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Power and Conflict Poetry Examination Guide

guys welcome to another video you've got Mr Everything English and this is going to be a big one it has been on my mind for a long time because I know you guys need the help and I was thinking of the best way to do it now exams are in 3 or 4 days time I could either have released a video per poem but I thought you know what forget the views let's just put everything in one big video and you guys can make it work guys a few things number one in this video we're going to cover every single power and conflict poem normally when I make a video on the poems I normally average about 30 minutes per poem now guys obviously it's not going to be 30 minutes per poem because 30 * 15 is about 450 minutes I believe that's a heck of a long time so I'm going to try to guys go through each poem in about 10 minutes each but I promise you guys you will get everything you need in those 10 minutes that is a must otherwise this video is an absolute waste of time and that is not something that I like to do so I will give you everything you need guys when it comes to all 15 poems number two can somebody please at some point put time stamps on this video so everyone knows what time is which poem so for example if you just want to jump in and do ozie mandas or tissues or Prelude you can jump in and do that particular poem and guys number three before we jump into the poems this part of the video is the setup you guys need to know why are we even going through the poems and how does this link to your exam now guys I'm going to be as fast as possible English literature paper two is a 2 hours and 15 minute exam but the power and conflict section is a 45 minute slot in these 2 hours and 15 minutes now how the how does the exam work for the power and conflict section you get one question in your exam and this question is marked out of 30 it is a 30 mark question and it marks you on A1 it marks you on ao2 and it marks you on AO3 now if you're sitting at home scratching your head thinking sir what's ao1 what's A2 what's AO3 then I'm I'm beginning to wonder what were you doing in your first English Literature Exam because it's the exact same ao's A1 guys I've been over before guys ao1 is your point and your task now guys by the way just in case you're wondering sir why are you going over this because this tells us what we have to go over when we go over the poems we're not going to read the poems just for the fun of it and for a nice feeling we're going to read the poems with the exam in mind we must go all the points for A1 ao2 and AO3 now ao2 guys as you all should be aware is looking at the effect of language which means language devices structure which means structural devices and form now super duper quickly guys when it comes to poetry I want you guys to either talk about czora I want you guys to either talk about enjoyment and I want you guys to either talk about what we doing Sora enjoyment and vter and then guys actually should I go over them yeah let me go over them very quickly czora guys now as I go through the video these three will become a lot more clearer but czora guys is when there's punctuation throughout a line and not at the end of a line enj is when the line of poetry carries on to the next line with no punctuation at the end and VTA is the shift VTA is the turning point in the poem now when it comes to structural devices of course we can talk about foreshadowing flashback zooming in zooming out however for those of us aiming for the top band you want to make your writing subject specific so this is English but this is poetry within English so these devices we want to show off to the Z guess what while every other kid talks about foreshadowing and flashback you know me I've done my work I've done Tora I've learned enjoyment and I've learned vulture guys because it's shows that you know poetry specific devices now guys when it comes to form do you remember when it came to the form of Christmas Carol we talked about the gothic genre when it came to the form of Beth and Rome and Juliet we spoke about the play and stage directions well out of the 15 poems that we're going to read we're going to have to categorize them into forms now there's five forms that I care about I don't care about hi guys I don't care about any other form of poetry because they are wasting our time we are not in your seven where we are doing fun lessons we are in year 11 and we only care about form that we can apply to our exam and those are five there are five forms guys there is the narrative form there is the Epic form there is the free verse there is the Sonic and then there is the dramatic monologue now what are these five a narrative form of poetry guys is a poem that tells a story an epic form of poetry is a poem that is a about an event for example The Charge of the Light Brigade when we get there this is about an event this is about a battle number three guys let's do Sonet first and then prse guys a Sonet is a 14 line poem that is normally about love this doesn't have to be romantic love this can be any form of love for example oie mandas is a Sonic it is a 14line poem about love however this guy loves power and he loves himself free verse guys is a poem that doesn't follow any rules there's there's no set stanza length there's no set line structure they just go on a mad one and example of this is checking out me history and then we have a dramatic monologue one character first person talking the whole way through and an example of this is my last Duchess so what does that mean guys this means that when we analyze the Poetry we have to find ao2 language structure and form now not every single ao2 we're not going to pick out every single language device every single structur device every single form device at this point of the year I'm going to give you three quotes per poem that you should revise and use in your exam and those three quots will have a blend of these uh devices now when it comes to point and task this depends Point task and I forgot guys it also looks at reference it also looks at quotes now this depends upon the question but what I will give you are your references from each poem your three quotes from each poem that you should learn for your exam and guys finally A3 and this is our context and again when we go over each poem I will give you Contex this is stuff like patriarchy religion and so on now what is this question what is the Poetry question in the exam and why do so many people mess it up guys it is a 45 minute question right I recommend planning between anywhere between 5 and 7 minutes if you can plan faster fantastic but try to plan anywhere between 5 to 7 minutes and your target is right three paragraphs in this time period now these paragraphs are going to be pretty big paragraphs because the way I do it is I compare the poems in each paragraph I call it ping pong we go back and forth back and forth paragraph one you compare both poems paragraph two you compare both poems paragraph three you compare both poems a comparison can be a similarity a comparison can be a difference it just depends whatever is easier for you on the day of your exam unless they specify in the question similarity or difference and that is guys the overall structure of your writing so guys do the ma three paragraphs in approximately 38 minutes if you spend 7 Minutes planning now guys that is the overall structure of the question itself now what we're going to do guys is we're going to go over all the 15 points and then at the end of the video depending upon how tired I am we will go over very quickly the paragraph structure of how to actually write these three paragraphs and hopefully guys by that point this video will have everything you need for power and conflict points now guys at this point can you please do the following can you please get out the poem and try to have it in front of you so as we work through the 15 you at home alongside work through the 15 so by the end when I finished the 15th poem you've done the 15th poem as well and you've analyzed it as well all right guys now we're going to go to the board we're going to put the projector on and we're going to begin with poem number one guys with the poem oie mandz I met a traveler from an antique land who said two vast and trunkless legs of Stone Stand in the desert near them on the sand half Sun a shat to the S lies whose frown and wrinkled lip and snare of cold command tell that a sculptor well those passions read which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed and on the pedestal these words appear my name is oie mandes King of Kings look on my works you mighty and despair nothing beside remains around the decay of that colossal wreck balance and bear the lone and level sand stretch far away let me give you guys a quick summary of what this poem is about guys oie mandz was once a ruler was once a pharaoh and he had a statue built of himself and he put it around his Empire around his kingdom to show off his power now this statue guys is now years later hundreds of years