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Assalamualaikum. Hello back everyone. Thank you |
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for submitting your homework most of you. If you |
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didn't already submit your homework It's not good, |
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just slip it under the door. But I will deduct |
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submit on time, you get the full mark for |
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submitting on time. So today, we have a review |
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class. We'll see what questions you have. About |
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Should I start again from the beginning? |
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Now I want to start again. Come on. |
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There is no doubt. |
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Thank you |
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So Assalamu Alaikum again everyone. Thank you for |
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submitting your first assignment for this course |
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and I'm really looking forward to grading them. |
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I'm sure you did a good job answering questions |
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about Shakespeare. Today I'll take a chance to |
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give you a review session. Let's take a break |
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Let's not begin a new lesson because we're |
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supposed to start with Marlow and Ben Johnson as |
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other Renaissance Elizabethan dramatists and |
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playwrights and poets also who were contemporary |
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to Shakespeare. They lived at the time Shakespeare |
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was also alive and writing. So today we'll do a |
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review. Please feel free to ask any question you |
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have, and I'll do my best to try to answer the |
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question. Okay, yes, can you also, everyone if you |
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want to ask question, please speak up. When two |
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lines of verse rhyme, we call them couplets, |
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right? Yeah. In the cystic and octave, when the |
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eight, does the eight lines have to rhyme, so |
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we're gonna call them cystic and octave? Okay, so |
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when we spoke about the sonnet, remember the |
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Italian sonnet? Yes. The sonnet was born in Italy, |
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with a Y, not I. And we spoke about Dante in |
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brief. We spoke also about the |
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other name, the other Italian sonneteer, the |
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father of the sonnet, Petrarch. |
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Is it a difficult name? Is it difficult? So |
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Petrarch, C-H Petrarch, exactly how you spell it. |
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Now, Petrarch is said to be the most important |
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Italian sonnetier. There are actually other names |
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in Italy. But this is what we want to focus on, |
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because of Petrarch, Henry Howard And Sir Thomas |
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White, they loved the sonnet. And again, remember, |
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we always talk about the influence of Europe, of |
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Italy, France, mainly Italy and France. Actually, |
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the Renaissance started in Italy well before it |
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started in England. So England was still being |
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influenced by Europe, especially by Italy. So the |
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sonnet, the Italian sonnet, is generally two |
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parts, remember? The form, the structure of the |
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sonnet is eight lines and then six lines. Eight |
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lines and six lines. The eight lines we called |
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octave. |
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And this is the Sestet. |
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Sestet from six. An octave, you know Octopus |
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because of the A. Now the Italian sonnet almost |
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always rhymes as A B B A A B B A Now this, you're |
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answering a question. This is in a way Four lines, |
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remember the four lines, the quadrant? Your |
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question is, does this count as a rhyme? Sorry, as |
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a rhyming couplet? No. You know why? Because |
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generally this stops here. Even does this count as |
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a couplet? No, it's part of the octave or the |
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group of the stanza or the quadrant. However, if |
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in your exam or you find two lines somebody likes |
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just these lines and you look at them in isolation |
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you can call them a couplet it's okay you can if |
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they are in isolation because you don't know the |
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context you don't know but generally this is |
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important generally here they don't give one idea |
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that's the most important thing about the couplet |
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remember It's like a paragraph, a prose paragraph. |
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What is a paragraph? A group of related sentences |
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about one topic, one idea. Now the couplet, two |
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rhyming lines, two rhymes, two lines that rhyme, |
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And they are about the same thing. Always remember |
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Shakespeare's couplet at the end. So long as this, |
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so long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so |
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long lives this, and this gives life to thee. What |
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happens in the first four lines here, the |
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quatrain, is the author develops an idea. If you |
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stop here, the idea is not complete. If you stop |
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here, it's usually not complete. If you stop here, |
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it's usually not complete. When you finish the |
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first four lines, you have a part of an idea that |
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could give you something. But it's not complete in |
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the Italian Sunnit until you read the first eight |
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lines. When you read the first eight lines, you |
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realize, oh, OK. So it gives you an idea. The same |
