I wish this was taught like this when I was learning Shakespeare in school! My teacher only gave the briefest explanation and then moved on. Thank you so much for making this video!
This was fantastic! You explained it better than how they taught it in school and university. This is such a helpful resource for anyone learning about Shakespeare!
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 I did my undergraduate in English and I’m currently pursuing my masters in the same. I’m enrolled in poetry course where we write poems each week on different topics and I wanted to write the sonnet but just couldn’t figure out the rhyme-scheme. We had to write a political poem and I wanted to write about the war in Ukraine and use Pushkin as my inspiration. Ultimately ended up doing something totally different but this is such a timely video because I can still use these lessons in future writings. I really can’t thank you enough and I’ve shared this with my class. I hope you get so many more eyes on your videos which are so thoughtful and educational. Sending lots of love🤗❤️
@@ShivangiBhasin Pushkin is a great model for basing ones poetry on. I hope to expand my poetry reading this year. Thank you for your encouragement once again, Shivangi. And thank you so much for sharing my video with your class.❤
I think reading Shakespeare is a mistake without having previously watched a play or heard a finely acted audio book of it. I personally do read alongs as the actors (be it visually or audio) will help us understand what is being said and what is happening as of course the language used is not easy to decipher as modern audience a lot of the time. Of course in reference to this lesson you are giving us the fine actors will lay the stresses out as intended. Your channel is superb thank you. Hello from Gibraltar
This was great! Question: do people ever disagree with the idea that he wrote this way and that we aren’t retroactively deciding things are stressed or unstressed? Also, do you think he write with this in mind or was it instinctual?
At the beginning of your video I had no clue as to what Iambic Pentameter was. In fact I had never heard of it. But after your brilliant explanation, I understand completely. Your detailed video is brilliant. Thank you so much for that.
Oh, thank you Pauline, that means a lot. Pleased you enjoyed it. Shakespeare is quite something and a deeper appreciation for why and how he does things just makes his works even more enjoyable.
Wow! Thank you so very much for your enthusiasm and clarity! You have so much joy in your teaching. You are a gem for making this video. I look forward to watching more.
Brilliant! Im currently sleep deprived with a 5 month old and this video kept me completely hooked, which is saying something as my attention span has dwindled somewhat 🙃 thank you so much!
This was so wonderfully helpful. I've watched five or so other videos on iambic pentameter and yours was the best by far! Better than at school as well. Thank you!
Unless you are Australian, in which case it goes up at the end, everything is a query. Sun of York? Relax Aussies, I love you very much. Thank you, a very fine lesson. Iambic pentameter transcends dialect, that must be why Shakespeare is transcendent.
😂 So true about the Australian inflection. As for Shakespeare's transcendence, the chap was a genius. He was almost a channel which the rhythm of words flowed into the world.
This has been the best explanation of Iambic Pentametar that I've ever heard. I really enjoy your videos - you actually talk because you have something to say rather than just enjoying the sound of your own voice, like some other book tubers. Thank you!
Sir i am from Pakistan thankful to you for such an unusual contribution in literature understanding.God knows best you are great .I live in village here we don't have sources to owe economic contribution to you a legend .But in future days i wanna go to a metropolitan ,to prepare myself for Pakistan bureaucracy exams there such facility will be available to support and joining you in a proper give and take phenomenon.But now i would request the learning community to let real concept teachers work in their field and our economic subscription would be helful to the real teachers.in our country even fake educationists demand a lot of charges.I hope our supports would not go in vain.
I made it through all four years of high school literature and got out. Not understanding. I am back pentameter this video. Help me understand why it is and why it’s used. Thank you to the creators for putting this video out. It’s helped me a great deal. Appreciate Shakespeare’s work the soul of wit.…😊
Wonderful video - that I finally got around to watching, because I, too, thought I knew what Iambic Pentameter was, but I didn't even know what I didn't know...what even there was to know. This will help me in my work to write with more authority (I'm often writing things from an expert's point of view and need to convey competence and leadership). Please do other writing "tricks" to convey other "hidden" messages. It's like learning how a magic trick works! Here's a clickbait title for you to use: "5 secret writing tricks to get them feeling the way you want - Guaranteed!" ^_^
Wow, that was a delightful and genius lesson. 👏🏼 Omg, I just went down the rabbit hole, and I am full of reminiscence of my old school days when we studied metrics in my mother tongue, Hungarian. And I've forgotten about it almost everything, but it is so great to remember and relearn it again. And in English, with Shakespeare. 😊 This video is a gem. 💎 Thank you.🤎
You explained this so clearly (and eloquently!) that I will play this for my homeschooled sixth grader. Thank you! You are a great teacher, and this was a labor of love to explain it in such a manner.
Shakespeare 500 years later Incredible Homer 2700 years later The Prophet Isaiah well over 2,000 years The Ramayana over 2,000 years Mind-blown Thank you so much!
This is the most entertaining and informative lecture on language I have ever heard. Thank you for the tremendous amount of work and study you put in to present this to us.
This has to be one of the finest teaching videos I have ever seen! And the first minute or so Was mind-blowingly beautiful! Better than any cute cat video! Thank you so much!
I've seen a discussion about Shakespeares work on television by Peter OToole and Orson Welles who both said that the iambic pentameter must rule your whole performance. It's much easier to understand what they meant if you understand how iambic pentameter affects the way you speak the lines. Thank you so much Tristan.
I had an English teacher that, when he taught poetry, he always started with the rhythm, then the sentence structure or grammar, and only lastly attempted to decipher the meaning of the words. By that time I had zoned out & didn’t care any more about the poem, if I ever had, lol. He uncovered some really clever writing that way, but pretty much turned me off poetry for life!
Of all the men on TH-cam you teach best, I can recite the work of Shakespeare now :D But great video. I got really excited learning how it echoes the beat of the heart.
Seriously, this is the best video I've seen on the topic. Like many others, I've struggled a bit with coming to grips with iambic pentameter and really understanding the subtleties and intricacies of it, but this has given me a totally different perspective on it. This should be used in classrooms - it's that good. I'm rapt to have discovered this channel and will be more than simply "looking into it"....and furthermore, i don't care who knows it!
That was the best explanation of iambic pentameter I've ever heard, thank you Tristan. Thirty minutes well spent. Now, where did I put my complete Shakespeare.
Yes ignorant to this information , often times while reading Shakespeare i get in this ebb and flow which, beknowst to me is authentic prose or poetry ... wow I love Shakespeare.... the rereadablelity is unmatched with him..
This video was extremely helpful and interesting. I remember my teacher in high school trying to teach us Italian students iambic pentameter to no avail. Now, thirty years later, it is clear at last 😅
SIR YOU ABSOLUTELY BLEW MY MIND WITH THE TEE TUM EXERCISE BECAUSE I NEVER THOUGHT THE IAMBIC PENTAMETER LIKE THAT THANK YOU. YOU ARE A PHENOMENAL TEACHER.
Howdy. Musician and journalism major just now getting into reading the classics. This channel is amazing! Didn’t come from a great public school, so this has changed my life, especially my songwriting and writing career. 🤘🏻 thank you! I am particularly surprised by how iambic pentameter makes sense to me as an adult and having been a musician. But the way you explain it helped so much.
i studied this for german literature in school (& then for ancient greek and latin poetry) 🥰 most people dont miss their school days but i feel like i never again had such wonderful topics to explore right under my nose 😅 this is a wonderfully easy explanation
Sometimes, one thinks that one should be introduced to school later in life, when one really appreciates it. 😅 I think there should be a return to school when we are 30. It would improve society immensely.
The famous opening lines are spoken by Duke Orsino: **"If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die."** At first glance, it might seem that Orsino is requesting music to indulge and enjoy his feelings of love. However, a closer reading reveals a more complex and nuanced intention. Orsino seeks an overindulgence in music, hoping that by flooding himself with the stimulus associated with love, he will reach a point of satiety where his desire will "sicken" and eventually "die." This suggests a desire to cure himself of his obsessive infatuation with Olivia by overexposing himself to the very thing that fuels it.
Thank you (The rhythm of the heart, interesting). The rhythm of CPR, as I was taught, was to the song of the Bee Gee's "Staying Alive"...(or, more darkly as told to me by an EMT, "Another one bites the dust" by Queen). Which now makes me wonder if those songs lyrics are in Iambic pentameter.
@tristanandtheclassics6538 Creating such a useful video to share information is incredibly valuable, and you do it with heartfelt dedication and clarity. I deeply admire and respect your work🌟
I enjoyed this informative video immensely. This is wonderful timing as my students will begin studying The Tragedy of Macbeth next week. Thank you so much, and I look forward to learning more about literature from you!
The famous opening lines are spoken by Duke Orsino: **"If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die."** At first glance, it might seem that Orsino is requesting music to indulge and enjoy his feelings of love. However, a closer reading reveals a more complex and nuanced intention.
Hi Tristan, I’m glad to have found your channel! I’m not too familiar with Shakespeare’s work, but I just have a curiosity question: could Shakespeare have made his iambic pentameter rhyme or would that, in his day, be a sort of breaking with conventional rules of the time? Thanks for the work you’re doing, I’ll check out your channel soon… Cheers 💖!
Are you a teacher by profession? You would be a wonderful one. I always feel like I learn something while watching your videos, no matter the topic. Thank you for this one!
I'm not a teacher, Courtney, although I would've liked to be one. I have suffered a good deal of poor health which isn't good for a permanent teaching position. Though I have had the privilege of helping various students who have come to me for informal discussions. It's just a pleasure to be able to share my love of literature with people like you Courtney, who have a mutual passion and appreciation. Thanks so much for being so supportive. You're great. 👍❤
This is great. As a frequent traveller to Greece I wonder if some of the stresses are influenced by Greek, which although 'western' reverses the stress.
I thought i knew what is the Iambic Pentameter, not really until I watched this video !!!
Thanks, Adyshih! I'm pleased you enjoyed it.😃👍
If all teachers had your passion, the world would be a better place. Thank you.
I wish this was taught like this when I was learning Shakespeare in school! My teacher only gave the briefest explanation and then moved on. Thank you so much for making this video!
You have a very special talent for teaching. I learn so much from your videos.
This is just brilliant. I've looked around TH-cam and NOTHING compares to this explanation of iambic pentameter. Outstanding!!!
Thank you so much!
This was fantastic! You explained it better than how they taught it in school and university. This is such a helpful resource for anyone learning about Shakespeare!
Thank you so much, Sam. That's really kind of you to say. Thanks for taking the time to be so encouraging, I truly appreciate it.
I’m going to cry Tristan, you have no idea how long I’ve struggled to understand this concept you’ve explained so simply. Thank you, truly🥺
Oh Shivangi, that's made my day. That's the reason I make these videos. If they can help one person, I'm content.
This is the best comment I've had.😃❤
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 I did my undergraduate in English and I’m currently pursuing my masters in the same. I’m enrolled in poetry course where we write poems each week on different topics and I wanted to write the sonnet but just couldn’t figure out the rhyme-scheme. We had to write a political poem and I wanted to write about the war in Ukraine and use Pushkin as my inspiration. Ultimately ended up doing something totally different but this is such a timely video because I can still use these lessons in future writings. I really can’t thank you enough and I’ve shared this with my class. I hope you get so many more eyes on your videos which are so thoughtful and educational. Sending lots of love🤗❤️
@@ShivangiBhasin Pushkin is a great model for basing ones poetry on. I hope to expand my poetry reading this year.
Thank you for your encouragement once again, Shivangi. And thank you so much for sharing my video with your class.❤
Best 30 mins spent on YT.
Thank you. That is so kind of you to say.😀❤️
I think reading Shakespeare is a mistake without having previously watched a play or heard a finely acted audio book of it. I personally do read alongs as the actors (be it visually or audio) will help us understand what is being said and what is happening as of course the language used is not easy to decipher as modern audience a lot of the time. Of course in reference to this lesson you are giving us the fine actors will lay the stresses out as intended. Your channel is superb thank you. Hello from Gibraltar
This was great! Question: do people ever disagree with the idea that he wrote this way and that we aren’t retroactively deciding things are stressed or unstressed? Also, do you think he write with this in mind or was it instinctual?
At the beginning of your video I had no clue as to what Iambic Pentameter was. In fact I had never heard of it. But after your brilliant explanation, I understand completely. Your detailed video is brilliant. Thank you so much for that.
Oh, thank you Pauline, that means a lot. Pleased you enjoyed it. Shakespeare is quite something and a deeper appreciation for why and how he does things just makes his works even more enjoyable.
The most illuminating vid I've seen
You taught this lesson 'xactly like a pro
I hope to use this meter more in speech
I see what you did there 👀👀
Actually found this more useful then what I learned in two years at drama School.
You are an amazing teacher. This was so good - thanks!
Awww thanks, that's really nice of you to say. Iambic pentameter is fascinating isn't it?
Wow! Thank you so very much for your enthusiasm and clarity! You have so much joy in your teaching. You are a gem for making this video. I look forward to watching more.
Thank you so much!😀❤️
Brilliant! Im currently sleep deprived with a 5 month old and this video kept me completely hooked, which is saying something as my attention span has dwindled somewhat 🙃 thank you so much!
This was so wonderfully helpful. I've watched five or so other videos on iambic pentameter and yours was the best by far! Better than at school as well. Thank you!
I'm so glad that you found it helpful ☺️
Unless you are Australian, in which case it goes up at the end, everything is a query. Sun of York? Relax Aussies, I love you very much. Thank you, a very fine lesson. Iambic pentameter transcends dialect, that must be why Shakespeare is transcendent.
😂 So true about the Australian inflection.
As for Shakespeare's transcendence, the chap was a genius. He was almost a channel which the rhythm of words flowed into the world.
I found this very helpful. A rather scientific approach
This has been the best explanation of Iambic Pentametar that I've ever heard. I really enjoy your videos - you actually talk because you have something to say rather than just enjoying the sound of your own voice, like some other book tubers.
Thank you!
This is so well explained. You have really opened my eyes even more to the genius of Shakespeare. I always enjoy your videos, new and old. Thank you!
Sir i am from Pakistan thankful to you for such an unusual contribution in literature understanding.God knows best you are great .I live in village here we don't have sources to owe economic contribution to you a legend .But in future days i wanna go to a metropolitan ,to prepare myself for Pakistan bureaucracy exams there such facility will be available to support and joining you in a proper give and take phenomenon.But now i would request the learning community to let real concept teachers work in their field and our economic subscription would be helful to the real teachers.in our country even fake educationists demand a lot of charges.I hope our supports would not go in vain.
I made it through all four years of high school literature and got out. Not understanding. I am back pentameter this video. Help me understand why it is and why it’s used. Thank you to the creators for putting this video out. It’s helped me a great deal. Appreciate Shakespeare’s work the soul of wit.…😊
Thanks, Christopher. I'm pleased that you liked it. 👍
A fantastic explanation! Thank you so much for this. You bring Shakespeare to life in a wonderful way.
Wonderful video - that I finally got around to watching, because I, too, thought I knew what Iambic Pentameter was, but I didn't even know what I didn't know...what even there was to know. This will help me in my work to write with more authority (I'm often writing things from an expert's point of view and need to convey competence and leadership). Please do other writing "tricks" to convey other "hidden" messages. It's like learning how a magic trick works! Here's a clickbait title for you to use: "5 secret writing tricks to get them feeling the way you want - Guaranteed!" ^_^
Pleased you enjoyed it. And thank you for the video title. That's awesome!!!
Wow, that was a delightful and genius lesson. 👏🏼 Omg, I just went down the rabbit hole, and I am full of reminiscence of my old school days when we studied metrics in my mother tongue, Hungarian. And I've forgotten about it almost everything, but it is so great to remember and relearn it again. And in English, with Shakespeare. 😊 This video is a gem. 💎 Thank you.🤎
You explained this so clearly (and eloquently!) that I will play this for my homeschooled sixth grader. Thank you! You are a great teacher, and this was a labor of love to explain it in such a manner.
Wow! A fantastic video. This was helpful in every way. Thank you! 🎉
I'm so glad that you found it helpful ☺️
Shakespeare 500 years later
Incredible
Homer 2700 years later
The Prophet Isaiah well over 2,000 years
The Ramayana over 2,000 years
Mind-blown
Thank you so much!
This thirty minutes has given me so much Thank you
Wow, what an unbelievably brilliant style of explanation, Tristan. Thank you so so much for this, it made so much sense to me 😁😍
Tristan, you are a treasure. I am in the "middle" of Middlemarch, and your videos have helped me to appreciate this magnificent book even more.
This was very informative! Explained so well! Thank you for the video
Thank you Chris. It amazes me how much there is to how language works.
This was a wonderful video. It made me want to read more Shakespeare.
Love all your videos, but these educational ones really make my day! Thank you!
This is the most entertaining and informative lecture on language I have ever heard. Thank you for the tremendous amount of work and study you put in to present this to us.
Thank you, Harriet. I'm so glad that you liked it.😃❤️
Very informative and your enthusiasm is infectious.
This has to be one of the finest teaching videos I have ever seen!
And the first minute or so
Was mind-blowingly beautiful!
Better than any cute cat video!
Thank you so much!
wow thank you. the last part is the permission I needed to break iambic pentameter in a long poem I am writing!!!
I've seen a discussion about Shakespeares work on television by Peter OToole and Orson Welles who both said that the iambic pentameter must rule your whole performance. It's much easier to understand what they meant if you understand how iambic pentameter affects the way you speak the lines. Thank you so much Tristan.
I had an English teacher that, when he taught poetry, he always started with the rhythm, then the sentence structure or grammar, and only lastly attempted to decipher the meaning of the words. By that time I had zoned out & didn’t care any more about the poem, if I ever had, lol. He uncovered some really clever writing that way, but pretty much turned me off poetry for life!
I thought I knew about iambic pentameter, but after watching this, I truly know it. Thank you
Of all the men on TH-cam you teach best,
I can recite the work of Shakespeare now
:D
But great video. I got really excited learning how it echoes the beat of the heart.
Seriously, this is the best video I've seen on the topic.
Like many others, I've struggled a bit with coming to grips with iambic pentameter and really understanding the subtleties and intricacies of it, but this has given me a totally different perspective on it. This should be used in classrooms - it's that good.
I'm rapt to have discovered this channel and will be more than simply "looking into it"....and furthermore, i don't care who knows it!
I really love and appreciate your channel Tristan
I appreciate that!
Wow.... great video, really good information. Thank you for insight, that is a lot to think about.
That was the best explanation of iambic pentameter I've ever heard, thank you Tristan. Thirty minutes well spent. Now, where did I put my complete Shakespeare.
Yes ignorant to this information , often times while reading Shakespeare i get in this ebb and flow which, beknowst to me is authentic prose or poetry ... wow I love Shakespeare.... the rereadablelity is unmatched with him..
I listened to a few TH-cams on meter and this one was a delight to watch. Meter is clearly explained. Thank you
Thank you. That means a lot to me. 😀👍❤️
This makes me more interested in reading Shakespeare further. I only understood it in school when it was explained thoroughly.
This video was extremely helpful and interesting. I remember my teacher in high school trying to teach us Italian students iambic pentameter to no avail. Now, thirty years later, it is clear at last 😅
This is such a helpful video ❤❤
I'm so pleased that you found it helpful 😀
What an amazing lesson!
The rhythm of the heart! Brilliant!
Brilliant! Thank you so much for this amazing class. ❤
Thank you, Amy. I'm so pleased that you enjoyed it. 😀❤️
SIR YOU ABSOLUTELY BLEW MY MIND WITH THE TEE TUM EXERCISE BECAUSE I NEVER THOUGHT THE IAMBIC PENTAMETER LIKE THAT THANK YOU. YOU ARE A PHENOMENAL TEACHER.
I apologize for the caps lock but you very much made me see the beauty of English literature!
I got it finally! You are an amazing teacher😅
Thank you so much. Such an informative and great video. I loved how explained everything.
Howdy. Musician and journalism major just now getting into reading the classics. This channel is amazing! Didn’t come from a great public school, so this has changed my life, especially my songwriting and writing career. 🤘🏻 thank you!
I am particularly surprised by how iambic pentameter makes sense to me as an adult and having been a musician. But the way you explain it helped so much.
Awesome video. I"m going to try to write something in iambic pentameter. A sentence I never thought i would ever write lol.
Wonderful explanation. Thank you!
A superb explanation of iambic pentameter. Thank you!😊
Thank you, Francesca 😀 I'm so glad you enjoyed it ☺️
In a 1 month HUM course and this was very helpful ! Thank you
Great video! I can’t thank you enough.
I'm so pleased that you watched it. Thank you so much. 😀❤️👍
i studied this for german literature in school (& then for ancient greek and latin poetry) 🥰 most people dont miss their school days but i feel like i never again had such wonderful topics to explore right under my nose 😅 this is a wonderfully easy explanation
Sometimes, one thinks that one should be introduced to school later in life, when one really appreciates it. 😅 I think there should be a return to school when we are 30. It would improve society immensely.
SO helpful! Thank you 😊
Well done. Thanks, Tristan for all the good examples.😊I get it and love it and just emphasizes the genius of Shakespeare.
Sir.it's a great video. I never understood it in my college time but your methods of teaching n your smiling face makes things easier.
Thank you so much, Saleem.
Another excellent piece
Thanks Stephen 😊
Thank you for making this video. It's been really helpful to me.
very usefull and interesting. Thank you!
brilliant explanation..... sharing with my students... thank you ...love and respect..💌
Thank you so much. I hope your students find it helpful.👍
The famous opening lines are spoken by Duke Orsino:
**"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die."**
At first glance, it might seem that Orsino is requesting music to indulge and enjoy his feelings of love. However, a closer reading reveals a more complex and nuanced intention.
Orsino seeks an overindulgence in music, hoping that by flooding himself with the stimulus associated with love, he will reach a point of satiety where his desire will "sicken" and eventually "die." This suggests a desire to cure himself of his obsessive infatuation with Olivia by overexposing himself to the very thing that fuels it.
Thank you for the great explanation of the iambic pentameter that it’s not easy to learn. A great teacher I am so glad to find today!
God bless you. And may all your wishes and hearts desires manifest. Thank you for this lesson.
Thank you (The rhythm of the heart, interesting).
The rhythm of CPR, as I was taught, was to the song of the Bee Gee's "Staying Alive"...(or, more darkly as told to me by an EMT, "Another one bites the dust" by Queen).
Which now makes me wonder if those songs lyrics are in Iambic pentameter.
Amazing ❤
I'm so pleased that you enjoyed it ☺️
Oh you was so so clear to me my friend,
that I although brazilian being (you see)
maybe could try to write this way by now.
excellent explanation, thank you
So glad you found it helpful. 😀
As usual, i loved this video. I do enjoy the videos tremendously.
Oh! You are amazingly clear! Thanks!
Fantastic video!!
Fantastic video!
Thanks a lot 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
You are most welcome. I'm pleased that you enjoyed it ☺️
@tristanandtheclassics6538 Creating such a useful video to share information is incredibly valuable, and you do it with heartfelt dedication and clarity. I deeply admire and respect your work🌟
this is seriously underated..thankyou sir
Thank you so much. I appreciate it 😃❤️
Thank you so much! Best explanation ever!!! 😊🎉❤
Thank you for this amazing video!!! I studied this but found myself completely learning it anew! Why is our memory so fickle?!
this video was invaluable. thanks so much!
Really pleased that you found it so useful.
Subscribed!
I enjoyed this informative video immensely. This is wonderful timing as my students will begin studying The Tragedy of Macbeth next week. Thank you so much, and I look forward to learning more about literature from you!
The famous opening lines are spoken by Duke Orsino:
**"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die."**
At first glance, it might seem that Orsino is requesting music to indulge and enjoy his feelings of love. However, a closer reading reveals a more complex and nuanced intention.
This video is so good. It really shows you how romantic shakespeare actually was!!
What a brilliant explanation.
Great video, plenty of insight on the craft
Thank you Ramzy, I'm pleased that you enjoyed it.
Hi Tristan, I’m glad to have found your channel! I’m not too familiar with Shakespeare’s work, but I just have a curiosity question: could Shakespeare have made his iambic pentameter rhyme or would that, in his day, be a sort of breaking with conventional rules of the time?
Thanks for the work you’re doing, I’ll check out your channel soon… Cheers 💖!
Are you a teacher by profession? You would be a wonderful one. I always feel like I learn something while watching your videos, no matter the topic. Thank you for this one!
I'm not a teacher, Courtney, although I would've liked to be one.
I have suffered a good deal of poor health which isn't good for a permanent teaching position. Though I have had the privilege of helping various students who have come to me for informal discussions.
It's just a pleasure to be able to share my love of literature with people like you Courtney, who have a mutual passion and appreciation.
Thanks so much for being so supportive. You're great. 👍❤
This is great. As a frequent traveller to Greece I wonder if some of the stresses are influenced by Greek, which although 'western' reverses the stress.
Nicely done. Enjoyed that.
Thanks! I'm really pleased you did😃👍
Loved this! THANK YOU SO MUCH
Absolutely brilliant, thank you 🙏
Thank you. I'm so pleased that you enjoyed it. 😃❤️