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Before I Got My Eye Put Out - The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: Crash Course English Literature #8

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  • čas přidán 14. 08. 2024
  • In which John Green concludes the Crash Course Literature mini-series with an examination of the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Sure, John explores the creepy biographical details of Dickinson's life, but he also gets into why her poems have remained relevant over the decades. John discusses Dickinson's language, the structure of her work, and her cake recipes. He also talks about Dickinson's famously eccentric punctuation, which again ends up relating to her cake recipes. Also, Dickinson's coconut cake recipe is included. Also, here are links to some of the poems discussed in the video:
    Faith is a Fine Invention: www.poetryfound...
    I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died: www.poetryfound...
    Before I Got My Eye Put Out: www.poetryfound...
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  • @rafi7126
    @rafi7126 Před 7 lety +1762

    With Emily Dickinson poems half of the time I don't understand at all whatsoever, and the other half I'm blown away with how much sense some of the poems make.

    • @whit2642
      @whit2642 Před 5 lety +78

      That’s normal with poetry. Go back to it later. You will see it differently

    • @nakiarobby3996
      @nakiarobby3996 Před 4 lety +12

      @@whit2642 agree

  • @MonaLisaFaceMusic
    @MonaLisaFaceMusic Před 4 lety +1765

    I feel like I could spend 10 years studying her poetry. Like it could be it’s own major.

    • @kaitlin3102
      @kaitlin3102 Před 4 lety +49

      Same, I’d love it if there was an entire class dedicated towards analyzing Emily Dickinson’s life and her poetry.

    • @ieatgremlins
      @ieatgremlins Před 4 lety +32

      Go to grad school 😊

  • @GiuliaSocolof
    @GiuliaSocolof Před 9 lety +2783

    “Dickinson rarely left her house and often talked to visitors through a closed door.” Sounds like my standard Saturday with Netflix

    • @AlexisGonzalez-tj6hl
      @AlexisGonzalez-tj6hl Před 8 lety +18

      +Giulia Socolof Netflix and dickinson ... think about it

    • @Dedonarivl96
      @Dedonarivl96 Před 8 lety +4

      +Alexis Gonzalez hahahahahahaha blatant penis reference man you are quite the connoisseur of jokes my friend

    • @AlexisGonzalez-tj6hl
      @AlexisGonzalez-tj6hl Před 8 lety +10

      like netflix n chill. but dickinson...... nvm lmao

    • @rosebranan675
      @rosebranan675 Před 6 lety +3

      Do you where sad cloths and write deeply depressing poetry?

    • @emmerz22
      @emmerz22 Před 6 lety +1

      Giulia Socolof yeah but she’s actually using her mental energy to create something that lasted.

  • @TheaterRaven
    @TheaterRaven Před 7 lety +740

    "Between 1858 and 1865, Emily Dickinson wrote over 800 poems."
    Sure, she was becoming more of a recluse at that time, but still, over 800 poems in seven years? Wow. And here it's been six years since I started writing my novel and I'm only on the second draft.

  • @AxelQC
    @AxelQC Před 5 lety +301

    Dickinson is by far my favorite poet. She's the most relatable and the most subversive to her time.

  • @erinsolomon7774
    @erinsolomon7774 Před 4 lety +272

    Maybe the dashes are there to allow the reader, or even Emily herself, to take in what was written. She wants us to contemplate them and not just be willing to immediately move on to the finish line. Each line is meant to be a poem unto itself as well as to be a poem of a whole. There's the individual line - expression of the individual, vs the poem as a whole - expression and interpretation of society.

  • @Altorin
    @Altorin Před 10 lety +896

    I suffer from social anxiety disorder too, and rarely leave my room.
    time to write poetry I guess.

    • @Paycorn1
      @Paycorn1 Před 10 lety +20

      Who said she had social anxiety? I'd say it was agoraphobia.

    • @katesanders6715
      @katesanders6715 Před 10 lety +27

      Paycorn1 The two often go together, agoraphobia an expression of social anxiety. My best friend struggles with this.

    • @dustinmorgan4363
      @dustinmorgan4363 Před 7 lety +3

      same.

