Could you say that with Belsen being an evil man, but from where it says 'Daddy' and that the daughter/son is waiting for him to come home shows that he is a loving caring person? but is two different people in two different situations?
You have helped me so much with poerty as i feel that my teacher did not have the right interterpiritations of each poem and only looked at them shallow deep, however you have made me understand and now i will be able to anaylase them in the exam so much better!
@BoornIdentity Definitely- it's rife with oxymorons. That said, a better turn of phrase might be "a poem which represents one of the greatest paradoxes inherent in humankind" or similar, then use "oxymoron" to describe the specific linguistic moments where this aplies.
will poems such as "not my business" and "presents from my aunts in pakistan" not by in the exam? i cant find any videos you have done on them. LOVE your videos though, have helped me so much ,especially with night of the scorpion. xx
Thank you so much! Stupidly, I left all the revision till last minute and was trying to cram it all in from a book (didn't go so well!), but this video really helped to cover the key points. Thank you once again and good luck to everyone tommorow! ^_^
this is fantastic, really helped, you use great vocabulary, and the way you link the words tender and roast together is brilliant, never would've spotted that! thanks so much!
I have watched ur videos loads and actually know what your gonna say next :L anyway thanks for the help your videos are great! Hopefully they might help me get an A!!
Thanks for the help on the analysis... just like to say that I've never seen the point of using vultures to demonstrate love and evil in the same place... their 'eating habits' are purely biological and there is nothing evil with them :| Though I do see what he means about the Commandant at Belsen... which is a clear example.
Thanks for the help on the analysis... just like to say that I've never seen the point of using vultures to demonstrate love and evil in the same place... their 'eating habits' are purely biological and there is nothing evil with them :| Though I do see what he means about the Commandant at Belsen... which is a clear example.
@qwertyuiop97663 It's crazy- got 10,500 Sunday night and I only had four videos relevant to Paper 1. I can't moderate comments as quickly as they're coming in tonight! Crazy!
This is brilliant, the use of the images and visual demonstrations are so helpful. They've made it a lot easier for me to take in and remember, unlike having to just listen and read in class. Thank you very much :)
@bm124 does this poem have links to taoism faith of yin yang and does the question is message towards the nigerian goverment, i though this due to his background
Thank you sooo much for your videos, I never used to understand these poems but they make a lot more sence now. :) My exam is tomorrow so hopefully I will do well :)
@MrMildog Sounds like that might be your homework?! I'd go either 2 Scavengers as the two share a lot of imagery (scavengers/vultures, contrasts and contradictions etc) or for WWTL as both poems have, arguably, a very bleak view of humanity.
thanks so much for all your hard work. it has helped so much. one thing i would say - and i hope it's constructive - is that anthropomorphism is very similar to personification; it means "the attribution of human form or behaviour to a deity, animal etc.". it isn't when humans take on animal characteristics as you seem to suggest in this and another one of your excellent videos. thanks again.
you presented the two different ideas in the poem really clearly and i've definitley picked up quite a lot of extra pointers for the exam in a month or so.
will without doubt be watching your other videos and i feel much more reassured now.
turn his face to the wall can also be trust putting life in the others hands without thinking a trust so complete we don't even know its there. the thing that seems so special about sleeping together is the vulnerability something that can be forced upon us is horrible yet when we choose to put ourselves in the situation it is wonderful and fulfilling. part of the idea that love and hate are linked
I have an exam tomorrow, and lack of prep had left me at a loss, a friend forwarded me this link and you've been sooooooo useful! your a life-saver, THANK YOU! x
Thank you! I've got my paper two exam tomorrow and there's a high chance Vultures will come up. I've not studied this poem before but you've fully cleared it up for me and I feel more confident on these now, than the others.
