WW1 Literature: Sassoon & Owen 2

[EcargEnimsaj]

i hate to say it, but you speak too fast and don't anunciate clearly enough for the reader to properly absorb the poems...

[fazzy37]

Everything your saying is really helping me for my exams and im really greateful for all these videos :) thanks for being awesome :D

[ProNorden]

World War I was the worst, most tragic, and pointless horror of any war in human history. Just comprehending the loss of Kipling's only son provides some perspective. So many of the best people of a generation slaughtered for ....

[RookhKshatriya]

Everything you say is naive garbage. Women in WWI were going round handing out white feathers to every male not in uniform. Then, when they returned home sans legs/eyes/arms, the same women were spitting on their heads as they begged in the streets - just check out the drawings of George Grosz.

Anglo-Saxon women are entirely hypocritical - racist, sexist and classist. People like you don't know what day it is. You are a world-historical, biological oppressor class and you don't even know it.

[holliebadollie]

Those aren't her views... they are that of Sasoon, the poet who's work she is analysing.

[Molefacers]

Ha! I had to analyse this poem for my English! Cos of course it was gcse so it was a hell of a lot simpler than you said..... LOL

[amelioooo]

I really love hearing you read poetry. That probably makes me sound like a creeper but oh well.

[Sararararararara]

I've been looking at The Glory of Women today for the synoptic and it's incredibly helpful to listen to someone elses perspective on it. The point about the ambiguity of the making the men shells was something I'd missed before. Thanks for pointing it out :)

Good luck tomorrow! :)

[jcphoto]

or is the 'hero' sarcastic for the dead soldier/son

[VrtyBrtn]

That's what I thought.

[barefootfiona]

I prefer Owen's poetry because I feel it's more genuine and sincere. For example, the end of Apologia Pro Poemate Meo: 'You shall not come to think them well content

By any jest of mine. These men are worth

Your tears: You are not worth their merriment.'

You can just hear his pain and quiet anger, and one thing which I think shines through in Owen's poetry is a sense of being betrayed by life, religion, fate and the government.

[saltrox]

I really like The Hero, it's one of the poems we had to do for GCSE. I prefer Sassoon to Owen because the imagery he used is subtler and relies more on an understanding of the poem then on graphic detail to make his point. I like the way that Sassoon refers to how precious the letter is to the mother, since it's her last memory of him and how she thinks it's a personal letter when really her last remnant of her son is just one of a set of copied letters to the families of the dead.

[lukeb3000]

You have a lovely voice!

[nenalyzed]

what about brooks?

If I should die, think only this of me:

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England

[peachydarl]

isn't it called the hero because the boy just clearly isn't a hero?

[missxrojas]

who knows, we were introduced to alternative interpretations, but yeah, it's probably the most obvious one. isn't that occam's razor or something?

[darrynwayne]

damn what did i say?

[gulddina]

Normally I feel that I'm wasting my time on youtube. But when i watch your videos it seems as if I'm studying or reading :b!! Keep up the good work !!

[jackeyramone]

Haha same, they are so great

[gulddina]

Yay!!! I'm not alone :b!!