Check out the updated version of this video HERE! th-cam.com/video/PoVy5zvRJHc/w-d-xo.html Rerecorded with additional footage, better sound quality, more illustrations...
How beautifully you have explained the emotional layers , the contrast and the deep sentiments hidden beneath the words. poetry is not just about understanding the words, unfortunately this is what is mostly aimed by the teachers. How I wish for this level of literary sensitivity which is abstract yet comprehensive.
Thank you so much for your comment! I think if you already have that love of poetry inside you no one can stop you from seeing and feeling the beauty of it. Unfortunately, though, as you say, some teachers kill off the seeds which, if they were allowed to grow, would become the treasure of their students' lives. Poetry - like music, art, etc. - gives our lives meaning and depth. I hope you will always carry that love of it with you.
ANO SENSEI! AD-FREE EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS Thank you for such a wonderful response . I couldn’t agree more with your very words , Poetry not only enlightens the senses but provides solace to the inner self.Keep sharing your insightful knowledge with the world.
I'm glad you found it so! One of the things I constantly told my students was that poetry speaks the language of the heart, and the language of the heart is not difficult; it is only we who are sometimes too complicated to listen to it and understand it.
@@anosensei Thank you so much for your advice. I'm a graduate student and English literature is my prior subject, thanks to you I'm learning a lot from your channel. Seems like I'll gain more from this when I'll be doing Masters.
@@violetsblues9307 Great! I hope you are successful in your studies. I'm working on several different projects, but if you have any special request for a video, let me know and I'll see what I can do!
Such a clever analysis! You took it down to its core and made it easily understandable. Loved the simplicity of the comparison and contrasts. Thank you, sir! You’ve earned a new subscriber :)
Thank you for elaborately probing into the expressive devices and notions most prominent in this particular poetic account. The video beautifully explores the realm of ideas Keats incorporates. Kindest regards from Croatia!
You're welcome! Please check the updated version of this video, which has better sound quality and additional information not included in this version.
@@anosensei Oh, thank you very much! I also have one question, if I may: can the analogy of the "winds of poesy" Keats evokes be compared to the skylark as a symbol for poetry in Shelley's "To a Skylark" ? Thank you very much!
@@fred2018 Yes. There are several points of comparison. Keats's "wings of poesy" suggest poetry's ability to lift the poet's imagination and spirit, while Shelley's skylark is described as an "unbodied joy" that soars and sings high above the earth. Both poets use these symbols to represent an idealized conception of poetry: Keats portrays poetic imagination as having wings that can transport the mind beyond ordinary experience and Shelley calls the skylark an "immortal" being that embodies pure poetic expression. But there are also some differences. Keats's nightingale is more abstract, while Shelley's skylark is more a part of the real world of nature. Keats's "wings of poesy" are something he aspires to use, in an active way, while Shelley's skylark is an external source of inspiration that the poet observes in a more passive kind of way.
Thank you soooooooooooooo much Sir. I loved the way you explained. Couldn't stop myself from leaving your without subscribing and appreciating your way of teaching and critical analysis. Looking forward for more ❤❤❤👌👌👌 I'm a student from Pakistan 😊❤
Thank you, sir, I am from Iraq I am a student in the English Department at the college of education of humanity I get the point from your fascination explanation.
Thank u from Iraq... I'm a third stage student in the university of Baghdad & actually u 're my role model professer that I hope to be like you in critical creativity.. If u can professor, give me some pieces of advice to love poetry and analyze it by myself without resorting to sources ! 😔🙏🏻
Thank you so much for your warm response. I did start a series called "Journey through poetry", in which I attempted to demystify poetry and show how we could come to appreciate it with confidence in ourselves, rather than consulting other sources. As you probably know, I am making quite a wide range of different videos, so I haven't progressed very far with that series (so far there are only two videos), but I will definitely add to it fairly soon, so please keep checking back! Here is the link to "Journey through poetry": th-cam.com/video/OwI6PbYTLTM/w-d-xo.html
Hi! I've just uploaded a third video in the "Journey through poetry" series, and I'm planning to make a fourth one soon. th-cam.com/video/w0IJ2_OSja8/w-d-xo.html I hope you enjoy it and find it useful!
