Ankan Basu, from Taki Government College had requested this video. Thank you for the suggestion Ankan. The description box has all the necessary links to written answers, articles and annotations for students. You can find timestamps in the description box that will help you go to the specific part of the video. I will come back with another video very soon. Enjoy!
I have been referring to your channel for two years now and you never disappoint. You remind me why I fell in love with literature in the first place. Thank you so much for the absolute delight that your videos are!
And I could not skip a single second while watching this lecture 😄 You have a charismatic ability to tell things,to make us understand. Thank you for this masterpiece mam.
There are no words to express the sheer appreciation, praise and concern ma'am holds for her students and the meticulous approach she employs to intricately cover every text. A humble request if you can take up the poem "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot
After watching your explanation I feel like I can answer any questions related to it ... Be it theme, title,... Anything. It is so detailed. Thank you ❤️
Thank you ma'am for describing the poem in such a wonderful way. And thanking you for taking our class from your busy schedule. It was my great pleasure to attend your virtual class.
I finally figured out the Overwhelming Question, and just how ambiguous the answer Dr. Prufrock gives. The overwhelming question is "to be, or not to be," and his answer is "I am not Prince Hamlet, and was not meant to be." I don't know if he's saying "not meant to be" in the same way the Melancholy Dane means, or if he's saying "I'm not even going to consider Hamlet's question... I'm just going to grow old."
Line 49 to 51: It is the woman lying on bed with an arm behind her head in a motel room on the half deserted street. Light was off but there was the light from street that came through the glass window.
After watching the full play of Macbeth, what struck me was the idea of time as innately destructive. In physics, there's the metaphor of "the arrow of time," which is why we remember the past and not the future, but in Macbeth, fate and destiny is not just an arrow, but a dagger pointing the way. Yet, much like Prufrock, the Waste Land, and the Four Quartets, time still moves in cycles that repeat themselves, like the lilacs blooming in spring (but not before the primroses), the women coming and going, the tides of the sea where the mermaids sing, and the Thane of Cawdor committing treason and dying in a noble way that impresses those who survive him for the manliness of it. In that sense, the easiest piece of this poem to miss is the rather ordinary phrase, "I grow old." It's not a particularly poetic phrase, but it is a paradox. "I grow" is an anabolic phrase. Children grow, plants grow... growing is what an additive process that shows an increase in life-force, but he breaks it with the term "old," that he's actually not growing at all. His muscles aren't growing, they're growing *thin.* It would be like saying "the *deforestation* of Birnam Wood *grew* until there were only two trees left." Another thing I realized about Eliot's poems from your 10+ hour analysis of Macbeth is that most people think "I do not find the Hanged Man" in The Waste Land is about Christ being absent from the post-war world, but I think the reason is that Hecate's gender isn't mentioned at all in the play Macbeth, and in fact is hinted as being masculine, but is in fact the Hanged Women, being an aspect of the goddess Artemis, the Archer of Fate. To quote from the Golden Bough: In Greece the great goddess Artemis herself appears to have been annually hanged in effigy in her sacred grove of Condylea among the Arcadian hills, and there accordingly she went by the name of the Hanged One. Indeed a trace of a similar rite may perhaps be detected even at Ephesus, the most famous of her sanctuaries, in the legend of a woman who hanged herself and was thereupon dressed by the compassionate goddess in her own divine garb and called by the name of Hecate. Similarly, at Melite in Phthia, a story was told of a girl named Aspalis who hanged herself, but who appears to have been merely a form of Artemis. For after her death her body could not be found, but an image of her was discovered standing beside the image of Artemis, and the people bestowed on it the title of Hecaerge or Far-shooter, one of the regular epithets of the goddess.
