The Waste Land Part 1 | T S Eliot - Line by Line Explanation in English
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- The Waste Land is the cultural contraband Eliot showcases to let readers tap into shared thoughts and feelings, fostering emotional bonds. His concept of the objective correlative is intricately woven into the threads of history, myth, and sensation, drawing strength from the emotions they evoke. In today's exploration of 'The Burial of the Dead,' we will wander through the 'Unreal City' often called 'modern life.'
Waste Land Playlist
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Part 1: • The Waste Land Part 1 ...
Part 2: • The Waste Land Part 2 ...
More Poems from Eliot
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock : • The Love Song of J. Al...
Preludes: • Preludes | T. S. Eliot...
The Hollow Men: • The Hollow Men | T S E...
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Ma'am, we also need the rest of the 3 parts as the exam is nearing..pls ma'am.
Ma'am, thank you so much for giving such in depth analysis and line by line explanation of one of the most complex text ever! I am so grateful for the incredible hard work and effort that you put in this video and all the other videos of your channel. I get totally enraptured by your lectures. As if you're sitting in front of me and explaining everything in depth. Thank you so much once again.
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One thing I find fascinating about that first German line is how much history, both in the decades before and decades after the poem's publication, there is between Germany and Russia claiming ownership of Lithuania. The three languages (Russian, Germain, and Lithuanian) are all on different branches of the Indo-European language tree, too.
I was just listening to Your video on "The Hollow Men" . Now what a coincidence! Today is thisssss!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
"I read, much of the night," is the first direct reference to PTSD that permeates the poem. Nighttime is really tough, because you can distract yourself during the day, but at night it can be almost impossible to wind down. E.g., I just tested my pulse at 47 bpm, almost clinically low, because I'm just working and studying The Waste Land, keeping my mind clear and open... but when I woke up I was in a near panic at 108 bpm.
The hiding in plain sight is almost tragic, because it's so easy to focus on the personal drama of Marie Larisch.
Her lines are also indicative of the curtailing of activities that patriarchy imposes as girls mature. Lana Del Rey has a similar line in her song A&W, "I haven't done a cartwheel since I was nine." Holding on tightly to a cousin when sledding is only acceptable until a certain age, and then it is not, just as a cartwheel is playful until it's suggestive, even though it's the same person doing the same action.
Such in - depth explanation, I have not heard before.
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loved the way you are explaining...
Thanks! Though it was extremely tough to connect the contents of the poem, you narrated in a very delicate way. And it reflects your love and vastness of the subject mattar. Thanks.
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A great lesson. I am extremely thankful to you madam .( Priyantha , undergraduate , open university of Sri Lanka) Awaiting to hear from you again.
First thank you for sending me part 2 of the Waste Land. I start my day by listening to your great voice which I really call melodious as it empowers me. Thank you again madam. P - delgoda, Sri Lanka.
Thank you for exploring Waste Land ❤
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Oh my goodness, 10 minutes in and already I'm picking up on things I missed. The boar/Adonis is the "hot gammon" in line 166. I can't believe I missed that the first few hundred times through the poem, but that's Eliot.
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Maam please upload few lectures on Albert Camus and his important works, his philosophy...
Thank you mam
I'm coming around to the Stetson/Seyton/Satan connection because "Hypocrite lecteur, - mon semblable, - mon frère!" is from the same poem that says "Sur l'oreiller du mal c'est Satan Trismégiste"
Good catch!
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सही में बहुत परिश्रम कर रही है।
शिक्षक शब्द सार्थक किया।
धन्यवाद
Waiting 3rd part
बहुत धन्यवाद। God bless you.
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We need more non-hypocrite 'semblable'. Thank you ma'am for such efforts.
Most awaited video... Ma'am can we have the lecture on the entire poem wasteland ?
Sure. I am going to cover the whole poem part by part within december
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thank you for the explanation ma'am...can you please cover STRANGE MEETING by WILLFRED OWEN too...
Thanks
Big thanks dear.
Ma'am, we also need the rest of the 3 parts as the exam is nearing..pls ma'am.
Compare "Has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?" with Sick Rose by William Blake, and you have the essential difference between theodicy in Romanticism and Modernism.
