Actual, literal, English revision.

[ninnains]

errr, your accent is adorable! I could watch this video over and over just to hear it...

sorry if that sounded creepy lol

[benjiappleton]

I am in Year 12 now, and reading the World's wife.. Carol Anne Duffy is a very erratic poet to say the least..

[LucasMeadows]

its pretty awesome rivising with someone who's HOT XD

[tryanjohnson]

Britain hates gays and lesbians! Marginalized and hated pigs! Don't be harrassed by radical gay and lesbo straight haters. Down with the childless radical socialist. The world descrimates against you for good reason. HA! Stop the homosexual mafia now! HA! HA! They are dropping out of society because Britain hates them. HA! HA!

[proudveggie]

This video has actually helped me with my own AS Lit revision, because I've lent my copy of The World's Wife to a friend and so I can't revise from it until Monday when I get it back.

So thank you

=D

[Trayusstudent1]

I did AS English too!! A2s are really difficult!

[LemonScented]

I've been studying CAD for GCSE as well, but I've hated her work until I watched this video, and am now going to look up more of her poetry (:

[girltalk9]

you read poetry really good please be my friend???

[SnapeIsMyPrince]

I absolutely love listening to you read poetry =]

[missxrojas]

I'd consider myself both, actually.

[egoeime]

how did you do, if you did any January Unit 1 modules? i did the Great Gatsby...if you did an exam how did you do?

[missxrojas]

At my school we sit all our exams in the summer (i.e. on wednesday!), but I did get full marks in my Taming of the Shrew coursework.

I love the Great Gatsby, how did you do?

[little1alex]

Rosianna lately in Britian people on the news have been saying if early studing for GCSE's and SAT's is too much stress on a child or teen...I would quite like to know your opinion on this because i am in the middle of my exams and im finding them very stressful, so i think its doesnt matter the age because they are still very stressful, but small childern should not be worring about big exams yet...id quite like to know your opinion on this. Would be interesting =)

Little1alex

xxx

[Dougien]

I have to read carol ann duffy's poem: Stealing. whackamole!

[Sarahbear9789]

Good luck with revisions and exams.

Thanks for the Poetry Reading... I loved these poems. I want to buy this collection.

[missxrojas]

Thank you! It's all rather nerve wracking..

[missxrojas]

Noo, by definition, feminists support equal rights for women. Wanting the opposite sex to be treated as superior is chauvinism, not feminism. I must say, though, some people accuse her of misandry (hatred of men) but I don't think she's *quite* that extreme.

[xXrincessXx]

i have my gcse english exam on tuesday :| lool soo iam doin poems too..

by the way i have that harry potter poster behind u lool

[missxrojas]

Good luck with that!

[Funky1christie]

I loved the 2nd poem (i think it was the 2nd) the one before the last anyway. Can you get the world wife in any bookstore? lol xxx

[missxrojas]

You should be able to, it seemed pretty readily available when I bought my copy. xxx

[djcamcorder]

i need you so bad, i want you :), i want to give you my love. my own poem

[tori1992]

Good luck with all the exams :)

My GCSE lit exam is a week today...

Anne Hathaway is my favourite poem in the GCSE Anthology :)

[missxrojas]

Good luck with yours!

[naish92]

you did this on the last video you did! get revising!

[zaynabxx]

I studied Carol Ann Duffy last year for GCSE English lit. I quite like Anne Hathaway too except some people thought it was about the actress at first!!lol!

[missxrojas]

She's got SUCH a good name! Obviously her parents are fans of Shakespeare.

We did a random collection of poems for GCSE.

[Beanieboy182]

You speak with your hands like Tony Blair lol

Kev

COOL :)

[missxrojas]

Haha, that makes me happy :)

[Ritaaaaaaaaa]

I love you. That is all, good day.

[missxrojas]

Consider it reciprocated :)

[aManCalledBender]

Wow, new videos twice a day. It would be great if you could keep up this rate^^

Your reading skills are very good, I really enjoyed listening to it. Good look for your exams!

And I hope you keep revising to the camera^^

[JoHack]

This was my idea! I hope it helped you, that was the intention. Well that and I wanted to hear some poetry.

Which was very good. I greatly envy people with the poise to read poetry, as I don't have that at all. I lose my place because I can never memorise anything. Honestly, at work the other day I was trying to learn just the last verse of High Windows and it just wouldn't stay in my head!

I loved this though. More please.

[missxrojas]

Thank you! It was a great idea. I've just finished uploading a video about glaciers and it's so helpful!

[kelsypants]

God, I love poetry. I think the best bit about it is reading it aloud.

Quite good fun listening to you read. I have never heard of Carol Ann Duffy, but I think I shall look into her works.

[missxrojas]

Yep, Carol Ann Duffy especially is great fun to read aloud because she has so much wordplay in her poems. She's not at all my favourite poet, in fact I dislike quite a bit of the collection, but she's very very intelligent in her use of form and technique etc.