    • @tempestas2920
      @tempestas2920 Před 5 lety

      @Back Bay Man52 Same dude

    • @MasterMonkshot
      @MasterMonkshot Před 5 lety +1

      Altorin Definitley dealt with this, I think empathic action is essential in reintroducing yourself to the world.

  • @TwentySeventhLetter
    @TwentySeventhLetter Před 9 lety +914

    Why do any of the comments _not_ start with "Mr. Green, Mr. Green!"?

    • @FROPDESAI
      @FROPDESAI Před 9 lety +8

      Genius!

    • @meganb.2249
      @meganb.2249 Před 5 lety +17

      They don't start with "Mr. Green" because society has lost the vast majority of its mutual respect for elders and their wisdom."

    • @rangus_jangus
      @rangus_jangus Před 5 lety +6

      Why is THIS the top comment? also Whovians for the win

    • @tbh7244
      @tbh7244 Před 4 lety +2

      @@meganb.2249 boo hoo

    • @patriciamcgeorge2575
      @patriciamcgeorge2575 Před 4 lety +6

      Mr Green, Mr Green! Why doesn't this comment start with "Mr. Green, Mr. Green!"

  • @sarkasticchik9133
    @sarkasticchik9133 Před 10 lety +955

    "The history of the United States matters to you because we're always meddling in your affairs." Never thought I would hear an American say that! More reasons to love John Green.

    • @sarkasticchik9133
      @sarkasticchik9133 Před 9 lety +12

      Never say you were, I just find what John said funny...

    • @EndrChe
      @EndrChe Před 9 lety +27

      So do I, largely because I agree with him. I wasn't offended, but simply felt it was worth mentioning that everyone on the planet is being represented by someone they probably wouldn't even ask to check on their dog for them.

    • @sarkasticchik9133
      @sarkasticchik9133 Před 9 lety

      Che Marshall Okay :)

    • @EndrChe
      @EndrChe Před 8 lety +1

      Karl Hiramanek Meaning?

    • @SapphireLily13
      @SapphireLily13 Před 7 lety +2

      Sarkastic Chirk, Savage :)

  • @thistles.and.thread
    @thistles.and.thread Před 11 lety +24

    'i heard a fly buzz when i died' is an extremely important poem for me. my 11th grade american literature teacher read it to our class, and the "blue" uncertain stumbling buzz of the fly made my head hurt, because the sound of a fly buzzing is brown, not blue. my teacher then threw out the term 'synesthesia' which finally gave me a name for the weirdness i always had of seeing and feeling colors where there supposedly weren't any. anyway, thank you for this miniseries, john! it was awesome.

  • @liamniallryan
    @liamniallryan Před 10 lety +290

    I think you should do a 6 part series on the Romantics (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats) It would be epically awesome!!

    • @whit2642
      @whit2642 Před 5 lety +2

      Liam Ryan I love Coleridge and Wordsworth. I agree. Please do all these!

  • @TheFireflyGrave
    @TheFireflyGrave Před 10 lety +408

    She Called red 'Fire's common tint.' I dare say that's a mega-burn.

  • @rueluxprince6982
    @rueluxprince6982 Před 9 lety +201

    Why I love Crash Course: It tells you exactly what you need to know without all of the stupid introductory paragraphs and only one line of actual stuff. I passed almost all of my exams in school because of you guys, so thank you I guess.

  • @aislingmcnamara7813
    @aislingmcnamara7813 Před 7 lety +78

    Dear crash course peeps, I am currently binge watching crash course literature in an attempt to sleep on the night my best friend, my grandfather has passed away. thank you for being able to do this, and for making these lovely videos

  • @BettyBurner
    @BettyBurner Před 8 lety +118

    I wish this series had existed when I was in high school. I suck at reading, and I didn't like a lot of the books that I was "supposed" to read as a teenager. Crash Course does a good job at explaining why these books matter, why they resonate and why they're still so powerful today. It makes me want to read again.

