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We're going to read and perhaps have a point of
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entry to Thomas Hardy's poem, The Oxen.
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I'm sure like you had a look at the poem and you
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might have read it aloud. Did anybody of you read
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the poem aloud? Have you read the poem? Those who
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have read the poem, what do you think? Do you like
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it? Is it a poem?
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It's not a poem. It's difficult.
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So when you were reading the poem, what did you
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think it was about?
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Actually, when I read the poem, maybe I was
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confused. You were confused? Yes. And I can guess
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it is about a religious idea. Uh-huh. So yes, yes,
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you think this is like there is something about
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religion? And people are changing or what? How do
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you know that? When he speaks about the kids, using
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kids in the present and in the past. In the past means
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shifting from the present moment. So as he converts to
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the past. You see he's like contrasting. Okay, show me
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how he's contrasting. Because it's very
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interesting like to know you know how he's
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contrasting.
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So you have
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the past and the present. You think that people in
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the past were something and in the present they
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are something else. Good. Let's see another
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student. It's very important that you participate
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because this will help you in your participation
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mark, you know. Yes. Those who have read the poem.
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Yes, please. Exactly. Actually, when I read the
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poem, I did not understand the whole idea because
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I think the poem uses a difficult language. Like
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what? Like a gloom? Yeah, and even you didn't find
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this in the dictionary. So what did you do? You
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just found it difficult and you said you gave up?
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But do you think it is specifically about
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religion? Because here, Is it about religion or is
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more about religion?
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Okay,
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so good. I'm very happy this is a real response.
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Yes, another response? Does anybody have a written
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response?
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Okay, yes.
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Do you have a response here? Do you want to read
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it? No, I think the poem, it's sort of... At
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first, he talks about the bath, then he
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presents... I am confusing the poem. It's very
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difficult. Also, his language is difficult. Okay.
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But, like... I see that nobody has tried to read
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the poem aloud. And even nobody... In the morning,
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I was browsing YouTube. And I found the poem in
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songs and it was recited by many people. Did you
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try like this? It is there. But, yes. You watch a
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video? So, I don't know, how would you like read
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this poem? Can anybody like give a try and read
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this poem?
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It should be like this, Christmas Eve and 12 of
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the clock, now they are all on their knees like
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this. How should we read the poem? Okay, let me
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read the first stanza and then ask you one
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question. Christmas Eve and 12 of the clock, now
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they are all on their knees and elders sit as we
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sat in a flock. by the embers in heart side E's.
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Okay, here in this stanza, somebody is talking.
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Yes? But I want to ask you, how many voices do we
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have in this stanza?
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How many voices do we have in this stanza? One
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voice? Two voices, where are they?
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The elder and the poet, the poet. So when we read
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this, we should read, we should simulate or try to
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imitate it in a good way. Like here, we have the
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poet who's telling us and we have this direct
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speech. So how should it be read then?
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How should it be read?
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Should we give like, yes? Yes,
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so if you were to teach this at school, and then
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you ask your students to read this aloud, how
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should they read it, you know, you think?
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Okay, do you want to give yourself like, okay. I'm
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inviting everybody like to try. Christmas Eve and
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12 o'clock, now they are all on their knees. And
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they offer self as we sat in a park by the embers
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in hardside caves. Uh-huh. Do you think? Little
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bit different. Little bit different, but it's not
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like as you want. What do you want it to be like?
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Okay, come on, you know? Go ahead, read it. Just I
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want you to read this.
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Yes? Go ahead. Okay, I won't like you to read it.
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That's it. You know, this is like, you know,
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because we have two voices. You know? Could you do
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it again? Christmas Eve at 12 of the clock. Now
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they are all in their knees. And elders sit as we
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sat in a flock by the embers in here still. In the
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heart side east. Wow, yes. Like here, Christmas
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Eve and 12 of the clock. Now they are all on their
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knees. An elder said, as we sat in the block, by
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the embers in hardside east. It seems like, you
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know, what is the picture here? What is the
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picture? Like, have you visualized the picture?
