As a Literature teacher, I commend you on this video. It is exactly what I teach my students to do. The background music is a little distracting. It could've been softer.
Hi Miss(rs) Dowrich. Will you be so kind to assist me with the poem by Lesego Rampolokeng "Johannesburg". Thanking you in advance if you can assist in these trying times.
Distracting? The music was a little distracting? You’re being kind. True peer review to help him become a better instructor would be to just knock it off with the music all together. Silly attempt at what?
@@nolnol815 dude I’m a PhD student in physics. This was just some high school project that caught the algorithm. Awfully aggressive on an 18 year old at the time. But you’re right in a way. I did knock it off with the poetry altogether.
@@benswolo6928 I thought your teaching method was very good. I wrote that. In fact, I hardly believed you were an adolescent. By your instruction, I thought you were a professional English teacher. My one and only single, solitary critique was the background music. Period. I hope you always return to poetry throughout your life. And share it with all the loved ones around you.
@@nolnol815 No issues at all. Best of luck with your actual teaching. I could never deal with high schoolers in a classroom. I stick to laboratories and such nowadays.
Can we please just appreciate the time that he had put into making this video to help us instead of whining about the music??? It doesn’t bother me at all! Y’all are just being dramatic
I appreciate the workmanlike approach to poetry analysis, and especially its utility in the context of an AP Lit/Comp class/test. However...this video, its theme and many of its details, exemplifies why students, and people at large, don't...read...poetry. The overall message here: poems have a "message", a "purpose", a "meaning", and it's my job as a reader to "crack" the poem, explain it, and why I think what I think about it. Is this what we should be teaching about poetry? Finally - at 7:54, our host falls into a trap, though I'm certain unintentionally, he seems a consummate professional, that many readers fall into when reading THIS VERY POEM...he mixes up the "message" of the poem (taking the less-travelled road makes all the difference!) with the poem's title ("The Road Not Taken"). In the hurry to quickly, efficiently, cogently and convincingly explicate the poem, he misses the work's central contradiction, the one that deepens the poem's meaning beyond the "life-lesson" status the poem represents to the vast majority of readers: Why is a poem, known for stressing the importance of choosing that which is uncommmon, against-the-grain, etc....the "road less travelled by"..., why is that poem entitled "The Road Not Taken"? NOT taken...not taken...doubt? Uncertainty? Regret? Perhaps the refusal to make either choice? Can we even trust the narrator? None of these challenging, beautiful, meaningful ideas can be explicated on an AP test.
I totally agree with you, but (as it sounds like you know) the AP is almost entirely assessment-driven, and "success" is based upon your test scores. Merely pondering doesn't equate to a passing AP test score, and (in my experience) most of the students in AP classes are hell-bent on earning a passing grade, not necessarily organic learning/growing through patient poetic appreciation. It's a massive bummer because in order to entice most of these kids, there has to be a grade-based incentive behind nearly everything I do. I was probably the exact same way in high school, but it sucks that there's little-to-no consideration for anything that's not immediately beneficial to them.
I read over it. I'm no english teacher, I am a physics major in 4th year university at this point, but here's what I gleamed. It is a poem that has themes of naivity, time always flowing foward, and coming of age. It uses allegory, repetition, and rhyme scheme to portray a mother who is writing to a child who is out of the house, and afraid of letting him go into the dangers that the world has. I reccomend reading up on Daedelous and Icarous from greek mythology for the metaphor to click. Also be sure to check out some of my other content :)
This is an excellent piece of analysing of poetry break down, probably more than what would be taught in school, but you can use help from someone of knows more about cameras, lighting and sound.
Lol this was a project I made about 5 years ago for AP Literature. I promise I've gotten better at production value since then. Never expected the video to blow up, but I won't complain.
This is more than my English teachers have taught me in 2 years
true
Thank you very much, I don't care how irritating and disturbing the music was, this actually helped me get better at this!
This is literally the best explanation ever, and one the best English lesson I have ever encountered. Dude you're a gift . Thank you!!!!
I love how this channel has 4 videos, one of them is the most helpful video I've seen for AP Literature and the other 3 are just StarWars videos
As a Literature teacher, I commend you on this video. It is exactly what I teach my students to do. The background music is a little distracting. It could've been softer.
Hi Miss(rs) Dowrich. Will you be so kind to assist me with the poem by Lesego Rampolokeng "Johannesburg". Thanking you in advance if you can assist in these trying times.
Distracting? The music was a little distracting? You’re being kind. True peer review to help him become a better instructor would be to just knock it off with the music all together. Silly attempt at what?
@@nolnol815 dude I’m a PhD student in physics. This was just some high school project that caught the algorithm. Awfully aggressive on an 18 year old at the time. But you’re right in a way. I did knock it off with the poetry altogether.
