Goosebumps as soon as you began introducing him. This makes history so glorious. Us Irish poets love him, innit 😄 My modern-day parody that I wrote I will arise and go now And go to the late-night mall And pop-tarts I’ll buy there And a jar of hair gel Or maybe mousse or fixing spray As gel dries dripping slow And worse, it takes away the glow Of natural, healthy hair I will arise and go now For whether night or day The mall is always open With products on display I love the second floor This Yeats poem is expressing nostalgia for a simple Irish natural retreat as a distant city dweller.
@Christian-fp9bq
3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic lecture Mr. Gioia, thank you so much for sharing and analyzing this beautiful and timeless poem.
@georgelaing2578
Жыл бұрын
This is a superb example of the ART of exposition!!!
@Air_Dan
5 ай бұрын
Thank you for this wonderful video. This is excellent material for me to assign my students to watch at home for the British Literature Class I teach.
@marinatestolin7386
7 ай бұрын
So enlightning. Thanks from the core of my heart.
@harmoniabalanza
8 ай бұрын
excellent beginning. I'll watch the rest!
@harmoniabalanza
8 ай бұрын
this is one of my favorite poems--if you like it, listen to Judy Collins's version of it as a song. Yeats's poem bears a bit a resemblance to Blake's London.
@winstonmiller9649
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a liberating lecture. It was like you were distilling a fine tasting wine. To me an accessible lecturer knows how to make the topic less confusing to those who want to learn how to do the same. I'll be looking out for more of your fine wines/lectures in future.
@jorudd9722
Жыл бұрын
Plllll”, hi 30:43
@jakkelway
7 ай бұрын
Fantastic, wonderous walk through! Beautifully paced, wonderfully inspiring of reflection. Thanks.😊
@dgillane
3 жыл бұрын
I never got Yeats’s poetry. I still don’t. I’m quite fond of Heaney’s prose but have had issues with his verse. I remember studying this poem, and I struggled. While I still don’t think I got it, I did like Dana’s explanation. I remember my years as an undergraduate English major , I don’t remember such a patient approach. This was a very pleasant revisiting of why I studied literature
@winstonmiller9649
3 жыл бұрын
Patience describes Dana's approach to literature. How, just nice, it is when a somewhat daunting subject can be made more accessible and I dare to say, more simple. Dana, your restrained joy is infectious. So that if one loves literature, but for whatever reason, has strayed. Your lecture would revived a waining faithfulness. Just Wonderful!
@ShiriShotz
10 ай бұрын
Thank you for the insightful lecture. Yeat's reading reminded me for some reason of Jefferson Airplane's song "White Rabbit". It has similar musical energy and trance-like quality. Also, you mentioned the way the poem is graphically organized, with the shorter line at the end of every stanza. It might look like the soft waves of the lake, which is the sound that the speaker so longs for
@rathodkaran6190
7 ай бұрын
It was orson welles who had said, a film is not good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet, sir i would like to give you my deepest thanks for opening my eyes in a very new and interesting way, not only my respect for poetry and you have arised but also my filmmaking understanding has deepened, i will get into poetry and pretty soon start writing my own for it seems to be the mother of all art, and will help me tremendously in my filmmaking journey, thank you sir once again and i wish you never stop making these videos!
@mariacuachon3906
9 ай бұрын
Seeking the quiet and peace of being close to nature and being settled in one's self, in one's flow of thoughts, in the play of sounds of surrounds I feel my feelings and being closer to my God.
@alyswilliams9571
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful, very enlightening. More please Mr Gioia.
@diogenesagogo
11 ай бұрын
For me good poetry is never prescriptive; it suggests, points in many directions, which makes it dense with possibilities of different lives, different worlds, firing the imagination.
@SilaliS
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this great video Mr. Gioia
@Ozgipsy
4 күн бұрын
This is a brilliant analysis.
@nusratjahankhan4954
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for such analysis of this poem Sir ! From Bangladesh 🇧🇩
@bruceblosser384
8 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for that analysis of this major work. I have always connected with the bits about longing for a simple life in the natural world, but not until I watched this, did I ever realize why the poem was so universally appreciated! - I was at the Tor House Poetry Festival the year Jeffers was quite appropriately honored by you and "The Big Read" Festival. Thank You!
@Islaras
4 ай бұрын
So grateful for this. Thank you prof.
