WW1 Literature: Sassoon & Owen 1

[LeftyHandedGuns]

I fucking love the word lieutenant as pronounced by you and in Canada, lol

[ProNorden]

You'd probably enjoy 'Modern Times' a riveting survey world history of the 20th century by the very bright Prof. Paul Johnson of your Cambridge University.

[ProNorden]

Well Rosianna, You make Britain look pretty good by your presentation in these Literature videos.

If the WWI history interests you (and it is such a key reference point), perhaps check-out the post-Second World War history of Hiss at Yalta, and 'Burgess, Maclean, Philby, and Blunt' in Britain.

[RookhKshatriya]

All this is bourgeois garbage, women in WW1were handing out white feathers left, right and centre at the bequest  of the State. Then, when all the cripples came home they were spitting on their heads (see the drawings of George Grosz).

Also, read Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War, which explodes all these myths that the only people who fought were poetry-writing Public Schoolboys (i.e. the crap you are talking here).

Conscription for women and Men's Rights forever...!

[VrtyBrtn]

I wish I had your synoptic unit. What exam board are you on? Mine's completely different: we get a short booklet of four passages which we have to annotate and learn, with no outside reading at all, and we have to be prepared to have to talk about the texts we've studied or other texts we've read that relate to the given theme. It's hard, but the good thing is that you can essentially write half of the first answer before the exam, as you have to compare the extract with an unseen piece.

[VrtyBrtn]

Yeah, this doesn't really have much relevance to the video, but I haven't the heart to delete it now. :/

[missxrojas]

I'm on AQA, and yikes, I'm a little confused about yours. My head is so full of WW1 quotations that I am sure it is going to explode.

[VrtyBrtn]

Sorry if I confused you! I'm guessing yours is on Wednesday as well then? If so, good luck, although I'm sure you won't need it. :)

[missxrojas]

Nope, mine was today (my hand hurts) but I can't release the quotations from my brain, they're bouncing around!

My John Clare and Hamlet exam is on Wednesday though.

[VrtyBrtn]

That's a bit confusing then, as I'm on AQA as well, but I did my Tennyson and Measure for Measure today. I'm almost looking forward to my synoptic paper though, as we've been given an extract of Brideshead Revisited to analyse, which I'm really enjoying doing.

Good luck with the rest of your revision and exams!

[BKsMassive]

My school does the AQA exam board (:

where you from in the UK?

im from near london :P

[kimchrysanthemum]

wow ur exams seem way more intense than the exams i took here in high school in the U.S.

[chunkymonky218]

So how does it feel to be at the end of your high school career? Pretty good, eh? :)

[missxrojas]

Oh no, I think I'm going to miss it terribly!

[baobabtrees]

i just wanted to say that you are SO smart and i love these videos!

[ThalliumICEtwo]

Luckily I done my English Lit synoptic back in january and got a B.

Good Luck!

[kobweb999]

Lots of people enjoy these type of videos,me included. I find them particularly helpful! So thank you Rosi :)

[Emmaleigh711]

Heaps of people definitely do enjoy them Rosi! Totally worth uploading.

[ISnoggedHarry]

You're pretty.

Your room is freaking amazing.

Other than that, the thought of academics is too much right now. So forgive me for not paying attention to anything other than pretty-faced you <3

[quark10051005]

Why do you upload these? You can film them for study purposes without clogging up our subscription feeds.

[missxrojas]

Because people in the past have said that they enjoy them. Sorry that you evidently don't.

[0745am]

I probably should be studying for my finals... but good luck! I'm sure you'll do great :)

[almohndes9]

lovely voice , i hope if i can understand english poetry .

[MaximoBean]

I think I have the same cardigan...H & M ?

[missxrojas]

Nope, it's a jumper from Abercrombie & Fitch about four years ago.

[barefootfiona]

Have you read Regeneration?

[missxrojas]

I have indeed!

[barefootfiona]

Did you like it? My teacher thinks it 'proves' that Owen and Sassoon had a thing going on... but I don't think so. I think that's just wishful thinking on her part. ;)

[missxrojas]

Haha yes, I think it's just too much speculation about a very close friendship.

I can't say I really enjoyed it though, I don't particularly like modern literature about WW1.

[barefootfiona]

I thought the story dragged on a bit, but actually the televised adaptation was really good.

And does that mean you're not a fan of Birdsong? You'd be one of the few!

[HazzaPistheDocsBFF]

Ahh I Studied Base Details and Dolce Decourum.

