[Music] hello my dear friends and it aspirants welcome back to yet another video lecture of high point and in this video we will be seeing about john dens another poem known as canonization and canonization is a popular poem by dan which we have learned some of us must have learned in our may or ba classes i have learned this in my ma classes so let's have an introduction first of all it and move on to line by line summary of colonization so stay tuned to the whole video don't skip the video if you skip you may miss some points that i am sharing in here before then let me tell you if you have not yet subscribed to me subscribe to our channel if you are interested to have more contents related to nta utc net jr of english language and literature in a systematic way currently we are doing three major uh courses in here like english literature we have started at the same time we are also doing uh lectures relevant in cultural studies and also literary theory and criticism if you want all 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can make fun of me for being in love you can call me anything you can uh you know identify me with anything because that love made us this way so you can do anything else or whatever you want to do you can do that or call me and my lover whatever you want you can do that but still we will love and i request you leave us alone and let me love my love and you can pursue many other things instead mocking me or making fun of me for being in love so in that way the uh speaker is addressing to one of his or her friend but considers itself with the complexity of romantic love so the poem begins like that addressing to a friend but later after uh the second stanza you can say that this mainly concerns itself with the complexity of romantic love how romantic physical love is so passionate and devotional each other their love and how their love because of the devotion that they have for their love they can be canonized that's disney that they are getting for engaging in in their love physically for that reason the mystical world that they have created for that reason for the doubt love and devotion that they have for each other they can be canonized the the lovers can be canonized and the lovers the people will pray for them after being canonized for having the pattern of their love so all those details you'll see when we start the poem and the poem title server serves dual purpose so here points title is canonization and that serves a dual purpose while the speaker argues that his love will canonize him into a kind of sainthood the poem itself functions as a canonization of a pair of lovers so canonization is a popular uh popular phrase or canonization it's a popular term in christian christianity okay where saints gets canonized after a person gets canonized after that we call that person ascend uh so the title serves a dual purpose while the speaker argues that his love will canonize him his love for the great love that they have together that will canonize him into a sainthood the poem itself functions as a canonization of the pair of lovers so through this uh poem they became immortal they also got canonized so the poem itself uh takes the function of canonizing this pair of lovers new critique clay and the brooks used this poem along with alexander pope's anastasia on man and wordsworth they composed upon minister bridge september 3 1802 to illustrate his argument for paradox as central poetry as a central as central to poetry so a new critique about a client broke uh you critique claire the brook we have done a video in the session of literary theory and criticism you can check on that uh for detailed things related to clay and brook so he he came up with an estee known as language of paradox in which he says that paradox is inevitable in every poetry it is central to poetry that will bring about a tension and that tension is the center and the beauty of poetry in order to substantiate his idea he used this poem he uh illustrates many poems he analyzes many poems in that essay along with the canonization which are the other poems along with the canonization that clay and the groups uses in there uh such as alexander popes and asean man and wordsworth best minister british composed upon western ministry bridges september 3 1802 okay so along with the canonization so three these three works he mainly used to illustrate his idea his argument about paradox as a central thing in poetry now let's move on to word by word summary of the poem i'll read the poem and you can listen to the somebody that we are sharing if you have any doubts do comment that in the comment section or use the number or the instagram page to reach out to me okay canonization about the title we have already uh see some uh some points like colonization is a process which is popular in christianity it's a process in which a person is canonized as a saint after canonization a person will be regarded as a saint you you can pray to that person and canonization here if you have listened to previous video about john then you can see that john did he was a priest he has composed him in his sermon so canonization and many other christian allegories and christian terms and christian uh allusions are quite uh normal in his poems but here canonization is used as a the term and its concept of canonization is used as a in a paradoxical way that we will uh see a as we discuss about the poem how come this is paradoxical because canonization usually people get canonized people get sane hood in christianity when they leave a saintly life when they are more or less uh you know they are priests or their their nuns or they have lived a life who which is you know which is away from all these uh sexual desires all these kind of worldly desires that usually people have they have lived from uh they have kept themselves from all away from them so those people usually get canonized but here the other is or the speaker is actually loving uh his lover so passionately that they engage in physical pleasure for that kind of love they should get canonized then they will get canonized through this uh poetry so let's see for god's sake hold your tongue and let me love or child my parsi