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.

[@RedFrostMotivation]

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

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"Marriage between heaven and hell", William Blake, please, thank you!

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Thinking by Walter D Wintle

[@ajr5406]

"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou. This poem might be the most inspiring one you may put in the series.

[@richardbonner2354]

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[@retiredyeti5555]

At age 77, this is the first time I have ever heard this poem read in this manner.

[@coveyssteve]

That's because it's only the latter 25% of the poem. The entire poem is to be preferred imo.

[@paddymeboy]

@@coveyssteve If he'd only read it at a sensible pace he could've fitted the whole thing into the same time!

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@@seansmith3058 - I do not believe in luck.

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[@joachimmcdonnagh]

Incredible reading...

[@FriAnde92]

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.

[@arjunsinha212]

The greatest power of poetry lies in the recitation. You have a blessed voice.

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i second this. narrator gives life to those words. and i totally believe he recited the mind of the writer. awesome voice!

[@switzerlandful]

The greatest lies in love and truth, but only if the hearer not only understands it but knows its cost.

[@matusbarbuscak3347]

Absolutelly agrred!

[@idankatz8085]

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❤️ 🧑‍🎓🧑‍🏫

[@subway1425]

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.

[@FemiShonubi]

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!!!

[@RM-zu2nh]

Thank you. Now, we start.

[@mohammadyasir2762]

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. (Favourite lines ❤)

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That last line is perfectly read and the music perfectly timed to underscore the grit and resolve within it.

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I agree with this, most contemporary poetry is a joke. The classics however...

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Me too. Even I am not good in English , I keep listening and listening . Can’t stop 😍

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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!

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@@greendiscipline3500 Agreed!

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It makes me speechless, feeling like I am suffocating. An awe-inspiring work of expression.

[@coveyssteve]

Try the entire poem.

[@heephay]

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

[@Dustpuma1]

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.

[@cyprianshongwe3860]

What a beautiful poem and wonderfully recited

[@rjmacready8830]

I watch this once a day. I turned 50 this year. It keeps life in perspective. Thank you.

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These are so beautiful. My heart is always full, listening to these masterpieces.

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Poetry never influenced me but after listening to this I loved poems a lot. Just keep sharing poems. Great work

[@bramblebop1904]

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.

[@aztekpriest6311]

PLEASE!!!!! As @FriAnde92 said, you NEED TO DO THE WHOLE VERSION! It starts with "It little profits" . PLEASE DO IT!

[@ihori779]

After truncating the silence between phrases to 1 second the reading has won considerably.

[@paulbyas6833]

Straight pass the brain direct to the soul

[@PickleRick849]

Harold Bloom sent me here.. Now to listen to this 100 times to truly understand growing old.

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Poetry in your voice is the shower of blessing 😌❣️

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Reading of poetry is the best thing 🎉

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Beyond words.God bless you.

[@Talkinglife]

Old age hath yet its honour and its toil

[@Kate-qu6lz]

Honestly I just want to say this is amazing content, full of wisdom and powerful meanings.

[@Sam-jh9yw]

Amazing poem made even more incredible by the speaker and the editing 👌

[@OxFromPhilly]

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.

[@Fidelis100]

Surely, this was Tennyson's masterpiece. Nothing else he wrote rose to its level. A poem of great power and inspiration.

[@jimbocho660]

He wrote other equally great poems.

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Maybe its my age but I'm preferable to Charge of The Light Brigade.

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Keeps me alive.

[@lohkoon]

He sings a song of sorrow or of bliss. Remember those wonderful songs of his.

[@ceciliademelo536]

Love Tennyson! Great poet!

[@surfghost9121]

Thank you so much for this. My favorite poem since my twenties, and more meaningful now in my 60s.

[@Lizzye33]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@winstonmiller9649]

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!!👍🏽😊👏🏾👏🏾🌅

[@rashikasd]

Beautiful

[@marchess286]

This is possibly my favorite reading of this poem

[@sharronbennett8990]

Thank you.