@looknseeit
10 ай бұрын
A helpful explanation of this poem (and others). Thank you. I wish I'd had you as my English teacher; it would have made lessons more interesting, meaningful, and enjoyable.
@louie2470
10 ай бұрын
When I first read the poem (40 years ago), I also thought that Lake Isle of Innisfree referred to a place of "inner free"dom, a place of inner peace.
@kimyj.m.knight9174
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Dana! I just shared this video with my team at Cæsura!
@gabicreightonbooksetc.
Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this unknotting. Thank you Dana Gioia.🙏🏽🌸
@crystalclear6864
10 ай бұрын
Enlightening! Tks
@zita-lein
7 ай бұрын
Perfect for me. Loved it!
@earthperson79153
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. How wonderful and miraculous!
@אורישטייגמן
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. It was beautiful.
@Gustolfo
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful explanation. Thank you, Mr. Gioia.
@GaryAskwith1in5
10 ай бұрын
Why is it that presenters so often don’t look at the camera; the viewer?
@davidschmidt5507
3 ай бұрын
Was wondering too. They probably felt that would be too intense. Like the viewer was being stared at and talked down too.
@TimGreigPhotography
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful 😊
@CarterCurriculaTV
Жыл бұрын
Excellent unknotting of a poem.
@docmix
10 ай бұрын
Marvellous! Thank you. 🙏
@jennyaskswhy
Жыл бұрын
The wattle and clay (daub) house is an allusion to a type of dwelling place - the Iron Age Celtic roundhouse - so there is a Celtic revivalist aspiration to the image of Inisfree Yeats imagines here. It is a calling for Irish immigrants to return home as the prodigal son willing to serve the highly idealised rural lifestyle offered by some republicans at the time. That is the lesson we were taught to read in it during lessons in school.
@barbararussell9757
10 ай бұрын
Not only the story of the Prodigal Son, but also Psalm 55:6 mirrors the message of this poem.
@TheSoulBlossom
4 ай бұрын
Your "bee-loud" sounds a bit like "bee-rowd" to me 😅 It's kind of funny :)
@rbnn
11 ай бұрын
PO-EM is two syllables. Not POME.
@DanaGioiaPoet
10 ай бұрын
Both pronunciations are standard. Dealer's choice.
@rbnn
10 ай бұрын
@@DanaGioiaPoet OED: poem has two syllables in both U.S. and British English. I personally have not heard the monosyllabic pronunciation before.
@VinodSharma-lm6yz
10 ай бұрын
Grey pavement for me is not unpleasant. It’s is heartless, devoid of finer emotions.
@MaryJosephine-i4f
Ай бұрын
Make note of what 2nd line of 2nd stanza implies...
@MaryJosephine-i4f
Ай бұрын
Allusion part of it was awesome eye opener❤
@davidlee6720
10 ай бұрын
in -is -free no confines to the intellect.
@mawalir937
10 ай бұрын
I do not mean to be cynical for the sake of or critical just to be; but I do not understand why and more important the need to analyze or even endeavor to understand words (poem) written let say 300 years ago. I find it difficult or perhaps even impossible to understand what that poet really meant sitting somewhere 300 years ago. What was going through his mind, his social, cultural, economic, geographic and psychological settings. To take something written that long ago and interpret it now in the present time is a pointless exercise undertaken to keep alive an art that has no meaning the 21 century. like I said its very difficult and perhaps even meaningless. Its almost like deciphering a newly discovered alphabet. Poetry, to me is an art of putting words together in a meter of rythem to entertain and even mesmerize an audience. Poets used poetry to say and express a thought through an arrangement of words that sounded good and even delivered a message of social or cultural importance. In my opinion (i do not know for sure) poets did this to express their and public sentiments about important issues of the time directed at a certain individual or a group. Poetry delivered a message with a soft blow and without pointing fingers. But, that time is now gone. In this day and age we prefer in fact demand a straight to the point message rather than a cryptic jumble of words in a roundabout way, without really even making a point.
@rtmca1
10 ай бұрын
We have become so arrogant as a culture that we wrongly believe the great minds of the past have nothing to offer us. I fault our failed educational system.
