A very good evening dear monami ma'am ❤. My name is Swarnil Bhattacharya and this year in my graduation batch, I have secured the 1st rank in my entire state in English Honours and have become the Gold Medalist 🥇. I am watching this channel since the 1st semester of my undergraduate college life and have received a lot of conceptual clarity and help in the better comprehension of the subject from you ma'am. I want to thank you for helping me through this journey and bless me for my Masters journey ahead. I am deeply grateful ma'am - your explanations are the best in the whole RUclips platform
Been scrolling your channel everyday after your announcement of The Waste Land. It's finally here. Thank you very much ma'am for making our life easier.
Ma'am, thank you so much for giving such in depth analysis and line by line explanation of one of the most complex text ever! I am so grateful for the incredible hard work and effort that you put in this video and all the other videos of your channel. I get totally enraptured by your lectures. As if you're sitting in front of me and explaining everything in depth. Thank you so much once again. You're truly a blessing for us! ❤
One thing I find fascinating about that first German line is how much history, both in the decades before and decades after the poem's publication, there is between Germany and Russia claiming ownership of Lithuania. The three languages (Russian, Germain, and Lithuanian) are all on different branches of the Indo-European language tree, too.
What a lecture❤ ma'am you're the best on RUclips platform in English Literature... Your free online videos are lifeline for those who can't access the quality study owing to financial difficulties. Thank you🙏
The best things in life are always free honey. Love, respect, happiness, there is no price tag, so why should knowledge have a price tag? I am giving what I have but while giving it , it increases in me. So win win for both of us. 😀
Outstanding ! Wish I could be a teacher like you. From the word 'go' I was glued to the screen. What a grasp of the subject, of the language. So lively. Mind blowing!!!!!!
First thank you for sending me part 2 of the Waste Land. I start my day by listening to your great voice which I really call melodious as it empowers me. Thank you again madam. P - delgoda, Sri Lanka.
Beautifully explained Ma'am. Thank you for making your lectures so genuine and so elaborate. I almost felt that I was sitting in your classroom and attending this lesson . Thank you so much ma'am ❤❤
"I read, much of the night," is the first direct reference to PTSD that permeates the poem. Nighttime is really tough, because you can distract yourself during the day, but at night it can be almost impossible to wind down. E.g., I just tested my pulse at 47 bpm, almost clinically low, because I'm just working and studying The Waste Land, keeping my mind clear and open... but when I woke up I was in a near panic at 108 bpm. The hiding in plain sight is almost tragic, because it's so easy to focus on the personal drama of Marie Larisch. Her lines are also indicative of the curtailing of activities that patriarchy imposes as girls mature. Lana Del Rey has a similar line in her song A&W, "I haven't done a cartwheel since I was nine." Holding on tightly to a cousin when sledding is only acceptable until a certain age, and then it is not, just as a cartwheel is playful until it's suggestive, even though it's the same person doing the same action.
Can I say I love you?? ❤️ Well, it won't be enough tho 💕 You saved my life and helped me through my MA competitive exam and my MA studies. And because I keep talking about how useful your videos are and how much you helped me, all my colleagues started watching your videos 😅 Thank you Ma'am 🙏 Big Love from Iraq ✨
Thanks! Though it was extremely tough to connect the contents of the poem, you narrated in a very delicate way. And it reflects your love and vastness of the subject mattar. Thanks.
I literally feel so lucky to have found you and this channel. Thank you being you! You explain each word and line with such effortlessness and clarity. It’s almost magical to witness your way of expression. I wish you all the very best in all the steps you take towards your goals and dreams and continue to stay healthy while spreading your literature magic. Have an amazing day, year and life.
Great !!!!!! Yeah it's too easy now after watching your video........the way you explain is totally outstanding.😊 A huge Thnx From a literature lover from Punjab ❤
Ma'am you are truly awesome, i am thinking right now, i would have found your channel a little earlier, so i can have my basics strong than now. I'm truly inspired by you and i hope I'll teach others in future like you. But you know i have exams next week😅 so I'm a lil worry about it because poetry is not my favorite genre, but I'm gonna watch you to learn something new rather than the teacher teaches in university so please don't stop making videos in Future. We'll look forward to you regarding literature
I'm coming around to the Stetson/Seyton/Satan connection because "Hypocrite lecteur, - mon semblable, - mon frère!" is from the same poem that says "Sur l'oreiller du mal c'est Satan Trismégiste" Good catch!