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with Shakespeare. When we spoke about Shakespeare, |
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we said Shakespeare's structure is |
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We have three quadrants, remember? Three, what's a |
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quadrant? Four lines. From quarter, okay? And a |
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couplet, plus a couplet. |
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Now the first four lines usually have one idea, |
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one image, and then the second quadrant moves to |
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another idea or image, and the third quadrant |
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moves to the other idea. But the three quadrants |
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have the same theme, the same problem, the same |
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crisis. Like in Shall I Compare Thee to A Summer's |
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Day, he spins almost 12 lines saying, no, life is |
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not perfect. Every fair from fair sometime |
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declines. Summer is beautiful, but sometimes there |
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is rough winds, right? Summer is beautiful, but |
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again, the winds do shake the darling buds of May. |
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Summer is beautiful, but summer is sometimes what? |
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Short and hot. Sometimes the clouds destroy the |
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beauty of this. So he moves from one image to the |
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other, like in Sonnet 73, I guess, where he speaks |
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in the first quatrain, he speaks about the end of |
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the year, autumn. What happens in autumn? Yellow |
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leaves. Right? The end of the circle. In the |
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second quadrant we've got the end of the day, the |
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sunset. So the day is good. We start active, |
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energetic. We have all hopes and dreams. We want |
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to go to school, to attend classes, to meet |
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friends, to go to the cafeteria, to eat pizza. At |
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the end of the day, it's like everything comes to |
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an end. Nothing lasts forever. And then in the |
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third quarter, he speaks about the end of a fire. |
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Fires, you know? Fire. But it ends up as ashes. So |
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what is Shakespeare doing here? He's giving us |
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three images. The three images about the |
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inevitability of death. The passing of time. Time |
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kills everything. In a way this is the crisis. |
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This is the issue of time. But what does he do in |
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the couplet? He gives hope. In a way he twists. |
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There's something called a volta. The volta is a |
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twist. Where like in Sonnet 18, again, he says |
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something like, I can't remember that couplet, |
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like similar to 18, he says that, but my poetry |
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will live forever. My poetry doesn't die. My |
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sonnet doesn't die. Reminding us of, again, how he |
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believes in his poetry, giving us some kind of |
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hope or closure or ending. So long as men can |
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breathe, our eyes can see, so long lives this, and |
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this gives life to thee. So the couplet has one |
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idea. So again, going back to your question, can |
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we call this here a couplet? No. Generally, no. If |
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you find them alone, wandering around, you could |
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say that, but when you read them, they're not |
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going to give you a full idea, like the idea of, |
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so long as men can breathe, our eyes can see, so |
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long as this or this gives life to this. In other |
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words, in your exam I'm not going to give you two |
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lines from here and ask you whether this is a |
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couplet I'll give you a full stanza either two |
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lines if it's complete couplet or quatrain four |
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lines or six or maybe eight lines but we usually |
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because you're still beginning to learn English |
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and English literature I usually only focus on two |
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Any other question about the sonnet? Does anyone |
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want to ask questions about the sonnet, the rhyme |
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scheme, the importance of the sonnet, Shakespeare |
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and the sonnet? |
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Please, do ask. Sorry? Not the sonnet? So, no more |
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sonnet? |
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Okay, I'll ask you a question here. In one stanza |
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we studied in the other class today, there was, |
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okay, don't look at the book, I'll just bring it |
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myself. There was a line ending in drops and the |
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other one ending in box, drops and the other one |
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ending in box. |
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Listen, these words don't rhyme. Do they rhyme? Is |
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there rhyme here? This doesn't count, generally, |
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unless the sounds before it have something similar |
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to drop, like hops for example, hops, drops and |
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hops. Okay, but drops and box, they don't rhyme. |
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The rhyme is generally not the last sound, usually |
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two, sometimes three. We need to look at this |
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carefully. Another example, what do you think of |
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this? A very famous poem by Marlow, we'll study |
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later on. He says, he begins his poem saying, |
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come, Live with me and be my love and |
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Notice when you begin a line of verse, you begin |
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with capital. That's the rules when you write |
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poetry. The first word, you capitalize the first |
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letter of the first word of each and every line. |
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And this is how you distinguish sometimes verse |
