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Who Are Our Heroes and Why? W/Poet Kassandra Dick
Join us on a literary journey through time as we explore the timeless archetype of the hero. From Achilles to Hamlet, and even modern heroes like Elon Musk and Christopher Reeve, discover what it means to be a hero and why these stories continue to inspire us. Dive into the evolution of heroism across eras and cultures in this thought-provoking discussion.
You can purchase Kassandra's Book on Amazon. www.amazon.com/Songs-Mountaintop-Kassandra-Dick/dp/9357618716/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2F8RKTPF8BQ5C&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.NKz3JuTp7qdcXJ7hxvlX02DBZAQMa2OBGjlEW9ngKq_CEMm52QHwiq6vnMo0q8tKJcK8nve8rVQy1w1Mz0Vg03XBz3DTpLzoinAdm1htlPKzs3gO1Bjdk2bsNRxyN5nEbyL40AxX2ssditBPFfSAKFeanMc08mb3MgfOlLFv_RxrQukKEUkVKo_AjT0JTWrG4S_I0l_1R-2oPACwL-KAXGOG5zHuZbxfZShpzBNYrBw.kGjrmXJ9_hB94KP0Fjf4L100uLZoHtNOLNZRKoFe0bU&dib_tag=se&keywords=kassandra+dick&qid=1729099174&sprefix=kassandra+dick%2Caps%2C117&sr=8-1
Art work in the video: cordair.com/bobbie-carlyle/p/self-made-man
new.cordair.com/artists/larsen/works/triumph-of-daedalus/index.html
00:00 - Introduction: What Makes a Hero Timeless?
02:15 - Achilles vs. Aeneas: Heroic Ideals Across Cultures
12:30 - Odysseus and the Complexity of Heroism
22:20 - Achilles and Patroclus: The Controversy of Modern Retellings
32:00 - Exploring Enlightenment Heroes: Goethe and the Pursuit of Knowledge
41:30 - The Happy Warrior: Wordsworth’s Vision of Heroism
52:40 - Real-Life Heroes: Christopher Reeve’s Unbreakable Spirit
01:02:00 - The Renaissance Hero: Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
01:10:20 - Archetypes of the Hero: Exploring Timeless Traits
01:15:00 - Closing Thoughts: Why We Need Heroes Today
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @geoffyoung9564
    @geoffyoung9564 8 днів тому

    Great interpretation of the lyrics. Thank you. I think it's either a one-night stand or possibly a prostitute. I don't know which, and it doesn't matter. It's a beautiful song.

  • @StephenDouthart
    @StephenDouthart 8 днів тому

    Uilleann pipes

  • @CindyOfori-l7f
    @CindyOfori-l7f 11 днів тому

    Greatest rapper of all time

  • @CindyOfori-l7f
    @CindyOfori-l7f 11 днів тому

    Tupac is the greatest rapper of all time

  • @nicolasruiz1348
    @nicolasruiz1348 12 днів тому

    Kinda late but I love this reaction/review. Dylan has so many phases where he shares a lot of similarities with old poets. Especially 17th and 18th century. You could do hundreds of videos on him. This song is one of his most beautifully written but in my opinion there are far better songs that stand on their one better without the music. In 1965 he said that words are as important as the music to him, which is something we don’t see these days except maybe in hip-hop. I have a lot of recommendations in mind but the best in my opinion are: Visions of Johanna (credited as the best song ever written) and Desolation Row (incredible surrealism).

  • @nicolasruiz1348
    @nicolasruiz1348 14 днів тому

    Are you still doing Bob Dylan reactions? If so, you should react to Mr Tambourine Man, Desolation Row and A Hard Rain’s a-gonna fall.

    • @TroubadourChannel
      @TroubadourChannel 13 днів тому

      I need to get back into doing these! Thanks for the reminder

  • @TheMasterceasar
    @TheMasterceasar 17 днів тому

    Comments are rightfully killing this guy 😂 is this man insane

  • @TheMasterceasar
    @TheMasterceasar 17 днів тому

    This guy is the exact opposite of 2pac 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @TroubadourChannel
      @TroubadourChannel 12 днів тому

      A thinker?

    • @TheMasterceasar
      @TheMasterceasar 12 днів тому

      @TroubadourChannel More like someone self-centered who likes the smell of his own farts

  • @hinaiariitamaititahio1326
    @hinaiariitamaititahio1326 19 днів тому

    So could you please give us a thesis statement about The Foster mother's tale , what Coleridge was trying to prove to us? what are the main themes in this poem? Thank you for this video , it is really interesting

  • @spruce381
    @spruce381 22 дні тому

    It was played in the police bar a few times in the series - the wire. They are/were an amazing band. Tommy Makem - Broad majestic Shannon is a marvellous tribute, from a man who influenced Dylan, and also loved the pogues. Ta. ❤️👍🏽👍☘️

  • @mikegreen1495
    @mikegreen1495 24 дні тому

    He's writing this song for the unborn kids all over the world. Who will be born one day and hear his music like we are doing now. He is still raising kids with his messages who weren't even born when he recorded it

  • @BGivka
    @BGivka 26 днів тому

    Very true, slang and understanding the lingo is key. But i still enjoy it, especially if i figure out or learn what it means.

