Ankan Basu, from Taki Government College had requested this video. Thank you for the suggestion Ankan. The description box has all the necessary links to written answers, articles and annotations for students. You can find timestamps in the description box that will help you go to the specific part of the video. I will come back with another video very soon. Enjoy!
I have been referring to your channel for two years now and you never disappoint. You remind me why I fell in love with literature in the first place. Thank you so much for the absolute delight that your videos are!
And I could not skip a single second while watching this lecture 😄 You have a charismatic ability to tell things,to make us understand. Thank you for this masterpiece mam.
There are no words to express the sheer appreciation, praise and concern ma'am holds for her students and the meticulous approach she employs to intricately cover every text. A humble request if you can take up the poem "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot
Thank you ma'am for describing the poem in such a wonderful way. And thanking you for taking our class from your busy schedule. It was my great pleasure to attend your virtual class.
After watching your explanation I feel like I can answer any questions related to it ... Be it theme, title,... Anything. It is so detailed. Thank you ❤️
I finally figured out the Overwhelming Question, and just how ambiguous the answer Dr. Prufrock gives. The overwhelming question is "to be, or not to be," and his answer is "I am not Prince Hamlet, and was not meant to be." I don't know if he's saying "not meant to be" in the same way the Melancholy Dane means, or if he's saying "I'm not even going to consider Hamlet's question... I'm just going to grow old."
Line 49 to 51: It is the woman lying on bed with an arm behind her head in a motel room on the half deserted street. Light was off but there was the light from street that came through the glass window.
After watching the full play of Macbeth, what struck me was the idea of time as innately destructive. In physics, there's the metaphor of "the arrow of time," which is why we remember the past and not the future, but in Macbeth, fate and destiny is not just an arrow, but a dagger pointing the way. Yet, much like Prufrock, the Waste Land, and the Four Quartets, time still moves in cycles that repeat themselves, like the lilacs blooming in spring (but not before the primroses), the women coming and going, the tides of the sea where the mermaids sing, and the Thane of Cawdor committing treason and dying in a noble way that impresses those who survive him for the manliness of it. In that sense, the easiest piece of this poem to miss is the rather ordinary phrase, "I grow old." It's not a particularly poetic phrase, but it is a paradox. "I grow" is an anabolic phrase. Children grow, plants grow... growing is what an additive process that shows an increase in life-force, but he breaks it with the term "old," that he's actually not growing at all. His muscles aren't growing, they're growing *thin.* It would be like saying "the *deforestation* of Birnam Wood *grew* until there were only two trees left." Another thing I realized about Eliot's poems from your 10+ hour analysis of Macbeth is that most people think "I do not find the Hanged Man" in The Waste Land is about Christ being absent from the post-war world, but I think the reason is that Hecate's gender isn't mentioned at all in the play Macbeth, and in fact is hinted as being masculine, but is in fact the Hanged Women, being an aspect of the goddess Artemis, the Archer of Fate. To quote from the Golden Bough: In Greece the great goddess Artemis herself appears to have been annually hanged in effigy in her sacred grove of Condylea among the Arcadian hills, and there accordingly she went by the name of the Hanged One. Indeed a trace of a similar rite may perhaps be detected even at Ephesus, the most famous of her sanctuaries, in the legend of a woman who hanged herself and was thereupon dressed by the compassionate goddess in her own divine garb and called by the name of Hecate. Similarly, at Melite in Phthia, a story was told of a girl named Aspalis who hanged herself, but who appears to have been merely a form of Artemis. For after her death her body could not be found, but an image of her was discovered standing beside the image of Artemis, and the people bestowed on it the title of Hecaerge or Far-shooter, one of the regular epithets of the goddess.
I knew I was missing something important, so I put on a performance of Macbeth. Prufrock: Prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; Lady Macbeth: And make our faces vizards to our hearts, Disguising what they are. Prufrock: There will be time to murder and create, [...] And for a hundred visions and revisions, Isn't Macbeth about not only the visions, both prophetic and post-traumatic, but also about the revisions? Arguably, had Macbeth not revised his plan of assassination to encompass Banquo and Fleance, he could have been safe. Safer still would have been to accept the title of Thane of Cawdor and been "an attendant lord, one that will do /To swell a progress, start a scene or two." Prufrock: "Before the taking of a toast and tea." Macbeth: "I drink to the general joy o' the whole table," Lady Macbeth's Doctor: "Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:" Prufrock:To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead, Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all”- If one, settling a pillow by her head Should say: “That is not what I meant at all; That is not it, at all.”