hundreds of years later the entire Empire of oie mandz has turned into sand has turned into nothingness but what's left is pieces of his statue it's broken it's shattered but there's pieces left and the point is this guys that over over time nature will always defeat man don't think you're so powerful don't think you're so special because no matter who you are you will one day die and everything that made you powerful your Empire and everything you did nature will over time defeat you because nothing lasts forever that is the poem oie mandes now let's start guys with what is the form of aie mandes now form of oie mandes is indeed a Sonic but what does Mr Aussie mandz love guys I would say two things I would say oie mandz loves himself and I would say he loves the idea of power and that is the form of the poem now guys when it comes to structure where when it comes to structure guys I would use the vter and the vter that I would use is nothing beside R remains that is a very powerful wter remember guys vter is the the shift in the poem now why is that the shift because all over here aie mandz is literally thinking he's a bad man my name is oie mandez King of Kings be Mighty and despair and then bang nothing beside remains that is the vter that is the turning point because by saying nothing remains it gives the idea that don't think you're so special and that is done through the vter because your life can shift your life can turn in an instance so that is the form that is a structure ual device we can talk about and there is one quote that you can learn for your exam if you want to go there this part over here is also a czora remember guys a czora is when there is a pause in the middle of a line when the writing does not carry on and all of that guys gives emphasis to the idea that nothing beside remains next quote guys that I would use from this poem is over here my name is oie mandes King of Kings remember guys this is the power and conflict section that is the section of our exam now this quote over here number one it's a hyperbole number two this quote is also quite symbolic and number three this quote is also juter position now what are the different ways that we can use this quote my name is oie mandz King of Kings King of Kings who is the king who is the ultimate King is God oim mandz guys at this point in the play he is saying that he should be worshiped as though he is the god of gods he is the most powerful being alive and why is it j a position because if you look at that and then you look at that you think hold on a second you're a God but you're literally dead and your statue is battered in the middle of a desert what kind of God is that that is why it is J position number two guys symbolic what is the symbolism here it's the idea of a king it's the idea of a king it's as though he is worshiping power that is if you guys don't M Beth it's the same kind of thing he worships power so much that he wants the title to make himself appear Godlike um and hyperbole guys is because this guy is over the top this guy is far too over the top and then guys another quote I would use shattered Vis lies a shattered V Lies I really love this quote guys um I always talk about the adjective here the adjective of shuted um is a very very good um word to discuss in this quot now why is the word shuted really good in this quote if something is broken it's okay but it's not that bad but if something is shattered it's broken into so many little pieces that it can't be fixed and this quote guys from the offset it looks at what oie mandas is in the present day it goes from the present to the Past back to to the present there are three shifts in this poem but the VIS the the shattered Vis it gives the impression of how whatever this guy thought he was he is beyond repairable and then from the from the adjective shattered you can link it to the power of nature nature has done this no one's come with a hammer and battered the statue his statue his Empire became sand became dust became nothing his statue was destroyed by what by time that's it all that destroyed him was time look at all of us who are in this video right now guys as time goes on I'm going to get old and old and old and my hair will turn white and one day I won't be here time time is defeating us all and this poem shows you how ultimately guys nature and then God is in control and that is the poem O Mand the two pieces of context guys the two pieces of context that I would use for this poem is Freud and the ID and the patriarchy why I would use Freud and the ID to talk about how this guy Mr aie mandez he worships power so much that look at his outcome he ultimately challenged God and patriarchy again got this dude he at the time he was alive You could argue again he was a victim of patriarchy because he believed that as a man he had to be super duper powerful all right guys and there is everything you need for aim mandz I do love me the poem London I wander through each charted Street near where the charter temps does flow and Mark in every face I meet marks of weakness marks of war in every Cry of every man in every infant Cry of Fear in every voice in every band The Mind Forge maners I hear what a lovely callot how the chimney sweepers cry every blackening Church apps and the helpless Soldier sigh runs in blood down palace walls but most through midnight streets I he have the youthful har curse blast the newborn infant St and black will plague the marriage HSE poem guys starts with our speaker Mr I whoever the I is it could be the poet himself or it could be a madeup character but we have a first person poem this guy is interestingly wanding around London he's walking around and he's looking at London now guys remember London is is historic London is the capital of the British Empire it is a symbol of power it is a symbol of wealth it is a symbol of progress but this guy is wondering and thinking damn if this is what this is all about London has a dark side London isn't as amazing as we think it is London has a dark side what does he see he sees people that look weak people that look destroyed he looks at people that look as though they've been controlled he looks at children who are suffering to child labor he looks at young girls who are suffering and who are cursed he talks about everything wrong with London and it's the J the position of what we are told London is like but what he saying London is actually like it's the good but he's saying there's a bad that needs to be talked about a lot more now guys the poem London let's start with the form of London is it a Sonic no is it a fever poem no I would argue guys that a good way of looking at the poem London is by talking about how the poem London is a narrative poem and this poem is a narrative poem because it tells the other side of the story when it comes to London and that is what I would say is the form of our poem and when it comes to structural devices Soldier sigh runs in blood down palace walls now here guys I will talk about the enjoyment and remember guys enjoyment is when the line of poetry carries on it's when the line of poetry continues to the next line I'll explain why that enjoyment is effective in a second and you can also talk about the use of personification here also then guys I will talk about another quote guys is mind forged manles I'll explain all three quotes in a second ISM of man manles and the verb of here and then I will talk about where am I looking at guys the third quote that I will talk about is as follows marks in every face I meet marks of weakness marks of Woe and for this particular quote guys I would talk about the repetition and I would talk about the idea of either the adjective weakness or the adjective wo you pick which one depending upon your question all right guys what am I doing with these quotes or these three quotes and why have I spoken about about them um now guys when it comes to guys when it comes to the first quote marks in every face I meet marks of weakness marks of War yes it's repetition yes it's adjective but what are you saying about this particular quote if you can't remember all of it use bits of it but it's the idea that nobody is safe everyone in London is controlled everyone in London looks as though they are weak now if somebody is weak somebody must be powerful who's in power is he referring to the government is he referring to institutions but he is talking about that there's something wrong with London because everyone looks weak and whoo guys everyone is suffering everyone is struggling in London now next mind forged manles this is a very very important quote you could even talk about the word mind if you want to even the word forged there's so much in that quote mind forged means your mind has created what has your mind created your mind has created manacles what a manle they are chains he's saying what is under control London the people of London are not physically controlled what's being controlled the brain is being controlled the mind is being controlled but the writer is trying to say look you can't see this control therefore everyone thinks