And your analysis is also very poetic! Your choice of words is so artistic and rhythmic, which made the video so enjoyable to watch. I believe this is the best way to lead people to literature.
@@sherylli253 Wow! Thank you! I'm still making poetry videos, but - like most of us - I've been thrown a bit off-track recently by the pandemic. I hope to have more up soon, though!
Thank you for the feedback! I'm sure there are other aspects of the poem that could be considered but, yes, this video should give you a fairly good insight into the main themes and historical / biographical content of the poem. Don't hesitate to let me know if there's a poem you'd particularly like me to make a video about. I can't promise anything, but I'll do my best!
@@anosensei I did. Very much. Thanks a million for the beautiful explanation, sir. I'm won over by your lucid way of teaching. I have become our subscriber for life.
Thank you so much, i'm a student at faculty of languages and translations, Al Azhar university, in Egypt. Your Explanation makes the poem so easy to understand. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for the feedback. Good luck with your studies! I'll be making more poetry videos in the new year. Let me know if you have any particular requests.
I'm glad you liked it! The poem is iambic pentameters, jazzed up with inverted feet and anapaests. I can try to make a video about it, but I'm working on other things right now, so it will take a bit of time!
@@meditationandnature2500 Thank you again! Unfortunately, RUclips is changing its policies on the first of June, making it harder for me to keep this channel the way I want it. I'll still be here, but the channel will have to change a bit, and I'm working round the clock trying to set up an alternative!
@@meditationandnature2500 Unfortunately, the changes on RUclips mean I will have to work on technical matters for the next few weeks, but I will certainly continue to make videos as soon as possible!
@@anosensei I would love to see videos about Wordsworth's ''Preface to Lyrical Ballads , The Mad Mother , John Clare's To A Dead Tree or Keats' ''Ode on a Grecian Urn''. I hope I gave you an idea. Thanks a lot and stay safe !
@@caner5998 Well, I can deliver right away on one of those. Here's the Keats! ruclips.net/video/QOmQNP26Lak/видео.html The preface to the Lyrical Ballads. Now there's a thought! (To think I once owned a first edition of it, too...)
Thank you for the feedback! I'm glad you found it useful. I retired from university life a few years ago, but I still love teaching, so I started making these videos.
Ha! Well, I'm sure you'll ace it now! More than that, though, I hope you will carry poetry with you through life, regardless of whether you've got a test coming up or not!
Well, first of all let's ask *whether* he embodies the west as a metaphor of transformation and social renewal, and then, perhaps, we can ask *how*. And, can I clarify, do you mean "the west" or do you mean "the west wind"? If you mean "the west" then your question seems to carry overtones of postcolonial theorizing, and I would say that, while we could look at the poem in that way, I don't think Shelley intended it in that way at all, so if that's your question I would answer, "He doesn't". But I think you probably wanted to ask about how he uses the west *wind*. If that is your question then I would encourage you to listen very carefully to the section from 2:22 to 2:57, the section beginning at 4:38, and the final section, beginning at 11:08. These sections put the poem in the context of social protest and revolution and I talk about Shelley's belief in the power of poetry to reform human society and change the world. The wind, being both "Destroyer and preserver", symbolizes the spirit of social reform - revolution, even - sweeping away the useless remnants of the dying year, spreading the seeds, and making way for new life. I hope that helps!
Well, first I suggest you go through the poem picking out all the different things Shelley says about the west wind. Then pick out the ones he specially seems to admire. Then try to identify some key words that sum up the qualities he admires. Any qualities that are repeated or described at length or paraphrased are likely to be relevant.
@@anosensei thanks! i actually find it hard to understand the poem with the deep english words so I struggled a lot since english is not my first language 😅
I understand. Just as an example, he calls the west wind "wild" twice in the first part of the poem. Do you think he is complaining about the wildness of the wind or do you think he admires it?
Sir I have another question but not regarded this poem its about a novel of Samuel Richardson Pamela The question is that Richardson s Pamela attempts to forge a personal identity that balance the conflicting claims of authority. Examine the novel in the light of above statement.
