My English teacher once took 15 minutes to analyze the first 3 words of a poem

If poets and authors were to take a test on their own writings, they would literally fail

I can promise you that writers don’t put this much thought behind every single word they write.

I once had an English teacher who analyzed a scene where kids were building sand castles and said “the children here are exploring their God complex by enjoying the pleasure of destruction. That's why kids like to build sand castles, you know?” And as someone who never built sand castles in my life, I don't know what to think of that

"the door is red" this shows the writers anger

The “liberty, liberty, liberty” at the end Caught me off guard 💀

I know someone who literally wrote a poem about how much they liked the color green. Their teacher congratulated them on the subtle undertones of the poem, and how it conveyed a message about nature.

Fun fact: There was a series of questions in the Korean SATs about a poem and in an interview the writer of the poem literally said he got all those questions wrong lol. These kinds of stuff happened so much that now the people who make the questions for the Korean SATs usually only use pieces of literature from writers who are dead.

My english teacher just last week overanalyzed the meaning of a potato in a poem about a poet breaking away from his heritage of potato farmers 💀

Bro, english teachers make the story A LOT longer than it needs to be 😂

Some English teachers I SWEAR are fanfic writers/readers and that’s why this happens

Didn't happen to me but in school my friends analyzed a story in their English class and spent a bunch of time talking about the significance of some items that were in the story- thing is, the author actually had connections to the school, so they got in contact to ask him about it and he said the items were just random things because he just needed something there for the overall plot, but could have been anything as far as he was concerned.

“Johnnys a drug addict” fucking killed me lmao☠️

Worst example I’ve experienced is not in an English class but in a Theater class. We were working on lines and we had to write a short summary on what we thought the character’s motives and attitudes were during the scene based on only the lines given and some context clues given by stage direction. I had wrote down that my character was very formal due to calling the other character Mrs. and also using more formal ways of speaking (hello vs hi or hey etc.) I gave it to my teacher and then she proceeded to share it with the class because she said I had gotten it wrong because I didn’t understand that the reason the character said Hello and called the other character Mrs. was because they shared a troubling past and he didn’t forgive her for what happened. Like dawg how am I supposed to get all that from Hello Mrs. Rose. Good Morning John, how’s everything ? Good and you? I swear people just be making crap up

My English teacher legit analyzed a non fiction book, and even deeply analyzed the wording despite the book being translated from a different language.

There's a short story about a guy who invents a time machine and brings William Shakespeare to the present and enrolls him in a class on Shakespeare. He failed.

i remember listening my teacher overanalyze a poem for 70 minutes, i love 90 minute classes

“Then when we subtract it by 47 because that’s my favourite colour” this teacher is is more realistic then I thought

Dude my English teacher had us do this for Into The Wild which is a true story and was like “now what do you think the writer was trying to say when Alex died in a rusted broken down bus in the woods? Perhaps it’s a metaphor for how his life had become broken down and wore over the years” and meanwhile I’m like “no he said that because that’s what actually freakin happened, I don’t think Alex was going for some deep philosophical bullcrap when he kicked the bucket in the woods. Dude just made poor choices and died. The writer didn’t plan crap he’s just retelling what literally happened”

As an English major studying to become a teacher, I have to say it is surprising the teacher didn't emphasize the importance of why we never get a specific store mentioned. Its ambiguity presents Johnny holding an identity crisis, in that any store could provide salvation to the drug addict. Through this action does Johnny represent the irrepresentability of drug addicts who are commodified by the stores and its dealers for profit.

Can’t wait to see the future where someone’s old shopping list is misconstrued as a poem and they analyse the meaning of “bag of lettuce x2”

An english teacher of mine spent an entire two days analyzing the cover of the book 💀

"Once we subtract it from 47 because that's my favourite colour" 🤣🤣🤣

I'm convinced english teachers actively making students hate the subject they otherwise might have been interested in. I HATED these type of over analyze subjects in middle school, and would get consistant low marks. Made me hate reading anything except for percy jackson cause rick is the goat. 3 years later in grade 10-11 after accepting what they're teaching is not related to actual writing I did nano out of interest and produced a pretty detailed 55k word fanfic which made me discover my love for writing as a hobby.

