Beyond The East The Sunrise Recitation Old Version E 004
Channel: Bloom Books Channel
Date: 2013-09-23

There have been poems in all languages in the tune of moving things- buses, trains, ships, boats, horses, even running rivers. The Night Mail follows a train, Coromandel Fishers a swaying boat, The Highway Man a galloping horse, Tennyson's The Brooke a river and this here Beyond The East follows the rhythm of a ship on the sea. It is a special branch of poetry which has been the least researched into.

Beyond the east, the sunrise, beyond the west the sea,
And east and west the, wander-thirst that, will not let me be.

This song is originally titled Wander-Thirst, written by the British poet Gerald Gould. It's an old English song which often found its way into many English text books the world over. Here is a primitive prototype rendering of this song, made in a crude tape recorder decades earlier. It's part of a project PROPES INDIA or Project For The Popularization of English Songs In India. Recorded from an English class by Mr. P.S.Remesh Chandran. It's free for reuse, and anyone interested can develop and build on it, till it becomes a fine video musical production, to help little learners. Building a video or cinematic version of this song would certainly be costly, needing talent and imagination also.

Also please read this pictureful and informative article: 'My First English Recitation Videos Took Thirty Years To Produce. By P.S.Remesh Chandran.'

Link: http://sahyadribooks-remesh.blogspot.in/2014/05/058-my-first-english-recitation-videos.html