A Moonlighting English Teacher
A Moonlighting English Teacher
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Poetry's Best Triple Pun: George Herbert on Vocation
More poetry analysis! This video takes a visual deep dive into "The Collar" by famed English poet George Herbert. The poem is a vulnerable exploration of despair and doubt in one’s calling. And it’s one of my favorite examples of poetic wordplay!
*Read the full poem here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44360/the-collar
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00:00 Introduction
00:45 Poem Analysis
04:15 The Final Stanza
05:07 Conclusion
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What The Whale Teaches us about Teaching
Просмотров 4692 месяца назад
A teacher’s take on The Whale! In this video essay analysis, I focus on the role that teaching and education plays in Darren Aronovsky’s 2022 heartbreaking film. I find that The Whale’s character development and its relational themes resonate deeply in a world where teaching and schoolwork increasingly lack genuine connection and humanity. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:48 Relationships in Th...
Celtic Christianity in Wolfwalkers and The Secret of Kells (Analysis)
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Wolfwalkers and The Secret of Kells are the bookend films of Tomm Moore's "Irish Folklore Trilogy." They share many similarities, but their vastly different portrayals of the legacy of Christianity in Ireland stir up many interesting questions. This video is a thematic analysis of both films that attempts to shine light this distinction. It also presents some lessons and questions worth conside...
Dead Poets Society: What Makes a Great Teacher? (ft. Parker J. Palmer)
Просмотров 37 тыс.2 года назад
Why is Robin Williams' portrayal of Mr. Keating in Dead Poets Society so iconic? What is it that actually makes him a great teacher? This video essay presents an analysis of Mr. Keating's English class and teaching that I think would be interesting to fans of this film or anyone interested in educational professional development! My analysis draws heavily upon the work of the wonderful educatio...
Encanto Analysis ("Encanto, Marquez, and the Potential of Memory")
Просмотров 6 тыс.2 года назад
As an English teacher, I loved the way that the 2021 Disney film Encanto made extensive use of the influence of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the famous 20th Century Colombian author, and his classic novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. WHY don’t they talk about Bruno? Why are his prophecies displayed on glass? What does the miraculous candle symbolize? And what’s the deal with the yellow butterflies...
Angela's Christmas 2 and the Patterns of Advent
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.2 года назад
(See an adapted version of my Advent script published at Dappled Things Magazine - www.dappledthings.org/deep-down-things/lmstt88njbtr9c526rd3m9uw33caet) Angela’s Christmas Wish (Angela's Christmas 2) on Netflix may seem like just one more animated Christmas movie, like so many being churned out by our streaming services each year. But it is so much more. Like its 2017 predecessor Angela’s Chri...
A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints
Просмотров 34 тыс.2 года назад
Hagiography, accounts and legends of the lives of saints, has been a vital undertaking throughout the history of Christianity. Though it is not commonly practiced in the modern era, I argue in this video essay/analysis that A Hidden Life (2019) directed by Terrance Malick is surprisingly consistent with the spirit of Christian hagiography in how Malick goes about telling this story. The film re...
Flannery O'Connor's Fingerprints in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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It’s hard to miss the reference to famed American Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor in 2017 film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. I find this film to be the best homage to Flannery O’Connor’s style and themes that I’ve come across in a long time. In this video essay, I present an analysis of this film by essentially viewing it through the lens of O’Connor’s unique approach to a...
"The Heavens Draped in Sackcloth" (Poetry Reading ft. Michael Stalcup & Dekoningtan)
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This video is a collaboration among some dear, like-minded artistic friends! It animates a reading of an original poem by Michael Stalcup with music composed and recorded by Gersom de Koning (“Dekoningtan”). The poem is a powerful meditation on the beauty and the question-begging mystery of a winter’s snow. “The Heavens Draped in Sackcloth Sigh” was originally published in Ekstasis magazine - w...
Escapism vs. Community (Into the Wild Analysis)
Просмотров 42 тыс.3 года назад
My analysis of Into the Wild (featuring shoutouts to Wendell Berry and Huck Finn), for all the literature lovers out there! The 2007 adaptation of Krakauer's book the true story of ill-fated adventurer Christopher McCandless remains one of my favorite films. While I’m still drawn to its transcendentalist aesthetic and its romantic portrayal of travel and ascetic rebellion, I’ve grown to think t...
What The Motorcycle Diaries Teaches us about Travel
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I find that depictions of travel in media are often over-romanticized, failing to address the difficult questions that our increased freedom of international travel presents to us. It may seem that the beautiful 2004 adaptation of The Motorcycle Diaries Ernesto "Che" Guevara's famous South American travel memoir falls into this trap. But I think that this movie and its original text highlight s...
"No Language But A Cry" (animated reading from Tennyson's In Memoriam)
Просмотров 4943 года назад
What does it look like to maintain hope in dark times? Is it foolish to trust that justice and goodness will win out over cruelty and evil? These are among the scores of questions that Alfred, Lord Tennyson explores in my favorite work of poetry, In Memoriam AHH. The poem’s 133 cantos, written over a span of 17 years after his dear friend’s death, run the gamut of human emotion and philosophica...
My Favorite Ekphrastic Poem (feat. William Blake and Wendell Berry)
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Poetry analysis, from an English teacher! Ekphrasitic poetry, from the Greek “ekphrasis” (description), engages visual works of art through poetic language. This video explores my favorite ekphrastic poem a 2004 selection from American poet Wendell Berry’s vast collection of spiritual, nature-oriented Sabbath Poems, which in Berry’s words, were written “in silence, in solitude, mainly out of do...
Control vs. Love (Tenet Analysis - Video Essay)
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Control vs. Love (Tenet Analysis - Video Essay)
How The Book Thief Develops its Central Theme
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How The Book Thief Develops its Central Theme
Angela's Christmas: A New (Symbolically-Rich) Classic
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Angela's Christmas: A New (Symbolically-Rich) Classic
"The Age of Disincarnation" (poem by Wendell Berry)
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"The Age of Disincarnation" (poem by Wendell Berry)
My Neighbor Totoro vs. Peter Pan (On Childhood and Growing Up)
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My Neighbor Totoro vs. Peter Pan (On Childhood and Growing Up)
The Symbolic Meaning of Zoos in Life of Pi
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The Symbolic Meaning of Zoos in Life of Pi