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Can you visualize the picture? What is the picture
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here? We have a picture. Now, poets draw pictures
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by words. So what is the picture? It is, you know,
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like, do we have a party here? Do we have, like,
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anniversary, like today's anniversary? Yes. Yes,
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it's a Christmas day. It's a Christmas day? Yes.
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An older man come and speak for a group of people.
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So, a speaker? Speaker, yes. And he's scribing the
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oxen outside in the pen. They are kneeling when
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the... So he's describing. You think that
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somebody's, you know, like talking to people in a
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big rally like today? In a big rally, where? Like,
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do you think, what is the place? The picture is,
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you know, people and they are listening to
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somebody, an elder telling them, describing, you
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said, What is the real picture?
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What is the real picture?
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Yeah, it's a house. It's a church. Yeah, because
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Christmas, you know, it's a Christmas Eve, you
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know, just one day before Christmas. So,
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Yeah, it could be a house, it could be a church,
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but this is like the occasion, it is clear. It is
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Christmas.
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And it seems like these people are getting ready
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to Christmas. But how are they getting ready? By
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getting together and somebody is telling them
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stories. Stories about what? About the oxen? What
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has the oxen to do with Christmas?
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You know, it's a question. I'm just like, what do
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the oxen have to do with Christmas? It's a
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question we should answer. I don't want to go deep
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in the poem today, I want, like, to concentrate,
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to focus on what you said. Like, it seems, you
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know, that the poet in this poem is contrasting
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between two words, the word of the past and the
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word of the present. Okay, this is what you felt.
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And you said that the word of the present was,
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you know, religious.
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was full of religion, and the word of the past,
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sorry, the word of the past was very religious,
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and the word of the present is not. This reminds
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us of whom? Of, no, William Wordsworth or Dover
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Beach, the one we all love, let us be true, the
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sea of faith, if you remember. Good. Now, I want
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to give you a small exercise. Imagine you're
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sitting with your grandma and she's talking about
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the past.
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You know? How do you think she would, you know,
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tell stories about the past? What would she say
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about the past? and compared or contrasted with
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the present. Do you think she would prefer the
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present to the past? Okay, what would she say
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about the past? Imagine.
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She would be confident when she speaks about the
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past. Yeah, she would be confident when she talks
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about the past. She will praise the past. She will
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praise the past for what? Why? That people love
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each other. Okay, that people were caring. Loved
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each other? Yes, and faced the problem by
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cooperation. Yes. Okay.
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So yeah, she would talk about cooperation, about
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social conjugation.
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Yeah, about simplicity, honesty. Strong
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relationship. Strong relationship. And of course,
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she would talk this as antithesis of the present.
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So it's like when she talks about the past in this
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way, in fact, she's complaining about the present.
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When she says in the past, life was simple, it
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means now it is complicated. Life was full of
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cooperation, it means today we have selfishness. A
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life of caring, today we have carelessness
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and so on. Do you think this is happening in the
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poem? Is Hardy contrasting between two words?
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Yes, I think he contrasted between two words,
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especially children. Let's draw boundaries here.
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Like the poem, as you see, I don't know, the poem
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here, as you see, he's talking, you know.
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So we have four stanzas, I think.
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This is the stanza number one, Christmas Eve, we
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pictured. We have four stanzas. So if you say,
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Like, where is he speaking about the present and
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where is he speaking about the past? In which
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stanza is he speaking about the present? Okay, I
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want you like to have one minute or two minutes to
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look, you know, on your notebook and to tell me
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where he's speaking about the present and where
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he's speaking about the past. Go ahead. Where is
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he speaking about the present and where is he
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speaking about the past? Look at your notebook.
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Where? Where? The problem is like you are not
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reading. You want to listen to me. That's it.
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modern life, everything has changed. You know, we
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lost the flavor of the past. It happened the same,
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you know, like the same happened here.
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It happened the same, you know, here. I mean, the
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same thing happened, you know, in the past. The
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Christmas celebrations were different. In the
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present, you know, they are different. Okay? Do
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you have an idea how Christians celebrate
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Christmas in the past, for example? Or you didn't
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like
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You know, in, for example, in the early, you know,
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literary forms, like before, in the past, they
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used to, like actors, you know, people, religious
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people, they used to have, you know, you know,
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carriages and they go from one place to another to
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tell stories about the birth of Jesus Christ.