I knew I was missing something important, so I put on a performance of Macbeth. Prufrock: Prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; Lady Macbeth: And make our faces vizards to our hearts, Disguising what they are. Prufrock: There will be time to murder and create, [...] And for a hundred visions and revisions, Isn't Macbeth about not only the visions, both prophetic and post-traumatic, but also about the revisions? Arguably, had Macbeth not revised his plan of assassination to encompass Banquo and Fleance, he could have been safe. Safer still would have been to accept the title of Thane of Cawdor and been "an attendant lord, one that will do /To swell a progress, start a scene or two." Prufrock: "Before the taking of a toast and tea." Macbeth: "I drink to the general joy o' the whole table," Lady Macbeth's Doctor: "Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:" Prufrock:To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead, Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all”- If one, settling a pillow by her head Should say: “That is not what I meant at all; That is not it, at all.”
I can't thank you enough ma'am !! I hold you in great reverence for providing us quality education ❣️ as Swami Vivekananda said in his work "HEAVEN OF FREEDOM" that knowledge should be free for everyone and you're contributing to his great ideas !! I wish you health and prosperity 💞 I never got an opportunity to study at some prestigious university and I always felt my colleague will always be provided a quality education and I would never get a chance to get a quality education ,but because of this internet and you I'm able to get a quality education . May you get all the happiness and achieve everything in life !
Since around 1988, I assumed "etherized" really did mean knocked out with general anesthesia, completely unconscious, ready for surgery. But I recently heard a song that sampled from Johnny Depp's performance as Hunter S. Thompson in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' and I think Eliot may be speaking more about the loss of control. To quote Thompson: “This is the main advantage of ether: it makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel... total loss of all basic motor skills: Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting, because the brain continues to function more or less normally... you can actually watch yourself behaving in the terrible way, but you can't control it.”
Not only that you are a literary goddess, we are your disciples , look at you for such videos. Yes, atleast share the strategy important writers of each age with important works and important questions asked in net exam.
Thankyou so much mam. I've been following you since first year. You've helped me passed all the exams ☀️❤️ Can you please do videos on VI sem CBCS English syllabus
This is amazing. Thank you ma'am ♥️ Ma'am can you please make a video on W.B Yeats' s "The Second Coming" and "No Second Troy"? That will be really helpful 😊
mam can you please upload an explanatory lecture on the heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad, I was able to complete three difficult texts of this semester with the help of your video lectures, we are running out of time as our exams are in Jan 2024 , I would absolutely be grateful for another such beautiful explanation. 🥺
Hats off mam'm 🥰....u know what since our cllg is not opening no extra classes will be taken so I searched in this UA-cam platform nd as going through I found ,I can't understand rest of them rather I'm finding ur lecture nd interestingly I got familiar with ur way of explanation nd makes things easier.🤗.....am 5th sem from derozio college, I want "sons and lovers" ,"heart of darkness" later on if possible for you , thanks a loads mam'm 🥰 felling enthusiasm to seeing you another classes with mentioned topics!!!
I have been trying for a couple of days now trying to get my thoughts across to you without leaving the wrong impression. I look for content on this great work and enjoy chatting about it. I find it difficult to do as I do not want to complete the work for a student. LOL. As Eliot's work alludes to other masterpieces, one's interpretations are dependent upon how well read a person is. I hope to get a reply from you, as you posted this content almost one year ago. Then I may share some of my thoughts.
@@NibblePop I am going to borrow the phrase from HannaLovesGrammar as I feel it is appropriate to Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. Momento Mori , remember death or remember everyone dies eventually. It may coincide with Carpe Diem, in that we should seize the day as we may die at any time. Being that the Prologue is Dante's "Inferno" plus all of the allusions to death. Hardly a Love Song right? I think that first and foremost we should take note of when this poem was created. I believe Eliot was working on this pre WW1 timeframe. Historically, we must look at how people lived, this was before central heat, sewage systems, utility systems, such extremes that are unfathomable by today's standards. Also, how people socialized and dressed, were conceptually difficult to believe as well. Such as, a woman was to be escorted by either her father or brother when outside the home. A woman that was "out with no escort," was one of "those women." Not the type of person to take to meet friends and family. Men always wore hats, everyone wore them even little children had to wear hats. A person always had to dress when going out of the house. I will leave off at this point as I do not want to leave an essay for you to critique. LOL Thanks and have a great day!