I can't thank you enough ma'am !! I hold you in great reverence for providing us quality education ❣️ as Swami Vivekananda said in his work "HEAVEN OF FREEDOM" that knowledge should be free for everyone and you're contributing to his great ideas !! I wish you health and prosperity 💞 I never got an opportunity to study at some prestigious university and I always felt my colleague will always be provided a quality education and I would never get a chance to get a quality education ,but because of this internet and you I'm able to get a quality education . May you get all the happiness and achieve everything in life !
Thankyou so much mam. I've been following you since first year. You've helped me passed all the exams ☀️❤️ Can you please do videos on VI sem CBCS English syllabus
Since around 1988, I assumed "etherized" really did mean knocked out with general anesthesia, completely unconscious, ready for surgery. But I recently heard a song that sampled from Johnny Depp's performance as Hunter S. Thompson in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' and I think Eliot may be speaking more about the loss of control. To quote Thompson: “This is the main advantage of ether: it makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel... total loss of all basic motor skills: Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting, because the brain continues to function more or less normally... you can actually watch yourself behaving in the terrible way, but you can't control it.”
Not only that you are a literary goddess, we are your disciples , look at you for such videos. Yes, atleast share the strategy important writers of each age with important works and important questions asked in net exam.
mam can you please upload an explanatory lecture on the heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad, I was able to complete three difficult texts of this semester with the help of your video lectures, we are running out of time as our exams are in Jan 2024 , I would absolutely be grateful for another such beautiful explanation. 🥺
Hats off mam'm 🥰....u know what since our cllg is not opening no extra classes will be taken so I searched in this CZcams platform nd as going through I found ,I can't understand rest of them rather I'm finding ur lecture nd interestingly I got familiar with ur way of explanation nd makes things easier.🤗.....am 5th sem from derozio college, I want "sons and lovers" ,"heart of darkness" later on if possible for you , thanks a loads mam'm 🥰 felling enthusiasm to seeing you another classes with mentioned topics!!!
I have been trying for a couple of days now trying to get my thoughts across to you without leaving the wrong impression. I look for content on this great work and enjoy chatting about it. I find it difficult to do as I do not want to complete the work for a student. LOL. As Eliot's work alludes to other masterpieces, one's interpretations are dependent upon how well read a person is. I hope to get a reply from you, as you posted this content almost one year ago. Then I may share some of my thoughts.
@@NibblePop I am going to borrow the phrase from HannaLovesGrammar as I feel it is appropriate to Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. Momento Mori , remember death or remember everyone dies eventually. It may coincide with Carpe Diem, in that we should seize the day as we may die at any time. Being that the Prologue is Dante's "Inferno" plus all of the allusions to death. Hardly a Love Song right? I think that first and foremost we should take note of when this poem was created. I believe Eliot was working on this pre WW1 timeframe. Historically, we must look at how people lived, this was before central heat, sewage systems, utility systems, such extremes that are unfathomable by today's standards. Also, how people socialized and dressed, were conceptually difficult to believe as well. Such as, a woman was to be escorted by either her father or brother when outside the home. A woman that was "out with no escort," was one of "those women." Not the type of person to take to meet friends and family. Men always wore hats, everyone wore them even little children had to wear hats. A person always had to dress when going out of the house. I will leave off at this point as I do not want to leave an essay for you to critique. LOL Thanks and have a great day!
@@krisyallowega5487 wao, that was an amazing write-up. Yes, you are absolutely correct. In fact, that is the reason why I always prefer teaching Preludes before I teach Prufrock. That sets the poem in a proper context. Especially the part about the figure of the woman. It is indeed a parody of love song, a satire almost. In a world, that was about to be split in ghastly wounds of two world wars soon, idealized love was actually an impossibility.
