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[00:00:01]Hello students, welcome back to our channel. So here in this video, the complete poem "You Are Old Father William", okay? So this lesson complete explanation I'm going to explain in this video, ma. So if you are having a zero knowledge also, by end of this video you will get a clarity. Any question they might be asking from this lesson, you need to write only the summary, okay? So by listening my story, you just write down the summary in your final examination. So compulsory 12 marks question there will be, okay?

[00:00:36]>> [snorts] >> So see here, the lesson is "You Are Old Father William", okay? So it was written by Lewis Carroll, okay? So he is the person, the author name is Lewis Carroll, okay? So Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles, okay? Dodgson, okay? It is a pen name. Whose pen name?

[00:01:00]Charles Lutwidge Dodgson pen name it is, okay? So basically he was born in 1832 and died in 1898, okay? He was an English writer, mathematician, and lecturer at Oxford University. The author, he is a lecturer at Oxford University. He is a English writer and he is a mathematician, okay? He became famous for writing imaginative and humorous stories filled with fantasy and nonsense. So his works is famous because of his imaginative writing. Means he will imagine it the stories and he will write the stories and humorous stories where it will give you the fantasy and nonsense, okay?

[00:01:48]His most famous books are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass", okay? So one of his major famous books are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Okay, so Carol poems are playful and entertaining, but they often contain hidden messages also where it will related to the it will question the society. It will questions the logic. It will questions the traditions. Okay, even though it is a numerous and entertaining and playful, but still it will have a hidden message. So You Are Old Father William first appeared in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. So this part You Are Old Father William was first it was involved in the Alice's Adventure in Wonderland. Okay.

[00:02:46]So this is about the author my compulsory you need to write about the author minimum six to seven lines compulsory you need to write about the author Lewis Carroll. Okay, so whatever I have discussed just now you you need to include that all. Okay, now come back to the lesson ma.

[00:03:04]Full summary.

[00:03:07]Full summary and uh You Are Old Father William is a humorous and nonsense poem written as conversation between a curious young man and an old man named Father William. So this poem is related to the two persons. One person is a young man and the second person is a old man. Old man name is Father William.

[00:03:34]Okay. The young man is surprised that Father William can perform unusual and impossible actions even though he is very old. So here what he uh they were saying is the young man is uh like surprised. So that if he is very surprised that that Father William is there. No, Father William is nothing about the old man. So, Father William is doing an impossible actions at that age.

[00:04:02]Means, at the age of for example, at the age of 80, nobody can jump, nobody can run so long like that. Yes? It is like a impossible activities. Just I'm giving example. So, same like that, Father William is performing an impossible actions even though he is very old. The poem become The poem begins with the young man pointing out that Father William has become very old and his hair has turned white, also.

[00:04:32]Okay? Here, pointing out the Father William. Why he is pointing out the Father William? So, Father William is becoming very old because his his hair is also turned into white. He wonders why Father William still stands on his head, which seems dangerous for an old person. Okay? So, here, what they are saying means at that old age, even his hair is also white, at that age, he stands on his head, it seems. Means, uh from downwards direction. Here, head See, here, head like that. Okay? Hands, legs, like that. Okay?

[00:05:13]He's standing on that head. How it is possible and how dangerous it will be for the old person. He is not a young person, also. Okay? Father William jokingly replies that when he was young, he worried about damaging his brain, but now he believes he was nothing to damage, so he freely stands on his head.

[00:05:38]So, Father William is responding to that young man like he he's just joking that at my young age, I was worried about my brain because if I stand on my brain head, my brain will damage. But now what I believe is here nothing is there to damage. Everything is gone now. That's why I'm freely standing on my head. Like that he was just cracking that on it jokingly. Okay. So next the young man is surprised to see the old man performing a black Sorry.

[00:06:13]Next the young man is surprised to see the old man performing a black somersault even though he is overweight.

[00:06:22]Father William says he became so active because of specific ointment he used in his youth. So for that somersault what he was responded Father William, he was responded that in at my young age I used to have some special medicine. That's why I am active at this age also. He even tries to sell that ointment to the young man. So that old man is also trying to sell that ointment to the young man also. He's just trying. The young man asked then how Father William managed to eat an entire goose with its bones and break despite appearing too old to chew hard food. Okay, the young man is asking again how you will eat that hard food.

[00:07:08]You are chewing, you are breaking, you are breaking the bones, you are despiting everything. How you will do that? That the young man is asking the Father William. Father William humorously explains that years of arguing with his wife made his jaws extremely strong. Here it is a joke.

[00:07:27]Like that humorous like joke like it is he's just saying like casual joke. What he was saying means at my young age I used to argue with my wife. So that's why my jawline is very strong. So that's That's I'm used That's why I'm still strong to eat that bones everything like that. He was humorously he's explaining his Okay. So, finally, the young man is amazed that Father William can balance an eel on the end of his nose. By this time, Father William becomes irritated with the endless questions. At last, young man is Finally, that young man is amazed that father is also can balance a eel on the end of the nose, also. But still, at that time, Father William becomes irritated for his endless question. He is goes on asking the questions, no? So, he tells the young man to stop asking foolish questions and threatens to kick him downwards if he continues. So, what he said is just stop this all this foolish questions. If you again ask, means I'll just kick you downstairs if you continue your questions like that.

[00:08:37]He will threaten that young man. Who will threaten? Father William will threaten him. Okay, young man.

[00:08:43]Father William will threaten the young man. Okay. So, the poem ends humorously showing that Father William is confident, energetic, and unwilling to follow society's expectations about old age. So, the poem is ending now. So, what the Father William is very energetic, very confident, and he was unwilling to follow all the circumstances follow all the norms, expectations, whatever we are having on the society about old age. He was least bothered about that. Through nonsense and humor, Lewis Carroll, means author, suggests that book should not judge about others based on age and should enjoy imagination and creativity.

[00:09:32]So, here also the author is explaining the same thing. You should not judge a thing about the age. You need to enjoy the imagination and the creativity. This is just an imagination and a creativity story. In real time, this has been not done. It is just an imagination. It is just a creativity of this story. So, that's why Lewis Carroll is suggesting the people not just at the at that age or nobody will stand like that. They will think no, some of the criticize they will criticize, no? For them, the author is saying like that, okay?

[00:10:04]So, what is the moral of the story, ma?

[00:10:07]The poem teaches us not to judge people by their age or appearance. It also encourages imagination, humor, independent thinking instead of blindly following your social rules or traditional rules. You need to think while what you are doing, what encourages your imagination. You should not simply judge the people based on their age, based on their appearance.

[00:10:33]You should not judge them. So, this is about the moral of the story. The young man is thinking like that only, no? Old as a old man, how can he chew the bones?

[00:10:42]How can he doing all the things? How can he doing all the activities like that?

[00:10:47]Okay? So, it is all about the social rules. The old man should be like this only. Young man should be like this only. Like that they will know. So, here the author is saying that don't follow all that things. Just do whatever you feel good. If you stay strong, you will get achieve anything. Like that you should be confident. You should be energetic about yourself.

[00:11:06]So, like that this lesson is there, ma.

[00:11:09]So, I hope that you have got a clarity.

[00:11:13]So, this PDF is available in our Telegram group for free of cost. So, still if you are having any further doubts, do let me know in the comment section. All the very best for your examination. Let me know definitely how is the explanation, whether it is understanding or not. See you all in the next video, students. Bye-bye, everyone.