https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/ulysses/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(poem)
The two pieces in the poem that I especially appreciated:
"I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move."
"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."
The first piece was used in Skyfall.
It's the story of Ulysses, retold by Tenysson.
Ulysses the adventurer, thirsty for experience and knowledge, is contrasted to his son, Telemachus, an excellent leader and king, bringing peace and stability to his people.
That's how I read the poem. Here is James Navé
giving the best reading I've found.
https://youtu.be/FknHtLjwLjY
James Navy reading the poem very nicely.
You don't have to understand all! to appreciate the rhythm and meter (there's no rhyme).
It is a poem written in what's called "blank verse", which is unrhymed iambic pentameter, and as near as you can get to natural speech.
Why write in iambic pentameter? It is the most popular structure for writing poetry. Created by Shakespeare to help his actors memorise their lines.
You don't have to understand all! to appreciate the rhythm and meter (there's no rhyme).
It is a poem written in what's called "blank verse", which is unrhymed iambic pentameter, and as near as you can get to natural speech.
Why write in iambic pentameter? It is the most popular structure for writing poetry. Created by Shakespeare to help his actors memorise their lines.
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