@@NibblePop I would not necessarily say that it was "idealized love" but perhaps lust? If we delve a little into Eliot's personal life we may get a better grasp of what he may have been coping with. But that may be an undertaking for another time, as I have just given a quick scan of his biography. It is quite intense, at least I believe so. I have researched a little on ether that may have been used over 100 years ago. It could have been quite a terrifying experience for a patient. Could you imagine being aware of a doctor operating on you or by chance "waking up" during a procedure. So I would think of it like this...it was not that Prufrock's audience of one (assuming) would be totally numb to what they were in store for. It was that the person or persons could not react, argue or fight back. So they would not necessarily feel the physical pain but all of the emotional pain. This theory makes me wonder who it was he was taking on the "journey." Who could it have been that he wanted to cause such emotional distress? May it have been a spouse or a mistress? I would not think that it was one of his friends or mates.
This is amazing. Thank you ma'am ♥️ Ma'am can you please make a video on W.B Yeats' s "The Second Coming" and "No Second Troy"? That will be really helpful 😊
Thank you so much Madam for your legendary explanation about this poem. Can you please explain ulysses, selling to byzantian, eastern 1916, far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy, Jain Air, our cashew in a tree by taru Dutta, the harp of India by derozio. And also can you do a lecture upon the commonwealth period and post colonial literature? Please madam, this is my request to you.
Thank you ma'am for this detailed explanation... The analysis was amazing... 😇 Please make video on T. S. Eliot's "BURNT NORTON"... It will be very much helpful...
Thank you Madam...your video really helps me very much to understand the topics of my syllabus very well. When for the first time I had heard your this lecture, I didn't go to the comment box and that's why I did not notice that you had mentioned my name here. However, thank you very much Mam for helping us in this way. If you get time please make a video on Mansfield "Bliss".
I have got a similar request for "Bliss" already in a comment from another viewer Srabanti Singha. I will definitely make a video on Bliss very soon. Thank you for your attentive presence.
Pls Ma'am , make a video on the Anglo-Saxon Period . If you make a video on the era of the English literature , many students were helped . Ok ma'am , we look forward to hearing from you .
Thank you ma'am...Ur lecture was really helpful...I was really struggling with this poem.....Maam can you please explain Baudelaire's ," TO THE READER " and " CORRESPONDENCE " ...
Woke up in the middle of the night yesterday with a thought, and waited to make sure it still sounded reasonable... Michaelangelo is Ezra Pound. One of the most famous quotes by Michelangelo is how he saw an angel trapped in the marble block. Ezra Pound saw the angel of "the Wasteland" in the huge marble block of "He do the Police in Different Voices." I *think* Eliot and Pound knew each other at the time of publication of the Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, but you'd know better than me.
Yes. They did know each other at the time of publication of Prufrock. But it was written in around 1911, and so far as historical records tell us, Pound and Eliot met each other in 1914.
Ma'am I have a question. In line no 10. (@13:55) "To lead you to an overwhelming question" Here Prufrock is referring to the readers as "you" right? So this "you" is not prufrock's eternal realist persona.
Please answer this question sir (2 marks) 1."Do I dare disturb the universe"- what does the speaker dare not ? What is suggested remark disturb the universe ?
@@NibblePop there's an artistic photograph, "the Anatomy student," by William Mortensen, that really brings home the idea of being conscious but immobilized, because of examination. The idea I have is similar to becoming suddenly aware of the fact that your lower jaw has weight, and requires effort to hold in the proper position, right in the middle of a conversation. To paraphrase Socrates, "the overexamined life is not worth living."
@@K_F_fox that quote is so true, isn't it? The main problem of Prufrock is overdoing analysis and thinking. He has such a morbid fear of losing something that he never manages to possess it even.
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Thank you so much ma'am.
I attend the classes of our college, I have also gone through some other CZcams channels; *but no one teaches like you ma'am; you are a gem💎❤*
Ankan Basu, from Taki Government College had requested this video. Thank you for the suggestion Ankan.
The description box has all the necessary links to written answers, articles and annotations for students. You can find timestamps in the description box that will help you go to the specific part of the video.
I will come back with another video very soon.
Enjoy!
I have been referring to your channel for two years now and you never disappoint. You remind me why I fell in love with literature in the first place. Thank you so much for the absolute delight that your videos are!
I don't fear anyone. I love classics.
And British teachers aren't good as you are. Your explanation is praiseworthy.
And I could not skip a single second while watching this lecture 😄
You have a charismatic ability to tell things,to make us understand.
Thank you for this masterpiece mam.
There are no words to express the sheer appreciation, praise and concern ma'am holds for her students and the meticulous approach she employs to intricately cover every text.
