The Hollow Men | T. S. Eliot | Explained in Simple English

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  • Опубликовано: 8 янв 2025

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  • @MousumiSaikia-g1e
    @MousumiSaikia-g1e Год назад +11

    You're purely a gem for the students of English Literature ma'am ❤️

  • @krishnagyaanamrit5352
    @krishnagyaanamrit5352 Год назад +4

    My perspective towards literature, completely changed.. what a different way of understanding the more deep meanings and beyond the literal meaning..❤ Thank you so much 💝

  • @BristiMandal-t6c
    @BristiMandal-t6c 28 дней назад +2

    Thank you so much ma'am for your this great lecture 😊🙏. At first it was really difficult for me to understand this poem but after finishing your lecture I understood the poem's actual essence.

  • @bapandas9646
    @bapandas9646 11 дней назад +1

    So much decent and energetic lecture
    Kuddus to you mam
    Love from KALYANI ❤

  • @mamatamandal8180
    @mamatamandal8180 Год назад +3

    Hello mam. I am one of your RUclips students. I have learnt so many things from you , I am grateful to you forever for that. Still I am learning every day...I truly followed you so that I have qualified net in June 2023. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us, for being there on RUclips. 🙏🙏. And one request mam please make a vedio on how to write a CV for literature students...it will be very much helpfull 🙏🙏

  • @viveksaurabh4749
    @viveksaurabh4749 Год назад +7

    The practice of explaing english poems in hindi is another emptiness created by some hollow men. you were good.Thanks.

    • @businessaccount8828
      @businessaccount8828 4 месяца назад +2

      It's their way of teaching...who are you to mock?

    • @viveksaurabh4749
      @viveksaurabh4749 4 месяца назад

      @@businessaccount8828 I am a consumer(student) of the services provided by one of you guys perhaps...and so it's my openion and choice who I appreciate and choose...
      Your comment again shows the stuff you are filled with (the hollowness)...may God bless you....

    • @businessaccount8828
      @businessaccount8828 4 месяца назад

      @@viveksaurabh4749 Well brother, no one asked about your choices and opinions. Keep it with you and enjoy.

    • @kw0808
      @kw0808 3 месяца назад

      ​@@businessaccount8828 Alright, now go and wash the uneducated "Study Lover's" feet.

  • @englishliteratureandlingui9308
    @englishliteratureandlingui9308 Год назад +2

    One of my favorite mam ever in my life. Upload more content because i am patiently waiting for your lecture.

  • @zoyaarora1570
    @zoyaarora1570 Год назад +6

    Brilliant!
    As usual, the best so far on RUclips.
    Ma'am, would it be possible for you to cover a few texts of MA too? Texts like "the unbearable lightness of being", "persuasion"?

  • @TheJohncoyle
    @TheJohncoyle Год назад +3

    Brilliant analysis and explanation of The Hollow Men. I would love to see you do a break down of The Wasteland. I really appreciate the work you do, and I'm sure thousands of others feel the same. God Bless You.

  • @nisthagogoi8314
    @nisthagogoi8314 2 месяца назад +2

    And this is called an explanation. Thank you madam for this wonderful explanation. Also your editing and presentation of the video is very interesting

  • @muskanmishra1312
    @muskanmishra1312 Год назад +2

    I usually don't subscribe to channels but I can't stop myself from subscribing Nibble Pop❤❤
    Sometimes when I don't understand litrature I thought I chose wrong course but now by following you I am in love with litrature.
    Thank you❤

  • @K_F_fox
    @K_F_fox Год назад +2

    What really strikes me about the Hollow Men is that it's the opposite of the Pavamana Mantra. They Hollow Men want to flee the real into the unreal, flee the light into the darkness, flee immortality into Death's Other Kingdom. It's embracing Māyā on every level.

    • @NibblePop
      @NibblePop  Год назад

      Oh wow, never thought this way

  • @riddhimandas7058
    @riddhimandas7058 Год назад +2

    I was going though my recent college lectures.... I think you cleared my confusion and build vission on Eliot more prominently...❤
    Thanks a lot mam , make more videos

  • @SurajKumar-tv3ft
    @SurajKumar-tv3ft 11 дней назад +1

    Really good explanation ..
    Too the point ..
    Thanks for the effort.