  • @AvihuTurzion
    @AvihuTurzion Před 10 lety +450

    She used the same amount of dashes in her cake recipes because CAKE IS POETRY!
    (and a lie, but mostly poetry)

  • @simar5878
    @simar5878 Před 5 lety +90

    8:08 "This discomforting lack of closure is a hallmark of Dickinson's poetry, also of most of my romantic relationships"
    Hahaha same Mr Green.

  • @clarinetato
    @clarinetato Před 10 lety +346

    Actually, don't do flies come when bodies starts to rot? I'd guess that broken stillness, almost sacred and wished for after a lifetime of fearing death, is also a glimpse for what's coming; a sudden intruder of the real amidst ideal(ized) moments.
    An the dash as as a resting body, as an eye closed, as a horizontal I.

    • @pablo_brianese
      @pablo_brianese Před 9 lety +10

      Now that's full of awesome

    • @veteratorvulpes1116
      @veteratorvulpes1116 Před 7 lety +44

      How stunned I was here to find - an insight of poignance and probity
      - in these notes hence left behind - delivered, itself, in subtle poetry

    • @ashleyrose1570
      @ashleyrose1570 Před 6 lety +13

      i wish i could reply in a fashion more - delicate
      but i am afraid those portions of my conscious are not so- intricate

    • @misselliebelly
      @misselliebelly Před 4 lety +3

      this is absolutely amazing

    • @pallavisuri960
      @pallavisuri960 Před 4 lety

      @Larisa Emanuela mine too💚😍

  • @ximenapliego1160
    @ximenapliego1160 Před 10 lety +52

    PLEASE John Green We need more videos on literature!

  • @anonnymus1227
    @anonnymus1227 Před 4 lety +54

    I was annoyed this video ended too soon. I need more Emily Dickinson analysis.

  • @caoimheoriordan9620
    @caoimheoriordan9620 Před 8 lety +411

    Is it weird that I am really annoyed that I don't get to study Dickinson?

    • @josephdestaubin7426
      @josephdestaubin7426 Před 5 lety +18

      I would be super annoyed. This often happened at University. Not with Dickinson per se, but with a number of people that I felt were important. But trade-offs have to be made. None the less, skipping Dickinson in American lit class is just wrong.

    • @whit2642
      @whit2642 Před 5 lety +14

      No. Not at all. Many poets we are forced to study are OVER RATED and many like Dickinson are far over looked. I love her rhyme and meter. I love her play on words/ actions/ feelings. She says a whole lot with a little.

    • @denaerangel
      @denaerangel Před 4 lety +1

      Damn I'm sorry

    • @Topher118
      @Topher118 Před 4 lety +3

      Study it yourself. That's what I did

    • @brokenrecord3523
      @brokenrecord3523 Před 4 lety +3

      You just did

  • @brandontrost9292
    @brandontrost9292 Před 7 lety +38

    Dashes are the best punctuation mark, and if you disagree - like some sort of uncouth idiot - I will fight you.

    • @yaggayaggaya9918
      @yaggayaggaya9918 Před 7 lety +5

      Dashes, specifically long dashes, look so aesthetically pleasing.

    • @momothain
      @momothain Před 7 lety +6

      We're all wondering why you didn't use dashes-specifically long dashes-in your interjection.

    • @mewtwo616gnostic5
      @mewtwo616gnostic5 Před 7 lety +1

      Morgann Thain "kid Koon" only likes it when others --------------- dash

  • @noufa6337
    @noufa6337 Před 4 lety +29

    “Dickinson rarely left her house and often talked to visitors through a closed door.” *MISINFORMATION* Emily Dickinson actually loved to be out in the open, since she loved nature

  • @Absenteeee
    @Absenteeee Před 9 lety +430

    After she got her "I" out out, she was Emly Dckenson

    • @davidshi451
      @davidshi451 Před 9 lety +18

      gamingLegacies Genius!
      Er, Genus.

    • @dawnqwerty
      @dawnqwerty Před 8 lety +7

      Only after "I" was released from her "dick" was she known as dckenson....Wait what?

    • @kevinpatty119
      @kevinpatty119 Před 4 lety

      I you say it fast it still sounds the same! :3.