I’m an English major and I once had a textbook that had an entire chapter dedicated to something just like this, it was analyzing how the “hero’s journey” arc can be expressed in many ways, and one of the examples they used was a boy going to the store💀 I do feel called out tho cuz I love this type of thing🤣

"And then we take 47 cause it's my favorite color" got me!😂😂 EDIT:thanks for 1k likes👍

You see, the name Jhonny has connotations of friendliness and is usually a name associated with children, so the Poet is clearly telling us that Jhonny is a happy go lucky child, on his way to the store. Furthermore, "went" has been used to demonstrate the urgency of his visit, and "to the store" shows that Jhonny doesn't even know what fucking store he's going to because he's hopped up on 25 Adderall from his father's medicine cabinet. Which is also why he's so goddamn happy.

It's giving "If Matpat was an English teacher"

I’m in AP language I can confirm this is true she just assigned this 2 paragraph reading and is telling us it’s gonna take a week to finish☠️

I thought this was ridiculous until my teacher said a woman was a drug addict because her teeth were bad. Theres literally nothing else hinting at something like that.

The fact that in italy one of the most famous poet of WW1 litteraly just wrote 3-5 word for a poetry and it's the most famous one to overanalize really hit me hard

My English teacher hated me because I was able to summarize the Eragon books in a ~10 page essay each. She was particularly frustrated because I apparently didn't look five parallel universes deep enough on the Witch Angela's statement about all frogs being toads but not all toads being frogs.

This reminds of my ELA teacher giving the entire class a whole Ted Talk on how a guy mowing his lawn reflects his goals and ambitions. 💀💀💀 you can’t make this shit up

I love when they overanalyze something and immediately tells a life experience they once had that makes me feel like it’s stalling the class period so I don’t have to do any work but to read. It’s like your grandfather telling the story of how he got a watch while your waiting to leave the retirement home.

My English teacher literally spent an entire class period analyzing a short story that was literally 3 words: “baby shoes sold”

I had this happen to something I wrote: Back in high school, we had to write poems about ourselves with the idea of "write about your life right now". The whole point was the write an interesting poem about your point of view and your accomplishments and yada yada yada. My life at the time was really boring and nothing of interest or importance had happened to me. I didn't play a sport, wasn't in any clubs, nothing. So, being crabby and petty, I wrote just that. My poem was 24 lines of flowery language telling the reader to leave and read someone else's poem. A couple of my fav lines I remember was literally just "I am a background character in someone else's story" and "You can't pull a piece of poetry from a math textbook" (i was in many STEM classes at the time). Teacher loved it so much she shared it with the other classes and commented on how "perfect" it was and how it captured the energy of the original poem we'd read (that our assignment was based off of). TLDR: I wrote 24 lines for a poetry assignment telling my english teacher to bug off and read someone else's poem, and she though it was the best one in the class.

I remembered that time when my elementary English teacher told everyone to write an essay for the letter A.

The Death Note thinking music really started playing in the teacher's head there 💀

As an English teacher this is something that comes up fairly often. I think going for "the one true interpretation" is a mistake though. Granted, there is such a thing as the author's intent but art is subjective and should be allowed to be made far more enriching than that. I enjoy letting students approach these things from their own perspectives. What makes it so much fun and fascinating to read and analyze various works of art is how we subconsciously bring a little bit of ourselves into our interpretations. In some ways, art becomes less about the artist and more about all of us. I've had students share interpretations I'd never once considered and been absolutely blown away. I especially love helping less substantial interpretations along the way by continuing their train of thought into deeper territories. It's really fun when you get a class that's willing to roll with it. Silent groups less so because I feel like I'm just telling them what they should be thinking. Language is about people and culture, this ain't math class.

this video was a roller coster of emotions, and the 'liberty liberty, liberty' did it for me 💀

'subtract 47 because that's my favorite colour' 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀

"47 because that's my favourite colour" ☠️

“Then we subtract it by 47 because that’s my favorite color “ 😂

English teachers (and the students) should be aware that texts only have significant meaning when it is intentional based on clues like repetition, integration with the theme, coherence, etc. If it's just a random description written by an unknown author in an insignificant position within the text, it most likely wouldn't contain any deep stuff.