that they're free everyone thinks that life is hunky dory but their mind is constantly controlled now the part that he says I hear them for me you can even talk about that as being J position he says I can hear everyone's manles I can hear the fact that everyone is in in London is controlled now this guy thinks he's safe this guy thinks he's amazing and I would argue is he hearing his own manacles or is he hearing their and the the point being he thinks he's free and he thinks everyone else is controlled but that's exactly what everyone else thinks everyone else thinks that they're free and everyone else is controlled that's the beauty of controlling somebody's mind they will never see the shackles last quote guys last quote last quote Happ Soldier the word Happ can mean many things but in this context I think or I argue it means useless and it's the idea that the British Empire London was EXP standing massively but the people that were sent to war were not capable were not equipped to fight those WS so they were useless and the enjoyment is lovely because the enjoyment links to the blood that is running down the wall just the way the line goes on the blood is pouring and pouring and pouring and that's what the inment emphasizes you can then talk about the symbolism of the palace walls and how the palace is talking about the monarchy the king and the Queen the blood is on their walls the blood is on their hands they are responsible he's attacking the institution of the monarchy now guys if you look at what spells over here h e a r ha nobody can hear our cries nobody can hear our screams it's hidden within the text again if you want to you can talk about that now guys that is the poem London the form is a narrative three quotes you learn are these three quotes I summarized to you brief ly and very quickly what the poem is about now when it comes to context what context would you use a good context I would use guys for this poem number one is discuss very briefly the role that the British Empire played this is your historical context don't look at this poem as talking about London in 2023 even though London is pretty much quite similar to this we're talking about a time where London was seen as the place to be because it was the the heart of the British Empire cool aie mandes and London done let's move on oh boy we have a big one guys we have a big one all right shall we read this poem all right let's read it let's read it let's read it let's read it guys you know what this poem I'm going to read and go through it as I read it it will just save us a lot of time all right guys extract from the Prelude one summer evening led by her who is her who is he talking about the her here guys I would argue he is personifying nature I will talk about how the writer here is personifying nature um led by her if you want to learn this quote you can but I will talk about how this is personification and the personification is of nature I found a little boat tied to a willow tree in its usual home straight I unloosed her chain and stepping in pushed from the shore so guys the poem begins and essentially the right the writer sorry the speaker has stolen a boat and off he goes it was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure troubled pleasure guys is a good quote to learn it's similar to the quote trampled calmly from U Jacqueline Hyde it it is an oxymoron now what does this oxymoron represent this this oxymoron guide represents how the speaker knows that what he is doing he should not be doing but he's doing it anyway know without the voice of mountain Echoes did my boat move on now this for me is a lovely quote without the voice of mountain Echoes did my boat move on it's like the M it's like nature right he's saying that as I took the boat the mountains around me were echoing what does that mean it's a symbol a symbol of what it's as though nature is cheering him on go on well done well done and the mountain are echoing because the noise is like a stadium so it's as though nature is cheering him on uh leaving behind his still on either side small circle glittering idly in the moon until they melted into one track of sparkling light but now like one who Rose proud of his skill like one who Rose proud of his skill guys he is in the peak of his power this guy thinks he is amazing just when he's on this boat and he is in his element He is loving it life is good what happen huge Peak black UPA its head vter guys this here is the vter and the vter here is the shift guys this here is the shift why is it the shift all that he does over here guys yes he sexualizes the bow into an elf penis and he talks about how he dips his OES in the lake yes he does all that we're not going to go over it now because we'll be here for 2 hours all all we want to talk about over here is this guys here he steals the boat here he talks about how it's like his adrenaline he is loving the fact that he's stolen the boat and how amazing it feels being out in the water but then here's the vter here is our shift everything goes from being happy everything goes from being lovely but then something disturbs him something disturbs his his his view something disturbs what he's doing a huge Peak black and huge and comes in the way between the boat the sky and then something disturbs his view guys that is a volar this is the turning point this is when everything goes downhill for this uh particular man so what does he do guys what does he do it says that this guy he struck and struck again panic panic panic and you could talk about the repetition um where the Panic is emphasized from juer position trembling OES and where is it where is it where is it where is it and I dip my OES you can ju to pose the two quotes in purple if you wanted to look at him at the beginning at the beginning the guy thinks he's having a lovely time he's dipping his his OES into the lake and now his hands are shaking now he's trembling this joses this uh and what is he doing guys he is now trying to go home so he's trying to run home um back to the cover of the willow tree and then if you want to go there again now he is in a serious mood he can't get over what he has seen and the only quote guys that I want you to use from these parts guys is essentially guys the idea of PTSD nothing remain no Pleasant images of sea or Sky no green fields just huge and mighty forms um this hair guys can link to our context of PTSD and it can link to the danger of following your desire I'll go over that in a second you could talk about how this quote here is a list um and you can talk about how this quote joses um the quote at the beginning of our text as to how he viewed nature that I have all the forms right I like to call this poem an epic poem it's an event what happens to this man the event is him getting what he deserves the event is of nature putting this man in his place don't think you're going to abuse your power and get away with it what is this poem looking at and guys by the way you can learn any of the quotes um that I've highlighted now what are we saying guys this poem is about this PO this poem guys is in two halves and the vulture right there divides the two halves of this poem everything before the vulture this guy is having the time of his life he is absolutely loving it everything after the vulture this guy is suffering for what he's done in the first part and this poem guys reminds me a lot of oie mandes why because it's the idea that don't get carried away don't abuse power don't abuse your position because ultimately nature will put you into its place so he stole the boat and the boat wasn't his and he was having the time of his life and as he was having the time of his life he began to abuse nature he began to abuse the boat and that's the shift nature scared him nature terrified him and then he ran home whatever he saw C him so much fear that he ran home and he was mentally Disturbed for a long time afterwards nothing remained the same that is the idea of PTSD where you can't get over what you've seen and you can link it to Freud and the ID because this poem shows you the danger of following your desires all right that is poem number three complete oh God now we have another big one and then we move on to my last touches and guys this is my favorite poem I love this point and if I was to give you guys a prediction this is my prediction for this year's exam I reckon you guys are going to get my last touches if you do fantastic if you don't fantastic all right guys my last touches what is this poem about let's go through it that's my last Duchess painted on the wall looking as if she were alive basically guys you've got a Duke actually let's read it first let's read it first I call that piece of Wonder now FR P's hand worked busily a day and there she stands will please you sit and look at her I said for pandos by design for never with strangers like you the picted countenance the depth and passion of his Earnest glance but to myself they turned brackets since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you but I close brackets and seemed as they would ask me if they DED