  • @sarasotaguy4598
    @sarasotaguy4598 Před 4 lety +102

    Is anyone besides me here after watching Dickinson?

  • @ZygoChris
    @ZygoChris Před 10 lety +71

    Why did you stop Crash course Literature? Please think about doing some more !! Please, please !

  • @rosecoloredchloe
    @rosecoloredchloe Před 5 lety +449

    Well I think Emily Dickinson's a lesbian.
    _Partial credit_

  • @sarty
    @sarty Před 10 lety +21

    I don't know if you take requests, but I would LOVE to see more of these literature episodes. I'm just really loving them!

  • @chriselliott3064
    @chriselliott3064 Před 8 lety +31

    I really appreciate this series. I am in highschool and I have trouble reading critically, however when I watch this show you make it very enjoyable to listen to. I love learning but my body likes to inhibit my ability to focus. Thank you crash course for helping me get over my own brain.

    • @omegasavant
      @omegasavant Před 8 lety +1

      You might want to try using audiobooks. It's a different way of digesting the same material, and it can make it much easier to get through some of the denser texts you have to read.

  • @livemynd
    @livemynd Před 8 lety +58

    "But my [non-US viewers] friends, even if you don't live here, the history of the United States matters to you -- because we're always meddling in your affairs." So Stephen-King true, and not just in the "we come (ostensibly) to defend you" sense, but also as the most influential source of cultural material in the world today.

    • @nikolaast
      @nikolaast Před 8 lety +9

      no issue there, but you guys operate under the false pretense that yours is the only culture and history that matters. everything else is a punchline or a foot note in your story to you.

    • @livemynd
      @livemynd Před 8 lety +8

      If you were directing that comment at me, then I would have to point out that I am not American, though American culture does take up a significant fraction of my personal culture.
      If you were directing that comment at the producers of the video, then I grant that there is value to your argument, though it offers no suggestion to improve and appears to be meant primarily to inflame rather than constructively criticize.

    • @AnnaClara-od3qk
      @AnnaClara-od3qk Před 7 lety +3

      that's not necessarily good

  • @Oneirophrenic123
    @Oneirophrenic123 Před 10 lety +142

    More on literature please!

  • @joelfry4982
    @joelfry4982 Před 9 lety +102

    The line "Before I got my eye put out" probably refers to a verse in the New Testament where Christ says, "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is single your whole body will be full of light." Otherwise she would have used "eyes."

    • @abesapien9930
      @abesapien9930 Před 4 lety +10

      Poets are very sensitive to the length of words. She may have chosen "eye" simply because it appeared cleaner or she didn't want a "z" sound in that line. Poets agonize over small choices like that.

  • @23anasp
    @23anasp Před 4 lety +7

    "Poetry isn't just a series of images, it's rhythmic, metric and we crave the closure of a good rhyme at the end of a poem. That's why there are the sonnets and couplets"

  • @Bluey306
    @Bluey306 Před 10 lety +32

    I'd be very interested to see more of these! Perhaps a dystopia novel? 1984 by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and maybe even my particular favourite Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro?

  • @ZakIsWin
    @ZakIsWin Před 10 lety +7

    I'd love to see an expansion on this series including The Bell Jar as well as some more poetry.

  • @nalmada
    @nalmada Před 11 lety +10

    Ahh! I was so happy when I saw that you did one on Emily Dickinson! She is my favorite poet.
    I always found her poems about disconnecting with society a bit more interesting than those about death, though. Such as in "I'm nobody, who are you?". She was said to go out and play games with children but go back inside the moment any adults came around or lower baked yummies out her window for children to eat, showing a particular fondness (respect?) of children over adults.
    Wonderful video, sir!

  • @poetryquotesgoodreads3430
    @poetryquotesgoodreads3430 Před 4 lety +15

    “From the wounded soul, comes poetry and music. In return, music and poetry heals the soul.🎶
    I came across this quote in a hauntingly beautiful poetry book, “12:12 Midnight”
    by Danielle Ever Rose

  • @dancebackthesea
    @dancebackthesea Před 11 lety +6

    I was an avid reader Ms. Emily as a teenager, and learned much of my punctuation from her - which I still use to this day. Her letters to the master really giving the dash a serious place in how one speaks on the printed page. Funny, but 30 years later I am still chronically suicidal, have major depression and social anxiety - and of course am agoraphobic. Too bad I'm not a poetess!