A humble request if you can take up the poem "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot
It's beautiful felt like We are Prufrock with proper characterizations at all.. Thank you Mam.. 👏 😊
Bhot bhot Dhanyawaad . Thank you very much Miss. I feel blessed to have heard your lecture. I wish you heathy and happy life ahead! ❤️
Thank you ma'am for describing the poem in such a wonderful way. And thanking you for taking our class from your busy schedule. It was my great pleasure to attend your virtual class.
After watching your explanation I feel like I can answer any questions related to it ... Be it theme, title,... Anything. It is so detailed. Thank you ❤️
Thank you, mam. You are an angel. I've seen nobody in social media teaching with so much seriousness and passion like yku. I am so lucky to be here.
And we are lucky to have you. Share this channel with people who are serious about literature. God bless you.
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Do keep uploading such difficult poems.
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Such a nice explanation..
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If unprofessed love and overthinking had a name.... This poem would be perfect ....... It's good a poem....💗
One hour of complete bliss. Thank you ma'am.
Overwhelmed by your calm explanation😍
THANK YOU MADAM FOR SUCH AN AMAZING ANALYSIS OF THE POEM...!
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I finally figured out the Overwhelming Question, and just how ambiguous the answer Dr. Prufrock gives. The overwhelming question is "to be, or not to be," and his answer is "I am not Prince Hamlet, and was not meant to be." I don't know if he's saying "not meant to be" in the same way the Melancholy Dane means, or if he's saying "I'm not even going to consider Hamlet's question... I'm just going to grow old."
Thank you so much ma'am. Such poems need explanation like yours.✨
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@@NibblePop Ma'am please make a video lecture explaining T. S. Eliot's poem 'The Hollow Men'. It would be a great help for us.🙏😊
@@bindsworld1017 Yes ma'am, please 🙏
Thank u so much... This poem is programmed for our next poetry exam.. I really appreciate the way u discussed it... Thank u so much..Madam
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I really liked the explanation ma'am. It is going to help me a lot in forming my own answers.
Really excellent madam.. you have explained very nicely....Thank you for your efforts madam ..
After watching the full play of Macbeth, what struck me was the idea of time as innately destructive. In physics, there's the metaphor of "the arrow of time," which is why we remember the past and not the future, but in Macbeth, fate and destiny is not just an arrow, but a dagger pointing the way. Yet, much like Prufrock, the Waste Land, and the Four Quartets, time still moves in cycles that repeat themselves, like the lilacs blooming in spring (but not before the primroses), the women coming and going, the tides of the sea where the mermaids sing, and the Thane of Cawdor committing treason and dying in a noble way that impresses those who survive him for the manliness of it.
In that sense, the easiest piece of this poem to miss is the rather ordinary phrase, "I grow old." It's not a particularly poetic phrase, but it is a paradox. "I grow" is an anabolic phrase. Children grow, plants grow... growing is what an additive process that shows an increase in life-force, but he breaks it with the term "old," that he's actually not growing at all. His muscles aren't growing, they're growing *thin.* It would be like saying "the *deforestation* of Birnam Wood *grew* until there were only two trees left."
Another thing I realized about Eliot's poems from your 10+ hour analysis of Macbeth is that most people think "I do not find the Hanged Man" in The Waste Land is about Christ being absent from the post-war world, but I think the reason is that Hecate's gender isn't mentioned at all in the play Macbeth, and in fact is hinted as being masculine, but is in fact the Hanged Women, being an aspect of the goddess Artemis, the Archer of Fate. To quote from the Golden Bough:
In Greece the great goddess Artemis herself appears to have been
annually hanged in effigy in her sacred grove of Condylea among the
Arcadian hills, and there accordingly she went by the name of the
Hanged One. Indeed a trace of a similar rite may perhaps be detected
even at Ephesus, the most famous of her sanctuaries, in the legend
of a woman who hanged herself and was thereupon dressed by the
compassionate goddess in her own divine garb and called by the name
of Hecate. Similarly, at Melite in Phthia, a story was told of a
girl named Aspalis who hanged herself, but who appears to have been
merely a form of Artemis. For after her death her body could not be
found, but an image of her was discovered standing beside the image
of Artemis, and the people bestowed on it the title of Hecaerge or
Far-shooter, one of the regular epithets of the goddess.
