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Understanding Poetry | The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. The 434-line poem first appeared in in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and the mantra in the Sanskrit language "Shantih shantih shantih"
Eliot's poem combines the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King with vignettes of contemporary British society. Eliot employs many literary and cultural allusions from the Western canon, Buddhism and the Hindu Upanishads. The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy featuring abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location, and time and conjuring a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures.
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Resources
Nick Mount Lecture:
• Nick Mount on T.S. Eli...
Mr. Huff's Literature Class:
• T.S. Eliot
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www.shmoop.com/study-guides/p...
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@ThinkBigAnimation 4 года назад

Hey guys. This will likely be my last philosophy style video for a while as I will be taking the channel in a different direction. I will still make this type of video from time to time but really excited for all the new changes coming up! Thank you guys for watching!

@deedotdance Год назад

Was looking for an explanation for Wasteland. This was beautifully done .. Thank you !

@Evan-fr3cs 4 года назад

Works like The Waste Land are almost frightening when you're in a strange spot in your life. It's both inspiring and frightening. Very hard to verbalize. Great video as always.

@ThinkBigAnimation 4 года назад

Thank you! Yeah this one definitely fucked with my head a bit... especially as I got deeper and deeper into it

@LeonardoDiCapthezhoes 3 месяца назад

Qualia

@LeonardoDiCapthezhoes 3 месяца назад

Durkheim speaks on this

@Ellebeeby 3 года назад

In the pub scene, there is also the implication that Lil has been having an affair; Albert has been in the army for four years, but Lil has somehow become pregnant and needed a contraceptive (the pills ‘to bring it off’, which are needed after Albert has already given her the money). More evidence the relationship is destructive, weaponised by both parties to cause each other harm.

@daveg4036 4 года назад

Incredible. I’ve listened to numerous lectures on the meaning of The Waste Land and I have to say this one is my personal favourite. Concise, easy to understand and enjoyable to watch. Well done.

@ThinkBigAnimation 4 года назад

Thank you!

@carmenbrumariualboaie258 3 года назад

@@ThinkBigAnimation Thank you!!! Great explanations and interpretation

@jackied.v.carson6059 9 месяцев назад

I've been a fan of the wasteland for years. Probably read it a hundred times and spent even more time reading about the symbolism. This is the best video on all of RU-vid for beautifully and comprehensibly breaking down the images. Bravo.

@toqaessam7055 3 года назад

I really hated this poem as i didn't understand it UNTIL I came across that video. THANK U REALLY! I needed that wonderful explanation. GREAT JOB!!!

@saimariaz5299 3 года назад

This video is really very helpful to understand "The Waste Land".

@addy7464 3 года назад

That intro was amazing to say the least.

@guitarmatricide4834 3 года назад

This was FANTASTIC! I had an inexplicable desire to read this poem tonight and, once again, left breathless by it and watching this right after was such a wonderful addendum to it. Thank you so much for this!

@A_Distant_Life 2 года назад

That opening is amazing. I wish you would do that for entire books and poems. It really brings the words to life.

@samanthabevoni152 3 года назад

JUST BEAUTIFUL. Thank you so much for revealing some of these secrets.

@rosafalls8068 4 года назад

Thanks. I was just thinking it was time to have a review of The Waste Land, and here it is reminding me to remember after all these years.

@priyacool2500 3 года назад

The video does a great job in bringing out more and more layers of meaning out of this difficult classic poem. All the more meaningful in these unpredictable pandemic times. Shall save this video 👍

@thesecondmatch8505 3 года назад

It's been days that I've been reading the Norton Critical Edition and this video in about 20 minutes made me understand this poem! Congrats.. It was very helpful and so well presented that I was moved by your interpretation of Eliot's masterpiece. I thought: I have finally arrived at giving a coherent meaning to the general structure of the whole. Thank you!

@ThinkBigAnimation 3 года назад

Thank you so much! This is probably my favorite video I have ever done and I'm really glad you liked it :)

@ShadidAhmed 2 года назад

THE BEST PIECE OF CONTENT ABOUT The Wasteland on RU-vid. Thanks my man.

@vivanco223 2 года назад

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL. AMAZING AND POWERFUL WORK

@emmastockwell7704 Год назад

I have just started to read the poem. This video was a superb introduction - very interesting and simple enough to help understand the main ideas.

@hannahawbrey2294 3 года назад

Great video! I was totally lost about the Waste Land before watching this.

@ArthurLWood 2 года назад

Excellent analysis. Thank you. I am planning to read the poem for my channel, but am spending time with it first.

@aditisarkar982 Год назад

Marvellous!

@abdifawzi5258 3 года назад

Inspirational work.. Concise & precise 🤞Many thanks for your help.

@joshfischer3360 2 года назад

This is really well done.

@noahcoops6305 Год назад

Great video. Very impressive

@Neat0_o 3 года назад

That intro started to creep deep into my Conscience and started making me question my existence.

@nourallahhosam7084 3 года назад

this video is amazing it really helped me with the poem, thank you

@anilsahu2639 2 года назад

Hey ! There's one correction in the upanishadic story quoted there, Daman( self-control) was for Deities, Daan (to give away) for Men and Daya( to forgive) for Demons.

@runo5401 Год назад

Your voice is very soothing and you have a great way with words. This video helped me a lot. Thank you for uploading it :))❤️

@markhughes7927 3 месяца назад

That was good! very good! - brought out the idea of the seed of hope always lying dormant in the waste of things..reminded too of the grail motif which has unique transforming cultural power against the dead politics of control only..Provence!

