Powerful poem and extraordinarily emotional performance. Applause. I wonder if the poet would consider to speak to us Tennyson’s ‚„In Memoriam“. That’s a long one, so I suggest it might be published in portions. 133 cantos might exhaust even your well trained glottis! „Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.“ Maybe break break break as a warm up?
“Always roaming with a hungry heart” reminds me of a Great White Shark. I don’t think he wants to come home after this voyage. Wonderful, how you read it. A dramatic monologue. Not too much emphasis on the jambic stresses, rather the content, the emotions. Respecting the punctuation that lead the flow and pausing of the speech.
I recently read Inferno and now understand that Tennyson's Ulysses comes from Dante's depiction. Is Tennyson trying to redeem Ulysses from Dante's condemnation or underlining Ulysses as the false counselor leading his men to death with his high flying rhetoric?
Opinions vary. Too high a dramatic pitch throughout. This wonderful poem stands on its own and does not need histrionics. To do so takes away from the words. This is a thoughtful poem and should be read that way.
Thanks for sharing your opinion. I definitely think there are different ways to do this one, and I might read it differently today. Ulysses is an old man here, and I was a much younger man when I recorded it. Part of me agrees with you, but I am also happy with the reading. One of the first on my channel. Hope you can enjoy a few of my other readings I have made over the years! Take care :) Arthur
Bollocks! Perhaps you don't appreciate quite who Odysseus/Ulysses was. Tennyson captures a man still full of passion despite his advancing years, if you can't discern that then maybe Tennyson is too much for you. In my view Mr Wood here doesn't go far enough, 99% of the discourses out there are bland, feeble minded, total waste of time readings by people with no understanding of the words, grammar or punctuation they're reading coupled with an inability to interpret the nuances of the poet's thoughts set down in their verse.
@@ArthurLWoodfuck that guy, colbystevey, the narration is great. Anyone who uses the word "histrionic" while complaining that the voice work is too dramatic has bigger issues than this video. Great work and fuck the critics.
"Though much was taken, much still abides." Beautiful reading!
I will drink
Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy'd
Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone.
Such a stunning performance! Thank you!
Enormously powerful poem, superb reading!
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Powerful poem and extraordinarily emotional performance. Applause. I wonder if the poet would consider to speak to us Tennyson’s ‚„In Memoriam“. That’s a long one, so I suggest it might be published in portions. 133 cantos might exhaust even your well trained glottis! „Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.“
Maybe break break break as a warm up?
Great idea. How about 'Tennyson Tuesdays'? Watch this space, I'll try and get the 'preface canto' ready for this Tuesday.
“Always roaming with a hungry heart” reminds me of a Great White Shark. I don’t think he wants to come home after this voyage.
Wonderful, how you read it. A dramatic monologue. Not too much emphasis on the jambic stresses, rather the content, the emotions. Respecting the punctuation that lead the flow and pausing of the speech.
Excellent oration! Thank you!!
Beautifully read.
All experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever when I move
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I recently read Inferno and now understand that Tennyson's Ulysses comes from Dante's depiction. Is Tennyson trying to redeem Ulysses from Dante's condemnation or underlining Ulysses as the false counselor leading his men to death with his high flying rhetoric?
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Opinions vary. Too high a dramatic pitch throughout. This wonderful poem stands on its own and does not need histrionics. To do so takes away from the words. This is a thoughtful poem and should be read that way.
Thanks for sharing your opinion. I definitely think there are different ways to do this one, and I might read it differently today. Ulysses is an old man here, and I was a much younger man when I recorded it. Part of me agrees with you, but I am also happy with the reading. One of the first on my channel. Hope you can enjoy a few of my other readings I have made over the years! Take care :) Arthur
Bollocks! Perhaps you don't appreciate quite who Odysseus/Ulysses was. Tennyson captures a man still full of passion despite his advancing years, if you can't discern that then maybe Tennyson is too much for you. In my view Mr Wood here doesn't go far enough, 99% of the discourses out there are bland, feeble minded, total waste of time readings by people with no understanding of the words, grammar or punctuation they're reading coupled with an inability to interpret the nuances of the poet's thoughts set down in their verse.
@@ArthurLWoodfuck that guy, colbystevey, the narration is great. Anyone who uses the word "histrionic" while complaining that the voice work is too dramatic has bigger issues than this video. Great work and fuck the critics.