US-Ireland Alliance WB Yeats poetry project. Dermot Crowley reads Sailing to Byzantium. This may only be used with the permission of the US-Ireland Alliance.
I recently spent nearly five weeks In a Dublin hospital. I slipped and cracked six ribs. I am 86 and it takes more time to get over injuries.. I thought about this poem a lot and knowing how well Yeats wrote in his later years agree that that creativity will feed the soul and stem the tide of your mind ageing... if not your body.
Thank you for this, my father tried to show me the greatness of Yeats years ago, I did not appreciate then. But like so many things he showed, as time goes on I see finally what he was trying to teach or show of life.
Profound words, so well read. I listen to this poem when I need to reflect on my being, and this reading never fails me. Thank you, Dermot. Thank you so much. ❤ from Dili, Timor-Leste. Let peace prevail in our much-troubled world.
As a 63 year old man - I feel the effect of being pushed aside from Husband/Father/Provider into a stick in a tattered coat. What I felt as my right of occupancy by my strong arm of protection and providing has faded into an eternal complaint of my presence in the very house I labored to provide. No Country for Old Men is a feeling I feel stronger and stronger as I age.
@@hrh4314In ancient times poets sang their works to musical accompaniment. The introduction tells you what's coming. Yeats is adjusting to the limitations of old age, or trying to.
@@hrh4314 You're welcome. ICMI Byzantium became the eastern capital of the Roman Empire and renamed Constantinople, now known as Istanbul. I'm a retired English teacher so I can't help it.
@@williamhosp701 it would be a benefit for me thank you. I'm a college student and English is not my first language so it's a little hard for me to understand poet's feelings and what he want to tell.
This great reading makes the poem on the page meaningful and sensual. I should try tol listen to this regularly as a Balm of Gilead against the coming of age.
I've never considered myself to be a 'poetry person' but some of W B Yeats work really does affect me. After the Brexit referendum and Trump 'winning' the US election, The Second Coming played on loop inside my skull. Whenever I think the world is being turned down hugely incorrect roads, that poem echoes inside me like the siren of an alarm. BTW, is the opening of this poem where Cormac McCarthy got the title for his 'No Country For Old Men'?
Why not go back and put the real text in the ribbon, instead of horribly wrong speech recognition software (calibrated to an American accent) wreck the meaning with wrong words?
I recently spent nearly five weeks
In a Dublin hospital.
I slipped and cracked six ribs.
I am 86 and it takes more time to get over injuries.. I thought about this poem a lot and knowing how well Yeats wrote in his later years agree that that creativity will feed the soul
and stem the tide of your mind ageing... if not your body.
Thank you for this, my father tried to show me the greatness of Yeats years ago, I did not appreciate then. But like so many things he showed, as time goes on I see finally what he was trying to teach or show of life.
Profound words, so well read. I listen to this poem when I need to reflect on my being, and this reading never fails me. Thank you, Dermot. Thank you so much. ❤ from Dili, Timor-Leste. Let peace prevail in our much-troubled world.
Magnificent Dermot. It's impossible to grasp the Greatness
of Yeats. He transcends all boundaries .
Touching the sensitivity with which the great poem is recited.Thanks a lot.
No wonder Cormac McCarthy took the line "No country for old men" for his book. Similar themes
As a 63 year old man - I feel the effect of being pushed aside from Husband/Father/Provider into a stick in a tattered coat. What I felt as my right of occupancy by my strong arm of protection and providing has faded into an eternal complaint of my presence in the very house I labored to provide. No Country for Old Men is a feeling I feel stronger and stronger as I age.
Sailing to Byzantium evokes life and its transit. A great poem.
This is in all manner of speaking a most powerful poem. Well done in the reading of it.
Unforgettable moving voices....
One of the greatest and most encouraging poem for the aging people like me.
And me...
👍👍
What a wonderful reading of this difficult and thorny poem. The emphasis is well made, many thanks.
A splendid, heartfelt reading. Thank you for the clip.
The poem, the reading of it, as beautiful, as touching, as poignant, as the Byzantium metaphor itself. Bravo!
a timeless classic served well by mr. Crowley
So beautifully spoken.
haven't read that in years. So glad you shared it with us.
What a wonderful poem, what a wonderful reading. Thanks.
Thank you! Wonderful.
That was unbelievable. Great reading!
So well read. Thankyou.
Utterly magical.
Best reading I've heard
Excellent...passionate...living...
Geez, that Yeats fella sure could turn a pretty phrase (or two)! ;-)
Brilliant reading by Dermot Crowley.
I read it first for class at 17 and 55 years later I can fully understand it.
Okay can u explain what u know about this poem. please what did he meant by songs ?
@@hrh4314In ancient times poets sang their works to musical accompaniment. The introduction tells you what's coming. Yeats is adjusting to the limitations of old age, or trying to.
@@williamhosp701 oh . I get it thank u ❤
@@hrh4314 You're welcome. ICMI Byzantium became the eastern capital of the Roman Empire and renamed Constantinople, now known as Istanbul. I'm a retired English teacher so I can't help it.
@@williamhosp701 it would be a benefit for me thank you. I'm a college student and English is not my first language so it's a little hard for me to understand poet's feelings and what he want to tell.
A magnificent reading!
Beautifully read. Thank you!!
This great reading makes the poem on the page meaningful and sensual. I should try tol listen to this regularly as a Balm of Gilead against the coming of age.
It's exactly that.
Rest in peace Cormac McCarthy 😢
...Beautiful ...Thankyou
Best asmr for sleeping❤
Very commendable, Sir!
Wonderful!
Amazing 👏
A good reading.
I find that I just want to hear the poem read.
Poem starts 1:11
I've never considered myself to be a 'poetry person' but some of W B Yeats work really does affect me.
After the Brexit referendum and Trump 'winning' the US election, The Second Coming played on loop inside my skull.
Whenever I think the world is being turned down hugely incorrect roads, that poem echoes inside me like the siren of an alarm.
BTW, is the opening of this poem where Cormac McCarthy got the title for his 'No Country For Old Men'?
Yea
Beyond the black wall....
01:11
This is a beautiful reading
Im here because odf my greek friend
Why not go back and put the real text in the ribbon, instead of horribly wrong speech recognition software (calibrated to an American accent) wreck the meaning with wrong words?
Why no interpretation of the meaning of the poem?
The loss of the Byzantine Empire is not obviously important to most people
No country for old men
A powerful reading.