Very nice lecture in providing the historical and especially philosophical background to Donne's life and work. The explication of "The Flea" was both instructive and entertaining.
@arwa4252
3 жыл бұрын
How about a jet ring.. poeme. Is it explained?!
@edwardkmicheal218
8 ай бұрын
Today We Or i should say it still is geocentric in that Individuals know the Universe rotates, revolves about themselves. Here Lies Our Death kdag PlymouthUK 2024Jan24th 1259hrGMT
@shabirmagami146
6 ай бұрын
thank you for such an insightful lecture .....sharing this with my students ....love and respect💌
@ilkeyalcn6581
9 ай бұрын
I’m a English major from Turkey and your lectures helped me so much for my finals thank you so much 🙏🏻
@LitProf
9 ай бұрын
Glad to hear that.
@TheMrGoferman
2 жыл бұрын
I'm an English major from Poland and those lectures are extremely helpful for my literature classes. Thank you for sharing them!
@LitProf
2 жыл бұрын
Glad they help
@English_With_Shweta
4 жыл бұрын
With so much depth, information and love you’re speaking. I felt it very soothing. Thank you so much for making this.
@LitProf
4 жыл бұрын
Glad you found it beneficial. Lecturing on such wonderful texts is great.
@LaraKhurana
11 ай бұрын
Great lecture! Always looking forward for your videos 🎉
@neidepinheiro771
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing lecture, Dr. Masson. Thanks for sharing with us.
@isaiasguzman942
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this lecture. Deeply enlightening, teachers voice grabs our attention from the moment he talks to the end. That is a gift.
@LitProf
3 жыл бұрын
Kind words. Thank you. Glad the lectures are helping people.
@LaraKhurana
11 ай бұрын
Thanks a ton sir 🎉❤
@rhaenysgames8115
3 жыл бұрын
Im writing my senior argumentative paper on John Donne so this has been really handy 😂😉
@r.s.b1333
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot sir, found your lectures very helpful..... I'm from India, not native-English speaker but didn't find your lectures uncomfortable..I felt like I was studying in the classroom.
@LitProf
4 жыл бұрын
You are most welcome. If you are a non-native speaker, you've done extremely well. Donne's poetry is a bit challenging!
@tamarkopadze5325
4 жыл бұрын
A very interesting and informative lecture indeed. Thanks for sharing. Gonna check other lectures too.
@LitProf
4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! I will be adding more in the Fall.
@mortezajafari1127
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent sir
@hjm231
2 жыл бұрын
thank you so much, you make it so fun and interesting to study poetry. i have to write a paper about "metaphysical poets" by T.S.Eliot, but i find it so confusing because the definition that we know about metaphysical poetry, us differ from Eliot's concept of them. thank you again 💓
@hbcbrassroots
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Dr. Masson
@LitProf
4 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome.
@Raptorcdxx
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for making this!
@LitProf
4 жыл бұрын
No problem!
@therebelliousgeek4506
3 жыл бұрын
Thank You.
@NaelahAl-sammarraie
6 күн бұрын
In Flea, she killed the flea, so the woman is like Judas😅 cool poem.
@josehenr1que7
4 жыл бұрын
What time does he talk about the Flea and The Rising Sun?
@hearts_of_gold
4 жыл бұрын
a waste of higher consciousness to want to torture any one - but we can both forgive the despots and imperialists in this and forever be reminded by them to apply our higher consciousness where we once did lack
@LitProf
4 жыл бұрын
You are presuming that the theory of biological evolution is valid. The idea is of course anachronistically applied to Donne. But even if evolution is true, and there is a continuum of being, then we have no moral standard by which to judge that killing the flea is wrong.
@hearts_of_gold
4 жыл бұрын
@@LitProf Nothing precludes moral standards except the inability to have them. A continuum of being - allowing for cultural development is what can give us that ability. I believe that we have to develop our morality by using our experience and our conscience, science and art, honesty and careful consideration - including openness to consider new information and how it may reqiure us to adjust our understanding. I form the particulars of my ethics, as far as i am able, from a dedication to health and wellbeing for all humanity, trusting that this will be concomitant with humane treatment of animals. I must add that I get the symbolism in the poem - but i would not generally fuss over a flea, BUT i would certainly not wish any animal to be tortured. - It was the off the cuff reference to torture which made me respond. A more humane future is at least possible - and worth living for. To achieve it we have to become more aware - particularly about our anger and it's real causes, and develop our ability to control it; so that even if we are harmed and suffer, we do not cause more unnecessary harm and suffering. This does not mean putting up with being harmed and suffering - we have to protect ourselves - rather it means keeping clarity and devotion to overcoming the problems that cause harm and suffering in the first place. It is not to be infirm - but to be firm about kindness. It was not wrong per se to feel as you felt, still less to say how you felt - but to go no further and/or to think such feelings to be justified - as i said at first - it seems to be a waste of your intelligence.
@LitProf
9 ай бұрын
The belief that the life of a flea and of a human are equivalent is a major error.
@hearts_of_gold
4 жыл бұрын
other wise it's a good lecture - Thanks
@LitProf
4 жыл бұрын
Glad you think so!
@edwardkmicheal218
8 ай бұрын
Today We Or i should say it still is geocentric in that Individuals know the Universe rotates, revolves about themselves. Here Lies Our Death kdag PlymouthUK 2024Jan24th 1258hrGMT
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