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from prose in Shakespeare. If it is capitalized, |
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then it's poetry. If it's not, it's prose. But |
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more important than this is the music. We've seen |
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how Shiloh doesn't use poetry and has not a Jew |
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also O V E If you know how to do transcription |
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this is love and this is prove Probably |
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next year What do you think of this? Is this a |
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couplet? Do we have rhyme here? What do you think? |
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different The sounds are different. We have love, |
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like dove, cut, hot, but, and this is prove. What |
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do you think? Does anybody have something? |
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before. So if you look at it from a distance, if |
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perfectly rhyme. They partially rhyme. We call |
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imperfect rhyme. Or sometimes it's called I rhyme. |
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sound like they would be rhyming but they don't |
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rhyme perfectly. So what is this? It's still a |
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couplet. This is a couplet because it has one |
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idea. Come live with me and be my love and we will |
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all the pleasures prove. Is there a rhyme here? |
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still a rhyme. Now, imperfect rhyme is still a |
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rhyme. They rhyme, but they don't rhyme 100%. They |
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rhyme like what, 60, 50%? Now, there is a |
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justification for here. Sometimes, the poet uses |
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imperfect rhyme to tell us there's something wrong |
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here. Okay, so look at this. This is a poem, a man |
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inviting his beloved to love him and live with |
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him. Why? How is he trying to convince her? He's |
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telling her, we will all the pleasures prove. We |
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have all the pleasures in the world. In reality, |
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no one has all the pleasures in the world. Nobody |
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owns all the pleasures in the world. He's |
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exaggerating. |
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sound here, Prove, is telling us that he's lying. |
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a perfect, you know, perfect life. But even the |
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rhyme doesn't rhyme perfectly. That's the trick |
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imperfection in the poem and the imperfection is |
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reflected in the imperfect rhyme. But what is the |
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poet saying? He's saying, life is perfect. I own |
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everything. All is fine. I own everything. We can |
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have all the pleasures in the world. And the sound |
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of the poem tells us he's lying, because the rhyme |
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scheme is imperfect. It reflects something |
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imperfect in the meaning, in the idea. Or simply, |
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answer, maybe during the time of Shakespeare or |
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rhyme. Could have rhymed in the past, like three, |
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four hundred years ago, maybe they rhymed. I don't |
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know how. Which is better to say love and problem |
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or love and prove? |
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love saying prove. Maybe you can play with it. But |
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check this later on. So what's the point here? |
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doesn't make rhyme. You need to check the letter, |
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the sound before. Here we check the sound before |
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and they don't perfectly rhyme. We call it |
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imperfect rhyme or I rhyme. Is this important in |
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the poem? Yes, because it reveals something about |
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the poem, the meaning itself. The poet is saying, |
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wait a minute. There is music and fun, but here we |
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don't have perfect music. We don't have perfect |
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music because something is wrong. What's wrong |
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here? A poet lying to his woman. And the title of |
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the poem here is The Shepherds. The shepherd, the |
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speaker, the character, the man saying, come live |
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with me and be my love, is a shepherd. And a |
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shepherd is generally a poor man who takes care of |
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sheep. If you are a shepherd, it's impossible for |
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you to have all the pleasures in life, et cetera. |
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OK? No more questions about the sonnet? Please do |
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ask if you have any. The sonnet, go. So I didn't |
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get it clearly, but is a rhyme scheme focused more |
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on the letters rather than the sound? The sound, |
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of course. No, the sound. When it comes to the |
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rhyme, we care about the sound, not the letter. |
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But verbs and verbs like, clearer than love and |
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bruise? This one? No. Yeah, no. Sometimes yes, |
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like why, why, why wouldn't this rhyme? Like |
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because more important, this is an additional |
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letter, like it just comes and goes. Drop and |
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book? |
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No way. Drop them. Book, book, book. No way. Even |
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if we say for example, even if we say drop, it's |
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not drop, it's drop, drop, drop, drop. It still |
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doesn't rhyme, never rhymes. Drop and box, no way, |
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there's no rhyme here. But with the S, does it |
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rhyme? No, I don't think it rhymes here. But if |
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you insist, it's okay, it's not a big deal. Yes? |
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If there was a text and you asked us to write |
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rhymes, and there was drops and box, shall we |
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write drop A and box B? Yeah. But if you don't, |
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because you're still beginners, it's not the end |
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of the world. The same with love and hope? No, but |