@@krisyallowega5487 wao, that was an amazing write-up. Yes, you are absolutely correct. In fact, that is the reason why I always prefer teaching Preludes before I teach Prufrock. That sets the poem in a proper context. Especially the part about the figure of the woman. It is indeed a parody of love song, a satire almost. In a world, that was about to be split in ghastly wounds of two world wars soon, idealized love was actually an impossibility.
@@NibblePop I would not necessarily say that it was "idealized love" but perhaps lust? If we delve a little into Eliot's personal life we may get a better grasp of what he may have been coping with. But that may be an undertaking for another time, as I have just given a quick scan of his biography. It is quite intense, at least I believe so. I have researched a little on ether that may have been used over 100 years ago. It could have been quite a terrifying experience for a patient. Could you imagine being aware of a doctor operating on you or by chance "waking up" during a procedure. So I would think of it like this...it was not that Prufrock's audience of one (assuming) would be totally numb to what they were in store for. It was that the person or persons could not react, argue or fight back. So they would not necessarily feel the physical pain but all of the emotional pain. This theory makes me wonder who it was he was taking on the "journey." Who could it have been that he wanted to cause such emotional distress? May it have been a spouse or a mistress? I would not think that it was one of his friends or mates.
Thank you ma'am for this detailed explanation... The analysis was amazing... 😇 Please make video on T. S. Eliot's "BURNT NORTON"... It will be very much helpful...
Woke up in the middle of the night yesterday with a thought, and waited to make sure it still sounded reasonable... Michaelangelo is Ezra Pound. One of the most famous quotes by Michelangelo is how he saw an angel trapped in the marble block. Ezra Pound saw the angel of "the Wasteland" in the huge marble block of "He do the Police in Different Voices." I *think* Eliot and Pound knew each other at the time of publication of the Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, but you'd know better than me.
Yes. They did know each other at the time of publication of Prufrock. But it was written in around 1911, and so far as historical records tell us, Pound and Eliot met each other in 1914.
Thank you so much Madam for your legendary explanation about this poem. Can you please explain ulysses, selling to byzantian, eastern 1916, far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy, Jain Air, our cashew in a tree by taru Dutta, the harp of India by derozio. And also can you do a lecture upon the commonwealth period and post colonial literature? Please madam, this is my request to you.
Pls Ma'am , make a video on the Anglo-Saxon Period . If you make a video on the era of the English literature , many students were helped . Ok ma'am , we look forward to hearing from you .
Thank you ma'am...Ur lecture was really helpful...I was really struggling with this poem.....Maam can you please explain Baudelaire's ," TO THE READER " and " CORRESPONDENCE " ...
Thank you Madam...your video really helps me very much to understand the topics of my syllabus very well. When for the first time I had heard your this lecture, I didn't go to the comment box and that's why I did not notice that you had mentioned my name here. However, thank you very much Mam for helping us in this way. If you get time please make a video on Mansfield "Bliss".
I have got a similar request for "Bliss" already in a comment from another viewer Srabanti Singha. I will definitely make a video on Bliss very soon. Thank you for your attentive presence.
As a student of english literature, I wish I could have teachers like you not only online but also offline 🥺
Thank you so much ma'am.
I attend the classes of our college, I have also gone through some other UA-cam channels; *but no one teaches like you ma'am; you are a gem💎❤*
Ankan Basu, from Taki Government College had requested this video. Thank you for the suggestion Ankan.
The description box has all the necessary links to written answers, articles and annotations for students. You can find timestamps in the description box that will help you go to the specific part of the video.
I will come back with another video very soon.
Enjoy!
I have been referring to your channel for two years now and you never disappoint. You remind me why I fell in love with literature in the first place. Thank you so much for the absolute delight that your videos are!
I don't fear anyone. I love classics.
And British teachers aren't good as you are. Your explanation is praiseworthy.
And I could not skip a single second while watching this lecture 😄
You have a charismatic ability to tell things,to make us understand.
Thank you for this masterpiece mam.
It's beautiful felt like We are Prufrock with proper characterizations at all.. Thank you Mam.. 👏 😊
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There are no words to express the sheer appreciation, praise and concern ma'am holds for her students and the meticulous approach she employs to intricately cover every text.