@ToastingInEpicBread
10 ай бұрын
This comment is sad. I'm sure many feel this way; wanting a direct message to trot out rather than to feel something nuanced, complex, and evocative. Funny thing is, we still have not returned to our father or admitted our sins. We continue to live amongst the pigs, squandering our inheritance, and blind to the obviously approaching famine. When it will be too late, our advanced ways of life will perish but the sentiments within poems like these will persist in the hearts of the survivors, guiding them, hopefully, back in time to a simpler life.
@ShiriShotz
10 ай бұрын
It doesn't really matter "what the poet really meant". Art is in the eye of the beholder. What matters is what it does to you. How it touches you, what memories, feelings or insights it sparks. You would still enjoy the Sistine Chapel ceiling or in awe of the Mona Lisa, which were painted over 500 years ago, right? Good art stands the test of time because it relates to the human condition, which is surprisingly similar 300 years ago and today.
@HubbardGavin-e1x
11 күн бұрын
Young Jason Taylor Dorothy Garcia Brian
@wordscapes5690
10 ай бұрын
Never read a poem… except to yourself.
@KingMinosxxvi
9 ай бұрын
no we arnt
@kevinhardy8997
10 ай бұрын
If a poem isn’t backed with a hard rock band….there is little interest. The music sells it.
@1jondee
2 жыл бұрын
Gor, listening to this drivel makes my brain feel as if it's being shellacked.
@tomgoff6867
3 жыл бұрын
A highly accomplished close reading. With an understanding of the parable alluded to, this poem is no longer a merely wistful expression of longing for rustic simplicity, but a driving and urgent prayer for a misspent life to be redeemed. We experience the prodigal's squandered inheritance as the severed connection with an Irish heritage (or any spiritual birthright).
@philipcarpenter6430
3 жыл бұрын
Wow! I wish I had received this type of education in AP Literature. Thank you!
@jeffhunt2475
Жыл бұрын
Such an informative and well presented interpretation. Thank you. Two things that worried me about the poem that weren’t commented on - not a criticism as there simply isn’t time to cover every possibility ! Firstly, why 9 bean rows? Would any other monosyllabic number have done? Taking the view that a poet always uses words carefully I looked up the numerology of 9 and it represents completion. The highest value single digit number associated with experience and wisdom. In Victorian England at this time there was a fad for the occult and Yeats was interested in this area so would have known. Secondly, ‘ where the crickets sing’. I’m not sure if there are crickets in Ireland, they’re relatively rare in the UK. As someone who speaks a reasonable level of Italian I know of the Italian phrase ‘ where the crickets sing’ as being associated with cemeteries and death. Also, veils of the morning may hold morning and mourning together. Possibly, Yeats is alluding via a natural description to both the natural daily cycle and the cycle of human life and death which is part of the world of Innisfree and, as such, is registered with a calm acceptance.
@barrym3651
10 ай бұрын
9 is the number of the Ancient Greek muses
@kathleenmckenzie6261
10 ай бұрын
@jeffhunt2475 I don't know where you now live or where you grew up, but I was born and grew up in the Midwest. There is no dearth of crickets there. Before a record-breaking cold and snowy winter, my home was invaded by crickets that I always picked up and relocated outdoors. As I picked up each one, I kept thinking, 'I hope you're not telling me that we're going to have a really bad winter.' That was exactly what came to pass.
@KeithMcdowell-xn5xq
9 ай бұрын
Your lecture was a masterpiece!
@omerosdaskalos7708
9 ай бұрын
Perhaps it's not right to over analyse poetry either , for meanings that just don't exist. That's only overthinking what should primarily be an emotional experience . Nine bean rows is possibly an alliterative effect ? While the crickets are just rural crickets , making a noise in the evening.
@simonestreeter1518
10 ай бұрын
Wonderful to find this. It is also double proof that no matter how gifted, how subtle, how sensitive or how intelligent one is, the art of reciting poetry well is a separate art indeed.
@tuwlaets
9 ай бұрын
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant introduction to poetry and a particular poem. By the way, core is from the same root as "coeur", from the Proto Indo-European -kerd. And, if you think of the lake isle as a core within the lake that is surrounded by land, a heart within a heart, then the core of the heart is also a heart within the heart. The brilliant explication by Dana Giolia has opened this poem to me both intellectually and deeply emotionally. Thank you.
@Jonjzi
10 ай бұрын
That reading by Yeats was chilling. I never heard anyone recite poetry like that.