I knew I was missing something important, so I put on a performance of Macbeth.
Prufrock: Prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
Lady Macbeth: And make our faces vizards to our hearts,
Disguising what they are.
Prufrock: There will be time to murder and create, [...] And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Isn't Macbeth about not only the visions, both prophetic and post-traumatic, but also about the revisions? Arguably, had Macbeth not revised his plan of assassination to encompass Banquo and Fleance, he could have been safe. Safer still would have been to accept the title of Thane of Cawdor and been "an attendant lord, one that will do
/To swell a progress, start a scene or two."
Prufrock: "Before the taking of a toast and tea."
Macbeth: "I drink to the general joy o' the whole table,"
Lady Macbeth's Doctor: "Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:"
Prufrock:To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all”-
If one, settling a pillow by her head
Should say: “That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.”
Thank you so much ma'am .I urderstand this poem just form you.❤
Very nice mam... Your lecture is very much helpful.. Thanks and regards...
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Madam!
I am very much impressed by your explanation of the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Please make videos regarding the text of The Waste Land .
I thoroughly enjoy the poem..the way u analize it..is so blatant.......
I can't thank you enough ma'am !! I hold you in great reverence for providing us quality education ❣️ as Swami Vivekananda said in his work "HEAVEN OF FREEDOM" that knowledge should be free for everyone and you're contributing to his great ideas !!
I wish you health and prosperity 💞
I never got an opportunity to study at some prestigious university and I always felt my colleague will always be provided a quality education and I would never get a chance to get a quality education ,but because of this internet and you I'm able to get a quality education .
May you get all the happiness and achieve everything in life !
God bless you ❤️❤️
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Thanks a lot ma'am.....for briefly discussing it's too much helpful to me👍❤
Your video was really very helpful in understanding the depth of this poem. Thankyou so muchh ma'am!❤️
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Thank you. I was having trouble with this poem.
Very well explained ma'am. It was really helpful. Thank you so much.
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Can you please do videos on VI sem CBCS English syllabus
The most loving and lovable person she is.
Thank you so much for your invaluable efforts to make us understand this chapter very clearly.thank you so much From the bottom of my heart ma'am
Ma'am you're an Angel in disguise. ❤
No no I am not in disguise 😀😀😀 I actually have wings.
But Satan was also an angel, so beware 😀😀
@@NibblePophaha😂 love the humorous... Indeed I also admit that mam is such an Angel... Love you mam❤
Since around 1988, I assumed "etherized" really did mean knocked out with general anesthesia, completely unconscious, ready for surgery.
But I recently heard a song that sampled from Johnny Depp's performance as Hunter S. Thompson in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' and I think Eliot may be speaking more about the loss of control. To quote Thompson:
“This is the main advantage of ether: it makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel... total loss of all basic motor skills: Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting, because the brain continues to function more or less normally... you can actually watch yourself behaving in the terrible way, but you can't control it.”
That sounds exactly like what's going on with Prufrock right now.
Thank you ma'am for your beautiful lecture.
Thanks mam for making this channel and spreading deep and accurate knowledge of litrature.
I'm new here. N I'm loving loving it
Welcome Swinal. What are you studying? Which semester?
Thank you very much mam for bringing such lectures...it is really helpful ❤️❤️
Mam...Please make a video on "modern fiction" by virginia Woolf and "Tradition and individual talent" by T.S. Eliot
Thank you ma'am for such a lucid explanation.
Not only that you are a literary goddess, we are your disciples , look at you for such videos. Yes, atleast share the strategy important writers of each age with important works and important questions asked in net exam.
Savior ❤️ as always Ma'am. ✌🏻
A very good evening to you madam! The way you taught us,is an amazing one. 👍 I could not get into the story of the poem until or unless I hear you. 👍🙏
mam can you please upload an explanatory lecture on the heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad, I was able to complete three difficult texts of this semester with the help of your video lectures, we are running out of time as our exams are in Jan 2024 , I would absolutely be grateful for another such beautiful explanation. 🥺
It is already in my "to do list"
Outstanding dear ma'am.
Thank you so much for your explanation. It's simple as well as exhaustive. Have you made a video on The Wasteland? If not please do so.