A humble request if you can take up the poem "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot
This is an actual professor teaching. Thank you so much, ma'am. Love and respect from Haryana
After watching your explanation I feel like I can answer any questions related to it ... Be it theme, title,... Anything. It is so detailed. Thank you ❤️
Thank you ma'am for describing the poem in such a wonderful way. And thanking you for taking our class from your busy schedule. It was my great pleasure to attend your virtual class.
If unprofessed love and overthinking had a name.... This poem would be perfect ....... It's good a poem....💗
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I am deeply grateful to you for such a beautiful explanation ma'am.🙏🙏🙏
Do keep uploading such difficult poems.
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THANK YOU MADAM FOR SUCH AN AMAZING ANALYSIS OF THE POEM...!
I finally figured out the Overwhelming Question, and just how ambiguous the answer Dr. Prufrock gives. The overwhelming question is "to be, or not to be," and his answer is "I am not Prince Hamlet, and was not meant to be." I don't know if he's saying "not meant to be" in the same way the Melancholy Dane means, or if he's saying "I'm not even going to consider Hamlet's question... I'm just going to grow old."
One hour of complete bliss. Thank you ma'am.
Overwhelmed by your calm explanation😍
Thank you so much ma'am. Such poems need explanation like yours.✨
Your video lectures never disappoints me. The way you analyse poetries no one else can do it...🤍🤍🤍
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@@NibblePop Ma'am please make a video lecture explaining T. S. Eliot's poem 'The Hollow Men'. It would be a great help for us.🙏😊
@@bindsworld1017 Yes ma'am, please 🙏
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Thank u so much... This poem is programmed for our next poetry exam.. I really appreciate the way u discussed it... Thank u so much..Madam
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I really liked the explanation ma'am. It is going to help me a lot in forming my own answers.
After watching the full play of Macbeth, what struck me was the idea of time as innately destructive. In physics, there's the metaphor of "the arrow of time," which is why we remember the past and not the future, but in Macbeth, fate and destiny is not just an arrow, but a dagger pointing the way. Yet, much like Prufrock, the Waste Land, and the Four Quartets, time still moves in cycles that repeat themselves, like the lilacs blooming in spring (but not before the primroses), the women coming and going, the tides of the sea where the mermaids sing, and the Thane of Cawdor committing treason and dying in a noble way that impresses those who survive him for the manliness of it.
In that sense, the easiest piece of this poem to miss is the rather ordinary phrase, "I grow old." It's not a particularly poetic phrase, but it is a paradox. "I grow" is an anabolic phrase. Children grow, plants grow... growing is what an additive process that shows an increase in life-force, but he breaks it with the term "old," that he's actually not growing at all. His muscles aren't growing, they're growing *thin.* It would be like saying "the *deforestation* of Birnam Wood *grew* until there were only two trees left."
Another thing I realized about Eliot's poems from your 10+ hour analysis of Macbeth is that most people think "I do not find the Hanged Man" in The Waste Land is about Christ being absent from the post-war world, but I think the reason is that Hecate's gender isn't mentioned at all in the play Macbeth, and in fact is hinted as being masculine, but is in fact the Hanged Women, being an aspect of the goddess Artemis, the Archer of Fate. To quote from the Golden Bough:
In Greece the great goddess Artemis herself appears to have been
annually hanged in effigy in her sacred grove of Condylea among the
Arcadian hills, and there accordingly she went by the name of the
Hanged One. Indeed a trace of a similar rite may perhaps be detected
even at Ephesus, the most famous of her sanctuaries, in the legend
of a woman who hanged herself and was thereupon dressed by the
compassionate goddess in her own divine garb and called by the name
of Hecate. Similarly, at Melite in Phthia, a story was told of a
girl named Aspalis who hanged herself, but who appears to have been
merely a form of Artemis. For after her death her body could not be
found, but an image of her was discovered standing beside the image
of Artemis, and the people bestowed on it the title of Hecaerge or
Far-shooter, one of the regular epithets of the goddess.
I knew I was missing something important, so I put on a performance of Macbeth.
