Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson (Powerful Life Poetry)

[@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

[@dan-andreivasilescu228]

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

[@Steveirwin4477]

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]

@@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 [e-mail]

[@roberttinsley8960]

Emily Dickenson

[@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.

[@retribution999]

Did he do it?

[@FriAnde92]

@retribution999 Have not heard anything, unfortunately!

[@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!

[@retiredyeti5555]

@@seansmith3058 - I do not believe in luck.

[@mairtohainle9773]

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[@joachimmcdonnagh]

Incredible reading...

[@arjunsinha212]

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

[@Хишгээ-з8и]

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.

[@mohammadyasir2762]

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

[@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!!!

[@Squigglydodah]

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

[@katlamb4606]

"Tho' much is taken, much abides!" was my depression fighting mantra throughout highschool.❤

[@fiorella1021]

Hang in there... hold on to this poem throughout your life. It's a real life saver! Godspeed in all you'll do. ❤

[@rjmacready8830]

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

[@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

[@FarbotBurunetNia]

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

[@coveyssteve]

Try the entire poem.

[@lohkoon]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@cyprianshongwe3860]

What a beautiful poem and wonderfully recited

[@videomonksofficial]

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

[@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.

[@The-Big-Boss]

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

[@PickleRick849]

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

[@Gerdle93]

He sent me here too!

[@artofgreatness7854]

I hated poetry but when I came across this channel I love it KEEP GOING BRO

[@Kens789]

Art of Greatness how can you even hate poetry ?

[@greendiscipline3500]

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

[@lanami8601]

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

[@karonsanchez3551]

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]

@@greendiscipline3500 Agreed!

[@aztekpriest6311]

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

[@RM-zu2nh]

Thank you. Now, we start.

[@AARYAMABHATTACHARYA]

Poetry in your voice is the shower of blessing 😌❣️

[@spartanspirit1013]

Reading of poetry is the best thing 🎉

[@darianbrowning1608]

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

[@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.

[@ihori779]

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

[@surfghost9121]

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

[@EdHird]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@travelsinchinese640]

I love Frasier. He often read wonderful poetry.

[@Sam-jh9yw]

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

[@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!!👍🏽😊👏🏾👏🏾🌅

[@meenakshijoshi820]

Beyond words.God bless you.

[@scaife]

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

[@paulbyas6833]

Straight pass the brain direct to the soul

[@mojdemarvast2366]

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

[@valmid5069]

“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

[@Kate-qu6lz]

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

[@Talkinglife]

Old age hath yet its honour and its toil

[@tyais75]

Keeps me alive.

[@Lizzye33]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@marchess286]

This is possibly my favorite reading of this poem

[@matusbarbuscak3347]

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

[@Readinglovepoems]

Very high poetry for noble souls! Rarely can boast a strong will, but it is necessary to develop the strength of spirit, read the teaching of Buddhism and believe, if we dream our distant ancestors, that death is not the end of everything and falling into the abyss of emptiness, but just the beginning of another life in the parallel world of the dead, after which we will have the Second Coming of Christ, the Judgment and the resurrection of all righteous souls...

[@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"?

[@demaistre2458]

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

[@ceciliademelo536]

Love Tennyson! Great poet!

[@davidblackwell9695]

Powerful recital - well done

[@rashikasd]

Beautiful

[@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!

[@Suvorupaofficial]

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

[@ArronSpace]

Nice recitation, but where's the first part of the poem?

[@englishliterature00]

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[@oldernu1250]

Great poem, read indifferently.

[@yardie444]

one of the most underated youtube channels 🤔

[@elainebowen5234]

Thank you

[@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

[@Buckmelanoma1]

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

[@dashxdr]

Great reading, but why not start from the beginning?

[@maryvonnegadonnaud3078]

💎 Beautiful, thank you 🤗

[@neeladrimaitra1737]

can anyone tell me what does hath and ere mean? Thanks a lot

[@tugbazengin4733]

I guess hath means "has" but i don't know what the other word means

[@kensyskye8965]

Neeladri Maitra if I don’t totally understand a word or phrase, I google the poem etc... This then allows me to understand it better....✌🏻

[@kensyskye8965]

Neeladri Maitra known before it appears to mean....

[@sharonp4446]

ere is error

[@thomastyler5582]

Ere, in this case, means ‘before’. So, before the end.

[@sharronbennett8990]

Thank you.

[@marcelbakker285]

2:00 what he than said, love that and it's also in the film skyfall james bond!

[@real_madara]

Narrator makes it 1000% better, what music tho?

[@Meller571]

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

[@mphotoloane1039]

Name of the background score please

[@larryuk8630]

This is very well done. Thank you.

[@dwanderful1]

So well read thanks

[@ali18398]

What does the last line means?

[@howardjamespatterson4119]

Maybe alludes to something like.........Whom neither shape of danger can dismay ; Nor tender thought of happiness betray ; Whom not content that former worth stands fast ; Looks forward persevering till the last ; And while the mortal mist is gathering draws ; Their breath in confidence of heavens applause . This " IS " the Happy Warrior . ( Wordsworth ) inspired by this in a time of great loss and darkness 1980 .

[@alexlitill2315]

Great work! 💖

[@WulfTrigo]

The background music where can I find it?

[@GauravLohra]

It's really amazing 👌👌

[@Manu-hn6yw]

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

[@sangeetasaxena4324]

Sir pl recite the poem by Thomas Grey An Elegy Written in the Countr"s Churchyard

[@pinakichowdhury3043]

Loved it!!!

[@arciliosemente7165]

Amazing!! What program they used to make this?

[@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.

[@bhaveshparekh8966]

Beautiful!

[@hardheadjarhead]

They need the whole poem,

[@kensyskye8965]

Is this the full poem please?

[@mickdowns4153]

No the part that sets the context - that it's about Ulyses in his old age - is left out.

[@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

[@Mohammed_99Hani]

The theme of this poem , please 🙏

[@invoiceverse5363]

Great! Whose voice is this?

[@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

[@jeffsmith1798]

I love this poem.

[@Celise]

Is this the same version used in Civilization V?

[@joshuakincaid9300]

Powerful!,

[@onyapidi5174]

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

[@MichaelTheGamer047]

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[@subway3127]

It was said that this was JFK's favorite poem and Teddy quoted it often during his long tenure in politics as well. "Come, my friends, tis not too late to seek a newer world!"

[@mgsa5722]

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

[@junjuncea.6349]

About Ulysses?

[@denniskihara5039]

deep voice

[@cosmicman621]

...needs the entire poem...just read a little quicker...a few more minutes.This fine poem deserves better than a snippet.

[@marionotoole3264]

Love it

[@esq.546]

Powerful!

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[@kapilgyawali5534]

sir please recite the poem -if

[@yugyndprodigy6282]

Thank you RedFrost Motivation.Thank you