I've been a bit busy with other things, but I've made a start on Lycidas. Here is my reading of the poem: th-cam.com/video/KlnhOiCTc0M/w-d-xo.html. And here is the first part of my analysis: th-cam.com/video/oCwcg7XrJoI/w-d-xo.html. I'll be posting more of the analysis soon. Enjoy!
Thank you. So far, I haven't tried to cover drama. I plan to do so at some stage, but it's such a huge field! I do, however, have a video on Blake's "The Tyger" and "The Lamb", as part of a series on the poetry of William Blake. Here's the link: th-cam.com/video/WXBXodU5qKI/w-d-xo.html
You are most welcome! I'll be putting up a lot more videos analyzing poetry, so please subscribe to my channel (if you haven't already) to see more like this!
You are most welcome. I hope this video will help you to love poetry! Please subscribe to the "Ano sensei! Educational videos" channel "Ano sensei! Poetry" channel if you want to see more videos like this.
Thank you for the feedback. I really don't know the answer to your question! Some of my earlier videos had poor sound and poor visuals, so I invested in a decent microphone and camera in an attempt to solve those problems. But the results are not always as I expect! I'm partially deaf (I can hear things, but I often have difficulty making out the detail of what I hear), so it's sometimes hard for me to assess the quality of the sound and, to some extent, I rely on the equipment to do its job. Having said that, though, I can't see that the sound quality here is any better than in the more recent videos. Comparing them, I find that, for example, the "s" sounds are fuzzy here, symptomatic of a general fuzziness, whereas the newer ones have, to my ear, a more rounded and mellow sound. I wonder to what extent it depends on the equipment we are using? I remember telling my brother-in-law what a great song Soca Train was, and he downloaded it and played it on his (quite expensive) sound system and it sounded absolutely awful! Clearly the settings appropriate for his usual fare (mainly rock) were not right for Maximus Dan! Perhaps something similar is happening here?
@@anosensei I think it might have something to do with how close you are to the mic. With USB microphones, the proximity has a positive effect, if you can avoid creating plosives, that is.
@@laoshu8311 Yes, I find that overall sound quality is better with the Yeti microphone, but plosives and breathing become intrusive. It seems to pick up everything!
Don't you think that nightingale is poetry like poet see poetry as a nightingale, like the nightingale and poetry have the same characteristics like freedom and escapes the reality
That's a very good point! I am currently working on Coleridge's "Kubla Khan", which can also be seen as a kind of metaphor for the spirit of poetic creativity. This video on "Ode to a Nightingale" was my first attempt at analyzing a poem in a video in this way and, looking back on it, I feel that what it says is worth saying, but there is quite a lot that it doesn't say. It looks at the poem in just one way (in terms of the balance of positive and negative elements), and I've been thinking of doing a revised version, looking at it from different perspectives. So much to do and so little time!
@@anosensei yeah like i think, its just a random thought, what if the poet tries to tell us that its not about birds world, like he was more in love with poetry so he compared it to a exact living thing which shares the same characteristics
@@minusff333 Well, I wouldn't want to go overboard with that idea. I wouldn't go so far as to say "it's not about a bird, it's about being in love with poetry". I'd say it _is_ about a bird, but one of the dimensions of the bird is that it represents, or symbolizes, the poetic muse _among_ _other_ _things_ - such as joy, freedom from human suffering, and immortality.
Hi! I haven't stopped, but I've been busy with other things for the last two or three months. I will be posting more videos soon. Thank you for your interest!
Thank you for the encouragement. My next two or three videos will be on different topics, but I hope to make more poetry videos before the spring is too advanced!
Thanks so much for this.... PleasePlease sir make a video on" Odd To Autumn "by John Kits please sir I will always be greatful to you. Thanks.... Your obedient student Krishna
![Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats [with text] - Read by poet Arthur L Wood](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qtA-HoWX-HQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Check out the updated version of this video HERE! th-cam.com/video/PoVy5zvRJHc/w-d-xo.html Rerecorded with additional footage, better sound quality, more illustrations...
How beautifully you have explained the emotional layers , the contrast and the deep sentiments hidden beneath the words. poetry is not just about understanding the words, unfortunately this is what is mostly aimed by the teachers. How I wish for this level of literary sensitivity which is abstract yet comprehensive.