@DanaGioiaPoet
10 ай бұрын
I agree. Yeats doesn't recite the poem, he chants it. Almost sings it. I wonder if that is how classical poets read their work 2000 years earlier.
@tchaivorakfauresohnsieg9532
10 ай бұрын
@@DanaGioiaPoetthere's also Robert Frost video recording available
@Air_Dan
5 ай бұрын
@@DanaGioiaPoet Yeats was heavily influenced by the Dada movement as well as enjoyed the more formal, classical poetry of the past so this is why he chanted his poems.
@Jonjzi
5 ай бұрын
@@toribukofske3929 Sometimes life really is that theatrical and over the top; they are moments we will remember forever, and others are ones we wish we could forget.
@patchthesinclair5896
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so very much. My comprehension of this, my all time favourite poem is, thanks to you , at a new height. It truly represents the yearning of my heart's inner core!
@VinodSharma-lm6yz
10 ай бұрын
In a poem even if you don’t know the meaning of some word, just invent your own meaning. You will never be wrong. Poem is understood by the reader and not by the poet. Just go and enjoy.
@Degjoy
10 ай бұрын
I write poetry and I hope people look up the meanings if they don’t know them.
@VinodSharma-lm6yz
10 ай бұрын
@@Degjoy people seldom do it.
@faede-rc7um
9 ай бұрын
Funny. Why dont youMake your own poems,,?
@cadamiller
9 күн бұрын
No. This is wrong. Poets want to communicate. Word meaning is more important in poetry than in other types of writing.
@KayClarity
3 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad to see you posting these! A gift for many.
@StevenWithrow
3 жыл бұрын
Phenomenal series of videos!
@geradobocanegra6156
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you master, in my town we try and try to understand poetry in some way (almost any way), and it´s quite a mess when we start to read and say some "poems", we don´t get any light sometimes. Your speech tend to enlighten our doubts, Thank you very much
@preparearoom
10 ай бұрын
From an aspiring poet, I thank you for this wonderful teaching!
@519djw6
2 жыл бұрын
I thank you for this analysis of Yeats's poem--but I can never appreciate him, because after he had become "an institution," he said of Wilfred Owen's poetry that it was “unworthy of the Poets Corner of a country newspaper.” Owen was the greatest poet to emerge from the First World War, and his poems touch me in a way that Yeats's never have.
@hadriankun
10 ай бұрын
i can feel this video will change my life, thank you very much.
@ashwanikumarsharma15151
Жыл бұрын
not the Lecturer we deserve, The Lecturer we need....... Thankyou so so much sir, your lectures helped me first time in my life to understand what poetry is and how to read and actually enjoy it. Now I can confidently start my Masters in English Literature.
@DanaGioiaPoet
10 ай бұрын
I'm glad to provide some small help as you further your career in literature.
@ManifestWistful
10 ай бұрын
What is term we can use for sound of mosquito 🦟 when we desperately want to sleep and it makes sure to disturb you with that noise.. well in a part of planet where we live it's a common thing we started looking with "Bhin-bhi-na-na" 😅 I like the episode . Quote informative.
@paulfogarty7724
Жыл бұрын
...and although he longs to go back to Ireland, he wishes for isolation from its people. Implying he finds both equilly tiring weather English or Irish, it's only his native land he longs for.
@EvaStenskar
11 ай бұрын
This is just beautiful and did in fact untie Yeats's poem for me. Thank you so much.
@damianntaganzwa316
2 ай бұрын
Oh my God! This gentleman explains poetry so,so well! Now I will arise and go poetry with greater joy! He has pulled me off the grey pavement of battling poetry.Sometimes,let's know how to contact these great teachers on emails,etc; if only to appreciate them.
@harmoniabalanza
7 ай бұрын
The Lake Isle lives in the poet's imagination and in his heart. There are millions of people today in big cities who long for the same thing the poet does in this poem. I certainly do. The poet equates himself with the prodigal son in the sense that his true self originates in the rural natural places not in a big dirty evil city. He has been led away by vice and selfishness and illusion and now seeks to return in a kind of penance-- seeking peace in the simple life removed from the world's corruption. He arises, gets up and goes , but also rises in a spiritual sense by changing his life.