Комментарии

  • @leftjuice
    @leftjuice 2 дня назад

    When we rebel, our rebellion relies on those we rebel against, isn't it? I can't really get to any other thought right now, really interesting piece

  • @davidkornblatt851
    @davidkornblatt851 4 дня назад

    See “the Prime of Miss Brody”

  • @photographsbyvincent
    @photographsbyvincent 8 дней назад

    Beautifully said! Thank you for this thoughtful deconstruction (and inspiration!) - and for introducing me to Parker Palmer.

  • @adriankoh4859
    @adriankoh4859 11 дней назад

    Until the Muslims came

  • @nancyscimone3296
    @nancyscimone3296 11 дней назад

    Thank you for your beautiful presentation. Grace-filled for sure.

  • @Basquet.Insano
    @Basquet.Insano 12 дней назад

    Great work!

  • @TheScreenplayer
    @TheScreenplayer 12 дней назад

    I want to do something like what Chris did, but only for a year. And I want to bring someone with me.

  • @Mundane-creek
    @Mundane-creek 16 дней назад

    Whenever i see this movie, there's always a conflict that arises inside of me of whether to follow escapism or still have faith in human relationships. When you desire escape and abandonment of connections and responsibilities, we are not desiring freedom, we just want to run away from the things we cannot control. The friends we make along the journey, the community we live in, gives us the true essence of life and makes us feel alive. (I MADE AN EDIT ON THIS ESCAPISM V/S COMMUNITY THEME OF THE MOVIE, IF YOU LIKED MY COMMENT YOU CAN CHECK IT OUT ON MY CHANNEL)

  • @jcayza
    @jcayza 29 дней назад

    I fear that if one will try to change, they will be subjected to scrutiny like what happened to Che when he is murdered by USA trying to kill the revolution

  • @Pdimag165
    @Pdimag165 Месяц назад

    Mr. Keating isn't only a brilliant teacher, he also is a dad and a friend for his students. This couldn't be learnd... this is the personality... he lives and loves teaching. And he is aware, he can!❤🎉

  • @Oceansta
    @Oceansta Месяц назад

    Fantastic analysis and decoding. Very insightful.

