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Key Points in T S Eliot's 'The Metaphysical Poets' | Dr. Hend Hamed | YouTubeToText
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This content provides a concise overview of T.S. Eliot's essay on the Metaphysical poets, focusing on key concepts like the definition of metaphysical poetry, the metaphysical conceit, and Eliot's theory of the "dissociation of sensibility." It aims to help students prepare for an exam by highlighting the most important ideas discussed in the article.
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hello everyone I hope you're all doing
well this is just a very short uh video
on the key points that I want you to
study in the article that TS Elliot
wrote on the metaphysical
poets um we discussed a lot of points
during the sessions but I thought this
will be very um precise and
straightforward um and will help you
when um you want to study this part for
the final exam right now of course these
are not all the points that TS you
discussed but I'm only going to focus on
the most important ideas the key points
that I want you to know right that
you're going to get your questions on in
the final
exam um so first of all um TS Eliot
tries to explain the phrase metaphysical
poetry and he says that the phrase
metaphysical poetry has long done Duty
as a term of abuse or as the label of a
quaint and pleasant taste there are a
lot of views on metaphysical poetry and
that is why he finds himself in a quary
more or less um and this is how he
begins his own essay on the metaphysical
Poes the question he asks is to what
extent the so-called metaphysicals uh
formed the school and how far this
so-called school or movement is a
digression from the main current and I
think we also discussed this in the
sessions when we try to figure out
whether the metaphysical poets and what
they represented was influenced by the
17th century or was a DI agression from
what was happening in the 17th century
uh I think some of you agreed that um
everything they talked about um
specifically with reference to the
Scientific Revolution and similar ideas
does really put them in the middle of
the 17th century does really
uh represent them as um more or less um
poets who are so much engrossed in the
age and influenced and were influenced
by the 17th century um he adds not only
is it extremely difficult to define
metaphysical poetry but difficult to
decide what poets practice it and in
which of their
verses um he then elaborates that the
poetry of Jean Don for example is late
Elizabethan it's feeling often very
close to the of Chapman we also talked
about the poetry written by John Don
during the um you mean during the the
Elizabethan period and that was it was
more or less courtly love uh a bit
different from the Poetry that he
published during the 17th century and he
says it is difficult to find any precise
use of metaphor simile or other conceit
which is common to all the poets as
a he talks about John Don for example he
says that Don employs a device which is
sometimes considered characteristically
metaphysical he says the elaboration
contrasted with the condensation of a
figure of speech to the furthest stage
to which Ingenuity can carry it and of
course he refers here to the
metaphysical conceit and he gives the
example of the compass conceit in a
valediction for Bing morning the
comparison of two lovers to a pair of
compes he then talks about Samu Johnson
who was the the one who coined the term
metaphysical poetry in the first place
and he says that Samuel Johnson claims
that in metaphysical writing the most
heterogenous ideas are yolked by
violence together and to such statement
OT response that all poets do that even
Johnson himself and I guess we had quite
a conversation and a discussion about
what he means by you know having these
ideas yoked by violence I ask you about
what you think about it now as you know
this is not a video wherein I am going
to explain everything that we explained
in class but it's rather you know a
recap of the key ideas you know more or
less me trying to help you figure out
the main ideas in uh the article before
day EX right then T Elliot um talks
about George Herbert this is George
Herbert here he says that George Herbert
wrote in simple and elegant language his
syntax or sentence structure was often
more complex in demanding some of you
agreed with him some of you
disagreed he adds that in his poetry
Herbert showcases a fedility to thought
and feeling I.E the union of thought and
feeling and I think um this this is how
he began to explore his own theory of
the dissociation of
sensibility because actually this is one
of the main ideas discussed in this um
in this article now as you know
dissociation um um it means separation
all right the separation between thought
and feeling and according to TS Elliot
that during the 17th century or the
writers of the 17th century managed to
create a unification of sensibility in
contrast to the dissociation of
sensibility which actually continued
after the 17th century so he says
according to iiot Tennison and Browning
are poets and they think but they do not
feel the thought as immediately as the
odor of a rose he then says a thought to
Da was an experience it modified his
sensibility when when a poet's mind is
perfectly equipped for its work it is
constantly amalgamating the parate
experience the ordinary man's experience
is chaotic irregular and
fragmentary the latter falls in love or
read Spinosa and these two experiences
have nothing to do with each other or
with the noise of the typewriter or the
smell of cooking in the mind of the poet
these experiences are always forming new
holes we may Express the difference by
the following Theory The Poets of the
17th century possessed a mechanism of
sensibility which could devour any kind
of experience they are simple artificial
difficult or fantastic now again we
explain this in great detail right
according to TS Eliot one of the major
elements of the Romantic uh sorry of the
metaphysical writers is that they manage
you know to to to make a fusion between
thought and feeling right and he
believes that this did not take place
after the metaphysical writers so in
other words the dissociation of
sensibility was a result of the natural
development of poetry after the
metaphysical poets who had felt their
thought as immediately as the order of
herose this phenomenon I.E the direct
sensuous apprehension of thought or the
fusion of thought and feeling which iiot
called a mechanism of sensibility was
lost by later poets I.E in metaphysical
poetry there is
unification right in contrast to the
dissociation of
sensibility which underwent you know um
during uh the periods following the 17th
century so to conclude the metaphysical
writers could bring together abstract
ideas and intense emotions creating
harmonious Fusion of thought and feeling
in their work and as an example people
in Don's work there is an intellectual
analysis of emotion everything arises
out of some emotional situation but the
emotion is not merely expressed it is
analyzed now again uh we discussed this
in great detail I just thought that it
would be helpful if you have all of
these ideas you know um concentrated in
a very short video like this and I do
trust that you have a clear
understanding of these ideas because as
we agree together um not only are you
going to get two of the multiple choice
questions um from this material but I
may be um you know um in need um to use
some of these ideas in the main question
if the main question uh will ask about
the metaphysical writers all right so
thank you so much and happy studying
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