Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson (Powerful Life Poetry)
A powerful poem on finding new purpose as we grow older.
Read by Victor Vertunni
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In Tennyson's "Ulysses," an old adventurer is frustrated with domestic life and yearns to set sail again to explore the world.
Throughout the poem, Ulysses rails against his advanced years, and declares that although he and his fellow men are old, they still have the potential to do something noble and honourable before “the long day wanes.”
In this extract from the poem, he encourages his men to make use of their old age because “ ’tis not too late to seek a newer world.” He declares that his goal is to sail onward “beyond the sunset” until his death.
Perhaps, he suggests, they may even reach the “Happy Isles,” or the paradise of perpetual summer described in Greek mythology where great heroes like the warrior Achilles were believed to have been taken after their deaths.
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The newest addition to the Powerful Life Poetry series is up! - an extract from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’. If you have any suggestions for future poetry readings you’d like to hear, feel free to drop a comment below! Best, RF
@dan-andreivasilescu228
4 жыл бұрын
"Marriage between heaven and hell", William Blake, please, thank you!
@Steveirwin4477
4 жыл бұрын
Thinking by Walter D Wintle
@ajr5406
4 жыл бұрын
"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou. This poem might be the most inspiring one you may put in the series.
@richardbonner2354
4 жыл бұрын
@@ajr5406 Yes! Maya Angelou's stuff, please. I think she may be like me; a Militant You-Man - and You-Wiminz, too! - Racist because she said something similar to, "The more I learn of those who are 'different' from me, the more I see how alike we Are..." A 'pink-skinned' guy, Rick Bonner Pennsyltucky rcabonner1@live.com
@roberttinsley8960
4 жыл бұрын
Emily Dickenson
At age 77, this is the first time I have ever heard this poem read in this manner.
@coveyssteve
3 жыл бұрын
That's because it's only the latter 25% of the poem. The entire poem is to be preferred imo.
@paddymeboy
2 жыл бұрын
@@coveyssteve If he'd only read it at a sensible pace he could've fitted the whole thing into the same time!
@retiredyeti5555
2 жыл бұрын
@@seansmith3058 - I do not believe in luck.
@mairtohainle9773
2 жыл бұрын
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@joachimmcdonnagh
Жыл бұрын
Incredible reading...
Please, for the love of mankind, record the full version of this poem! It's such a wonderful recitation, that I keep coming back to it almost every day.
The greatest power of poetry lies in the recitation. You have a blessed voice.
@user-nm6fo7vm8m
3 жыл бұрын
i second this. narrator gives life to those words. and i totally believe he recited the mind of the writer. awesome voice!
@switzerlandful
3 жыл бұрын
The greatest lies in love and truth, but only if the hearer not only understands it but knows its cost.
@matusbarbuscak3347
Жыл бұрын
Absolutelly agrred!
My literature professor taught us this as the last lesson and ive stolen this as my parting lesson from students ever since. Really touching, love you Dr. Farah❤️ 🧑🎓🧑🏫
I just read this same poem a few days ago! After hearing "M" recite it in the James Bond movie "Skyfall"! Very insightful! Thank You for sharing!!!
This poem means so many different things to me, but a common theme - redemption and rebirth. It is so beautiful and has always been one of my favorites.
That last line is perfectly read and the music perfectly timed to underscore the grit and resolve within it.
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. (Favourite lines ❤)
This poem was my major introduction to English literature. It keeps on taking new meanings and more clarity for me as I grow older. I was 13 the first time i wrote an analysis of it and today, it is ever so profound. And this presentation? Appropriate and fitting
I love all the poems you're coming out with. I hope you keep doing them I find more inspiration in these then 100, 10 min videos of a person trying to hype me.
Poetry never influenced me but after listening to this I loved poems a lot. Just keep sharing poems. Great work
These are so beautiful. My heart is always full, listening to these masterpieces.