Oh my goodness, 10 minutes in and already I'm picking up on things I missed. The boar/Adonis is the "hot gammon" in line 166. I can't believe I missed that the first few hundred times through the poem, but that's Eliot.
Wish you a happy time ma'am Your perception and interpretation is amazing and best. It's very helpful to us. Plz keep on making such videos no less than blessings. Happy and prosperous Deepawali ma'am.
Compare "Has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?" with Sick Rose by William Blake, and you have the essential difference between theodicy in Romanticism and Modernism.
@@Ahmad-db5iv To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die-to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause-there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th'unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
@@Ahmad-db5iv In Blake's "sick rose," the trouble is caused by a malevolent individual, the worm. But a sudden frost is a meteorological force, completely unconscious and without malice. It's the difference between the Drowned Phonecian Sailor dying because his wife wouldn't share her chestnuts with a Weird Sister and Phlebas dying because bad weather just happens sometimes. Even now, we desperately WANT agency to be the cause of disasters. It's why nearly everyone takes the actual words of Titanic captain Edward Smith, "I cannot image any condition which would case a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happeing to this vessel. Modern shipping has gone beyond that" and mutate it into the falsely attributed quote "God Himself could not sink this ship."
@@NibblePop Finished the lecture today ma'am, and to be honest i'm kinda confused😅😅😅. I hope it will clear in the next parts and i'm looking forward to them. The resemblance with social media actually blew me up🙇🙇.
Ouch This Work is in my Next Semester, till then I hope all lectures would be uploaded by that time 😅 Still Doesn't matter cz I am gonna Watch every video one by one, whether its in syllabus or not. Cz as you said in "Ode to Gracian Urn" Video, "Keats deserves more than a syllabus" And So does you Maam❤
I never quite believed the Crome Yellow thing, since Eliot was a classicist and Sisostros is named pretty early on in the Histories of Herodotus. But, there is a great deal of abortion imagery all throughout the poem. I used to think of the Windows 10 default unlock screen with its Red Rock, but when I learned of the Ordeal of the Bitter Water (Numbers 5:11-31, in the Bible) where the priest mixes a handful of dust from beneath the sacrificial altar of YHVH and gives it to a woman suspected by her husband of adultery (referred to as a Sotah... and in English the internal "t" is almost always softened to a "d," so that people who say "city" as "sit-ee" and not "sid-ee" sound overly formal... so Mrs. Porter and her Daughter wash their feet in Sotah water). So, an allusion to a crome, which is a type of hook, makes sense as another abortion reference.
Throughout the video, I kept getting this nagging thought-'Why are you watching this? It's so boring and seems meaningless. Just stop, do something better, even go to sleep,' even though I wasn’t even tired.
I should be keeping this for Part 5, but my vision is going and I want to get this out before I completely lose my ability to focus on letters... "And upside down in air were towers Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours" Now, imagine you're looking up at the Unreal City, upside down in air, and the clock is striking nine. But you're no in the Unreal City, you are standing in the Real City. You look at the clock, and because it's upside down the hour hand is all the way on the right, and the minute hand is on the bottom.., if you look only at the hands and ignore the markings, it reads 3:30. When it's 9:00 in London, it's 3:30 in Mumbai, Madhyamgram, Kolkata. As much as I would love to take credit for this, it was Salman Rushdie who pointing this out to me.
So when one is real the other is unreal, doesn't that make sense? In context of considering the "other" as unreal as theorised in postcolonial discourse! The British colonisers made Kolkata as a replica of London, with its narrow streets and muttering retreats and all. But to them this was unreal wasn't it?
@@NibblePop What The Thunder Said seems to make India the "real" antithesis to the "unreal" London. My interpretation is influenced both by Rushdie and Dr. Rajani Sharma. Well, and what Eliot himself said, "Long ago I studied the ancient Indian languages [Sanskrit and Pali], and while I was chiefly interested in philosophy, I read a little poetry too, and I know that my poetry shows the influence of Indian thought." Notably, he calls the river by the proper name, and Himavant to name the mountains, and, much like how some people will write "G-d" out of respect, he ends the poem with "Shantih, Shantih, Shanti" without an Om. He did everything (except referencing the wrong section of the Brihadaranyaka, and a German translation at that) to make sure the reader was pointed towards the real.