how such a glance came there so not the first are you to turn asked us sir to was not her husband's presence only called that spot of joy into the duchess's cheek perhaps for pandolf for Pand you going perhaps for pandol chance to say her mantel laps over my lady's wrist too much or paint must never hope to reproduce the faint half flush that dies along her throat that stuff was courtesy she thought and cause enough for calling up that spot of Joy she had a heart how shall I say too soon made glad too easily impressed she liked wherever she looked on and her looks went everywhere sir it was all one my favor at her breath the dropping of the daylight in the west the Bowl of Cherries some officious fool broke in the orchard for her the white mule she roded around with around the Terrace all and each would draw from her alike the approving speech or blush at least she thaned men good but than somehow I know not how as if she wrapped my gift of a 900 years old name with anybody's gift who stoop to blame this sort of trifling even had you skill in speech which I have not to make your will quite clear to such and one and say just this or that in you disgust me here you miss or there you exceed the mark and if she let herself be less and so no plainly set her wits to yours for sooth and made excuse even then would be some stooping and I choose never to stoop oh sir she smiled No Doubt but sorry whenever I passed her but who passed without that much the same smile this grew I gave command and all smilees stopped together and there she stands as if alive will it please you rise we'll meet the company below then I repeat the count your Master's known manificent is ample warrant that no just pretense of mine for Dar will be disallowed though his daughter's self as I avowed as as starting is my object blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah let's end it there all right guys that is the point now just because it is a lengthy poem don't be put off guys it's a very good poem and I promise you it is written in English now what is this poem about guys the poem is essentially about the Duke the Duke um is looking to get married again and the guy or the girl he wants to get married to or looking to get married to a man from her house has come to see the Duke and for me this poem is a warning the Duke tells this man about his ex-wife about his previous wife my last Duchess my last wife and we get the impression guys that when the poem begins he says that's my last dutches painting on the wall so he's got a painting of his wife on the wall in his house his ex-wife and he says to this guy look have a look that's my wife that's my ex-wife and then essentially guys um to cut a long story short he thinks his wife's been having an affair and it seems that he's either got her killed or he killed her himself or something happened to her and she's no longer with us um now there are a few quotes guys that I like to look at I want you guys to look at this quote here since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you but I and when it comes to this quote guys we can analyze the enjoyment and we can talk about how this quote is J to position now what can we say about these two things what we can say here is as follows so what the Duke is doing right at this point um here's the picture of his ex-wife and in front of the picture he has a curtain that he lets he opens for some people to see and he closes for others not not to see but it's like that Juke is a bit weird he's a bit twisted because he's talking to the picture that's the brackets the brackets emphasizes how at that moment the Duke is directly talking to the pitcher he's talking to his wife what is the Duke doing he says to the pitcher on the wall no one basically can cover you with the curtain or uncover with the curtain but I it's like he thinks he's powerful over her it's like he thinks he's in control but I use this quote to emphasize J position because even though he thinks he's in control over her the fact that she still plays on his mind shows the opposite it shows that she controls him because he's almost dying for any bit of power over her to the point where he thinks that he has control over her by putting a curtain over and uncovering her picture that is why it's j a position and then the enj GU for me he very powerful enj guide the line carries on but the line carrying on shows for me her NeverEnding control her control still exists it still carries on there's not a full stop there's not a comma there's not a pause to her control it is continuous and that is what I was say to that quote and it's a nice quote to remember um for your exam then guys he basically at this part of the text he accuses his wife and he goes through some of the stuff that she got up to and he's not really happy he's not really happy guys that he wasn't treat special impressed meaning I wasn't special for her she didn't treat me special a poor Duke and she liked whatever she looked on and her looks were everywhere basically guys she was a perver according to him he thinks that his wife was a bit of a pervert are women even called perverts I think so um but yeah she was a pervert guys and he says that her looks went everywhere and she liked what she looked on she was checking out other men and then he says it was all one now there's no point reming all of that just that in itself it was all one he's basically saying that I wasn't separate I wasn't special she treated all of us the same who's us other men other people um that would do things for her and talk about the idea of a hyperbole or if you ever use the entire quote so you might say from line 23 to 25 you can talk about it as a list um and how it emphasizes how and what kind of woman she is then guys I would argue that this entire quote it goes against the behavior of a patriarchal man he's he's like the Romeo and Juliet of poetry the guy's a wet wipe um he's moping around saying my wife didn't treat me special she didn't do things for me um according to him she was easily impressed she looked at other people fine that's if that's what you believe that's fine but he kind of goes against patriarchy he seems insecure he seems insecure of himself and how his wife felt about him which joses the idea of patriarchy and then guys I will link all of this so far to the form of the poem what is the form of this poem this poem guys is a dramatic monologue and and what is a dramatic monologue guys it is a first person poem and in this case it is a very biased poem why is it a biased poem because we only hear from the Duke's point of view we don't hear from her point of view he could be he could be lying for all we know but just because it's a dramatic monologue we must take his word for it because it is a bias one-sided Point stopped together and the technique that I would use here is probably the obvious one guys I would use sibilance as my technique Zoro in the middle of this line now what would I say about these two things when it comes to the siet guys I will talk about how the sibilance gives this poem a very very Sinister a very very dark feel um that is the effect of the S sound being repeated because that is what siblin is and when it comes to czora guys it is a irre regular pause but the irregular pause emphasizes how her life came to a to a to a unplanned pause I and she died and guys that is the poem my last touches I've given you three quotes I've given you a summary of the poem you've got the form of dramatic monologue and you are good to go for your exam next one guys Charge of the Light Brigade I didn't realize how long these poems are all right guys Charge of the Light Brigade half a league half a league half a league onwards all in the valley of death roll the 600 for the Light Brigade charge of the guns he said into the valley of death roll the 600 for the light bade was there a man dismayed not that the soldiers knew someone had blundered there is not to make reply there is not to reason why there is but to do and die love the N4 there I should be a singer guys the value of death bro the 600 um Flash the sa this bear flashed as they turn air saing the gun is there charging an army while all the world wondered plunged in the battery smoke right through the line they broke kasak and Russian re from the Sab stroke shattered and thered then they roded back but not the 600 Cannon to the right of them Cannon to the left of them Cannon behind them voied and thundered stormed out with shot and shell while horse and hero fell they had that that they that had fought so well came through the jaws of death back from the mouth of hell all that was left of them left of 600 when can their Glory fade oh the wild Char they made all the world wed honor the Char they made honor the Light Brigade Noel 600 guys this poem essentially is about a Army and the Army was named uh Light Brigade and it is about how this Army charged into battle however the context goes that this Army misinterpreted or misheard the order the order that the Army received was to back down but the Army for some strange reason they misheard the order and they