or my goat my five gray eye hairs or ruined foot in front with with wealthier state your mind with ours improve take you as take your course get you a place observe his honor or his grace or the king's real or his stamped face contemplate what you will approve so you will let me love okay so here first of all everybody this is one of the other feature of metaphysical poetry it will have a it will have an upgrade all of a sudden beginning without any gradual it won't have a gradual beginning so here also you can see that the speaker begins abruptly suddenly that it he or she says that you know hold your tongue listen just be quiet okay see for god's sake hold your tongue for god's sake please listen and you just be quiet and let me love and he says it or chide my parsi or my god he says that you know uh you are talking too much and you're talking what you're talking you can either be silent and allow me to love or you can go ahead and make fun of my shaky hands my palsy hands and my sore joints i have sore joints i have shaky hands you can um you can make fun of me by saying about them my five gray hairs are ruined fort in front or you can uh even make fun of your taunt me for my gray hairs or my poverty i just ruined everything i have a ruined fortune so you can uh either even talk about my poverty my unworthiness as a poor person and you can also taunt me for my gray hairs uh with wealth to your state your mind with the arts improve so he says that you know or you can educate yourselves with wealthier state you my your mind with the heart improve so you can go make your fortune see i have to win all my fortune i have gray hairs i have shaky hands or i have a bad joint joints and you can do that you can talk about them or you can educate yourself you can search for you can go for your own fortune you can go and make your fortune or you can educate yourself in some craft take your course get you a place so either you can go for and make your own fortune or you can take your course that means you can educate yourself get you a place and you can be a master in some craft observe his honor or his grace or the king's real real or his damned pace so he again says that um you a can take a new career here again he says that you can take a course means you can educate yourself you can take a career or you can observe his honor means you can uh find a job find something a role in a fantasy november retinue you can work with a noble man or you can um you know you can you can be a clergy man okay following some load or some high up clergyman so you can uh find a clergyman you can serve uh his grace his grace means god's grace you can either do educate yourself you can be a master of some craft you can work with a noble man or you can uh you know uh find some lord and or you can serve the lord or you can be a clergyman or the king's real or his stamped face or you can serve the king so here he says that you can serve the king or the coins with his face printed on them or you know you can serve the king on the about the coins on which the king's face is printed usually it's like that you know and all the times in the on the points the king's face the ruler's face will be stamped so you can serve the lord or save the king about that contemplate what you will approve so you will let me love so you can do whatever you like you think about it the contemplate means you think whether you want to be silent let me know whether you want to make fun of me about my various weaknesses or you can improve yourself by doing many other things contemplate you think yourself you can do whatever you like what you will approve so whatever you are approving whatever is your taste you can do that as long as you uh leave me alone and let me be in love okay so he says that maybe this is uh he the speaker is telling to his friend so i see i am in love and let me love don't make fun of me don't uh you know come after me and you know make fun of me or you can go and deserve yourself and you take a craft you take a course you educate yourself you service lord you become a clergyman you serve the king and his stamped face so contemplate what you want to do or according to whatever you want to do you can have that as long as you leave me alone and let me love okay so he may be addressing to a friend alas alas who is injured by my love what merchant ship have my size drowned who says my tears have or flow overflowed his ground when did my coals a forward spring remove when did the heats which my veins feel add one more to the plaguey bill soldiers find wars and lawyers find out still litigious men which quarrels move though she and i do love so he again he says to the speaker says to his friend that alas alas isn't expression that english people mainly use for uh in order to express the exclamation and and he says that alas come on guy who injured who got enjoyed by my love see i love uh and i am in love i love my lover so who is injured by it who got something who has hurt who does my love hurt i have not hurted anybody so who got injured by my love what merchant ship have my size uh drowned because of the you know size because of the breath that i took who which merchant's ship got drowned nobody's shifted round because of my love who says my tears have or flowed his ground so because of the tears that i have in my eyes because of this love never uh flooded anybody's ground it never made any floods when did my coal safe our ship grew so he says that you know i have the time when my lover could lean go growing ignored my advances when my lover ignored my coldly ignored my advances towards her whether that stopped in the spring to come so when my lover responded me coldly about the advances that i was making whether that coldness of my lover stopped the spring to come when did the heat switch my vein fill add one more to the plaguey bill and here also he says that with the fever of love so my when wayne's blood veins got hot because of this love that means the fever of love never added a single death to the register of plague victims so plague was a common um pestilence during that time so he says that because of the fever that i have got i have because of this love because the my veins