  • @carlosspragge6627
    @carlosspragge6627 Před 8 lety +65

    Please do more poetry

  • @shmeetheoriginal
    @shmeetheoriginal Před 8 lety +100

    What if the - was just her emote for a 'blink.'

  • @arefinrafee
    @arefinrafee Před 7 lety +10

    I am repenting! Why did it take so much time for me to find this awesome channel? I've always wanted someone to explain English literature to me.Thanks for your contents!

  • @taskingflyer
    @taskingflyer Před 10 lety +13

    I love the 'Crash Course Literature' series! Please bring it back.

  • @dibn1308
    @dibn1308 Před 5 lety +4

    Love her works & her eccentricity...which made her write those Precious works...

  • @smac_x
    @smac_x Před 4 lety +10

    Came here after watching Dickinson on Apple TV. Hailee Steinfeld did an amazing job playing the character.

  • @sarahburton9374
    @sarahburton9374 Před 10 lety +17

    I very rarely comment on CZcams videos, but I just have to say that I absolutely loved this miniseries and I truly with that you would expand it. As an English teacher I would love to see you do Frankenstein or Macbeth.

    • @minnierae1991
      @minnierae1991 Před 9 lety

      How have you been? 540-303-7957 call me asap please and congrats! You guys will be great parents

    • @kandilyn
      @kandilyn Před 9 lety

      "Even if you do not live here, the history of the United States matters to you because we are always meddling in your affairs."

  • @evernightrose5152
    @evernightrose5152 Před 4 lety +8

    Mr. Green Mr. Green what do you think about the new Netflix series 'Dickinson'?

  • @GloriaJWimberley
    @GloriaJWimberley Před 5 lety +9

    Enjoyed this well-done video on the inimitable "Moth of Amherst", literary lioness Emily Dickinson...one of my favorite influences :-)

  • @haroon8285
    @haroon8285 Před 11 lety +2

    Please don't stop making crash course episodes on books, your videos give me a better understanding and appreciation on books I've read in class. Also you're better than all my English teachers combined

  • @gianghuynh9570
    @gianghuynh9570 Před 10 lety +3

    This mini series is great. Have you thought of continuing it with more works of literature? I have never heard of these novels or poems but I still understand what is going on and it motivates me to get access to the real thing.

  • @sandraluisebuchner9766
    @sandraluisebuchner9766 Před 5 lety +4

    After my first acceptance of a poem by Emily Dickinson, I have now set my own poem to music.

  • @arxsyn
    @arxsyn Před 11 lety +1

    I think the "dash" (I prefer to think of it as a hyphen here) it's like a visual gag/reminder of the nature of poetry in it's written and spoken forms. If you read the poem aloud, it sounds complete (silence). In it's written form it's not, you are left expecting more. Proving that What the eye sees is different from what the ears hear

  • @ianyork2655
    @ianyork2655 Před rokem +1

    I would probably rate Emily Dickinson writing in general with Jane Austen, the letters of John and Abigail Adams, and the Brontë sisters. Top English writers in their own fields but hard to compare with each other

  • @EllaMuersofNerdfighteria
    @EllaMuersofNerdfighteria Před 8 lety +10

    Awwh, without his chair rollin at the end he looked genuinely lost XD Like- no wheels- no arm rests- what am I supposed to do while I talk now?!

  • @bungklacos
    @bungklacos Před 10 lety +3

    Wish you guys made more of these! Hopefully in the future there will be a continued Literature mini series? Thank you any ways!

  • @celesi
    @celesi Před 11 lety +2

    I really hope we'll see more Crash Course literature after US History. This has been my favorite series so far!

  • @ts25679
    @ts25679 Před 7 lety +1

    I like the way you sneered at British exceptionalism in the Lord of the Flies episode, but wax lyrical about American exceptionalism.