  • @Sh1vam18
    @Sh1vam18 Месяц назад

    Such a nice explanation of movie... Pls upload more of these videos

  • @clivejames5058
    @clivejames5058 Месяц назад

    St Franz, pray for us.

  • @GM-dg6mj
    @GM-dg6mj Месяц назад

    What's the background music in the beginning? sounds exactly like The Grey soundtrack, which is one of my favourite movie ost of all time. once more into the fray...

  • @Weelad-ul3qk
    @Weelad-ul3qk Месяц назад

    What happened to the hamilton rhyme video?

  • @miguelrojas484
    @miguelrojas484 Месяц назад

    There is a big chunk that remained untold about C. McCandless. His sister wrote a book, "The Wild Truth', where she talks about the abuse she and his sister suffered. He wasn't on some existential journey. He was running away from his pain. There is one part in "The Wild Truth", where one of C McCandless's road friends erupts in a violent drunken rage, mirroring the violence of his father. That moment highlights the tragedy of that pain we as men hide from

  • @ЛохматыйШмель
    @ЛохматыйШмель Месяц назад

    Шикарный фильм! После просмотра он не отпускает. Правда, тюрма, пытки и лишения показаны как то очень мягко, в тёплых солнечных тонах. Слишком красивые места заключения. По нашим меркам - курорт 😂. Но все остальное, это сосхождение на Голгофу

  • @KEMET1971
    @KEMET1971 Месяц назад

    I cannot relate to this young man at all. Youthful exuberance fueled by ignorance.

  • @kichigan1
    @kichigan1 Месяц назад

    "Don't you see that these people are thirsty!" ---Ernesto Che Guevara

  • @richmondlandersenfells2238
    @richmondlandersenfells2238 Месяц назад

    The Secret of kells was released in 2009 helping us see and recognize a bygone era of the older world. Meanwhile, the Wolfwalkers being finally released in 2021 was a new era that reveals a different doctrine. The main protagonist (supposedly a male) was introduced as a female and reveals the radical side of the "protectors of the Christian faith" and a distopian world shaped out of the former. Overall; both films were spectacular at showing the two faces of the Irish folk culture.

  • @savanabp
    @savanabp Месяц назад

    Very good analysis and why we love che 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

  • @NeverHoldBackReviews
    @NeverHoldBackReviews Месяц назад

    I love this. You constructed it so well with such a thought provoking message. This truly is the apex of video essays.

  • @stormburn1
    @stormburn1 2 месяца назад

    It's funny how much this works with Christian symbolism, but against the Bible and the doctrines promoted according to it. Not sure how best to explain it within the scope of a RUclips comment, but if you apply this analysis of control and love/freedom to God, you find early God as a highly manipulative, controlling monster. Later/modern God rarely, if ever, intervenes and is described as far more loving, with the problem of evil/suffering often being explained or justified by an appeal to human free will. But God according to Christianity is commonly accepted to be eternal, constant, and maximally good, powerful, and knowing. Any past "evil" like the flood is thus good because God did it because God cannot be anything but good. God punishing Adam and Eve for disobeying him before they knew of good and evil, and thus before they had the knowledge that it was bad to disobey God, would then be the most evil thing he could have done; literally damning two innocents and their descendants eternally. Even with Jesus's sacrifice, God is only sacrificing himself to himself to allow himself to forgive humanity for a wrong they naively committed like a toddler who ate too many cookies. In this lens, then, the greatest, most loving and freeing thing God could do isn't sacrificing Jesus as one aspect of the trinity, but to sacrifice himself wholly and totally. To cease demanding worship and subservience, to destroy the concept of sin and leave morality to humanity to decide for themselves. No more worship, no more sin, no more churches or masses or sermons. No gods, no kings, no masters. For humans, destroying God and all reverence or respect for Him might be equivalent to the evil/control shown by God in Genesis. But this control would be an exercise in freedom against God who, by His nature, could only be destroyed by His will. Man's actions against God would not be the eternal damnation of an innocent child, but a revolution against a tyrant. TLDR - Your video implies that the most Christian and loving act a human could take is apostasy and anti-theism which is decidedly un-Christian.