charged and a lot of them were killed and some of them survived that is what the poem is about now when it comes to this particular poem guys straight off the bat I would like you all to talk about how this poem is an epic poem because it is definitely about an event it's probably the easiest poem when it comes to is it about an event and what event is this about guys this is about the charging of the Light Brigade it is about a war it is about a battle and when it comes to this particular poem guys and our quote that we want to learn an easy quote guys is the idea of into the valley of death very early on but a very good quote to remember now this quote guys is the idea of foreshadowing and symbolism that is produced from death and if you want to take it further guys you can also link it to some context and the idea of proper propanda now how can we talk and what can we say about these three things I will discuss it in a second um then a good lovely set of lines to talk about is these three lines over here there is not to re there is not to make reply there is not two reason why there is but to do and die and over here guys I would speak about the Anora and out all of them guys I will talk about the idea of the verb reply when it comes to this particular quote so now guys I would end by talking about um the wter over here wter here guys coincides with the J position that comes straight after it and these are the three quotes that I would speak about when it comes to this poem now guys of course for every poem you can speak about loads of more quotes but remember guys I'm trying to give you all 15 poems in one video I can't go over every single quote now what are we doing with these quotes into the valley of death symbolism foreshadowing propaganda the first point gu about propaganda is this soldiers can be compared to zombies in this poem they just charge there's no thought there's no act there's no there's no there's no there's no deliberation here from the very beginning they are riding into the valley of death a valley is a very a valley is between two mountain but it's very very small it's the idea that these men are never going to come back out once they're in they are never returning and what is this Valley a symbol of this Valley is a symbol of death from the very beginning of the poem we learned the idea that soldiers had no choice they had to even charge to their own death and this is built upon later by the idea their is not to make reply their is not to reason why and their is but to do and die and the repetition of there the Anor guys in justop poses this part here if everything is about them it's their there there everything is about them but nothing is about them the whole war is about them they are fighting this battle but they do not answer they just do as they told they do not think they don't reason why they don't think why am I going that way they just charge what do what is their one job they they do as they are told and they die very very powerful quote guys but very very sad quote um it's a lovely comparison to bayet charge when we get there but it shows you the life of a soldier essentially be quiet and do as you're told even if you are told to die you die and this can also be linked to the idea of propaganda because how do you make someone sacrifice their life for their country propaganda you will be a hero if you die you will be remembered if you die this can be also linked then guys to kamakazi um but guys this is a very nice and lovely quot to talk about the idea of how soldiers were were detached from themselves they were simply robots who were commanded to do whatever they want and guys the last line the vter charging charging charging the wter is the shift now they're beginning to die horse and hero fell why is this J position because this poem guys it doesn't hold anyone to account these men aren't dying because they're Heroes these men are dying because somebody made a brutal mistake somebody messed up and sent these men to their deaths does somebody have to die like that to be a hero that is why it's Jack the position remember the quote from London the blood that runs down palace walls this is this is an example of how the blood of these men is responsible on the hands of the generals and the people that let this battle take place but the whole poem talks about them as Heroes it's as though it's ignoring the reality of what happened all right guys and that is the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade next up guys oh I love this poem our brains ache this is one of the nature ones um our brains the first line is so beautiful our brains ache in the merciless iced East Winds that knif us we keep awake because the night is silent low drooping flares confuse our memory of the sent worried by silence centuries whisper curious nervous but nothing happens watching we hear the Mad gusts tugging on The Wire like twitching agonies of men among his brambles northward incessant the flickering Gunnery rumbles far off like a dull rumor of some other War what are we doing here the poignant misery of dawn begins to grow we only know that war lasts rain soaks and Cloud sags to me Dawn massing in the East her Melancholy Army attacks once more in ranks of shivering ranks of gray but nothing happens sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence less deadly than the air the shads black with snow with sidong flowing flakes that flop pors and renew we watch them wandering up and down the winds ulence but nothing happens pale Flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces we cringe in hold back on Forgotten Dreams and stay snow dazed deep into grassy ditches so we drow thund do littered with blossoms trickling with black birds fusses is it that we are dying slowly our ghosts drag home glimpsing the sunk FES glows with CR crusted dark red Jewels crickets jingle there for hours the innocent mice Rejoice the houses there shutters and doors all closed on us the doors are closed we turn back to our dying since we believe no otherwise can kind F burn nor ever son smile true on child or field or fruit for God's Invincible spring our love is made afraid therefore not Lo we lie out here therefore were born for love of God seems dying tonight this Frost will fasten on this mud and US shriveling many hands puckering for his crisp the bearing party picks and shovels in shaking grasp pours over half known faces all their eyes are ice but nothing happens all right guys this particular poem what is it about it is about a group of soldiers who are waiting for a battle to begin but before the battle begins nothing happens nothing happens but so much happens because while they're waiting for the battle to begin they're fighting a war that they never planned for and this is the war against nature and that is the war that ultimately destroys these men now how are we looking at this particular Point first things first guys it begins with our brains ache in the merciless ice East Winds that knif us over here I want to talk about personification and then I want to talk about the siet and then I want to speak about the enjoyment so we've got structure and we've got language sorry we've got form and language done straight away and then guys the Mad gusts tugging on The Wire then if you want to guys you can use the constant repetition of nothing happens and the last quote guys is this quote over here so let's go through guys the Mad gusts tugging on The Wire the verb tugging here is a very good verb and then the personification here is very very effective um and then guys you can also speak about um the repetition on these particular lines should you wish to and it ends it guys with the idea of jure position now let's go over these particular lines also guys when it comes to the form guys when it comes to the form of this poem this poem guys again I would argue it is a narrative poem because it tells you the story of these men the untold story of what they experience our brains ache in the merciless iced East Winds that knife us what a lovely start guys what a lovely start first thing first guys it's not our head hurt our brains ache they've been thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking that the head isn't hurting but the brain itself is is is in pain the brain itself is struggling number two you can analyze from this quote is the idea of propaganda they've been fed so much they don't even know what to do anymore they can't even think straight now the third Point their head is aching why the merciless this is also planification iced East Winds that ners such lovely cilet s s s SS and for me guys the S sound here mimics the movement of nature it's a long movement s s s and what's the s also mimicking the knifing the wing is coming in stabbing coming out stabbing coming out stabbing guys the poem begins on line one with these men getting absolutely destroyed by Nature they're not dodging bullets or bombs nature and the point is you can't defeat nature you can't you can't defeat nature you can't beat something you can't see you can't fight the wind So It Begins guys with these