My god this has been a life saver, i have an exam in two days and realised my anthology was blank on this poem and it is one of the mayjor poems this year. THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!
hi thanks for ur help .today the exam was about limbo and compare about poets feeling thanks for ur help without this video i would have not done the exam properly thank u once again
I love you. I never understood this poem but now I'm seeing all these different ideas :) thankyou so much! it's my exam today so hopefully this will help :)
you have given me hope that i can pass my exams! my teacher was pretty fail compared to you, so thankyou very much for these amazing videos, i cant find one for night of the scorpian though :/
SUBSCRIBED! I normally won't be bothered to log on and subscribe, but I must subscribe to your videos! You're an amazing teacher. my teacher is very good too. ^.^ If only you have a video about writing to describe! And if only I found you earlier, I would've passed my exams with flying colours. Well, my final exam is tomorrow and your videos have helped me quite a bit. Thank you!
this video was realllyyy goood! it really helped me! :D yeah, an opinion for the future, slow down just a tiny bit, but overall a really good video thank you! :D!
Omg...Thank you sooo much, you have just saved my English Language grade! I didn't have a clue about this poem and hadn't even read through it because it just looked so hard, and it's amazing how just 10 minutes later I totally get it...
thanks 4amazing videos, do you think u cld please please do a video for carol anne duffy poems in the aqa book? or just ones like havisham, anne hathaway, hitcher, stealing, mother any distance, the laboratory, song of old mother etc! would be amazing if youcould please! i am so stuck and ur vids have been so great!!!
Thank you very much for the video it was very helpful when i was trying to do my oral coursework on this poem.
What would be more useful is if you could also explain the purpose, message, language, techniques and voice used in the poem as this is what we have to use to analyse the poem
this videos are actually brilliant! there so helpfull thankyou so much! i just make notes then get a family member to read out the quotes then i resite the langugae analysis back, this helpt me alot in a practise exam paper i did in class thankyou!
Glad to be of assisstance. Do make sure that whatever you write in an exam is relevant to the question though, not just something you've memorised (although this might be relevant to some questions)
I cannot thank you enough for this video. It's helped me understand 'Vultures' so much better now, because I don't think my lecturer did much justice to it.
With this in mind, I think I can write a fairly good analysis of it myself.
thank god these videos are on here. I have been searching all ovr google to get an understanding of the poems. None of them compare to these videos! Thanks for creating them :)
I've been to Bergen Belsen. It was a concentration camp, but not a death camp. The poor people kept there were not exterminated though a lot of them died through disease and starvation. I suppose those who died were cremated. This is my only explanation of the smell of human roast....so I wonder why Achebe chose Belsen? Wouldn't an actual extermination camp like Auchwitz have carried more weight?
The way I see it, Achebe chose Josef Kramer (the commandant at Belsen) rather than the camp itself. He had previosuly worked at Auschwitz where he had developed a reputation for brutal "efficieny" in his dealings and he was know for being particular ruthless and remorseless.
Ive thought that it was an unusual choice. Although its not discernible from the text, perhaps it is plausible that Achebe had this man in mind and chose it as a continuation of an idea. Kramer was known as the "Beast of Belsen" and this would fit appropriately with the hideous imagery of the vultures at the beginning of the poem and link conveniently in the final section with connotations of the word "ogre"...as being a cruel, brutal creature or beast.
We've got an exam later today for english: This is helping so much for our revision. Thank you.
Stephline13 9 months ago
you are the only reason i might pass my gcse's
EvieSarahx 9 months ago
Could you say that with Belsen being an evil man, but from where it says 'Daddy' and that the daughter/son is waiting for him to come home shows that he is a loving caring person? but is two different people in two different situations?
JonesyyHD 9 months ago
@TheHodge94 Sounds good...
bm124 9 months ago
Thank you very much for taking the time to make these videos. Really helpful.
idontgive2craps 9 months ago
You have helped me so much with poerty as i feel that my teacher did not have the right interterpiritations of each poem and only looked at them shallow deep, however you have made me understand and now i will be able to anaylase them in the exam so much better!
freddie1995isamazing 9 months ago
YOU HAVE OF MICE AND MEN VIDEOS, I ACTUALLY LOVE YOU.
just4commenting1 9 months ago 2
which other poems could we compare this poem to?
ilanabieber2 9 months ago
@ilanabieber2 Watch the comparison video- that should tell you!
bm124 9 months ago
My dad wants your phone number. ;)
rybob94 9 months ago
YOU ARE SUCH A LEGEND!
mjwilliams66 9 months ago
I know your a busy guy tonight, but could this poem be described as "Oxymoronic?"