Thank you so much for your comment! I think if you already have that love of poetry inside you no one can stop you from seeing and feeling the beauty of it.
Unfortunately, though, as you say, some teachers kill off the seeds which, if they were allowed to grow, would become the treasure of their students' lives.
Poetry - like music, art, etc. - gives our lives meaning and depth. I hope you will always carry that love of it with you.
ANO SENSEI! AD-FREE EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS Thank you for such a wonderful response . I couldn’t agree more with your very words , Poetry not only enlightens the senses but provides solace to the inner self.Keep sharing your insightful knowledge with the world.
@@sujatasingh2017 Thank you! I will!
Superb explained whole essence of poem has been revealed .👍👍👍
This is so easy and helpful. You beautifully delivered the ideas within this ode.
I'm glad you found it so! One of the things I constantly told my students was that poetry speaks the language of the heart, and the language of the heart is not difficult; it is only we who are sometimes too complicated to listen to it and understand it.
@@anosensei Thank you so much for your advice.
I'm a graduate student and English literature is my prior subject, thanks to you I'm learning a lot from your channel. Seems like I'll gain more from this when I'll be doing Masters.
@@violetsblues9307 Great! I hope you are successful in your studies. I'm working on several different projects, but if you have any special request for a video, let me know and I'll see what I can do!
@@anosensei Sure I'll let you know and thanks again.
This explanation blew my mind
Glad you liked it!
Really great effort sir.I am English Literature student and I have this poem for annotation.
I'm glad you found it useful! I didn't mention the famous concept of "negative capability", and you may want to research that separately...
Where are you from ?
Beautifully read with a sense of English music
Thank you!
Thank you for this analysis. It gave me insight.
You are welcome!
Such a clever analysis! You took it down to its core and made it easily understandable. Loved the simplicity of the comparison and contrasts. Thank you, sir! You’ve earned a new subscriber :)
So glad you enjoyed it and found it useful!
Thank you for such an eloquently executed analysis!
I'm glad you liked it & I hope to produce many more like this over the coming year!
Thank you a ton!
You're welcome!
This video really made me appreciate poetry! Thanks for this thorough analysis :)
Thank you for the feedback! Knowing I have helped someone to appreciate poetry gives me motivation to carry on making videos like this!
Simply love your videos! Thank you for assisting my learning so effectively! God bless you!
Thank you! And you too. I'm glad you find them helpful!
Thank you for elaborately probing into the expressive devices and notions most prominent in this particular poetic account. The video beautifully explores the realm of ideas Keats incorporates.
Kindest regards from Croatia!
Thank you for your comment. I hope you will enjoy my other analyses of English poetry: th-cam.com/play/PLzVb6yL_jY69EiXaYHcLdERHMUA7nub5u.html
Impressed by the way you have presented it
Thank you!
Understandable description of the poem. very good.
Thank you! I'm glad it worked for you.
Great explanations sir, thank you!
You're welcome! Please check the updated version of this video, which has better sound quality and additional information not included in this version.
@@anosensei Oh, thank you very much! I also have one question, if I may: can the analogy of the "winds of poesy" Keats evokes be compared to the skylark as a symbol for poetry in Shelley's "To a Skylark" ? Thank you very much!
@@fred2018 Yes. There are several points of comparison. Keats's "wings of poesy" suggest poetry's ability to lift the poet's imagination and spirit, while Shelley's skylark is described as an "unbodied joy" that soars and sings high above the earth. Both poets use these symbols to represent an idealized conception of poetry:
Keats portrays poetic imagination as having wings that can transport the mind beyond ordinary experience and Shelley calls the skylark an "immortal" being that embodies pure poetic expression.
But there are also some differences. Keats's nightingale is more abstract, while Shelley's skylark is more a part of the real world of nature. Keats's "wings of poesy" are something he aspires to use, in an active way, while Shelley's skylark is an external source of inspiration that the poet observes in a more passive kind of way.
@@anosensei THANK YOU !
Thank you soooooooooooooo much Sir. I loved the way you explained. Couldn't stop myself from leaving your without subscribing and appreciating your way of teaching and critical analysis. Looking forward for more ❤❤❤👌👌👌 I'm a student from Pakistan 😊❤
I'm glad you enjoyed it and found it useful! Yes, I'll be making more poetry analysis videos, so stay tuned!
