Symbolism, Lenses and Writing Your First Analysis

You are good ,you are brilliant, please please make more videos in literature ❤❤❤❤❤

7:35 she said that she want you to try it like what you want me to try to be raciest

10:28 A question pls, is formalistic lens == ethos ?

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as an english lit major i LOVE to see ppl appreciating literature and literary analysis, keep being you <3

I really like this series! I've always appreciated reading people theorize and critically analyze media, but I was never interested in doing it myself. These days though It's starting to feel like a lost art. Since I'm also in the middle of learning french, I think that this will be great to get me to work on my writing skills and vocabulary without getting bored! Thank you 😊

Once in a blue moon! Thank u for sharing!! Amazing content!

More guides to doing literary analysis please!

How about a video on Biblical analysis .. thanks.

these are great

I've just started the first class on how to write fiction. Your series on Analysis 101 really helps me to onboard myself to be more critical. At first, I thought that I wouldn't be able to enjoy reading fiction once I learned about critical analysis, but as I listen more to your videos, I think that worry goes away. Thank you so much!!!

to add onto the theme of loneliness in the poem excerpt, the consistent personification may be a way of trying to find liveliness in inanimate things, such as the evening, morning, afternoon, etc

when you said that u also took 3 other subjects did u take alvls ? if so did u take eng lit ? im taking it rn and i would love to hear your thoughts and tips abt it !

I am a Literature student at University, and your videos really help me a lot to understand more about Literary criticism. I hope u making more videos like this, and if don't mind can you also talk about Literary approach such as phrahmatic, mimetic, objective, and expressive. Thanks a lot 🍻

10:52 I don’t like Watchman and have never seen Evangelion all the way through but I always hear these two as the poster children of deconstruction in media

Thank you! I'm starting my literature/language degree this year and your videos are not just helping me with the analysis but also with consuming literature related content in english, which is so helpful since my degree is english and portuguese and besides being C+ I'm not used to this type of terms, as an example, since I use my english mostly with conversation and stuff! Hugs from Brazil 💕

6:41 in the event someone takes this and over-generalizes, English isn’t THE colonizer’s language—though it often is. A Haitian text written in French would be just as clearly a case of being written in the colonizer’s language. Frankly, anything written in any language non-native to the locality will be written in some colonizer’s language.

As a black American, thank you for your explanation for post colonialism. I’d subconsciously viewed many books with a post colonial lense without even realizing it — I didn’t know it had a name. I’ve lived so much of my life in grief for a culture I’d never had. I’ve never been to Africa, but my ethnicity is “African American.” I grew up wishing that I’d wake up one day and my parents would speak to me in twi or Swahili, I wanted a country to truly call my one. I wanted a culture that had distinct traditional clothing, music, language — I wanted to be special through my culture like everyone else. I was “American” , but not “American” in the same way my white peers are. I love the post colonial lense because it taught me that I am not alone in my grief, so many diaspora kids feels as if they have no homeland. It was liberating. If you are a POC living in the west and feel alone, learn post colonial lense. Trust me, you are not alone.

This is what’s lacking in the education system of my country, the lack of critical thinking because we were not really taught properly— or maybe the teachers just didn’t believe in our abilities— on how to do our readings. Most of the students here have a difficulty in understanding texts or passages because all we did was memorize. We didn’t really dive deep into the interpretations and meanings of what we were reading. We did not deconstruct passages to better understand their meaning and be given more freedom to share our ideas from our own point of view. Thanks for this moon. I ll keep learning. Regards from south east asia. 🎉

where are the part 3 and part 4 at

Loving the content ❤

I always wanted to like reading classics, I always wanted to read a book with a notebook, some highlighters and coffee beside me, and take notes. I sadly went to a school where I didn't take a proper science class until I was 14 or 15 years old. I didn't learn note-taking, I didn't learn much about essay writing, and I certainly had no grasp of critical thinking despite my mixed age group class reading Beowulf at 9 or 10 years old. The importance of topics wasn't instilled until later in my life, and though I always wanted a traditional education, once I found myself in high school, certain things like English class (while I thought I would love them) were the most difficult courses for me. Not only that but it was difficult for me as a student to get attention, because most of the things I needed help with were things other kids learned long before me and they were too frustrated to go back to basics. I truly appreciate you taking the time to go over these concepts as they are so important, and I'm grateful to have it explained so thoroughly, passionately, and with such care to the receiver. Thank you Moon!

Your sound is so low. I'm sure you know already but it took me out of the video

I’m really shy. But I just joined a book club and your literary analysis is helping me get the courage to actually show up 😊

hey! i was wondering how do i pick a lens to do an analysis of a book if i haven’t read it yet? would i do that after, if so how would i know to gather the write evidence? What type of annotation would i do while reading?

Hey, just discovered your channel, this was a really nice and informative video + I really wanted to read Hellscreen, but I've read online that is actually pretty hard to find a nice translation of It, so thanks for that too.

P.s. Congrats for your top surgery!!

Thanks sm for these vids bc i wanna think critically about the books I'm reading and writing about them bt didn't know how to startt

this series has single handedly saved me for my literature FA4 and all my future IA’s TY AHHH 🔥🙉🙉

before i was just watching your analysis tutorials for fun, but now im taking an english class and have to write a literary analysis essay and im rewatching your videos for help a guidance. thank you for putting the time and effort into making them, i cant wait for more!

❤❤❤ love this series

My dog's face when the little cat came on screen! 😍 Loved this video, thank you

Thank you very much Moon😋

I’m a bit confused with the differences in between lens, theme and ideas…

Hello
Somehow I've missed your new video, though I'm glad I eventually came across on it. Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge! I'm not sure whether you'll reply to my question, but I still have an urge to leave it here. Regarding Deconstructuralism, if we follow your example and say the work "..." relies on the cultural assumption a lot, or maybe too much, then is it fair to the work, to its author and their culture? I mean a lot of or perhaps all the writers create in their culture for their culture. Is it fair to critique that we're too out of reach of the said culture, cultural space, codes etc while an author didn't even had a notion that someone from another country, another nation would eventually read their work?
I'm sorry for any mistakes I've made since English is not my first language. I hope my message doesn't sound rude, since it is not the intention I have, but rahther it's hard for me to express myself in words

The phrase "sometimes the curtains are just blue" causes me physical pain. Don't get me wrong, I get that public education is about as effective and useful as a wooden toaster, but come on what harm does it do you to let someone else apply meaning to this?

Thankss moon, the video was such a delight❤
Would you consider making a video with different book recommendations some time? I'm curious cause I feel like you'd recommend some good stuff :)

I'm loving this series! I'm literally taking notes and all. Thank you so much <3

thank you SO MUCH!! I've been to improve on this and your video taught me so much!!