Wowww, love the interpretations about the compass!! Just wondering, if the curved blade of sickle refers to the curve arc drew by the help of the compass… then when the compass reaches to a full circle, then maybe it mirrors Shakespeare’s idea of the eternity of love? Since it is endless…
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When he says "let me not to the marriage of true minds", is he not indicating that he does not want to be part of it, referring to it as a bad thing which is the "true minds"? So is true "true minds" love or is deceitfulness, people of Conditions, deal makers and breakers? This very first line is rather confusing.
Great question! One interpretation is these two minds don’t draw attention to the imperfections of their love to other people. They’re not disloyal to each other by pointing out each other’s “faults” when others are around. Potentially. There will be other interpretations though. 😊
Your videos have helped me so much whilst I have been in lockdown, they have bettered my knowledge and understanding on the poems for my a-level English literature. Thank you so much for these helpful videos
Hey Courtney, your kind words warm my ❤️! I really feel for you guys having to study under these insane circumstances - so just doing my part to help. 😌🙏🏻
15:27 in the closing couplet i think shakespeare isn't saying "you decide". he's saying "i dare you to prove me wrong, but i'm not wrong". he says, almost resignedly, "if i'm wrong, then i, william shakespeare, writer to the stars, keeper of the keys, never wrote a word and nobody ever loved; and we all know both of those assertions are false. so, go ahead and try and say i'm wrong about love, and good luck with that. let me know how that works out for you".
...and the verse I like most! "Which alters when it alterations finds" and "O no! It is an ever fix mark" These lines to me suggest the identity of love moving through a given space undisturbed By the gravity or friction of another body. Yet still moving, true to it self. Just my thoughts. Be well!
2:00 Oh Dear! There seems to be a presumption here that this love poem was written to a woman. It was almost certainly written ti a young man with whom the Poet was totally obsessed. It is a love poem of a general application, which COULD be directed just as effectively towards a woman, but it is within a long series of poems all directed to a young man. Contextual stuff- None of the three people named were contemporary with Shakespeare. It would be better to say that the Italian Renaissance had already happened, and its influence was spreading throughout Europe. Why? 1. Leonardo was 100 years older that Shakespeare and died long before he was born. Leonardo was known for a small number of paintings, which influenced other Italian painters but had NO INFLUENCE on English painting in the reign of Elizabeth I, who rejected the Italian style. 2. Shakespeare did not travel abroad and would never have seen the Sistine Chapel ceiling BUT- Michelangelo was also a poet and wrote in the favoured Italian form- the Sonnet. Michelangelo died the year Shakespeare was born. It is just possible that Shakespeare MAY have 3. Machiavelli was 100 years ahead of Shakespeare. His works had been translated and undoubtedly influenced Shakespeare's plays., particularly the nature of his villains. "Compass" here means "a circle that encompasses" i.e. a circumference. A swipe with a sickle will bring down a swathe of hay that is more-or-less circular
I’m sorry to say that almost every “favorite line” in comments is misquoted. I know these are students but they should consult the text and quote accurately.
I liked the analysis but Gagriella has confused sickle and scythe. A sickle has a long blade with a short handle and is used with one hand. Whereas a scythe has a bigger blade and a very long handle which needs both hands and takes the movement of the whole body to use. A scythe would be used to cut a field of hay a sickle is used to cut small patches of grass or weeds. The grim reaper is seen with a scythe and the communists use the hammer and sickle to represent industry and agriculture.
17:23 Do you think that Shakespeare logically pre-planned the rhyming couplet at the end to fall in line with the notion of a couple brought together in love?
Admitan los impedimentos. La poesía de Shakespeare es demasiado oscura y filosófica para estar seguros de su significado. Este poema no trata sobre el amor terrenal. Es una discusión metafísica sobre la unión mística del alma y su inmortalidad. Es un amor infinito en el tiempo. Un amor que no cambia cuando todo cambia. Es decir, cuando morimos. El amor es eterno, no es un juguete del tiempo. Tal y como lo entendían Sócrates, Platón y todas las religiones del libro.