got hot heated because of the love whether that heat that fever killed anybody we whether that heat that fever affected anyone and added his or her name to the plague register no that never happened soldiers find worse anyway i am in love and i haven't done it i haven't done anything wrong in loving a person even still soldiers still go to war soldiers still find wars and lawyers find out still litigious men and just like soldiers find war lawyers still find argumentative people to sue each other so the lawyers will find people fighting each other and they want to sue each other so he even find that kind of person argumentative people which acquires move though she and i do love so in spite of the fact that my lady and i love each other all these things happening and we haven't done anything wrong in loving each other okay we are in love and we haven't caused anybody any injury any negative thing we haven't caused anybody even when we are in love or whether we are not love or we are in love soldiers will still find wars lawyers will find argumentative people and you know every other thing will happen even if me and my lover love each other okay that's the uh meaning of this answer if you have more meanings you can comment that below okay call us what you will we are made such by love call her one me another fly we are tappers too but at our own course die and we in us find the eagle and the dove the phoenix riddle had more of it by us we two being one are it so to one neutral thing both sexes fit we die and rise the same and prove mysterious by his by this love okay here he discusses many um paradoxical you know um opposite ideas comes together together in a line that is paradox simply we can define paradoxes like this when opposite ideas come together within a sentence that is paradox or opposite concepts come together that is paradox call us what you will we are made such by love so whatever you say uh my lady and i are like so you can call me and my love my lady love whatever you want love you know whatever you see that we are me and my lover our love made us that way so you can call me call me and you can identify us whatever ways that you want but our love made us such a way i love mate in that way okay and call her one and me another flies you can call us flies lustful mortal flies you can call us that or you can um be a tapers to and be at our own course uh die or you can call us um you know like you can identify us as a shrinking um candles which burns to itself like a candle will burn and ultimately die right all the wax will be uh burned and died in the same way we you can call you can see that we are burning ourself and we will die on our own coast and we in us find the eagle and the doubt so we together find we are we are together we are like eagle and also like doubt that means here comes the paradox eagle is strong dub is so meek so when we are together we are strong and we are wise as eagle and we are sweet and meek and tender as a dove so together we in us we in our self we find both strong and wise at the same time we are sweet and we are me and we are so naive and not knight we are so humble with each other so we find in us both the qualities attributed to eagle such as strongness and voice at the same time we are meek and we are sweet like dove we find that qualities together you know that these qualities co-exist and the simultaneously we can find these things within us the phoenix riddle had more which by us we do being one are it so here she says that you know you have uh heard about the legend of phoenix phoenix bird it is a kind of an immortal bird when it dies it will burn itself into ashes and from that ashes uh the new uh baby phoenix will rise right that's the legend of phoenix that legend is suitable to us we being lovers we are one and we will burn in our love and we will reborn in that love itself we are like that phoenix bird that felix bird is imported uh phoenix riddle is imported within us we are two being one we are one and we are right we are we ourselves we identify with the phoenix bird so to one here he says that when we have sex when we are together when we unify our body together we are we make one phoenix we make this one how these lovers are identifying themselves as phoenix bird because when they physically engage with each other each other when we they make sex they are one and their love their bodies one and they they make a phoenix and they make a hybrid androgynous being out of two bodies so so to one neutral thing both sexy sweet that means it's an androgynous body where two sexes are fit like when they make sex they are together their body is into each other and they their body is one the you you unite their successor united and they are transformed into one body where two successor present so because of that in that process they make one phoenix in a way that creating a hybrid androgynous uh hydro androgenous being androgynous bird out of these two bodies you can find such a phoenix there so such a bird is arised when we make sex we die and rise the same and so here he emphasizes the physical pleasure physical uh high level uh you know ecstasy that they have after having sex or while they having sex this is actually goes against the norms of canonization where people get canonized for being away from these kind of physical pleasures here they say here the speaker says that for that being engaged into that kind of ecstasy for being engaged into that kind of a physical pleasure we we will get you know canonized and become uh becoming saint and immortalized we will become immortal like that and here they say that again we die and rise the same and prove mysterious by this law so he says that like phoenix now we when we physically engage each other when we physically have sex with each other they are like uh an androgynous or you know androgynous means where two successors are present so such a creature arises like the venus we will die that is we will have orgasm we will have that ecstasy while doing sex okay and then get up again so after that orgasm after that ecstasy we will get up again and uh through this love and we will prove mysterious by this love means our love you see make us into uh magical