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Unbroken I’ve walked to and from I’ve walked with and without And I’ve walked with you It’s just a curiosity on a morning walk Today I am alone but I’m thinking of you And how you would be taken at the oddity Of this ornament, broken by the side of the road Laying on its side, bulb cracked, wires exposed The fence post lamp has been knocked down, undone Most trivial - unimportant And most would just walk on by But you And I think of all the questions you have And the hows and the whys And all the plans defined and formulated To unmain, to heal, to rectify You are not here, still you’re with me And I carry your wonderings And your plans, and your awe Your abandon to that simple moment I’ve walked to and from I’ve walked with and without Today I walk alone With your hand in mine And in every step, I feel your heart And in a broken lamp, your shining light How much of you Has unbroken me
Thank you for bringing me back to my literary world. I have to teach this this week. All I can think about is my own overdue publication, state testing interfering with my limited instructional time, and now Tropical Storm Milton. Since all I could remember about this poem was Rodney Dangerfield, I went to glorious RU-vid. Your breakdown was magnificent! You covered Text Structure, figurative language, duality of meaning, and your maximizing of time. Thank you immensely!
Shortly after my wife went through 3 craniotomies, 2 rounds of chemo, and radiation treatment that left her partially paralyzed, I came across this poem, and all the ink spilled over it, and I wrote this: PRECISELY for my wife so much depends upon the gray steel blade in accurate fingers scraping her brain tumor.
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them -W.Shakespeare Man I love Shakespeare’s writing
3:15 *facepalm* for someone who analyses old poems and can read between lines, you of all people should know that the word “men” is carried from the old English word which means “Humans”. This poem is not referring to “men” as the gender, the poem is referring to “men” as in human kind. I’m so tired of people jumping to conclusions that people are inherently sexist when the English language has numerous words that overlap and contain different meanings.
Didn't know Thomas wrote in Old English. Thought he was a twentieth century poet. Also, pointing out sexist language structures is different than calling a specific poet or poem sexist. I was attempting to do the former.
@@OxfordCommaEducation I’m saying that the word has been overlapped into modern English from old English. Men can mean both gender and humans because that is what is derived from old English. So when poets use the word “men” in the context used in the poem, they are referencing humans as a whole, not a specific gender.
I understand that Dylan is using it in that way. I'm pretty sure I even point out in the video that the poem is referring to all people. But, social and linguistic critics have long pointed out that the reason "man" continued to be used as a fill in for all humans for 1000 years past it's original meaning was because it was being used by a male centric society. All my comment on the video was mean to point out was that this poem is for all people, even if the word choice can be a little alienating to a modern reader.
@@OxfordCommaEducation you’re pointing out lax evidence that is not weighted in linguistics of the English language as a lazy means of defending a unfairly made snide joke you made at 3:15 that makes the poet out to seem sexist when the poet used the word correctly. And because of your nonchalant attitude towards the subject and insistence on deniability, I’m not interested in taking you seriously as an analyst of poetry.
@@Lurker_of_the_shadows Hey, it's your prerogative to follow whomever you want. Just treat others with kindness. The shift to words like police officer, mail carrier, and human kind might seem pointless to you, but I believe language is powerful and the words we use matter.
I like much the alliterative emphasis in the parts ¨and sneer of cold command and ¨King of Kings¨. Showing the cruelty of Ozymandias. A nice hint to King George 3 during that time.
Also, reading it aloud helps! If you get enough people (like in a classroom setting), and you have them read for certain roles, it makes a lot more sense. So does seeing it performed live
But there really are other ghastly English pronunciations of _mundi_ in which the <u> is sounded as a shwa, so no points off for that. Yet it would be nice to have the poem read as poetry, with attention to scansion, rather than as plonking prose.
I’m an English teacher reading this book for fun. I love your videos because I feel like I’m in conversation with a colleague who validates some ideas and adds insights along the way. Great job! Are you planning on covering more books?
Thank you so much for the kind feedback. I love the conversation this series has created. I have a few ideas for my next chapter by chapter. Do you have any suggestions? Enjoy the rest of the summer!
One of the most profound discoveries of the 20th century is that DNA is a package of prescriptive, functional, algorithmically operational, linguistically organized information. Such information can only be produced by mental processes. A mind is necessary. Undirected material processes cannot create them. This is empirical evidence that life is in fact designed by exquisite intelligence. The information in DNA is more complex more highly organized and more functional than that of Microsoft Windows 11. It is also highly compressed and reads One direction as one instruction set and read backwards it produces completely different instructions using the same space. We do not know how it's possible to write such instructions with our current technology.
It’s worth recalling that the greatest award Freud received while alive was the Goethe Prize in 1930, a German literary award. He was considered a great literary stylist.
Still better than modern American TV which boils down to: "White bad, man bad, men and women being into each other bad, oh look we made a previously White character black or brown."
Beautiful reading and analysis of this powerful poem. I’ve lived much longer than Keats, but I face the same disillusionments and fears, that time is running out, life will soon end, and my life’s work will be all for nought. This poem haunts me…thank you for your sensitive reading.
Hello from India. I'm thinking of doing a PhD on Kazuo Ishiguro, and all your videos have helped me a lot in preparing a research proposal. Really appreciate your videos. 👍🏽
I'm sorry. This was before I learned how to edit, so everything had to be in one take. This was probably my 10th take that night. Thank you for checking out the video though!