[@mojdemarvast2366]

Very beautiful... Old age Dressed up to visit the ...

[@maryvonnegadonnaud3078]

💎 Beautiful, thank you 🤗

[@matusbarbuscak3347]

This is so powerfull and shines so bright in darkness that I might draw my sword once again, yet in the cold night.

[@Buckmelanoma1]

Read this when I was 26. Read this last night at 48.

[@larryuk8630]

This is very well done. Thank you.

[@aphyTTR]

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.

[@bhaveshparekh8966]

Beautiful!

[@scaife]

A fantastic rendition of a fantastic work of poetry. Well done, mate.

[@davidblackwell9695]

Powerful recital - well done

[@elainebowen5234]

Thank you

[@oldernu1250]

Great poem, read indifferently.

[@jeffsmith1798]

I love this poem.

[@thedeadd.c.207]

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.

[@pinakichowdhury3043]

Loved it!!!

[@esq.546]

Powerful!

[@davidcsidavidcsi]

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.

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I love Frasier. He often read wonderful poetry.

[@demaistre2458]

A perfect poem to describe the faustian, European man. Dear God what's happened to us

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Powerful!,

[@GauravLohra]

It's really amazing 👌👌

[@dwanderful1]

So well read thanks

[@cucchiarina]

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!

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Love it

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Thank you RedFrost Motivation.Thank you

[@2serveand2protect]

Awesome.

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Brilliant 👍

[@EdHird]

profound. Dr. Smiley Blanton the Christian psychiatrist loved this poem, quoting it in his book 'The Healing Power of Poetry'.

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Great work! 💖

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“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

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Exceptional

[@denniskihara5039]

deep voice

[@michaelwalling8281]

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"?

[@christinagurchinoff1517]

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.

[@Meller571]

Please do some of Seamus Heaney's Squarings from Seeing Things. Some of my favorite. These are beautiful.

[@hardheadjarhead]

They need the whole poem,

[@SouvikBiswas420]

Great work! But why did you only upload the last stanza of the poem which includes total 3 stanzas?

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[@arciliosemente7165]

Amazing!! What program they used to make this?

[@GlennSteel69]

The music reminded me of Chis Nolan's Batman trilogy!

[@dashxdr]

Great reading, but why not start from the beginning?

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Ours IS to reason why! We are entitled to why.

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I cant hit the "like" enough.

[@priyokabi]

Ah, the voice

[@greg2805]

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

[@mgsa5722]

Man tills the ground and lies beneath....Tennyson is a sad poet.

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please do mac flecknoe for us, ur work is really amazing 😊👍

[@onyapidi5174]

I find poets, those who write and creative artists very intelligent than for instance....some traditional professionals

[@junjuncea.6349]

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

[@almonarchv8096]

Oh my god

[@roxannerocco5403]

To strive and not to yield. The reader's voice sounded like the late Lawrence Harvey actor.

[@jhfdhgvnbjm75]

This was a clarion call, but now it's just whispers fading on the wind :(

[@SeddikChannel]

❤

[@real_madara]

Narrator makes it 1000% better, what music tho?

[@jaymcottier5380]

slowly coming to an end, the stars don't shine so much anymore.😔

[@jaymcottier5380]

the love i give is never returned.

[@baneofbanes]

The stars burn as bright as ever. Perhaps you need to see them beyond the skies of urban centers?

[@Jackliao027]

2:26的地方to stride to seek to find and never to yield

[@lohkoonhoong6957]

: Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

[@fireonephototgraphy2877]

Final scene on Frasier

[@Manu-hn6yw]

Can you make a video on If by Rudyard Kipling with your narration.. please...

[@invoiceverse5363]

Great! Whose voice is this?

[@adambutt5137]

Why does this start half-way through the poem? And not with, “It little profits that an idle king,”