A Ballade of Suicide


Leído por LibriVox Volunteers

(4.3 stars; 3 reviews)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Ballade of Suicide by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 20, 2012.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer. He published works on philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox". Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." For example, Chesterton wrote "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." (Summary by Wikipedia ) (0 hr 38 min)

Capítulos

A Ballade of Suicide - Read by ALP 1:55 Leído por Algy Pug
A Ballade of Suicide - Ready By CMP 2:24 Leído por CaprishaPage
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by DL 2:05 Leído por David Lawrence
A Ballade of Suicide - Sung by EZWA 3:39 Leído por Ezwa
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by FS 2:24 Leído por fshort
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by GC 1:42 Leído por Snapdragon
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by JCM 2:04 Leído por Jason Mills
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by JL 1:47 Leído por April Gonzales
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by JM2 2:03 Leído por Jannie Meisberger
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by JN 1:32 Leído por Julia Niedermaier
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by LAH 1:48 Leído por Lee Ann Howlett
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by LLW 2:15 Leído por Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by MG 2:25 Leído por Martin Geeson
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by MJF 2:22 Leído por MJ Franck
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by REF 2:06 Leído por Rhonda Federman
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by RH 1:56 Leído por Rhajimas Holmes
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by RN 2:26 Leído por ravenotation
A Ballade of Suicide - Read by UM 1:54 Leído por ekzemplaro

Reseñas

Darkly humorous short poem


(4 stars)

This is a difficult poem to interpret with sense- stresses in the wrong places, for instance, quickly render parts of the rhyme confusing or meaningless. It is arch, which can be hard to convey. I recommend the readings by MG and LLW. One reader has put the poem to music- for which I give her much credit for the effort involved. I'm not sure it's appropriate for this poem, however. I don't think the line "Perhaps the rector's mother will not come" was ever meant to be sung. Amusing and odd poem.