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Took more than 26 hours to make a 13-minute video... Scripting, recording, editing, and subtitling... And average view duration is still around 3 minutes... 🙂 Glad you liked it... Being popular is not my forte... 😆

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Beautiful explanation but I had 2 doubts..what does the line "A history of sewage afloat, Thirst a bath, all inhuman" mean and also "All our dreams are like drunken jokes played on the reeds of an oft-used harmonium" signify?

Good questions. The 'history' is a history of inhumanity, corruption, and misery. So he calls the history a 'sewage afloat' : something that you cannot look at and not be uncomfortable. In other words, when you look at the 'history' of that time you feel 'disturbed', 'uncomfortable', 'nauseous', as if it is like a "sewage afloat". Now what happens when there is no "drinking water" but "sewage afloat" all around? Can you quench your thirst as a human being? Can you take a bath as a human being? But you are living with it, like an animal does. So he says everything has become inhuman, life has become like the lives of animals. I would encourage you to contrast this sewage image with Tagore's phrase "where the clear stream of reason...". See, Rabindranath dreamt of an independent nation where reason would guide us and will never be suppressed by "dead habits". But what has actually happened? We forgot 'reason' ("clear stream") and went on with irrational, inhumane, indecent instincts ("sewage afloat"). Clear? 🙂

​@@hrisikesh Yes sir understood..thanks a lot 😀 but what about the drunken jokes played on an oft-used harmonium? It would be helpful if you could explain this too🙏🏻

And to answer the second question... When reality is so far away from what we dreamt of, those dreams seem to be "a drunken joke" (as if impossible, unrealistic, moronic to be taken seriously). He is mocking the 'aspirations' and 'dreams' of humanists. Of course, we know what Rabindranath dreamt cannot be a "drunken joke", but an ideal picture. Then why does the poet mock the 'dreams' as 'drunken jokes'? Actually he is doing the opposite. He is contrasting the 'real' with the 'ideal', by calling the 'ideal' a drunken joke, he is actually commenting on how dire the situation in reality is that we have already accepted so easily, as if we never cared for those ideals. We ignored the ideals in such a way, and embraced inhumanities so easily, that it seems we took those ideals as drunken jokes, never to be taken seriously. So, the poet is actually not mocking the ideals, but the 'people' who did not care for those ideals. "Drunken joke" means something that cannot be taken seriously, has no meaning or significance, or is utter gibberish. And an "oft-used harmonium" doesn't look good either. Even then, "played" in a drunken state, it may denote that it was out of tune. So, overall, the line means "something extraordinarily ridiculous". Clear? 🙂

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The last time WBSU changed the syllabus was in 2023. So, in 2024, you should follow that version, as I have followed here in this video. 🙂 I suppose whoever is pretending to follow the earlier versions, as if that is to be followed, actually intends to avoid teaching texts such as 'Way of the World', 'Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power', 'Goblin Market', and the two added Victorian novels. 😆

Thankyou so much sir, arr literature of knowledge er poriborton a jeta ache amra ota toh porlei hobe aro eta ki porte lagbe arr ami already Ulysses Dover Beach arr my last Duchess pore niyechi tahole ki goblin market lagbe ?

Charles Lamb করলে দুটো প্রবন্ধই করতে হবে, বাদ দেওয়া যাবে না। আর ভিক্টোরিয়ান কবিতায় যেটা বলেছ তাতে অসুবিধা নেই। কিন্তু তিনটে কবিতাই কিন্তু RTC লেভেলে পড়তে হবে সেক্ষেত্রে। কারণ তিনটে করে প্রশ্ন দেবে দুটো সেকশনেই, আছে চারটে কবিতা। তার মানে একটা করে বাদ দেবে। আমি যেটা RTC করবো বলে করলাম সেটায় যদি RTC না দেয়? তাই জন্য তৈরী থাকতে হবে। বড় প্রশ্ন বড় নম্বর এনে দেয়, আর RTC এনে দেয় সেই ফাইন মার্জিনটা যেটায় সেকেন্ড ক্লাস ফার্স্ট ক্লাসে রূপান্তরিত হয়। 🙂

Thankyou so much sir apnar jonne khub sahajjo holo amar ​@@hrisikesh

Thank you for the feedback. And yes, I am trying to learn how to improve. 🙂

I'm glad to hear it was helpful and I welcome your feedback. Aren't there contents available on KZbin explaining those two poems? If not, I shall do. Meanwhile, please 'like', share, and subscribe to the channel.