😊❤ Thank you so much Sir.
Thank you, sir, I am from Iraq I am a student in the English Department at the college of education of humanity
I get the point from your fascination explanation.
I'm glad you found it useful!
Excellent analysis
Thank you! Please check my other poetry & literature videos here: tinyurl.com/anoliterature
It's just awesome I never think about such comparison ☺thank you. Sir
I'm glad you enjoyed it and found it useful!
Thank you, wonderful analysis
Glad you enjoyed it! Please check my poetry playlist and subscribe to "Ano sensei!": th-cam.com/video/y-c7QEjCUGw/w-d-xo.html
This helped a lot!
Glad to know it!
Very well-explained! Thank you.
You're welcome! I'm glad you found it useful. Please check my other poetry videos on the "Ano sensei" channel!
thank you for the good explanation. 🥰
I'm glad you found it helpful!
Thnq so much sir..ur explanation is very helpful and clear for me....really happy to have this vdo 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you! I'm glad you found it useful!
Thank u from Iraq...
I'm a third stage student in the university of Baghdad & actually u 're my role model professer that I hope to be like you in critical creativity..
If u can professor, give me some pieces of advice to love poetry and analyze it by myself without resorting to sources ! 😔🙏🏻
Thank you so much for your warm response. I did start a series called "Journey through poetry", in which I attempted to demystify poetry and show how we could come to appreciate it with confidence in ourselves, rather than consulting other sources. As you probably know, I am making quite a wide range of different videos, so I haven't progressed very far with that series (so far there are only two videos), but I will definitely add to it fairly soon, so please keep checking back! Here is the link to "Journey through poetry": th-cam.com/video/OwI6PbYTLTM/w-d-xo.html
@@anosenseiOkay I will.. Thanks a million professor ✨
Hi! I've just uploaded a third video in the "Journey through poetry" series, and I'm planning to make a fourth one soon. th-cam.com/video/w0IJ2_OSja8/w-d-xo.html I hope you enjoy it and find it useful!
What a great analysis sir.thanks
You are most welcome!
Your explanations is just amazing i am ENGLISH literature student thank you so much 💗 I've learned alot
You're welcome! Let me know if you have any special requests for future videos and I'll see what I can do!
@@anosensei okk thank you please do vidoe on milton:Lycidas
I've been a bit busy with other things, but I've made a start on Lycidas. Here is my reading of the poem: th-cam.com/video/KlnhOiCTc0M/w-d-xo.html. And here is the first part of my analysis: th-cam.com/video/oCwcg7XrJoI/w-d-xo.html. I'll be posting more of the analysis soon. Enjoy!
Thank you ❤ from all Iraqi students for this great efforts 🌹
It's a pleasure!
Your videos are indeed a great source of knowledge! Please cover ' The Alchemist ' by Ben Jonson or 'The Tyger' and 'The Lamb' by William Blake.🌻
Thank you. So far, I haven't tried to cover drama. I plan to do so at some stage, but it's such a huge field! I do, however, have a video on Blake's "The Tyger" and "The Lamb", as part of a series on the poetry of William Blake. Here's the link: th-cam.com/video/WXBXodU5qKI/w-d-xo.html
Thank you from India...
You're welcome! Please check out my other English poetry videos on TH-cam: th-cam.com/video/y-c7QEjCUGw/w-d-xo.html
0:00 Introduction
0:11 Canto 1: Textual analysis
1:16 Canto 1: Context and comments
2:58 Canto 2: Textual analysis
4:37 Canto 2: Context and comments
5:28 Canto 3: Textual analysis
6:33 Round-up of cantos 1-3
7:20 Canto 4: Textual analysis
8:54 Context and comments
10:12 Canto 5: Textual analysis
11:08 Concluding comments
Well explained
Thank you for the feedback!
Good way to understand depth of critical poem..... Thank u from a pakistani student
I'm glad you found it useful. Please check out my other videos on language, literature, history and culture.
thank you!
You are most welcome! I'll be putting up a lot more videos analyzing poetry, so please subscribe to my channel (if you haven't already) to see more like this!