men absolutely helpless and guys the Mad gusts tugging on The Wire things just get absolutely worse but why is it important that the wind the gust is mad anger you can link this to anger nature isn't happy with these people and what they're about to do war and fighting and killing and pillaging so nature is absolutely mad and is tugging on The Wire even the next part here guys this is also a very good quote like twitching agonies of men on brambles that's a good simile and it's the idea guys that nature and the way the wind is blowing is just tearing these people apart um it's just destroying everything they haven't even started the war and they are getting destroyed and that is why this dap poses nothing happens why because it shows you that just like the men in charge of the Light Brigade these men are programmed to stand there and wait for the war to begin but they don't understand the war has begun nothing happens mate so much is happening you're getting battered by nature but just because they've been programmed to understand that you don't move and you stand there and you wait in their head everything is okay and that is why we can link this to the last qu ultimate downfall they're going to die out here and they're not going to die because they've they've been shot they're going to die because they've been frozen to death by Nature because they're still waiting for the war to begin but the War Began ages ago and that is the war with nature the bearing Party Guys it won't even recognize their faces because of how they look then we have the poem storm on the island we are prepared we build up houses squat sink walls in rock and roof them with good SLE this WIS in Earth has never troubled us with hay so as you see there are no Stacks or stoks that can be lost nor are there trees which might prove company when it blows full blast you know what I mean leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale so that you can listen to the thing you fear forgetting that it pummels your house too but there are no trees no natural shelter you might think that the sea company exploding com down the cliffs but no when it begins the flung spray hits the very window spits like a tame cat turns Savage we just sit tight while wind Dives and strafes invisibly space is a salvo we are bombarded by the empty air strange it is a huge nothing that we fear all right guys storm on the island let's now go through what this particular poem is about poem is also quite symbolic Because poem symbolizes the problems in Northern irland and it talks about the divide that existed at the time and this poem is a reflection of that and it talks about the idea of propaganda and how people were told to prep for a war but in reality this part here it was a huge nothing that we fear everything they were prepping for everything they were preparing for it's like me preparing for an enemy that's coming through that window over there but really they're going to come through the window over here their focus was incorrect their focus was on the wrong people to it is a huge nothing that we fear I want you guys to use these quotes and we analyze them in a second but these quotes are worth talking about as J position and then I would like you to also talk about this part over here which is the vault of our poem we just sit tight while wind dies I would like you all to speak about this guys as being the vter of the poem and for this part here guys you can zoom in to the verb sit and finally guys when it comes to our last quote to the thing you fear forgetting that it pummels your house too right the technique here would be personification shadowing and when it comes to the form of this poem this poem guys would be an epic poem because it is about the events in Northern Ireland now when it comes to analyzing these three Cults guys and analyzing the entire ponent essentially guys the message of this poem is that you can't ever prepare for war because there are elements you don't control now it begins guys with confidence it begins with we are prepared and it ends with it's a huge nothing that we fear those two contrast they are just opposing why because it begins with the speaker absolutely clear as to what they're trying to fight we are prepared they know exactly who they're going to go up against but by the end of the text it's confusion it's question mark question mark question mark question mark and that's what and that's why there is just a position because throughout the poem The Speaker has a realization and then guys all this part talks about how they prepared but then they realize hold on you listen to the thing you fear forgetting that it pummels your house too that point in the poem is very powerful these people guy is puming is attacking the house and it foreshadows their downfall why does it foreshadow the downfall because at this moment in the text it realizes that as human beings they spent so much time looking out following the news doing what they've been told hate that person forget that person never realizing that the same people that have taught you to hate the same people that have taught you to live a certain way when the time is right they will attack you as well nobody is safe nobody is safe from this attack and then guys it's the idea of being helpless nature here guys for me is symbol is symbolic of the idea of the government because what can they do when the attack begins they just sit tight what happened to all that prep what happened to all that um discussion of what they've done when the attack begins when the war begins if you want to make it a war of nature when the war with nature begins what can you do nothing you just sit tight and wait to hope and pray to God that it doesn't destroy you completely and that is why the vulture here is important because the vter here shifts to the idea of them being absolutely helpless it is a good poem guys to compare to U exposure all right got next one it's a nice poem this is bayet charge um suddenly he awoke and was running raw in raar seemed hot his sweat heavy stumbling across a field of clouds towards a Green Hedge that dazzled with rifle fire hearing bullets smacking the belly out of the air he lugged a rifle numb and a smashed arm the Patriotic tear that had bried in his eye sweating like molten iron from the center of his chest in bewilderment then he almost stopped in what cold Clockwork the stars and the Nations was he the hand pointing at that second he was running like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs listening between his footfalls for the reason of his still running and his foot hung like staty in mid stride then the shot slashed Farrow threw up a yellow hair that rolled like a flame and crawled in a threshing Circle its mouth opened silent its eyes standing out he plunged path with his bayonet towards the Green Hedge King honor human dignity Etc dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm to get out of that blue crackling ear his Terrors touchy Dynamite guys what is a Bay a bay is a rifle that has a knife attached to the end and this poem guys essentially in a nutshell it's about a soldier who wakes up and he is in the middle of a battle and he runs and as he's running he's thinking what am I doing here why am I even here um and then by the end of the poem he realizes that everything he's been sold is a lie everything he's been fighting for is is a lie and these are the three quotes guys that we're going to try to remember when it comes to this poem smacking the belly out of the air and who jumped up in the dark and runs and number three guys dropped like luxuries in a yelling alone these are the three quotes that we are going to remember and I would argue guys that this particular poem is also a Nar native poem because it tells the story of the realization that this man has whilst on the battlefield now what are we going to analyze for these three bullets smacking the belly out of the a we begin with a metaphor and I would like to talk about the use of an honor over there then guys I would talk about the simile here and I'll will talk about what we can discuss about what the word dark symbolizes in this part of the text and then guys I will look at this as being a vter and I will talk about um how the writer uses J to position at this moment in in our text also and finally guys when it comes to this particular poem guys you can talk about patriarchy and we can talk about propaganda should we wish to now what can we say about these three quotes I tried to pick these three quotes guys because these three quotes you can use to tell the story of the poem the poem begins guys with this guy in a battle bullets were smacking the belly out of the air have you guys ever smacked your bellies that's a sound it makes that's what he's talking about as he's running he can hear bullets bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang and what does it show us here guys that first part it shows us what an amateur he is he's not fit to be a soldier if you're a soldier and you're running and you can hear bullets bang bang bang take cover take your gun