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!
This was insightful indeed. P.S. - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7Y2a3PL-Iao.html This might interest some , it is a narration of the poem by Eliot himself.
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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 😊
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.
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. 🥺
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
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.
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
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.”
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.
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 ❤️
Ma'am I have a question. In line no 10. (@13:55) "To lead you to an overwhelming question" Here Prufrock is referring to the readers as "you" right? So this "you" is not prufrock's eternal realist persona.
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 " ...
My man Prufrock isn't 'bold' enough but he sure is 'bald' enough.😆 Jokes apart, but is this poem a personal attack or something ? Because that Prufrock guy is literally me 🥺 everything is similar 🥺
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."
Mam.. Is it dramatic monologue or interior monologue? Because Prufrock here speaks himself (his own self). Or is it both dramatic and interior monologue?
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.
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.
Please answer this question sir (2 marks) 1."Do I dare disturb the universe"- what does the speaker dare not ? What is suggested remark disturb the universe ?
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...
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.”
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 .
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And I make my own explanation of all poetry. And it must be in this way, there is no specific explanation to any poetry. Although classic is all the same.
