Poetry Paints a Canvas in Your Mind | The Power of Poetry 2 - John Milton - HC Vol. 4 Ep17

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John Milton is most famous for his epic poem "Paradise Lost" but he is also well known for his prose and other poetry that he wrote throughout his life. Sometimes involved in controvery and other times secluded in a hamlet composing verse and rhyme Milton would become one of the greatest writers in English history. He lived in the age of Shakespeare and Francis Bacon and these poetic and chaotic times would provide Milton with the energy and perspective needed to change the course of history in terms of English writing. I hope you enjoy these poems of Milton that were selected to be in the Harvard Classics.
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@w1zzk1dd Месяц назад

3:04 I like how you link horizon to joys we cannot reach since the definition of horizon is an unreachable place unless we die, because horizon means the meeting place between the heavens and the earth

@benrex7775 4 месяца назад

I always enjoy listening to your videos on the classics. They feel so cosy.

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Thanks so much! I’m happy they bring some joy to people. Really means a lot hearing that. Truly appreciate you watching my friend and stay blessed!

@eddiewilliams7555 4 месяца назад

Lycidas is perfection itself. Milton composes nighttime pastorals like no one else. You definitely get a sense of the sublime when reading Milton because he formulates his writing as a composer of music would (Milton was an avid organ player). My recommendation with Milton is to focus on how he is able to achieve the sublime in his writing when he gravitates toward opposite extremes. Ill Penseroso and L'Allegro focus on the dichotomies of melancholy and mirth whereas Lycidas is an exploration of idyllic poetry where grief and elegy is concerned. I would definitely pay close attention to hell vs heaven vs Eden when reading PL. You're in for a ride. Milton is often written off as a poet's poet, but he's just as essential as Shakespeare to English lit.

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Great info and thanks so much for explaining that. This is my first time reading through Milton and it has been quite the brain bender and very rewarding. I am finding his works so enjoyable. Really looking forward to Paradise Lost and I will keep that in mind as I read through it. Thanks for watching my friend!

@jamesdavey9690 4 месяца назад

It's great to see you're keeping up the series, mate. Keep 'em coming!

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Yes indeed! I don’t plan to stop anytime soon. There may be periods where I slow down but I find to much joy in it and I am looking forward to individual ones in the future like Plutarch’s lives so definitely not stopping. Thanks for watching my friend!

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Good morning my friends! I hope you enjoy this video on John Milton's poetry. What is your favorite poem by John Milton?

@RobPirieCedarOtaCoffee 4 месяца назад

I enjoyed the walk through the country side but coffee was actually what took his melancholy away. Still works to this day. You should try it…

@evildead167 4 месяца назад

For his shorter works, I most like “Lycidas” and “Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent” (also titled “On His Blindness”).

@The_Cause 3 месяца назад

Both are good! The more I read about his blindness the more I was blown away. I am going to mention it in Paradise Lost but he wrote PL while blind. His daughter wrote it out while he dictated to her. Crazy!

@Kvell55 4 месяца назад

Rob, I was thinking of you today and hoping a new video would be coming. This great series should have at least 100,000 subscribers.

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

If we ever make it to 100k I will try to make this full time at that point. That would be a dream come true. Thanks so much for watching my friend and truly appreciate the kind words.

@c0284 4 месяца назад

Thanks!

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Thanks so much for the support my friend as I truly appreciate it! Thanks so much for watching and have a very blessed weekend!

@CheapSeats 4 месяца назад

Persevere Rob @The_Cause , thoroughly enjoy your work War Fighter. Coffee order #3 coming probably in April as I burn through it pretty quick (it’s delicious everybody, believe it)

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Yes indeed my friend! As long as the good Lord provides the time I am going to keep this series going as I truly enjoy it. I am glad to hear you are enjoying the coffee and looking forward to roasting some more for you when needed! Thanks for the support brother!

@jaydent6255 4 месяца назад

Watching these videos brings me back to sitting in my favorite college English lit classes. It's good to hear people talk about books, especially without paying thousands in tuition to do it.

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Haha yes indeed. I understand the importance of learning institutions but so much can be learned by sitting down with a good book and being disciplined in the content you consume. I hope people are able to use this series as a supplement to their reading and truly find joy in this series. Thanks for sitting in my class today and stay blessed my friend! Lol

@CandlewickLibrary 4 месяца назад

I finished Paradise Lost last month. It was interesting to listen to some of his other writings.

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Nice! How did you like it? I am really looking forward to reading through it. Truly appreciate you watching and I hope you stay blessed!

