Invictus - W. E. Henley (Stoic Life Poetry)

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  • Опубліковано 8 чер 2020
  • Read by Peter Baker
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    William Ernest Henley was an influential English poet, perhaps best known for his poem “Invictus” written in 1875.
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    Full Poem:
    Out of the night that covers me,
    Black as the pit from pole to pole,
    I thank whatever gods may be
    For my unconquerable soul.
    In the fell clutch of circumstance
    I have not winced nor cried aloud.
    Under the bludgeonings of chance
    My head is bloody, but unbowed.
    Beyond this place of wrath and tears
    Looms but the Horror of the shade,
    And yet the menace of the years
    Finds and shall find me unafraid.
    It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate,
    I am the captain of my soul.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 154

  • @anuraglfc4lyf
    @anuraglfc4lyf 4 роки тому +272

    Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest mortal beings & immortal souls, once said, he survived 27 dark years of imprisonment by often reciting this ever-inspiring poem.

    • @rolandkleiner1573
      @rolandkleiner1573 4 роки тому +5

      Side note. The same Nelso Mandela was the co-founder of "uMkhonto we Sizwe"

    • @mandya6697
      @mandya6697 3 роки тому

      @@rolandkleiner1573 what is it?

    • @rolandkleiner1573
      @rolandkleiner1573 3 роки тому +4

      @@mandya6697 uMkhonto we Sizwe (Xhosa pronunciation: [uˈmkʰonto we ˈsizwe], meaning "Spear of the Nation"; abbreviated MK) was the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), co-founded by Nelson Mandela in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre. Its mission was to fight against the South African government.

    • @Jay-ek2ym
      @Jay-ek2ym 3 роки тому +1

      @@rolandkleiner1573 are you white?

    • @colemanhigley747
      @colemanhigley747 3 роки тому +6

      @starflowergames unfortunately in this day and age being a communist and terrorist is a good thing(in the world's eyes)

  • @TrevPulver
    @TrevPulver 3 роки тому +64

    Best Poem, ever. "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." has become my personal mantra.

  • @grahamwagner1880
    @grahamwagner1880 3 роки тому +69

    This poetry hit me like a ton of bricks as a child. When I lost my son I had Invictus tattooed on my hand to remind me.
    I am unconquerable.
    Eight years later he still battles with meth addiction but he’s been coming by every day to reunite with me. I never got the chance to tell him that we lost his mother to her addiction when he was one and she put us through absolute hell. Now he’s old enough, he’s not that 15-year-old that ran away so long ago. He cried when I told him what the tattoo meant... that meant everything to me.

    • @webiriss
      @webiriss 3 роки тому +3

      Prayers to you beautiful soul 🙏

    • @TheButterflyliz
      @TheButterflyliz 3 роки тому +3

      I lost my brother to an over dose February 29, 2020. Right before Covid-19 hit. His life was so dark and eyes looked so lifeless. I miss his presence

    • @ofarag
      @ofarag 3 роки тому +2

      @@TheButterflyliz I'm sorry for your loss

    • @TheButterflyliz
      @TheButterflyliz 3 роки тому +1

      @@ofarag Thank you

    • @meghna7937
      @meghna7937 3 роки тому +3

      He's gonna bounce back.
      By your words, I feel he's trying harder to be the best son you could've ever imagined.
      Hang in there.
      Dawn will descend before you know it.

  • @nishant16781
    @nishant16781 3 роки тому +63

    I am the captain of my soul, goosebumps all over

    • @sunshine-om7jg
      @sunshine-om7jg 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/tvP7oI6XVEw/v-deo.html
      I hope you would like this poem too

    • @osmanozturk6273
      @osmanozturk6273 2 роки тому

      Moby Dick

  • @khalilkingsley241
    @khalilkingsley241 4 роки тому +26

    Each year this is the first thing I teach my High School Language students...

  • @astolat2262
    @astolat2262 3 роки тому +133

    This and If by Rudyard Kipling are probably the best poems I've ever read

  • @williamplants67
    @williamplants67 Рік тому +3

    “ I thank whatever gods there maybe, for my unconquerable soul”
    This. This is the line that hits me first. With a covert narcissist as a mother and a psychopath as a father. I have made it out without their defects or attitude towards the world. With out the victim mentality, without entitlement. With no contempt for those that remind me of parents, just a quick side step and disregard. There is a lot of trama, a lot of healing to go. However, I cherish my bruised and broken, yet still unconquered soul.

  • @kenney1050
    @kenney1050 3 роки тому +4

    IF, INVICTUS, OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAUN...I shall forever remember these immortal poems...every word so inspirational...

  • @dibn1308
    @dibn1308 4 роки тому +4

    True..So bold a Soul to be... !
    Thanks for sharing this Poem.

