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

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  • Опубликовано: 8 июн 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.

Комментарии • 154

  • @anuraglfc4lyf
    @anuraglfc4lyf 4 года назад +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 года назад +5

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

    • @mandya6697
      @mandya6697 3 года назад

      @@rolandkleiner1573 what is it?

    • @rolandkleiner1573
      @rolandkleiner1573 3 года назад +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 года назад +1

      @@rolandkleiner1573 are you white?

    • @colemanhigley747
      @colemanhigley747 3 года назад +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 года назад +65

    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 года назад +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 года назад +3

      Prayers to you beautiful soul 🙏

    • @TheButterflyliz
      @TheButterflyliz 3 года назад +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 года назад +2

      @@TheButterflyliz I'm sorry for your loss

    • @TheButterflyliz
      @TheButterflyliz 3 года назад +1

      @@ofarag Thank you

    • @meghna7937
      @meghna7937 3 года назад +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 4 года назад +63

    I am the captain of my soul, goosebumps all over

    • @sunshine-om7jg
      @sunshine-om7jg 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/tvP7oI6XVEw/видео.html
      I hope you would like this poem too

    • @osmanozturk6273
      @osmanozturk6273 2 года назад

      Moby Dick

  • @astolat2262
    @astolat2262 4 года назад +133

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

  • @khalilkingsley241
    @khalilkingsley241 4 года назад +26

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

  • @williamplants67
    @williamplants67 Год назад +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 года назад +4

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

  • @dibn1308
    @dibn1308 4 года назад +4

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

  • @BirthdayMelodies
    @BirthdayMelodies 3 года назад

    The most humbling poem ever. Love it.

  • @nealr3dhandfamily346
    @nealr3dhandfamily346 3 года назад +2

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

  • @mariaantoniettacannizzaro5737
    @mariaantoniettacannizzaro5737 3 года назад +1

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

  • @catherinejustcatherine1778
    @catherinejustcatherine1778 3 года назад +2

    What a lovely voice!

  • @Tpaulissendougan
    @Tpaulissendougan 3 года назад +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.

  • @hocinemachouk3040
    @hocinemachouk3040 3 года назад +3

    we need more poems with Peter Baker voice ♥ plz

  • @rebekahlafever333
    @rebekahlafever333 3 года назад

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

  • @deepakchhetry5702
    @deepakchhetry5702 2 года назад

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

  • @IlManaka
    @IlManaka 3 года назад

    Breathtakingly majestic...

  • @kathrynphillips3710
    @kathrynphillips3710 4 года назад +12

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

    • @sunshine-om7jg
      @sunshine-om7jg 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/tvP7oI6XVEw/видео.html
      I hope you would like this poem too

  • @nedanenadic5Rhythms
    @nedanenadic5Rhythms 4 года назад +4

    Thank you. Amazing poem. X

  • @wisdom10x17
    @wisdom10x17 3 года назад +15

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

  • @willmpet
    @willmpet 3 года назад +1

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

  • @ErizONyou
    @ErizONyou 4 года назад +11

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

    • @sunshine-om7jg
      @sunshine-om7jg 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/tvP7oI6XVEw/видео.html
      I hope you would like this poem too

  • @theknightwriter9766
    @theknightwriter9766 4 года назад +6

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

  • @BEKNOWN
    @BEKNOWN  4 года назад +4

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

  • @junjuncea.6349
    @junjuncea.6349 Год назад

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

  • @junjuncea.6349
    @junjuncea.6349 Год назад

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

  • @Bb-jh9fo
    @Bb-jh9fo 3 года назад +1

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

  • @BigMamaDaveX
    @BigMamaDaveX 4 года назад +4

    😎 Motto of my life. 🙏

  • @shaunvilleswartz7658
    @shaunvilleswartz7658 4 года назад +14

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

    • @sunshine-om7jg
      @sunshine-om7jg 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/tvP7oI6XVEw/видео.html
      I hope you would like this poem too

  • @MyelinProductions
    @MyelinProductions 3 года назад +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....

  • @kyupified2440
    @kyupified2440 4 года назад +3

    Thank you!

  • @user-ic1ky3gb9m
    @user-ic1ky3gb9m 4 месяца назад +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.

  • @elainebowen5234
    @elainebowen5234 3 года назад +2

    Thank you.

  • @reason827
    @reason827 3 года назад

    Beautiful.

  • @frida.6469
    @frida.6469 2 месяца назад

    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.

  • @sendaikid1569
    @sendaikid1569 3 года назад +3

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

  • @Aryan-hv3lw
    @Aryan-hv3lw 3 года назад

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

  • @adwaitlaud6243
    @adwaitlaud6243 4 года назад +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

  • @shatabdopaul833
    @shatabdopaul833 Год назад

    Outstanding

  • @webiriss
    @webiriss 4 года назад +3

    Wow!