Prufrock: Prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
Lady Macbeth: And make our faces vizards to our hearts,
Disguising what they are.
Prufrock: There will be time to murder and create, [...] And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Isn't Macbeth about not only the visions, both prophetic and post-traumatic, but also about the revisions? Arguably, had Macbeth not revised his plan of assassination to encompass Banquo and Fleance, he could have been safe. Safer still would have been to accept the title of Thane of Cawdor and been "an attendant lord, one that will do
/To swell a progress, start a scene or two."
Prufrock: "Before the taking of a toast and tea."
Macbeth: "I drink to the general joy o' the whole table,"
Lady Macbeth's Doctor: "Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:"
Prufrock:To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all”-
If one, settling a pillow by her head
Should say: “That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.”
I thoroughly enjoy the poem..the way u analize it..is so blatant.......
Madam!
I am very much impressed by your explanation of the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Please make videos regarding the text of The Waste Land .
Such a nice explanation..
Such a memorable lecture... My heartfelt regards to you!
Really excellent madam.. you have explained very nicely....Thank you for your efforts madam ..
Mam...Please make a video on "modern fiction" by virginia Woolf and "Tradition and individual talent" by T.S. Eliot
Thank you so much ma'am .I urderstand this poem just form you.❤
I can't thank you enough ma'am !! I hold you in great reverence for providing us quality education ❣️ as Swami Vivekananda said in his work "HEAVEN OF FREEDOM" that knowledge should be free for everyone and you're contributing to his great ideas !!
I wish you health and prosperity 💞
I never got an opportunity to study at some prestigious university and I always felt my colleague will always be provided a quality education and I would never get a chance to get a quality education ,but because of this internet and you I'm able to get a quality education .
May you get all the happiness and achieve everything in life !
God bless you ❤️❤️
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Thank you so much for your invaluable efforts to make us understand this chapter very clearly.thank you so much From the bottom of my heart ma'am
Thank you your teaching has helped me always ⭐️
Very nice mam... Your lecture is very much helpful.. Thanks and regards...
Please make a video on modernism 🙏. This video was so helpful.. From today I am your biggest fan ❤ and i will watch your video from now on.
Very well explained ma'am. It was really helpful. Thank you so much.
Thanks a lot ma'am.....for briefly discussing it's too much helpful to me👍❤
This channel is a goldmine for us literature students
Thank you ma'am for your beautiful lecture.
Your video was really very helpful in understanding the depth of this poem. Thankyou so muchh ma'am!❤️
Thank you ma'am for such a lucid explanation.
Oh heck yeah I'm scared by T. S. Eliot and overwhelmed by his images. Keeps me up at night. Can't read it out loud without sobbing.
The more you read, the more you will get fascinated by his range of imagery and depth. Hope my video eases some of that uneasiness. Stay in touch.
Since around 1988, I assumed "etherized" really did mean knocked out with general anesthesia, completely unconscious, ready for surgery.
But I recently heard a song that sampled from Johnny Depp's performance as Hunter S. Thompson in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' and I think Eliot may be speaking more about the loss of control. To quote Thompson:
“This is the main advantage of ether: it makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel... total loss of all basic motor skills: Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting, because the brain continues to function more or less normally... you can actually watch yourself behaving in the terrible way, but you can't control it.”
That sounds exactly like what's going on with Prufrock right now.
Thank you so much for your explanation. It's simple as well as exhaustive. Have you made a video on The Wasteland? If not please do so.
Thanks mam for making this channel and spreading deep and accurate knowledge of litrature.
I'm new here. N I'm loving loving it
Welcome Swinal. What are you studying? Which semester?
Thank you very much mam for bringing such lectures...it is really helpful ❤️❤️
Not only that you are a literary goddess, we are your disciples , look at you for such videos. Yes, atleast share the strategy important writers of each age with important works and important questions asked in net exam.
Thankyou so much mam. I've been following you since first year. You've helped me passed all the exams ☀️❤️
Can you please do videos on VI sem CBCS English syllabus
Ma'am you're an Angel in disguise. ❤
No no I am not in disguise 😀😀😀 I actually have wings.