Sounds like a homework essay question! You probably need to read a few essays on the topic, such as this one: www.classicnovels.org/pamela.html Or this: eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/34568/1/KALPAKID.pdf
@@shoppingandfashionideasins7199 Well, just write about the men who try to control her and the way she has to negotiate her life under the control of those men. And go to regular online study guides; they'll give you some leads, I'm sure.
The poet William Carlos Williams famously said, "If it ain't a pleasure it ain't a poem". No matter how "great" it's supposed to be, no matter how famous, if it doesn't speak to you, then for you it isn't a poem. Find something else.
@@anosensei sorry i dont mean to offend you..what im trying to say is ita hard for me to relate and understand it deeper because its my firstime to read poetry and i didnt studi in formal highschool ..so i dont have much idea about poetry.and deeper english so i just want to know what is the mood of this ode to the west wind..but i appreciate some poetry especially if i know some english grammar or about poetry mood n tone ..
@@sasukegutszerolevialucod6927 No, no, I'm not offended. I'm totally serious! If you're not getting anything out of this poem, try another one. Not every poem is to everyone's taste. I didn't realize you were asking me to say more about the tone; I thought you were just saying you didn't get it. I think if I had to use one word it would be "exhilaration". I can just see Shelley out there on some windy hillside shouting out, "Be thou me, impetuous one!" It's like he doesn't care a damn how strong the wind is, or if it's cold or if it brings rain with it. He just loves the sheer energy and exuberance of it.
@@anosensei ahh ok thankyou..its because this is only the one need to analyze,its part of module of my niece haha..one of the question is what are the two mood on this poem ..and i also dont understand the other question ,what is the wind called in shelley's poem ?and my answer is preserver and destroyer but im not sure ..😅
@@sasukegutszerolevialucod6927 OK! Well, like almost every poem ever written, there is a tension between positive and negative elements here. The positive side is expressed through a sense of uplift; the poet wants to be raised up and carried by the wind: If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength And the negative side is expressed through a sense of being downcast. The contrast is brought out most clearly in these two lines: Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! I suspect this is the answer the questioner is looking for, but the question is reductive. Why only two moods? We could answer that the poem encapsulates the spirit of destruction of the old, sweeping away the dead leaves, etc., on one hand, and regeneration, new life, the "azure sister of the Spring", on the other. Or we could say it is about oppression and revolution. And so on. As for what he calls the wind, well, he calls it a lot of things. "Destroyer and preserver", sure, but also "uncontrollable", ""Wild spirit", "Spirit fierce", "impetuous one"... Again, the question is reductive. It implies that there is only one possible answer, but there are many. If the teacher is just looking for one answer, and ticking the box for those who give that answer, then I would fault the teacher, or the examination system, or whatever. That's no way to teach poetry. But if these questions are being asked as a way of promoting discussion, offering students the chance to share their ideas and see the poem from different points of view, then that's fine.
@@anosensei Yes, Sir. You remind me of a Professor Chambers (from Rutgers) and a Professor Beatrice Spade (from Colorado) who taught me English literature in the early 1980s in Shandong. I didn’t understand much then, but the two of them surely blew some spring wind (East or west I’m not sure😃) and sowed a powerful seed in my dim mind. Only until many years later did I learn to appreciate uplifting power of English literature. Your reading of Shelly’s Ode is just so beautiful. In an age of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson and Simon Webb and BBC and Woke, I can only appreciate more the value of people like you and Maugham and Rowling and Mariner’s rime. Thank YOU, Professor Wilson!
@@xiaodongwang7753 I am glad your life has been touched by these eminent people, though I doubt I merit being placed in such exalted company. Yes, indeed, the Trumps of this world are so removed from someone like Shelley that it is hard to believe they belong to the same species!
Exactly! But I don't think he just loves the winter because the spring will follow; I think he loves it for its wildness, its primal power. He loves nature in its entirety, not just the comfortable parts of nature.
Yes. This video deals with the contents of the poem, rather than the structure, but I touch on the structure at 1:32: ruclips.net/video/BRUCpRKL5kw/видео.html
This is fantastic. Educational, entertaining and incredibly clear! Thank you! 💗
Thank you for the feedback. Yes, that sums up what I aim for pretty well! 👍
This is the exact way a poem is supposed to be taught. Every teacher can't make students feel the emotions of the poet. You did it Sir.