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Nowadays, they don't do this anymore. I, you know,
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I spent like three days over Christmas with an
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English family. They do, you know, what they do on
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Christmas, like, I think they just listen to the
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queen's speech. Some of them, the religious might
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go to the church, but there are even no churches
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nowadays. They would just celebrate by eating and
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talking, decorating the trees. So the
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manifestations are not very traditional. In the
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past, they were different. Now, in fact, Hardy,
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yes, in this poem, tries to describe two words. A
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word of the past, which was full of serenity,
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love, cooperation, and a word of the present,
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which, you know, lacks all these things.
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Now, in fact, if you go to your reader, I left for
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you, or there is, you know, a stylistic analysis
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of this poem, and how Hardy, you know, was
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deliberate, chose certain, I mean, stylistic
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choices, like tenses, pronouns, to describe each
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word. So when you read it, will be in a better
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position even to understand the poem more. And
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this is what we are going to do next time. But,
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you know, let me continue reading the poem. in
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order to have a better idea about the pictures in
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the poem. So, as we said, the picture in the poem,
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you are having a group of people listening to a
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senior, he could be a priest, telling them stories
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about the birth of Jesus Christ. So when we
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sometimes tell the stories of Prophet Muhammad,
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peace be upon him, birth, like, What do we talk
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about, like, when Muhammad, peace be upon him, was
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born? What do we say? What happened in the
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universe? So we might refer to some miracles. Now
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also in Christianity, when they talk about Jesus,
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they talk about miracles that took place in... Do
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we have any miracle here? What is the miracle? You
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know what is the miracle? Something unbelievable.
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Do we have any miracle here marking the birth of
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Jesus Christ? Yes, the oxen kneeling. Because we
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know the oxen are animals. Ox, you know, and oxen.
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Oxen are animals. So how come they kneel? They
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kneel Why? Why would they kneel? Because Jesus
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Christ was born. So this is one of the miracles
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that coincided with the birth of Jesus Christ. Can
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you remember any miracle coincided with the birth
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of Prophet Muhammad? What happened?
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What happened when he, what happened to the
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palaces of, you know, the Persian palaces that
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were shaken? Yes? When prophet, and this is an
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assignment for you, like, what happened when
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Jesus, when sorry, when Muhammad, peace be upon
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him, was born? What miracles can you tell me?
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You see what I mean? The miracles that accompanied
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the birth of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.
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You should know that. Okay, see here, one of the
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miracles, like the oxen were kneeling. Now, if you
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tell a believer about this, what would his
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reaction be?
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If you tell this story, if you tell the story of
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the shaking off of the Persian palaces when
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Muhammad peace be upon him was born, what would a
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Muslim or a believer say? No? I don't believe?
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This is ridiculous? Or he would take it for
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granted? he would take it for granted. Similarly,
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this is what is happening here. We pictured the
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meek, mild creatures where they dwelt, what
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happened, where they dwelt in their straw weapon.
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Can I have, do you have the reader? We pictured.
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What does it mean we pictured? We pictured. What
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does it mean we pictured? To picture something?
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To imagine something. So what was the reaction of
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people? We pictured the creatures.
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I don't know, something happened.
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We pictured the creatures. We pictured the
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creatures doing what? Kneeling. So, it means our
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reaction was A reaction of trust, belief, you
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know? So this is something good or bad? It is good
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when you like trust.
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It takes time, you know? So we pictured the meek,
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you know? mild creatures where they dwelt in their
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straw pen. Nor did it occur to one of us that they
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were kneeling.
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Okay, but what would happen if somebody is telling
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us a story nowadays about this? Say, no, I don't
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trust you. Come, come and show me. This is the
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difference. Okay? Like this is you know exactly
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what is happening in the poem. So I won't like to
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finish at this limit because today outside we have
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celebrations. But as you see this is a point of
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entry. Next time we are going to conduct stylistic
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analysis. We're going to see how the poet you know
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by certain stylistic choices entrenched like the
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division between the past and the present and we
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are going to see also the attitude of the Pole.
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Thank you very much and see you like Saturday.
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