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"Growing Old" by Matthew Arnold - (poem about aging)

"Growing Old" is English poet Matthew Arnold meditation on the experience of aging. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a poet of great distinction as well as a prominent figure in British education. He served as a school inspector for many year and traveled to other countries at Britain's behest to study their education systems. In "Growing Old" Arnold gives a gripping account of aging where he purposefully distances the poem away from the sentimental ideas of aging as having "life mellowed and softened with sunset glow" or "seeing the world from a prophetic height" and "feeling the fullness of the past". Instead he defines old age in its absences, by what it's not. Please enjoy this terrific recitation of Matthew Arnold's "Growing Old". And for more more poetry videos join the Blank Verse Films email newsletter. It only comes a once a month: https://mailchi.mp/24fb0c198023/blank... Full text of the poem below "Growing Old" by Matthew Arnold What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The luster of the eye? Is it for beauty to forego her wreath? —Yes, but not this alone. Is it to feel our strength— Not our bloom only, but our strength—decay? Is it to feel each limb Grow stiffer, every function less exact, Each nerve more loosely strung? Yes, this, and more; but not Ah, ’tis not what in youth we dreamed ’twould be! ’Tis not to have our life Mellowed and softened as with sunset glow, A golden day’s decline. ’Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are no more. It is to spend long days And not once feel that we were ever young; It is to add, immured In the hot prison of the present, month To month with weary pain. It is to suffer this, And feel but half, and feebly, what we feel. Deep in our hidden heart Festers the dull remembrance of a change, But no emotion—none. 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. ~~ Credits ~~ Poem recited by Michael Moerman Cinematography by Nate Brice Edited Mike Gioia ~~ The Blank Verse ~~ Blank Verse Instagram - http://bit.ly/2QOOB4P Blank Verse Twitter - http://bit.ly/2CoROpx Blank Verse Facebook - http://bit.ly/2oHdEuO