WW1 Literature: Sassoon & Owen 1

In which Rosianna gives a bit of background on famous war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.

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[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.

[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.

[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!

[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.

:)

[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

[LeftyHandedGuns]

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

[BKsMassive]

My school does the AQA exam board (:

where you from in the UK?

im from near london :P

[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]

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!