  • @djpathak2102
    @djpathak2102 Год назад +3

    Thank you so much ma'am, your videos are among the most comprehensive literature videos on the internet. Eagerly waiting for THE WASTELAND 😊

  • @maruftuhin8196
    @maruftuhin8196 Месяц назад

    Excellent, madam. Yours is a channel of such a relief when it comes to understanding Eliot, and of course many others. So thanks a lot for your efforts.

  • @godschild6673
    @godschild6673 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you so much ma'am. I have no words to express my gratitude towards you.

  • @elkknow
    @elkknow Год назад +3

    This was such a great explanation, thank you for doing this :) ❤

  • @K_F_fox
    @K_F_fox Год назад +2

    found a quote from Heart of Darkness that is about Kurtz, but so very much reminded me of how I feel about T. S. Eliot.
    I made the strange discovery that I had never imagined him as doing, you know, but as discoursing. I didn’t say to myself, ‘Now I will never see him,’ or ‘Now I will never shake him by the hand,’ but, ‘Now I will never hear him.’ The man presented himself as a voice. [...] That was not the point. The point was in his being a gifted creature, and that of all his gifts the one that stood out preeminently, that carried with it a sense of real presence, was his ability to talk, his words-the gift of expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.

    • @NibblePop
      @NibblePop  Год назад +2

      Yes , deprivation of speech is the real hell for hollow men

    • @K_F_fox
      @K_F_fox Год назад

      @@NibblePop My wife zeroed in on the lack of eyes, comparing the poem with the cult classic film "Event Horizon." But between studying singing and studying maximizing oral health, I realized the jaw is both an organ of communication and consumption. "This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms" being a powerful objective correlative to an empire about to contract exponentially, but still with a powerful literary history.

  • @sakshichauhan1513
    @sakshichauhan1513 25 дней назад +2

    Thanks for this explanation mam

  • @rimpa_126
    @rimpa_126 Год назад +1

    Literally amazing 🔥
    Thank you so much ma'am for this beautiful lecture ❤
    It helped me so much to know in depth about this poem.

  • @K_F_fox
    @K_F_fox Год назад +1

    Being American, it just dawned on me yesterday that the Guy Fawkes reference isn't random. There's a geographical feature called a Hollow, or Holler. The only difference is dialect, and I think Missouri might be in one of the overlap areas. The "remember, remember" poem is made famous by the movie V for Vendetta, but the movie only has the first part. The rhyme concludes with a couplet: Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring! / Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
    Usually modernized to "Holler, boys," but Milton's original has that linguistic same ambiguity.
    I'll have to deep-dive into Heart of Darkness to see if there's anything most people miss about that reference, too.

  • @raiin4uu
    @raiin4uu 10 месяцев назад +2

    Mam, do make a video series on "A passage to India",,, thanks alot,,, You are doing great ❤❤

  • @K_F_fox
    @K_F_fox Год назад +3

    I have an idea about the crossed staves. It involves both a cross-reference to The Waste Land (the Fisher King has three staves), and the correspondence between the Hebrew alphabet and the Tarot cards made by the Rider-Waite tarot deck. (There's an article from 1986 about how Eliot actually did know the Tarot and that the cards all reference actual cards in the deck... e.g. the Drowned Sailor is a *background* figure in the Death card). In Cyrillic, Zhe resembles three crossed staves: Ж, and the "meaning" of that letter, per Wikipedia, is the imperative verb "live," which is what the Hollow Men and the Londoners in the Waste Land really, really don't want to do at all.

  • @vanshika1730
    @vanshika1730 Год назад +2

    Thank you soo much. This is wonderful 👏🏻❤

  • @BANANIMANDAL-ey3jz
    @BANANIMANDAL-ey3jz 10 месяцев назад +1

    Mam your way of teaching style is outstanding❤...I wander how can a teacher like you present any topic so attaratively .....I want to teacher like you mam...please tell me mam how can I achieve that ???😊.....give me blessings mam

  • @akashmodak009
    @akashmodak009 Год назад +2

    I cannot thank you enough 🙏
    Really ma'am thanks a lot❤
    Next Poem : 'Strange Meeting'

  • @K_F_fox
    @K_F_fox Год назад +3

    The objective corelative of "Shape without form, shade without colour," struck me as being Platonic, but it took me a bit to put my finger on it. Plato's "Meno" dialog is about virtue, and Meno gives Socrates examples of virtues, but doesn't really explain what "virtue" is, and to communicate this failure, Socrates starts talking about the difference between shapes and "form" and the difference between colors and the higher concept of "color" itself.