BoornIdentity 9 months ago 3
@BoornIdentity Definitely- it's rife with oxymorons. That said, a better turn of phrase might be "a poem which represents one of the greatest paradoxes inherent in humankind" or similar, then use "oxymoron" to describe the specific linguistic moments where this aplies.
bm124 9 months ago 2
Thanks so much, I'll credit you at the end of my essay. Good luck to everyone tomorrow, let's hope we get the grades we want and deserve!
prettybadusername 9 months ago
will poems such as "not my business" and "presents from my aunts in pakistan" not by in the exam? i cant find any videos you have done on them. LOVE your videos though, have helped me so much ,especially with night of the scorpion. xx
gracesbracesarefit 9 months ago in playlist GCSE English Revision: Poetry from Different Cultures
Thank you so much! Stupidly, I left all the revision till last minute and was trying to cram it all in from a book (didn't go so well!), but this video really helped to cover the key points. Thank you once again and good luck to everyone tommorow! ^_^
SailorSaver 9 months ago
From all the exam questions on the poetry, which one has been on the exam paper the least.
101Vanya 9 months ago
@101Vanya Doesn't matter- just make sure you know them all as there is absolutely no pattern to help you guess them- believe me I've tried!
bm124 9 months ago
@bm124 Thanks, i am just really nervous, as a foreign exchange student i feel that english is really hard, in comparison to the internation baac
101Vanya 9 months ago
I CANT FIND "NOT MY BUISNESS" AAAAAAAAAAAARGH
MrTony337 9 months ago
I have an English exam tomorrow and this was literally my last hope but it was very helpful so thank you!
fudgechoc 9 months ago
How long have these poems been taught at GCSE because my english teacher told me today that she was taught this poem when she was a school!
Aaron95H 9 months ago
You should be a weather man! x
peppa00pig 9 months ago
my mum wants your phone number
francesionamcmahon 9 months ago 13
This has helped a lot thank you :)
skits94 9 months ago
this is fantastic, really helped, you use great vocabulary, and the way you link the words tender and roast together is brilliant, never would've spotted that! thanks so much!
SupaKooky 9 months ago
bricking it about tomorrow!
jewishboatuser 9 months ago 6
@jewishboatuser Realyy no need- it's very obvious from your comments that you know your stuff and you've clearly been revising- good luck!
bm124 9 months ago
thank you
dommy123456789 9 months ago
I have watched ur videos loads and actually know what your gonna say next :L anyway thanks for the help your videos are great! Hopefully they might help me get an A!!
DoctorPlox 9 months ago
Thanks for the help on the analysis... just like to say that I've never seen the point of using vultures to demonstrate love and evil in the same place... their 'eating habits' are purely biological and there is nothing evil with them :| Though I do see what he means about the Commandant at Belsen... which is a clear example.
therealjordiano 9 months ago
Thanks for the help on the analysis... just like to say that I've never seen the point of using vultures to demonstrate love and evil in the same place... their 'eating habits' are purely biological and there is nothing evil with them :| Though I do see what he means about the Commandant at Belsen... which is a clear example.
therealjordiano 9 months ago
@unitedbmx5. That method always fails. If you think something will come up it won't!
qwertyuiop97663 9 months ago
It's funny how the number of views increases dramatically the day before the exam
qwertyuiop97663 9 months ago 2
@qwertyuiop97663 It's crazy- got 10,500 Sunday night and I only had four videos relevant to Paper 1. I can't moderate comments as quickly as they're coming in tonight! Crazy!
bm124 9 months ago
Alot to take in.....and i got my test 2morro :'(
killerzion 9 months ago
My exams is tomorrow, my teacher says its probably vultures that's gonna come up. Good luck for tomorrow everyone.