  • @Otra_Chica_de_Internet
    @Otra_Chica_de_Internet Před 4 lety +6

    Wait... is this John Green THE John Green??

  • @MarukuMedia
    @MarukuMedia Před 10 lety +5

    Please make more Literature videos!
    For what it's worth, I'd say the foot "-ness in", as part of the line "The stillness in the room", isn't iambic but is more like a use of Pyrrhic substitution. She's putting emphasis on the syllables "still" and "room" in that sentence, which contrasts with the use of the word "buzz" in the previous line. (And "buzz" is I think emphasized by a use of trochaic substitution when you listen to it carefully!)

  • @Creationwest07
    @Creationwest07 Před 11 lety +1

    This is by far my favorite Crash Course video to date. I love learning more about not just Emily Dickinson, but also myself.

  • @TheBlaqb2st
    @TheBlaqb2st Před 6 lety +1

    I love how i’m doing homework and john green just appears

  • @Takara358
    @Takara358 Před 9 lety +5

    I think the fly may be even more sinister than death... What if it had something to do with Beelzebub? And the fact that the fly came between the deceased and the light is referenced by Dickenson's flip-flopping between religious or not.

  • @Lucols4
    @Lucols4 Před 10 lety +14

    Too bad this is so short. It'd be really awesome if he covered Twain or Stoker

    • @fruitbythebecbec7165
      @fruitbythebecbec7165 Před 10 lety +3

      He just released a new video, saying crash course lit is coming back!

  • @theamazingfuzzlord
    @theamazingfuzzlord Před 11 lety

    This is one of my most favorite videos you've made. You can't find a video as deep and thought-provoking anywhere on CZcams.

  • @jjjjjj6882
    @jjjjjj6882 Před 4 lety +1

    I've never been so happy and surprised when I played the video to cram for an exam and John appeared lol

  • @StargazinGummybears
    @StargazinGummybears Před 11 lety +4

    I hope there is a revival of this mini-series of literature in the future! Maybe after American History?
    BTW I'm taking AP American History next year, timing couldn't have been better! Thanks for being awesome!

  • @trinsteatime2171
    @trinsteatime2171 Před 8 lety +11

    You guys need to do a video over The Strange Case of Mr. Jekyll and Dr. Hyde

  • @HLee-vs7kx
    @HLee-vs7kx Před 6 lety +2

    I wonder why she hardly ever left her room, when she thought that 'seeing' (or understanding or acknowledging or whatever) is such an important concept. I get that 'seeing' doesn't need to be always so literal, but I think in order to better understand and observe other lives and the world, one could have tried talking to more, or meeting new people, or traveling. Could anyone help me? Am I misunderstanding something?

  • @rebeccac1861
    @rebeccac1861 Před 10 lety +2

    You can also sing many of them to Amazing Grace. My entire class tried it in college.

  • @theducksanctuary951
    @theducksanctuary951 Před 4 lety +7

    📍Ha now it is a movie! If only she could have ever known, good for her! My mother always read her poems & had many, many of her books.
    All filled with short poetry and long sonnets. 📚 as I grew up I also started to read her poems. 📖
    I loved the shorter ones, which I could read easier as a 10 -14 year old. As I started to grow, and read more and more.
    Also studied her in college. Sad she was truly only famous after her death.
    A woman truly a head of her time. 🕯🏞 🏆

  • @lahadc
    @lahadc Před 9 lety +26

    Do a episode on Lewis Carroll please!!!!

    • @jwjch12
      @jwjch12 Před 8 lety

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    • @jwjch12
      @jwjch12 Před 8 lety

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    • @Dedonarivl96
      @Dedonarivl96 Před 8 lety

      +jordan smyth DONT CLICK THIS LINK WTF DUDE

    • @jwjch12
      @jwjch12 Před 8 lety

      sorry must have been my 2 year old

    • @calamityamity3706
      @calamityamity3706 Před 6 lety

      yes! how could he possibly be overlooked?

  • @teekay9718
    @teekay9718 Před 11 lety +1

    Please continue to make videos like this one. I'm a literature student and these are of great help.

