Understanding Poetry | The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

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  • Understanding Poetry | The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
    The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. The 434-line poem first appeared in in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and the mantra in the Sanskrit language "Shantih shantih shantih"
    Eliot's poem combines the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King with vignettes of contemporary British society. Eliot employs many literary and cultural allusions from the Western canon, Buddhism and the Hindu Upanishads. The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy featuring abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location, and time and conjuring a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures.
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    Resources
    Nick Mount Lecture:
    • Nick Mount on T.S. Eli...
    Mr. Huff's Literature Class:
    • T.S. Eliot
    Schmoop.com
    www.shmoop.com...
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    Music
    Anxiety - Kevin MacLeod
    5 Emotional Covers - James Bartholomew
    The Way - Zach Hemsey

КОМЕНТАРІ • 86

  • @ThinkBigAnimation
    @ThinkBigAnimation  4 роки тому +47

    Hey guys.
    This will likely be my last philosophy style video for a while as I will be taking the channel in a different direction. I will still make this type of video from time to time but really excited for all the new changes coming up!
    Thank you guys for watching!

    • @deedotdance
      @deedotdance Рік тому +1

      Was looking for an explanation for Wasteland. This was beautifully done .. Thank you !

  • @Evan-fr3cs
    @Evan-fr3cs 4 роки тому +135

    Works like The Waste Land are almost frightening when you're in a strange spot in your life. It's both inspiring and frightening. Very hard to verbalize. Great video as always.

  • @daveg4036
    @daveg4036 4 роки тому +66

    Incredible. I’ve listened to numerous lectures on the meaning of The Waste Land and I have to say this one is my personal favourite. Concise, easy to understand and enjoyable to watch. Well done.

  • @jackied.v.carson6059
    @jackied.v.carson6059 Рік тому +9

    I've been a fan of the wasteland for years. Probably read it a hundred times and spent even more time reading about the symbolism. This is the best video on all of UA-cam for beautifully and comprehensibly breaking down the images. Bravo.

  • @Ellebeeby
    @Ellebeeby 3 роки тому +41

    In the pub scene, there is also the implication that Lil has been having an affair; Albert has been in the army for four years, but Lil has somehow become pregnant and needed a contraceptive (the pills ‘to bring it off’, which are needed after Albert has already given her the money). More evidence the relationship is destructive, weaponised by both parties to cause each other harm.

  • @toqaessam7055
    @toqaessam7055 3 роки тому +13

    I really hated this poem as i didn't understand it UNTIL I came across that video. THANK U REALLY! I needed that wonderful explanation. GREAT JOB!!!

  • @Nitusho
    @Nitusho 2 місяці тому +1

    This is the best analysis of this poem I've seen: better than actual lectures available on youtube. Magnificent work

  • @saimariaz5299
    @saimariaz5299 3 роки тому +11

    This video is really very helpful to understand "The Waste Land".

  • @guitarmatricide4834
    @guitarmatricide4834 3 роки тому +9

    This was FANTASTIC! I had an inexplicable desire to read this poem tonight and, once again, left breathless by it and watching this right after was such a wonderful addendum to it.
    Thank you so much for this!

  • @A_Distant_Life
    @A_Distant_Life 2 роки тому +12

    That opening is amazing. I wish you would do that for entire books and poems. It really brings the words to life.

  • @thesecondmatch8505
    @thesecondmatch8505 3 роки тому +11

    It's been days that I've been reading the Norton Critical Edition and this video in about 20 minutes made me understand this poem! Congrats.. It was very helpful and so well presented that I was moved by your interpretation of Eliot's masterpiece. I thought: I have finally arrived at giving a coherent meaning to the general structure of the whole. Thank you!

    • @ThinkBigAnimation
      @ThinkBigAnimation  3 роки тому +3

      Thank you so much! This is probably my favorite video I have ever done and I'm really glad you liked it :)

  • @addy7464
    @addy7464 3 роки тому +9

    That intro was amazing to say the least.

  • @priyacool2500
    @priyacool2500 3 роки тому +4

    The video does a great job in bringing out more and more layers of meaning out of this difficult classic poem.
    All the more meaningful in these unpredictable pandemic times. Shall save this video 👍

  • @anilsahu2639
    @anilsahu2639 3 роки тому +5

    Hey ! There's one correction in the upanishadic story quoted there, Daman( self-control) was for Deities, Daan (to give away) for Men and Daya( to forgive) for Demons.

  • @ShadidAhmed
    @ShadidAhmed 2 роки тому

    THE BEST PIECE OF CONTENT ABOUT The Wasteland on UA-cam. Thanks my man.

  • @ArthurLWood
    @ArthurLWood 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent analysis. Thank you. I am planning to read the poem for my channel, but am spending time with it first.