One more comment. At 2:57 she mentions that women were not allowed to perform on stage, which is true for the public playhouses. But in noble estates where acting companies sponsored by earls and other aristocrats regularly performed, the aristocratic women sometimes played women's roles.
Hello Gabriella, I am new to your channel, and felt the urge to subscribed after listening to your read and analysis of a subject in which I share interest. Thank you! I will be interested to learn more of what's to come De-dum, De-dum, De-dum. Be well!
16:05 yep. For someone so young she has a pretty good grasp. Poetry is like the window when you are in Church and your mind wanders from prayers. You look out the window and see His hand in the Creation, the heart starts to drink it in. Even monks don’t spend their entire lives in the Church building….
Your voice has me in a trance like state. Very beautiful, smooth and soft spoken. I think you should do ASMR or drop an album with nursery rhymes and bedtime stories. 100% satisfaction garunteed. I'm sure the album would go platinum.
My brother has asked me to read this at his wedding. I want to understand what I’m reading so I’m glad I found this! Great analysis. Being from the US (New England), in my accent “love” and “remove” don’t rhyme, and neither do “come” and “doom”. Should I try to pronounce them so they rhyme? Or would that be strange?
Hey Ben, aw congrats to your brother! And amazing that he’s asked you to read this - very sweet. Great question btw. So, there’s a slight rhyme in the use of the “o” and “m” sounds in these words anyway. The technical term for this would be assonance. Therefore, there’s no need to read them in a way that forces a rhyme. Just read them how you would speak them in your lovely US New England accent. I’m sure it’ll be perfect. 👏🏼 hope that helps!
You are truly amazing by helping to navigate us through the labyrinth of contemplative thought. Shakespeare, much like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Darwin, Einstein, Newton and Maxwell is esoteric and ergo not universal. For the select audience capable of understanding and appreciating his work, we owe a debt of gratitude to brilliant interpreters like yourself. When I'm struggling to understand why unequivocal love has lost all it's meaning in the pursuit of selfish greed I usually find solace in historical wisdom. You are so lucky and wise beyond measure to fully grasp what Shakespeare so desperately tried to convey...
Thank you so much! I’m over the moon you found this video useful and life affirming. 🙌🏼 Yes, I studied Shakespeare for many years and feel so grateful that it finally clicked for me, so it’s amazing that I get to help others understand it too.
Well I have an exam 6 hours later and I'm lucky enough to find 2 poems of my exam here and I'm sure that I'll find more as I continue....and thank you so much fr your work and your passions that I can even feel from the screen
I have my a level english exam next Tuesday and always found this poem harder to understand in depth, so thanks so much I am now able to understand this poem better !!!
Thank you so much Gabriella describing and explaining, I love this poem so much , lol fall in love with that . Juliet Stevenson recite it beautifully and I play it on repeat ♥️
@@GabriellaTavini I’m so interested in poems , I begin to recite and recording it for myself , LOL. .this is my addiction beside watching movies on. Netflix . Your videos truly help me to have understanding on poems ♥️
A full poem analysis,themes,thesis with only highlighting literary devices would help alot As many of us are done with explanation but need to be ahead of the game understanding other concepts too. Love your channel ❤ helped alot
Thank you! Please keep making these Critical analysis type videos. Very helpful for our studies. A pdf on its critical analysis would be best for beginners like us.
A close reading of Sonnets 116 and 117 show that they are companion poems which must be read in the order they appear in the 1609 quarto of the Sonnets. Sonnet 116 is an opening statement made by a barrister in court where he makes a general defense for his case. The clue is in the word "brief" from line 11. Sonnet 117 is his appeal (the word appears on line 13) where he states that he "did strive to prove the constancy and virtue" of his wife's love. Both poems use terms for navigation and on line 7 of both he uses terms for sailing: a "bark" (to use the original spelling) from 116 is a type of boat and in 117 he mentions he "hoisted sail to all the winds". There are many poems in the quarto which uses the same rhetorical figure - which I have named "homostoikhos" which is Greek for "in the same line" - to link subsequent poems together by words or themes. The pair of poems describe where he is being accused by his wife that he is slandering her. His brief in Sonnet 116 sets up the appeal he makes in Sonnet 117. I claim it is his wife he addresses because on line 6 in Sonnet 117 he speaks of her "own dear purchased right" which is an allusion to the dowry her father was supposed to give the poet when they got married. Imagine a barrister reciting 116 in court before a Magistrate. As he speaks the last line, he "drops the mic". After the opposing side's opening brief, he recites 117 as his appeal. This interpretation adds humour, depth, and character to what is otherwise considered to be an abstract poem.
