The Sonnets - Episode One - An Introduction to Shakespeare's Sonnets

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The Sonnets - Episode One - An Introduction to Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Around 1600, probably during a quarantine for plague, William Shakespeare wrote 154 Sonnets that redefined the form and gave us some of the most passionate and poignant poetry in the English Language.
Around 2020, going stir-crazy from quarantine, I thought I'd try and make some dumb videos. I absolutely love the Sonnets, so in this series I'm hoping to take a look at these poems and help show what makes them remarkable.
I know a little bit about literature, but almost nothing about making videos, so I welcome any feedback!
(and KZfaq please don't sue me for using stuff I found online. This is educational...?)
Music used:
Dies Irae - Verdi
Greensleeves - John Coltrane
Such Sweet Thunder - Duke Ellington

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@scotchtape9957 10 ай бұрын

My teacher played this video during school and it's really entertaining for something informative 🔥🔥🔥

@valeriewarren6763 Жыл бұрын

Hi. I show this video to my junior and senior English class every semester. Thanks for the great content!

@ender.4118 Жыл бұрын

I’m one of the juniors 🤞🏿🙏🏿🫶🏿.

@jenlru 3 жыл бұрын

this is the most entertaining explanation of Sonnets + accurate info, very helpful to English teachers/ looking to make sonnets relevant to students today! i second the instant subscribe

@shabirmagami146 4 ай бұрын

very innovative ...very interesting ....sharing this with my students ...thank you ...💌

@jokkdahl6874 2 жыл бұрын

You know what, you have earned yourself a new subscriber despite the oversaturated market, my friend. I love watching people who love what they do.

@gottliebwurst Жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful video, it looks like you invested so much time in it and it's very much appreciated!!! I'm particularly fond of the presentation with some humorous elements. For me personally this is the best way to learn and I feel like I learned something from your video. Big thank you!

@hiromicho79 2 жыл бұрын

this video burst me into tears… thank ypu for all

@lalindyaanne1595 Жыл бұрын

Best explanation so far ❤ Keep it up unweeded garden ❤

@strudlzrout Жыл бұрын

This is fantastic; thanks for creating it!

@kellihook9941 3 жыл бұрын

I rarely comment on videos, but I felt the need to express how much I appreciate these videos. I'm taking a huge test tomorrow and the essay component will be to analyze one random sonnet. Before these videos, I just looked at the words like they were written in Klingon. Now, I have a better understanding and hopefully will do better on the essay. I still struggle with the language, but knowing the general context of these essays will help me a great deal. I have never been so entertained by such a dry topic and my daughter asked my multiple times why I was laughing out loud. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

@TheUnweededGarden 3 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate your comment - thank you! It's wonderful to imagine that people are becoming more familiar and confident with Shakespeare. I hope you keep reading him!

@Ramsay8888 11 ай бұрын

Excellent! Thank you for this wonderful, uplifting intro. Well done. xxox an ole lady and longago HS English teacher who woke up this morning remembering lines from MacBeth.

@phillipmahony4337 4 жыл бұрын

Great stuff!

@justintai8725 3 жыл бұрын

That was excellent thanks for the upload, I look forward to seeing more of these bravo

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@yehudadamari4399 2 жыл бұрын

@Kenzo Finn happy to help :D

@TeddytoZ 4 жыл бұрын

Super engaging and well made! Looking forward to the next one!

@TheUnweededGarden 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@sudeliseyler 2 жыл бұрын

You are amazing, such a great work!!!

@johnreuelsathyadass6388 3 жыл бұрын

you are immensely underrated

@rossanaguerra1825 3 жыл бұрын

I Really loved how you recited sonnet 30 🤩✨

@bredamaune2028 3 жыл бұрын

An innovative and very interesting video. Thank you.

@hadeel641 3 жыл бұрын

PERFECT! I 've never thought of Shakespeare before as a normal human being.

@TheUnweededGarden 3 жыл бұрын

He was definitely way above normal. But he was a human!! Really glad you enjoyed the video!

@Mercy-lb5rq 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your wonderful video.. perhaps it is about moving from a subconscious domesticated state into a feral wild human being if not just for a moment if not just between the lines but the bittersweet taste of moving from one's personal cage to freedom never leaves us Blessings

@ranadesreveaux3349 2 жыл бұрын

Loved it! x

@ruthsparks3949 4 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this! Wanting to introduce my kids to Shakespeare... looking forward to more please!

@TheUnweededGarden 3 жыл бұрын

I remember being in the 5th grade and my english teacher giving us Romeo & Juliet. Can't recommend it enough!

@mr-splits-world 2 жыл бұрын

great, thanks!

@jimpickard3850 3 жыл бұрын

Really well done. Such a shame you stopped. Hope to see more soon.

@TheUnweededGarden 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you - hoping to get some more content out!

@bonniem1865 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this :)

@teresajirapornmanee5326 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you this is perfect:)

@tizianasanfratello7878 4 ай бұрын

Wow, your explanation is so passionate. I love it. Why so few videos?

@potatothorn 4 жыл бұрын

well done thanks. in process of reading Shakespeare now so this is helpful

@TheUnweededGarden 3 жыл бұрын

I'm very glad to hear it! Good reading - I hope you love it as much as I do!!

