie down in a field or on a couch, Drugged perhaps by the hum
of a warm afternoon, They think we are looking back at them, which
makes them lift their oars and fall silent and wait, like parents, for
us to close our eyes. (more)
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