Bro it's like the English teachers be expecting an entire meaningful message from a 5 word sentence that's more meaningful then an entire nation

DUDE WHY IS THIS SO ACCURATE, LMAOAOAOA- some English teachers are just so annoying. I remember one time we were like over-analyzing about I think like a poem about a girl who thinks names are something that give personality???? LOL? This is so accurate, then we really do need to write about essay fr.

If Matt Pat game theorist became a teacher*

47 is an awesome color

POV: You are MatPat making a theory:

my teacher literally jumpscared me by overreacting to the first sentence of a short story i wrote in the first twenty minutes of class and proceeded to overanalyse it in front of everyone and then turn to me like the joker like she was giving me my que to continue reading it aloud. she did not anticipate my distressed butt saying i needed a minute to recover from what she just did. still embarrassed five years later

you actually can infer that since Johnny is an informal name, and since the use of this nickname is natural to the narrator, the story likely takes place in a small town, village, or other type of close-knit community where people generally know each other well enough for calling each other by nicknames like this to feel natural

the english teacher's development is insane bro went from english teacher to cryptography teacher to math teacher to health teacher to former teacher in a matter of seconds

Damn this sh*t is too relatable, sh*t like this is why I went from being a bookworm to barely reading books(espically after middle school)

This actually cool as hell. Id happily write 3 paragraphs on johnnys life if we did cool letter to number decryption and shit like that in english class

I actually like and love when there is a lot more to something than it seems But also, just like some famous psychologist said "A cigar is sometimes ( in a dream) just a cigar"

As an English teacher, I can confirm that I just do this to mess with my students, and their reaction is hilarious

My English period is 80 mins long. Our usual agenda is walking in and doing a warmup based off of some new term we’re learning. Then for the next 60 mins my teacher is non-stop talking about that thing until we have 20 mins left to do a very time-consuming assignment. Just the Honors English 9 expirence

Can we appreciate how the teacher survived 3 shots from a gun with no pain in his voice truly inspiring 💀 Edit:I don't want to be that guy but... Balls.

47 because thats my favorite color 💀

I hope that teacher is forced to right an essay on every single detail of a chapter book

this is probably the most accurate representation of an english teacher

My English teacher once took ~20 minutes to analyse the sentence "The man wiped his sweat with his black handkerchief"

Major kudos to my 7th & 8th Grade teacher for not being like this. She just taught us the literay devices & had us take our own notes. She even let us choose the books we wanted to read. We did have to do anaylsises on our text, but that literally took 5 minutes & just explained how a character was feeling.

I love how everything derails into absolute lunacy by the end

Being sick is a natural thing, Grant. You should know this. Please, you mustn't go down this path. You need to understand that being sick is incredibly important, it shows that you have no more motivation to keep creating content. The author clearly intended this. welcome to yappsvile

I generally want someone to write a whole essay on this in the comments.

Ah yes, 47, my favorite color.

Now that I do English Literature, I truly understand how real this actually is 💀💀

In my English IV class, we had to do an 1000 words assignment every single day. It doesn’t help that Shakespeare is so hard to understand even with the modern English translations. Also doesn’t help that Shakespeare stories are a 6/10 AT BEST

Reminds me of the time my 8th grade English teacher was talking about Johnny Cade from the outsiders being Jesus

the exact skyrim poster that i have just on the wall of this english class surprised me

Matpat be like😂

I could barely study for an organic chemistry class and get an A. I could stay up all night writing a language arts paper for a month and get a C+. If you write an argumentative essay against the teachers opinion on a subject, you won't get a B no matter the quality.😂

Unfortunate that there are so many bad English teachers which make us hate what would normally be a great subject if taught well. Though i guess that applies to everything.

So true! I've experienced this with a couple English teachers. Thankfully, my present one doesn't do this. Thanks for your videos 👏 Good Job, you just earned yourself a new subscriber

"Once upon a time" "Wait. That means it only happened once. ARE THE CHARACTERS DEAD? WHERE DID THEY GO? WHAT HAPPENED?"

