After reading the first part of Eliot's poem, I found myself completely lost. This video was incredibly helpful, and presented in a very engaging and artful way. Thank you for this.
at the end of the video I turned my head back, on one hand to see the wasteland behind me, on the other hand to escape from his "I know your dead inside too" look. Anyway very useful video!
Thanks for this brief and lucid summary. Have always liked Eliot, but have a slight problem with his often highbrow tone - the "erudition", which always seems to me to exclude the wider reading public with no degree in English under its belt. This has helped me, cheers :-) - especially so after just reading Vera Brittain's "Testament of Youth", which really brings home the effect WW1 had on society in general. By the way, have you made a similar video summarizing "Four Quartets"? I'd welcome that, on the strength of this video.
Okay... But what about the "roaring 20s"? What about HG Wells' quixotic and obviously false idea, which nonetheless gained some popularity around 1914, that the "Great War" was _literally_ the "war to end wars", and that in exchange for tuition paid in the form of a great many lives, mankind had learned to transcend its baser tendency towards barbarism? That "good had finally triumphed over evil", and that civilization was at the brink of a millenarian age? Can't it be said that the theme of transformation and rebirth in the poem (and particularly the allusions in the final part) reflect these more life-affirming ideas? Or would it be more accurate to say that by the time TWL was finished in 1922, that when such ideas were discussed in literature it was primarily with a hint of sour irony?
I like the imagery most of all. I also love alienation - the shallow pointless life which so reminds me of the UK with its grey skies, rain, grotty little streets and grubby women. This poem would never work in Provence, Tuscany or Catalonia. It is fixed in place if not in time. Eliot was an American who wrote a superb British winge.
I have never heard of this man or this poem, but last night I dreamt I was walking across a rocky landscape, it looked like the site of a meteor crash or a crater that was slowly getting bigger, as I walked through the rocks and rubble I found a very old worn out key, and on the key was Inscribed 'TS ELIOT'. In my dream I knew it was a precious key and would help me.
Thanks for this crucial summary and even the Fragmented way of presenting it.
After reading the first part of Eliot's poem, I found myself completely lost. This video was incredibly helpful, and presented in a very engaging and artful way. Thank you for this.
this was more suspenseful and dramatic than any Christopher Nolan films
Excellent summary. Very well put together -- loved it!
at the end of the video I turned my head back, on one hand to see the wasteland behind me, on the other hand to escape from his "I know your dead inside too" look. Anyway very useful video!
Very helpful and well put together- thanks!
This video is gold.
eloquently inspiring , it helped me a lot thanks
this is so helpful and very creative , thank you very much for this video !!
Thanks. Very precise very effective.
ok this was actually really cool im kinda intimidated
Brilliant and helpful ❤
Brilliantly done 👏 👏.. Love it
Can anyone answer me!
What is the exact number of languages that Eliot used in the
" wasteland ". Does it two, four, six or eight?
LOVED THIS
Very helpful. Thank you very much
I'm more confused after watching this video than before watching.
Great video Dr. Tearle. Thanks for the upload. Very informative and interesting!
This is very helpful!
Perfect employment of a slow motion camera gaze ------> 3:25
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Thanks for this brief and lucid summary. Have always liked Eliot, but have a slight problem with his often highbrow tone - the "erudition", which always seems to me to exclude the wider reading public with no degree in English under its belt. This has helped me, cheers :-) - especially so after just reading Vera Brittain's "Testament of Youth", which really brings home the effect WW1 had on society in general. By the way, have you made a similar video summarizing "Four Quartets"? I'd welcome that, on the strength of this video.
The cinematography in this!!!
Okay...
But what about the "roaring 20s"? What about HG Wells' quixotic and obviously false idea, which nonetheless gained some popularity around 1914, that the "Great War" was _literally_ the "war to end wars", and that in exchange for tuition paid in the form of a great many lives, mankind had learned to transcend its baser tendency towards barbarism? That "good had finally triumphed over evil", and that civilization was at the brink of a millenarian age? Can't it be said that the theme of transformation and rebirth in the poem (and particularly the allusions in the final part) reflect these more life-affirming ideas?
Or would it be more accurate to say that by the time TWL was finished in 1922, that when such ideas were discussed in literature it was primarily with a hint of sour irony?
its helpful.. but wanted to listen to it more..:)
It's great video, Thank you.
please sir
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In Hamlet, it is uncertain whether Ophelia intentionally commits suicide. There is ambiguity surrounding her death.
I like the imagery most of all. I also love alienation - the shallow pointless life which so reminds me of the UK with its grey skies, rain, grotty little streets and grubby women. This poem would never work in Provence, Tuscany or Catalonia. It is fixed in place if not in time. Eliot was an American who wrote a superb British winge.
I have never heard of this man or this poem, but last night I dreamt I was walking across a rocky landscape, it looked like the site of a meteor crash or a crater that was slowly getting bigger, as I walked through the rocks and rubble I found a very old worn out key, and on the key was Inscribed 'TS ELIOT'. In my dream I knew it was a precious key and would help me.
It probably unlocks something
Wow. The wasteland of TH-cam actually has stuff for grownups, sometimes I forget.
Love that beer 🍻
elon musk.