Please upload a video on Eliot's other poem" The Hollow Men"
Hats off mam'm 🥰....u know what since our cllg is not opening no extra classes will be taken so I searched in this CZcams platform nd as going through I found ,I can't understand rest of them rather I'm finding ur lecture nd interestingly I got familiar with ur way of explanation nd makes things easier.🤗.....am 5th sem from derozio college, I want "sons and lovers" ,"heart of darkness" later on if possible for you , thanks a loads mam'm 🥰 felling enthusiasm to seeing you another classes with mentioned topics!!!
heart of darkness will come soon
Thank you so much ma'am. Explanation was superb.
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Extremely grateful for such a meticulously planned and executed lecture, ma'am! Could you do an analysis of 'The Tower' by W.B. Yeats as well?
Oh heck yeah I'm scared by T. S. Eliot and overwhelmed by his images. Keeps me up at night. Can't read it out loud without sobbing.
The more you read, the more you will get fascinated by his range of imagery and depth. Hope my video eases some of that uneasiness. Stay in touch.
Thank you so much ma'am for the wonderful lecture❤..please make a lecture on the poem The second coming by Yeats.
ma'am, you are phenomenal! 🤩
Just wonderful ma'am . Love from West Bengal ma'am....
I have been trying for a couple of days now trying to get my thoughts across to you without leaving the wrong impression. I look for content on this great work and enjoy chatting about it. I find it difficult to do as I do not want to complete the work for a student. LOL.
As Eliot's work alludes to other masterpieces, one's interpretations are dependent upon how well read a person is.
I hope to get a reply from you, as you posted this content almost one year ago. Then I may share some of my thoughts.
Please do!
@@NibblePop I am going to borrow the phrase from HannaLovesGrammar as I feel it is appropriate to Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. Momento Mori , remember death or remember everyone dies eventually. It may coincide with Carpe Diem, in that we should seize the day as we may die at any time. Being that the Prologue is Dante's "Inferno" plus all of the allusions to death. Hardly a Love Song right?
I think that first and foremost we should take note of when this poem was created. I believe Eliot was working on this pre WW1 timeframe. Historically, we must look at how people lived, this was before central heat, sewage systems, utility systems, such extremes that are unfathomable by today's standards. Also, how people socialized and dressed, were conceptually difficult to believe as well. Such as, a woman was to be escorted by either her father or brother when outside the home. A woman that was "out with no escort," was one of "those women." Not the type of person to take to meet friends and family. Men always wore hats, everyone wore them even little children had to wear hats. A person always had to dress when going out of the house.
I will leave off at this point as I do not want to leave an essay for you to critique. LOL
Thanks and have a great day!
@@krisyallowega5487 wao, that was an amazing write-up. Yes, you are absolutely correct. In fact, that is the reason why I always prefer teaching Preludes before I teach Prufrock. That sets the poem in a proper context. Especially the part about the figure of the woman. It is indeed a parody of love song, a satire almost. In a world, that was about to be split in ghastly wounds of two world wars soon, idealized love was actually an impossibility.
@@NibblePop I would not necessarily say that it was "idealized love" but perhaps lust? If we delve a little into Eliot's personal life we may get a better grasp of what he may have been coping with. But that may be an undertaking for another time, as I have just given a quick scan of his biography. It is quite intense, at least I believe so.
I have researched a little on ether that may have been used over 100 years ago. It could have been quite a terrifying experience for a patient. Could you imagine being aware of a doctor operating on you or by chance "waking up" during a procedure. So I would think of it like this...it was not that Prufrock's audience of one (assuming) would be totally numb to what they were in store for. It was that the person or persons could not react, argue or fight back. So they would not necessarily feel the physical pain but all of the emotional pain. This theory makes me wonder who it was he was taking on the "journey." Who could it have been that he wanted to cause such emotional distress? May it have been a spouse or a mistress? I would not think that it was one of his friends or mates.
@@krisyallowega5487 or may be his readers, or may be his inner self.
This is amazing. Thank you ma'am ♥️
Ma'am can you please make a video on W.B Yeats' s "The Second Coming" and "No Second Troy"? That will be really helpful 😊
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You are brilliant !
Thank you so much Madam for your legendary explanation about this poem.
Can you please explain ulysses, selling to byzantian, eastern 1916, far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy, Jain Air, our cashew in a tree by taru Dutta, the harp of India by derozio.
And also can you do a lecture upon the commonwealth period and post colonial literature?
