Is this programme open to any Part 1 UK student or only for Cambridge Undergraduate graduates?
@amanasleep336911 күн бұрын
Really wonderful talk (coming from a mathematician!)
@gasharetuute6912Ай бұрын
Business management degree course
@gasharetuute6912Ай бұрын
Meeting
@davidpalmer5966Ай бұрын
I've never heard of the guy. I found the lecture elegant and charming, albeit vacuous and, sadly, elitist. I'm guessing that he was directed by his anticipated audience who may have known perfectly well why some people find modern poetry difficult and who felt rather pleased that they themselves were not among such peasants. Such an audience would have understood that a poem is an intimate conversation between poet and reader, and that since not all poets will speak to any given reader, as a reader you have to find the poets who do. You don't have to appreciate all poets; just one may be enough, if it's the right one. The good professor's audience would have enjoyed his allusive, personal wandering within the general territory of the question without actually confronting it. However, those whom poets were traditionally addressing, ordinary people, would have received little insight from this comfortable, clever, deft and rather smug piece of oratory. It was a performance, not an answer.
@pedroalexisrodriguezperez36612 ай бұрын
I love it ❤❤❤ is interesting i'm preparing myself English to study in Uk London🎉😂
@GentlemanLife-Beyotch2 ай бұрын
Modern poetry is distasteful, not difficult. There is a reason why contemporary poetry isn't "classic" or legendary.
@ChurlsBeardSmug3 ай бұрын
This is why UK poetry died about 75 years ago--pretentious wank.
@joecho77773 ай бұрын
Boring
@Amanskingdom3 ай бұрын
Mam how can i get your no
@RiazLaghari3 ай бұрын
Great initiative!
@Davod21393 ай бұрын
Poetry on poetry taught by a professor of poetry disappearing up its own arse.
@Davod21393 ай бұрын
Revolting suck up.
@meerabista94383 ай бұрын
20:07 is there any age limit for admission?
@beatricemburke98203 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@lennydellarocca49923 ай бұрын
Simply superb
@TerryD_1004 ай бұрын
you need to mic people up
@shireboundscribbles4 ай бұрын
And get rid of the annoying background music too, which is also making it extra hard to hear them whilst adding nothing.
@cristianoalfieri91494 ай бұрын
Looking forward to meeting you on the course Stephen
@zaynasyyed64924 ай бұрын
Can you apply for this course as an fy2?
@AntQuick11024 ай бұрын
Hard to listen to, it's trash besides the household names
@jarrodsio5 ай бұрын
Good job Melanie! Clearly I'm biased here because I"m a member of Homerton. haha.
@NaveedAhmad-dt9uq5 ай бұрын
what the about the visa status of interantional students?
@clairehogan19026 ай бұрын
This so doesn’t work as compelling marketing for courses! Every time am targeted with marketing from ICE I question why would I want to study with them when they can’t get the basics correct of student engagement
@amelmahmoud82216 ай бұрын
thank you
@macdonaldfraser6 ай бұрын
illuminating and entertaining. Thank you Professor Ward
@lizwinfield48026 ай бұрын
Please turn subtitles on if you have difficulty hearing:)
@KhanAJ-m.a.ru.7 ай бұрын
I have to get admission in M.A.ONLINE. (I CE)(CUOEFL)RUSSIAN 2ND LANGUAGE.
@Hallam0017 ай бұрын
As someone who obtained a PhD at the age of 70, I know exactly what he means.
@fabiolahook88777 ай бұрын
Modern poetry is difficult because it is a symptom of a confused and degenerate culture.
@user-sv4sl1ui1g7 ай бұрын
Learn whether MSt in Writing for Performance is eligible to apply for a PhD?
@jamesprewer23628 ай бұрын
These people have careers! But why just listen to this wispy nonsense, there are no careers in Cambridge. Fact!
@garymelnyk79108 ай бұрын
About what I expected: self congratulatory rambling nonsense.
@rogerbourke55708 ай бұрын
Sophorific.
@fabiolahook88777 ай бұрын
Sopomoric?
@neoepicurean37728 ай бұрын
53:03 First commenter went hard...
@vitoroscar31648 ай бұрын
is there a summer programme for high school students from another country?
@latino3049 ай бұрын
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@phonsefagan56499 ай бұрын
Complexity We often see As pretense to profundity Simplicity Implicitly As precourse to fecundity
@pitchforkcustom9 ай бұрын
gatekeepers need to have their keys stolen.. modern poetry is not difficult, the issues aren’t difficult.. this lecture is nonsense… horribly disparaging snide remarks
@ashutoshdixit669910 ай бұрын
She talks about killing male feotus , i will pitty for her father , sick and mentally ill woman .
@wordscapes569011 ай бұрын
When modern poetry is difficult (and it very often is) it is because it has moved out of the realms of the countryside bard and migrated to the halls of the university. When one requires a degree or a PhD to comprehend a poem, it becomes a thesis and not a poem. Poetry no longer lives in the public sphere. In our colleges and universities, it is still very much alive - it subsists in small and stuffy rooms over-occupied by academics smugly giggling over brandies at the cleverness of each others’ verse. In short - it is not dead but rather zombified and very much alive in a largely inaccessible limbo.
@garymelnyk79108 ай бұрын
Perfectly said! Alas!
@wordscapes56908 ай бұрын
@@garymelnyk7910 I wish it were not so! I really do!
@eskybakzu7125 ай бұрын
You don't need a degree. Modern poetry is difficult to comprehend because the problem of comprehension is at its forefront. Crane never graduated high school yet is very difficult to understand whereas Eliot spent many years at Harvard and Oxford and wrote a PhD on F. H. Bradly and is also very difficult to understand. Not to mention that Yeats isn't any easier than Whitman or Homer (if you'd like to compare it to the "countryside bard").
@wordscapes56905 ай бұрын
@@eskybakzu712 I think you did not quite get what I was trying say. Poetry need not be understood in order to be comprehended. It is the miscomprehension that bothers me. Misunderstanding something is fine. But the tradition of poetry comprehension has been pulled out of general society, like an unwanted thorn. It has been placed under a microscope and is now analyzed to death by the few, and written about in textbooks that are so deeply analytical that it loses its original intention: something in which everyone partook, from the illiterate twit at the pub, to the brainy pedagogue on campus.
@spazthespasticcolonel10542 ай бұрын
...small and stuffy rooms... academics smugly giggling over brandies... Where, exactly, did you go to school? It sounds like a dreadful experience (as well as a dreadful school) and I am sorry that you had to endure such things as part of your poetic education. I hope that it was good brandy, at least!
@shaggy000011 ай бұрын
Bullshitter
@lochinvar5589 Жыл бұрын
click bait
@gaellekerridge1923 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this insight 👏👌
@mosesdalton2902 Жыл бұрын
Love it! You need smzeus.
@neilprocter Жыл бұрын
Did the professor answer the question? Did he attempt to answer the question?
@woozyjoe47032 ай бұрын
The professor did not even make an attempt. This must be Oxbridge clickbait?
@greendesert69 Жыл бұрын
no, modern poetry is not difficult, it's just a bunch of pretentious phooey from people who don't actually want to work and be productive members of society so instead they sit around and conjure up conceited pretentious garbage.
@demiatunwa8203 Жыл бұрын
Is this only available for Cambridge Part 1 students?