@@NibblePop So whose curse caused this? In the first part you explained that it was the deity who cursed him with being a hermaphrodite, and he was a blind at that time.. In the second part, it was because of Juno he became blind but he also was gender fluid.. Like that kind of sound of contradicting.. Could you please clear it to me?? 😢
A very good evening dear monami ma'am ❤. My name is Swarnil Bhattacharya and this year in my graduation batch, I have secured the 1st rank in my entire state in English Honours and have become the Gold Medalist 🥇. I am watching this channel since the 1st semester of my undergraduate college life and have received a lot of conceptual clarity and help in the better comprehension of the subject from you ma'am. I want to thank you for helping me through this journey and bless me for my Masters journey ahead. I am deeply grateful ma'am - your explanations are the best in the whole RUclips platform
Lots of love and blessings for you. We are so so so proud of you
Thank you ma'am - it's an honour to hear from you 😍@@NibblePop
Ma'am, we also need the rest of the 3 parts as the exam is nearing..pls ma'am.
Been scrolling your channel everyday after your announcement of The Waste Land. It's finally here. Thank you very much ma'am for making our life easier.
Ma'am, thank you so much for giving such in depth analysis and line by line explanation of one of the most complex text ever! I am so grateful for the incredible hard work and effort that you put in this video and all the other videos of your channel. I get totally enraptured by your lectures. As if you're sitting in front of me and explaining everything in depth. Thank you so much once again.
You're truly a blessing for us! ❤
One thing I find fascinating about that first German line is how much history, both in the decades before and decades after the poem's publication, there is between Germany and Russia claiming ownership of Lithuania. The three languages (Russian, Germain, and Lithuanian) are all on different branches of the Indo-European language tree, too.
This is thoroughly commendable! Loads of confusions got flushed away by your video, ma'am.
What a lecture❤ ma'am you're the best on RUclips platform in English Literature... Your free online videos are lifeline for those who can't access the quality study owing to financial difficulties. Thank you🙏
The best things in life are always free honey.
Love, respect, happiness, there is no price tag, so why should knowledge have a price tag?
I am giving what I have but while giving it , it increases in me. So win win for both of us. 😀
@NibblePop What a great explanation this is, ma'am!!!💙
A great lesson. I am extremely thankful to you madam .( Priyantha , undergraduate , open university of Sri Lanka) Awaiting to hear from you again.
Outstanding ! Wish I could be a teacher like you. From the word 'go' I was glued to the screen. What a grasp of the subject, of the language. So lively. Mind blowing!!!!!!
First thank you for sending me part 2 of the Waste Land. I start my day by listening to your great voice which I really call melodious as it empowers me. Thank you again madam. P - delgoda, Sri Lanka.
Hat's off to you, you are a great help to many to study not in one way but in many ways.
Beautifully explained Ma'am. Thank you for making your lectures so genuine and so elaborate. I almost felt that I was sitting in your classroom and attending this lesson . Thank you so much ma'am ❤❤
"I read, much of the night," is the first direct reference to PTSD that permeates the poem. Nighttime is really tough, because you can distract yourself during the day, but at night it can be almost impossible to wind down. E.g., I just tested my pulse at 47 bpm, almost clinically low, because I'm just working and studying The Waste Land, keeping my mind clear and open... but when I woke up I was in a near panic at 108 bpm.
The hiding in plain sight is almost tragic, because it's so easy to focus on the personal drama of Marie Larisch.
Her lines are also indicative of the curtailing of activities that patriarchy imposes as girls mature. Lana Del Rey has a similar line in her song A&W, "I haven't done a cartwheel since I was nine." Holding on tightly to a cousin when sledding is only acceptable until a certain age, and then it is not, just as a cartwheel is playful until it's suggestive, even though it's the same person doing the same action.
Can I say I love you?? ❤️ Well, it won't be enough tho 💕 You saved my life and helped me through my MA competitive exam and my MA studies. And because I keep talking about how useful your videos are and how much you helped me, all my colleagues started watching your videos 😅 Thank you Ma'am 🙏 Big Love from Iraq ✨
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Such in - depth explanation, I have not heard before.
Thank you for such a beautiful and detailed explanation.
In-depth, interesting, and insightful!
Dr. Zafar
Thanks! Though it was extremely tough to connect the contents of the poem, you narrated in a very delicate way. And it reflects your love and vastness of the subject mattar. Thanks.
Wow...what a wonderful lecture mam❤❤❤..hats off for your great effort😍
First of all i have to say you are awesome. I found your channel few days ago. Your pronunciation just wow take love from Bangladesh Ma'am.
I literally feel so lucky to have found you and this channel. Thank you being you! You explain each word and line with such effortlessness and clarity. It’s almost magical to witness your way of expression. I wish you all the very best in all the steps you take towards your goals and dreams and continue to stay healthy while spreading your literature magic. Have an amazing day, year and life.