  • @Onceupon_avdo
    @Onceupon_avdo Год назад +2

    Thank you so much ma'am❤, i was waiting for this video

  • @RiyaGautam-vk8bd
    @RiyaGautam-vk8bd Год назад +1

    Thank you so so so much mam. The session was absolutely amazing and I learned a lot.

  • @jackssparrow8370
    @jackssparrow8370 11 месяцев назад +1

    Such a beautiful explanation..ty so much mam 🙏🙏

  • @subhankarraysarkar6157
    @subhankarraysarkar6157 Год назад +2

    No words ❤❤❤ ❤❤❤ ❤❤❤, but word is itself a word 😊

  • @K_F_fox
    @K_F_fox 11 месяцев назад +1

    Those who do not have the shadow between the potency and the existence are absolutely lost, violent souls. Case in point: "from this moment / The very firstlings of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand." Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1.

  • @jahidasultana4826
    @jahidasultana4826 Год назад +1

    I am so impressed nam!!!!u r a great teacher❤

  • @pritikharb6806
    @pritikharb6806 5 месяцев назад +1

    Best explanation ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @user-fn8ox8mq1b
    @user-fn8ox8mq1b 28 дней назад +1

    Thanks Mam 🙏✨

  • @anishaakhtar370
    @anishaakhtar370 Год назад +4

    Ma'am please discuss "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, it would be very helpful 🙏. And thanks a million for always helping us❤. I appreciate your guidance🤗.

  • @krishnakumarbalakrishnan1665
    @krishnakumarbalakrishnan1665 7 месяцев назад +1

    Eliot describe modern people senseless, reckless, cruel with nothing in them. A cemetry.

  • @taexlove2744
    @taexlove2744 Год назад +14

    Can you make video on " The murder of Roger Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie please?😭

    • @shubhangitripathy
      @shubhangitripathy Год назад

      When is your exam like I can teach you? But not in December tbh ( I too have my exams but if you are willing to I can... I liked it as a text so...)

    • @SwapEnglish
      @SwapEnglish 3 месяца назад

      ​@@shubhangitripathy would you mind teaching me.

    • @SwapEnglish
      @SwapEnglish 3 месяца назад

      ​@@shubhangitripathyI'm M.A eng f.y student

  • @tasnimakter1919
    @tasnimakter1919 Месяц назад +1

    BIG FAN

  • @Englishasskill
    @Englishasskill 9 месяцев назад +1

    Mam I subscribed your channel and thanks for bombastic lecture ❤

  • @K_F_fox
    @K_F_fox 11 месяцев назад +1

    I keep thinking I'm missing something profound about "sunlight on a broken column."
    Some of the themes and images used in the Hollow Men do appear to be in, and maybe even from, the Emily Dickenson poem that starts "there's a certain Slant of light."

  • @farhananajmin182
    @farhananajmin182 Год назад +1

    Thank you ma'am this video is very helpful 💝

  • @K_F_fox
    @K_F_fox 8 месяцев назад +1

    The line about Deliberate Disguises reminded me a bit of how the Missouri born-and-bred T. S. Eliot annoyed the hell out of C. S. Lewis by being so over-the-top British.
    Salman Rushdie as always sums it up best as he applies that experience to his own characters:
    "A man who sets out to make himself up is taking on the Creator's role, according to one way of seeing things; he's unnatural, a blasphemer, an abomination of abominations. From another angle, you could see pathos in him, heroism in his struggle, in his willingness to risk: not all mutants survive. Or, consider him socio-politically: most migrants learn, and can become disguises. Our own false descriptions to counter the falsehoods invented about us, concealing for reasons of security our secret selves."

