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Mr. Huff's Literature Class
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This channel comprises live annotations and other discussions of key works for my English classes at Landmark Christian School. Any questions or concerns can be sent to mhuff@landmark-cs.org.
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Mr. Matthew Huff
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Mr. Matthew Huff
Sonnet 4 by William Shakespeare
An annotated discussion of Sonnet 4 by William Shakespeare
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Sonnet 3 by William Shakespeare
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An annotated discussion of Sonnet 3 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 2 by William Shakespeare
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An annotated discussion of Sonnet 2 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 1 by William Shakespeare
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An annotated discussion of Sonnet 1 by William Shakespeare
Hamlet - 1.1.56-127
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Act I. Scene 1. Lines 56-127 As Horatio reels from his first encounter with the Ghost, the complexities of reality, epistemology, and faith continue to deepen as the political backdrop of the play emerges on the scene.
Hamlet - 1.1.11-55
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Act I. Scene 1. Lines 11-55 In this video, we consider the fabric of Horatio's epistemology (the nature of knowledge and truth) and ontology (the nature of reality) as he confronts the possibility of a metaphysical and spiritual world that defies neat explanation.
Hamlet - 1.1.1-8
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Act I. Scene 1. Lines 1-8 This is the 1st video in a series on William Shakespeare's magnificent play Hamlet. This video introduces the major characters in the play as well as a few key themes and ideas to track throughout our study.
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (Part 2)
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (Part 1)
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
Paradise Lost - Satan's Expulsion (1.27-58)
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In this video, I discuss Milton's description of Satan's expulsion from Heaven as he is "hurled headlong" down to the "adamantine chains and penal fire" of Hell.
Paradise Lost - The Opening Invocation (1.1-26)
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In this video, I discuss the opening invocation in Book I of Paradise Lost, the monumental epic poem by 17th-century English poet, John Milton.
"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe (Part 2)
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Part 2 of a video discussion on "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, part of my series on Poe called Deep into That Darkness Peering Deep into That Darkness Peering: A Series on the Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1) "The Cask of Amontillado" 4 Guiding Themes Through the Series: (1) The Shadow - The question of evil (2) The Clock - The terror of time (3) The Mirror - The need for recogniti...
"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe (Part 1)
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Part 1 of a video discussion on "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe.
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
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Video discussion of Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare for Mr. Huff's literature class
"Before the Birth of One of Her Children" by Anne Bradstreet
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Video discussion of "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" by Anne Bradstreet for Mr. Huff's literature class
"My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke
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"My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke
"The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy
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"The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy
"The Waste Land" - What the Thunder Said
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"The Waste Land" - What the Thunder Said
"The Waste Land" - The Fire Sermon (part 2 of 2)
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"The Waste Land" - The Fire Sermon (part 2 of 2)
"The Waste Land" - The Fire Sermon (part 1 of 2)
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"The Waste Land" - The Fire Sermon (part 1 of 2)
"The Waste Land" - The Burial of the Dead (part 2 of 2)
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"The Waste Land" - The Burial of the Dead (part 2 of 2)
"The Waste Land" - The Burial of the Dead (part 1 of 2)
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"The Waste Land" - The Burial of the Dead (part 1 of 2)
your line by line analysis is excellent. Any chance you can do the Four Quartets by Elioit?? Please, please pleasssssssse
I am far away from you , and I appreciate you a lot for giving me a great lecture
I have been participating for English recitation competitions for many years since I was a little kid and when I discovered this channel everything became so much easier to learn and study. I genuinely appreciate Mr Huff for making my life so much easier.
So. Who is the lady whom this sonnet gives compliments?
It is not a lady, but a male - Shakespeare's 'Fair Youth'. The identity of the Fair Youth is disputed, but Wikipedia has some good information on this if you are interested.
I appreciate you Sir.
Thank you sooo much! I am not a native English speaker and this was extremely helpful😩
My goodness so amazing explained, it will surely be a help in my exam , thank you so much 🫶
Your analysis of the choice of the use of iambic pentameter is completely incorrect. Milton states very clearly that he purposely chose NOT to rhyme because it was barbarous invention that did not hold true to the history of the art form. He wrote Paradise Lost for the English speakers to have something similar to Homer or Virgil, who did not rhyme in their epics. He did not do it to comment on the loss of Paradise, due to the imperfection of the verse. He almost wrote his epic on the history of the English, much like the Aeneid/Iliad
Why has he stopped posting ? Please do such videos for the other sonnets as well.
Thanks, sir , for your analysis and scansion to this poem 🙏 it was tough, but it seems easier because of u. Love from South Sudan 🇸🇸
17:35 here i am, from Ghana,2024
I'm Korean who loves Shakespeare.. I watch this at bedtime it's like kinda ASMR😂
And yellow is sometimes deemed as the colour of nostalgia. Can we say that the yellow fog is perhaps a symbol of a hazy past which has somehow subtly affected the present?