@festerburg87 Год назад

Amazing video and analysis. Thanks!

@abdullahmohammadsami8006 3 года назад

Burning Burning Burning

@dordanagmeni7734 3 года назад

excellent piece of work. I am was mesmerized by your presentation.

@ThinkBigAnimation 3 года назад

Thank you so much!

@timdarwin1171 12 дней назад

Love this poem, it’s funny u started the video with what I think is potentially my favorite part, although u should have let it go a little longer until “what will we ever do” .. gonna listen to the rest now ha , was just excited to see my fav part in the intro =)

@benjaminholland7774 3 года назад

This was awesome! thank you for taking the time to make this :)

@ThinkBigAnimation 3 года назад

Thank you!

@user-mo6xw2jd6z Год назад

Thank u so beautifully explained

@iuseitToo 3 года назад

Wow this was great

@vinoychoubey8843 3 года назад

Thanks for such a beautiful introduction 🙏🙏

@ThinkBigAnimation 3 года назад

Of course. Thank you for watching!

@joicejj8025 3 года назад

Really It this vedio mesmerized me And I'm speechless pls pls add vedio on futher two sectios

@gogigaga1677 Год назад

The intro was genius we need the Full Version 😂

@mehdinikseresht1432 3 года назад

Keep making this style of video my friend

@fadibahee 2 года назад

the background music is awesome

@liamthellama8386 4 года назад

Excellent video as always!

@ThinkBigAnimation 4 года назад

Thank you!

@leogiri2863 3 года назад

Thank you so much! I've heard a lot of educational videos while studying, but this is the first one that actually got me interested in literature!

@imlafonz8047 2 года назад

Have you seen Fiona Shaw’s reading of the waste land? Best one I’ve ever seen

@nyanko4393 2 года назад

I have exam’s tomorrow and this really helps a lot! Thankyou!

@ryanx3584 3 года назад

So lemme get this straight- ALL this thought went into The Wasteland? If so, that's astonishing.

@RodrigoG4ming 3 года назад

all this and bit more.

@bushticulous 2 года назад

You better believe it. It's the reason It's endured. Absolute masterpiece.

@janeairvintage7416 2 месяца назад

Never knew there was a quote from Ophelia in it

@NitishKumar-gu9us 2 года назад

Shantih shantih shantih last line of waste land is taken from which upnishad

@crispincornett 3 года назад

This is great! Good work and thank you. Where did you get the reading of the final "Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih" ?

@ThinkBigAnimation 3 года назад

Here you go! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sYROFY_Kh8M.html

@crispincornett 3 года назад

@@ThinkBigAnimation Thanks again! Love it!

@Zarathustra-nv9fs 10 месяцев назад

What's the name of the audio reader in the opening

@meriemdaisy7279 3 года назад

I liked it unfortunately it does not cover the whole poem : section 3 and 4 are left

@mehdinikseresht1432 3 года назад

fuckin love your channel

@tsubarashiii6251 2 года назад

9:34

@leshtricity 3 года назад

April is the cruelest month because of memory and desire, as springtime is associated with romance and reunions. and you can't analyze this poem when you completely skip over the Buddhist influence in the Fire Sermon, and how integral it is to the poem. and the tarot cards, the hanged man representing the lack of a Jesus or redeemer figure in the culture at large; in Eliot's view, a society without some unifying moral code or belief is a veritable wasteland.

@rosafalls8068 4 года назад

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@ThinkBigAnimation 4 года назад

Oh shit. Thanks for the heads up!

@dyldvine Год назад

The first line is Trochaic, not Iambic! Rookie mistake.

@johnbradshaw5097 8 месяцев назад

A Scapeshifter

@Vermontist1 Месяц назад

Here's the secret: It may be a waste of time to "search for the meaning of "The Waste Land." If one searches, instead, to find one's OWN way and meaning in the poem, then one will have collaborated with Eliot as a co-creater. And TWL will then be re-written, in a sense, and its immortality will be readfirmed.

@marcelaiovi3743 Год назад

Very helpful and nice summarized! Although, there is something that doesn't match your source. In the video, Nick Mount, at minute 36.18 ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JO8rEIddgrI.html) attributes differently each interpretation with each group.

@SamSepiolTheHeretic 2 года назад

This video is really good but neglects that T.S. Elliot rejected comparisons between his poem and the disillusionment of the lost generation after World War I. He was commenting on HIS OWN disillusionment with his marriage, employment and the lack of meaning amidst the hedonism of the 1920s, which is why he converted to Anglican Church.

@eddesa5134 Год назад

Exactly so! Well said.

@jackellock7113 2 года назад

I blame the second party in line 319.

@carlyjanescarbrough9910 Месяц назад

Raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimized by The Waste Land

@harryturnbull1884 3 года назад

Well it's all very good analysing in detail the minutiae of the intellectual exercise this is - but what is the actual point? There is no clear message, it is abstruse to the point of merely being a vehicle for pretentious interpretations.

@ennius42 3 года назад

I suppose that life itself is chaotic like that. There are many approaches and interpretations of life. ‘The Waste Land’ is a chaotic poem, but it seems that its overall meaning is that some sort of peace is attainable.

@robert1411 3 года назад

Eliot himself is reported to have remarked, "To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling."