Let’s Read and Understand a Poem: “In An Artist’s Studio” by Christina Rossetti

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  • čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
  • Today we will look at a sonnet by the 19th century poet, Christina Rossetti. It’s called ‘In an Artist’s Studio’, and has a connection with the visual arts and painting. I’ll go through the poem in detail, explaining the meaning and looking at some technical aspects such as rhyme, structure, form, and alliteration. I hope you find it interesting. I’ll also give you some background information on Christina Rossetti, her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his wife Elizabeth Siddal. For more information, and to see some of the paintings, go to: editions.covecollective.org/c...
    Take the quiz on this lesson here: www.engvid.com/lets-read-and-u...
    More of my videos about poems:
    Learn English with a Poem: "The Owl and the Pussycat" • Learn English with a p...
    Learn English with a Poem: "The New Colossus" • Learn English with a P...
    In this lesson:
    00:00 "In An Artist's Studio" by Christina Rossetti
    02:43 1. First Quatrain
    06:47 2. Second Quatrain
    11:01 3. Sestet
    20:54 Background information
    24:19 "In An Artist's Studio" by Christina Rossetti: Full Poetry Reading

Komentáře • 162

  • @engvidGill
    @engvidGill  Před rokem +62

    Thank you very much for watching, everyone! You can learn more about Christina Rossetti and the poem's background here: editions.covecollective.org/content/dante-gabriel-rossetti-christina-rossetti-and-elizabeth-siddal
    Watch all of my lessons on English poetry: czcams.com/play/PLjvCo2ax1ZUec55HG7h2EKV6k3rkYFFIi.html

    • @wangxiao2019
      @wangxiao2019 Před rokem +3

      Thank you so much

    • @lorenzapergolizzi5600
      @lorenzapergolizzi5600 Před rokem +3

      Thank you Gill! I appreciate your lessons so much! Merry Christmas and happy new year!

    • @JaneDoe-ci3gj
      @JaneDoe-ci3gj Před rokem +2

      Very intersting video, I liked it a lot!
      If you would like Gill, I'd appreciate more of these kinds of videos please!
      Merry Christmas to my favorite English teacher from Sweden!❤️🇸🇪

    • @valentinasampietro3074
      @valentinasampietro3074 Před rokem

      I LOVE watching Your precious videos!! Thank You so much ❤️. Best wishes from Italy! Happy New Year 💖

    • @Etihasmanthan
      @Etihasmanthan Před rokem +1

      Thank you

  • @000ani
    @000ani Před rokem +26

    Hi teacher, I'm from Uruguay and I'm studying literature (in Spanish of course) but i also want to learn English literature, so that's my next career. I love sonnets... The form is perfect and it amazes me. Thanks for the video. Literature is magic and unique in all languages!

    • @acevedoacevedoruben6588
      @acevedoacevedoruben6588 Před rokem

      That's amazing, I also love sonnets so much that I even wrote some when I was at High School (in Spanish, since it's my native language). I hope I can read good poetry in English.

  • @kinda4664
    @kinda4664 Před rokem +31

    Poetry is my guilty pleasure!😊Thank you for the lecture, Gill!

    • @engvidGill
      @engvidGill  Před rokem +17

      No need to feel guilty about it ;-)

    • @JaneDoe-ci3gj
      @JaneDoe-ci3gj Před rokem +3

      Poetry is awesome and can be really powerful!

    • @aglajaep
      @aglajaep Před rokem +1

      @@engvidGill Dear Gill. I love so much your lessons, you’re a wonderful teacher. May I ask you: do you give private lessons online? Please let me know, I would like so much. Thank you 🙏🏻

    • @nature_words23
      @nature_words23 Před rokem +1

      Gorgeous as far as I could have it in mind. Much I thank you.

  • @marcoschacon6922
    @marcoschacon6922 Před rokem +15

    Thank you very much for your time and your great lessons.

  • @kleberveridianogoncalvesde6293

    Beautiful poem, Thank you for your lessons!

  • @agnieszkastachowiak8636
    @agnieszkastachowiak8636 Před rokem +10

    Thank you so much for this poem. When I was at College for teachers I didn't like literature and with You I just love it! More poems and newspapers please 🙌

  • @user-dt6kv7kk1s
    @user-dt6kv7kk1s Před rokem +8

    Thanks a lot. I enjoyed every minute of the video. More poetry analysis!

  • @aysegulgoknar
    @aysegulgoknar Před rokem +9

    Thanks Madam for Your lessons for all the year, we are looking forward for them in the new year too. Merry Christnas and happy new years ahead Dear Madam Gill. Greetings from Turkey.

  • @inesgomez3321
    @inesgomez3321 Před rokem +7

    Thanks a lot. The lesson is great. The best to you.

  • @sparkle4life11
    @sparkle4life11 Před rokem +7

    Hello, thank you so much for all that you do. Peace and blessings onto you. 😇🙏💌

  • @AnilThakur380
    @AnilThakur380 Před rokem +6

    Thank you so much 🙏🙏
    You teach in very polite fully 🙏🙏

  • @BrunaMaraWanderley
    @BrunaMaraWanderley Před rokem +3

    Gil, you give so much enlightment to us, I truly want to hug you, thank you very much ma'am. Here in Brazil, we have popular poets called 'cordelistas' ('cordelists', maybe in English, I guess) and they say that when the phrase ends with a not precise semi vowel that the poem has the 'broken foot' - that poem is made with a 'broken foot' rhym. That also occuors when the poem don't fallows exatally the sylabic metric. But, those poems have beauty and porpuse too in their own way. Ah, just a tiny contribution: a sestet is composed by two tercets. Sorry for any error in that writting.

  • @cafepoem189
    @cafepoem189 Před rokem +7

    Thank you so much for your passion and all the depth you go into with the topics.🙏

  • @ramamonato5039
    @ramamonato5039 Před rokem +2

    When I am dead, my dearest,
    Sing no sad songs for me;
    Plant thou no roses at my head,
    Nor shady cypress tree:
    Be the green grass above me
    With showers and dewdrops wet;
    And if thou wilt, remember,
    And if thou wilt, forget.
    I shall not see the shadows,
    I shall not feel the rain;
    I shall not hear the nightingale
    Sing on, as if in pain:
    And dreaming through the twilight
    That doth not rise nor set,
    Haply I may remember,
    And haply may forget.

  • @OO-kh8sw
    @OO-kh8sw Před rokem +2

    Very very amazing session . You are a great teacher. Many thanks

  • @briza2022
    @briza2022 Před rokem +7

    Although Pre-raphaelist paintings are my favorite, this is the first time that I listen to a poem.
    Thank you teacher for your lessons with reflection, your patience, you are the best 🌸💕😙 Happy Holiday and Happy new year 🌞

  • @mariaceciliapintonbarbi6163

    Gill, you are such an inspiration to me! Thank you for your lovely work!

  • @mohsenrafiee335
    @mohsenrafiee335 Před rokem +1

    Thanks Gill for the incredible video.
    The line: That mirror gave back all her loveliness
    I think mirror here is a metaphor for canvas because mirrors never lie and reflect your image as you are. Only a canvas with the help of an artist can give back her long-lost beauty.
    The model in the poem has left behind her youth and the artist has done his best to defy time and its pulverizing force.

  • @ilciavargas7318
    @ilciavargas7318 Před rokem +4

    Well probably there was a mirror just to enhance her body, multiply the image or give light to the canvas. We have to be aware that glass, mirror or metal was used throughout the history of painting in order to show the reflection of self portraits and painting. In one of the picture of the Dutch painter Vermeer (the anonimous art genius) we can see the reflection of the girl taken music lessons.

  • @JuliaDutta
    @JuliaDutta Před rokem +7

    Hello Gill, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from me in India! It is not a wonder then, the very famous poet was also known for her Christmas carols - In the Bleak Midwinter , being one of them. Thank you for bringing uo Chrisyina Rosette. Very captivating indeed.

  • @keynerdanieloliverasbaraca6338

    Thank you very much for your lessons, you're so amazing, love u.

  • @bellahgift3948
    @bellahgift3948 Před rokem +3

    Wow teacher I like the way you explain every word in sentence

  • @MR-KAIF343
    @MR-KAIF343 Před rokem +3

    May god bless you Mrs Gill Merry Christmas Eve 🎀🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎀

  • @user-re5xg4ds6u
    @user-re5xg4ds6u Před rokem +2

    Thanks , from my Heart

  • @MarieTudorr
    @MarieTudorr Před rokem +1

    I am a French student studying English at college and I wanted to thank you for everything you do. It helps me a lot, either to improve my English skills or for my studies. We are currently studying Poetry in Literature, and I struggled with this topic. Thank you :)

  • @hastalavista9431
    @hastalavista9431 Před rokem +1

    My lovely teacher, I'm so grateful for this perfect lesson of English literature! Thank you!

  • @ahmedalshalchi
    @ahmedalshalchi Před rokem +3

    Wonderful Gill .... May GOD bless you for all good English courses you gave to pubic.... I wish I can speak your accent fluently ....

  • @thefirstdarius
    @thefirstdarius Před rokem +3

    My favourite English painters are John William Waterhouse and John William Godward. Their artworks depict scenes from the daily life and mythology of ancient Greece/ancient Rome. Arthurian legends are also a subject matter of Waterhouse's paintings.

  • @keren9322
    @keren9322 Před 10 měsíci

    I have been working in the education sector for a long time. I still come back to Gill's channel regularly. She is a great teacher not only for students but also for teachers.

  • @amingheisari1064
    @amingheisari1064 Před rokem +4

    Many thanks Gill, that was marvelous. 👍
    Really I enjoyed a lot with the lesson and also the unique way you taught as always.
    I'm interested in poems a lot, and I was really surprised when I found out that what a small world we have because we have similar rules in our poems in Persia.
    Have a great day, nice weekend, A Marry Christmas and Happy New Year, dearest Gill.

  • @artistman8053
    @artistman8053 Před rokem +1

    You are amazing teacher and mentor.....

  • @angelingelheM
    @angelingelheM Před rokem +4

    Great video! This is very helpful even for native speakers

  • @fleurblanche7642
    @fleurblanche7642 Před rokem +2

    Thank you very much for introducing to us this splendid achievement of Refailite circle of the painting that nourished her poetry This is simply beautiful with its story that emerges from the lines

  • @kristiyaniliev4002
    @kristiyaniliev4002 Před rokem +4

    It seems like a painting by her brother, Dante Rossetti. Thank you.

  • @devjanichakraborty6204
    @devjanichakraborty6204 Před rokem +2

    Dear Ma'am Gill,
    Wish you and your family a Happy New Year ! 2023
    God bless you !

  • @alimh9392
    @alimh9392 Před rokem +3

    That was the best video i can watch to start my weekend . Thanks . Love you ❤️

  • @marzenagodek425
    @marzenagodek425 Před rokem +1

    Bill is definitely my favourite teacher. Thank you very much.

  • @alfieromonteverdi7980
    @alfieromonteverdi7980 Před rokem +3

    As usual an amazing lesson. Thanks Gill and A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🎄🎉

  • @Alex60848
    @Alex60848 Před rokem +2

    I wish you long life. You are a great teacher.

  • @MariaRodriguez-yw6gs
    @MariaRodriguez-yw6gs Před rokem +3

    Miss Gill, thanks for your amazing lessons....Merry Christmas and a Happy New year, from Lima,Peru

  • @niemnanamna4327
    @niemnanamna4327 Před 5 měsíci

    I love your lessons, you are a great teacher . Thank you for your time ❤

  • @igoroliveira3774
    @igoroliveira3774 Před rokem +1

    A lovely lesson as well as intriguing. More videos like this, please.

  • @blumencitadeutschland1763

    Greetings from MEXICO!!

  • @mariahsalles2869
    @mariahsalles2869 Před rokem +2

    👏👏👏👏 obrigada por tudo Gil!!! Estou aprendendo inglês com o seu canal e compartilhando seus ensinamentos com amigos. Convidando-os a aprender com a senhora.👏👏

  • @qowalapundit3171
    @qowalapundit3171 Před rokem +1

    More poems ! 🎉🎉🎉🎉😍

  • @arturobarriga1385
    @arturobarriga1385 Před rokem +1

    Thanks, great teacher!

  • @TotalistaOff
    @TotalistaOff Před rokem +1

    Thanks for the video!
    And happy holidays for you Gill!

  • @vebeccatofft3115
    @vebeccatofft3115 Před rokem +1

    Thank you, Gill!

  • @Maria_Kuzmenko
    @Maria_Kuzmenko Před rokem +1

    Gill, we love u ❤❤❤ Thank you!