What a beautiful poem and wonderfully recited
It makes me speechless, feeling like I am suffocating. An awe-inspiring work of expression.
@coveyssteve
3 жыл бұрын
Try the entire poem.
After truncating the silence between phrases to 1 second the reading has won considerably.
I watch this once a day. I turned 50 this year. It keeps life in perspective. Thank you.
I hated poetry but when I came across this channel I love it KEEP GOING BRO
@Kens789
4 жыл бұрын
Art of Greatness how can you even hate poetry ?
@greendiscipline3500
4 жыл бұрын
I agree with this, most contemporary poetry is a joke. The classics however...
@lanami8601
3 жыл бұрын
Me too. Even I am not good in English , I keep listening and listening . Can’t stop 😍
@karonsanchez3551
3 жыл бұрын
Art of Greatness: I never really read alot of poetry but when I came across this channel, I go straight to the poems. I am a Senior and now I know what the poems are saying. So now I am such a fan. Absolutely Beautiful!
@errollleggo447
2 жыл бұрын
@@greendiscipline3500 Agreed!
Amazing poem made even more incredible by the speaker and the editing 👌
Honestly I just want to say this is amazing content, full of wisdom and powerful meanings.
Extremely powerful and inspiring!!! These words are worth more than silver and gold my fellow humans. Thank you RedFrost for posting yet another beautiful video.
Poetry in your voice is the shower of blessing 😌❣️
@spartanspirit1013
8 ай бұрын
Reading of poetry is the best thing 🎉
I really enjoyed your measured reading of this epic poem. While I've read the story Ulysses, I've never heard or read the poem. However now I appreciate the prose story and the poem for how the imply the unceasing need to stride until death or possibly beyond. Also, that tremelous violin accompaniment really adds to the atmosphere created by your voice. Super!!👍🏽😊👏🏾👏🏾🌅
Thank you so much for this. My favorite poem since my twenties, and more meaningful now in my 60s.
Surely, this was Tennyson's masterpiece. Nothing else he wrote rose to its level. A poem of great power and inspiration.
@jimbocho660
10 ай бұрын
He wrote other equally great poems.
@The-Big-Boss
8 ай бұрын
Maybe its my age but I'm preferable to Charge of The Light Brigade.
Beyond words.God bless you.
He sings a song of sorrow or of bliss. Remember those wonderful songs of his.
Thank you. Now, we start.
💎 Beautiful, thank you 🤗
This is very well done. Thank you.
A fantastic rendition of a fantastic work of poetry. Well done, mate.
Harold Bloom sent me here.. Now to listen to this 100 times to truly understand growing old.
Absolutely beautiful.
Keeps me alive.
This is possibly my favorite reading of this poem
Love Tennyson! Great poet!
Beautiful
Old age hath yet its honour and its toil
I first heard this poem in Frasier. Love it so much I went looking for it to read it whole. It's humbling, and for us middle-aged, it brings up what we knew. I would love to hear this with more force and passion, but it's not bad at all.
@travelsinchinese640
3 жыл бұрын
I love Frasier. He often read wonderful poetry.
I know exactly why you did only the last part of it - it is like a poem in itself. But - as yet "another work on noble note" - please do the whole thing too. You read it admirably.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson owned a house in my home county in the UK. It's a museum now dedicated to him and his work. I've been there a few times.
Very beautiful... Old age Dressed up to visit the ...
This is so powerfull and shines so bright in darkness that I might draw my sword once again, yet in the cold night.
Straight pass the brain direct to the soul
Thank you.
Beautiful!
Powerful recital - well done
Your voice is so inspiring and profound. It reminds me of that of Leonard Cohen. Thank you for this amazing piece of art, you're making me study this with more interest. I could hear it over and over again!
So well read thanks
Loved it!!!
Thank you
Great poem, read indifferently.
PLEASE!!!!! As @FriAnde92 said, you NEED TO DO THE WHOLE VERSION! It starts with "It little profits" . PLEASE DO IT!