I agree with you entirely! If we can't enter into the poet's feelings we aren't really experiencing the poem.
I wish you were my AP English literature teacher. I love your analysis, their clarity and conciseness. Thank you so much for your hard work!
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I love your analysis so much! It is so organized and structured while being so passionate and inspiring.
And your analysis is also very poetic! Your choice of words is so artistic and rhythmic, which made the video so enjoyable to watch. I believe this is the best way to lead people to literature.
@@sherylli253 Wow! Thank you! I'm still making poetry videos, but - like most of us - I've been thrown a bit off-track recently by the pandemic. I hope to have more up soon, though!
this is actually the best explanation video on Shelley that I've found!
Praise indeed!
The best analysis I have seen so far. Your passion is motivational!
Thank you! I hope you will be an enthusiastic lover of poetry throughout your life!
What is the two mood of this poem though?im new about this poetry ..and ita one of my niece modules..inreally cant find the mood of this poem
A brilliant interpretation of the poem. Thank you.
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This is my first Bysshe Shelley poem and I feel he's going to be a favourite. Your analysis was very insightful and made me love the poem even more!
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Love your explanation. It’s unliveable that only 12 minutes takes to understand the whole poem.Amazing👍
Thank you for the feedback! I'm sure there are other aspects of the poem that could be considered but, yes, this video should give you a fairly good insight into the main themes and historical / biographical content of the poem. Don't hesitate to let me know if there's a poem you'd particularly like me to make a video about. I can't promise anything, but I'll do my best!
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Fantastic and interesting analysis
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Such a beautiful poem!! Thanks for making it more clear in order to appreciate the precious lyrics
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Thank you so much sir, that was really clear and helpful🙏🏼
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Stunning, well-presented, articulate analysis!!
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This is amazing..Thank you so much for explaining it so interestingly ❤
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this is such a magnificent analysis of the poem, thank you for your help!
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You revived the poem professor... Thanks a bunch 🙏🏻❤️
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The spiritual depth of this poem is brilliant and timeless🙏 thanks for the analysis.
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Thank you sir. You explained the poem so beautifully.
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@@anosensei I did. Very much. Thanks a million for the beautiful explanation, sir. I'm won over by your lucid way of teaching. I have become our subscriber for life.
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Thank you so much, i'm a student at faculty of languages and translations, Al Azhar university, in Egypt.
Your Explanation makes the poem so easy to understand. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
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Thank you so much, Sir, this was so concise, yet informative. I will be making good use of all your videos and sharing them with my friends too!
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Excellent interpretation. Thank you very much Sir
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Amazing analysis
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Sir very well expressed, it is incredible the way you narrated the facts of Shelly’s life. Could you please make a video on meter and rhythm?
I'm glad you liked it! The poem is iambic pentameters, jazzed up with inverted feet and anapaests. I can try to make a video about it, but I'm working on other things right now, so it will take a bit of time!
This really got me to engage with the poem, thank you so much
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Thank you so much! Your explanation is really helpful
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Wonderful explanation! Thank you, sensei.
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@@anosensei Love from India, sir. 💗
The explication was perfect... Engrossing and intriguing... Really, one can not ask for anything more...
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@@anosensei It was mind-boggling... I just loved the way you delivered it, Sir... Love you 😍
@@meditationandnature2500 Thank you again! Unfortunately, RUclips is changing its policies on the first of June, making it harder for me to keep this channel the way I want it. I'll still be here, but the channel will have to change a bit, and I'm working round the clock trying to set up an alternative!
@@anosensei ok dear, Sir... It will be great to continue hearing from you such illuminating expositions...
@@meditationandnature2500 Unfortunately, the changes on RUclips mean I will have to work on technical matters for the next few weeks, but I will certainly continue to make videos as soon as possible!
You sir are the reason I'll pass my Neoclassical literature at my Uni
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Thank you so much that was an incredible analysis! You've got yourself a new subscriber! Thanks again!
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Do itashimashite, Shashwat-san!
I wish my teacher instructed as clear as you. Thanks for the quality content Sensei :D
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@@anosensei I would love to see videos about Wordsworth's ''Preface to Lyrical Ballads , The Mad Mother , John Clare's To A Dead Tree or Keats' ''Ode on a Grecian Urn''. I hope I gave you an idea. Thanks a lot and stay safe !
