[Susan d.S.]

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

[Richard Meyer]

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

Richard

[Ed Shacklee]

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

[Martin Rocek]

Congratulations!

[Terese Coe]

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

[Marcia Karp]

Quite the final line, Ed.

[R. Nemo Hill]

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

[Janice D. Soderling]

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

[Susan McLean]

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

[Michael Cantor]

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.