I have to say that you make my literature class a breeze! Your analysis always puts my mind at ease and helps me to articulate my thoughts.... and you're hair looks fantastic! Thank you so much for what you do!!!
Kalina Fernandez I'm so glad that you feel confirmed in your own ideas as you watch my little talks. Thanks for the vote for the hair! I do like it, and no more dye! Best wishes!
“Blue black cold “always made me think of cold so deep it hurt. Connotations of black and blue bruises. I like your interpretation, too. I had not thought of it.
Just began watching Billy Collin’s Masterclass on Poetry and he read this poem. As a young person, I never saw the value of poetry. Now, as an aging father, who worked hard for his kids and didn’t thank his own father enough, tear up at this reading. Thanks for sharing your wonderful gift of interpretation! ❤️❤️❤️
Hello Rebecca, Thank you for your analysis of Hayden's poem. Now I am taking English 100. My first assignment is response this poem. English is my second language, so I want to understand the poem clearly and make a good response to the poem. Thank you for your video again. It's very helpful for me :D
This poem is so beautiful, people in that generation did what had to be done. Woke up with a purpose, I remember my mother this way, never given thanks for what she did, it was life. I remember the Black and Blue Cold, I grew up this way, a house so cold it hurt. But it was a good time as opposed to today.
It is a love sonnet...his father loved his son in his way and the son loved him in his own way too...and Hayden used the love sonnet format in a non-traditional way to reflect that love.
Hello Rebecca, I found your channel when I was trying to study Shakespeare on my own, not being a native English speaker has proven to cause more of a halt upon my progress than expected, I just wanted to say two things and add one question. 1 - Thank you for these videos, they're delightful, marvelous and utterly informative, I can't thank you enough 2 - This particular one is really low on its volume... also, love your hair And here lies the question: what sort of essays or poetry books would you recommend one to read in order to get good in interpreting poetry?
I am a young poet and love these videos. But one change I feel will make the videos better is if you read the poems first then break down the poem. Thank you for taking time to create this content.
That's a good idea. Then the poem could stand as a complete piece, intact. I'll try it! The shorter poems, especially, lend themselves to that approach. Thanks for the tip!
The first line is perfect trochaic pentameter, which made me prick up my ears to the poem's meter, and go looking for more patterns. I love how the three hard syllables of "blueblack cold" are echoed in "banked fires blaze". It's a great parallelism which contrasts opposites. And there are these clusters of hard accents and consonance throughout, like you mentioned-- "cracked hands that ached," etc. Yes, I am convinced that Hayden's poem's cadences are amazing--how he interweaves natural speech and metrical verse patterns. That last line falls so beautifully into an almost perfect iambic pentameter. In a way it's a kind of antithesis to the first line's insistent and jumpy trochees. And trailing off with the last two syllables of, "Off-ic-es," ending on a soft pyrrhic foot evokes an apt sense of hushed awe and humility, I think. And oh hey I have that same Unicorn in Captivity pillow. Did you get your at the Cloister Museum? XOXOX