  • @kathrynphillips3710
    @kathrynphillips3710 4 роки тому +12

    most humbling poem ever
    written thankyou for sharing these most beautiful empowering words of a true Master
    ♥️ ♥️ ♥️

    • @sunshine-om7jg
      @sunshine-om7jg 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/tvP7oI6XVEw/v-deo.html
      I hope you would like this poem too

  • @BirthdayMelodies
    @BirthdayMelodies 3 роки тому

    The most humbling poem ever. Love it.

  • @Tpaulissendougan
    @Tpaulissendougan 3 роки тому +5

    An absolute gem of a poem and my favorite. It brought tears to my eyes probably because of the narration. i would try to find this poem and frame it for future reference. It is like having battle ready armour for the defence and offence of life.

  • @mariaantoniettacannizzaro5737
    @mariaantoniettacannizzaro5737 3 роки тому +1

    I'm the captain of my soul.true words.A beautiful.poem.

  • @ErizONyou
    @ErizONyou 4 роки тому +11

    Im really so glad i found this channel thank you so much for sharing this .

    • @sunshine-om7jg
      @sunshine-om7jg 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/tvP7oI6XVEw/v-deo.html
      I hope you would like this poem too

  • @catherinejustcatherine1778
    @catherinejustcatherine1778 3 роки тому +2

    What a lovely voice!

  • @wisdom10x17
    @wisdom10x17 3 роки тому +15

    “My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • @user-ic1ky3gb9m
    @user-ic1ky3gb9m 3 місяці тому +1

    Here chance means opportunity to flourish in life with various excellences in life.The poet is probably losing them in the difficulties or adversities of his life.But,even being severed in fate, he
    decides not to give up.

  • @nedanenadic5Rhythms
    @nedanenadic5Rhythms 4 роки тому +4

    Thank you. Amazing poem. X

  • @rebekahlafever333
    @rebekahlafever333 3 роки тому

    Thank you!
    I needed that!..........💚

  • @hocinemachouk3040
    @hocinemachouk3040 3 роки тому +3

    we need more poems with Peter Baker voice ♥ plz

  • @Bb-jh9fo
    @Bb-jh9fo 3 роки тому +1

    This poem . It’s what stops me from thinking of suicide being the solution. It kept me alive.

  • @theknightwriter9766
    @theknightwriter9766 4 роки тому +6

    That was fantastic! Great poem and great narration. Well done P.B.

  • @IlManaka
    @IlManaka 3 роки тому

    Breathtakingly majestic...

  • @shaunvilleswartz7658
    @shaunvilleswartz7658 4 роки тому +14

    Waited so long so this poem to be done! Thanks alot guys

    • @sunshine-om7jg
      @sunshine-om7jg 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/tvP7oI6XVEw/v-deo.html
      I hope you would like this poem too

  • @kyupified2440
    @kyupified2440 4 роки тому +3

    Thank you!

  • @willmpet
    @willmpet 3 роки тому +1

    I believe in this poem because it has proven to be so worthwhile to me.

  • @frida.6469
    @frida.6469 Місяць тому

    My life now feels like a complete graveyard of buried hopes, just as Anne would say. I felt so hopeless after I failed in so many of my dreams, had been in bed helpless for almost two days but I didn't want to end up here. I know I have to do something, I have to change.
    I hope I'd get through this depressing days of my life. I will work through it. I will try.
    I hope to come back here one day and finally say I made it.
    I wish for no more gloomy sundays in afternoons.

  • @BEKNOWN
    @BEKNOWN  4 роки тому +4

    The second poetry reading to BeKnown! Subscribe for more every week.

  • @junjuncea.6349
    @junjuncea.6349 Рік тому

    I love poem and i can memorize all poem,even a book of poem.thanks

  • @junjuncea.6349
    @junjuncea.6349 Рік тому

    I love poem and i can memorize all poem even a book of poem.thanks.

  • @elainebowen5234
    @elainebowen5234 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you.

  • @nealr3dhandfamily346
    @nealr3dhandfamily346 3 роки тому +2

    "My head is bloody but unbowed." awesome...

  • @deepakchhetry5702
    @deepakchhetry5702 2 роки тому

    Wow ! So nice poem expressing the thing that necessitated to express.

  • @BigMamaDaveX
    @BigMamaDaveX 3 роки тому +4

    😎 Motto of my life. 🙏

  • @webiriss
    @webiriss 4 роки тому +3

    Wow!

  • @MyelinProductions
    @MyelinProductions 3 роки тому +26

    Invictus is Latin for “unconquered.” The speaker in the poem proclaims his strength in the face of adversity: ... My head is bloody, but unbowed....