  • @abdulkareemshahzadhashmi8875
    @abdulkareemshahzadhashmi8875 4 года назад +2

    I love the ➿ voice

  • @tetsuyadesu7560
    @tetsuyadesu7560 3 года назад

    Props to the va, it sounds so good

  • @Me-fo1kk
    @Me-fo1kk 4 года назад +7

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

  • @L490sr
    @L490sr 3 года назад

    Please upload more poems.

  • @mandya6697
    @mandya6697 3 года назад +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.

  • @debasmitaroy9367
    @debasmitaroy9367 4 года назад +3

    Thank u

  • @thebookishmarauder9236
    @thebookishmarauder9236 4 года назад +4

    thanks for this :-)

  • @donaldturner5124
    @donaldturner5124 2 года назад +2

    I call this poem “The Atheist Prayer”.

  • @junjuncea.6349
    @junjuncea.6349 Год назад

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

  • @jasminwise6625
    @jasminwise6625 4 года назад +2

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

  • @mariopinot9884
    @mariopinot9884 3 года назад +2

    Nice.

  • @putriwardatuljannah7804
    @putriwardatuljannah7804 3 года назад +1

    What is the soundtrack music

  • @bobofthestorm
    @bobofthestorm 3 года назад

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

  • @Manu-hn6yw
    @Manu-hn6yw 3 года назад +1

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

  • @desiderata8811
    @desiderata8811 3 года назад +1

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

  • @restualamhikmah3427
    @restualamhikmah3427 2 года назад

    Nice😘😘😘

  • @theinfamoustop104
    @theinfamoustop104 3 года назад

    May you please do The Hermit by Alan Patton

  • @catherinejustcatherine1778
    @catherinejustcatherine1778 3 года назад

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

  • @braniac_4162
    @braniac_4162 3 года назад +1

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

  • @erikpeterson25
    @erikpeterson25 3 года назад

    Yes

  • @luist.6919
    @luist.6919 Год назад +3

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

  • @knowthyself.7773
    @knowthyself.7773 2 года назад

    How you record your voice?

  • @mladenbrocic4936
    @mladenbrocic4936 2 года назад

    ✨ 🎈 💖

  • @ToBeAnnounced2024
    @ToBeAnnounced2024 4 месяца назад

    We decided who we serve

  • @AbaddonOfSheol
    @AbaddonOfSheol Год назад +1

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

  • @faracyeenkhan6516
    @faracyeenkhan6516 2 года назад

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

  • @vincentl7526
    @vincentl7526 4 года назад +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...

  • @carolinafine8050
    @carolinafine8050 3 года назад +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

  • @onlyjames702
    @onlyjames702 4 года назад +1

    Tom O'Bedlam read it..??

  • @dpp.tvshorts2548
    @dpp.tvshorts2548 2 года назад +1

    Thousands of Luke

  • @pnuema1.618
    @pnuema1.618 3 года назад +1

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

  • @NaveenKumarErroju
    @NaveenKumarErroju 4 года назад +3

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

    • @kyupified2440
      @kyupified2440 3 года назад

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

    • @NaveenKumarErroju
      @NaveenKumarErroju 3 года назад +1

      @@kyupified2440
      ruclips.net/video/rnI6mpVexp0/видео.html
      You can type "Invictus makespeare". It has cinematic video with poem.

    • @kyupified2440
      @kyupified2440 3 года назад

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

  • @asdjyt9547
    @asdjyt9547 2 года назад

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

  • @sahastranshumalviya2627
    @sahastranshumalviya2627 3 года назад

    Be the captain to lead not boss

  • @johnnycooper657
    @johnnycooper657 3 года назад

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

  • @junjuncea.6349
    @junjuncea.6349 Год назад

    Trust
    Trust god
    Trust yourself
    Trust

  • @r1a933
    @r1a933 3 года назад +1

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

  • @janiskotomins6756
    @janiskotomins6756 Год назад

    ......Чарльс ☘

  • @amorfati9163
    @amorfati9163 3 года назад

    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.

  • @bosubhaiyyamotwapurwaale
    @bosubhaiyyamotwapurwaale 3 года назад +1

    When Rambo recites a poem..

  • @BigQuotes
    @BigQuotes Год назад

    ♥️♥️♥️ good 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈❤️🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈❤️🌈😘

  • @lukeslc-xd8ds
    @lukeslc-xd8ds 3 года назад

    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

  • @barbarawenger7161
    @barbarawenger7161 3 года назад

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

  • @paulenzor6993
    @paulenzor6993 3 года назад +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 Год назад +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 года назад

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

  • @lailabasheer6455
    @lailabasheer6455 3 года назад +1

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

  • @prayunceasingly2029
    @prayunceasingly2029 2 года назад

    He doesn't sound Christian.

  • @TheProdigalsDiary
    @TheProdigalsDiary 2 месяца назад

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

  • @theinfamoustop104
    @theinfamoustop104 3 года назад +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

  • @charliesarasyoutubeadventu7539

    Narration doesn’t work for me.

  • @celliasmaridius
    @celliasmaridius 3 года назад

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

  • @kevinhughes3477
    @kevinhughes3477 3 года назад +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 года назад +2

      What

    • @math9630
      @math9630 2 года назад +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..