Before I Got My Eye Put Out - The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: Crash Course English Literature #8
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- In which John Green concludes the Crash Course Literature mini-series with an examination of the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Sure, John explores the creepy biographical details of Dickinson's life, but he also gets into why her poems have remained relevant over the decades. John discusses Dickinson's language, the structure of her work, and her cake recipes. He also talks about Dickinson's famously eccentric punctuation, which again ends up relating to her cake recipes. Also, Dickinson's coconut cake recipe is included. Also, here are links to some of the poems discussed in the video:
Faith is a Fine Invention: www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/...
I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died: www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/...
Before I Got My Eye Put Out: www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/...
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With Emily Dickinson poems half of the time I don't understand at all whatsoever, and the other half I'm blown away with how much sense some of the poems make.
That’s normal with poetry. Go back to it later. You will see it differently
@@whit2642 agree
I feel like I could spend 10 years studying her poetry. Like it could be it’s own major.
Same, I’d love it if there was an entire class dedicated towards analyzing Emily Dickinson’s life and her poetry.
Go to grad school 😊
“Dickinson rarely left her house and often talked to visitors through a closed door.” Sounds like my standard Saturday with Netflix
+Giulia Socolof Netflix and dickinson ... think about it
+Alexis Gonzalez hahahahahahaha blatant penis reference man you are quite the connoisseur of jokes my friend
like netflix n chill. but dickinson...... nvm lmao
Do you where sad cloths and write deeply depressing poetry?
Giulia Socolof yeah but she’s actually using her mental energy to create something that lasted.
"Between 1858 and 1865, Emily Dickinson wrote over 800 poems."
Sure, she was becoming more of a recluse at that time, but still, over 800 poems in seven years? Wow. And here it's been six years since I started writing my novel and I'm only on the second draft.
still waiting on that novel
That’s only about 3 poems every day every day for 7 years
Yay! A fellow writer!
Dickinson is by far my favorite poet. She's the most relatable and the most subversive to her time.
Same
Why do any of the comments _not_ start with "Mr. Green, Mr. Green!"?
Genius!
They don't start with "Mr. Green" because society has lost the vast majority of its mutual respect for elders and their wisdom."
Why is THIS the top comment? also Whovians for the win
@@meganb.2249 boo hoo
Mr Green, Mr Green! Why doesn't this comment start with "Mr. Green, Mr. Green!"
I suffer from social anxiety disorder too, and rarely leave my room.
time to write poetry I guess.
Who said she had social anxiety? I'd say it was agoraphobia.
Paycorn1 The two often go together, agoraphobia an expression of social anxiety. My best friend struggles with this.
same.
@Back Bay Man52 Same dude
Altorin Definitley dealt with this, I think empathic action is essential in reintroducing yourself to the world.
Maybe the dashes are there to allow the reader, or even Emily herself, to take in what was written. She wants us to contemplate them and not just be willing to immediately move on to the finish line. Each line is meant to be a poem unto itself as well as to be a poem of a whole. There's the individual line - expression of the individual, vs the poem as a whole - expression and interpretation of society.
"The history of the United States matters to you because we're always meddling in your affairs." Never thought I would hear an American say that! More reasons to love John Green.
Never say you were, I just find what John said funny...
So do I, largely because I agree with him. I wasn't offended, but simply felt it was worth mentioning that everyone on the planet is being represented by someone they probably wouldn't even ask to check on their dog for them.
Che Marshall Okay :)
Karl Hiramanek Meaning?
Sarkastic Chirk, Savage :)
She Called red 'Fire's common tint.' I dare say that's a mega-burn.
Pun alert! I like puns!
TheFireflyGrave punny
I am not getting it
I seest what thou hast done therefore.
'i heard a fly buzz when i died' is an extremely important poem for me. my 11th grade american literature teacher read it to our class, and the "blue" uncertain stumbling buzz of the fly made my head hurt, because the sound of a fly buzzing is brown, not blue. my teacher then threw out the term 'synesthesia' which finally gave me a name for the weirdness i always had of seeing and feeling colors where there supposedly weren't any. anyway, thank you for this miniseries, john! it was awesome.
I think you should do a 6 part series on the Romantics (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats) It would be epically awesome!!
Liam Ryan I love Coleridge and Wordsworth. I agree. Please do all these!
She used the same amount of dashes in her cake recipes because CAKE IS POETRY!
