🧑🎓John Keats "ODE ON A GRECIAN URN" In-depth analysis. Multilingual subtitles. 👀
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- 0:00 Introduction
0:13 First stanza: Textual analysis
1:52 First stanza: Visualizing the poem
4:00 Second stanza: Textual analysis
6:42 The world of the imagination
7:02 Third stanza: Textual analysis
8:32 Context and comments: Suffering and escapism
9:37 Fourth stanza: Textual analysis
11:50 Suffering in the world of the urn
12:51 Fifth stanza: Textual analysis
14:44 Comments on the poem's conclusion
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Keats's "Ode on a Grecian urn" is one of the best-known poems of the Romantic period. Here I discuss it mainly from the point of view of its themes and imagery. Check • 🧑🎓 John Keats, "Ode o... for my reading of this poem.
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Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
And, happy melodist, unwearied,
For ever piping songs for ever new;
More happy love! more happy, happy love!
For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd,
For ever panting, and for ever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
What little town by river or sea shore,
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
And, little town, thy streets for evermore
Will silent be; and not a soul to tell
Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.
O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
"YUNANİSTAN URN ÜZERİNDE ODE": Derinlemesine bir analiz
Un'analisi approfondita
約翰·濟慈《頌歌》深入分析
Analisis mendalam
キーツ 詳細な分析
"ODA EN UNA URN GRECA": Un análisis en profundidad
جون كيتس ،تحليل متعمق
Subtítulos 字幕 Imibhalo engezansi 字幕 phụ đề سب ٹائٹلز Altyazılar คำบรรยาย ఉపశీర్షికలు வசன வரிகள் Субтитры Legendas Napisy na filmie obcojęzycznym ਉਪਸਿਰਲੇਖ उपशीर्षके Sari kata 자막 ಉಪಶೀರ್ಷಿಕೆಗಳು Sottotitoli Mga Subtitle Subtitles उपशीर्षक સબટાઈટલ Sous-titres زیرنویس Υπότιτλοι Untertitel সাবটাইটেল ترجمات التسميات التوضيحية ক্যাপশন Bildunterschriften λεζάντες زیرنویس ها Mga Caption captions legends કૅપ્શન્સ
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0:00 Introduction
0:13 First stanza: Textual analysis
1:52 First stanza: Visualizing the poem
4:00 Second stanza: Textual analysis
6:42 The world of the imagination
7:02 Third stanza: Textual analysis
8:32 Context and comments: Suffering and escapism
9:37 Fourth stanza: Textual analysis
11:50 Suffering in the world of the urn
12:51 Fifth stanza: Textual analysis
14:44 Comments on the poem's conclusion
I'm a student who read English General Degree and you video help me a great deal. Thank you very much for explaining it so well. Thank you
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Thank you sir for your brilliant explanation of this poem. I am from India and i'm very inspired and impressed by your way of teaching. I am a student of University of North Bengal and your explanation has helped me a lot to make out this poem very easily...again thank you so much sir and take care..with love & respect.
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@@anosensei yes and I'm looking forwards to seeing those! Keep up the brilliant work, greetings from Italy
Thank you very much for helping me to imagine all the pictures on the urn. God bless you
You are very welcome! Please check my other poetry videos: ua-cam.com/video/OwI6PbYTLTM/v-deo.html
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I'm glad you liked it. There's an updated and improved version of this video here, that I'm encouraging people to watch: ua-cam.com/video/PoVy5zvRJHc/v-deo.html.
Thank you sir... I am from India... It helped me a lot... Nice explanation 🙏
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This is impeccable sir. The best analysis I've come across. Thank you sir and God bless you.
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Such a good explanation, thank you sir
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Nicely done! Explanation does justice to the poem.
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Huge thanks for the video. Helped me a lot with studying for my British Literature exam.
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Thanks for making this! I was very honestly confused while first trying to get through this poem. Hope your day goes well :)
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Beautifully explained!!!! Thank you so much!
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Mesmerizing stuff, indeed... So exquisitely articulated and with concretization of images... Lovely 😍😍😍
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you are rightly deserving to call the greatest Analyst of this poem.
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I can feel a lot of enthusiasm from you about the poem in this, haha. A genuinely interesting take on it.
Thank you for saying so. Yes, enthusiasm is the one thing I've always got bags of - well, almost always!
I loved your pictorial analysis of the ode ❤️
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@@anosensei Have a nice holiday there!😊
Ha! I live here and I'm retired, so I guess it's a long holiday!
I think the last lines tell us that Truth is not definitive, by associating it with beauty, it is a matter of subjective interpretation and speculation. The life of the urn though created through imagination of the poet, is a truth different from our own as it will never suffer old age. The Urn basically tells us that my truth is not your truth, and that's the beauty.
Your comment underlines one of the basic principles I always tried to tell my students. When we study language we want to know what it means, in some objective sense, but when we study literature the question is not, "What does it mean?" but, "What does it mean *to me*?"