  • @Yari_no_sekai
    @Yari_no_sekai 2 месяца назад

    A broken family and, on top of that, no realisation from his parents led a young man to look for happiness outside. Eventually, he found happiness in the form of nature but wasn't prepared to keep it long. On his way, he did find good connections, but maybe he needed more time to be ready to have them as he couldn't have a genuine connection with his family, especially his parents. He didn't plan to die. He wanted to live but needed to take proper precautions, which he didn't. And it ultimately led to his demise. However, people claim he wasn't sad about dying, but I believe he must have felt sad, yet he was content because he did what he wanted to do, and that's where that last not come when he wished everyone well. He said, "Happiness is only real when shared." Through this quote, I realise that he finally realised the human connection we need to live in this world at the end of his life. A genuine connection, actually. My only complaint from Chris would be his respect for his sister, as he never had a good connection with his parents, but his sister didn't deserve those years when she was waiting for him. We can learn from his life, and I wish everyone reading the comments would learn from his life.

    • @msdhoni7.is.truelub
      @msdhoni7.is.truelub Месяц назад

      Indeed❤...but what's the conclusion??

    • @Yari_no_sekai
      @Yari_no_sekai Месяц назад

      @@msdhoni7.is.truelub What conclusion can be drawn if not learning from his mistakes.

  • @bookcook4941
    @bookcook4941 2 месяца назад

    This video is VERY underrated

  • @danny50_50
    @danny50_50 2 месяца назад

    an amazing film and an amazing analysis. loved your perspective as a teacher.

  • @kira-qf2wg
    @kira-qf2wg 2 месяца назад

    Well described 👏

  • @austin33785
    @austin33785 2 месяца назад

    Good analysis. My opinion is that mccandles writings are platitudes of a spoilt brat. Thumbed his nose at society and wound up dead. Make your own life and estrange your abusive parents whatever. Go out into the wilderness and burn your money? Get a grip.

  • @Mod3rnPhilosopher
    @Mod3rnPhilosopher 2 месяца назад

    I wouldn't necessarily agree

  • @davidmcaninch4714
    @davidmcaninch4714 3 месяца назад

    We need teachers like Keating. I don’t even know the first thing about poetry, and even Keating makes me wanna learn about it.

  • @bjarczyk
    @bjarczyk 3 месяца назад

    Escapism vs community is a false dichotomy and misunderstanding of what Chris’ intention was. He wasn’t escaping but rather running towards an explicit goal. He also had already planned to leave Alaska by the fall. He was a smart kid that almost made it out, and intentionally didn’t take a map to increase the challenge.

  • @WilliamMartinez-vq2bn
    @WilliamMartinez-vq2bn 3 месяца назад

    His parents were low life. Intellectuals that made life a living hell for him. What he did was impart because of the toxic c***** family life. That is the life of atheist intellectuals that don't know how to love. He grew up in a c*** house and we all know it. At a young age, I rejected all the stupid nonsense. And focus on simplicity gratitude. I took my old. I took a very old, very beautiful house and rebuilt it myself. And I've made a wonderful life. My mother and father were full on narcissist. My father did not show me love. My mother alcoholic hoarding very promiscuous. Woman, it did not have an impact on me for the most part. Because I opened my Bible and I kept my Bible open and I found God. I found Jesus and life has been wonderful right now. Every area of my life is wonderful. And I think my father Jehovah, Yahweh. And his son Jesus Christ. I do not trust intellectuals. I don't follow them most scientists. I don't trust them. Most scientists and intellectuals want you to believe the lie of evolution that we came from a little old soup stoop. I reject all of that I was created in God's image. Life is wonderful. The Kingdom of God is going to clean house when Jesus comes and he will be here soon because Jesus was resurrected and he will be here soon. He's going to get rid of all evil and only good people are gonna live on earth for a

  • @michaelparsons3007
    @michaelparsons3007 3 месяца назад

    Porque no los dos??

