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I am Kristy, an academic, an English tutor, and a poetry lover. My mission is to cultivate our passion for literature and venture into the meanings hidden behind the literary classics. Each video will focus on one piece of literary work, or a specific aspect of a text, emphasizing on close reading, as well as with important issues, such as gender, race, and class.
Words can hurt. Words can heal. By re-examining our relationship with language, we may be able to understand how words can shape and change our lives.
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Words can hurt. Words can heal. By re-examining our relationship with language, we may be able to understand how words can shape and change our lives.
If you have any question, suggestion, (or philosophical dilemma about the vastness of the universe and the meaningless of our existence), or request, leave a comment below my videos. If you enjoy the content, please like my videos and make sure to click the subscribe button and the notification bell so you won’t miss the next video!
What you need to know about Jane Austen | Great Writers Series | Shall We Read
Jane Austen was born in Hampshire, England in 1775. Her early years collided with a turbulent and tumultuous time in history when revolutions were brewing and the Napoleonic War would shake up the continent of Europe. As the second youngest child among her 7 siblings and as a girl in rural, upper class England, Austen’s formal education concluded when she was 9. But this did not stop her from finishing the first draft of Sense and Sensibility in 1796 and Pride and Prejudice in 1797. Quite the relentless writer, Austen went on to finish writing Northanger Abbey in 1798 before her family moved to Bath. In 1811, as Sense and Sensibility published anonymously, there was a great shift of power...
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Fricatives by Eric Yip Explained in 7 Minutes | Summary and Analysis | Shall We Read
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The poem, “Fricatives”, by the Hong Kong born poet, Eric Yip, has emerged as the winner of the 2021 National Poetry Competition in the UK. Only a first-year undergrad studying at the University of Cambridge, Eric Yip’s poem captures the complexity between the history of British colonial rule and Hong Kong’s return to China with his intimate yet violent strokes. I am Kristy, an academic, an Engl...
What you need to know about Emily Dickinson | Great Writers Series | Shall We Read
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Emily Dickinson, an American poet, is the embodiment of the multifaceted personae. She is the mysterious hermit, the poetic genius misunderstood, the meditative philosopher, the visionary woman ahead of her time, and, to some, just a girl, longing for true admiration. To many Dickinson scholars and critics, her poetry enacts lyricism in the most intense and purest form. To them, she is the epit...
Macbeth by William Shakespeare Explained in 9 Minutes | Summary and Analysis | Shall We Read
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Known for its action-packed and murderous plot, Macbeth is Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, based on the real Macbeth, a Scottish warrior who killed the previous monarch and became the new King of Scotland. Contrary to the events in the play, Macbeth was a great king in real life. Shakespeare portrayed Macbeth to be a vigilant, violent, and often delusional character for a couple of reasons: the...
What you need to know about Toni Morrison | Great Writers Series | Shall We Read |
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Toni Morrison unveils the nature of racism as a violent and dehumanizing force as cruel as the law of nature. Yet, real tragedy lies in the power of conformity and complicity, rather than the act of oppression. Toni Morrison, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, is a famous American novelist and playwright. As a Black woman writer in the 20th century, Morrison chose to use conve...
Introduction to Literary Theory | Explained in 10 Minutes | Shall We Read
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Reading and writing are activities that we perform on a daily basis, most of the time with ease, but if you are a student of the liberal arts, you are probably writing with an absurd amount of pressure and anxiety. Whether you are texting a friend on your phone, or scrolling through endless Instagram posts and tweets, you are deciphering a code that enables human communication through a system ...
The Great Gatsby Explained in 10 Minutes (Part 2) | Themes and Motifs | Shall We Read
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Within its mere 200 pages, The Great Gatsby has somehow managed to capture a variety of important themes that are found in the American literary tradition. These themes are often signified by the use of different motifs and symbols in the novel. In this video, I will be discussing 4 important themes: the hauntingly beautiful American Dream, the gap between the rich and the poor, a new religion ...
The Great Gatsby Explained in 10 Minutes | Summary and Analysis | Shall We Read
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The Great Gatsby, a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose downfall is no less dramatic than the tragic ending of the protagonist in his story. Back in 1925, the world was not ready for this brutal yet honest story to be told. Fitzgerald had ruthlessly torn up the exquisitely empty facade of the Jazz Age by shattering the American dream and exposing the reality of society as we know it: th...
SONNET 18 by William Shakespeare Explained in 8 Minutes | Shall We Read
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In this video, we are going to take a look at Sonnet 18 written by William Shakespeare. This 14-line poem from the English Renaissance may have some curious connections with our contemporary pop culture. The video will offer a summary and analysis of the poem, as well as a discussion on the relationship between gender and lyric poetry. I am Kristy, an academic, an English tutor, and a poetry lo...
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Great video, thank you very much, note to self(nts) watched all of it, ....
love the kdrama reference
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Soul version of Sonnet 18! So nice! ruclips.net/video/pPKLlK3uRaM/видео.html
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Thanks for this analysis! Would love to see more :)
really you had to put woke stuff in this are you serious? Bye
Poems have a million interpretation depending on which orbit you're on?
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Is there a simile in this poem?
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Thank you for this. I currently am living in Amherst.
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This immediately follows the 17 procreation sonnets. It is about the birth (or first months) of a child. Henry de Vere inherited the Oxford Earldom - 'in eternal lines'. ruclips.net/video/S0hxxSWgSbo/видео.html
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Oh Dear! This poem has nothing at all to do with confining a woman as the lover. This poem, those before it and nearly all that follow, are directed towards a particularly beautiful young man. The poer goes on and on and on praising the young man's beauty, and being crazily in love, while the young man cheats on the port with his ex-girlfriend, and another poet. Finally a lady comes on the scene. Back then, in Britain, fairness was equated with beauty .... but THIS female is dark. She has "swarthy" skin, wiry black hair, and black eyes. Perhaps she is Sicilian or Calabrian or Spanish. Perhaps she is African, or of mixed race. All we know is that she is not considered beautiful by the standards of 16th century England. The poet cannot understand why she is so attractive to him. He cannot resist her charms. And what does the Dark Lady do? She toys with him. She cheats on him. She says cruel things to him. She makes him her sex slave. And she seduces his pretty boyfriend. And aster 150 plus sonnets he is still saying that nothing will quench the power of his love.
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The 18th sonnet is a rant! I love it, I finally understand it, thank you!
Miranda, it might be worth your while to have another look at your English here. It's somewhat convoluted, leaving the reader quite a bit of guesswork. K. K. Lau. 3rd March 2023
Much better job then my teacher did
I think the poem has a strong reference to what happened to Hong Kong in 2019, when peaceful protests were brutally crackdown by the Hong Kong government. It indeed has touched on the history of HK being a British colony but it actually has even stronger reference to Hong Kong being recolonized by the Chinese Government and how the city has been changed, seeing young protesters' "bruised body skinner than yours" hit by "batons" of police and covered in "blood".
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Very interesting. I have heard of her words before, thank you for posting.
Let me throw one more question at you: Was Gatsby great after all?
Such an insightful video!!
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Great video!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
thank you for saving my grades, i thouht i was about to work at mcdonalds for the rest of my life but you posted this video and now my parent wont whoop me
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I'm actually one ot the male lead from a of the k-drama you mentioned. I am very offended but I will sponsor you in my next episode
Hi fellow readers, which poem/novel/play do you want us to talk about in our next video? Comment down below to let us know!
Can you make a video about Macbeth please?
@@sharonc9989 Thanks for the suggestion! Stay tuned by subscribing to our channel.