What is so crazy is, as much as this is comedy, I really have had an English prof exhibit extremely similar behavioral characteristics 😂 The exaggerated sarcasm is a cliche way of inciting critical thinking, which is somehow supposed to eventually lead students to want to be more purposeful with their writing 💀

Literally true with English teachers

You’re such a good content creator and deserve a lot more credit. My son loves your videos and he was so excited because you both share the same first name and he finds you very funny. Thank you so much.

0:48 MatPat be like:

On the one hand: Overanalyzing media to a laughable degree is simply an occupational hazard when your job is to try and teach children to look for subtle messaging in works of writing. On the other hand: They must realize they're going overboard sometimes.

The end got me. So random. But so perfect.

My English teacher would make us highlight every single time a color was mentioned in The Great Gatsby and then we would have to write about what that color is supposed to represent. Luckily for me, I learned to just make up stuff on the spot and passed.

Your content is on a different level. So entertaining and funny.

my teacher literally once spent an entire lesson on somebody standing in a door and blocking the sunlight

No way! My favorite color is 47 too!

In Hong Kong we had a exam called DSE where college use the results for admission. In the Chinese subjects the examiner wrote questions that are so over-analysed even the original author of the book couldn’t answer it .

In the concise statement, "Johnny went to the store," lies a narrative thread that extends far beyond its surface simplicity. This seemingly straightforward action encapsulates a journey laden with significance, touching upon themes of autonomy, necessity, and societal roles. By dissecting the layers of this single sentence, one can uncover a wealth of interpretations and implications. Primarily, Johnny's decision to go to the store signifies an exercise of agency and independence. In choosing to embark on this journey, Johnny asserts his ability to navigate his surroundings and make decisions autonomously. This act underscores the essence of individual autonomy, highlighting Johnny's capacity to take initiative and pursue his objectives. Furthermore, Johnny's trip to the store hints at the fulfillment of practical needs or desires. Stores are often associated with the procurement of goods and services, suggesting that Johnny may be seeking to acquire necessities or indulge in personal preferences. This interpretation prompts reflection on the role of consumption in everyday life and the ways in which individuals navigate the marketplace to satisfy their requirements. Additionally, Johnny's excursion to the store offers insights into societal norms and expectations. His action may be influenced by cultural conventions or societal pressures, reflecting broader patterns of behavior within the community. Johnny's role as a consumer within the store environment may also shed light on economic dynamics, revealing disparities in access to resources or opportunities. Moreover, Johnny's journey to the store prompts consideration of spatial experiences and their impact on human interactions. The store serves as a physical space that shapes Johnny's movements and interactions, influencing his perception of the environment and his engagement with others. His navigation of the store landscape may reflect his negotiation of social boundaries and his adaptation to the spatial constraints of the built environment. In conclusion, the seemingly simple act of "Johnny went to the store" unfolds into a multifaceted exploration of autonomy, necessity, societal roles, and spatial experiences. This single sentence serves as a window into the complexities of human behavior and the interconnectedness of individual actions with broader social contexts. By delving into the layers of this statement, one can uncover a rich tapestry of meanings and implications that resonate far beyond the confines of the sentence itself.

You guys had it good. You had something to laugh at, my teacher made us write huge essays over tiny things and the kid who wrote properly (me) got Bs when the kid who made spelling and grammatical mistakes and used !!! at the end of every sentence got an A+ on the same exam. Nice.

Ok why tf was there a liberty ad!!!!!

This is why I love English. It’s a perfect outlet for my anxiety overthinking ass XD

“Beacouse 47 is my favorite color” caught me off guard

After becoming an english major myself and having to analyze things like James Joyce's Ulysses, I have to say I understand them now

U gotta remember those 5 line spaced charts on google docs with those 1 sentence answered questions. That was torture

in my speech and debate class senior year, our first assignment was to right a speech about a single word we were given, and one of the students got the word eggplant, his speech was as follows "Eggplant."

I guess you can say "Johnny Been Eatin That Sugar" 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥

I once had an english teacher take the sentence “I showered in the morning” and turned it into a fucking 2 hour lesson.

My teacher once took 40 mins to analyze the first 3 lines of a poem. 40 mins for like 30 words

“Then, once we subtract it by 47 because that’s my favorite color” is 😂 my ELA teacher does this all the time after every paragraph

What a roller coasters of emotions.