No sir I couldn't find any

Alright. I'm working on it. 🙂

With images such as 'fire', 'shoulder', 'art', 'hammer', 'chain', 'furnace', 'anvil', 'deadly grasp' etc., the poet actually evokes the image of a forge or smithery, a blacksmith's workshop where a blacksmith, with his ordinary humane powers and skill makes extraordinarily powerful and strong objects made of irons, such as a sword or a scythe and various other objects, some of which are for daily use and some of which are arms of destruction. Blake's point is that the creator's creativity and skill are shown by what he creates. Here the Tyger is a powerful and ferocious force created by the Maker. The Maker, like a blacksmith, is producing such a powerful instrument (Tyger) which shows, according to Blake's logic, how powerful the Maker is as well as how simple and humble he is in exercising his creative skills, just like a blacksmith. Clear?

Ok Sir

Thank you for your feedback. I shall make videos but first I must check which of the topics are rarely covered by others on KZbin. Then I can make videos on those specific topics.

@@hrisikesh yes sure ! Please do the honour !!

Could you please mention any specific topic that you need but can't find on KZbin? I shall try my best. 🙂

@@hrisikesh Sir.. We (Students) always prefer the videos with best explanation given. Don't worry about the contents.. You are doing great❤... Thank you so much sir ❤❤ your perspective towards things are incredible, the way how you have written in your page "independent Teacher" ❤

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As far as can be suggested is mentioned in the video.

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Thank you for pointing it out @debjanibiswas1409 . I made a mistake by overlooking the fact that Bulu died of high fever while they were at the ashram. I also want to point it out, since I did not in the video, that we don't know for sure the cause of death. Primarily we believed that the fever was the cause of Bulu's death, but looking back at Keshabananda's character after finishing the story, we have enough reason to think it was a murder, by poisoning her in the name of giving medicines. It cannot be said definitely, but it's a possibility that the 'sadhu' was reducing his 'baggage' already and keeping the ones that would be 'useful' to him. If the child died because of fever, that also points at the situation Partition created: lack of basic healthcare, besides the lack of food and shelter and other things. An innocent kid dies for no fault of her own.

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The question, if simply put, asks "how does Browning goes deep down into the psychology of the characters in his poems". So, study and elaborate the psyche of the duke, and appreciate how well Browning delineates the same.

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Yaah it really helpfull for me such a nice video make videos on other poem keep it up i , wish you grow in KZbin as soon as possible

'Rhetoric and Prosody' by Jaydip Sarkar & Anindya Bhattacharya, Orient Blackswan. It is my first choice. Though there are other books by (1) Arunodoy Bhattacharya, and (2) Bose and Sterling.

Thank you for so many kind words. The series on Rhetoric is the least watched series on my channel. I was so sad looking at the view count I did not continue to make videos on Rhetorics and Prosody. But I am glad you liked these. I shall definitely try to make better practice videos on my channel in future.

Thank you for encouraging me with such kind words. 🙂

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You're most welcome. Since mine is a very small channel, I'd be thankful if you share the video to more fellow students. 🙂

Thank you so much. It encourages me a lot. 🙂

Given. 🙂

It is my pleasure to hear such encouraging words from you. Such positive comments inspire me to do more. Many thanks to you. 🙂 (এবার একটু শুধরে দিই? 'Listen' এর পর সব সময় 'to' জুড়বে। আর যেহেতু 'few' আছে তাই 'wants' নয়, 'want' হবে, কেমন? Best wishes for you.) 🙂

@@hrisikesh Most welcome sir and thank you for this correction

Thank you. I shall upload the next part soon. 🙂

"the inevitable hour" is NOT an epigram. It is euphemism on one hand and 'hour' is a synecdoche denoting 'time' on the other. Epigram is a completely different kind of figure of speech.

Please Don't put music in the background

Shall keep in mind. Thanks for the feedback.

যেহেতু 'খেয়াল রস'-এর কবিতা বা 'ননসেন্স' তাই একেবারে নিরেট অর্থ নিরূপণ করা অসম্ভব। কবি লেখার সময়ে সুনির্দিষ্টভাবে কী কী ভেবেছিলেন সেটা ধরা দুরূহ, যেহেতু আক্ষরিক অর্থে 'ননসেন্স'। তবে 'ননসেন্স'-এর নিগড়ে তো কিছু 'সেন্স' থাকবেই তাই তখনকার কনটেক্সট আর এখনকার রেলিভ্যান্স এ দুটো দিকই যতটা পেরেছি বোঝাবার চেষ্টা করেছি আমি আমার সাধ্য মতো। এ প্রসঙ্গে সুকান্ত চৌধুরীর (যিনি 'আবোল তাবোল' ইংরেজিতে অনুবাদ করেছিলেন) কিছু কথা কিছুদিন আগেই ইউটিউবে পাওয়া গেল সুকুমার বিষয়ক লিটেরারি মীট-এ। সেটাও আপনাকে সাহায্য করতে পারে নিশ্চয়ই।

Apnar puro video tai sunechi, khub valo legeche. Ami jetuku sudhu touch kore gechen bolechen setai jante chaichilam details e. Literary meet er video ta dekhlam. Thank you so much. 😊

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