Poetica Victorian
 

Ed Shacklee's "The Playing Fields of Eton," set to music and pictures,
here.

Nice job, Ed. I enjoyed the poem and the video. And Beethoven’s Für Elise is an interesting musical accompaniment.

Richard

Thanks, Richard and Susan; and the folks at Poetica Victorian. Apparently this has been up for almost a year and I didn't know about it.

I would never have thought of playing Für Elise in the background, but it's ghoulishly appropriate in its way. As is the fade to gray at a certain point. Ghoulishy appropriate: that's me all over.

Best,

Ed

Congratulations!

Just caught up with this vid, and Ed, that is a deeply affecting antiwar poem. Huge congratulations!

Quite the final line, Ed.

Excellent, Ed.
And that is one of the few visual/video/musical approaches to setting a poem that I have ever thought worked at all. It amplifies, rather than reduces! Bravo on all counts.

Nemo

Excellent poem, Ed, and very well presented. I am bowled over by the preciseness, the lucidity, your way with words.

Ed, that was terrific. The anger and sadness come through all the more cuttingly by means of the restraint and beauty of the form.

Susan

Very nice, Ed. And the audios and visuals help, rather than get in the way, which is normally not the case. Unique poem and presentation.