(and a lie, but mostly poetry)
I see what you did there lmao
Add a dash of vanila
if cake is a lie, what is pie?
@@jrexgaming7546 Oh boy what flavor?
PIE PIE PIE!
Why I love Crash Course: It tells you exactly what you need to know without all of the stupid introductory paragraphs and only one line of actual stuff. I passed almost all of my exams in school because of you guys, so thank you I guess.
A crushing testament to the school system.
Dear crash course peeps, I am currently binge watching crash course literature in an attempt to sleep on the night my best friend, my grandfather has passed away. thank you for being able to do this, and for making these lovely videos
I wish this series had existed when I was in high school. I suck at reading, and I didn't like a lot of the books that I was "supposed" to read as a teenager. Crash Course does a good job at explaining why these books matter, why they resonate and why they're still so powerful today. It makes me want to read again.
Actually, don't do flies come when bodies starts to rot? I'd guess that broken stillness, almost sacred and wished for after a lifetime of fearing death, is also a glimpse for what's coming; a sudden intruder of the real amidst ideal(ized) moments.
An the dash as as a resting body, as an eye closed, as a horizontal I.
Now that's full of awesome
How stunned I was here to find - an insight of poignance and probity
- in these notes hence left behind - delivered, itself, in subtle poetry
i wish i could reply in a fashion more - delicate
but i am afraid those portions of my conscious are not so- intricate
this is absolutely amazing
@Larisa Emanuela mine too💚😍
8:08 "This discomforting lack of closure is a hallmark of Dickinson's poetry, also of most of my romantic relationships"
Hahaha same Mr Green.
I was annoyed this video ended too soon. I need more Emily Dickinson analysis.
Is it weird that I am really annoyed that I don't get to study Dickinson?
I would be super annoyed. This often happened at University. Not with Dickinson per se, but with a number of people that I felt were important. But trade-offs have to be made. None the less, skipping Dickinson in American lit class is just wrong.
No. Not at all. Many poets we are forced to study are OVER RATED and many like Dickinson are far over looked. I love her rhyme and meter. I love her play on words/ actions/ feelings. She says a whole lot with a little.
Damn I'm sorry
Study it yourself. That's what I did
You just did
PLEASE John Green We need more videos on literature!
“Dickinson rarely left her house and often talked to visitors through a closed door.” *MISINFORMATION* Emily Dickinson actually loved to be out in the open, since she loved nature
Is anyone besides me here after watching Dickinson?
After she got her "I" out out, she was Emly Dckenson
gamingLegacies Genius!
Er, Genus.
Only after "I" was released from her "dick" was she known as dckenson....Wait what?
I you say it fast it still sounds the same! :3.
Dashes are the best punctuation mark, and if you disagree - like some sort of uncouth idiot - I will fight you.
Dashes, specifically long dashes, look so aesthetically pleasing.
We're all wondering why you didn't use dashes-specifically long dashes-in your interjection.
Morgann Thain "kid Koon" only likes it when others --------------- dash
Well I think Emily Dickinson's a lesbian.
_Partial credit_
She's bisexual, I think? She had 2 male romantic interests and 1 female alleged lover (her sister-in-law Susie).
I love this
Love this John Mulaney reference! This definitely made my day :D
who wasn't?
Why did you stop Crash course Literature? Please think about doing some more !! Please, please !
yes
More on literature please!
"But my [non-US viewers] friends, even if you don't live here, the history of the United States matters to you -- because we're always meddling in your affairs." So Stephen-King true, and not just in the "we come (ostensibly) to defend you" sense, but also as the most influential source of cultural material in the world today.
no issue there, but you guys operate under the false pretense that yours is the only culture and history that matters. everything else is a punchline or a foot note in your story to you.
If you were directing that comment at me, then I would have to point out that I am not American, though American culture does take up a significant fraction of my personal culture.
If you were directing that comment at the producers of the video, then I grant that there is value to your argument, though it offers no suggestion to improve and appears to be meant primarily to inflame rather than constructively criticize.
that's not necessarily good
I really appreciate this series. I am in highschool and I have trouble reading critically, however when I watch this show you make it very enjoyable to listen to. I love learning but my body likes to inhibit my ability to focus. Thank you crash course for helping me get over my own brain.
You might want to try using audiobooks. It's a different way of digesting the same material, and it can make it much easier to get through some of the denser texts you have to read.
