"How Can We Say 'Enough' on Earth?"

Of course, PoetryAnimations on YouTube is one of the best in my feed of many subscriptions.

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Love this one.

He really surprises you with some of the things he posts.

Some is canon, but a lot are obscurer pieces and I believe he was even posting some poems by children for a while, which I think is casually brilliant.

I love the creepiness of the animations.

Some seem rather natural.

Others seem so pained.

Not that the ventriloquism of the Dead should ever be easy.

SPOILER ALERT: As a 21st century reader (erm, listener) you might enjoy this--Christina's really shaking up the assonance in this one, the Aguilera of the Pre-Raphaelites--but when she speaks the last line, I bet you make a little moue. Or worse. Oh yeah. You were probably imagining the Ideal Lover or something. Well, so was she.

And yes, I did go there with "obscurer." I realize most people choose to go with the more common "more obscure." I like Obscurer as the name of a poetry collection. Because it's funny. One: it's the charge always made against poets to start out with--that they are obscure. And the word itself is "obscure," so a justification of the charge is implied in the word choice itself. And Two: It can imply the actor (of such language) himself or herself, i.e. someone who obscures.

The convention is three syllables means the comparative form drops off the -er suffix and slides the "more" around to the front of the adjective. Which is why Lewis Carroll is so delightful for "Curiouser and Curiouser." Everybody loves a flouter. Well, they should...