I very much like this poem - and count Matthew Arnold as one of my favorite poets - (but you can't just simply omit the last enigmatic stanza). I used to like Tennyson's poem Ulysses - who had a very romantic idealized notion about growing old. But as I grow old myself I find Matthew Arnold's the truer poem.
Thank you so much for this beautiful and realistic poetry. I have used it in my kindergarten show, where kids were dressed up and acting as old people, and this poetry was playing in the background.
This is lovely but I wonder why you committed the final verse: It is-last stage of all- When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves, To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
Beautiful. Thank you, for providing the lyrics too.
Very beautiful, despite my ignorance in poetry...
Very nicely done !!
At this moment in 2024 I have made 74 circuits around the sun.
Mr. Arnold crushes this chapter of the human condition.
I very much like this poem - and count Matthew Arnold as one of my favorite poets - (but you can't just simply omit the last enigmatic stanza). I used to like Tennyson's poem Ulysses - who had a very romantic idealized notion about growing old. But as I grow old myself I find Matthew Arnold's the truer poem.
Hello, i am geriatric student and i will be doing an Oral Presentation on this video. Thank You, and this is a great video i love it.
Glad this video resonates with you.
I clicked on this video in my mid-twenties. I feel sixty now.
you ain't seen nothin' yet!
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@@katia1239 But we have to remember, we do share some of the same stuff, no matter what age we are. ;)
I’m 65 in 125 days from today 🎉😮⏳⏱ And at the moment I am OK with this.
We will see what the future brings…❤
Me too, this month turning 65.
beautifully recited but - why have you eliminated the last stanza...?
Thank you so much for this beautiful and realistic poetry.
I have used it in my kindergarten show, where kids were dressed up and acting as old people, and this poetry was playing in the background.
It is to become wise.
Silly. Not everyone who grows old is wise
This is lovely but I wonder why you committed the final verse:
It is-last stage of all-
When we are frozen up within, and quite
The phantom of ourselves,
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost
Which blamed the living man.
Growing old is lovely, if it didn't hurt so much ..🤪
as Bette Davis said more prosaically: "Old age ain't for sissies"
That didn’t help.