Great !!!!!! Yeah it's too easy now after watching your video........the way you explain is totally outstanding.😊 A huge Thnx From a literature lover from Punjab ❤
आप
सही में बहुत परिश्रम कर रही है।
शिक्षक शब्द सार्थक किया।
धन्यवाद
Waiting 3rd part
बहुत धन्यवाद। God bless you.
Ma'am you are truly awesome, i am thinking right now, i would have found your channel a little earlier, so i can have my basics strong than now. I'm truly inspired by you and i hope I'll teach others in future like you. But you know i have exams next week😅 so I'm a lil worry about it because poetry is not my favorite genre, but I'm gonna watch you to learn something new rather than the teacher teaches in university so please don't stop making videos in Future. We'll look forward to you regarding literature
I was just listening to Your video on "The Hollow Men" . Now what a coincidence! Today is thisssss!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Hurrrayyyyy🎉❤️ The most awaited videoooooo
loved the way you are explaining...
Thank you for exploring Waste Land ❤
We need more non-hypocrite 'semblable'. Thank you ma'am for such efforts.
Thank you so much ma'am!!! I hope that some day I will be able to serve in the best way I can..
Thankyou mam for such a wonderful explanation ❤❤❤
I'm coming around to the Stetson/Seyton/Satan connection because "Hypocrite lecteur, - mon semblable, - mon frère!" is from the same poem that says "Sur l'oreiller du mal c'est Satan Trismégiste"
Good catch!
Maam please upload few lectures on Albert Camus and his important works, his philosophy...
Thank you very much ma'am,I was actually waiting for you to explain this poem,and finally ✌️💃
Oh my goodness, 10 minutes in and already I'm picking up on things I missed. The boar/Adonis is the "hot gammon" in line 166. I can't believe I missed that the first few hundred times through the poem, but that's Eliot.
Wish you a happy time ma'am
Your perception and interpretation is amazing and best.
It's very helpful to us.
Plz keep on making such videos no less than blessings.
Happy and prosperous Deepawali ma'am.
@@imranraza8643 blessings for you my dear ❣️❣️
Mam thanks for my heart of my heart i am not afford expensive course so your video so helpful for me thank you so much mam
Oh my god. My waiting came to an end finally 😍😍😍
very helpful information
Ma'am, you are the best ❤☺️
Amazing so helpful thanks alot
I m first time watching your video... really superb mam
Hope you like other content too on my channel. If so then please subscribe and stay connected.
Ma'am, we also need the rest of the 3 parts as the exam is nearing..pls ma'am.
Most awaited video... Ma'am can we have the lecture on the entire poem wasteland ?
Sure. I am going to cover the whole poem part by part within december
Fantabulous❤
Compare "Has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?" with Sick Rose by William Blake, and you have the essential difference between theodicy in Romanticism and Modernism.
What does you mean actually??
@@Ahmad-db5iv To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die-to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause-there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
@@Ahmad-db5iv In Blake's "sick rose," the trouble is caused by a malevolent individual, the worm. But a sudden frost is a meteorological force, completely unconscious and without malice. It's the difference between the Drowned Phonecian Sailor dying because his wife wouldn't share her chestnuts with a Weird Sister and Phlebas dying because bad weather just happens sometimes. Even now, we desperately WANT agency to be the cause of disasters. It's why nearly everyone takes the actual words of Titanic captain Edward Smith, "I cannot image any condition which would case a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happeing to this vessel. Modern shipping has gone beyond that" and mutate it into the falsely attributed quote "God Himself could not sink this ship."
@@K_F_fox ohhh got it thanks 💜 God bless you 😇
thank you for this ma'am
thank you for the explanation ma'am...can you please cover STRANGE MEETING by WILLFRED OWEN too...
Thanks
Big thanks dear.
though "The Waste Land" is not in my syllabus, i'll give it a try.
Welcome aboard. You won't regret it. Promise.
@@NibblePop Finished the lecture today ma'am, and to be honest i'm kinda confused😅😅😅. I hope it will clear in the next parts and i'm looking forward to them.
The resemblance with social media actually blew me up🙇🙇.
Thank you mam
Mam it was really fabulous lecture,but i didn't understand the concept of Hanged Man ??
Dearest ma'am thank you so much, could you make a video on Handmaid's tale
Ouch This Work is in my Next Semester, till then I hope all lectures would be uploaded by that time 😅
Still Doesn't matter cz I am gonna Watch every video one by one, whether its in syllabus or not.