@theoldkitbag
6 ай бұрын
Just a note from an Irish person: Innisfree is natively pronounced InnISH-free; i.e. with a slight emphasis on the end of 'Innis' (and with an 'ish' rather than an 'iss' sound) instead of the 'free'. You can't really hear it in Yeat's recording (unless you're listening for it) due to the poor quality and his forced cadence. Innisfree is the Anglicisation of the Gaelic word ''Inis Fraoch' (pronounced Innish-Free-uch, Inis being the Irish for island), meaning, as mentioned in the video 'Island of Heather'. Innisfree is on Lough Gill, by which Yeat's grandfather lived. The Hill of Grianan forms the lake's eastern shore - Grianán being an Irish word describing a sunny place, or (more relevantly) a place of outstanding natural beauty. Yeat's isn't just talking about returning to any old natural place; he's talking about returning to a place where nature is in her glory - the antithesis of the speaker's condition.
@davidtrindle6473
2 жыл бұрын
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@richardvorwald5478
9 ай бұрын
Thank you, had to go thru similar untieing & appreciating of Keats's 'To Autumn' - it's nice to do this process with another while at a place like the poem describes.
@lukemcinerney7458
8 ай бұрын
A wonderful analysis. There is but one extra level of anlaysis to note and that is of topography. Inisfree or in Irish (an Ghaeilge) Inis Fraoigh, is a lake that situates in Co Sligo. This is important ss Yeats was intimately linked with Sligo and the topography of that county is recounted in his references in other poems to Ben Bulben. His final resting place is at Drumcliff also in Sligo. Another thing to note is that in the Irish language we have two main words for isle/island. One is oileán and the other inis. Now, inis is usually anglicised as 'inish' hence the pronounication of Yeats' poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree shoukd be 'Inishfree'. This, then, more closely reflects the original language pronounciation of Inis Fraoigh (-igh in Irish is almost wholly silent or palatized). An inis (isle) has a meaning of a small lake or wet area between rivers and thus a kind of watery meadow. It can also mean a proper lake, but in placenames it usually denotes a watery area between rivers, as in the case of Ennis, the main town in Co Clare, where the name derives from a dry area between tributaries of the Fergus river, making it like a dry patch in a wet landscape. Go míle maith agat, tá sé álainn dán! Beir bua ó Bhaile Átha Cliath!
@barrym3651
10 ай бұрын
Innis in Irish language sounds like sh in English. Think of shout or shoe .it does not rhyme with English miss .Nonetheless I enjoyed the presentation
@lukemcinerney7458
8 ай бұрын
Cinnte!
@nonretrogradable
10 ай бұрын
This (as someone who is entirely foreign to poetry) was wonderful and illuminating. Thank you
@ancanemoianu6935
3 жыл бұрын
All undergraduates should listen to this "unknotting" of The Lake Isle of Innisfree!
@josie_posie809
2 жыл бұрын
Yeats ❤️ This was a beautiful unraveling. Thank you!!
@MMastiZone
7 ай бұрын
Beautiful explanation sir!💞
@tzaph67
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this , it was interesting and made me think more about a poem I have loved for many years. I was familiar with the parable of the prodigal son but had never before recognised the reference to it in the poem. It made a lot of sense. Another reference I’ve always felt Yeats was making with the beauty and peace of the lake isle was to a higher state of consciousness, a more authentic state of inner being. The “rising” of the soul to divine realms where peace and beauty are intrinsic to being. Yeats was a member of the Golden Dawn and was interested in the metaphysical and the esoteric, and I feel there’s a bit of that going on here too, someone in a tormented mental and emotional state who longs for the simple peace - who is longing for the great heart’s core (or coeur!)! Thanks again for a really interesting look at a wonderful poem
@laurachiar6086
10 ай бұрын
❤🙏
@HubbardGavin-e1x
11 күн бұрын
Robinson Sharon Garcia Barbara Lewis George
@TheBullhannigan
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely fascinating stuff, and well read and interpreted. One thing, though: Innisfree is pronounced 'Innish Free' Thanks
@charlesvanhorn1560
10 ай бұрын
Thank you Mr. Giola for opening my mind to an art form that eluded me. Because of your passion, I will look at poetry in an entirely different way.
@DanaGioiaPoet
10 ай бұрын
You have paid me (and the art) the highest compliment.