  • @adwaitlaud6243
    @adwaitlaud6243 4 роки тому +6

    You are a light springing from the shadows keep doing this I can't make you realise what these sayings make me feel I can just acknowledge you by here but still keep up the good work

  • @reason827
    @reason827 2 роки тому

    Beautiful.

  • @shatabdopaul833
    @shatabdopaul833 Рік тому

    Outstanding

  • @sendaikid1569
    @sendaikid1569 3 роки тому +3

    Strength has gone out of fashion these days. We should cultivate it more among our young.

  • @abdulkareemshahzadhashmi8875
    @abdulkareemshahzadhashmi8875 4 роки тому +2

    I love the ➿ voice

  • @debasmitaroy9367
    @debasmitaroy9367 4 роки тому +3

    Thank u

  • @Aryan-hv3lw
    @Aryan-hv3lw 3 роки тому

    My second favourite poem among those not written by me!!

  • @Me-fo1kk
    @Me-fo1kk 4 роки тому +7

    I've only heard the last two sentences. Funny. I was quoting them before I heard them.

  • @mandya6697
    @mandya6697 3 роки тому +3

    Out of the night that covers me,
    Black as the pit from pole to pole,
    I thank whatever gods may be
    For my unconquerable soul.
    In the fell clutch of circumstance
    I have not winced nor cried aloud.
    Under the bludgeonings of chance
    My head is bloody, but unbowed.
    Beyond this place of wrath and tears
    Looms but the Horror of the shade,
    And yet the menace of the years
    Finds and shall find me unafraid.
    It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate,
    I am the captain of my soul.

  • @thebookishmarauder9236
    @thebookishmarauder9236 4 роки тому +4

    thanks for this :-)

  • @tetsuyadesu7560
    @tetsuyadesu7560 3 роки тому

    Props to the va, it sounds so good

  • @L490sr
    @L490sr 3 роки тому

    Please upload more poems.

  • @mariopinot9884
    @mariopinot9884 3 роки тому +2

    Nice.

  • @junjuncea.6349
    @junjuncea.6349 Рік тому

    Poem is inspiration to me and teach me how to become human.invictus

  • @restualamhikmah3427
    @restualamhikmah3427 Рік тому

    Nice😘😘😘

  • @jasminwise6625
    @jasminwise6625 4 роки тому +2

    Sincere Gratitude. Will it be possible to read. “ Children, in the The Prophet By Khalil Gibran ‘.

  • @donaldturner5124
    @donaldturner5124 2 роки тому +2

    I call this poem “The Atheist Prayer”.

  • @erikpeterson25
    @erikpeterson25 3 роки тому

    Yes

  • @ToBeAnnounced2024
    @ToBeAnnounced2024 4 місяці тому

    We decided who we serve

  • @desiderata8811
    @desiderata8811 3 роки тому +1

    This narrator is reading the poem 10 seconds after waking up in the morning.

  • @AbaddonOfSheol
    @AbaddonOfSheol Рік тому +1

    I, Optimus Prime send this message across the universe. He said after reciting the poem.

  • @mladenbrocic4936
    @mladenbrocic4936 2 роки тому

    ✨ 🎈 💖

  • @bobofthestorm
    @bobofthestorm 3 роки тому

    I'm looking for a Invictus motivational video that had different readings. I can't seem to find it.

  • @vincentl7526
    @vincentl7526 4 роки тому +2

    求主赦免我們的眾罪及陰暗面,單單依靠祢。祢知道我們的不安,恐懼,軟弱及失落。在祢面前,我們是可以坦然說出我們的不是,因為祢早已監察...

  • @Manu-hn6yw
    @Manu-hn6yw 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @carolinafine8050
    @carolinafine8050 3 роки тому +2

    This poem is about holding on to your dreams and literally karate kicking and chopping anyway who tries to mock your dreams or who says your dreams are nothing but goats milk

  • @putriwardatuljannah7804
    @putriwardatuljannah7804 3 роки тому +1

    What is the soundtrack music

  • @theinfamoustop104
    @theinfamoustop104 3 роки тому

    May you please do The Hermit by Alan Patton

  • @braniac_4162
    @braniac_4162 3 роки тому +1

    Hey,
    Can u do Lady Lazarus by Sylvia plath? 😊

  • @pnuema1.618
    @pnuema1.618 3 роки тому +1

    One of my favorites but not without contradictions. If you believe in determinism then the end isn't quite as poetic.

  • @dpp.tvshorts2548
    @dpp.tvshorts2548 2 роки тому +1

    Thousands of Luke

  • @asdjyt9547
    @asdjyt9547 2 роки тому

    "Is that a deepwoken reference?"
    this will be the poem i use for the contest.

  • @catherinejustcatherine1778
    @catherinejustcatherine1778 3 роки тому

    Does anyone know *which* Peter Baker reads this one?

