The Hollow Men | T S Eliot - Line by Line Explanation in English

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9 ай бұрын

T S Eliot's The Hollow Men, in his overlapping and fragmentary theme, concerns with post First World War hopelessness and redemption. In this video we will go through the lines of the poem and look at the hollow men, who are trapped in a limbo world between life and death, light and darkness, awareness and oblivion.
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@viveksaurabh4749 6 ай бұрын

The practice of explaing english poems in hindi is another emptiness created by some hollow men. you were good.Thanks.

@user-rz5yx5rk7g 7 ай бұрын

You're purely a gem for the students of English Literature ma'am ❤️

@godschild6673 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much ma'am. I have no words to express my gratitude towards you.

@krishnagyaanamrit5352 6 ай бұрын

My perspective towards literature, completely changed.. what a different way of understanding the more deep meanings and beyond the literal meaning..❤ Thank you so much 💝

@mamatamandal8180 8 ай бұрын

Hello mam. I am one of your KZbin students. I have learnt so many things from you , I am grateful to you forever for that. Still I am learning every day...I truly followed you so that I have qualified net in June 2023. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us, for being there on KZbin. 🙏🙏. And one request mam please make a vedio on how to write a CV for literature students...it will be very much helpfull 🙏🙏

@krishnakumarbalakrishnan1665 Ай бұрын

Eliot describe modern people senseless, reckless, cruel with nothing in them. A cemetry.

@K_F_fox 2 ай бұрын

The line about Deliberate Disguises reminded me a bit of how the Missouri born-and-bred T. S. Eliot annoyed the hell out of C. S. Lewis by being so over-the-top British. Salman Rushdie as always sums it up best as he applies that experience to his own characters: "A man who sets out to make himself up is taking on the Creator's role, according to one way of seeing things; he's unnatural, a blasphemer, an abomination of abominations. From another angle, you could see pathos in him, heroism in his struggle, in his willingness to risk: not all mutants survive. Or, consider him socio-politically: most migrants learn, and can become disguises. Our own false descriptions to counter the falsehoods invented about us, concealing for reasons of security our secret selves."

@TheJohncoyle 9 ай бұрын

Brilliant analysis and explanation of The Hollow Men. I would love to see you do a break down of The Wasteland. I really appreciate the work you do, and I'm sure thousands of others feel the same. God Bless You.

@elkknow 8 ай бұрын

This was such a great explanation, thank you for doing this :) ❤

@zoyaarora1570 8 ай бұрын

Brilliant! As usual, the best so far on KZbin. Ma'am, would it be possible for you to cover a few texts of MA too? Texts like "the unbearable lightness of being", "persuasion"?

@djpathak2102 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much ma'am, your videos are among the most comprehensive literature videos on the internet. Eagerly waiting for THE WASTELAND 😊

@K_F_fox 8 ай бұрын

What really strikes me about the Hollow Men is that it's the opposite of the Pavamana Mantra. They Hollow Men want to flee the real into the unreal, flee the light into the darkness, flee immortality into Death's Other Kingdom. It's embracing Māyā on every level.

@NibblePop 8 ай бұрын

Oh wow, never thought this way

@muskanmishra1312 7 ай бұрын

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@K_F_fox 6 ай бұрын

I have an idea about the crossed staves. It involves both a cross-reference to The Waste Land (the Fisher King has three staves), and the correspondence between the Hebrew alphabet and the Tarot cards made by the Rider-Waite tarot deck. (There's an article from 1986 about how Eliot actually did know the Tarot and that the cards all reference actual cards in the deck... e.g. the Drowned Sailor is a *background* figure in the Death card). In Cyrillic, Zhe resembles three crossed staves: Ж, and the "meaning" of that letter, per Wikipedia, is the imperative verb "live," which is what the Hollow Men and the Londoners in the Waste Land really, really don't want to do at all.

@englishliteratureandlingui9308 9 ай бұрын

One of my favorite mam ever in my life. Upload more content because i am patiently waiting for your lecture.

@vanshika1730 7 ай бұрын

Thank you soo much. This is wonderful 👏🏻❤

@K_F_fox 8 ай бұрын

Being American, it just dawned on me yesterday that the Guy Fawkes reference isn't random. There's a geographical feature called a Hollow, or Holler. The only difference is dialect, and I think Missouri might be in one of the overlap areas. The "remember, remember" poem is made famous by the movie V for Vendetta, but the movie only has the first part. The rhyme concludes with a couplet: Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring! / Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King! Usually modernized to "Holler, boys," but Milton's original has that linguistic same ambiguity. I'll have to deep-dive into Heart of Darkness to see if there's anything most people miss about that reference, too.