The "yellow fog" is actively doing many things- rubbing its back, rubbing its muzzle, licking ang lingering. Can we say that the fog has been personified?
Very interesting analysis of difficult poetry
Thank you for your master class
Line 6: "....his...."? Interesting....
Glad you are back !! My fav teacher!!♥️✨
At last. Where have you been mate!! Great work you're doing here. Thank you.
I wish you had been my professor! As follow-up reading, I can suggest French novelist Michel Houellebecq's award-winning 2001 novel "Atomized".
Thanku for the video hope u can do a video on "Burnt Norton" too if possible.
Thank you so much ❤
The explanation of the first Tristan quotation is entirely wrong. These are the opening lines of the opera, sung by a sailor as Isolde sails with Tristan to Cornwall.
Thee is God and the eternal lines are between his eyes in the eye that is often dimmed. But the eternal winter shall not fade
I love you. I understood it well. Really thank you 🏙🤍
I have found and watched your lecture. And it's given all I had wished to have known.
You kept saying 'she' , but I think its a man. As it says 'HIS gold complexion' and also 'in HIS shade'. Plus the fair youth is said to be a man.
This videos outleans all other videos on this poem
This made me wish I were raised in an English speaking country to study W. Shakespeare’s works at school.
Writers now : eliot's poem is strong and confusing, it has many meanings depite the fragmentation and the style of writing. Eliot : lol i never said all that shit, that was just a draft where i wrote notes than finished under my bed.
finally l understand this sonnet thank you great teacher ❤❤
I feel like Shakespeare read the Bible and gave us these lessons to make us look back at how God loved us before Eve betrayed him.
ABSOLUTEMENT.
Good.
Nigel Hobro is a Milton fan, as well as Latin Declensions!!!!!???
Yep.
I am going to read this poem at the NY 2024 Shakespeare Sonnet Slam!!! Thank you for explaining it so beautifully
That sounds awesome!
Can you please do sonnet 19
Thanks for opening up the profound interests held together within this most extraordinary poem - very glad to have confronted ignorance concerning it - and grateful to you for this contribution in making an important step up in cultural awareness. (Peculiar - UA-cam’s part as a ‘one of three’ for this and much other that leads the mind to better places, better understandings, and enhancing observation of different witnesses in Creation.)❤
very well done!
..the inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold…
Hey, you really helped me for a high school I had to do on this poem. Without this video, I would not have done well, thank you!
Awesome! Will you bo go through all of the sonnets? :)
That's the plan!
@@MrHuffsLiteratureClass Awesome, I love the sonnets and have recently been going back over them. It'll be nice to follow along with you, especially the ones that are less popular. :)
37:18 ..have an unplaced memory that the number 31 has deep sexual significance in psychoanalysis of dreams and perhaps also an esoteric meaning in numerology…and ‘five already..young George’ appears to give zeitgeist for the epoque of George V the 12th year of which regnal period the poem is written in.. 40:51 There is a truly delightful obverse register of this predicament given in Charles Dicken’s short story ‘The Magic Fishbone’. 28:04 ‘..press lidless eyes waiting for the knock upon the door..’ suggests perhaps the marriage vow ‘until death do us part’ and a full stop to this love-lost marriage with a pressing down of the eyelids at the moment of death by one or other of the partners.
Now i understand why this is associated with The Great Gatsby
Sounds like 2024
So much packed into one poem. One must be very literate yo understand it.
beautiful analysis! you are such a fascinating and engaging speaker. i love the way you elaborate upon and describe each line, it's like i can feel it coming to life
Thanks!
2:43 - and sounding beneath that Mary’s ‘..and I know not where they have laid him…’? 6:47 - the Hyacinth is a plant with a rooted bulb and not a gaily cut flower normally associated with romance - in the case the mythological root is tragic - the love triangle of Hyakinthos-Zephyrus-Apollo - perhaps the meaningful context here is aspiration to eternal life represented by Apollo cheating Hades and turning the bloodied youth into a beautifully scented flower?
Thanks for this most interesting induction to a very cryptic poem.
22:20 A Lett who is a true German? - what is implied? 25:50 Two more allusions here? The ‘Root of Jesse’ - the genealogical arrival of Jesus through - if memory serves - one Nathan a younger son of King David while the line of Royal descent by primogeniture dies out or ‘withers’; also the seed sown upon stoney ground and the prematurely growing seed burnt up by the sun?
I was asked to prepare sonnet 18 and sonnet 29 in college, so I found ur magnificent video of analysing sonnet 18 Now um passionate about watching all ur videos Keep them up plz Ur amazing!💓💓💓
Thanks!
Just Amazing, Thank You Mr. Huff .
i can't describe how much pleasure and enjoyment i felt while watching this video. You explained every single detail! thank u so much Sir