  • @sahastranshumalviya2627
    @sahastranshumalviya2627 3 роки тому

    Be the captain to lead not boss

  • @knowthyself.7773
    @knowthyself.7773 2 роки тому

    How you record your voice?

  • @NaveenKumarErroju
    @NaveenKumarErroju 3 роки тому +3

    Watch this poem by 'Makespeare' channel. It has best editing.

    • @kyupified2440
      @kyupified2440 3 роки тому

      Naveen Kumar can you link it here? Cant search the channel

    • @NaveenKumarErroju
      @NaveenKumarErroju 3 роки тому +1

      @@kyupified2440
      ua-cam.com/video/rnI6mpVexp0/v-deo.html
      You can type "Invictus makespeare". It has cinematic video with poem.

    • @kyupified2440
      @kyupified2440 3 роки тому

      Naveen Kumar i did type that but no result. Thnx for the link!

  • @janiskotomins6756
    @janiskotomins6756 Рік тому

    ......Чарльс ☘

  • @onlyjames702
    @onlyjames702 4 роки тому +1

    Tom O'Bedlam read it..??

  • @junjuncea.6349
    @junjuncea.6349 Рік тому

    Trust
    Trust god
    Trust yourself
    Trust

  • @johnnycooper657
    @johnnycooper657 3 роки тому

    I wouldn't have said such drivel were I to be made poet laureate of the world.

  • @faracyeenkhan6516
    @faracyeenkhan6516 2 роки тому

    May I know the name of narrator?, if anybody know.

  • @r1a933
    @r1a933 3 роки тому +1

    I will swear to god i won't buy the advertising product that is coming before my video UA-cam.

  • @amorfati9163
    @amorfati9163 3 роки тому

    Oh my God, your channel is amazing and i would love to thank you
    Your channel has really inspired me to start writing my own pieces, hope you can check it out
    i would love some honest criticism so thank you once again.

  • @luist.6919
    @luist.6919 Рік тому +2

    My God is the captain of my soul!!! Jesus is the way and the truth!!

  • @BigQuotes
    @BigQuotes Рік тому

    ♥️♥️♥️ good 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈❤️🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈❤️🌈😘

  • @lukeslc-xd8ds
    @lukeslc-xd8ds 3 роки тому

    I want to invite all of my brothers and sisters who read this to read The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of JESUS CHRIST. Thank you

  • @yourfriendlyneighbourhoodfatso
    @yourfriendlyneighbourhoodfatso 3 роки тому +1

    When Rambo recites a poem..

  • @lailabasheer6455
    @lailabasheer6455 3 роки тому +1

    No one is master of fate. But Allah... indeed...

  • @barbarawenger7161
    @barbarawenger7161 3 роки тому

    Bitter taste in that Timothy McVeigh recited this as his las words before ececution for the OK city bombing.

  • @paulenzor6993
    @paulenzor6993 3 роки тому +2

    Sounds macho but not accurate! A captain of a ship is the master of what he can control, BUT, the forces of nature determine his ultimate destiny. GOD is ultimately in control, ours is to align ourselves to the glory of His purposes.

    • @johnxina7496
      @johnxina7496 Рік тому +1

      the poem is an expression
      it doesn't mean to say we are in full control of everything
      it means to say we have to stand firm on what we believe in
      no matter the circumstance
      no to let anyone control our fate
      overpower us
      but to be its own masters

  • @horatioguevara7597
    @horatioguevara7597 2 роки тому

    The guy reciting this sounds like he’s pushing out the biggest poop

  • @prayunceasingly2029
    @prayunceasingly2029 2 роки тому

    He doesn't sound Christian.

  • @kevinhughes3477
    @kevinhughes3477 3 роки тому +1

    wow, I thank God that this poem is not true. lol what a hopeless and depressing way to view the world.

    • @Reborndinosaur
      @Reborndinosaur 3 роки тому +2

      What

    • @math9630
      @math9630 2 роки тому +1

      You dont make any sense my friend.. This poem is timeless, teaches us to take life's blows and punches and how to keep going forward..

  • @theinfamoustop104
    @theinfamoustop104 3 роки тому +1

    I actually have no words to describe how poorly recited this poem is done... even Morgan Freeman could do tons of a heck lot better... please try to recite it the way it should be

  • @TheProdigalsDiary
    @TheProdigalsDiary Місяць тому

    Annoying that every poem online has these ridiculously deep and slow voices that sound horrible.

  • @charliesarasyoutubeadventu7539

    Narration doesn’t work for me.

  • @celliasmaridius
    @celliasmaridius 2 роки тому

    where the hell do they find these Narrators, they all sound terrible; like they have the flu or something.