  • @ToureHamady-ny9lh
    @ToureHamady-ny9lh 29 днів тому

    I love your video❤❤❤

  • @paulcallaro396
    @paulcallaro396 Місяць тому

    Listen to the studio version.

  • @FatChanceTheCouchDog
    @FatChanceTheCouchDog Місяць тому

    Sorry, this message was left with me to pass along to whom it may concern, it reads: Went my own way, not coming back. -Men, Circa 2019-2035.

  • @TransNana
    @TransNana Місяць тому

    This song is actually autobiographical about his life with his own wife and family.

  • @fishnet-lv4tz
    @fishnet-lv4tz Місяць тому

    This bought sorrow and regret to the one I loss before me. However it helped cleanse my heart.

  • @quentcordairfiction9462
    @quentcordairfiction9462 Місяць тому

    Thanks for the inclusion of my poem and the art from our gallery. So very appreciated!

  • @SonKunSama
    @SonKunSama Місяць тому

    Fun fact: "Ozymandias" is the hellenised version of "Usermaatre Setepenre", the regnal name of Ramesses II, which was one of the greatest Egyptian pharaohs in history.

    • @TroubadourChannel
      @TroubadourChannel Місяць тому

      I’ve read this poem 100s of times and never knew that!

    • @SonKunSama
      @SonKunSama Місяць тому

      @@TroubadourChannel glad to inform. It does take away from the mystery of the poem but also adds a lot of context to it.

  • @genewalters
    @genewalters Місяць тому

    Any plans for Songs From the Mountaintop to be on Kindle/e-book?

    • @poet.in.flight
      @poet.in.flight Місяць тому

      Not at the moment, but I will be recording the individual poems and posting them on UA-cam, so feel free to follow for updates 🎉❤

  • @MYISLANDMO
    @MYISLANDMO Місяць тому

    Thoroughly enjoying this dialogue! Kas, you're so talented and brave xoxoxo

  • @alenaadler8242
    @alenaadler8242 Місяць тому

    What year was this written? It hardly seems possible that eternity would have been pronounced 'eetrni-tay" to make the rhyme. Is it possible there was a category of slant rhyme so oblique as to include this last line? What can you tell us about the other places in the text where our modern ears expect a rhyme?

    • @TroubadourChannel
      @TroubadourChannel Місяць тому

      It may be an audio quirk. I kind of hear what you’re hearing. But I meant it as a standard pronunciation of “eternity.”

    • @TroubadourChannel
      @TroubadourChannel Місяць тому

      This is mid 19th century. Emily Dickinson

  • @HolmesUkraine
    @HolmesUkraine Місяць тому

    I think....l.The song is about a wake for the deceased Big Jim Dwyer. The cadillac/tinker boys verse tells me the location of the wake is a house in a gritty working class neighborhood in America. Dwyer was a young Irish immigrant who moved to America. He was a proud Irishman, but also proud to be a "free born man of the USA." He was also a virtuous and athletic lad who became a boxer, who got drafted and sent to war, where he was killed. My guess is it was WW1. After the wake, and even though he had become an American,his body is being returned to his beloved homeland....Ireland.

    • @spruce381
      @spruce381 22 дні тому

      Exactly. Probably a Boston Southie

  • @abubakarmohamud91
    @abubakarmohamud91 Місяць тому

    Kadafi didn't get much credit this homey was ❤ touch

  • @Naruto1341
    @Naruto1341 Місяць тому

    My view on real life, living heroes, is that I don’t really have any who are famous, but I have many heroes who I know on a personal level. My roommate, Kassi here, and while I don’t know him, Yaron Brook. I know Yaron enough to view him as a virtuous hero in his pursuit of happiness and spreading objectivism to the globe. Second, if any of these heroes of mine fall from Grace, I can always remember what they used to be without evading who they are. I can always find new heroes, especially in fiction

    • @poet.in.flight
      @poet.in.flight Місяць тому

      Wow, to hear I'm a hero in your eyes means a lot! I will stay virtuous because I believe that despite my mistakes, I can learn and gain values!

    • @TroubadourChannel
      @TroubadourChannel Місяць тому

      Great choices!

  • @ayo_333_lol
    @ayo_333_lol Місяць тому

    Ayyy I had this poem in 8th grade literature. Brings back memories.

  • @prophecyrat2965
    @prophecyrat2965 Місяць тому

    Thats pretty good. Would listen to before bed at that.

  • @cyu5251
    @cyu5251 Місяць тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @rtbuck52
    @rtbuck52 Місяць тому

    I suggest his “Every Grain of Sand.”