@rimpa_126 6 ай бұрын

Literally amazing 🔥 Thank you so much ma'am for this beautiful lecture ❤ It helped me so much to know in depth about this poem.

@Gamingwithash500 4 ай бұрын

Mam, do make a video series on "A passage to India",,, thanks alot,,, You are doing great ❤❤

@maitreyeemisra4144 9 ай бұрын

Much needed ❤

@Sujay100k 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much ma'am❤, i was waiting for this video

@jahidasultana4826 9 ай бұрын

I am so impressed nam!!!!u r a great teacher❤

@riddhimandas7058 8 ай бұрын

I was going though my recent college lectures.... I think you cleared my confusion and build vission on Eliot more prominently...❤ Thanks a lot mam , make more videos

@manjuchoudhary3867 26 күн бұрын

What a great explanation ❤❤❤❤❤

@jackssparrow8370 5 ай бұрын

Such a beautiful explanation..ty so much mam 🙏🙏

@adwitiya281 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much

@shreetamaneogy9057 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much ma'am 💓

@fatmagad4316 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much❤

@RiyaGautam-vk8bd 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so so so much mam. The session was absolutely amazing and I learned a lot.

@ushagiri902 7 ай бұрын

Thankyou ma'am ❤

@prosenjitsikder9993 9 ай бұрын

Thrilling❤

@lizzee6260 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so sooo much ma'am ...it was necessary ❤❤❤❤❤

@farhananajmin182 9 ай бұрын

Thank you ma'am this video is very helpful 💝

@K_F_fox 5 ай бұрын

I keep thinking I'm missing something profound about "sunlight on a broken column." Some of the themes and images used in the Hollow Men do appear to be in, and maybe even from, the Emily Dickenson poem that starts "there's a certain Slant of light."

@K_F_fox 7 ай бұрын

The objective corelative of "Shape without form, shade without colour," struck me as being Platonic, but it took me a bit to put my finger on it. Plato's "Meno" dialog is about virtue, and Meno gives Socrates examples of virtues, but doesn't really explain what "virtue" is, and to communicate this failure, Socrates starts talking about the difference between shapes and "form" and the difference between colors and the higher concept of "color" itself.

@K_F_fox 5 ай бұрын

Those who do not have the shadow between the potency and the existence are absolutely lost, violent souls. Case in point: "from this moment / The very firstlings of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand." Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1.

@anupamaghosh4561 9 ай бұрын

Thankyou maam❤ This video is very necessary.😊

@K_F_fox 6 ай бұрын

Sorry this took me a while, but I found the core connection between Heart of Darkness and the Hollow Men ["]This simply because I had a notion it somehow would be of help to that Kurtz whom at the time I did not see-you understand. He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream-making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...."

@harivardhanreddy2730 5 ай бұрын

excellent maam

@_winterxv_07 9 ай бұрын

Ma'am please make videos on "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie 🙏

@anishaakhtar370 8 ай бұрын

Ma'am please discuss "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, it would be very helpful 🙏. And thanks a million for always helping us❤. I appreciate your guidance🤗.

@devesigupta1631 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much ma'am

@subhankarraysarkar6157 7 ай бұрын

No words ❤❤❤ ❤❤❤ ❤❤❤, but word is itself a word 😊

@akashmodak009 9 ай бұрын

I cannot thank you enough 🙏 Really ma'am thanks a lot❤ Next Poem : 'Strange Meeting'

@taexlove2744 9 ай бұрын

Can you make video on " The murder of Roger Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie please?😭

@shubhangitripathy 7 ай бұрын

When is your exam like I can teach you? But not in December tbh ( I too have my exams but if you are willing to I can... I liked it as a text so...)

@BANANIMANDAL-ey3jz 4 ай бұрын

Mam your way of teaching style is outstanding❤...I wander how can a teacher like you present any topic so attaratively .....I want to teacher like you mam...please tell me mam how can I achieve that ???😊.....give me blessings mam

@siddhipandey4906 9 ай бұрын

Thank you ma'am, please make video on second coming 🙏🙏💐💐

@K_F_fox 6 ай бұрын

found a quote from Heart of Darkness that is about Kurtz, but so very much reminded me of how I feel about T. S. Eliot. I made the strange discovery that I had never imagined him as doing, you know, but as discoursing. I didn’t say to myself, ‘Now I will never see him,’ or ‘Now I will never shake him by the hand,’ but, ‘Now I will never hear him.’ The man presented himself as a voice. [...] That was not the point. The point was in his being a gifted creature, and that of all his gifts the one that stood out preeminently, that carried with it a sense of real presence, was his ability to talk, his words-the gift of expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.