"Poetry isn't just a series of images, it's rhythmic, metric and we crave the closure of a good rhyme at the end of a poem. That's why there are the sonnets and couplets"
Please do more poetry
I don't know if you take requests, but I would LOVE to see more of these literature episodes. I'm just really loving them!
The line "Before I got my eye put out" probably refers to a verse in the New Testament where Christ says, "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is single your whole body will be full of light." Otherwise she would have used "eyes."
Poets are very sensitive to the length of words. She may have chosen "eye" simply because it appeared cleaner or she didn't want a "z" sound in that line. Poets agonize over small choices like that.
I was an avid reader Ms. Emily as a teenager, and learned much of my punctuation from her - which I still use to this day. Her letters to the master really giving the dash a serious place in how one speaks on the printed page. Funny, but 30 years later I am still chronically suicidal, have major depression and social anxiety - and of course am agoraphobic. Too bad I'm not a poetess!
I'd love to see an expansion on this series including The Bell Jar as well as some more poetry.
What if the - was just her emote for a 'blink.'
or a micro-phallus
Wow. That is insightful
“From the wounded soul, comes poetry and music. In return, music and poetry heals the soul.🎶
I came across this quote in a hauntingly beautiful poetry book, “12:12 Midnight”
by Danielle Ever Rose
I'd be very interested to see more of these! Perhaps a dystopia novel? 1984 by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and maybe even my particular favourite Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro?
I agree I would like to see John's take on it
This is one of my most favorite videos you've made. You can't find a video as deep and thought-provoking anywhere on UA-cam.
Ahh! I was so happy when I saw that you did one on Emily Dickinson! She is my favorite poet.
I always found her poems about disconnecting with society a bit more interesting than those about death, though. Such as in "I'm nobody, who are you?". She was said to go out and play games with children but go back inside the moment any adults came around or lower baked yummies out her window for children to eat, showing a particular fondness (respect?) of children over adults.
Wonderful video, sir!
Love her works & her eccentricity...which made her write those Precious works...
I am repenting! Why did it take so much time for me to find this awesome channel? I've always wanted someone to explain English literature to me.Thanks for your contents!
I love the 'Crash Course Literature' series! Please bring it back.
I very rarely comment on UA-cam videos, but I just have to say that I absolutely loved this miniseries and I truly with that you would expand it. As an English teacher I would love to see you do Frankenstein or Macbeth.
How have you been? 540-303-7957 call me asap please and congrats! You guys will be great parents
"Even if you do not live here, the history of the United States matters to you because we are always meddling in your affairs."
Wish you guys made more of these! Hopefully in the future there will be a continued Literature mini series? Thank you any ways!
Please continue the Crash Course literature series! I've enjoyed it immensely and was very disappointed to see it end so soon. There's so much more!
Please continue to make videos like this one. I'm a literature student and these are of great help.
Mr. Green Mr. Green what do you think about the new Netflix series 'Dickinson'?
Enjoyed this well-done video on the inimitable "Moth of Amherst", literary lioness Emily Dickinson...one of my favorite influences :-)
Please don't stop making crash course episodes on books, your videos give me a better understanding and appreciation on books I've read in class. Also you're better than all my English teachers combined
Please continue this course!!! It's my absolute favourite!!
Came here after watching Dickinson on Apple TV. Hailee Steinfeld did an amazing job playing the character.
This mini series is great. Have you thought of continuing it with more works of literature? I have never heard of these novels or poems but I still understand what is going on and it motivates me to get access to the real thing.
You guys do excellent work. I never cared about about literature or poetry until I started watching your channel. It was your history series that really caught my attention.
This is by far my favorite Crash Course video to date. I love learning more about not just Emily Dickinson, but also myself.
After my first acceptance of a poem by Emily Dickinson, I have now set my own poem to music.
Wait... is this John Green THE John Green??
Yup
Please keep it up! And thank you to you and to Hank for remaining so endlessly passionate about what you do!
I'm a student teacher, and I used this video in my Emily Dickinson lesson a few days ago. Both the students and my cooperating teacher really enjoyed it! I'd like to echo others' sentiments and hope you'll continue this series as your schedule allows.
Please make more Literature videos!