@@caner5998 Well, I can deliver right away on one of those. Here's the Keats! ruclips.net/video/QOmQNP26Lak/видео.html
The preface to the Lyrical Ballads. Now there's a thought! (To think I once owned a first edition of it, too...)
@@anosensei Awesome, just what i needed! You are the best. I also took a look at your older nature videos and liked them very much. Have a great day!
@@caner5998 Thanks! You too!
A very helpful video, it helped me prepare for my English Literature Exam! Thank you!
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unforgettable lesson .thank you sir.
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thank you so much for your amazing explanation your better than my doctor at the university
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You rock, sir. I really struggled with this poem, and my exam is coming
Many thanks
Ha! Well, I'm sure you'll ace it now! More than that, though, I hope you will carry poetry with you through life, regardless of whether you've got a test coming up or not!
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This analysis is awesome
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Hats off to you sir, thankyou for such a great analysis.
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THIS A AMAZING NARRATION I REMEMBER MY PROFESSOR
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Thank you sir 😊😊that's how a poem should be learnt
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Thank you for the clear analysis.I love this poem but found it hard to understand!
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Your videos are so helpful, would it be possible if you could do an analysis on Shelley's 'Stanzas written in dejection near Naples'
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Thank you very much sir it helped a lot in my examination
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Sir can you please answer a question that how does shelly embody the west as a metaphor of transformation and social renewal in his poem
Well, first of all let's ask *whether* he embodies the west as a metaphor of transformation and social renewal, and then, perhaps, we can ask *how*.
And, can I clarify, do you mean "the west" or do you mean "the west wind"? If you mean "the west" then your question seems to carry overtones of postcolonial theorizing, and I would say that, while we could look at the poem in that way, I don't think Shelley intended it in that way at all, so if that's your question I would answer, "He doesn't".
But I think you probably wanted to ask about how he uses the west *wind*.
If that is your question then I would encourage you to listen very carefully to the section from 2:22 to 2:57, the section beginning at 4:38, and the final section, beginning at 11:08. These sections put the poem in the context of social protest and revolution and I talk about Shelley's belief in the power of poetry to reform human society and change the world.
The wind, being both "Destroyer and preserver", symbolizes the spirit of social reform - revolution, even - sweeping away the useless remnants of the dying year, spreading the seeds, and making way for new life.
I hope that helps!
Sir I was asking about the west wind.
Can u elaborate pls
@@shoppingandfashionideasins7199 I've already elaborated as much as I can.
A really interesting explanation. Thank you
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What is the role of wind in the poem “ Ode to the West Wind?
I think that's a large part of what the video is about! Perhaps you should watch it more carefully...
Thank you so much. It helped me a lot 💕
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sir can you help me with my book question? it says "What qualities of the west wind are praised by the persona?" whatshould i answer? 😓
Well, first I suggest you go through the poem picking out all the different things Shelley says about the west wind. Then pick out the ones he specially seems to admire. Then try to identify some key words that sum up the qualities he admires. Any qualities that are repeated or described at length or paraphrased are likely to be relevant.
@@anosensei thanks! i actually find it hard to understand the poem with the deep english words so I struggled a lot since english is not my first language 😅
I understand. Just as an example, he calls the west wind "wild" twice in the first part of the poem. Do you think he is complaining about the wildness of the wind or do you think he admires it?
What music is in the background?
Credits are at the end of the video. This is Scherzo No. 1 by Chopin.
Sir I have another question but not regarded this poem its about a novel of Samuel Richardson Pamela
The question is that Richardson s Pamela attempts to forge a personal identity that balance the conflicting claims of authority. Examine the novel in the light of above statement.