@NibblePop 6 ай бұрын

Yes , deprivation of speech is the real hell for hollow men

@K_F_fox 6 ай бұрын

@@NibblePop My wife zeroed in on the lack of eyes, comparing the poem with the cult classic film "Event Horizon." But between studying singing and studying maximizing oral health, I realized the jaw is both an organ of communication and consumption. "This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms" being a powerful objective correlative to an empire about to contract exponentially, but still with a powerful literary history.

@Englishasskill 3 ай бұрын

Mam I subscribed your channel and thanks for bombastic lecture ❤

@Anushree__lj8hr7nl1b 4 ай бұрын

Another marvelous explanation!!!!❤❤ Maam ..plz make a video on Strange Meeting by Owen

@devesigupta1631 9 ай бұрын

Ma'am plz make video on W.B yeats poems "The second coming"and many others.

@ankitamondal1715 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much ma'am, ❤ Could you please bring an analysis video on Tonni Morrison's novel "Beloved" ? It would be a great help.... 🙏

@pnx_03 9 ай бұрын

Thankyou so much Ma'am for this wonderful explanation 😊 Ma'am can you please make a video on "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats

@jahnabikashyap 8 ай бұрын

ma'am, could you please make an explanation video on "The Function of Criticism (1920)" by TS Eliot ?

@adrijadeb6820 9 ай бұрын

Thank you ma'am.. Ma'am please make a vedio on "Odour of Chrysanthemums"

@ahanabiswas4590 7 ай бұрын

could you please make an analysis of the poem strange meeting by wilfred owen

@shreyagupta1914 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much madam..... For this brilliant explanation❤Madam please explain what the poet want to express with those two expression "death's dream kingdom" and "Twilight kingdom".

@li_little_world 8 ай бұрын

Ma'am please make lecture on Mrs Dalloway and Sons and lovers please

@Divinity0402 9 ай бұрын

Ma'am please make a video on Lady Lazarus 🥺

@munmunbauri6532 9 ай бұрын

Thank u ma'm.....♥️🙏 Please ma'm make videos on the 5th sem text ... 🙏🙏

@eeptoms26 8 ай бұрын

Mam pliz upload a vdeo of Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi plizzzz

@subhammajumder4425 8 ай бұрын

Ma'am please make a video on W.B. Yeats: ‘The Second Coming’

@asmiabatool2942 9 ай бұрын

Mam please make videos on The Wasteland

@kakaliroy753 8 ай бұрын

Mam can you explain The Waste Land

@pixelzzzz 8 ай бұрын

Ma'am can you make a video on TS Eliot's The Function Of Criticism (1920)

@devesigupta1631 8 ай бұрын

Ma'am plz make videos on Science and Fiction sem 5 topics.

@ossumarts 8 ай бұрын

Mam please make a video on "The Farewell Party" by Anita desai and "The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty" by James Grover Thurber.....

@khushibanerjee2990 8 ай бұрын

Mam please make vedio on Lewis caroll's "Through The Looking Glass" please 🥺

@K_F_fox 7 ай бұрын

I did some thinking about the objective correlative of "supplication of a dead man's hand". As much as I'd like to point to something obscure, I think it's the most obvious allusion that goes beyond a surface meaning. In five card stud poker, a pair of aces and a pair of eights is a very strong hand. It doesn't guarantee absolute victory, but it's hard to beat. "Wild Bill" Hickok probably would have one the poker game he was in had he not been shot dead. So, Aces and Eights are the "dead man's hand." I'd love to point to a mudra, (the bhumisparsha mudra seeming to be the best candidate), or the invisibility granted by the Hand of Glory, but the American Wild West "Dead Man's Hand" is "power without force," because a dead player cannot collect his winnings. Alas!

@NibblePop 7 ай бұрын

This is why I wait so eagerly for your commentary. You never fail to enlighten in some way or the other. Never thought a hand would mean a hand of card! A decade of Bridge and it took you to point that out to me! Thank you 😊

@unknownghost535 7 ай бұрын

Professor can you please do Whitsun wedding by philip larkin.. Much appreciated

@khushalibajadeja420 4 ай бұрын

journey of the magi

@asimpleman5524 9 ай бұрын

Ma'am kindly complete the SCHOOL SERVICE COMMISSION SYLLABUS . You have already made videos on many topics, only some are left. Thank you for your classes.

@NibblePop 8 ай бұрын

I will try my best

@asimpleman5524 8 ай бұрын

@@NibblePop Thanks a lot ma'am