Great work! 💖
The more I look into it, the more I realise how much Black Ops 2 draws from this. blops2 has some incredible writing and story, but I owe it to Tennyson for his inspiration.
It's really amazing 👌👌
I love this poem.
Powerful!
profound. Dr. Smiley Blanton the Christian psychiatrist loved this poem, quoting it in his book 'The Healing Power of Poetry'.
Powerful!,
Brilliant 👍
I like the RedFrost perspective = commentary above ⬆️ I like that part of studying. The "wrap up" or even better "di=secting" line by line. 🤔 It's work, tho.
Thank you RedFrost Motivation.Thank you
Love it
Please do some of Seamus Heaney's Squarings from Seeing Things. Some of my favorite. These are beautiful.
one of the most underated youtube channels 🤔
Victor Vertunni did a masterful job of voicing this poem! I only wish it had been the entire poem. And what happened to "the vessel puffs her sails"?
Awesome.
Exceptional
deep voice
Read this when I was 26. Read this last night at 48.
Never stop moving Redfrost🔥 love your content as well as your name. I'm a BEATBOXER 👍😊🎁
2:00 what he than said, love that and it's also in the film skyfall james bond!
A perfect poem to describe the faustian, European man. Dear God what's happened to us
They need the whole poem,
The music reminded me of Chis Nolan's Batman trilogy!
Name of the background score please
Honor is no boundary young age or old,beçouse everything go to death or rest full of experience and yet service don't need expectation whatever your status in life
Man tills the ground and lies beneath....Tennyson is a sad poet.
slowly coming to an end, the stars don't shine so much anymore.😔
@jaymcottier5380
4 жыл бұрын
the love i give is never returned.
@baneofbanes
3 жыл бұрын
The stars burn as bright as ever. Perhaps you need to see them beyond the skies of urban centers?
I find poets, those who write and creative artists very intelligent than for instance....some traditional professionals
please do mac flecknoe for us, ur work is really amazing 😊👍
Ah, the voice
To strive and not to yield. The reader's voice sounded like the late Lawrence Harvey actor.
Can you make a video on If by Rudyard Kipling with your narration.. please...
I cant hit the "like" enough.
The background music where can I find it?
Thank you for motivating so many people on this planet during these times of hardship 🌍.. I hope one day to help as many people with my KZread channel ✌🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍
Don’t cut this great poem short. Recite the entire poem. Granted the end is the best but to understand the end you must also know the beginning. To the makers of this web site. If you are going to only read some of the poem it should be made clear to the audience that the reading cover only part of the poem. Otherwise it is unfair the the listener. Great poetry is the know the entire poem
Great work! But why did you only upload the last stanza of the poem which includes total 3 stanzas?
Ours IS to reason why! We are entitled to why.
❤️
Final scene on Frasier
We have a literature lesson about him so I came to see him 💜🔮🖇🇮🇶
: Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Amazing!! What program they used to make this?
2:26的地方to stride to seek to find and never to yield
Narrator makes it 1000% better, what music tho?
Pena não estar traduzido em português 😔
“Chairman, Ministers, today I've repeatedly heard how irrelevant my department has become. *"Why do we need agents, the 00 section? Isn't it all rather quaint?"* Well, I suppose I see a different world than you do and the truth is that what I see frightens me. *I'm frightened because our enemies are no longer known to us.* They do not exist on a map. They're not nations, they're *individuals.* And look around you. Who do you fear? Can you see a face, a uniform, a flag? No! Our world is not more transparent now, it's *more opaque!* It's in the shadows. That's where we must do battle. *So before you declare us irrelevant, ask yourselves, how safe do you feel?* Just one more thing to say, *my late husband was a great lover of poetry,* and, em, I suppose some of it sunk in, despite my best intentions. *And here today, I remember this, I think, from Tennyson...”* -M, Skyfall