@@benswolo6928 I thought your teaching method was very good. I wrote that. In fact, I hardly believed you were an adolescent. By your instruction, I thought you were a professional English teacher. My one and only single, solitary critique was the background music. Period. I hope you always return to poetry throughout your life. And share it with all the loved ones around you.
@@nolnol815 No issues at all. Best of luck with your actual teaching. I could never deal with high schoolers in a classroom.
I stick to laboratories and such nowadays.
I appreciate the video, but what's up with that music dude...
its hype asf lmao
he's darth he who must not be named
It makes it less boring to me, it’s not just empty noise with his voice
Makes the vid more exciting
it made me less fearful
The force is strong with this one. Thank you general kenobi
Can we please just appreciate the time that he had put into making this video to help us instead of whining about the music??? It doesn’t bother me at all! Y’all are just being dramatic
"Read the damn poem!" - I want that framed on my wall XD
same here XD XD XD
@Jack Wilsher what about on the head ???
@Jack Wilsher would it look dope??
Very helpful is clarifying what was puzzling to me for years. I would drop the music, though, or change it to something not distracting.
Night before the exam!!!
Colton Brown Morning before the exam 😔😔😰.
same lol
@Tasneem IDRIS I'm literally doing one tomorrow morning.
same but i cant focus cus of the music, how did ur exam go tho?
Tommrow is mine
you are the teacher i never had
The music is fire idk what yall talking about it made me more focus. Plus his voice is calm so it doesn't set you off.
I didn't even notice the music until people pointed it out
Dlonad
Same LOL
you are very authentic !! thanks a lot for the help!! i wish there was a way i could be in touch with you to help me further more. Thanks again !!
PLLLLLZ MUSIC IS DISTURBING!!!!
Yes.
It wasn’t stopped it from being fucking boring
the music is amazing
Teachers should teach like this bro 🔥🔥🔥
“READ THE DAMN POEM” I need that on a shirt
Where can I buy it haha😂
Very helpful. studying literature at A level next year without studying it for my GCSEs, this gives me an idea of how to analyse pieces of text.
Awesome video! Incredibly helpful for my poetry analysis that I have to work on.
YEAAA WHO'S READY FOR TOMORROW!!!
Hell yeah
Bronson McLeod hell no😭
Me my man
YEAAA!!! BOIIIIIII
Not me
I almost gave up on eng literature but your video inspired me .thank you so much
This was really the best tutorial ever.
the music made me feel like i was having military training
These beats are 🔥
Great video. I really enjoyed the music it helps me concentrate on the lesson. Thanks a lot dude
BRO THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS HELPED ME A LOT and tbh the music kinda helped idek why the dudes in the comment section are whining about it
I appreciate the workmanlike approach to poetry analysis, and especially its utility in the context of an AP Lit/Comp class/test. However...this video, its theme and many of its details, exemplifies why students, and people at large, don't...read...poetry. The overall message here: poems have a "message", a "purpose", a "meaning", and it's my job as a reader to "crack" the poem, explain it, and why I think what I think about it.
Is this what we should be teaching about poetry?
Finally - at 7:54, our host falls into a trap, though I'm certain unintentionally, he seems a consummate professional, that many readers fall into when reading THIS VERY POEM...he mixes up the "message" of the poem (taking the less-travelled road makes all the difference!) with the poem's title ("The Road Not Taken"). In the hurry to quickly, efficiently, cogently and convincingly explicate the poem, he misses the work's central contradiction, the one that deepens the poem's meaning beyond the "life-lesson" status the poem represents to the vast majority of readers:
Why is a poem, known for stressing the importance of choosing that which is uncommmon, against-the-grain, etc....the "road less travelled by"..., why is that poem entitled "The Road Not Taken"? NOT taken...not taken...doubt? Uncertainty? Regret? Perhaps the refusal to make either choice? Can we even trust the narrator?
None of these challenging, beautiful, meaningful ideas can be explicated on an AP test.
I totally agree with you, but (as it sounds like you know) the AP is almost entirely assessment-driven, and "success" is based upon your test scores. Merely pondering doesn't equate to a passing AP test score, and (in my experience) most of the students in AP classes are hell-bent on earning a passing grade, not necessarily organic learning/growing through patient poetic appreciation. It's a massive bummer because in order to entice most of these kids, there has to be a grade-based incentive behind nearly everything I do. I was probably the exact same way in high school, but it sucks that there's little-to-no consideration for anything that's not immediately beneficial to them.
11 seconds into the video and I already love it
I didn’t even notice the music thanks for helping
I can't hear you for the music
This video is honestly really helpful. It made me feel more confident before writing my essay.
Super helpful. Thax. Speaking of super, I think it's so cool that Bat Man has a youtube account.