For my Junior Cert English Exam Last wedensday, I used Base Details for a poetry question where you could choose a poem on either War or Peace.

[xoxoforyou]

XD I just finished typing up notes for myself for my world history class. and then I watch this video and you mentioned a couple of battles and I automatically remmebered my notes on them. it's like a pop quiz =)

[chelsealouise1]

I go to school with Sassoons great granddaughter ^^

[missxrojas]

Oh wow! That's a pretty great family.

[nenalyzed]

why did I just get hanked?

[missxrojas]

teehee

[nenalyzed]

I wouldn't want to spoil it for the other,

hence the weird reference :p

[nenalyzed]

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory, 

The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est

Pro patria mori.

why oh why was my exam last semester? this would have been so useful :D

[missxrojas]

I'm so sorry!

[nenalyzed]

don't be sorry :D I had a 15/20 (which is pretty good for I'm way too nervous to sit in front of a professor and tell everything I've studied. Especially since this professor happens to be a famous Belgian writer. that makes kind of makes it all worse... you might know her (probably not, Belgium is sooo small)

I believe she started her career by writing in English... her name is Kristien Hemmerechts. I have no idea if her books get translated these days...

[peachydarl]

THIRTY OF THE WHOLE A LEVEL??? or just the A2?

brilliant brilliant brilliant. keep them coming!

also i think im in love with sassoon. the only poem i've memorised is suicide in the trenches and its amazing

'sneak home and pray you'll never know/the hell where youth and laughter go'

good stuff.

oh, i am fucked for this exam. fucked fucked fucked

<3

[missxrojas]

I GOT IT WRONGGG.

It's twenty of the whole A Level. GOOD.

I think Sassoon is better than Owen, I like his poetry sooo much better.

[Weyyyyyy99]

Fancy doing one of these about Mussolini? XD

[missxrojas]

Ahhhh.... recreational Mussolini video perhaps!

When's your exam?

[Weyyyyyy99]

Monday.... :(

[iolierhcp]

i did some poems of Wilfred Owen...it's funny though because i really hate English lit but i loved his poems, i just found them amazing

[missxrojas]

He was a talented fellow indeed.

[bulldogwd]

WOW that was kool

[S0cialGhost]

I did english lit synoptic last year and did terrible i was predicted Cish and was on track till that deadly test. good luck.

[missxrojas]

Yikes.

[S0cialGhost]

I'm sure you will have no problem acing it though!

[Emmaleigh711]

interesting video! :)

[LemonScented]

I'm not doing A levels untill next year, but I love this series already. (:

[bfmate22]

Very interesting vid!

[katiecanflyyy]

This was really interesting :]

[kittiestrophe]

I wish we did the same subjects :C your revision videos are so handy.

[missxrojas]

Making them is most helpful. Perhaps you should confuse me by making videos of your confusing subjects?

[kittiestrophe]

This is a tres good idea. (I doubt you would be confused by the wonderful KREBS CYCLE, our one true and everlasting love... not.)

[Emilyinthecity4]

This is really interesting!

It kind of makes me want to switch my minor from American Literature to British Literature ... =]

[missxrojas]

Oh, but American Literature is spectacular too!

[Emilyinthecity4]

Fo' sho! =]

[Donaldm28]

Not owen !! :(

[joseph2442]

I know this is helpful for you and others doing the english lit exam, but it is very informative and is always good to know.

If only exams very spoken, you'd do very well!

[lazyhazycrazy]

I would imagine that if people needed more info on Sassoon or Owen for research or papers, this video would be very helpful for them. I loved watching it myself. :)

[theearthadorned]

I always love watching your videos on literature, I feel like I learn something from hearing your point of view that I wouldn't have come to on my own.

:)

[hollium]

When you were on about the schooling in that era, I just kept thinking of "The Family of Blood".

[missxrojas]

Hmm, perhaps I ought to watch it for the thousandth time, for educational purposes, of course!

[seurat2]

Ecellent Job Rosi, I'm sure you'll get the deserved high marks. My personal favorite of the war poets is Robert Graves, but that may be more because he became one of my all time favorite writers with his later work.( I expect you've read GoodbyeTo All That?)

[missxrojas]

Oh Robert Graves is fantastic. Sadly I haven't really studied him for the exam though.

[jackeyramone]

Awesome video beddodoo

[cathal99h]

YAYs New Video! Bedoodoodoo