WW1 Literature: Sassoon & Owen 3

[MyPlasticbag]

Well it's 2012, and I saw Warhorse last week. In the 'over the top' scene I mouth 'Gas Gas quicks boys, and an ecstasy of fumbling'.

[ChadJHachey]

you have the sexiest voice i ever herd

[fazzy37]

i know its a year since when you added the poem, but just thought i should put out, that Anthem for doomed youth was edited by sassoon he did stuff like changed the doomed from death, but anyway its a great vid :) sorry for being a poxy know it all :)

[emb0902]

You are a genius. I am a sophomore in high school in the US and I am currently writing a paper on Owen/Sassoon poetry. Your analyzation and comments have made their comparison much easier for me to understand. I have learned vastly more by watching your videos than working with my teacher.

[ProNorden]

Well Rosianna, you have an obvious knack for getting folks interested in worthwhile literature and ideas. It will be interesting to see how you apply that and other talents.

[agentgooner007]

Hey Wilfred, Siegfried and Robert put your fucking pencils down and pick your gun up eh.

[agentgooner007]

Ha Ha what pomp

[TheCrazyfire]

Dulce et decorum est is one of my favorite poems of all time, I randomly came across you through the vlogbrothers and am quite happy I did so.

[PartyKing1000]

Just the usual: Hardy - the man he killed Owen - Dulce, anthem for doomed youth, exposure, disabled, mental cases etc Vera Britton - Perhaps Brooke - the war sonetts Makintosh - Recruiting Lord Tennyson - charge of the light brigade Ben Elton - Black adder Rosenburg Sassoon- Base details, lamentations Pope - Whos for the game? Modest as well. You blatantly got yourself an A lol. When's your next exam? I've got Hamlet and Wordworth on Wednesday...

[PartyKing1000]

Hey, names Adam and im 18 had my a2 english lit exam today and aced it, all because I stumbled upon a random yet fantastic video posted by a very British girl with a very Spanish name. Couldn't have done it without you lol. You do ok?

[sk8erguy39]

I had to write an essay comparing 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'Anthem for Doom Youth' for my final English grade a few weeks ago.

[mememolly]

i remember moving to canada and having already done owen for gcse, and i was whipping out all this jessie pope information my teacher had no idea about.

everyone hated me.

[missxrojas]

i think i first learnt about jessie pope a bit in primary school... it's weird, studying propaganda is what we do the second we move out of the sandpit.

[DeadlyVeggie]

great recap thanks.

I'm sitting this monster tomorrow aswell. Good luck everybody!

[missxrojas]

I hope it went well!

[graciii]

this is really useful, thanks :)

I'm sitting the war exam tomorrow aswell- definitely won't be doing as well as you, you seem very well read up on it all

good luck :)

[missxrojas]

Gah, I tried. I hope it went well for you.

[beforeinotice]

I just did my junior cert english exam (Irish state exam btw...) and for poetry war came up. I wrote about Dulce et Decorum Est.

If only you'd done this last week!

we studied Anthem for doomed youth too.

These videos are great! I really like your ideas and opinions on the poems.

From the poems we studied, I think the war poems had the biggest effect on the class. Owen's imagery is so horrific and graphic...

You've really just said it all! Well done, and I'm sure you'll o great in your exam!

[missxrojas]

Oh, I'm sorry it was bad timing!

Which other poems did you study?

And thank you!

[beforeinotice]

oh its no problem! i got by well anyway.

Lets see... we studied The Wild Swans at Coole and The Lake Isle Of Inisfree by Wb Yeats, A Christmas Childhood by Patrick Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney's Clearances Sonnets.

Those were the main ones. There were others in the last 3 years that we didn't study well.

What other kinds of poetry do you study? Do you do a wide range of themes or focus on one? And you're welcome!

[KennilworthyWhisp]

I love Dolce et Decorum Est! i wrote an essay on it actually!

Great vid Rosianna:)

[missxrojas]

It seems many people have written essays on it!

Thank you :)

[ellabellagibson]

"eyes, HUGE, bulged like squids"

"blood stained future"

"your country's up to her neck in a fight/ and she's looking and calling for you"

see you tomorrow latinita for HELL WEEK and war synoptic. xxxxxxx

p.s. loving the videos, just watched all three even though i should be revising elizabeth. FML.

[missxrojas]

YOU ARE GREAT.

Hell week for sure. Though I'm more worried about philosophy next week... crap. xxx

[Brunners90]

I did this stuff for my A level work.

It was annoying, because although I knew so much about the poems and loved them and stuff, SOMEHOW I still came out with an E.

But I was to lazy to resit.

Sassoon and Owen are amazing poets,

[missxrojas]

Oh man, that is annoying.

and yes, they really are.

[PartyKing1000]

Hey Rosi, you definitely know your stuff lol. Beauty and brains...

[tetsubo57]

Anyone that glorifies war is a fool.

Pity we seem to elect fools into positions of power.

[missxrojas]

Unfortunately I think the right people for positions of power have the qualities that also make them repulsed by the job.