  • @jessiebatten1108
    @jessiebatten1108 Před 11 lety

    I'm a student teacher, and I used this video in my Emily Dickinson lesson a few days ago. Both the students and my cooperating teacher really enjoyed it! I'd like to echo others' sentiments and hope you'll continue this series as your schedule allows.

  • @VeayaStembridge
    @VeayaStembridge Před 10 lety +11

    More literature!

  • @TheMoozette
    @TheMoozette Před 9 lety +6

    I'm only here because I have an english literature final tomorrow that I haven't started studying for... but this was so useful!

    • @hayleym2363
      @hayleym2363 Před 9 lety +3

      Maddie Regulska lol you suck

    • @nagratna793
      @nagratna793 Před 6 lety

      Maddie Regulska I m also a student final year English literature

  • @sabrinanascimento1267
    @sabrinanascimento1267 Před 4 lety +2

    Yellow Rose of Texas. She is my favorite poet.

  • @HetaliaLover123
    @HetaliaLover123 Před 10 lety

    The scarlet letter would be fun to look over with John and the Team; I would really enjoy it.

  • @fabrizio483
    @fabrizio483 Před 8 lety +30

    You got it all wrong. Since Dickinson was a pious woman, I believe poem #591 to be about salvation anxiety. The King in the poem representing God, the Light representing Salvation, and the fly representing Judgement, which stands in her way of achieving grace. At the end of the poem she is not certain she will achieve it. That’s how I see it, at least.

    • @phoebelambdon7954
      @phoebelambdon7954 Před 8 lety +11

      I can believe both of these interpretations. Yours is really good though, hadn't thought about it that way before

    • @callies8907
      @callies8907 Před 7 lety +5

      Calling Dickinson a pious woman is a bit of a stretch. She had a complex relationship with religion at best. In college, the headmistress kept two lists--one of all the "good" girls ready for salvation, and one of all the "bad" girls who were literally unsalvageable. Emily here made the very top of the latter!

    • @callies8907
      @callies8907 Před 6 lety +1

      She may have had an unconventional understanding of God (for her time, anyway), but she definitely wasn't an unquestionable atheist. She explores the nuances of her beliefs in her poetry and appropriates religious symbols in order to question the church and complicate her own interpretations of them. In any case, you're allowed to interpret her poetry however you like as long as you have the textual evidence to back it up.

  • @jsomeone64
    @jsomeone64 Před 10 lety

    You guys do excellent work. I never cared about about literature or poetry until I started watching your channel. It was your history series that really caught my attention.

  • @SwordWhisperer
    @SwordWhisperer Před 11 lety

    When I was in reader's theater, I was taught that a dash was used to imply that the next line was an interruption to the previous line. With that concept in mind, having the dash at the end of the poem means an interruption to the end of the poem by no sound, if just read with the eyes, the poem was interrupted by no sight. Which is awesome!

  • @chibikona100
    @chibikona100 Před 10 lety +5

    I really like Emily Dickinson's poems :)

  • @raptor4211
    @raptor4211 Před 10 lety +15

    Make new series about engineering and computer science!

  • @TheSlicesofLife
    @TheSlicesofLife Před 11 lety

    Please continue the Crash Course literature series! I've enjoyed it immensely and was very disappointed to see it end so soon. There's so much more!

  • @JohnDoe-qx3zs
    @JohnDoe-qx3zs Před 11 lety

    As you described the poem and the punctuation, I guess the dashes have their standard meaning of a pause or change of voice; So that final dash is the silence of death after the poem ends.
    To the guy looking for alternate emphasis ways here are two ideas: Use different letters (bigger, cursive, bolder, different color, more or less ornamental) OR use inflexions creatively (great, greater or greatest) or otherwise pick a different word for a thing or yourself (man, guru, genius, jerk, hunk).

  • @amethyst_cat9532
    @amethyst_cat9532 Před 6 lety +9

    America: "Give Me Liberty or Give Me a Triple Cheeseburger."
    What a time to be alive.