  • @Neat0_o
    @Neat0_o 3 роки тому

    That intro started to creep deep into my Conscience and started making me question my existence.

  • @markhughes7927
    @markhughes7927 6 місяців тому

    That was good! very good! - brought out the idea of the seed of hope always lying dormant in the waste of things..reminded too of the grail motif which has unique transforming cultural power against the dead politics of control only..Provence!

  • @emmastockwell7704
    @emmastockwell7704 Рік тому

    I have just started to read the poem. This video was a superb introduction - very interesting and simple enough to help understand the main ideas.

  • @abdullahmohammadsami8006
    @abdullahmohammadsami8006 3 роки тому +3

    Burning Burning Burning

  • @rosafalls8068
    @rosafalls8068 4 роки тому +1

    Thanks. I was just thinking it was time to have a review of The Waste Land, and here it is reminding me to remember after all these years.

  • @vivanco223
    @vivanco223 2 роки тому +1

    THIS IS BEAUTIFUL. AMAZING AND POWERFUL WORK

  • @hannahawbrey2294
    @hannahawbrey2294 3 роки тому +1

    Great video! I was totally lost about the Waste Land before watching this.

  • @dordanagmeni7734
    @dordanagmeni7734 4 роки тому +1

    excellent piece of work. I am was mesmerized by your presentation.

  • @samanthabevoni152
    @samanthabevoni152 3 роки тому

    JUST BEAUTIFUL. Thank you so much for revealing some of these secrets.

  • @vinoychoubey8843
    @vinoychoubey8843 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks for such a beautiful introduction 🙏🙏

  • @runo5401
    @runo5401 Рік тому +1

    Your voice is very soothing and you have a great way with words. This video helped me a lot. Thank you for uploading it :))❤️

  • @joicejj8025
    @joicejj8025 3 роки тому +1

    Really It this vedio mesmerized me And I'm speechless pls pls add vedio on futher two sectios

  • @benjaminholland7774
    @benjaminholland7774 4 роки тому +5

    This was awesome! thank you for taking the time to make this :)

  • @noahcoops6305
    @noahcoops6305 Рік тому

    Great video. Very impressive

  • @festerburg87
    @festerburg87 Рік тому

    Amazing video and analysis. Thanks!

  • @joshfischer3360
    @joshfischer3360 2 роки тому +2

    This is really well done.

  • @ryanx3584
    @ryanx3584 4 роки тому +4

    So lemme get this straight- ALL this thought went into The Wasteland? If so, that's astonishing.

    • @RodrigoG4ming
      @RodrigoG4ming 3 роки тому +2

      all this and bit more.

    • @bushticulous
      @bushticulous 3 роки тому +1

      You better believe it. It's the reason It's endured. Absolute masterpiece.

  • @gogigaga1677
    @gogigaga1677 Рік тому +1

    The intro was genius we need the Full Version 😂

  • @abdifawzi5258
    @abdifawzi5258 3 роки тому

    Inspirational work.. Concise & precise 🤞Many thanks for your help.

  • @NOORIraq-f3n
    @NOORIraq-f3n Рік тому

    Thank u so beautifully explained

  • @nourallahhosam7084
    @nourallahhosam7084 3 роки тому +1

    this video is amazing it really helped me with the poem, thank you

  • @timdarwin1171
    @timdarwin1171 3 місяці тому

    Love this poem, it’s funny u started the video with what I think is potentially my favorite part, although u should have let it go a little longer until “what will we ever do” .. gonna listen to the rest now ha , was just excited to see my fav part in the intro =)

  • @aditisarkar982
    @aditisarkar982 2 роки тому

    Marvellous!

  • @印天友
    @印天友 Місяць тому

    nice trip

  • @imlafonz8047
    @imlafonz8047 2 роки тому

    Have you seen Fiona Shaw’s reading of the waste land? Best one I’ve ever seen

  • @fadibahee
    @fadibahee 2 роки тому

    the background music is awesome

  • @mehdinikseresht1432
    @mehdinikseresht1432 3 роки тому

    Keep making this style of video my friend

  • @leshtricity
    @leshtricity 3 роки тому +3

    April is the cruelest month because of memory and desire, as springtime is associated with romance and reunions. and you can't analyze this poem when you completely skip over the Buddhist influence in the Fire Sermon, and how integral it is to the poem. and the tarot cards, the hanged man representing the lack of a Jesus or redeemer figure in the culture at large; in Eliot's view, a society without some unifying moral code or belief is a veritable wasteland.

  • @leogiri2863
    @leogiri2863 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you so much! I've heard a lot of educational videos while studying, but this is the first one that actually got me interested in literature!