But Satan was also an angel, so beware 😀😀
@@NibblePophaha😂 love the humorous... Indeed I also admit that mam is such an Angel... Love you mam❤
Please upload a video on Eliot's other poem" The Hollow Men"
Savior ❤️ as always Ma'am. ✌🏻
Extremely grateful for such a meticulously planned and executed lecture, ma'am! Could you do an analysis of 'The Tower' by W.B. Yeats as well?
A very good evening to you madam! The way you taught us,is an amazing one. 👍 I could not get into the story of the poem until or unless I hear you. 👍🙏
Outstanding dear ma'am.
Thank you. I was having trouble with this poem.
This is amazing. Thank you ma'am ♥️
Ma'am can you please make a video on W.B Yeats' s "The Second Coming" and "No Second Troy"? That will be really helpful 😊
mam can you please upload an explanatory lecture on the heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad, I was able to complete three difficult texts of this semester with the help of your video lectures, we are running out of time as our exams are in Jan 2024 , I would absolutely be grateful for another such beautiful explanation. 🥺
It is already in my "to do list"
Hats off mam'm 🥰....u know what since our cllg is not opening no extra classes will be taken so I searched in this UA-cam platform nd as going through I found ,I can't understand rest of them rather I'm finding ur lecture nd interestingly I got familiar with ur way of explanation nd makes things easier.🤗.....am 5th sem from derozio college, I want "sons and lovers" ,"heart of darkness" later on if possible for you , thanks a loads mam'm 🥰 felling enthusiasm to seeing you another classes with mentioned topics!!!
heart of darkness will come soon
Thank you so much ma'am. Explanation was superb.
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Thank you so much ma'am for the wonderful lecture❤..please make a lecture on the poem The second coming by Yeats.
I have been trying for a couple of days now trying to get my thoughts across to you without leaving the wrong impression. I look for content on this great work and enjoy chatting about it. I find it difficult to do as I do not want to complete the work for a student. LOL.
As Eliot's work alludes to other masterpieces, one's interpretations are dependent upon how well read a person is.
I hope to get a reply from you, as you posted this content almost one year ago. Then I may share some of my thoughts.
Please do!
@@NibblePop I am going to borrow the phrase from HannaLovesGrammar as I feel it is appropriate to Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. Momento Mori , remember death or remember everyone dies eventually. It may coincide with Carpe Diem, in that we should seize the day as we may die at any time. Being that the Prologue is Dante's "Inferno" plus all of the allusions to death. Hardly a Love Song right?
I think that first and foremost we should take note of when this poem was created. I believe Eliot was working on this pre WW1 timeframe. Historically, we must look at how people lived, this was before central heat, sewage systems, utility systems, such extremes that are unfathomable by today's standards. Also, how people socialized and dressed, were conceptually difficult to believe as well. Such as, a woman was to be escorted by either her father or brother when outside the home. A woman that was "out with no escort," was one of "those women." Not the type of person to take to meet friends and family. Men always wore hats, everyone wore them even little children had to wear hats. A person always had to dress when going out of the house.
I will leave off at this point as I do not want to leave an essay for you to critique. LOL
Thanks and have a great day!
@@krisyallowega5487 wao, that was an amazing write-up. Yes, you are absolutely correct. In fact, that is the reason why I always prefer teaching Preludes before I teach Prufrock. That sets the poem in a proper context. Especially the part about the figure of the woman. It is indeed a parody of love song, a satire almost. In a world, that was about to be split in ghastly wounds of two world wars soon, idealized love was actually an impossibility.
@@NibblePop I would not necessarily say that it was "idealized love" but perhaps lust? If we delve a little into Eliot's personal life we may get a better grasp of what he may have been coping with. But that may be an undertaking for another time, as I have just given a quick scan of his biography. It is quite intense, at least I believe so.
I have researched a little on ether that may have been used over 100 years ago. It could have been quite a terrifying experience for a patient. Could you imagine being aware of a doctor operating on you or by chance "waking up" during a procedure. So I would think of it like this...it was not that Prufrock's audience of one (assuming) would be totally numb to what they were in store for. It was that the person or persons could not react, argue or fight back. So they would not necessarily feel the physical pain but all of the emotional pain. This theory makes me wonder who it was he was taking on the "journey." Who could it have been that he wanted to cause such emotional distress? May it have been a spouse or a mistress? I would not think that it was one of his friends or mates.