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this one, there is rhyme here. There is rhyme |
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here. But it's imperfect. This is clearer than |
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this in many ways. Good question. So because this |
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is not year four, you're not about to graduate, |
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you're still starting your life learning English, |
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English poetry, and you're not native speakers. So |
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sometimes there's a lot of flexibility. Yes. Go |
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on, next. I want to ask something. Are the |
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questions about history, for example, who invaded |
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England, are they included in the exam? Listen, |
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this is a course about... The literature itself or |
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the situation? Yeah, we're not studying history, |
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we're studying literature. This is an introduction |
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to English literature course for beginners. And I |
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said at the beginning, we're going to examine the |
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literary texts in their historical context. We're |
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going to study how history, historical events |
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influenced literature, and how literature |
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influenced life, changed life in a way or another. |
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But the focus, 80% of our focus is on the |
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literature. okay some events in history are very |
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important like the printing press you should know |
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this this is a historical this is a scientific |
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invention it's a historical event did it influence |
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literature yes of course because you know mass |
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production mass like people had more and more |
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copies it took two years to make one copy of the |
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bible but now One year, 200 copies. For example, |
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the French invasion, the Normans, when they came |
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to England, they influenced the language in the |
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literature. So the focus is on the literature, but |
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it is important to know the major historical |
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events. For example, Britain was invaded by many |
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people from Europe, Anglo, Saxons, Jews. That's |
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not included. You should know this. Are you going |
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to put a question in the exam? Maybe, but the |
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question here is in the literary context, in the |
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sense that, remember, when we spoke about Old |
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English, we said At that time, we didn't have a |
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clear idea of what England is. Even the literature |
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was not pure English in the sense we have now or |
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even the sense Shakespeare composed. Because |
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people still came from different countries across |
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Europe and they were using different languages. So |
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did this, you know the invasions, did this |
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influence the culture, the language, the |
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literature? Yes, and that's the focus. So at that |
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time we said England was trying to shape its |
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identity. In the Middle Ages, Middle English, |
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later on, like three, four, five hundred years |
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later, we started speaking about English |
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literature, pure English literature when we spoke |
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about Chaucer. We said in Chaucer, there's always |
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this insistence on being different. He began his |
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life, by the way, by imitating some Italian and |
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French authors. But later on, he developed his own |
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style. He focused on the Englishness of the |
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literature. Because when you have your own |
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country, you want to have your own culture and |
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literature. You want to be different. You want to |
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create your identity. Remember we spoke about the |
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English identity when we mentioned Skelton, Philip |
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Sparrow, vengeance I ask and cry. We said John |
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Skilton was an important poet at that time because |
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in a way he was helping shape the English |
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identity. And in his poetry, we can find poetry |
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that is different from the poetry of Europe, |
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mainly Italy and France. In his poetry, there's a |
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strong sense of the English identity. What is the |
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English identity? What it means to be English? |
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What makes you different from Italians and French? |
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Number one, your language, right? Number two, your |
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literature, your poetry, the stories, the |
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narratives, the customs, the habits. So they were |
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focusing on the things that make them different. |
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So these invasions are important because English |
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as a language is actually originally from |
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different languages. There are Latin roots, German |
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roots, French words, many French words, even Arab |
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words. English is naturally a very flexible |
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language. It borrows from all the languages. So |
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the invasions are important to understand because |
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this is how England became England. It became |
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diversity. There is now a strong movement in |
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England and in the United States that is described |
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as white supremacy where people say England is for |
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the white, only the white people and America is |
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for the white people. This is really silly because |
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Racism. Because of racism, yeah. But also because |