Cz as you said in "Ode to Gracian Urn" Video, "Keats deserves more than a syllabus"
And So does you Maam❤
It will be uploaded within this year I hope 😀. Love for you ❣️
@@NibblePop Thanks a lottt ma'am.
Me and my 5 fellows will be waiting passionately.
Respect 💙💙💙
Maam will you please take a class on Arms and the Man
Hello mam pls post a video on the color purple pls my exam is near
Ma'am please make video on Macbeth Act 2 Scene 4 please. Please upload 🙏🏻 .
I never quite believed the Crome Yellow thing, since Eliot was a classicist and Sisostros is named pretty early on in the Histories of Herodotus. But, there is a great deal of abortion imagery all throughout the poem. I used to think of the Windows 10 default unlock screen with its Red Rock, but when I learned of the Ordeal of the Bitter Water (Numbers 5:11-31, in the Bible) where the priest mixes a handful of dust from beneath the sacrificial altar of YHVH and gives it to a woman suspected by her husband of adultery (referred to as a Sotah... and in English the internal "t" is almost always softened to a "d," so that people who say "city" as "sit-ee" and not "sid-ee" sound overly formal... so Mrs. Porter and her Daughter wash their feet in Sotah water). So, an allusion to a crome, which is a type of hook, makes sense as another abortion reference.
Wao,that Sotah soda connection simply wao
I am going to use it in my next video and I will definitely mention you 😀 wait for "part 3"
Throughout the video, I kept getting this nagging thought-'Why are you watching this? It's so boring and seems meaningless. Just stop, do something better, even go to sleep,' even though I wasn’t even tired.
@@Papa_Electron1897 sorry to hear that.
Anyone here in 2024 😂
Btw very nice video ❤
When will part 3 come
Soon. Under edit.
I should be keeping this for Part 5, but my vision is going and I want to get this out before I completely lose my ability to focus on letters...
"And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours"
Now, imagine you're looking up at the Unreal City, upside down in air, and the clock is striking nine. But you're no in the Unreal City, you are standing in the Real City. You look at the clock, and because it's upside down the hour hand is all the way on the right, and the minute hand is on the bottom.., if you look only at the hands and ignore the markings, it reads 3:30. When it's 9:00 in London, it's 3:30 in Mumbai, Madhyamgram, Kolkata.
As much as I would love to take credit for this, it was Salman Rushdie who pointing this out to me.
Hell! I live at Madhyamgram! Your comments require a moment to recapture breath.
So when one is real the other is unreal, doesn't that make sense? In context of considering the "other" as unreal as theorised in postcolonial discourse!
The British colonisers made Kolkata as a replica of London, with its narrow streets and muttering retreats and all. But to them this was unreal wasn't it?
@@NibblePop What The Thunder Said seems to make India the "real" antithesis to the "unreal" London. My interpretation is influenced both by Rushdie and Dr. Rajani Sharma. Well, and what Eliot himself said, "Long ago I studied the ancient Indian languages [Sanskrit and Pali], and while I was chiefly interested in philosophy, I read a little poetry too, and I know that my poetry shows the influence of Indian thought." Notably, he calls the river by the proper name, and Himavant to name the mountains, and, much like how some people will write "G-d" out of respect, he ends the poem with "Shantih, Shantih, Shanti" without an Om. He did everything (except referencing the wrong section of the Brihadaranyaka, and a German translation at that) to make sure the reader was pointed towards the real.
So was Tiresias gender fluid from the beginning itself or was he a blind man??.. Like I can't connect them both 😢
@@hamnaptk5094 he was cursed and he became hermaphrodite as well as blind.
@@NibblePop So whose curse caused this? In the first part you explained that it was the deity who cursed him with being a hermaphrodite, and he was a blind at that time.. In the second part, it was because of Juno he became blind but he also was gender fluid.. Like that kind of sound of contradicting.. Could you please clear it to me?? 😢
Same here @@hamnaptk5094
You look cute in this dress.
😀
Fantabulous ❤❤❤❤
Ma'am please make video on Macbeth Act 2 Scene 4 please. Please upload 🙏🏻 .
Ma'am please make video on Macbeth Act 2 Scene 4 please. Please upload 🙏🏻 .
Ma'am please make video on Macbeth Act 2 Scene 4 please. Please upload 🙏🏻 .
Ma'am please make video on Macbeth Act 2 Scene 4 please. Please upload 🙏🏻 .