  • @shreetamaneogy9057
    @shreetamaneogy9057 Год назад +1

    Thank you so much ma'am 💓

  • @anupamaghosh4561
    @anupamaghosh4561 Год назад +1

    Thankyou maam❤
    This video is very necessary.😊

  • @harivardhanreddy2730
    @harivardhanreddy2730 11 месяцев назад +1

    excellent maam

  • @devesigupta1631
    @devesigupta1631 Год назад +3

    Ma'am plz make video on W.B yeats poems "The second coming"and many others.

  • @_Surabhii
    @_Surabhii 2 месяца назад +2

    Pls upload on WB Yeats Leda and the Swan

  • @siddhipandey4906
    @siddhipandey4906 Год назад +1

    Thank you ma'am, please make video on second coming 🙏🙏💐💐

  • @jahnabikashyap
    @jahnabikashyap Год назад +2

    ma'am, could you please make an explanation video on "The Function of Criticism (1920)" by TS Eliot ?

  • @Pukes321
    @Pukes321 3 месяца назад +2

    Ma'am please make videos on Literature of Indian diaspora... background and the novels...

  • @lizzee6260
    @lizzee6260 Год назад +1

    Thank you so sooo much ma'am ...it was necessary ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @ushagiri902
    @ushagiri902 Год назад +1

    Thankyou ma'am ❤

  • @_winterxv_07
    @_winterxv_07 Год назад +4

    Ma'am please make videos on "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie 🙏

  • @Anushree__lj8hr7nl1b
    @Anushree__lj8hr7nl1b 10 месяцев назад

    Another marvelous explanation!!!!❤❤
    Maam ..plz make a video on Strange Meeting by Owen

  • @maitreyeemisra4144
    @maitreyeemisra4144 Год назад +1

    Much needed ❤

  • @ahanabiswas4590
    @ahanabiswas4590 Год назад +1

    could you please make an analysis of the poem strange meeting by wilfred owen

  • @ankitamondal1715
    @ankitamondal1715 Год назад +2

    Thank you so much ma'am, ❤ Could you please bring an analysis video on Tonni Morrison's novel "Beloved" ? It would be a great help.... 🙏

  • @li_little_world
    @li_little_world Год назад +1

    Ma'am please make lecture on Mrs Dalloway and Sons and lovers please

  • @fatmagad4316
    @fatmagad4316 Год назад +1

    Thank you so much❤

  • @asimpleman5524
    @asimpleman5524 Год назад +1

    Ma'am kindly complete the SCHOOL SERVICE COMMISSION SYLLABUS . You have already made videos on many topics, only some are left. Thank you for your classes.

  • @pnx_03
    @pnx_03 Год назад +2

    Thankyou so much Ma'am for this wonderful explanation 😊
    Ma'am can you please make a video on "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats

  • @adrijadeb6820
    @adrijadeb6820 Год назад +1

    Thank you ma'am..
    Ma'am please make a vedio on "Odour of Chrysanthemums"

  • @shreyagupta1914
    @shreyagupta1914 Год назад

    Thank you so much madam..... For this brilliant explanation❤Madam please explain what the poet want to express with those two expression "death's dream kingdom" and "Twilight kingdom".

  • @K_F_fox
    @K_F_fox Год назад +1

    I did some thinking about the objective correlative of "supplication of a dead man's hand".
    As much as I'd like to point to something obscure, I think it's the most obvious allusion that goes beyond a surface meaning.
    In five card stud poker, a pair of aces and a pair of eights is a very strong hand. It doesn't guarantee absolute victory, but it's hard to beat. "Wild Bill" Hickok probably would have one the poker game he was in had he not been shot dead. So, Aces and Eights are the "dead man's hand."
    I'd love to point to a mudra, (the bhumisparsha mudra seeming to be the best candidate), or the invisibility granted by the Hand of Glory, but the American Wild West "Dead Man's Hand" is "power without force," because a dead player cannot collect his winnings.
    Alas!

    • @NibblePop
      @NibblePop  Год назад +1

      This is why I wait so eagerly for your commentary.
      You never fail to enlighten in some way or the other.
      Never thought a hand would mean a hand of card! A decade of Bridge and it took you to point that out to me! Thank you 😊

  • @adwitiya281
    @adwitiya281 Год назад +1

    Thank you so much

  • @pixelzzzz
    @pixelzzzz Год назад +1

    Ma'am can you make a video on TS Eliot's The Function Of Criticism (1920)

  • @subhammajumder4425
    @subhammajumder4425 Год назад +1

    Ma'am please make a video on W.B. Yeats: ‘The Second Coming’

  • @Divinity0402
    @Divinity0402 Год назад +1

    Ma'am please make a video on Lady Lazarus 🥺

  • @devesigupta1631
    @devesigupta1631 Год назад +1

    Ma'am plz make videos on Science and Fiction sem 5 topics.