@nikitanipon9166
10 ай бұрын
In Europe we are not afraid of poetry feelings translate d lnwords
@Geemeel1
7 ай бұрын
Stunning lecture, and I know nothing of poems....I am so inpired to do so by you. Thanks SO much✨
@masivax6607
Жыл бұрын
watching the video gave me joy and peace.. thank you for this nice analysis 🙏🏻😌(tek Türk benim sanırım..)
@laurachiar6086
10 ай бұрын
❤🙏
@ivyfenix
9 ай бұрын
Very good, excellent !!Thank you so much for this beautiful lesson in WB Yeats poem 🙏
@springinfialta106
Жыл бұрын
Wow. The analysis at the ending is a twist greater than the ending of "The Sixth Sense". Thank you.
@greatgatsby6953
3 ай бұрын
This is a brilliant exposition!
@kholoud9423
4 ай бұрын
Thank you very much 👍🏻🧡
@bobbressi5414
11 ай бұрын
I have never been able to get into poetry outside of its use in song lyrics. I love the written word. I adore fiction, but poetry always makes me zone out mentally. I am not sure why I have never gotten into it. I appreciate it as an art form but I am rarely entertained by it. It seems somehow pretentious a lot of times. Im not sure if its the flowery phrasing or the over use of metaphor. Maybe it is all these things. Or perhaps I am not terribly sophisticated. That is a real possibility.
@DanaGioiaPoet
10 ай бұрын
Song is where all poetry began. Perhaps song will lead you deeper into poetry.
@JosephDuvernay
Жыл бұрын
HALF A VERSE (For one (D. Gioia's 03-25-2021) appreciated W. B. Yeats presentation.) One may see need of both: wild, lone; and this blind and tame that is not so hard to understand. (c)JMD!
@patricksullivan4329
10 ай бұрын
This is excellently well done, and is the best answer I've ever heard to the question, 'Why does it matter who wrote Shakespeare's works, as long as we have them?' If you don't have the background information right, you won't correctly understand the poem (or other literary work). That's why we need to know who the beautiful young man is, who is being compared to a summer's day in Sonnet #18. Why Polonius's verbosity is made fun of, why he is called a fishmonger and why Hamlet dispenses with him by a sword while he is spying on Hamlet and his mother.
@IsmailHossain-dh3fs
9 ай бұрын
Oh, I am totally absorbed by the analysis of thus masterpiece. This is the first video which brought me to Mr. Dana Gioia. Now I am the fan of his chamnel. His musical voice also brought me to a greater hight. Thanks Gioia, please keep on up loading such as many as you can. Would you please recite more famous poems along with your own.
@helenamcginty4920
11 ай бұрын
Ive heard a radio recording of Yeats talking about this poem. He said he had come to hate it. It was a product of his fanciful youth and not, in his opinion a good poem. He read it in the very odd stilted way people read poetry back then.
@DanaGioiaPoet
10 ай бұрын
Yeats did not come to dislike the poem. He felt imprisoned by its fame when so much of his other work was less recognized. He recorded the poem three times. All the rest of his poems with one exception went unrecorded. A great loss.
@olumuyiwalafe7768
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so so much Mr Dana Gioia, for this magnificent analysis of this poem. Best wishes, Sir.
@mateogiraldolopez9308
10 ай бұрын
In is free
@peregrinecovington4138
10 ай бұрын
Swag
@laurachiar6086
10 ай бұрын
❤🙏
@threefootpole
Жыл бұрын
Loved this, thank you. I wonder too if there is a contrast of England to Ireland, with all the political implications?
@keithhigh7773
10 ай бұрын
Thank you, Sir, for a wonderful exposition. We had to learn this poem at school some 62 years ago. However, the meaning of the verse was never explained to us. I have always loved the poem and your analysis of it has given it a whole new life for me.
@DanaGioiaPoet
10 ай бұрын
I learned to love poetry by hearing by Mexican-American mother recite the poems she had learned in elementary school. They meant a great deal to her. And they eventually changed my life.
@Gizgirl70
10 ай бұрын
Such a wonderful channel, this will be my go-to study class on Saturday nights :) x
@jainilsheth7996
10 ай бұрын
So lucky to have found this video. Brilliant analysis and thank you for making this video
@harmoniabalanza
5 ай бұрын
though I do adhere to the precept that " a poem should not mean, but be" I must praise Prof Gioia for his lucidity, depth of insight, and non-didactic yet expert style of instruction.
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