@siegfriedderheld7806 4 месяца назад

Thanks again, Rob, for such thoughtful videos! I struggle with poetry-yet some poems touch me deeply (I know what I like). Milton had nothing but disdain for rhyming verse, but I struggle with feeling poetic meter-thus reading Paradise Lost aloud (or with sub-vocalizations greatly enhanced my appreciation. I’m looking forward to your thoughts on PL!

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Thanks so much my friend! I kind of feel similar to you. Reading out loud has helped me better understand some of the poems. The grammar can differ just enough to throw off my understanding sometimes. Truly appreciate you watching and definitely looking forward to reading Paradise Lost. Stay blessed buddy!

@llll-un6mk 4 месяца назад

Keep doing what your doing bro, love the content!

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Thanks so much and I truly appreciate your kindness. Really means a lot. I enjoy making these and don’t plan to quit anytime soon. Thanks for watching and stay blessed my friend!

@mikecook_author 4 месяца назад

Another solid video reviewing Milton’s 17th century poetry. I will be drinking your Cedar OTA Coffee from my French press as I read my Harvard Classics (finishing Wm Penn).

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Nice!! William Penn was a good read. The next volume is going to require some coffee indeed. Plato, Epictetus and Aurelius will have your mind working a little more for sure. Truly appreciate you supporting my channel and purchasing my coffee. Hope you are enjoying it and stay blessed brother!

@mikecook_author 4 месяца назад

@@The_Cause my kids love the Columbian Don Enrique Res coffee. I got two other varieties but don’t want to open them until this one is finished.

@The_Cause 3 месяца назад

haha yes indeed! Sadly they informed me that the Colombian mill that process the Don Enrique shut down so it is not possible to get anymore. Really bummed because that was one of the best Colombian coffees I had tasted. Replaced it with a Costa Rican that I have been enjoying. Love to hear that the coffee is being enjoyed!

@bonniebrown1566 4 месяца назад

“That which is not good is not delicious to a well governed and wise appetite.” Excellent! Parents should strive to cultivate appetites for truth, goodness, and beauty in their children so that they have no desire for the base and wicked things of this world.

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Completely agree. Milton had such an elegant way of saying it. It’s becoming harder and harder with all the temptations out there for the children’s time and attention. Teaching morals and virtues to young children to include temperance and patience is so important now days. It’s just as hard on the parents as the kids see what other kids can do and wonder why they can’t do and get away with the same. Thanks so much for watching and stay blessed!

@RobPirieCedarOtaCoffee 4 месяца назад

Great video you old coffee loving book worm. I have personally witnessed the amount of coffee it takes to pull this all off, so thanks for the dedication to the cause!

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Much appreciated...

@nickkrupa3818 4 месяца назад

Excellent video! "Be wise, and taste," sounds like the serpent talking to Eve, but the order of the words is reversed. The serpent says, "Taste, and be wise." I wonder why Milton reversed the order of the words.

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Didn’t even catch that!! I am sure Milton has all kinds of things like that scattered throughout the poems. Glad you mentioned it because I would have missed that. Thanks Nick!

@w1zzk1dd Месяц назад

5:12 interesting poem on time there I must say. that poem can be sum up in one sentence which is found in the Qur'an, the first Verse from a chapter called Time (Asr): It says: - By time, Verily mankind is in loss. means most of what we spend our time on, isn't the most beneficial thing and the answer is given in the next Verse saying: except those who have faith, benefit themselves and benefit others

@thepostgradyear 4 месяца назад

I see rob. I click. studying whatever a person wants for more than half a decade... bruh xD "find happiness daily" why the english civil war? wow you really flew through the last poem

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

Could you imagine that much time to just "self improvement"? Crazy. The poems he wrote during the English Civil War covers the issues and the people of that time. If you do not have the context of those individuals or what was going on these poems will not make too much sense in my opinion. They are still good though. Thanks so much for watching my friend and as always.. stay blessed!

@thepostgradyear 4 месяца назад

@@The_Cause it would be great to have that much time for self improvement but I have to wonder what happens if someone says they're trying to get good for several years. do they work towards a specific goal? do they compete? do they make something and try to sell it to someone? do they try to find a successor? what are they doing lol how do they prove to themselves or anyone else that their use of time was justified? is that even needed?

@The_Cause 4 месяца назад

I think someone as disciplined as Milton it would work. He could easily write in Greek, Latin and Hebrew at this time and apparently he read a lot when you start learning more about him. You give me 5-6 years of free time and you best believe I am playing around and having fun for at least 4 of it! Haha

@w1zzk1dd Месяц назад

8:50 anther lesson in the poem i think is that alcohol brings the worse out in human, look at the "god of alcohol" action, he's letting his lust control him to the extent hes kidnapping, similarly for anyone' else- alcohol brings out lust interesting she said that "she wouldn't disturb her freedom in thinking" when she was offer wine, which also shows that alcohol takes away rationality