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England and America, now they started on diversity |
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in a sense. People from across Europe came there. |
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People from across Europe went to America. And |
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there was this reconstructuring of they found a |
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body of 10,000 years ago in England. And when they |
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did experiments and tests, they realized that one, |
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he's a black man. in England. He was there 10,000 |
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years ago. And he's considered, I guess, the |
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father of 20% of the English people now. So |
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there's the idea of pure race is a lie. It's not |
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true. It's a fabrication. People have always |
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coexisted together. Why is this man black man in |
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England? Because people crossed borders searching |
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for safety, for food, coexisted in a way or |
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another. Please. Some of the names are really hard |
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to spell. If you misspell something. No worries |
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about spelling. But like Machiavelli, for example. |
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OK. Not easy to spell, but try to train it to get |
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as close as possible. Don't give me, for example, |
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don't spell spaghetti. |
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Machiavelli is Machiavelli. What difficult names. |
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But again, most importantly, I don't want you to |
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misspell Shakespeare. |
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I feel sad that's shakes you know shake shakes |
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shaking shake before use yes she shakes the i |
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don't know the juice before use it's a shake and |
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then or shake spear i don't know how you would do |
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this either shake or shakes and then or spear |
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because spear is another word but this e is extra |
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Did I tell you that Shakespeare spelled his name, |
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signed his name in 17 different ways? None of |
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them, ironically, none of them is this one. And |
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this is how crazy life is. So you spell your name |
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17 different ways, hoping that people would pick |
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one of them. Because remember, spelling, there was |
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no standard for spelling. There were no rules for |
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spelling. People would spell different ways. Only |
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in the 18th century, people started to have rules. |
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Do this, don't do that, drop this, changes. So |
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this is Shakespeare. You usually forget either |
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this E or this E. So Shakespeare. Shakespeare. |
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He's dumb. Maybe he's going to feel sad if you do |
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that. This, we want to really appreciate |
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Shakespeare for what he does. What other names do |
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you find difficult? Bewolf? No, no, no. In The |
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Chaucer, there is an Italian writings of |
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Bastastione. Listen, if it is something I skipped, |
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you just skip it. If I skip names of authors, |
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names of texts, you just skip them. But other than |
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this, the background, the talk, the brief |
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description about the age, about the writer, about |
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the texts, please go through them. And I want you |
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to read what is in the book because this is how |
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you improve your writing and your English. |
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The name, the authors, the texts we study, we |
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examine, we mention in this class. If I skip |
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something, any name, any text, you just skip it. |
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Please. Are we going to be asked to summarize what |
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they place on Shakespeare? Generally, no. You |
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won't. But maybe, for example, one of your |
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questions is going to ask you to contextualize. |
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Anyway, I shouldn't be speaking about this now |
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because we'll talk about this when we approach the |
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exams. You know, context. to contextualize a text. |
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So I'll ask you for example to bring you five |
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454 |
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extracts from poems or texts we studied and I ask |
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455 |
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you to contextualize three or four of them. I |
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456 |
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usually give you more choices so more flexibility. |
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457 |
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Okay question number one is to be or not to be |
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458 |
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that is the question. So number one you put it in |
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its context you tell me This is by Hamlet from |
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Hamlet by Shakespeare Hamlet is a tragedy of a |
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young prince who wanted to take revenge because |
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his uncle killed his father Most importantly, |
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focus on the text I give you. However, because |
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Hamlet is a modern man, a university student, he's |
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465 |
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in conflict. To kill or not to kill? To be or not |
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466 |
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to be? To die or not to die? And this is Hamlet's |
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tragic flaw. You know tragedy, tragic? His |
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468 |
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weakness is hesitation. Sloth, hesitation. You |
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know hesitation? To be or not to be. To kill or |
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not to kill. Play or not to play. Exactly. He |
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hesitates. That's it. This is called |
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472 |
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contextualization. But although he is a |
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473 |