  • @violetgovender8957
    @violetgovender8957 Місяць тому

    Listening to audiobook is great as I work... English is my first language so I'm good 👍

  • @123thof
    @123thof Місяць тому

    This is true: it's about Suze Rotolo, his first true love, who he met and dated on Fourth Street, where the NY folk community centered. He loved her and in this song dredged up the confusion they both felt right before Suze took a long tour in foreign lands. Jump from this song way back to "Boots of Spanish Leather."

  • @rainkevinbow
    @rainkevinbow Місяць тому

    I think the line "one who might move the wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds unlawful, ever." means to say that the person "whose eye is ever on himself" could influence the "wise man" to revert back to not thinking beyond themselves. (BTW thank you for this analysis. I read an excerpt of it in the book "Push" by Sapphire and at first I could not get my head around it. After watching your break down of it, I came to fully understand its meaning.)

  • @jamesvalliant6707
    @jamesvalliant6707 Місяць тому

  • @MrRosebeing
    @MrRosebeing Місяць тому

    I'm really not a fan of making things more accessible so that more people will understand what his plays are about. They are of their time. If you modernise or dumb down the language then they become something different. Just read around them and you may learn something in the process.

    • @TroubadourChannel
      @TroubadourChannel Місяць тому

      Do you think the version I created was “dumbed down?” I agree with what you’re saying. But I believe we can have updated language, since there has been 400 years of language change in English.

  • @rboypia189
    @rboypia189 Місяць тому

    So much ... Rimbaud? Crikey mate. AEIOU?

  • @agnisamansfield4038
    @agnisamansfield4038 Місяць тому

    Wilson Susan Garcia Matthew Walker Angela

  • @infromjapan
    @infromjapan Місяць тому

    In the first verse he doesn't realize she is a prostitute. That's the twist. In the second verse he is confused, but he figures it out when they get to the neon hotel. The reality of the situation hits him like a freight train. In the third verse she drops a coin into the cup of "another blind man". He was the first blind man. Now he sees clearly who she is, but he still has feelings for her. I think the whole story is an allegory for his first marriage which is breaking up.

  • @TimothyMilford
    @TimothyMilford 2 місяці тому

    Music should be felt not listened to, Dylan does that.

  • @Kelters
    @Kelters 2 місяці тому

    I've come a bit late to this party. Beg pardon. -- However, -- This song is about infidelity (understood from the "feel" of the whole song before beginning the analysis). -- One thing I have learned from a lot of Dylan's "story" songs is that the first verse in kinda the last verse put at the beginning. When you find a first person reference somewhere, as in this one, it probably is a real memory of his. This makes that first verse an introduction to his memory of the whole episode. -- I think he felt he actually made a big mistake, brought on by a Simple Twist of Fate.

  • @stumblinharris2219
    @stumblinharris2219 2 місяці тому

    I like the theory that the 'blue' he's tangled up in is the Joni Mitchell album of that name

  • @doomofthedestiny8065
    @doomofthedestiny8065 2 місяці тому

    I mean, personally, "Distracts with Feminine Wiles" is nod-wink enough to be clear she seduced him and bedded him.

  • @Anika-z6v
    @Anika-z6v 2 місяці тому

    love this

  • @GRIMR3AP3R5412
    @GRIMR3AP3R5412 2 місяці тому

    You should do a video on Chum by Earl Sweatshirt

  • @chrisgann8986
    @chrisgann8986 2 місяці тому

    I listened to this on 2X speed it was so slow 😂

    • @TroubadourChannel
      @TroubadourChannel 2 місяці тому

      You are correct in that :) Thanks for watching. In so many of my earlier videos I think I babbled way too much. I am working on redoing many of them.

  • @JuanMartinez-ip3uk
    @JuanMartinez-ip3uk 2 місяці тому

    Unconditional Love by Tupac That right there is a different kind of song, different side to Pac.

  • @smthhappy
    @smthhappy 2 місяці тому

    So he wants money?

  • @christopherdeguilio6375
    @christopherdeguilio6375 2 місяці тому

    It's a conundrum... Is Dylan a poet? Not really...poets don't require a backing track. Is he a great singer? Not really...his vocals are legendarily mocked. However....he is undoubtedly one of the most influential singer songwriters of all time and he is a Nobel literature laureate. Dylan is my all time favorite musical artist and I never stop asking questions about him... Maybe that's why he's my all time favorite?

  • @Keith_M00N66
    @Keith_M00N66 2 місяці тому

    Can't believe Moonie is again titled "the drum's guy" 😮 i'm educated in music even if i don't care but i know the important names of music....

  • @BobWickham-f4c
    @BobWickham-f4c 2 місяці тому

    Suggest you review "Lay Down Your Weary Tune"

  • @BobWickham-f4c
    @BobWickham-f4c 2 місяці тому

    Good analysis.... bobdylansonganalysis.wordpress.com/2017/10/29/tangled-up-in-blue/