Thank you very much for your effort
You are most welcome. I hope this video will help you to love poetry! Please subscribe to the "Ano sensei! Educational videos" channel "Ano sensei! Poetry" channel if you want to see more videos like this.
Very nice!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.
Great nice explanation thanks dear sir, love u from Pakistan
I'm glad you found it useful. Watch this channel - more poetry analysis to be screened soon!
@@anosensei okk dear sir tomorrow my paper please pray for me good paper
Excellent
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.
thanks
You're welcome!
Why is the audio quality in this older video better than in your newest ones?
Thank you for the feedback. I really don't know the answer to your question! Some of my earlier videos had poor sound and poor visuals, so I invested in a decent microphone and camera in an attempt to solve those problems. But the results are not always as I expect! I'm partially deaf (I can hear things, but I often have difficulty making out the detail of what I hear), so it's sometimes hard for me to assess the quality of the sound and, to some extent, I rely on the equipment to do its job.
Having said that, though, I can't see that the sound quality here is any better than in the more recent videos. Comparing them, I find that, for example, the "s" sounds are fuzzy here, symptomatic of a general fuzziness, whereas the newer ones have, to my ear, a more rounded and mellow sound.
I wonder to what extent it depends on the equipment we are using? I remember telling my brother-in-law what a great song Soca Train was, and he downloaded it and played it on his (quite expensive) sound system and it sounded absolutely awful! Clearly the settings appropriate for his usual fare (mainly rock) were not right for Maximus Dan! Perhaps something similar is happening here?
@@anosensei I think it might have something to do with how close you are to the mic. With USB microphones, the proximity has a positive effect, if you can avoid creating plosives, that is.
@@laoshu8311 Yes, I find that overall sound quality is better with the Yeti microphone, but plosives and breathing become intrusive. It seems to pick up everything!
Don't you think that nightingale is poetry like poet see poetry as a nightingale, like the nightingale and poetry have the same characteristics like freedom and escapes the reality
That's a very good point! I am currently working on Coleridge's "Kubla Khan", which can also be seen as a kind of metaphor for the spirit of poetic creativity.
This video on "Ode to a Nightingale" was my first attempt at analyzing a poem in a video in this way and, looking back on it, I feel that what it says is worth saying, but there is quite a lot that it doesn't say. It looks at the poem in just one way (in terms of the balance of positive and negative elements), and I've been thinking of doing a revised version, looking at it from different perspectives.
So much to do and so little time!
@@anosensei yeah like i think, its just a random thought, what if the poet tries to tell us that its not about birds world, like he was more in love with poetry so he compared it to a exact living thing which shares the same characteristics
@@minusff333 Well, I wouldn't want to go overboard with that idea. I wouldn't go so far as to say "it's not about a bird, it's about being in love with poetry". I'd say it _is_ about a bird, but one of the dimensions of the bird is that it represents, or symbolizes, the poetic muse _among_ _other_ _things_ - such as joy, freedom from human suffering, and immortality.
Why have you left making such videos? God bless you
Hi! I haven't stopped, but I've been busy with other things for the last two or three months. I will be posting more videos soon. Thank you for your interest!
@@anosensei sir I will have been waiting for your videos excitedly .
I hope you will have time for us.
Regard from India
Thank you for the encouragement. My next two or three videos will be on different topics, but I hope to make more poetry videos before the spring is too advanced!
I have recently completed a series of videos on Shelley's Ode to the West Wind: th-cam.com/play/PLzVb6yL_jY68kvKQYjfOBXwK3NZyy0pCj.html Enjoy!
Good
Thank you!
Thanks so much for this....
PleasePlease sir make a video on" Odd To Autumn "by John Kits please sir
I will always be greatful to you.
Thanks....
Your obedient student
Krishna
I have already!
I still don't know what its about
I'm sorry I wasn't able to help you.
nice!
Thank you! Please check out my other poetry videos: th-cam.com/play/PLzVb6yL_jY69EiXaYHcLdERHMUA7nub5u.html
youre a fucking genius
Sentiment appreciated, but mind your language, please!
explain in Tamil language plz...
Not possible, I'm afraid. I don't speak Tamil. But if you know someone who can translate it I would be very happy!