Billy Collins Animations

Billy Collins made some animations for a few poems for TED talks.  I watched a few of these and I will tell you how I feel about them.  One of the animations I saw was called Budapest.  It is about a hand and what it writes.  I find the voice of the narrator fairly depressing and the poem itself is fairly boring as well, being about a hand and all.  The second one was called Forgetfulness.  This had the same narrator but the poem was a little more interesting because it talks about how people slowly forget things over the course of time.  The animations of the poem is done fairly well, though I would rather watch some other videos on Youtube.  The third video was really weird.  It is called Hunger.  It talks about a hunter and a fox and the animation just has the words on the sides of different walls.  The fourth animation is called No Time.  I think the poem is really weird(with the same narrator) and the animation pretty cheesy.  It looks like a bunch of picture put together to depict movement.  The fifth animation is called Now and Then.  The poem is about a guy complaining about life in modern times compared to ancient China but the thing is if we lived in ancient China many of us would be dead so I found the poem stupid.  I like the animation however.  The narrator talks like his whole family was murdered by a kitten who then shot itself after the deed.