out you got a B it use it but it shows how he as a soldier is not trained he's just been sent to the Army and go and fight for your particular country and then guys that idea is built upon here he was running like a man who jumped up in the dark and runs he has no clue what he's doing and that's why the word dark can symbolize Darkness as in it's dark but dark is the idea his eyes are blinded he can't see the truth he can't see why he's here that again guys is another good quote to talk about the idea of how these soldiers had no power yet they were in positions of power and the last quote guys I love this quote King honor human dignity these were the three things that he was told you fight for you fight for your king you fight for the honor of your country and you fight for the people and the respect of the people of your country then the fourth on the list Etc it it's like a it's like a disrespect and blah blah blah and blah blah blah and blah blah blah everything he's been told to fight for dropped like luxuries in an alarm when an alarm goes off you run you drop everything and you run at that moment in time all the lies everything that he'd been fed he dropped it he opened his eyes his shackles were off he was free and that is why that last part is the vulture because this is when the Man actually wakes up this is the process and then he wakes up damn I'm going to drop all of this and therefore this this ju poses a soldier this poem is a good poem to compare to the poem Charge of the Light Brigade because it's the opposite it's the opposite of that particular poem all right guys let's move on next poem guys that we're going to do is the poem remains on another occasion we get sent out to tell to tackle lutters raiding a bank and one of them legs it up the road probably armed possibly not well myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind so all three of us open fire three of a kind all let him fly and I swear I see every round as it rips through his life I see broad daylight on the other side so we've hit this luta a dozen times and he's day on the ground sort of inside out pain itself the image of Agony one of my mates goes by and tosses his guts back into his body then he's CED off in the back of a lorry end of story except not reading his blood Shadow stays in the street and out on control I walk right over it week after week and then I'm home on leave but I blink and he's there sorry and he bursts again through the doors of the bank sleep and he's possibly armed possibly not dream and he's torn apart by a dozen rounds and the drink and the drugs won't flush him out he's here in my head when I close my eyes dug in Behind Enemy Lines not left for dead in some distant Sun St sand SM land or 6 ft under in sand but near to the knuckle here and now his bloody life in my bloody hands that is the poem remains now what is this particular poem about guys remains is about the idea of regret the idea of doing something as a soldier but then realizing maybe it wasn't a good thing to do this poem is in two halves in the first half of the poem guys our soldier talks about how and this poem guys is believed to be set in either Iraq or Afghanistan and it talks about how this Soldier was on duty and some people they looted a m and as they ran away these soldiers they blasted this man from behind and he fell and his guts were out and they disrespect his body and they put him in the back of a lorry and off he went they brutally killed this man for pretty much nothing because he was running away he wasn't firing back then while the soldier was on duty he was fine but then he went home back to where he came from probably America and when he went home PTSD kicked in trauma kicked in every time he slept every time he closed his eyes he kept picturing this man he kept picturing what was going on and then this man couldn't get over what had what he had done this is a good comparison to make guys straight off the bat to a poem like Prelude because that poem is literally in the same structure two halves good to the bad now what are three quotes guys that we can use from this from this poem and take them straight into our example as it ripped through his life hit this looter a dozen times any one of those or both of those if you can remember them are very good and then guys where it says I would do dream sleep and blink guys I would do dream sleep and blink and my last cour guide that I would do near to the knuckle here and now his bloody life in my bloody hands now what are we going to talk about firstly guys when it comes to this particular poem when it comes to the form of this poem straight away guys very easily it is a narrative poem because it tells the story of this particular man and his actions then when it comes to the actual quotes that we've selected um over here guys and over here I see every round as it rips through his life here guys it begins with a hyperbole and then here it just opposes the entire call I'll explain why in second I blink I sleep and I dream here guys we have a semantic field and with these quotes I will talk about also the vter and then lastly guys n to the knuckle here and now his bloody life in my bloody hands I would end it by talking with the the idea of a cyclical structure and then I will talk about the repetition of bloody now what are we doing with these three quots I see every round as it rips through his life guys that is a violent violent death violent they didn't shoot him in the leg remember he he was running the other way they didn't shoot him in the leg they didn't just tap him to disarm him or to drop him they shot him to kill the rounds were ripping I think there's a part there that says they saw broad daylight on the other side you can literally see right through him and it shows the the viciousness with which these soldiers killed this man I compared it to them hunting an animal it's like they were hunting an animal that's the prey and they were the hunters and then guys the Entre ire scene is just opposed just opposed like what we've hit this luta a dozen times oh yeah by the way we hit him a dozen times they don't even care they didn't shoot it once twice three times four times five six seven eight and soone they continuously shot this guy it was like target practice bang bang bang bang bang bang bang and these two Cults guys number one it shows how vicious they are but it just opposes human nature they they're not behaving like human beings they are behaving like men hunting an animal vicious absolute predators and that is what you want to say when it comes to this particular quote and then guys blink sleep and dream I just use these three words guys blink sleep and dream and these three words for me they create a semantic field and the semantic field is the idea of Peace when you blink and you sleep and you dream that is when you at peace gu that is when you can rest but imagine if you couldn't sleep anymore you'd go crazy you'd go insane and that is why guys this semantic feel it shows you how this man he's not physically affected it's the mind that's been affected and that's the vter where is his where's his lacad isical attitude where's his relaxed Style Now where's his where's his predator and hunting mindset now now the guy can't go to sleep now he can't relax and that's the vter that's the turning point of everything inside the poems and then guys the poem ends with this man behaving like lady MCB PTSD is our context by the way guys PTSD is our context for this poem his hands are a symbol of his C his crimes he's near to the knuckle here and now his bloody life in my bloody hand in the beginning in the beginning he was near to the knuckle in the beginning he had blood on his hands but it wasn't the same effect he was loving it then but now guys it's the idea that this crime cannot be washed this crime cannot go because the mind cannot get over it the mind is polluted it's in a conflict there are so many poems that discuss inner conflict and then gu bloody and bloody emphasizes the idea of how the killing is still fresh in his mind three days before armor Sunday and poppies had already been placed on individual Warg Graves before you left I pinned one onto your lapel crimped crimped petals spasm on paper red disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your Blazer Cate bandage around my hand I rounded up as many white cat hairs as I could smooth down your shirt's upturn collar steal the softening of my face I wanted to graze my nose across the tip of your nose player being exos like we did when you were little I resisted the impulse R my fingers to the gel black Thorns of your hair all my words flattened rolled turned into felt slowly melting I was Brave as I walked with you to the front door threw it open the world overflowing like a treasure chest a split second and you were away intoxicated after you'd gone I went into your bedroom released a song bird from his cage later a single Dove flew from the peer tree and this is where it has led me skirting the churchard walls my stomach busy making tucks and DTS pleat hatas without a winter coat or