Hi Professor thank you so much for the in-depth yet clear analyses and the knowledge you generously share with us. Along with the books and articles I am reading, your videos give me a better view of the English literature. So far, I have listened to that dealing with Keats and Shakespeare as I am studying some of their writings at the moment as part of an exam to become an English teacher. Where I live, one of the ways to become one is through a national competitive exam whose program changes every year. For the 2022 session, Keats's poems and prose as well as Shakespeare's King Henry V among other books (Henry James's The Wings of the Dove; Alexis Wright's Carpenteria; Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men) were chosen. I am a Linguistics Master's student and I've never studied English literature. I've studied French literature in middle school high school so I do have somewhat of a analysis and history of literature background but each language and each country being different and the level required for the national exam being so high, I believe that I cannot merely apply this knowledge to English literature. I was wondering if you had the project of analysing or providing us with some knowledge about these authors and their above-mentioned writings. If not could you please kindly refer me to some articles and/or books I could read? Thank you so much for your help, I am looking forward to hearing from you and listening to your next videos!
Hi! Thank you for the feedback. I'm currently working on an analysis of Keats's "To Autumn" (the analysis of stanzas one and two is already available on video here on UA-cam, and the third stanza will be ready within a couple of weeks or so). I'm planning a few more Shakespeare videos, but I'm afraid Henry V isn't on the list!
I mainly focus on British literature, so your other authors are rather outside my scope. However, here is a short series of discussions of Henry James which I conducted with a former colleague a couple of years ago: ua-cam.com/channels/dcDMMxki_o1DvqpupIOoWQ.html. If I come across anything noteworthy on Wright or McCarthy I'll let you know.
Please feel free to ask anything about Keats and Shakespeare (especially Keats). Good luck with your studies!
I should add that I have another channel that gives quite a bit more information about Shakespeare: ua-cam.com/channels/MfP-RIFcx_B8N1hM7LUd_A.html
This is the channel I uploaded lectures to when I was still teaching (I retired three years ago). These videos are direct recordings as PowerPoint presentations given in the classroom. They're not as polished as the videos on the "Ano sensei" channel, but there's quite a lot of content there, some of which you might find useful.
@@anosensei Thank you so much for taking the time to reply so insightfully to my comment, Professor! I had a look at the videos under the links you provided me with; they are clear and very informative. As such, they will help me greatly in my studies. I am grateful for your allowing me to ask you questions about Keats and Shakespeare. I have always loved literature for everything it has taught me, as well as the emotions it made me feel or the ones I felt but couldn't express, so having the opportunity to deepen my knowledge about British literature is particularly thrilling. I feel like entering a new realm. I had a glimpse at Keats's poetry and I really enjoy its music and its themes. Thank you for having informed me on your plans and for keeping me informed on your findings. I am looking forward to listening to your upcoming videos!
@@sempiterneldesiderata7439 You are very welcome! Since retiring this has become my main activity. It's great, because I can just do what I like!
@@anosensei Hi again Professor, I was wondering, after tackling Keats's To Autumn, will you analyse his other odes, especially, Ode on Indolence? Do you maybe have some other poems in preparation from this author?
Also, do you perhaps plan on maki'g methodological videos on poetry analysis or on poetry recital? This is but a humble suggestion, but I am convinced that we could learn a lot from how you approach and analyse a poem. It would also be very interesting to learn how to properly read and deliver a poem. As you showed with your special care for alliteration, the musicality and the rythm of poems are a meaningful part of how they convey what they convey. Thank you for taking the time to read my notes again. Have a nice day,
Wow best explanation on you tube I came across. Please analyse Canterbury tales like this. I will be honoured.
I'm glad you liked it! I'd love to make something on the Canterbury Tales, but it would be a huge task, and anyway I've got another commitment for the next three months or so. I might have a go at doing parts of it at some stage...
@@anosensei which College, university you teach before. The way you teach is very explicit.
@@NitishKumar-gu9us I taught at Sophia University, Tokyo, for 25 years before retirement.
kindly, will you analyze the poem fire and ice. I love it in your way
I'm sorry, but being British I limit myself to British (and sometimes Irish or Commonwealth) poetry. You really need someone who has grown up in, and understands, American culture to help you with this.
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Wow! That's some feedback. Thank you! Yes, I remember what seemed like endless hours of my childhood being wasted in tedium in deadly classrooms, and I've always felt that learning should be fun, but in an enhancing way, not just frivolous. All best wishes from Japan!
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@@dohaaymoon4096 OK! Yes, it's a good choice. I have one or two other things to work on, but I'll try to get round to this in a couple of weeks' time or so...
You are an excellent teacher ANO SENSEI, I love your lectures. Please keep uploading, it really helps. I skip classes and seek content online. Today I stumbled upon your channel and I'm so glad I did. Also, can we portray the sacrifice, the heifer, and the priest as symbols of the Urn itself? Since an Urn is where ashes are traditionally preserved....?