creatures that means mysterious means magical there will be some secrets if there is a secret that is mysterious right so through this kind of a rice ah rising up and dying like you know dying like females kind of rising up the passionate love that we have for each other we will prove that uh that we are magical creatures for because of the love that we have each other okay now we can die by it if not live by love and if unfit for tombs and hears our legend be it will be fit for verse and if no piece of chronicle we prove we will build in saunas pretty rooms as well a well wrought urn becomes the greatest ashes as half acre tombs and by these hymns all shall approve as canonized for love so here he says that if we can't live on our love see many people have they have uh some opposition to our love if we cannot live by our love on our love we can you know we can certainly die for it or die from it even if we cannot live upon our love that we have for each other certainly we can die from it okay we can die by it if not live by love so that's a good sentence line and if unfit for tombs and here's so here says that and even if our love is not too suitable so even if our love story isn't exactly something uh that you could you know you can carve or the tomb if our love story is not uh well suitable to carve on the tombs if not if even if it is not a legend or it is not a you know uh the story that can be carved upon the tombs as epita epitaphs okay our legend be it will be be fit for verse even then it will be uh inspiring poetry verse means poetry so it will be very well fit for writing poetry um you know those who want to write a poem for about love our love story will be a fit uh topic for that and if no piece of chronicle we prove we will build in sorrows pretty room so here he says that maybe our love story won't find uh a place in the history books in chronicles in no piece of chronicles our story may not find a you know may not find a place in chronicles or our stories love story may not find a place in the historical books but you know uh our story will find a room in sonnets okay in sonnets when those who are writing songs hereafter they will get inspired uh from our story to write sonnets okay as well a as well a bell wrote on becomes the greatest ashes as half acre tombs so here says that um you know these earns will be elegant just like an elegant well-murdered urn a huge mighty tomb is the right home for the ashes of heroes the poetry i write will be the fitting monument for us so even though we won't find any place in the chronicles or in the legends or maybe on the tombs you cannot carve our story but still it will inspire our story will inspire poetry our story will inspire sonnets in that way our love story will be a fitting monument for us or other stories or the poetry that i am writing now or the other pointers that i am going to inspiring they will also serve as a fitting monument for our story or our love story or for us and by these hymns all shall approve us canonized for love so here he says that for the ashes of the heroes a well wrote good huge urn will be a best place just like that our love story will get a great place in poetry so a great poetry about love will be a great monument for us a fitting monument for our uh for the love that we have so he says that reading that poems and hymns everyone will agree that we should get uh canonized or we will we must be we should be made saints for our devotion for each other our devotion to love now this is the last dance i guess and thus invokes us you whom reverend love made one another's uh hermitage so here says that uh people will come after making um us saints after canonizing uh us for the love that we have for each other for the devotion that we have for uh had for they pray for us that hear what they will say so they will say you whom reverend love made one of those hermitage so you are two lovers you made each other sacred you dwell your love made your you each other sacred and you made each other private chapels you so i love you and you love me so we make a chapel private chapel because of their love and you to whom love was peace that now is rage so here this is that you do you found peace in love that is now caused for passionate devotion so you love each other and you found peace in loving each other and that for that course you are passionate you are passionately you have passionate devotion for each other who did the whole world soul contract and it drove into the glass of your eyes so you too you know you you connect with each other and you're you who shrunk this soul of the world it's on into the reflective mirror of ice so your world shrink into one and they say that you too who shrunk the soul to sword of the world itself down into the reflective mirrors of your eyes so made such mirrors and such spies that they did all to you epitomize so um seeing in each other you you know you are seeing each other and you see things and you can reflectively you can see your lovers in everything whatever that is existing so you see many things around you so you can see your lover you can see each other everything that exists seeing in each other everything that exists making each other into the whole world wide and you know that got it you got epitomized and even with its countries it is a noble course so wherever everywhere you see each other that surrounds you countries stands for courts backs from above a pattern of so everywhere in countries towns and courts everybody who is praying to you they will beg from above from god that what they will beg the pattern of your love so what was the pattern of your love the people will beg that from about so that is uh that was the end of the poem i guess so now let's see some themes related to this poem lovers has microcosms then you know platonic concept of love religious enlightenment and sexual ecstasy search for uh the one true religion the power and holiness of love love poetry mortality so that's all about this poem i guess if you have any doubts queries please mention that in the comment section do follow me instagram also subscribe to my channel visit my website if you 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