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00:32:38,910 |
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philosopher, nevertheless, he has a little gold in |
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474 |
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his coffer. This is from The Canterbury Tales by |
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475 |
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Chaucer. This couplet, this rhyming couplet, |
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476 |
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00:32:53,850 |
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right? Okay, it has irony, but probably before |
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477 |
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00:32:59,060 |
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this, give me the context. It tells the story of a |
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philosopher who instead of collecting knowledge, |
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479 |
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is collecting money. There is irony here because |
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480 |
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00:33:12,700 |
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Chaucer is making fun of the new habits of the |
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481 |
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00:33:16,760 |
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society. Short paragraphs like these, okay? Clear? |
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482 |
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00:33:24,080 |
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Focus on the line. What do we have in the line? |
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483 |
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00:33:26,400 |
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When you tell me this is a couplet, you save |
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484 |
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00:33:28,300 |
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yourself a lot of time. Instead of saying the |
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485 |
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00:33:30,160 |
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rhyme and there is a rhyme in one topic, you say a |
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486 |
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couplet. Oh, excellent. |
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487 |
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00:33:38,620 |
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Okay, again, this extract is taken from Canterbury |
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488 |
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00:33:44,120 |
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Tales by Chaucer. That's number one. In this |
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489 |
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00:33:49,420 |
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extract, in this couplet, Chaucer is criticizing |
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490 |
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00:33:52,840 |
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the new habits of the society. Here, we have a |
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491 |
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00:33:57,140 |
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philosopher who is interested more in collecting |
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492 |
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00:33:59,780 |
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money than in knowledge. There is irony in a |
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493 |
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00:34:06,060 |
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little gold, because a little gold is still a lot |
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494 |
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00:34:10,280 |
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of money. |
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495 |
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00:34:13,460 |
|
Something like this. This is called |
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496 |
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00:34:17,700 |
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contextualization. You don't have to memorize the |
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497 |
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00:34:21,300 |
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lines, but if you do, it will really be fun for |
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498 |
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00:34:24,640 |
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you. I will not ask you to recite something or |
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499 |
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00:34:28,620 |
|
write a complete line or something. But when you |
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500 |
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00:34:31,760 |
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memorize lines, does anyone memorize anything? No. |
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501 |
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00:34:35,180 |
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Other than have not a Jewite or something? You |
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502 |
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00:34:38,320 |
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should, it's really fun. For God's sake, or shall |
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503 |
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00:34:41,560 |
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I compare thee to summer's day? You feel like, oh |
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504 |
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00:34:43,980 |
|
my God, I know more English than anyone else. You |
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505 |
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00:34:46,540 |
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feel proud of yourself. You feel confident. So |
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506 |
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00:34:49,840 |
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long as men can, and listen, very easy. Seriously, |
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507 |
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00:34:53,320 |
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one of the students was like, the boy was telling |
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508 |
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00:34:56,480 |
|
me the other day that Shakespeare is difficult. I |
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509 |
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00:34:58,800 |
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hate Shakespeare. I said, this is a misconception. |
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510 |
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00:35:01,940 |
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This is a prejudice. Did you study anything about |
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511 |
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00:35:04,980 |
|
Shakespeare? Did you read anything about |
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512 |
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00:35:06,400 |
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Shakespeare? Not much. When you read his poetry, |
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513 |
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00:35:09,440 |
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to be or not to be, that is the question. Yes, |
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514 |
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00:35:13,820 |
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it's not this simplistic, but it's easy to |
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515 |
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00:35:15,800 |
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understand. So long as men can breathe, our eyes |
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516 |