Thank you for the feedback! I'm glad you found it useful. Yes, I want to upload a lot more videos. I'm a bit bogged down with something else at the moment, but things are moving slowly forwards!
Your observation about the sacrifice is a good one. The Greeks used vases for many things, and I think the jury is still out on what kind of urn Keats had in mind, but it seems likely that the poem is based on a neo-Attic urn, made in Rome sometime between about 50 B.C. and 50 A.D. and used either for funerary purposes or just as decoration (see, e.g., Ian Jack, _Keats and the Mirror of Art_, 1967, p. 212).
The urn as portrayed in the poem has two sides, one depicting a festival, or celebration in the countryside, the other showing a darker side of that festival, that is, the sacrifice, leading Keats on to speculate about the town that has been abandoned by the festival-goers. I'm not sure I would exactly say that the sacrifice aspect symbolizes the urn, though. The way I see it, the two pictures the poet describes on the urn reflect its two aspects, as a celebration of life and a reminder of death.
I think it is reasonable to suppose that Keats has a funerary urn in mind, and that the heifer and the priest and so on reflect the more sombre purpose of the urn but - like much else in Keats's poetry - that side of the picture is balanced almost equally with the other side, the life-affirming "happy, happy love".
@@anosensei
Thank you for replying:) It means a lot.
Do you think that the "unheard melodies" could be the paintings on the urn? The paintings of those instruments? They are singing a song that has no music and these melodies are sweeter because they will stay, unlike the music they would have actually produced in the real world..
@@user-dr9di3ih7u Something like that, but to me it seems rather as if the paintings of the instruments do actually play "ditties" of no tone" to the poet's "spirit". That is, he *imagines* the music they might play, which is "sweeter" than any actual music played on real instruments.
Perhaps there are shades of Plato here. The essence is perfect and exists only in the mind. The creative act of bringing it into existence necessarily clouds it with a degree of imperfection. Keats seems to reflect that idea, implying that things can only be perfect in the world of the imagination.
@@anosensei
I have noted that down. Thank you so much. Will be studying the Ode to Autumn next:)
It's really a very helpful video. Thanks a million 🥺♥ I am wondering where I can find the pictures of the urn you pictured through describing its images.
Thank you for the feedback. The pictures were taken from a couple of old books. One of them is online here: tehne.com/library/smith-j-m-ancient-greek-female-costume-london-1882.
I'm not sure about the other; if I can track it down, I'll let you know.
@@anosensei I just wanted the second image or more obviously the other side of the urn. I cannot find it in the link you send.
@@anosensei I mean the second picture you designed, as one picture not a group of pictures, not the original one. Have you understood my point?
@@pearl2158 Oh, I see! Well, I put those together for the video. I think the best thing you can do would just be to take some screenshots from the video. That way you can get all the pictures you want! As long as you're not planning to sell them or anything, I have no objection to that.
@@anosensei As if you read my mind 😂😂,of course I have no intention to do anything with them rather I wanted to share them with my class during interpreting the poem as you did,so I already did take screenshots, but I thought you have the opposite side of the urn as a complete image just like the first image.
Plz, can you send this expleain pdf
You mean you want a transcript? OK! Here it is in English. Let me know if you want it in another language. educationalhub.org/static/keatsgrecianurn
Great video. In future, kindly use a sans serif font like Arial.
I'm glad you liked it. I prefer a cursive font here; it's closer to what Keats would have used. See, for example, this handwritten copy, probably written by his brother: www.bl.uk/collection-items/manuscript-of-ode-to-a-nightingale-by-john-keats#. You can always access the text elsewhere or turn on the subtitles ... or learn to read cursive. You never know when it might come in handy!
BTW, "In future, kindly..." is the way a boss speaks to the workers; "Next time, please..." would be much better here!
I was looking for all literary devices used in this poetry 😢😢
Now I got tiered...
"Tiered" doesn't make sense. Do you mean "tired"?
The purpose of this video is not to give a comprehensive list of all the literary devices used, but to show how the poet uses certain devices to create a particular effect. If you want me to give you some input on the full range of devices used, please join as a channel member.
hello sir
i am very interested in english poetry
i request you to make an in-depth analysis of the poem ON HIS BLINDNESS by John Milton.
Thank you for your request. However, I'm afraid I can only accept suggestions for video content from full channel members of good standing.
@@anosensei rest assured I will spread it among a large number of students
Can you write in commentaire the analyse, please
No need; you can find the complete transcript here! educationalhub.org/anosensei/keatsgrecianurn
Wow. Wish I had your intelligence.
Well, thank you, but don't undervalue yourself! There are many different kinds of intelligence, and different ways in which to put one's intelligence to good use. I hope you find the right way for yourself - and I hope you will gain inspiration from poems like this one.
Thank you. I've been studying about John Keats because someone told me they like him better than Shakespeare and I love Shakespeare. So I wanted to know about his work. You're really good at what you do. Thank you.
@@gelalim88 Thank you again! I've been making these videos since I retired a couple of years ago, and I love it. More poetry videos coming in another month or so...