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“This is the night mail” – WH Auden

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25 Responses to ““This is the night mail” – WH Auden”

  • jenyalovely says:

    its sound scary

  • Magical creative genius.

    I’d also argue that this movie proves WH Auden and Benjamin Britten invented rap!

  • This i sa great poem, it has a great reader too, i really love it…have never forgotten it ever…also, i like the beginning (the fast speaking tempo) and everything apart from the second paragraph…i love this

  • moneygob says:

    Did this bloke do bagpuss?

  • ianupton says:

    x factor:

    superclubs. rooney. housemates with delusions.
    escape to establish yet more self confusions.
    removing lifes worth, here comes the conclusion
    the life that you crave is just an illusion.

  • @ianupton

    If you wrote that, well done indeed ! Superb stuff, always truth in humour.

  • ianupton says:

    This is the chav male crossing the Border,
    Bringing the giro cheque and the restraining order,
    Steals from the rich, steals from the poor,
    The shop at the corner, shags the girl next door.
    Pulling up roll up joint, a steady high:
    The police are against him, as hes done time.
    Past skunk-grass and moorland lager
    Shovelling white coke over his shoulder,
    Snorting noisily as he passes
    Silent miles of non grasses.
    Birds turn their heads as he approaches,
    Stare from nimbys at his smoked out roaches.

  • paullubliner says:

    THIS is addictive………

  • Votapardo says:

    Sorry, forgot to add that the last line actually is “For who can BEAR TO feel himself forgotten?”

  • Yes, bang on….does a Circle Line train ever arrive in London?

  • 1:59 Track Pans. Still a marvelous favorite..

  • jcjl963 says:

    Is the narrator the narrator who narrates Trumpton?

  • Baron Verulam – spot on, your Grace!

  • i have been trying tooo find thie rhyme for over 6 months, at last i have, i love it

  • ducky72 says:

    Fresh rhymes and killa flow, this is some great hip hop right here.

  • ltpierce1 says:

    wow awsome!!!

  • ….This is the tube train waiting to go
    stays totally still, a strike from Bob Crow
    Commuters stranded from june until May
    Whilst bob’s on his arse earning £90K….

  • xrahspex says:

    1930s rap video!

  • cvrmaniac says:

    BRILLIANT POEM!

  • Hazylynx says:

    haha those bars are sick

  • cpfunnycp says:

    i watched this at harris

  • martinjp1958 says:

    Everything about this is great.

  • Was the engine a ‘Scot’ ?

  • jbbnbb says:

    Doesnt it make you feel you are on the train ? I can feel the cold night air and also the heat from the boiler…. and the bits of soot on the eyelids. Truly a great match of words and film which serves as a precious piece of social history ! Thanks,

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