unitedbmx5 9 months ago
poetry exam tomorrow YESSS -.- . Hope what were they like don't come up
J0104J 9 months ago 2
@J0104J it's come up 4 times since the start of this course (highest compared to any other poem) so it's pretty doubtful
ArjunJethwa 9 months ago
This is brilliant, the use of the images and visual demonstrations are so helpful. They've made it a lot easier for me to take in and remember, unlike having to just listen and read in class. Thank you very much :)
dailydoodle101 9 months ago in playlist GCSE ENGLISH - AQA Anthology: Cluster 1 Poems
@bm124 does this poem have links to taoism faith of yin yang and does the question is message towards the nigerian goverment, i though this due to his background
DyingFlamex 9 months ago
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DyingFlamex 9 months ago
my teacher didnt teach us this poem, said, oh u wont need it... -.- this helped thanks man
BLACKOPSBUNNY399 9 months ago
Thank you sooo much for your videos, I never used to understand these poems but they make a lot more sence now. :) My exam is tomorrow so hopefully I will do well :)
zaclover98 9 months ago
so helpful for my exam.... tommorow! my teacher is crap lol he didnt tell is about this poem. thanks!
BLACKOPSBUNNY399 9 months ago
Understand the poem so much better now! Just hope this information doesn't now fly out of my head xD
bubble1606 9 months ago
I've got an English language exam one wednesday and I really didn't get this poem. Until I watched this. This is really helpful. Thanks alot!
tuzathedarknight 9 months ago
Cheers this helped alot :) I have a feeling Vultures might come up on the exam on Wednesday!
xIsoo95 9 months ago
@xIsoo95 Or Blessing, Blessing hasn't been used for the last 5 years!
MikeChard1 9 months ago
In your opinion, which is the best poem to compare 'Vultures' to? Could you give a cuple of reasons please?
Thanks
MrMildog 10 months ago
@MrMildog Sounds like that might be your homework?! I'd go either 2 Scavengers as the two share a lot of imagery (scavengers/vultures, contrasts and contradictions etc) or for WWTL as both poems have, arguably, a very bleak view of humanity.
bm124 10 months ago
Super stressed about the exams but these videos are really helpful and it's good to get more alternative interpretations
EJLellie 10 months ago
Thanks, this has helped loads, my teacher didn't do a great job on the poetry so this is a god sent!
JumpToTheSkyJason 10 months ago
your videos are so helpful as i have my english exam on the 18th of may and i struggle mostly with the poems thanks again :)
dannylovell1 10 months ago
thanks so much for all your hard work. it has helped so much. one thing i would say - and i hope it's constructive - is that anthropomorphism is very similar to personification; it means "the attribution of human form or behaviour to a deity, animal etc.". it isn't when humans take on animal characteristics as you seem to suggest in this and another one of your excellent videos. thanks again.
M40A3KKOKE 10 months ago
you presented the two different ideas in the poem really clearly and i've definitley picked up quite a lot of extra pointers for the exam in a month or so.
will without doubt be watching your other videos and i feel much more reassured now.
really appreciate it thanks :)
DaniellesOnlinexD 10 months ago
@DaniellesOnlinexD Glad to be of assistance- good luck with the exams.
bm124 10 months ago
Your videos are very helpful for someone who doesn't want to just sit and read the poems and annotations, thank you :)
AllyPally510 10 months ago
OMG ABSOLUTE GOLD! I was sooo stuck half an hour ago and now u've straightened everything out :). Thanks a bunch!
AbbeyBabie 10 months ago
What would you say on the tone of this poem?
ArjunJethwa 10 months ago
turn his face to the wall can also be trust putting life in the others hands without thinking a trust so complete we don't even know its there. the thing that seems so special about sleeping together is the vulnerability something that can be forced upon us is horrible yet when we choose to put ourselves in the situation it is wonderful and fulfilling. part of the idea that love and hate are linked
TheRollthebones 10 months ago
thank you, very helpful as are all the other ones.. thank you for making the effort!
bringtonbank 10 months ago
Thankyou so much, i would have no hope if i just relied on my notes!
emmanutt5 10 months ago
Your about 20x better than my teacher!