  • @__alexa_____alexa___8357

    Hello Gill ! Thank you for your videos! Love you ❤

  • @AmadouBah-mo1vv
    @AmadouBah-mo1vv Před 2 měsíci +1

    I wish you long life you are a good Teacher

  • @devendersinghattri4654

    Absolutely Superb way of teaching !

  • @priomchy630
    @priomchy630 Před rokem +1

    That's really a wonderful explanation as you delivered the entire poem with smooth and lucid narrative style I would like to watch more Videos especially of the most remarkable poetry and other genres of English literature as I myself am an avid student of world literature. Thank you.

  • @marziyefazel7507
    @marziyefazel7507 Před rokem +1

    I enjoyed this lesson a lot. Thank you for sharing your knowledge❤
    By the way I love your style!

  • @Etihasmanthan
    @Etihasmanthan Před rokem +4

    Really nice session

  • @vachasvachas4126
    @vachasvachas4126 Před rokem +1

    Mam you are inspiration for many peoples

  • @gabriellagirardi4741
    @gabriellagirardi4741 Před rokem +3

    Poems and literature are so important to learn English. Thank you very much for this awesome video snd wish you Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. 🌲❤🎄

  • @geetanair879
    @geetanair879 Před rokem

    So beautiful...thourghly enjoyed.thank you.

  • @Anastasia_Gold
    @Anastasia_Gold Před rokem +2

    Hello. I am from Ukraine. Your voice is very good and make me relax) thanks for your work

  • @nature_words23
    @nature_words23 Před rokem +1

    Fascinating. Wish I had it accompanying my learning English..a bit earlier.

  • @randasamara9016
    @randasamara9016 Před rokem +1

    Thank you for your help

  • @vevepriezviskova6909
    @vevepriezviskova6909 Před rokem

    Awesome lesson! Please keep doing more poetry and literature! :D

  • @Barbarossa-heir
    @Barbarossa-heir Před rokem

    Thank you teacher 😌
    It is so soothing to be your pupil

  • @fleurblanche7642
    @fleurblanche7642 Před rokem

    I HAVE JUST SEEN IT AGAIN iT It is so moving so pregnant with artistic quality of life of which creation is a facet creation and creativity I googled on internet and came up to her all poems and it is lovely so enveloped in secrets

  • @vinay.486
    @vinay.486 Před rokem +2

    I am from India. and I love the way she taches.
    so love you ma'am from my pure heart.
    if this comment reaches you , give a ♥.
    thank you!

  • @chloesong789
    @chloesong789 Před rokem

    Thank you so much for your video ❤ It really helps me a lot.

  • @achiima1144
    @achiima1144 Před rokem

    Thank you, so much. I have really enjoyed the poem❤

  • @handlingmngr642
    @handlingmngr642 Před rokem +1

    It was an amazing video, thank you very much 💖💐

  • @Kolianseey
    @Kolianseey Před rokem +2

    Good lesson. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Wish you Wealth and Health. Thanks a lot...

  • @fleurblanche7642
    @fleurblanche7642 Před rokem +3

    Hello I am here again This is a marvellous poem It is rich in artistic creation and life of painters and their models This is incredible Pre raephelite painting This is creative Thank you Gill

    • @fleurblanche7642
      @fleurblanche7642 Před rokem

      Thank you very ;uch for liking my commentary i e my two commentaries I only knew about this poem the day I saw it at Gill Engvid i was flabbergasted because the horizon in the comprehension in its resding is immense I knew another writer not Englisg whose charecter was obsessed with the face that will mean his art and it was his dream I try to read this poe; to know it read it again and again It is maybe a litrary lieu commun a topic Sorry i like this poe;e A Gallatee like Happy New year

  • @user-sc9cf6bm7m
    @user-sc9cf6bm7m Před rokem +1

    Thank You so much !

  • @htayhtayyi7758
    @htayhtayyi7758 Před 2 měsíci

    Thank you so much for great lecture.💓💓💞

  • @eustaquiozambrano2974
    @eustaquiozambrano2974 Před rokem +1

    Thank you so much. 👍

  • @gonzalocarrasco6470
    @gonzalocarrasco6470 Před rokem +1

    I enjoy your videos. Please keep doing it.

  • @eliebenmahfoud3616
    @eliebenmahfoud3616 Před rokem +1

    Thanks a lot, Jill.