Bro people hating on the music.. it’s so good. The music made me hyper focus it was so good
OMG, that's the poem I'm literally going to do!!! thankyou!!!!
lucky lucky lol
The formula is so helpful for someone with a math brain like myself lol thank you for this!
Funny enough, my major is in physics w/ a concentration in biophysics XD
BenSwolo69 hilarious
I like the music. It made me feel less fear and made me excited to learn.
I just downloaded Meriam bcoz of this legit video. Thank u so much for sharing your knowledge. 💯✨
Love the How to Analyze a Poem Steps & the Poetry Google's.
Bravo pls continue to share other vids about literature n poetry
I was paying attention so hard, that I didnt even notice the music until i read the comments haha
The music - I can't concentrate and I can tell this is good stuff🙉🙈
I don't think our teacher teaches this at school
I don't know how to say this without being blunt but thanks, i liked this.
You’re really good at this, I wish I could be. Great video! Thanks!
You are terrific at teaching poetry.
AWESOME STUFF , MUCH NEEDED INFORMATION! 😃
very helpful. Thanx!!!
i want to thank you so much for great job that you do
Thank you this helped me pass PHYS 20BL
I appreciate it! I've learned something on here
The music almost makes me feel cool analyzing a poem
Real gangsters go on to study physics ;)
@@benswolo6928 couldn't agree more.
God bless you a lot! what you have done it's incredible
Thank you so much for this. This is really helpful!!!!
hi, could you analysis a poem called "Letters from home" by Grace Chua plsss? My exams are coming and I have no idea what the poem is talking abt😭
I read over it. I'm no english teacher, I am a physics major in 4th year university at this point, but here's what I gleamed.
It is a poem that has themes of naivity, time always flowing foward, and coming of age. It uses allegory, repetition, and rhyme scheme to portray a mother who is writing to a child who is out of the house, and afraid of letting him go into the dangers that the world has. I reccomend reading up on Daedelous and Icarous from greek mythology for the metaphor to click.
Also be sure to check out some of my other content :)
BenSwolo69 but my literature teacher said that the boy who the mother is writing to, is dead.
@@leowabby4958 exactly. thus the icarus metaphors :)
BenSwolo69 But thank you for taking the time and effort to read it:)
leow abby the poem is a ballad to hindsight and regret that she can’t have one more day with the child
God !! Where were u back when i was studying this alone
It's been so helpful. Thanks so much
Nice video mate keep it moving
great info bro! thanks for helping all of us !
Thanks man u saved my life ❤️
Thank you very much brother. In fact,you helped so much 💖💖❤💪
"Read the peom" that usually helps a majority on the time. LOL
So great, thank you!
I really loved your video it helped me a lot Thank you
this was amazing !
Turning the CC captions are helpful if the music is too distracting
Really good! Thank you.
Teaches how to analyze poems.. can’t spell imagery
still saves my english gcse
and mine sis, what are you doing for us?
I like that my English teacher linked the class a video from a channel called BenSwolo69.
Got’em good
Wow man, thankyou so much
talk louder when the music goes up it was like a contest of who tf could I hear
Good analysis. Watch out for spelling errors! Imagery and permanence were misspelled a few times.
"...knowing how way leads on to way.."
@@melaniesandsslater41 I know. Those 15 year old high school projects aren’t held to a high enough pedagogy.
Really helped
Thanks!
What is your pencil grasp called?
really helpful video dude!!! thank you
I write poetry and I love it and I speak to the ladies at the Dylan thomas museum and they say am a bit like him
This can't get any simpler than that
Wait, what do we do if our thesis statement is 24 lines long.......
Cuz mine might or might not be
Lmao
Thanks for this excellent explanation. May I ask if you offer online tutoring lessons? Thank you!
Is this the Odd1sout lit teacher, Mr. Batman??
THANK YOU SO MUCH .
That was very helpful thank you 💜
You sound like Miles Teller, also you're very helpful
you're a gem 💎
why dont you make more videos? this is so helpful
glad i found this
It is 'The Road Not Taken'
, not 'The Road less taken'
This is an excellent piece of analysing of poetry break down, probably more than what would be taught in school, but you can use help from someone of knows more about cameras, lighting and sound.
Lol this was a project I made about 5 years ago for AP Literature. I promise I've gotten better at production value since then. Never expected the video to blow up, but I won't complain.
Poetry goggles!! Thank you
Good video but music is loud. I think no music would gave been better. It was distracting.
Wow, you just changed your grasp to tripod! Congrat! lol
Pls do avoid the background music.its annoying...
the video is helpful..
📙💯
Thanks.
You didn't have to play music, it was distracting as well as the moving around of the camera. The content was good.
Great video but I find the background music very distracting
Ty dude, very helpful
I didn't even notice the music was there until I read the comments
Thanks so much