RobAnderson0 10 months ago
phew! Thank you so much, I didn't understand the poem when my teacher was going through it; it totally went over my head. Thanks again! ^_^
KissVirgin09 11 months ago
@KissVirgin09 My pleasure!
bm124 11 months ago
"despair for in that very gem of kindred love is lodged the perpetuity of evil"- that actually sent chills down my spine...
CastJosephine 1 year ago
Biggest Legend. Thank you
ABCDEFGHIJKLMN01231 1 year ago
Cannot thank you enough for this; Vultures was the one poem from the cluster which I felt uncertain of, now I'm hoping it actually comes up tomorrow!
TheFootballFriend 1 year ago
@sexystrawberries95, i have an exam too. but i don't understand any of the poems:/
leofan221 1 year ago
wow dude thnx aloot dis wud really help on my exams tomorrow as i knwo nothing about poems well am jost going to hope for the best wish me luck! TY
imzii2k9 1 year ago
wow tha was great. and very helpful. thanks
alimkhan4ever 1 year ago
I have an exam tomorrow, and lack of prep had left me at a loss, a friend forwarded me this link and you've been sooooooo useful! your a life-saver, THANK YOU! x
sexystrawberries94 1 year ago 5
Thank you! I've got my paper two exam tomorrow and there's a high chance Vultures will come up. I've not studied this poem before but you've fully cleared it up for me and I feel more confident on these now, than the others.
PetraInWonderland 1 year ago
*constructive*
POLO2941 1 year ago
You saved me thanks got exam tomz and you should be a teacher you amazing good luck with the videos
mrbunny312 1 year ago
thankyou :) i have my exam tommrow and i am more confidant that i will pass .
BryneeeRose 1 year ago
My god this has been a life saver, i have an exam in two days and realised my anthology was blank on this poem and it is one of the mayjor poems this year. THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!
gazy499 1 year ago
i would say this is the hardest poem out of the eight im learning and you just made it one of the easiest thank you sooo much :)
salmanrus 1 year ago
Thankyou kindly, Mister :)
mahogonywhisper 1 year ago
Thanks a lot for this, you are miles better than my English teacher xD
Puddingspooon 1 year ago
Thanks so much for these; they've been a massive help. I just hope I've absorbed enough of your genius to pass my exams!
AllYourBase23 1 year ago
this has helped me so much :D
i have an exam in 2 weeks and your other videos have been very useful aswell...
thanks for making the effort!
lauragabbay 1 year ago 15
@lauragabbay My pleasure, thanks for the feedback
bm124 1 year ago
Thank you! An excellent analysis which helped me to understand it so much better. (:
spottedpenguins123 1 year ago
Thank you very much for posting this
I just typed in 'Vulture Poem' on a whim and found this
It is great how its set-up and I now understand the poem more, since I didn't acknowledge what some of the lines were implying.
I like this poem because I believe what the poet is saying (how love & hate co-exist )
Thank you
WolfFoundations 1 year ago
hi thanks for ur help .today the exam was about limbo and compare about poets feeling thanks for ur help without this video i would have not done the exam properly thank u once again
vsks 1 year ago
mate. iv just gone through all of your 8 cluster one poems. proper helpfull. much better notes than my teacher gave. cheers.
05evanl1 1 year ago
have you thought about doing any for the English Literature Exam? the pre 1914 poems or the Carol Ann Duffy / Simon Armitage poems
Alexexic 1 year ago
its just under two hours until my GCSE exam, i was freaking out until i found your videos. thank you so much!!
MascaraMouse 1 year ago
demonstrates the complexity of the paradox that will make my examiner jizz lol
LoganBridges 1 year ago 2
I love you. I never understood this poem but now I'm seeing all these different ideas :) thankyou so much! it's my exam today so hopefully this will help :)
cazcazsmells 1 year ago
You have saved my entire life.
seriously.
cant even put it into words!
thankyou so much!