thank you for providing educatinon for my poem hungry soul ;) great work! I like the last bit of the poem, where you actually misspoke in the video and said "no man ever wrote...". By your change you also highlighted the importance of the I there ("I never wirt") (nice lapsus). The end of the poem is so tricky and genious because the author states he cannot be proven wrong, just because the poem is there, it has been written. And therefor the reader cannot prove otherwise. So first he claims the full truth of what he says this poem. But it is not only this. He makes this general poem - formal, as you described it - very personal. That is also what love is. You are yourself in this wager with all your sanity (when it turns out, for example, that love dies, you may ask yourself questions about other fundamental things in your life). I love these twists Shakespeare. Here, it's all in that last line But you really do have to take time to ask those questions and "simmer in that poetic juicyness" :)
I was only here for an exam but damn the way you described it, I fell in love with this poem
Best. Comment. Ever. 👌🏼 thanks for sharing Helia!
i agree... i fell in love with the way she explained it.
Wowww, love the interpretations about the compass!! Just wondering, if the curved blade of sickle refers to the curve arc drew by the help of the compass… then when the compass reaches to a full circle, then maybe it mirrors Shakespeare’s idea of the eternity of love? Since it is endless…
Absolutely spot on! Love your interpretation 🙌🏼 thanks for sharing 😌
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I’m guessing those are all the works you want me to cover? 😆
Tempests?
When he says "let me not to the marriage of true minds", is he not indicating that he does not want to be part of it, referring to it as a bad thing which is the "true minds"? So is true "true minds" love or is deceitfulness, people of Conditions, deal makers and breakers? This very first line is rather confusing.
Great question! One interpretation is these two minds don’t draw attention to the imperfections of their love to other people. They’re not disloyal to each other by pointing out each other’s “faults” when others are around. Potentially. There will be other interpretations though. 😊
Your videos have helped me so much whilst I have been in lockdown, they have bettered my knowledge and understanding on the poems for my a-level English literature. Thank you so much for these helpful videos
Hey Courtney, your kind words warm my ❤️! I really feel for you guys having to study under these insane circumstances - so just doing my part to help. 😌🙏🏻
Thank you so much! 😊My favourite verse is '...Love is not love Which alters when alteration finds,'
You’re welcome - it’s mine too 🙂 so profound.
15:27 in the closing couplet i think shakespeare isn't saying "you decide". he's saying "i dare you to prove me wrong, but i'm not wrong". he says, almost resignedly, "if i'm wrong, then i, william shakespeare, writer to the stars, keeper of the keys, never wrote a word and nobody ever loved; and we all know both of those assertions are false. so, go ahead and try and say i'm wrong about love, and good luck with that. let me know how that works out for you".
Possibly… food for thought, eh? 🙃 thanks for commenting, Christian!
I believe they had boys playing female roles because their voice would still be high (not broken).
Yes that’s right, young prepubescent boys played women because of their unbroken voices and more androgynous looks. Thanks for commenting! 🙂
...and the verse I like most!
"Which alters when it alterations finds"
and "O no! It is an ever fix mark"
These lines to me suggest the identity of love moving through a given space undisturbed
By the gravity or friction of another body. Yet still moving, true to it self.
Just my thoughts.
Be well!
