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'inferior male' just call him a twink😭

Thank you.

Thank you for helping me to explore Eliot's poems.

Thank you for your help. I am reading Eliot for the first time.

Thank you.

"i too dislike it" nice little reference there

is good very explication, my congratulations

this is so so so good. also what a voice victor has lol

Thank you for your service!

I love your addition of the historical perspective of the time in which the poems were written. Thank you for doing these excellent videos!!

Amazing

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Lopez Christopher Miller Charles Young Maria

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This is a great scholar and teacher.

I'm rediscovering Eliot, thanks to the brilliant exposition of Professor Strandberg. He's the best teacher I've come across on KZbin.

Hi Professor--if I were lecturing on this poem, I would add, at the end of Part 1, that the lines "Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death," are the concluding line of the Hail Mary.

Thank you so much! I love this poem, but have always struggled to understand it. You explain it so clearly.

Thank you, Professor Strandberg. You have opened new doors through your reading of "The Wasteland". Now I can enter the Four Quartets with hope and confidence for I truly believe that these two poems are organically related. You have prepared the way. "We shall not cease to explore ...".

No one that I've come across has opened up and laid bare the "Waste Land" as methodically and clearly as this Guru, Professor Strandberg. I cannot express my gratitude to him enough.

Your astute analysis reveals the cold hard truth of Eliot's characterizations of these two persons, so skillfully portrayed by Elliot and then, a century later, so attentively revealed by your scholarly presentation. It is almost as if the two characters are wearing the classic drama masks--comedy and tragedy--as they converse, although the reader, nee the listener is powerless to attach the mask to the lady, or . . . the gentleman. Which character represents the comic mask? Which the tragic? Alas, they are both duo-masked, depending which side of the conversation one is reading, or hearing, at the moment. But alas, the cold hard truth is that true, authentic, heoic tragedy is rendered dead in the 20th-century, with its demise having begun with the murder of an Austrian archduke in a backwater city, never to be resurrected again, except as a character in a play, a play such as Hamlet presents to the King, or a play such as Eliot presents to his 20th-century audience. Oh, lamentable day!

I'm a retired teacher and academic with a Ph.D (the novels of Dickens). Insurmountable Eliot has always eluded me. Now in retirement at 66 years, thanks to Professor Strandberg, I am beginning to see the Eliotic light. People say I'm mad, pursuing an incomprehensible, rambling, poet. I reply, "He giveth me a new lease of life". From the Wasteland to the Four Quarters I will go ... one is the progenitor of the other. Both are organic, both give life.

Through years and years of plodding and excavating wearily through the "Wasteland", I encountered mazes upon mazes of confusion until I chanced to meet this brilliant teacher who opened new doors unto me like no other had come near to doing. A long line of others, "experts, specialists" and the like failed. I salute this true pedagogue. I build him a monument.

Thank you, Professor, for providing a solid foundation (Tiresias and Buddha) upon which to explore Section III further. Your lectures are logical, methodical, measured and effective. Evidence of your love for your calling to teach ... Bless you.

We have the allusion to Cleopatra at the beginning of this section which concludes with Ophelia. Most interesting. The former, the architect of her own destiny, the latter a victim of her father, brother and lover. In between we have the reference to Philomel savaged and ravaged (with the myth of rebirth and eternal beauty after her tragedy). There is compelling evidence as well that a part of this segment functions as Eliot's autobiographical fragment of his sterile first marriage. A very coherent and lucid analysis by an outstanding scholar and teacher. Thank you, good Professor.

This is a REAL teacher.

The good professor is a teacher in the true sense of the word ... no pedantics, no showboating, no fancy intellectual footwork. Bless him and Duke University.

Thank you ever so much !

When the barkeep called time he would also ring a bell.

Impressing. Thank you for sharing. It's enlightening.

Thank you sir. You actually instilled the confidence in students that what you are going to teach to them is something that they are already familiar with. Also you made them think about the topics. You are right. The students should do several activities like this and travel along with the professor. A very nice insight! Thanks again!

Thank you Victor

Excellent series. Thank you kindly.

Outstanding!! Thank you professor

Thank you for your videos! I've enjoyed all the information greatly.

Feel like my version differs at points? No wrinkles female breasts or dugs?

The classical elements air earth water and fire make more sense to the contemporary mind if we see these as states of matter: gas, solid, liquid and the transfer of matter (fire), fire resulting in pure carbon, water and carbon monoxide

This video is all about james and what he thinks. I wish he talked more about the imagery and symbolism in detail.

It seems there is a consensus that the poem has a lot to do with Prufrock wanting to make a proposal to a woman, but I keep asking myself how can we be sure of that? Is it the only logical inference from the little info we are given? Is it necessarily the case?

Thank you very much for this lectures. I congratulate you from Brazil.

This is a treasure. Thank you, Dr. Standberg.

I wish we could have more literature courses. You are an excellent professor.

Interesting how blatant antisemitism is overlooked by fanat progressive-leftists. Compare to total obliteration of past slave-owners.

Thank you for your efforts, a great introduction

I really appreciate your generosity in offering this course online. Thank you so much!

Thank you that was incredible !

“If we follow the Hindu commandments”…. Sorry, but Eliot was a professed Christian. Write your own poem if you feel that strongly about it. Don’t shoehorn your beliefs into Eliot

I notice this tendency for reviewers to write in their own religious interpretation of Eliot but rarely taking him at face his own beliefs… beliefs that he was very much steadfast with