For what it's worth, I'd say the foot "-ness in", as part of the line "The stillness in the room", isn't iambic but is more like a use of Pyrrhic substitution. She's putting emphasis on the syllables "still" and "room" in that sentence, which contrasts with the use of the word "buzz" in the previous line. (And "buzz" is I think emphasized by a use of trochaic substitution when you listen to it carefully!)
I hope there is a revival of this mini-series of literature in the future! Maybe after American History?
BTW I'm taking AP American History next year, timing couldn't have been better! Thanks for being awesome!
This mini-series has been an awesome and insightful reawakening for me - thank you for taking your time, amongst the depth and breadth of literature, to focus on Gatsby - the novel that inspired me to become an English teacher! A humble and heartfelt request - don't leave literature by the wayside! Your novels inspire my students in so many ways, and your literary Crash Courses have only just begun to do the same!
I really liked this mini-series. I'd love it if another one came out.
Too bad this is so short. It'd be really awesome if he covered Twain or Stoker
He just released a new video, saying crash course lit is coming back!
Awwh, without his chair rollin at the end he looked genuinely lost XD Like- no wheels- no arm rests- what am I supposed to do while I talk now?!
I NEED MORE EPISODES. THEY ARE SIMPLY AWESOME. YOU CANNOT STOP!!!
I really hope we'll see more Crash Course literature after US History. This has been my favorite series so far!
More literature!
You guys need to do a video over The Strange Case of Mr. Jekyll and Dr. Hyde
You are pretty - Trinity
+ElementBlazeT thank you!
Really you are so pretty!
Please do more of these videos! I really like them!
Thank you man , your episodes are amazing , please continue :D
more poetry videos please
i love this series! just for learning
I think the "dash" (I prefer to think of it as a hyphen here) it's like a visual gag/reminder of the nature of poetry in it's written and spoken forms. If you read the poem aloud, it sounds complete (silence). In it's written form it's not, you are left expecting more. Proving that What the eye sees is different from what the ears hear
I'm only here because I have an english literature final tomorrow that I haven't started studying for... but this was so useful!
Maddie Regulska lol you suck
Maddie Regulska I m also a student final year English literature
I really like Emily Dickinson's poems :)
Truly enjoying these, Mr. Green.
Love these videos! I would love to see some videos by you about writing tips and techniques!
Do a episode on Lewis Carroll please!!!!
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+jordan smyth DONT CLICK THIS LINK WTF DUDE
sorry must have been my 2 year old
yes! how could he possibly be overlooked?
I think the fly may be even more sinister than death... What if it had something to do with Beelzebub? And the fact that the fly came between the deceased and the light is referenced by Dickenson's flip-flopping between religious or not.
This is awesome thank you so much for making these!
Please please please at some point in the future make more of these! As an English litt. student I enjoyed them SO much :)
Miss these videos ;-;
***** fairy tail
Please do crash course quantum physics/mechanics please!!!
I've never been so happy and surprised when I played the video to cram for an exam and John appeared lol
Do more of these! They're great!
Make new series about engineering and computer science!
YES! COMPUTER SCIENCE!
📍Ha now it is a movie! If only she could have ever known, good for her! My mother always read her poems & had many, many of her books.
All filled with short poetry and long sonnets. 📚 as I grew up I also started to read her poems. 📖
I loved the shorter ones, which I could read easier as a 10 -14 year old. As I started to grow, and read more and more.
Also studied her in college. Sad she was truly only famous after her death.
A woman truly a head of her time. 🕯🏞 🏆
We are on the poetry unit in my English class and today we were discussing "I heard a fly buzz when I died." I felt like a genius. Thank you Crash Course!
Thank you so much for your English Lit Crash Course...it was awesome! I hope to see another series of it.
Here after the trailer
America: "Give Me Liberty or Give Me a Triple Cheeseburger."
What a time to be alive.
Always loved Crash Course, would love some more literature guys - especially poetry of the Romantics. All our students love watching your videos, keep up the good work
My English Lit Exam was about that book and we studied it for quite a while; i'd love to hear a CrashCourse about it, despite it being frustrating it wasn't around when I was studying the book!
Will you do Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar
GirlYouAlreadyKnow Oh why? Such a daunting and dry read. What can you not figure out from it?
The Dalek made me very happy.
Why was this so depressing
LouLou Plays because its Emily Dickenson
I hope you do another literature series, this one was my favorite! Maybe you could do one on philosophy too!
Honestly my favorite channel at the moment.
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