So fascinating. Yeah, I was thinking along the lines of “love is strong when it can withstand change and it too can adapt and become ever-lasting”
2:00
Oh Dear! There seems to be a presumption here that this love poem was written to a woman. It was almost certainly written ti a young man with whom the Poet was totally obsessed. It is a love poem of a general application, which COULD be directed just as effectively towards a woman, but it is within a long series of poems all directed to a young man.
Contextual stuff-
None of the three people named were contemporary with Shakespeare.
It would be better to say that the Italian Renaissance had already happened, and its influence was spreading throughout Europe.
Why?
1. Leonardo was 100 years older that Shakespeare and died long before he was born. Leonardo was known for a small number of paintings, which influenced other Italian painters but had NO INFLUENCE on English painting in the reign of Elizabeth I, who rejected the Italian style.
2. Shakespeare did not travel abroad and would never have seen the Sistine Chapel ceiling BUT- Michelangelo was also a poet and wrote in the favoured Italian form- the Sonnet. Michelangelo died the year Shakespeare was born. It is just possible that Shakespeare MAY have
3. Machiavelli was 100 years ahead of Shakespeare. His works had been translated and undoubtedly influenced Shakespeare's plays., particularly the nature of his villains.
"Compass" here means "a circle that encompasses" i.e. a circumference.
A swipe with a sickle will bring down a swathe of hay that is more-or-less circular
I’m sorry to say that almost every “favorite line” in comments is misquoted. I know these are students but they should consult the text and quote accurately.
Absolutely loved this one. 🖤 🦉
Thank so much Sped! 😃
I liked the analysis but Gagriella has confused sickle and scythe. A sickle has a long blade with a short handle and is used with one hand. Whereas a scythe has a bigger blade and a very long handle which needs both hands and takes the movement of the whole body to use. A scythe would be used to cut a field of hay a sickle is used to cut small patches of grass or weeds. The grim reaper is seen with a scythe and the communists use the hammer and sickle to represent industry and agriculture.
Great work G
Thanks again Ewen! Happy new year 🥳
"upon me prov'd, I neva writ, nor no man eva loved" Love it
😌😌😌 thanks so much Ian
Another take on Sonnet 116: ua-cam.com/video/q3AUA4m0Njw/v-deo.html
Omg thank you so much! I have my exam tomorrow
Hey Jamie! Aw, thanks for commenting and best of luck with your exam. 🤞🏼
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For the best ever performance of this sonnet click on the dude with the glasses on.
Wasnt Shakespeare Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford? Surely
17:23 Do you think that Shakespeare logically pre-planned the rhyming couplet at the end to fall in line with the notion of a couple brought together in love?
Most definitely 🙌🏼
You look gorgeous in the new hairstyle!
Thanks so much. 🙃
Love’s not Time’s fool. NO
I have fond memories of studying for my AS level in English literature. Wish I'd had a resource like this to learn even more than I did!
Thank you so much! 🙏🏻 i have the best memories of English lessons too. 🙂
Really great. It helped me understand the poem and I have a final exam tomorrow
Bakr, I hope your exam went well 🤞🏼 thanks for commenting. 😊
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Admitan los impedimentos. La poesía de Shakespeare es demasiado oscura y filosófica para estar seguros de su significado. Este poema no trata sobre el amor terrenal. Es una discusión metafísica sobre la unión mística del alma y su inmortalidad. Es un amor infinito en el tiempo. Un amor que no cambia cuando todo cambia. Es decir, cuando morimos. El amor es eterno, no es un juguete del tiempo. Tal y como lo entendían Sócrates, Platón y todas las religiones del libro.
Love this - thank you for commenting!
"Bending sickle's compass come". Reminded me of the narrative in the film Interstellar.
Ahhh yes - amazing film 👏🏼
Can you explain the iambic pentameter and rhyming structures throughout the sonnet? Ideally by marking them in the verse.
Hey Frank, thanks for commenting - great suggestion. I’ll do my best to go into that detail in future videos. 😌
You have heavenly voice !
Thank you for saying so!
