Be Drunk, a poem by Charles Baudelaire, read by Kevin Murphy

Be drunk--that is your sole concern. To ease the pain as Time's dread burden weighs down upon you and crushes you to earth, you must be drunk without respite. But drunk with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please. And if sometimes on the steps of palaces, or in the green grass of a ditch, or in the dreary solitude of your room, you should awaken and find your drunkenness half-over or fully gone, ask of wind, wave, star, bird, or clock, of all that moves, sighs, flies, or speaks, what time is it. And wind, wave, star, bird, and clock will answer, it is time to be drunk, to throw off the chains and martyrdom of Time, be drunk, be drunk eternally. With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• language
• poetry
• english
• baudelaire

[Ryanshidyak]

Great Poem Reading!!! Great great great! I like the interpretation. I find that when I listen to poems read by those who actually understand them, I seem to understand them even more.

[purplewool]

sobriety is a bore.

[StephenHalloran]

"One must always be drunk"

[lftm1]

@comanchio1976 Nice

[comanchio1976]

@lftm1 Brake fluid

[flaviusdreams]

thanks for reading

[Jessabilly]

@lftm1

absolutely,

I try to keep it that way =)

[lftm1]

I'am drunk on poetry,any one else

[Moonmanwalker]

That's pretty good you all should look up Dante basco he has great poems

[larry89]

sick poem.. (i'm using a positive connotation btw for you squares)

[maxbanjo]

Great poem, rubbish reading. Get drunk! not mull mundanely over poetry. I'm not sure the reader was fully committed to the cause.