@@krisyallowega5487 or may be his readers, or may be his inner self.
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Ma'am why don't you make a video on poetry such as The lady of shalott, A grammarians funeral, poem in October. It will be really helpful.
Very Fruitful explanation!
Ma'am please upload a video on T.S Eliot's "Marina" and "The Hollow Men"... We will be forever grateful to you
Thank you very much Madam!
Mam need waste land of T.S Eliot. I listen and write word by word ur lecture thank u so much .......from Pakistan.
You are a gem ma'am❤
You are brilliant !
Just wonderful ma'am . Love from West Bengal ma'am....
Thank you ma'am for this detailed explanation... The analysis was amazing... 😇
Please make video on T. S. Eliot's "BURNT NORTON"... It will be very much helpful...
Ouch, that might take some time. But I will keep it in mind.
@@NibblePop Ok ma'am... thank you so much... 😇
Woke up in the middle of the night yesterday with a thought, and waited to make sure it still sounded reasonable... Michaelangelo is Ezra Pound. One of the most famous quotes by Michelangelo is how he saw an angel trapped in the marble block. Ezra Pound saw the angel of "the Wasteland" in the huge marble block of "He do the Police in Different Voices." I *think* Eliot and Pound knew each other at the time of publication of the Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, but you'd know better than me.
Yes. They did know each other at the time of publication of Prufrock. But it was written in around 1911, and so far as historical records tell us, Pound and Eliot met each other in 1914.
Thank you so much Madam for your legendary explanation about this poem.
Can you please explain ulysses, selling to byzantian, eastern 1916, far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy, Jain Air, our cashew in a tree by taru Dutta, the harp of India by derozio.
And also can you do a lecture upon the commonwealth period and post colonial literature?
Please madam, this is my request to you.
Sailing to Byzantium already there
@@NibblePop thank you so much madam.
You are really a legend.
Pls Ma'am , make a video on the Anglo-Saxon Period . If you make a video on the era of the English literature , many students were helped . Ok ma'am , we look forward to hearing from you .
I will keep that in mind. thank you for the suggestion
Great are your efforts.
Amazing ma'am 💖😍
ma'am, you are phenomenal! 🤩
Thank you ma'am...Ur lecture was really helpful...I was really struggling with this poem.....Maam can you please explain Baudelaire's ," TO THE READER " and " CORRESPONDENCE " ...
Thank you Madam...your video really helps me very much to understand the topics of my syllabus very well. When for the first time I had heard your this lecture, I didn't go to the comment box and that's why I did not notice that you had mentioned my name here. However, thank you very much Mam for helping us in this way. If you get time please make a video on Mansfield "Bliss".
I have got a similar request for "Bliss" already in a comment from another viewer Srabanti Singha. I will definitely make a video on Bliss very soon. Thank you for your attentive presence.
Ma’am you ate this
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Something real one ❤❤❤
I find your lectures useful . Can you make vedio on how to prepare for b.ed entrance exams
Excellent explanation
Ma'am please make a video on Tithonus as we have a semester exam. Please upload it before 8 May, 2024.
Thank you😊
Amazing explanation like always. Mam, can you please make a video on 'Burnt Norton' as well?
Very well explained Madam....! Thanks a lot
Ma'am, can we have a class session on "the waste land" by T.S.Eliot. it is difficult to understand 😥
Please ma'am 💕
Sadia, I have personally benefited from Mr. Huff's exegesis: ua-cam.com/play/PLpYit10i_j4M-7sJ3k53lWgHU2tZNKFfw.html
Thank you so very much ma'am 🙏🙏❤️
Thank you so much Ma'am 😊
Thank you madam ❤🙏
I taught this poem to my friend.
Ma'am is cute by face and sweet by voice❤
Thank you so much mam
Best analysis
Awesome Explanation ma'am.