New subscriber...i like the way you explain! Kudos
Lovely to have you on board! Amazing - thank you 🙂
One more comment. At 2:57 she mentions that women were not allowed to perform on stage, which is true for the public playhouses. But in noble estates where acting companies sponsored by earls and other aristocrats regularly performed, the aristocratic women sometimes played women's roles.
anyone find it interesting that shakespeare refers to a boat as male?
Good point. I wonder if it’s anything to do with gendered language in french/Italian. Le bateau 🤔
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I always love to watch your videos. This video grows my enthusiasm to love classical writers.❤
Wow, thank you!
Love's not Time's fool ❤🔥
Truth!
Hello Gabriella,
I am new to your channel, and felt the urge to subscribed after listening to your read and analysis
of a subject in which I share interest.
Thank you!
I will be interested to learn more of what's to come
De-dum, De-dum, De-dum.
Be well!
Hey William, glad to have you on board. 👋 😁
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Thank you so much for illustrating.
I have a question which is: could you provide a reference?
16:05 yep. For someone so young she has a pretty good grasp. Poetry is like the window when you are in Church and your mind wanders from prayers. You look out the window and see His hand in the Creation, the heart starts to drink it in. Even monks don’t spend their entire lives in the Church building….
Your voice has me in a trance like state. Very beautiful, smooth and soft spoken. I think you should do ASMR or drop an album with nursery rhymes and bedtime stories. 100% satisfaction garunteed. I'm sure the album would go platinum.
Hey David, amazing suggestion and synchronicity! This is actually what I’ve been planning in the background for some time 🙂
Excellent work❤
Glad you think so, friend. 🙏🏻
😍 Amazing!
Thank you Fi! ✨
I differ from u mam ,it's not personification: it's another imagery of a star .
Thank you.
This is very helpful
Such kind words Sabrina - thank you! 🙏🏻✨
thank you i litearlly could not understand this until I saw this video
3 years late but your ideas and notes are clear, unique and detailed which is amazingggggggggggg for my revision!!
Within his bending sickle's compass come
Einfach-klasse/Simply brilliant . Who needs a "controlled environment" (University)! Follow the free-thinking online educators
Thanks so much Ian! Awesome comment 🙏🏻✨👏🏼 and I learnt a bit of German too 😆
My brother has asked me to read this at his wedding. I want to understand what I’m reading so I’m glad I found this! Great analysis. Being from the US (New England), in my accent “love” and “remove” don’t rhyme, and neither do “come” and “doom”. Should I try to pronounce them so they rhyme? Or would that be strange?
Hey Ben, aw congrats to your brother! And amazing that he’s asked you to read this - very sweet. Great question btw. So, there’s a slight rhyme in the use of the “o” and “m” sounds in these words anyway. The technical term for this would be assonance. Therefore, there’s no need to read them in a way that forces a rhyme. Just read them how you would speak them in your lovely US New England accent. I’m sure it’ll be perfect. 👏🏼 hope that helps!
You are truly amazing by helping to navigate us through the labyrinth of contemplative thought.
Shakespeare, much like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Darwin, Einstein, Newton and Maxwell is esoteric and ergo not universal.
For the select audience capable of understanding and appreciating his work, we owe a debt of gratitude to brilliant interpreters like yourself.
When I'm struggling to understand why unequivocal love has lost all it's meaning in the pursuit of selfish greed I usually find solace in historical wisdom.
You are so lucky and wise beyond measure to fully grasp what Shakespeare so desperately tried to convey...
Thank you so much! I’m over the moon you found this video useful and life affirming. 🙌🏼 Yes, I studied Shakespeare for many years and feel so grateful that it finally clicked for me, so it’s amazing that I get to help others understand it too.
Love's not time's fool and every other sentence was amazingly decoded by you. Thank you
Thank you so much - and thanks for commenting ☺️
please do sonnet 73 and sonnet 141 too.... I'm 17 and your videos really helps me for my studies.♥
I’ll try my best - there’s quite a request
list but I’ll add to them nonetheless 😌 thanks for commenting!