  • @JonathanAcierto
    @JonathanAcierto 3 месяца назад

    I must say honestly I totally missed all the visual symbolism and the implied ideas of the voice overs. I'm simply not used to Terrence Malick's higher artistic cinematic language. Thank you for decoding the movie! I'll have a much higher appreciation of it now.

  • @annieonee
    @annieonee 3 месяца назад

    Beautiful analysis! Love you content!

  • @andreashotte5307
    @andreashotte5307 3 месяца назад

    A Man Who Remained Loyal Out Of Conviction Even Though Things Were Bad At The Time

  • @mrv1271
    @mrv1271 3 месяца назад

    Beautiful film, too bad it doesn’t answer how this guy became a murdering thug working for yet another dictator.

  • @corriescrivener1937
    @corriescrivener1937 4 месяца назад

    Where did you get adolescents from? . Chris was a biological grown man. Not to mention puberty ends around 15 or 16

  • @KiaraChristi
    @KiaraChristi 4 месяца назад

    “No man is free who cannot control himself”

  • @SirLiamson
    @SirLiamson 4 месяца назад

    Corrupt shallow society vs found family or the family we choose. This is within all of us. People spend their lives earning money and collecting things to fit in or be admired, but really we all have a drive to belong. Even if it feels like we belong outside, it's simply asking to be found and to be seen.

  • @compromisedssh
    @compromisedssh 4 месяца назад

    Could've been interesting but the (absurd) background music is too intrusively loud.

  • @tylerfish2701
    @tylerfish2701 4 месяца назад

    Both movies are my favorite movies of Cartoon Saloon.

  • @dwayneeutsey8162
    @dwayneeutsey8162 4 месяца назад

    Years after Twain published "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," it seems Twain may have had second thoughts on the ultimate outcome of heading out to the Territory. He wrote in his notebook: "Huck comes back, 60 years old, from nobody knows where-& crazy. Thinks he is a boy, & (seeks) scans always every face for Tom & Becky &c.”

  • @gaelgarciabarchive
    @gaelgarciabarchive 5 месяцев назад

    thank you for this gorgeous video for such a beautiful, life-changing movie.

  • @linjicakonikon7666
    @linjicakonikon7666 5 месяцев назад

    Chris McCandless was a fool. Romantic notions of him as some kind of hero is like trying to convince people that a pile of dog shit is a bowl of chocolate pudding. Whoever discovered his body in that bus found a horrific pile of rotting flesh, not some young heroic who gently passed into the arms of Nature.

  • @shahanshahbozorg2496
    @shahanshahbozorg2496 5 месяцев назад

    In one place of the movie, it says that happiness is in helping others, but this fool could not even help his parents, and in the end, with the dream of reaching the truth of life, he died like a stray dog . I just regret why I wasted my time watching this crap movie

  • @conniewaterman1673
    @conniewaterman1673 6 месяцев назад

    I cannot wait to see this film. This reminds me of Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand. Stories about real people teach us to ask ourselves, "What would I do in this situation?" We are all facing hard times and difficult decisions ahead. For me, I have thought long and hard about what I would do. It makes a difference knowing ahead of time what choices we will make.

  • @Matt-y1l
    @Matt-y1l 6 месяцев назад

    People will ne forced to go Mcandless once the grid goes down. Stay away from the wild potatoe seeds folks.

  • @punxk077
    @punxk077 6 месяцев назад

    Thanks

  • @jegorkarasjov
    @jegorkarasjov 6 месяцев назад

    Oustanding video.