  • @nyanko4393
    @nyanko4393 2 роки тому

    I have exam’s tomorrow and this really helps a lot! Thankyou!

  • @iuseitToo
    @iuseitToo 3 роки тому

    Wow this was great

  • @liamthellama8386
    @liamthellama8386 4 роки тому +1

    Excellent video as always!

  • @janeairvintage7416
    @janeairvintage7416 4 місяці тому

    Never knew there was a quote from Ophelia in it

  • @SamSepiolTheHeretic
    @SamSepiolTheHeretic 2 роки тому +2

    This video is really good but neglects that T.S. Elliot rejected comparisons between his poem and the disillusionment of the lost generation after World War I. He was commenting on HIS OWN disillusionment with his marriage, employment and the lack of meaning amidst the hedonism of the 1920s, which is why he converted to Anglican Church.

    • @eddesa5134
      @eddesa5134 Рік тому

      Exactly so! Well said.

    • @charliewest1221
      @charliewest1221 13 днів тому +2

      "Elliot rejected comparisons between his poem and the disillusionment of the lost generation after World War I."
      Indeed he did. This however does not necessarily mean that it (the post-war trauma did not impact on or have any bearing on the genesis and evolution of the poem). Eliot, off-handedly, dismissed comparisons but the effects of the war are to be discerned, compelling, throughout the poem. The wasteland operates on two levels, ie., the profoundly internal level as well as the, outer, external. These two levels are not mutually exclusive.

  • @meriemdaisy7279
    @meriemdaisy7279 3 роки тому +2

    I liked it unfortunately it does not cover the whole poem : section 3 and 4 are left

  • @Nitish.kumar992
    @Nitish.kumar992 3 роки тому

    Shantih shantih shantih last line of waste land is taken from which upnishad

  • @Vermontist1
    @Vermontist1 3 місяці тому

    Here's the secret: It may be a waste of time to "search for the meaning of "The Waste Land."
    If one searches, instead, to find one's OWN way and meaning in the poem, then one will have collaborated with Eliot as a co-creater. And TWL will then be re-written, in a sense, and its immortality will be readfirmed.

  • @Zarathustra-nv9fs
    @Zarathustra-nv9fs Рік тому

    What's the name of the audio reader in the opening

  • @crispincornett
    @crispincornett 3 роки тому

    This is great! Good work and thank you. Where did you get the reading of the final "Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih" ?

    • @ThinkBigAnimation
      @ThinkBigAnimation  3 роки тому

      Here you go! ua-cam.com/video/sYROFY_Kh8M/v-deo.html

    • @crispincornett
      @crispincornett 3 роки тому

      @@ThinkBigAnimation Thanks again! Love it!

  • @dyldvine
    @dyldvine 2 роки тому +1

    The first line is Trochaic, not Iambic! Rookie mistake.

  • @rosafalls8068
    @rosafalls8068 4 роки тому +1

    Hey, that "Song" channel is a type of bot. I call it "the want to be friends bot." Don't sub it, it's all over the place under different names and changes its names and possibly related to channels being hacked. Don't sub it, don't spread it.

  • @mehdinikseresht1432
    @mehdinikseresht1432 3 роки тому

    fuckin love your channel

  • @marcelaiovi3743
    @marcelaiovi3743 2 роки тому

    Very helpful and nice summarized! Although, there is something that doesn't match your source. In the video, Nick Mount, at minute 36.18 ( ua-cam.com/video/JO8rEIddgrI/v-deo.html) attributes differently each interpretation with each group.

  • @tsubarashiii6251
    @tsubarashiii6251 2 роки тому

    9:34

  • @carlyjanescarbrough9910
    @carlyjanescarbrough9910 4 місяці тому

    Raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimized by The Waste Land

  • @jackellock7113
    @jackellock7113 2 роки тому

    I blame the second party in line 319.

  • @johnbradshaw5097
    @johnbradshaw5097 10 місяців тому

    A Scapeshifter

  • @harryturnbull1884
    @harryturnbull1884 4 роки тому +4

    Well it's all very good analysing in detail the minutiae of the intellectual exercise this is - but what is the actual point? There is no clear message, it is abstruse to the point of merely being a vehicle for pretentious interpretations.

    • @ennius42
      @ennius42 3 роки тому +6

      I suppose that life itself is chaotic like that. There are many approaches and interpretations of life. ‘The Waste Land’ is a chaotic poem, but it seems that its overall meaning is that some sort of peace is attainable.

    • @robert1411
      @robert1411 3 роки тому +2

      Eliot himself is reported to have remarked, "To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling."

  • @blackbird5634
    @blackbird5634 Рік тому

    I hope they don't do this to EMNEM's music. Just leave it, let the world enjoy it and FFS don't entomb it in essays and classes of rhyme and meter!