Sounds like a homework essay question! You probably need to read a few essays on the topic, such as this one:
www.classicnovels.org/pamela.html
Or this:
eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/34568/1/KALPAKID.pdf
Sir I am not getting this question so sir can you please help me out what points should I write. It would be very helpful
@@shoppingandfashionideasins7199 Well, just write about the men who try to control her and the way she has to negotiate her life under the control of those men. And go to regular online study guides; they'll give you some leads, I'm sure.
please make a video on robert brownings monologue MY LAST DUCHESS
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When im reading this poetry because of modulw..i cant relate or can't find the mood of this poetry
The poet William Carlos Williams famously said, "If it ain't a pleasure it ain't a poem". No matter how "great" it's supposed to be, no matter how famous, if it doesn't speak to you, then for you it isn't a poem. Find something else.
@@anosensei sorry i dont mean to offend you..what im trying to say is ita hard for me to relate and understand it deeper because its my firstime to read poetry and i didnt studi in formal highschool ..so i dont have much idea about poetry.and deeper english so i just want to know what is the mood of this ode to the west wind..but i appreciate some poetry especially if i know some english grammar or about poetry mood n tone ..
@@sasukegutszerolevialucod6927 No, no, I'm not offended. I'm totally serious! If you're not getting anything out of this poem, try another one. Not every poem is to everyone's taste.
I didn't realize you were asking me to say more about the tone; I thought you were just saying you didn't get it.
I think if I had to use one word it would be "exhilaration". I can just see Shelley out there on some windy hillside shouting out, "Be thou me, impetuous one!" It's like he doesn't care a damn how strong the wind is, or if it's cold or if it brings rain with it. He just loves the sheer energy and exuberance of it.
@@anosensei ahh ok thankyou..its because this is only the one need to analyze,its part of module of my niece haha..one of the question is what are the two mood on this poem ..and i also dont understand the other question ,what is the wind called in shelley's poem ?and my answer is preserver and destroyer but im not sure ..😅
@@sasukegutszerolevialucod6927 OK! Well, like almost every poem ever written, there is a tension between positive and negative elements here. The positive side is expressed through a sense of uplift; the poet wants to be raised up and carried by the wind:
If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share
The impulse of thy strength
And the negative side is expressed through a sense of being downcast. The contrast is brought out most clearly in these two lines:
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
I suspect this is the answer the questioner is looking for, but the question is reductive. Why only two moods? We could answer that the poem encapsulates the spirit of destruction of the old, sweeping away the dead leaves, etc., on one hand, and regeneration, new life, the "azure sister of the Spring", on the other. Or we could say it is about oppression and revolution. And so on.
As for what he calls the wind, well, he calls it a lot of things. "Destroyer and preserver", sure, but also "uncontrollable", ""Wild spirit", "Spirit fierce", "impetuous one"...
Again, the question is reductive. It implies that there is only one possible answer, but there are many.
If the teacher is just looking for one answer, and ticking the box for those who give that answer, then I would fault the teacher, or the examination system, or whatever. That's no way to teach poetry. But if these questions are being asked as a way of promoting discussion, offering students the chance to share their ideas and see the poem from different points of view, then that's fine.
Ode to Professor John Wilson, who is charioting the leaves of the great English literature throughout the world. At least to Hong Kong, China😁
Thank you, Xiaodong! Long may you continue to love and appreciate these "leaves"!
@@anosensei Yes, Sir. You remind me of a Professor Chambers (from Rutgers) and a Professor Beatrice Spade (from Colorado) who taught me English literature in the early 1980s in Shandong. I didn’t understand much then, but the two of them surely blew some spring wind (East or west I’m not sure😃) and sowed a powerful seed in my dim mind. Only until many years later did I learn to appreciate uplifting power of English literature. Your reading of Shelly’s Ode is just so beautiful. In an age of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson and Simon Webb and BBC and Woke, I can only appreciate more the value of people like you and Maugham and Rowling and Mariner’s rime. Thank YOU, Professor Wilson!
@@xiaodongwang7753 I am glad your life has been touched by these eminent people, though I doubt I merit being placed in such exalted company. Yes, indeed, the Trumps of this world are so removed from someone like Shelley that it is hard to believe they belong to the same species!
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No winter then no spring
Exactly! But I don't think he just loves the winter because the spring will follow; I think he loves it for its wildness, its primal power. He loves nature in its entirety, not just the comfortable parts of nature.
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Yes. This video deals with the contents of the poem, rather than the structure, but I touch on the structure at 1:32: ruclips.net/video/BRUCpRKL5kw/видео.html
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