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The Voyage That Shook the World (2009)
IMDB rating: 4.40
Plot: In 1831 a young amateur scientist, Charles Darwin, boarded HMS Beagle on an epic five-year voyage of discovery. 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book, ‘Origin of Species’. The Voyage that Shook the World retraces Darwin’s journey, exploring the places and discoveries crucial to the formulation of his Theory of Evolution. Filmed in South America, UK, North America, Australia and Europe, The Voyage features dramatic period recreations and stunning nature cinematography interwoven with scholars sharing their perspectives on the man and the controversy. A fascinating and thought provoking opportunity to gain new insight into The Voyage that Shook the World.
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Directors: Murray Steve
Actors: Simmons Dale,Unicomb John,Documentary,
Why do we find some things so difficult to explain?
If I could with a word well-chosen tell
You of the mysteries I’ve come to know
In sweet-sad murmurs of the vesper bell,
My throttled tongue would then so overflow
With tales of timeless, soft, refulgent glow
That streams from common places all have seen
(That mark and mock our outer life below),
Would be repealed, as if a stubborn screen
Had been dissolved; and all that lies between
The parclose paling of the piece-bright world
And what is masked — the pure and ever green –
Would then pour forth, as through a thin wall thurled.
The truth I’ve glimpsed, and yet no words are found,
And so by failing silence am I bound.
This silence that’s become my sole estate
Has come of late to blur what’s real and dreamed;
I have been set adrift to navigate
On seas that are, and are not, what they seemed.
For I have seen the center — still — that’s teemed
Beneath the veil that not one soul denies,
And by its sight am both damned and redeemed
In ways I could not hope to analyze,
But which have in a strange way made me wise,
Though by their awful loneliness I’m swept –
Their wisdom seems all language to despise;
So often in my longing have I wept.
These are the poles that I am drawn between,
And yet how could you know quite what I mean?
While walking once along a country lane
I spied a bucket, weather-worn and bare,
Which time and circumstance half-filled with rain.
And on its waters I became aware
Of a lone beetle’s silent voyage there,
And in it, mirrored, life’s experience;
And now I see such visions everywhere –
I’ve not dared glimpse the oaken bucket since.
I’m tortured and yet blessed by Providence;
It’s come to shake my wakefulness with sights
That pierce my utterly and make no sense.
And what were once my pleasures and delights,
And were for my whole life the goal and sum,
Now exile me to lands where words can’t come.
A golden sunset makes my words quite fail,
A crippled child and country road, the same;
In all I sense the same soul-making vale
And know its grandeur full, yet not its name.
And not once did I beckon it, it came
And poisoned me ’til I could speak no more.
Daylight’s dull web and I are all the same –
The empty mask that hangs beside the door.
Have I been made the sole inheritor
Of things I feel, but never can explain?
Mere circumstance has scourged me to the core;
With folded hands I slowly go insane.
I’ve seen God’s greatness, but it has been planned
That I not speak of what I understand.
Thank you madam boobpicture, I’m not reading that…
Susanna, sorry to offend you, but anyone who answers a poetry question by saying they’re not reading your poem and who displays her mammary glands as an avatar is no lady.
Like your gift for poetry, for example? Excellent stuff.
The Genuine Mighty Iano | Aug 12, 2009
why is the sky blue?
Erik | Aug 12, 2009
uhhh …..
davidb5776 | Aug 12, 2009
Thanks
no problem | Aug 12, 2009
Because we are dumb and ignorant
Vito | Aug 12, 2009
Because humans only use 10% of their brain. Also we think of everything in 3 dimensional. Anything more or complicated than that can be too much for human knowledge to explain.
Ming | Aug 12, 2009
its only difficult in explaining when the one being explained to doesn’t comprehend
<33 | Aug 12, 2009
I’m not reading that, but to answer your question:
Emotion exceeds wording. It’s like trying to explain how much you love someone. If you say it a lot, it starts to seem like it isn’t enough. You become desensitized to how strong of a word it is and you constantly try to look for a way to emphasize it. It isn’t possible.
This goes for anything you feel strongly towards, not necessarily love. Emotion in general.
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Myranitang | Feb 05, 2010