[tetsubo57]

It's always been my opinion that if a person *wants* a position of power, they should automatically be disqualified.

[agentgooner007]

Absolutely bang on mate.

[makito8best7]

this is awesome

we never learned anything like this where i live

it´s even hard for me to understand how a poem is composed

anyway

you are great an soooo smart!

[ipodkiller6]

no offense to those of you that like poetry, but i really can't stand it. i know it's supposed to be an artistic way to express human emotion.. i just don't understand it's significance anymore

[jazzguy618]

Poetry is significant and relevant because it is the highest achievement of thought and language. As long as they continue to be considered important, poetry will be too.

[TMParrish2011]

I wrote an essay about Dulce et Decorum Est in my senior year of high school. It's so... powerful and tragically descriptive.

[missxrojas]

mmm, it makes me think YIKES at the end every time. Yikes isn't the way to put it. Sigh. And I'm supposed to be an English student.

[emmfan09]

Rosi, I have really liked your series on Literature. I've never even heard of these poets, we don't learn about them in high schools in America. You are so smart so I hope you do very, very well on your exams!

[missxrojas]

Oh I'm glad you've enjoyed them! And thank you.

[watkinsisthesex]

omg i had to do this for my hsc

gah

bringing back bad memories!

[LeeCee14]

Oh thats quite creepy

I just finished studing them for level 1 english,

Only achieved my essay though :(

[mattvot]

:o) - do a poetry podcast, please....

[HalfBloodGeorgie]

That's a really good idea!

You totally should Rosi!

xx

[missxrojas]

Ahh, perhaps! It would be quite short, but maybe....

[LemondropSoldier]

This has got nothing to do with poetry or any other literature musings. I think that you are stunning. Thought you might want to hear a compliment XD

[forgetME365]

I had to study war poetry at school (Y)

[eibbore]

There are great videos Rosi. I really enjoyed watching them. I was recently thinking about how I missed English classes at school and how I wished that I could critical anaylse stories and poems again with someone. This brought me back to those classes. Thanks.

[barefootfiona]

In the exam, do you get one poem in front of you and have to refer to other poems in your essay? Or is it an open book exam? Do you not have to refer to the other poems?

In my exam (Yr 12, not 13) our 'context' for Wilfred Owen was just referencing other poems by Owen; the historical and literary context was only important in the prose paper (we did Great Gatsby).

[missxrojas]

In the exam you get five poems in front of you. You then have to answer the first question comparing the first two poems and assessing which is the more effective at presenting a certain theme. The second question is harder - you compare three poems and bring in wider reading without any books, notes or text in front of you. You concentrate on overarching themes and then do a LOT of close textual analysis.

[barefootfiona]

Oh, wow! That sounds really difficult! I think the 'new and revised' A Levels (of which my year is the first) are a lot easier. We only get one poem in the exam, and have to compare it to others that we've memorised. The logic seems absent for me - why do we have to memorise poems? Surely that's a waste of brain space which could be better used by remembering thematic links? Nevermind...

How was the exam? Did you get good poems?

[Elrich89]

I studied "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "Anthem for Doomed Youth" in Year 8. Gosh, it seems like such a long time ago now. Well...7 or 8 years, now!

I remember in particular the "he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowing". That line in particular opened up my eyes to the power of poetry.

[missxrojas]

I remember studying Of Mice and Men in Year 8 and being surprised by the power and emotional effect of literature. It must be that kind of age!

And yes, it's hard to forget.

[ZeldaPhan]

That was such a beautiful and heartbreaking poem.

Owen's poems have such vivid imagery. I love it!

[saltrox]

Just before you said it I was thinking exactly the same thing about Josh which was quite creepy.

As for the poetry, did you study Exposure at all? It's by far one of my favourite of Owens peoms as it reflects my own reasons for doubting the existence of god. I'd be interested to know what you thought of it as you're more religious than I am.

[JohnnyFoxDarko]

Really lovely. :]

[Lycoris93]

dulce et decorum est came up on my english exam on wednesday.this video would have helped:D

[missxrojas]

Sorry it didn't arrive earlier!

[Lycoris93]

Thanks anyways,I enjoy these videos:-)

[seurat2]

You read them both very well, but I think you get the Sassoon best, perhaps because you rate him higher. Too bad you're not studying Graves, I would have enjoyed hearing you read his work aloud.

[missxrojas]

Well, perhaps some day I will do a non-exam Graves video :)

[lilithharrison]

We read dulce et decorum est and anthem for doomed youth in english this year :D we had to compare and contrast them. I liked the two poems :-) Mental Cases was goood too :-) x

[Funky1christie]

Wes tudied Dulce et Decorum est last year and Wilfred Owen dedicated at first the poem to a well known woman who was encouraging soldiers to go to war but then he was forced to change it or something.

Good lucl with exams!

lol christie xxxxx

[cycoG]

i remember studying dulce et decorum est for english in year 11. it was one of the few poems i actually liked in the literature part of the anthology. alas, we didnt get the poem in the exam :/