[chocoholicchica3]

Good luck on your exams! I know you'll do amazingly.

So what exactly is (are?) GCSE? What kinds of things do you have to do on your exams?

For my lit exam, we had one hour to read about 4-5 passages and answer multiple choice questions about purpose/figurative language/etc, and then we had 2 hours to write 3 essays: 2 based on literary passages, and 1 based on prior readings.

[chocoholicchica3]

haha sorry--you're probably not as interested in my exams as I am in yours. I'm just curious to see the differences in the educational systems.

[missxrojas]

Well I've actually done my GCSEs, I'm doing my AS Levels now. In English Lit you have three hours to write three essays, one on a modern poetry collection which you can have in front of you with very limited annotations, one on a pre 1914 play which can be annotated and the last on a novel which you have to memorise quotations for because you're not actually allowed the text. All of my exams are three hours long because they're made up of three units.

[lyricguy1984]

i really enjoyed this

[SFRobertsDickClarke]

I very much enjoyed your reading of "Mrs Beast" the ones you've chosen here seem so much better than the ones I had for GCSE. I made a video on my thoughts on "Valentine" which at the time reading it I very much liked, but now it seems like a sledgehammer of symbolism more than anything meaningful. Maybe let me hear your thoughts on that.

[missxrojas]

Sure, I'll take a look in a little while!

[lovesxforxlosers]

Yeah. I should be writing an english essay [on a book i havent finished reading]

wikipedia ftw!

[missxrojas]

I seriously love wikipedia. I wasted half an hour on it really up about the kidnapping attempt on the Princess Royal.

[DiamondDorothy]

I love that last one so much.

sooo muuuch.

Looking forward to glaciers, will probably help me xxx

[missxrojas]

Glaciers coming soon :)

[ellebelle1988]

I'm sorry you're stressing over exams. I'm sure you'll do beautifully! Thanks for the poetry reading! <33

[missxrojas]

Thank you! I think the stress should dissolve soon.

[0uterHaven]

im glad im doing heaney and clarke and not carol ann duffy, it seems hard lol, oh god gcses start next week :( lol

[missxrojas]

Good luck with your GCSEs! I did Best Words with loads of poets in it for my GCSEs.

[xXrincessXx]

thanks,iam doing mice of men and then a poet frm the anthology frm Carol Ann Duffy or seamus heaney wat ever his name is lool.

i prefer heaney because itz better than duffy

[theawesomefactory]

I see in your background that you are half mexican (also funny pictures :)) and I was wondering if you know any spanish and if so could you do a video in spanish, maybe even read poetry?

[MELIPAISITA]

i know right you got some spanish speaking fans here lol. and btw awsome video

[missxrojas]

I'm almost fluent in spanish, my grammar isn't very good though! I will do my best too but it might have to wait a week or so until after exams!

[theawesomefactory]

yaaay, no problem, do it when ever you can!! i'm also a HUGE killers fan and i was wondering what we're some of your favourite songs? (i asked on another video so i'm just asking again in case you didn't read it. i'm not trying to be pushy :P) thanks for responding!

[Katiethecloud]

lol, you think Carol Ann Duffy is bad? Im writing a 3000 word essay on W.B.Yeats, and most of his stuff makes no sense, its so political and compliacted!!

[missxrojas]

Oh but I love Yeats! Even though he makes absolutely no sense. And 3000 words? Ouch.

[grimkira]

i like the penultimate poem i think that it is very funny

[amyjb]

Carol Ann Duffy is at a festival i am going to in the summer- now i will know some of her poems! YEAHHHHH!

[missxrojas]

Ooh, what festival is that?

[garydocool]

O God not carol Ann Duffy.

Fuck i hated her!!!!

[everclear66]

gamblers anonymous?

[joseph2442]

I'm volunteering to go into school tomorrow for E&P revision, Kant and Ontological argument.

Since you are told what to read/study, do you still enjoy reading them?

(awesome reading :))

[little1alex]

You read them beautifully.

Im also studing poatry, im finding it quite hard as i prefer stroies to poatry.

But you really read them well =)

You sounded alittle like Cassie from skins, lol, She talks lovely too.

x

[jazzguy618]

This is wonderful, Rosi! I love Carol Ann Duffy, and the poems you read are fantastic.

I just thought I'd ask: who's your favourite poet?

[celia10]

that woman, that crude vitrolic monster. STOP HER. STOP HER. ps :) x

[ImperfectlyPerfect2]

I really want to buy this collection now. You read them very well. :]

[theawesomefactory]

wat iz rebishn¿

[missxrojas]

Revision = studying for exams.

[missxrojas]

Unless that was an irony mark, or is that me being an English geek?

[acidlysaxes]

an irony mark is a backwards question mark ;]

[j0ames]

As before that woman is the bain of my life. We had to go see her for a school trip, it was interesting to hear about them from her perspective but she makes me hate being a man

[missxrojas]

Haha, yep I'm a feminist and all but I think she often takes it a little too far, wanting men to be subservient rather than equal to women!