  • @RebecaC12
    @RebecaC12 Před 10 lety +7

    Miss these videos ;-;

  • @Galasriniell
    @Galasriniell Před 11 lety

    We are on the poetry unit in my English class and today we were discussing "I heard a fly buzz when I died." I felt like a genius. Thank you Crash Course!

  • @rachelcasey1888
    @rachelcasey1888 Před 6 lety +2

    I don’t understand a lot of things that authors write. they seem like really deep and a metaphor for something but I CAN’T FIGURE IT OUT. someone teach me how to understand things

  • @R.T_W
    @R.T_W Před 4 lety +4

    here after watching (Dickinson)

  • @futureDK1
    @futureDK1 Před 8 lety +5

    Please do crash course quantum physics/mechanics please!!!

  • @RPGWeyr
    @RPGWeyr Před 11 lety

    Definitely putting down a comment for another series of Crash Course Literature! It would be great to see you guys bring it back in the future as a full length series.

  • @DougGCMweb
    @DougGCMweb Před 11 lety +2

    Wow. That was ten minutes already?! Went by quickly. I love Emily Dickinson.

  • @_Alimm
    @_Alimm Před 10 lety +6

    Will you do Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar

    • @whit2642
      @whit2642 Před 5 lety

      GirlYouAlreadyKnow Oh why? Such a daunting and dry read. What can you not figure out from it?

  • @Jugbug992
    @Jugbug992 Před 10 lety

    You can also sing Because I Could Not Stop for Death to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme song. Point of interest- once you read it that way, you can never stop. Ever.

  • @mermaidismyname
    @mermaidismyname Před 11 lety

    What helps is just imagine how you might sing the words, because most of the time the note you put stress on is also the syllable you put stress on when you're singing. Sorry if that was kinda vague and unhelpful, that made sense in my head.

  • @deriznohappehquite
    @deriznohappehquite Před 9 lety +4

    The "h" in Amherst is silent. Massachusetts town names are really confusing.

  • @420Travesty
    @420Travesty Před 10 lety +6

    Douglas Adams

  • @ivae3493
    @ivae3493 Před 11 lety +1

    Please keep it up! And thank you to you and to Hank for remaining so endlessly passionate about what you do!

  • @TheLanaBanana
    @TheLanaBanana Před 10 lety +2

    Hoping to see a crash course video on plato's the republic! or on plato/socrates in general

  • @redwanhasan1721
    @redwanhasan1721 Před 8 lety +4

    Well Bra was not introduced before 1893 and was not even widely accepted before 1904 so that Pink one that was hanging on the line might be a bit historically incorrect thing.

    • @kbees123456789
      @kbees123456789 Před 8 lety +7

      I'm sure she wouldn't have worn a tshirt with a mongol on it either lol

    • @adonaiyah2196
      @adonaiyah2196 Před 8 lety +5

      you must be fun at parties

    • @charliehutch3533
      @charliehutch3533 Před 7 lety +1

      EEEgh. wrong: and I quote: "Lengberg Castle, first documented in 1190, was rebuilt into a
      representative palais in the 15th century by adding a second floor.
      During extensive reconstruction in July 2008, a vault filled with waste
      was found beneath the floorboards of a room on the second story of the
      castle, where it was dumped during the 15th-century reconstruction.
      Due to dry conditions in the vault the organic waste, mainly
      consisting of worked wood, leather (shoes) and textiles had been
      extremely well preserved, and four of the linen fragments resemble
      modern bras."
      making you the largest fool man on the planet poor thing everything you know is wrong would be a start. :P

    • @charliehutch3533
      @charliehutch3533 Před 7 lety

      lets take your stupidity just a little further: "Ancient Greek women wore a form of bra called an apodesme. Both Roman men and women wore a loincloth or shorts called subligaculum. Women also wore a band of cloth or leather around their chest called a strophium or mamilare.'.

    • @charliehutch3533
      @charliehutch3533 Před 7 lety

      Redwan Hasan
      blatant stupidity does it for me :P
      everytime.. How can a man live as long as you and have so many facts wrong ? Answer if you dare !
      'If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.'

  • @soulpunker3870
    @soulpunker3870 Před 4 lety +6

    Here after the trailer