13sparksfly 1 year ago
you have given me hope that i can pass my exams! my teacher was pretty fail compared to you, so thankyou very much for these amazing videos, i cant find one for night of the scorpian though :/
GeneticNorthPole 1 year ago
@GeneticNorthPole Haven't had time to do one but there is a PODCast on my blog (the link is on my channel page)
bm124 1 year ago
u r amazing. short and sweet but has lads of info abt the poem.
antony172 1 year ago
o my dayes u made this poem so easy thanxxx alots..............
9851024886 1 year ago
Thankyou!!
AsamoahNathaniel 1 year ago
thank you, but i did find myself having to pause every 5 seconds! :)
OriginalRefreshers 1 year ago
thank u
so much
vsks 1 year ago
@vsks My pleasure
bm124 1 year ago
SUBSCRIBED! I normally won't be bothered to log on and subscribe, but I must subscribe to your videos! You're an amazing teacher. my teacher is very good too. ^.^ If only you have a video about writing to describe! And if only I found you earlier, I would've passed my exams with flying colours. Well, my final exam is tomorrow and your videos have helped me quite a bit. Thank you!
hollyhoneybee1410 1 year ago
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU SOO MUCHH ! I had trouble with the poem Vultures but with your assistance.. I get the poem now. THANK YOU AGAIN !
exacker 1 year ago
Omg.... Thank you ... U r the best....
MrsAfghan1 1 year ago
@MrsAfghan1 Happy to be of assisstance
bm124 1 year ago
Cheers
DYLZ93 1 year ago
legend!
vidmasterofworld 1 year ago
this made me realise so much :)
Neylon12 1 year ago
thank you very much :)
0xqueenx0 1 year ago
thanks, this has helped me loads!
Joedaboxer 1 year ago
i wish i had found this earlier, you've really helped but i have my exam tomorrow...
Natalie2006032 1 year ago
thanks .u have made my day
realmanager4oke 1 year ago
thank you so much, this video is really helpful, feeling confident about my coursework no. :)
Cramby63 1 year ago
Thank you so much! You have done a better job of teaching me than a two years of my teacher :/ lol
d123a123n 1 year ago
nice
masikiri 1 year ago
this video was realllyyy goood! it really helped me! :D yeah, an opinion for the future, slow down just a tiny bit, but overall a really good video thank you! :D!
BlackxRibbonsx 1 year ago
Omg...Thank you sooo much, you have just saved my English Language grade! I didn't have a clue about this poem and hadn't even read through it because it just looked so hard, and it's amazing how just 10 minutes later I totally get it...
Dontbechattincrap 1 year ago
thank you for making these videos, they really help me to revise my English literature exam :)
MegaMultiverse 1 year ago
Thanks, again, I struggled on this poem when we were going through it in the class!
But now thanks to you I've got a pleasing amount of annotations around Vultures which should help me a great deal in the exam!
iamheadless 1 year ago
1 word excellant
NaughtyNaughtyMallu 1 year ago
Haha I used this for my coursework :) Really helped, thank you
caterluna223 1 year ago
have you dne any blessing or night of the scorpion
pkdog007 1 year ago
Interhigh been here (: Grate Vid btw (:
bopeep1000 1 year ago
Interhigh been here (:
bopeep1000 1 year ago
My pleasure!
bm124 1 year ago
wow! my anthology is full of brilliant ideas thanks to you! Thanks :) x
chloe0161 1 year ago
wow! my anthology is full of brilliant ideas thanks to you! Thanks :) x
chloe0161 1 year ago
i hate analysing poems.
thaaaanks for this.
supermiekie 2 years ago
slow down
taddy4eva 2 years ago 7
Keep up!
bm124 2 years ago
@taddy4eva its a video, theres a pause button :)
rooosi15 9 months ago
@taddy4eva it's a video, there's a pause button :)
rooosi15 9 months ago
thanks 4amazing videos, do you think u cld please please do a video for carol anne duffy poems in the aqa book? or just ones like havisham, anne hathaway, hitcher, stealing, mother any distance, the laboratory, song of old mother etc! would be amazing if youcould please! i am so stuck and ur vids have been so great!!!
photophotox 2 years ago
Hardcore stuff G-dog
andyneil123 2 years ago
could the strange because its isolated show the link between love and evil?
amylouiseeeeeee 2 years ago
Thank you very much for the video it was very helpful when i was trying to do my oral coursework on this poem.
