"Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

[@ear-full5911]

'Tho' much is taken, much abides...' This line breaks my heart. I can't help but associate this poem with my dad, who died in February 2014 after a long battle with cancer. The association is compounded further by the fact that it was because of my dad that I fell in love with Greco-Roman myth and literature at a young age. A beautiful reading. Thank you.

[@shadeofachilles]

My favorite of all the Greek Heroes. I remember coming across this poem in an anthology in School. For the life of me couldn't understand why we didnt learn about it in class, instead had to learn about boring 'modern' poets, most of whom I have completely forgotten, but not Tennyson, not Ulysses...

[@SpokenVerse]

@DaBlaade Penelope waited for him faithfully for ten years while he found his way home from Troy. When he got back he killed all her suitors. But in the meantime he had a number of affairs and fathered children: there was Circe, Calypso, Nausicaa, Kallidike. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood tells the story from Penelope's point of view.

[@ampleoppourtunity]

Damn...he sounds so much like Odeyssey. I'm quite sure that will make you to become a name in my head. This poem has been my everyday prayer since 2004. Thanks that you are able to put in up in video. I recites it along with you as a child in the nursery... yearning to comprehend this piece of work to the content of my heart. and not to yield.

[@BoneyBobsTreasure]

Thank you. Really very good, well balanced with a good pace and just enough drama, there can be drama without being dramatic.

[@gdprosper]

I too have been waiting on this poem for a long time. Excellent.

[@EducatorMoidSir]

recitation with the text is excellent.

[@andrewjohntodd]

my favourite poem

[@bubbledreamxox]

Thanks so much for this, studying for exams and it's great to hear it read so well!

[@FrankiiDoodle]

@SpokenVerse 20 years; the Trojan War itself was 10 years and then 10 to get back

[@sapphirecat]

absolutely lovely, you have a great voice

[@0701K60230]

thumbs up for SKYFALL! starting from :- "We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,-- One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." read by M

[@thallassocracy]

I remember the shock I felt when I first discovered that this piece was written by a young man;- but I suppose so was The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (which I have always assumed is based on it). I suppose it's a shirker poem (He works his work, I mine), and not so very different from what Kurt Cobain was on about most of the time. You negotiated that very difficult half-line "Push off!" with consummate mastery (Lewis Casson comes adrift there). A magnificently dyspeptic version.

[@vaheedzaman3092]

execellent recitation

[@bakhtawerkhan1323]

i kindda love every spoken word ❤

[@ujjwalbanerjee3424]

Liked it, Sir

[@marioriospinot]

Nice.