@hiromicho79 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video😊😊

@brillytv Жыл бұрын

Well done

@irishgoldstacker8018 3 жыл бұрын

The video is quite good my friend, I see nothing wrong with it. The point is that we learn something from this kind of video, and I did. I'm subscribing and I hope to see more videos like this.

@TheUnweededGarden 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it. I'll try to put out some more videos soon.

@joanbarroso8581 3 жыл бұрын

Shakespeare channels are the most underrated ones, damn

@TheUnweededGarden 3 жыл бұрын

Aw, shucks. Thank you!

@ericplloyd 4 жыл бұрын

Instant subscribe.

@Tomcohencoudar 2 жыл бұрын

I mean. . . This video is perfect

@NuYiDao 3 жыл бұрын

This dude is the dude

@pearltiresias7410 6 ай бұрын

Dear Sir: I am a former cultural critic who never knew much about literature and therefore focused on the fine arts. I was recently approached by a 21-year-old "Fair Youth" who asked me to read his sonnet, and I tried to beg off, saying I didn't know how to judge a sonnet, revealing my intimidation of this art form. I have been roaming around the Internet looking in the usual places for "free Shakespeare courses on Introduction to the Sonnets," and I have to say that yours is really splendid. If I want to delve deeper into Shakespeare's sonnets, can you recommend a critical text that would help me do so?

@ronc.9248 2 жыл бұрын

Thx

@venere5886 Жыл бұрын

i'm gonna be honest dude if you start doing a masterclass i'll pay for it

@user-nt6ch6su2w 2 жыл бұрын

They were written in Iambic pentameter A sonnet has 14 lines written in 4 sections 3 sections, each section with 4 lines followed by the last section with a couplet. deDUM deDUM | deDUM deDUM | deDUM deDUM | deDUM

@IAmNoeyes 2 жыл бұрын

Sonnets are hard .

@reubenbailey7491 3 жыл бұрын

Hot damn, lovely editing and presentation

@TheUnweededGarden 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@user-nt6ch6su2w 2 жыл бұрын

Sometime around the year 1600, William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets

@mustafakhalfi3817 4 жыл бұрын

You're amazing. Subscribe!

@user-nt6ch6su2w 2 жыл бұрын

7:40 RHETORICAL DEVICES 1) Anaphora

@AlessandroZir 3 жыл бұрын

🤸🍯😻💕💕💕💕

@goddieamaechi2909 Жыл бұрын

No way! 400 years later (I think) Queen Elizabeth ii died hours ago!

@user-nt6ch6su2w 2 жыл бұрын

8:00 2) Antithesis

@alrichmond4341 3 жыл бұрын

Engaging.

@vetstadiumastroturf5756 7 ай бұрын

Anagrams. "Never Before Imprinted" = "Be In Print For M. E de Vere"

@Jeffhowardmeade 5 ай бұрын

Still peddling that one?

@vetstadiumastroturf5756 5 ай бұрын

Are you still insisting that at least 10,000 historically important and financially valuable documents just disappeared without trace or comment?@@Jeffhowardmeade

@Jeffhowardmeade 5 ай бұрын

@@vetstadiumastroturf5756 10,000 it is up to now? Then where are all these documents for every other person of the era?

@vetstadiumastroturf5756 5 ай бұрын

@@Jeffhowardmeade Moving the goalposts again. You tried this tactic with King James just last week, and it went down in flames. Did you forget already? But okay, name someone whose identity must be proven, and I will see if I can provide documents to do so. You do the math and tell me how many total papers Shakespeare would have produced in his lifetime (assuming your story is true), including finished manuscripts, rough copies, letters of correspondence, journals etc.

@Jeffhowardmeade 5 ай бұрын

@@vetstadiumastroturf5756 I love how you get your ass handed to you and promptly declare victory. There aren’t 10k extant documents for anyone of the age, including for King James. We have for Shakespeare precisely what we would expect for a middle class poet after four centuries. We have dedications to him. We have evidence of him getting paid to write. We have evidence of patronage. We have an extant manuscript. We have well-placed people who knew him identifying him as a poet by his name, his social rank, his profession of actor, and his home town. And I’m not moving the goalposts. I’m showing you what they look like, because you’re clueless.

@EricaNernie 3 жыл бұрын

'differently' not 'different'

@guitaoist 8 ай бұрын

Francis Bacon was the true author, yeah im that guy lol. Dont worry i have 50 videos explaining it so its not technically trolling

@Jeffhowardmeade 5 ай бұрын

50 videos but not one iota of evidence.

@lohkoonhoong6957 2 жыл бұрын

those sonnets ... to his mistress are ... abominably harsh, obscure, and worthless. ---- [per William Wordsworth]

@Joshuadavies839 3 жыл бұрын

Who here for English work

@HDBenTube 3 жыл бұрын

Your dad

@1TheDoorwayToHeaven Жыл бұрын

Lad he was a zelensky 😂

@bridgetwashburn6225 3 жыл бұрын

The rhyme scheme listed at 2:46 is inaccurate. Sonnets have the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. The example poem does not conform to the standard rhyme scheme of a sonnet, so maybe pick a different example poem.

@TheUnweededGarden 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Bridget! Actually, at 2:46 I'm discussing the sonnets of Petrarch and Sydney, which do, in fact, use the ABBA CDDC etc rhyme scheme. The example poem is one of Sydney's, and a predecessor of Shakespeare's sonnet form. If you continue watching, at 3:31 you'll see the rhyme scheme that you're more familiar with.