Well I have an exam 6 hours later and I'm lucky enough to find 2 poems of my exam here and I'm sure that I'll find more as I continue....and thank you so much fr your work and your passions that I can even feel from the screen
Thanks so much! I hope your results were what you wanted 🙏🏻
tysm this has rlly helped :)
Aw appreciate your comment Ellen, thank you! 😄
Very clear,Th
You’re welcome - best of luck with your studies 👏🏼
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Thank you! 🙌🏼
I have my a level english exam next Tuesday and always found this poem harder to understand in depth, so thanks so much I am now able to understand this poem better !!!
Yaaas Joe! Amazing - if you’ve watched this video, you’re in good hands. But best of luck for next Tuesday anyway🤞🏼🙂
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Looking at the past through modern eyes… how insightful
It’s always fun! ☺️
Thank you so much Gabriella describing and explaining, I love this poem so much , lol fall in love with that . Juliet Stevenson recite it beautifully and I play it on repeat ♥️
You’re so welcome - thanks for saying so!
@@GabriellaTavini I’m so interested in poems , I begin to recite and recording it for myself , LOL. .this is my addiction beside watching movies on. Netflix . Your videos truly help me to have understanding on poems ♥️
True love transcends time. Yes.
A full poem analysis,themes,thesis with only highlighting literary devices would help alot
As many of us are done with explanation but need to be ahead of the game understanding other concepts too.
Love your channel ❤ helped alot
Totally agree - thank you for commenting! 🙏🏻
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Thank you! Please keep making these Critical analysis type videos. Very helpful for our studies. A pdf on its critical analysis would be best for beginners like us.
Hey Tushar, thanks for commenting. I actually share a pdf of the entire deck with extra notes on my Patreon. Happy studying! 🥂
Great review! Favorite line: Love's not time's fool
So good! Mine too 🙌🏼
Love cannot be tricked by time because real love is timeless
You know it. Thanks for commenting 🙏🏻
Your analysis is super awesome ♥️♥️
Thanks 🎉🙌🏼 I love comments like this 😆
like this comment if you hate shakespeare
A close reading of Sonnets 116 and 117 show that they are companion poems which must be read in the order they appear in the 1609 quarto of the Sonnets.
Sonnet 116 is an opening statement made by a barrister in court where he makes a general defense for his case. The clue is in the word "brief" from line 11. Sonnet 117 is his appeal (the word appears on line 13) where he states that he "did strive to prove the constancy and virtue" of his wife's love.
Both poems use terms for navigation and on line 7 of both he uses terms for sailing: a "bark" (to use the original spelling) from 116 is a type of boat and in 117 he mentions he "hoisted sail to all the winds". There are many poems in the quarto which uses the same rhetorical figure - which I have named "homostoikhos" which is Greek for "in the same line" - to link subsequent poems together by words or themes.
The pair of poems describe where he is being accused by his wife that he is slandering her. His brief in Sonnet 116 sets up the appeal he makes in Sonnet 117. I claim it is his wife he addresses because on line 6 in Sonnet 117 he speaks of her "own dear purchased right" which is an allusion to the dowry her father was supposed to give the poet when they got married.
Imagine a barrister reciting 116 in court before a Magistrate. As he speaks the last line, he "drops the mic". After the opposing side's opening brief, he recites 117 as his appeal.
This interpretation adds humour, depth, and character to what is otherwise considered to be an abstract poem.
thank you for providing educatinon for my poem hungry soul ;) great work! I like the last bit of the poem, where you actually misspoke in the video and said "no man ever wrote...". By your change you also highlighted the importance of the I there ("I never wirt") (nice lapsus). The end of the poem is so tricky and genious because the author states he cannot be proven wrong, just because the poem is there, it has been written. And therefor the reader cannot prove otherwise. So first he claims the full truth of what he says this poem. But it is not only this. He makes this general poem - formal, as you described it - very personal. That is also what love is. You are yourself in this wager with all your sanity (when it turns out, for example, that love dies, you may ask yourself questions about other fundamental things in your life). I love these twists Shakespeare. Here, it's all in that last line But you really do have to take time to ask those questions and "simmer in that poetic juicyness" :)