What would be more useful is if you could also explain the purpose, message, language, techniques and voice used in the poem as this is what we have to use to analyse the poem
Just a thought :)
MissKT128 2 years ago
thank you so much for that last minute revision you are the best
MrJoesVlogs 2 years ago
clear, consise and extremely detailed. Proves more digestable than reading from an anthology book.
160Jon 2 years ago
u are actually a legend lol ty 4 the information
it a real help :P
exam tomorrow :) lol
penguinatoring 2 years ago
Thank you, exam tomorrow, should be helpful! :D
wozzo101 2 years ago
thank u so much!! :DD
neblove 2 years ago
thank you so much, i have my exam tomorrow and i didnt properly understand the poems until i watched these. THANK YOU!!!
Hannahphhs 2 years ago
thankyou very much u helped us a lot :)
ko9ccforlife1 2 years ago
this videos are actually brilliant! there so helpfull thankyou so much! i just make notes then get a family member to read out the quotes then i resite the langugae analysis back, this helpt me alot in a practise exam paper i did in class thankyou!
tom12349333 2 years ago
Glad to be of assisstance. Do make sure that whatever you write in an exam is relevant to the question though, not just something you've memorised (although this might be relevant to some questions)
bm124 2 years ago
Do you go/teach at Cooper if so who are you we go to Cooper??????
randomkids23 2 years ago
I cannot thank you enough for this video. It's helped me understand 'Vultures' so much better now, because I don't think my lecturer did much justice to it.
With this in mind, I think I can write a fairly good analysis of it myself.
Thanks again.
xazulanx 2 years ago 11
thank god these videos are on here. I have been searching all ovr google to get an understanding of the poems. None of them compare to these videos! Thanks for creating them :)
MMTM2k8 2 years ago
I posted this link on facebook and now according to my friends I am God. You have helped us all
Eliechanted 2 years ago
Glad to be of assisstance!
bm124 2 years ago
SAVIOUR! :)
Hannnnnnahh 2 years ago
I love you! You have saved me hours!
Just slow down a little i would watch you all day
Emilltoe 2 years ago
omg im going to do my exam today (1 july 2009)
archimondeeee 2 years ago
me too!
and another one on 3 june 2009!
aahhhhh :0
LuLu6008 2 years ago
Again, very helpful.
jonnyseymour1 2 years ago
thank you this was another helpful video one request is can you try some exam question and tell us how you would answer
archimondeeee 2 years ago
Great, this helped me alot.
rhillner 2 years ago
I've been to Bergen Belsen. It was a concentration camp, but not a death camp. The poor people kept there were not exterminated though a lot of them died through disease and starvation. I suppose those who died were cremated. This is my only explanation of the smell of human roast....so I wonder why Achebe chose Belsen? Wouldn't an actual extermination camp like Auchwitz have carried more weight?
p8ulr3id 2 years ago
The way I see it, Achebe chose Josef Kramer (the commandant at Belsen) rather than the camp itself. He had previosuly worked at Auschwitz where he had developed a reputation for brutal "efficieny" in his dealings and he was know for being particular ruthless and remorseless.
bm124 2 years ago
Ive thought that it was an unusual choice. Although its not discernible from the text, perhaps it is plausible that Achebe had this man in mind and chose it as a continuation of an idea. Kramer was known as the "Beast of Belsen" and this would fit appropriately with the hideous imagery of the vultures at the beginning of the poem and link conveniently in the final section with connotations of the word "ogre"...as being a cruel, brutal creature or beast.
Vasalatech 2 years ago
Thanks for this, helpful for my essay :P
Rozbort 2 years ago
Thank you, very helpful
limmyboy666 2 years ago