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00:35:18,480 |
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can see. So long lives this, and this gives life |
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517 |
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00:35:20,520 |
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to it. That's why I usually advise my students, |
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518 |
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00:35:22,140 |
|
when you learn things about poetry, Shakespeare, |
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519 |
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00:35:24,280 |
|
go, all of you use social media. Post this on your |
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520 |
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00:35:28,540 |
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Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram, Snapchat. Use |
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521 |
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00:35:32,260 |
|
them in your life. Today I want all of you to go |
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522 |
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00:35:36,640 |
|
home and when you have electricity, if you have |
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523 |
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00:35:39,580 |
|
electricity, you just type and every fare from |
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524 |
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00:35:44,060 |
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fare sometime declines. One of the most beautiful |
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525 |
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00:35:46,660 |
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lines ever. Start shifting your life, your |
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526 |
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00:35:51,370 |
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Facebook, your social media, everything into |
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527 |
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00:35:53,710 |
|
English. I'm sure you're going to benefit a lot. |
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528 |
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00:35:58,330 |
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So when people ask, what does this mean? Your aunt |
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529 |
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00:36:01,050 |
|
or your uncle will be like, wow, we're proud of |
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530 |
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00:36:04,650 |
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you. When people ask you what it means, you just |
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531 |
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00:36:09,470 |
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explain it to them. Translating or just |
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532 |
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00:36:14,570 |
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explaining. Yes, more questions. More, please. I |
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533 |
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00:36:20,530 |
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always knew that Shakespeare's style is three |
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534 |
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00:36:24,090 |
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-verse. I never knew that his poems |
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535 |
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00:36:30,220 |
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Shakespeare mainly wrote in verse. His sonnets are |
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536 |
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00:36:35,000 |
|
classical English verse. But his plays, because |
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537 |
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00:36:39,240 |
|
when you write a 5000 line play, you can't make |
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538 |
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00:36:43,280 |
|
them rhyme in any particular way. So generally |
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539 |
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00:36:46,720 |
|
this is called blank verse. What's blank verse? |
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540 |
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00:36:52,050 |
|
It's verse but doesn't rhyme. Generally in the |
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541 |
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00:36:55,910 |
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play because it's very difficult to make the whole |
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542 |
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00:36:58,370 |
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play rhyme A B A B or A B C A B C or something. |
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543 |
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00:37:02,630 |
|
And this is totally different from, totally |
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544 |
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00:37:06,630 |
|
different from free verse. Free verse is something |
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545 |
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00:37:11,130 |
|
that appeared probably 200 years ago. Free verse. |
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546 |
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00:37:15,390 |
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Generally in blank verse, we have music, we have |
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547 |
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00:37:18,510 |
|
rhythm, but we don't have rhyme. We don't have |
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548 |
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00:37:23,050 |
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rhyme. Free verse, generally no music and no |
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549 |
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00:37:28,970 |
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rhyme. It's the poetry that most people write |
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550 |
|
00:37:33,610 |
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nowadays, 20th century, 21st century. |
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551 |
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00:37:39,330 |
|
In his plays, Shakespeare and Marlowe, they |
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552 |
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00:37:42,310 |
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adopted blank verse. Because if they want to focus |
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553 |
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00:37:47,450 |
|
on the rhyme, it's going to be really very |
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554 |
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00:37:52,110 |
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restricting in a sense. Last point, one minute, |
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555 |
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00:37:54,790 |
|
yes? |
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556 |
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00:37:58,710 |
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Of course, yeah, of course many and that's why |
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557 |
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00:38:02,690 |
|
he's the father of English poetry or English |
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558 |
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00:38:04,890 |
|
literature We're only studying the Canterbury |
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559 |
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00:38:07,850 |
|
tales. I'll stop here. Thank you very much for |
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560 |
|
00:38:10,850 |
|
these questions if you have more questions, feel |
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561 |
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00:38:14,230 |
|
free to ask Thank you |
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