Please madam, this is my request to you.
Sailing to Byzantium already there
@@NibblePop thank you so much madam.
You are really a legend.
Ma'am why don't you make a video on poetry such as The lady of shalott, A grammarians funeral, poem in October. It will be really helpful.
Thank you ma'am for this detailed explanation... The analysis was amazing... 😇
Please make video on T. S. Eliot's "BURNT NORTON"... It will be very much helpful...
Ouch, that might take some time. But I will keep it in mind.
@@NibblePop Ok ma'am... thank you so much... 😇
Thank you Madam...your video really helps me very much to understand the topics of my syllabus very well. When for the first time I had heard your this lecture, I didn't go to the comment box and that's why I did not notice that you had mentioned my name here. However, thank you very much Mam for helping us in this way. If you get time please make a video on Mansfield "Bliss".
I have got a similar request for "Bliss" already in a comment from another viewer Srabanti Singha. I will definitely make a video on Bliss very soon. Thank you for your attentive presence.
Thank you very much Madam!
Mam need waste land of T.S Eliot. I listen and write word by word ur lecture thank u so much .......from Pakistan.
I find your lectures useful . Can you make vedio on how to prepare for b.ed entrance exams
Pls Ma'am , make a video on the Anglo-Saxon Period . If you make a video on the era of the English literature , many students were helped . Ok ma'am , we look forward to hearing from you .
I will keep that in mind. thank you for the suggestion
Thank you ma'am...Ur lecture was really helpful...I was really struggling with this poem.....Maam can you please explain Baudelaire's ," TO THE READER " and " CORRESPONDENCE " ...
Great are your efforts.
Woke up in the middle of the night yesterday with a thought, and waited to make sure it still sounded reasonable... Michaelangelo is Ezra Pound. One of the most famous quotes by Michelangelo is how he saw an angel trapped in the marble block. Ezra Pound saw the angel of "the Wasteland" in the huge marble block of "He do the Police in Different Voices." I *think* Eliot and Pound knew each other at the time of publication of the Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, but you'd know better than me.
Yes. They did know each other at the time of publication of Prufrock. But it was written in around 1911, and so far as historical records tell us, Pound and Eliot met each other in 1914.
Ma'am please upload a video on T.S Eliot's "Marina" and "The Hollow Men"... We will be forever grateful to you
Amazing explanation like always. Mam, can you please make a video on 'Burnt Norton' as well?
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Very Fruitful explanation!
Something real one ❤❤❤
Very well explained Madam....! Thanks a lot
Ma'am please make a video on Tithonus as we have a semester exam. Please upload it before 8 May, 2024.
Thank you😊
mam you are amazing make video on ts eliot hollow men also it will be really helpful
Thank you madam ❤🙏
Thank you so much mam
ma'am, can you do johnson's london please
Ma'am, can we have a class session on "the waste land" by T.S.Eliot. it is difficult to understand 😥
Please ma'am 💕
Sadia, I have personally benefited from Mr. Huff's exegesis: czcams.com/play/PLpYit10i_j4M-7sJ3k53lWgHU2tZNKFfw.html
Ma'am I have a question.
In line no 10. (@13:55) "To lead you to an overwhelming question" Here Prufrock is referring to the readers as "you" right? So this "you" is not prufrock's eternal realist persona.
Why not? It could have double meaning. Right?
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Please answer this question sir (2 marks)
1."Do I dare disturb the universe"- what does the speaker dare not ? What is suggested remark disturb the universe ?
Watch the line where i have explained in detail.
Excellent explanation
Ma'am is cute by face and sweet by voice❤
Awesome Explanation ma'am.
One piece of internal evidence for the "you and I" both being Prufrock is Hamlet, where Hamlet is both the Prince and the King, the Young and the Old.
Wao, that's sounds so legit.
@@NibblePop there's an artistic photograph, "the Anatomy student," by William Mortensen, that really brings home the idea of being conscious but immobilized, because of examination.
The idea I have is similar to becoming suddenly aware of the fact that your lower jaw has weight, and requires effort to hold in the proper position, right in the middle of a conversation.
To paraphrase Socrates, "the overexamined life is not worth living."
@@K_F_fox that quote is so true, isn't it? The main problem of Prufrock is overdoing analysis and thinking. He has such a morbid fear of losing something that he never manages to possess it even.