What does you mean actually??
@@Ahmad-db5iv To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die-to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause-there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
@@Ahmad-db5iv In Blake's "sick rose," the trouble is caused by a malevolent individual, the worm. But a sudden frost is a meteorological force, completely unconscious and without malice. It's the difference between the Drowned Phonecian Sailor dying because his wife wouldn't share her chestnuts with a Weird Sister and Phlebas dying because bad weather just happens sometimes. Even now, we desperately WANT agency to be the cause of disasters. It's why nearly everyone takes the actual words of Titanic captain Edward Smith, "I cannot image any condition which would case a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happeing to this vessel. Modern shipping has gone beyond that" and mutate it into the falsely attributed quote "God Himself could not sink this ship."
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Cz as you said in "Ode to Gracian Urn" Video, "Keats deserves more than a syllabus"
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though "The Waste Land" is not in my syllabus, i'll give it a try.
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@@NibblePop Finished the lecture today ma'am, and to be honest i'm kinda confused😅😅😅. I hope it will clear in the next parts and i'm looking forward to them.
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I never quite believed the Crome Yellow thing, since Eliot was a classicist and Sisostros is named pretty early on in the Histories of Herodotus. But, there is a great deal of abortion imagery all throughout the poem. I used to think of the Windows 10 default unlock screen with its Red Rock, but when I learned of the Ordeal of the Bitter Water (Numbers 5:11-31, in the Bible) where the priest mixes a handful of dust from beneath the sacrificial altar of YHVH and gives it to a woman suspected by her husband of adultery (referred to as a Sotah... and in English the internal "t" is almost always softened to a "d," so that people who say "city" as "sit-ee" and not "sid-ee" sound overly formal... so Mrs. Porter and her Daughter wash their feet in Sotah water). So, an allusion to a crome, which is a type of hook, makes sense as another abortion reference.
Wao,that Sotah soda connection simply wao
I am going to use it in my next video and I will definitely mention you 😀 wait for "part 3"
When will part 3 come
Soon. Under edit.
Anyone here in 2024 😂
Btw very nice video ❤
I should be keeping this for Part 5, but my vision is going and I want to get this out before I completely lose my ability to focus on letters...
"And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours"
Now, imagine you're looking up at the Unreal City, upside down in air, and the clock is striking nine. But you're no in the Unreal City, you are standing in the Real City. You look at the clock, and because it's upside down the hour hand is all the way on the right, and the minute hand is on the bottom.., if you look only at the hands and ignore the markings, it reads 3:30. When it's 9:00 in London, it's 3:30 in Mumbai, Madhyamgram, Kolkata.
As much as I would love to take credit for this, it was Salman Rushdie who pointing this out to me.
Hell! I live at Madhyamgram! Your comments require a moment to recapture breath.
So when one is real the other is unreal, doesn't that make sense? In context of considering the "other" as unreal as theorised in postcolonial discourse!
The British colonisers made Kolkata as a replica of London, with its narrow streets and muttering retreats and all. But to them this was unreal wasn't it?
@@NibblePop What The Thunder Said seems to make India the "real" antithesis to the "unreal" London. My interpretation is influenced both by Rushdie and Dr. Rajani Sharma. Well, and what Eliot himself said, "Long ago I studied the ancient Indian languages [Sanskrit and Pali], and while I was chiefly interested in philosophy, I read a little poetry too, and I know that my poetry shows the influence of Indian thought." Notably, he calls the river by the proper name, and Himavant to name the mountains, and, much like how some people will write "G-d" out of respect, he ends the poem with "Shantih, Shantih, Shanti" without an Om. He did everything (except referencing the wrong section of the Brihadaranyaka, and a German translation at that) to make sure the reader was pointed towards the real.
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Ma'am please make video on Macbeth Act 2 Scene 4 please. Please upload 🙏🏻 .
Ma'am please make video on Macbeth Act 2 Scene 4 please. Please upload 🙏🏻 .
Ma'am please make video on Macbeth Act 2 Scene 4 please. Please upload 🙏🏻 .
Ma'am please make video on Macbeth Act 2 Scene 4 please. Please upload 🙏🏻 .