😩Turn the volume up please: the volume is too low, we can't hear you, re-do the video with the proper sound level! <<< let me know if this is correct colon usage.
Thanks for the feedback. Some videos can be a bit louder. I'll keep that in mind. The colon is correct though I would recommend inserting "and please" before "re-do"! :)
I was interested and glad to learn from your video that Frost dismissed the death wish interpretation offhandedly almost as if it were beneath consideration. By now, it seems too easy, a deep, dark secret everyone knows.
As I recall, Frost enjoyed walking in the woods at night, which many or most people might consider an eccentric activity. I, too, have enjoyed it. With almost all light gone, my imagination brightens and helps to light the way. I memorized this poem decades ago, and I still "have" it: I can recite it at any time. I'm aware of the common, most popular, seemingly consensus interpretation of the poem as an expression of a death wish, but I tend to resist that. I see walking in the woods at night as a metaphor for the creative act; for entering the unknown, the darkness, hoping to find something new and beautiful. Your analysis has increased my understanding of and appreciation for what I think might be the first poem I ever read, way, way back in grade school. Thanks for that. I will watch it again. I recommend Professor Jay Parini's biography of Robert Frost. Parini is a veritable fountain of knowledge about the poet.
That's impressive that you can still recite it years later. I used to memorize poems but generally just remember snippets. Agree that the notion of the death wish is at most in the background. Thanks for the kind words!
love the video explanations! Anyway you would be able to explain Flaubert's Bouvard and Pecuchet story Barthes touches on in the "Myth as Stolen Language" section of Mythology Today? It feels like hes trying to elucidate on Flaubert introducing new myths through past forms or maybe like the story is a mirror to society? Barthes uses the term "bouvard-and-pecuchet-ity" to describe what Flaubert did with the story; "the rhetoric of Bouvard and Pecuchet becomesthe form of the new system..." What in the world does it mean to be "bouvard-and-pecuchet-ity"?
@@thenatureofwriting9222 If "impersonal pronouns" do not use the grammatical feature "person", why in this example: If you touch a hot stove you will get burnwd, then why did "you" come as the second person pronoun in the sentence? Isn't this contrary to grammar?
Very interesting and enjoyable analysis of a poem I've known for many years. It would have been helpful to me if the text in your video had been a little larger, easier to read, so I could have followed your comments more closely. I was reminded of Paul Simon's adaptation of the poem, from "The Sound of Silence," the S & G album from the Sixties. And of the poet Dana Gioia's biographical video of E.A. Robinson on his, Gioia's, RU-vid channel; it's a carefully composed and thorough description of Robinson's life and work. I recommend the video and the channel. Thanks. Will visit you again. Edit: corrections of my mistakes.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll try zoom in a bit more to make the text larger. I started watching the Dana Gioia video, which I wasn't aware of. Much appreciated.
You are very welcome. It's always good to share good news. There are over one-hundred million RU-vid channels, so who knows what's still out there. 😊 Gioia does nice work on Wallace Stevens and Baudelaire, too. Thanks, again.
Yes, the Pantoum is fun too. I'll have to see if I can make one up and do a video some time. There's a bunch more obscure genres that I'm hoping to get to. :)
English teacher here -- thank you for posting a narration that is correctly pronounced, pleasant to the ear, and has actual Middle English subtitles instead of some weird, inaccurate pronunciation guide. I'll be showing this to my students!
Thank you for this video! I've heard a lot of complaints from teachers that they can't identify AI writing, but this video shows that it is indeed possible, at least to some extent.
Thanks! I think a lot of teachers intuitively know when they're dealing with AI, but proving it can be more difficult. And beyond that the challenge will be how to work with AI productively and ethically.
I have a poetry test in a week and I wanted to tell you your video from 4 years ago was great. Thank you for uploading that, it genuinely helped me out a lot!
And cover also important books /texts/essays of important thinkers of literary theory,like you have covered Roland Barthes Mythologies. In the same way cover important texts of Ferdinand de saussure ,Jacques Derrida, Claude Levi-strauss, Yuri lotman, Jacque lacan , Roman Jacobson , etcs...
Sir please Cover all literary Theory from liberal humanism /new criticism to Eco criticism theory, and cover all in as much detail as you can by elaborating all the key thinkers' ideas (philosophers/linguists/anthropologist etc.) And while covering the topic or discussing key thinkers' of the theory provide an explanation of that by giving examples/texts, as you provided for Bakhtin's monologism/ dialogism through a wonderful text of Browning. I will be very grateful to you sir.🙏🙏 Your lectures are very helpful to understand difficult theories and criticism. I have watched your "on the sublime" also . Kindly make videos on the criticism of Plato , Aristotle-poetics, Philip Sydney -An apology for poetry, Dryden -A essay of dramatic Poesy, Pope-an Essay on Criticism and An essay on man, shelly-a defence of poetry, Coleridge Biographia literaria , Samuel Johnson - Preface to Shakespeare, Wordsworth -Lyrical Ballads,Keats From the letters, Mathew Arnold- The study of poetry and other also, D.H.Lawrence- why the novel matters. T.S.Eliot- tradition and the individual Talent, Metaphysical Poet's, and other also, F.R.Leavis-Keats Sir please make videos on it. 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🙏🙏🙏🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Thank you for the lesson. (Relative or connected to a noun. Interrogative is connected to a question. Pronouns that help us ask questions (interrogative pronouns).
True. The first sentence is "Alack, Alas!" The second sentence follows after. It uses a coordinating conjunction to tie together two independent clauses. Most of the examples in the course will consist of only one clause.
Whoever wrote this book report example is a virtue-signaling racist, and a picture perfect product of the current cesspool of an indoctrinating education system led by the soulless sell-outs that public school teachers have become. Tintin isnt racist because of its portrayal of anyone. It illustrates how people of different cultures live differently everywhere in their own way, and how every race of people has good and bad characters within it. In fact, if Tintin IS racist, its because the BAD GUYS ARE ALWAYS WHITE. You should be ashamed of yourself Nature of Writing.
Even though it's short, it makes you understand the stock incredibly even though previously I studied all day but still didn't understand, but after I watched for a while I immediately understood. thank you
The problem with the third (nonsense) statement is that fundamentally a piano isnt a thing that exists. By applying values to the piano one can sensibly say that this thing is more piano like, but to suppose a piano is something that can have other values or attributes applied to it is impossible. It is a thing that is a piano, and a thing can not directly adopt the organic qualities so commonly attributed by humans to other human actions (ex: the piano is thirsty, the paper flew away, the wheel is racing down the street). These are human effectors, a human cause, a human choice to influence the perception of something. Those who study language forget often that they themselves are the ones who invented language. This is just another case of amnesia, the only sensible application of such an idea is as rhetoric or comedy. It simply isn't factual or even probable that a "piano has been drinking heavily" and shouldn't be interpreted as such. What a non-problem. 👏👏👏👏👏 FURTHERMORE "piano" exists at the level of experience and association. I grew up in a house where a TV remote was called a whipper. Having it be a whipper does not make it any less a tv remote, but if I were at a friends house and ask them to pass me the whipper, in their experience governed by their association of what a whipper is, they would be unable to find relative coordinates regarding "whipper", to which they would present confusion or befuddlement. They could be taught this thing is a whipper, and then they could form a rational association between whipper and tv remote, but the expectation of this as intuitive is entirely cultural. So the next time i ask them to pass me the whipper, they can make a decision regarding my request.
These are fantastic, Thank you! God loves you! Repent an believe in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Faith in Christ alone will bring you into a relationship with God and peace. He will change your life and you won't fear death.