  • @bahamansour3178
    @bahamansour3178 Před rokem

    I think i,ve already fallen in love with this old lady !

  • @markchiang3449
    @markchiang3449 Před rokem +2

    Greetings from Taiwan.
    Happy new year.
    ❤❤❤🍷🍷🍷👏👏👏

  • @user-xy7xm3dt2y
    @user-xy7xm3dt2y Před rokem +1

    Merry Christmas from Greece!

  • @ananikis4841
    @ananikis4841 Před rokem

    Thank you. You are a great teacher. Greetings from Mexico City! Happy New Year for you and all your students.❤️🎶

  • @GulsenChef.61
    @GulsenChef.61 Před rokem +1

    Thank you very much 👍👏🌹

  • @ezequielgonzalez8567
    @ezequielgonzalez8567 Před rokem +2

    Merry Christmas Gill!

  • @antonsuhartaji3998
    @antonsuhartaji3998 Před rokem

    Thx for the lesson

  • @daysiravelo3666
    @daysiravelo3666 Před rokem +1

    Merry Christmas Gill
    A Happy new year.

  • @cb2526
    @cb2526 Před rokem

    Thank You!

  • @mariajulia6620
    @mariajulia6620 Před rokem

    Sua aula é muito boa 👏👏

  • @BM-lm8zg
    @BM-lm8zg Před rokem +1

    my favourite one

  • @lini8444
    @lini8444 Před rokem +5

    Could the 'mirror' be the painting itself because her beauty is reflected in it.He didn't look at her as she is ,with flaws and all, but as a perfect damsel of his dreams.

  • @agostinapena3589
    @agostinapena3589 Před rokem

    I'm sitting for finals and this video has been very useful. I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks! 😄

  • @zurronna
    @zurronna Před rokem +1

    Merry Christmas from Germany 🇩🇪 ❤

  • @thilakasirispathiranage9981

    It's pretty interesting poem. Thanks.

  • @devjanichakraborty6204
    @devjanichakraborty6204 Před rokem +4

    Dear Ma'am Gill ,
    Wish you and your family a Merry Christmas ! 🧑‍🎄
    You are a wonderful English teacher !
    God bless you !✋
    😃

    • @devjanichakraborty6204
      @devjanichakraborty6204 Před rokem +1

      Ma'am Gill,
      Here,in the poem 'ln An Artist's Studio' by Christina Rossetti,you have shown the ryhming scheme of a sonnet which is very useful to the students of English literature and i liked the explanation of the poem as well !
      Ma'am,i feel,this poem has some resemblance with the poem 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning,though that is not a sonnet,but the subject of the poem is almost the same !
      Thank you so much !😃

  • @maximilyen
    @maximilyen Před rokem +1

    Lovely

  • @ahmedamd9981
    @ahmedamd9981 Před rokem +2

    Hi coach uoy did very well 👏 I would like to join with you for all your lessons.

  • @OlimShermatov-ds8se
    @OlimShermatov-ds8se Před 2 měsíci

    Спасибо мадам Гил за урок !!!
    Изучение языка через стихи это очень хороший и лёгкий способ владение иностранным языком !!!
    Я люблю Пушкина и Байрона читаю в оригинале
    Я из Узбекистана Узбек
    Себя считаю полиглотом
    Я учитель французского и английского языков ...
    Пожалуйста побольше стихов !!!!?

  • @user-xt9jw4gt7o
    @user-xt9jw4gt7o Před rokem +2

    Hi miss Gill. What about a poem about Christmas? Merry Christmas with Christ in our hearts.

  • @poisonmush3065
    @poisonmush3065 Před rokem +1

    Merry Christmas 🎉

  • @StevieWeevie66
    @StevieWeevie66 Před rokem +2

    Merry Christmas Gill! Steve from Rose Bruford xx

    • @engvidGill
      @engvidGill  Před rokem +1

      Hi Steve - wishing you the same :-)

  • @alpapietra638
    @alpapietra638 Před rokem +2

    “Quatrain” is probably from Italian (!) “quartina” (“quattro” =4).

  • @AmadouBah-mo1vv
    @AmadouBah-mo1vv Před 2 měsíci

    Thanks so much madam

  • @panaivhiha
    @panaivhiha Před rokem

    Love you