Placing in Context (Step 1) | Close Reading Poetry for Beginners
In this lecture, I want us to think about context not so much as surrounding information but rather as segments of a larger conversation-a verbal exchange between living words in living poems which go on living and speaking long after their authors are dead. Placing in contexts asks us to consider a poem not as an isolated individual but rather as a member of a community of poems. In the main lecture, we explore the different kinds of contexts in which poetry is created and enjoyed-from the biographical, historical contexts to the literary contexts of traditions and movements.
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Thank you for sharing your talent to the average person. Few people has the ability to transmit knowledge so interestingly as you do. It obviously has to do with the amplitude of knowledge you have in this mater, and the resonance and clear voice you have the blessing to possess.
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8 ай бұрын
Thank you -- that's very kind. Glad you enjoyed it!
what an incredible lecture, Adam. keep doing this amazing work. as a literature student, I am mesmerized
I'm glad this video exists, the other day I tried to write a poem and I feel like it was a disaster and I always struggle to connect to poems
Phew. On the one hand I fear for all the time I'll have to spend and """miss out""" on so many other reads I wish to embark upon, but on the other, the idea of just skimming the horizon and not look at the trees, the rocks and the rhyming and rythm of the poems little painted landscape , leaving a sense of wasted time and wasted art, is more pressing. These videos are amazing.
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6 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Fantastic ! you are destined to bring poetry alive to many minds !
Thank you Adam for your inspiring lectures. I have come to poetry late in life from a scientific backgound. I have a particular affinity for some of the work of Shelley that I am slowly working through.I find parts of it truly moving.
How funny-I was just in Rome with my daughter and I read the new book on Keats’ journey from England to Rome, Writ On Water. We spent a lot of time by the Spanish steps and at the Protestant cemetery there (also eating ice cream etc!). This video gave me even more context for his life, his work and his final days. It also gave me additional layers of context for other poetry I love. This video was so well structured; thank you!
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Жыл бұрын
That sounds lovely! and thank you!
Great video and nice job editing the video.
Wow!