  • @khushibanerjee2990
    @khushibanerjee2990 Год назад +1

    Mam please make vedio on Lewis caroll's "Through The Looking Glass" please 🥺

  • @munmunbauri6532
    @munmunbauri6532 Год назад +1

    Thank u ma'm.....♥️🙏
    Please ma'm make videos on the 5th sem text ...
    🙏🙏

  • @prosenjitsikder9993
    @prosenjitsikder9993 Год назад +1

    Thrilling❤

  • @devesigupta1631
    @devesigupta1631 Год назад +1

    Thank you so much ma'am

  • @ossumarts
    @ossumarts Год назад +1

    Mam please make a video on "The Farewell Party" by Anita desai and "The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty" by James Grover Thurber.....

  • @krishnasaha5500
    @krishnasaha5500 6 дней назад +1

    Mam, Is death's other kingdom represents hell ?

    • @NibblePop
      @NibblePop  6 дней назад

      @@krishnasaha5500 no. Rather the opposite. This kingdom of death, where the hollow men stay is a place of stasis and mediocre barrenness. The great ones who show bravery and look in the eye with courage go to the other kingdom. So that other kingdom is for heroes and people who take a stand and make a difference.

    • @krishnasaha5500
      @krishnasaha5500 6 дней назад

      @NibblePop Ok thank you mam
      Mam could you please make a video on "Rain" by W Somerset Mougham, I have my semester exams from 15th to 20th January, and I have missed the classes on this....

  • @unknownghost535
    @unknownghost535 Год назад +1

    Professor can you please do Whitsun wedding by philip larkin.. Much appreciated

  • @eeptoms26
    @eeptoms26 Год назад +1

    Mam pliz upload a vdeo of Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi plizzzz

  • @asmiabatool2942
    @asmiabatool2942 Год назад +1

    Mam please make videos on The Wasteland

  • @kakaliroy753
    @kakaliroy753 Год назад +1

    Mam can you explain The Waste Land

  • @shrutipandey3178
    @shrutipandey3178 Год назад +1

    Ma'am can you make a video on the history of English language

    • @NibblePop
      @NibblePop  Год назад

      Already uploaded many videos under the playlist "philology"

  • @30ashahnazfatima62
    @30ashahnazfatima62 Год назад +1

    Mam please make a vedio on Virginia Woolf by Mrs Dalloway 😢✨❤️

  • @khushalibajadeja420
    @khushalibajadeja420 10 месяцев назад +1

    journey of the magi

  • @onemanarmy6685
    @onemanarmy6685 Год назад +1

    Plz mam make e separate vdieo related to Wbsu sem 5 syllabus 😢

  • @polybanga3994
    @polybanga3994 11 месяцев назад

    Ma'am next Sangati by Bama please

  • @shrutikumarijha871
    @shrutikumarijha871 7 месяцев назад +1

    The Second Coming Ma'am please

  • @K_F_fox
    @K_F_fox Год назад +1

    Sorry this took me a while, but I found the core connection between Heart of Darkness and the Hollow Men
    ["]This simply because I had a notion it somehow would be of help to that Kurtz whom at the time I did not see-you understand. He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream-making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...."

  • @sumitshome383
    @sumitshome383 Год назад +1

    Thankyou ma'am....ar bol6i j please ma'am 5th sem ar main main text gulo aktu poria din ai vabe please noito ar pass korta prbo na...❤

    • @NibblePop
      @NibblePop  Год назад

      Onek gulo already dewa ache. Women's writing er. Tachhara poems ache onek gulo dekho.

  • @APPUKUMARENGLISH
    @APPUKUMARENGLISH Год назад +1

    First viewer

  • @hopeless_sloth
    @hopeless_sloth 5 месяцев назад +2

    Not that clear

  • @polybanga3994
    @polybanga3994 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you so much ma'am 💓