reinforcements of scarf and gloves on reaching the top of the hill I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial lean against it like a wishbone the dove pulled freely against the sky an ornamental Stitch I listened hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind a very very sad poem guys this is a very sad poem essentially guys this poem is about a mother who is remembering her forn son um who died we presume in war and the mother poppies is a symbol of uh remembering War and the mother is remembering the son that she once had now this particular poem guys I would argue that this is an epic poem and the reason I would argue guys because it is the event of remembrance um that this poem is centered around now when it comes to three quotes um that I would use U for this particular poem I would use the idea of Cotate bandage around my hand actually no let's do better one I wanted to graze my nose across the tip of of your nose then guys I was Brave as I walked with you to the front door and then the dove pull fely against the sky and ornamental Stitch these are the three quotes um that I would use when it comes to this particular point and of course you can learn more but these three quotes guys are very good quotes I want you to graze my nose across the tip of your nose our poem with symbolism and I would zoom in to the verb of Grace then I was Brave as I walked with you to the front door I will talk about the structural technique of flashback and I will talk about the adjective Brave and then guys this for me here is the vter and I would zoom in to the verb pulled now what are we doing with these quotes what are we doing with these quotes guys you know this poem it focuses on the dark side of war the really really dark side of War though the other poems right never focused on the victims of war other than soldiers bayet charge was about the soldier Charge of the Light Brigade was about the soldier exposure was about the soldier but this poem is about the other victims the family the friends the people that are left behind when all the dust has settled these people all they've got left is memories all they've got left is bits in their mind that they're praying to God that they don't forget that's the mother in this poem it begins guys I want to graze my nose against the tip of your nose very very symbolic action playful and it sybiz in love guys the the the image of the mother and a child and the nose is grazing it it is a very very iconic image and at this point guys it symbolizes what she once had she's living in that moment she's living in that past her son's grown up this big guy who's been going to war he's still a kid but the mother wants that moment she for him this is still her child and and therefore guys this cour here it shows the innocence of War you could put a uniform on a man and give him a gun but that's still her boy that's still her son take it all away she wants that boy back War has ruined her life then guys she didn't it shows the idea guys I was Brave every other point bravery is associated with who bravery is associated with the soldiers themselves but I was Brave here guys is the idea that this is a war for the mother this is a fight for the mother she has to be brave herself I was Brave as I walked with you to the front door I will talk about the flashback here guys and I will talk about the adjective here of how she has to behave in this situation and then this is the wter guys and this is the vter because at this moment the mother is almost having to let go the mother guys is almost having to let go the dove that's pulling in the the dub that's pulling I would argue um is a is symbolism but it's the idea that it's pulling that the dub is a symbol of her son and it's pulling away it's time for the mom to let go it's time for the mom to set her son free that is how I view these last line of the point it's that vter guy it's the it's the it's the mother forc herself to let go of the sadness and the sorrow that she's held on to for so long but this poem guys is very very good to talk about the victims of the victims the first victim were the soldiers but the victims after the victims were the friends and the family and in this case the mother of that child all right guys the next poem that we are looking at is Wolf photographer in his dark room he is finally alone with full of suffering set out in order Rose the only light is red and softly glows as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to inone a mass Belfast by root from pen All Flesh is grass he has a job to do Solutions slop in trays beneath his hand do not tremble then though seem to now rural England home home again to Ordinary Pain with simple weather can dispel to fields which don't explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat something is happening A stranger's features faintly start to twist before his eyes a half formed ghost He remembers the cries of this man's wife how he sought approval without words to do what someone must and how the blood stains into foreign dust aund agonies in black and white from which his editor would pick out five or six for Sunday supplement the reader's eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and the pre-lunch bears from the airplane he stayes impassively at where he earned his living and they do do not care guys this poem is similar to poppies in the sense that it is about the victims of the victims of war who is the war photographer the war photographer his job is essentially to take pictures of war and this guy that's his job so he's gone out there and he's been snapping away he's been taking loads of pictures and he comes back home and when he comes back home similar to the guy in exposure when they come back home when they're out of that environment he begins to suffer from PTSD he begins to have some mental discussions and some mental torture and the poem begins guys where he's looking at the pictures and then in paragraph 2 and sorry in stanza 2 and stanza 3 the pictures almost come alive and they begin to trouble him they begin to haunt him and they begin to really cause him discomfort and by the time gu stanza for he's bitter he's upset but back out he goes because he has a job to do comes to this poem guys this poem is our EAS easy peasy narrative poem because it tells the story of the war photographer and again guys the first line of the the quotes guys that I would use guys is his hands which did not uh tremble those seem to now second quote that I would use guys a strangest features faintly start to twist before his eyes and the last one that I would use guys is 100 agonies in black and white now what are we saying about these quots number one the first technique that I would like to talk about in this poem is J position and the part about structure that I would like to talk about is the idea of enjoyment that is when it comes to these two quotes zoom in to the verb of twist and then link it to foreshadowing and then if you wanted to link this point your context here would be PTSD and then we have our final call guys a 100 agonies in black and white this is a metaphor and I would focus on what 100 symbolizes and that is what I would discuss there now what are we saying about these three it's a narrative point but what are we saying about these three the first one guys is um his hands which did not tremble those seem to know I should have said it earlier guys I also really really like the verb tremble in this instance now what can we do here guys the fact that his hands are trembling but they're not shaking they're trembling trembling normally is an involuntary act this is shaking right my hand's shaking right now but when you tremble trembling is linked to emotion trembling is linked to feelings and the feeling that can be displayed here guys is the idea of fear is the idea of um nerves is the idea of PTSD but this guy is now struggling with what he's done these pictures that he once took he's now struggling with the memories that these pictures are bringing back and therefore guys in this one line from there to there we've got j a position because this contrast that from No Hands trembling to hands trembling This Man shows a change has occurred and you want to talk about the idea that the change in setting mimics the change in his feelings and then guys why are we talking about enjoyment 1 2 3 all these lines are enjoyment but what do you what do we want to say here guys I will talk about the idea of how there's two things that the enjoyment mimics it's the never ending memory that is always coming in and then the uncontrollable actions there's no order because if there a comma or a full stop at the end of a line there's a clear order and a clear structure because there's no clear order because there's no clear structure this mimics his behavior this mimics his movements that's the first quot done next one guys a strangest Fe strangers are haunting him you he doesn't know who these dead bodies are he doesn't know who these people he was saying excuse me excuse me uh wife let me take a picture of your husband before you start crying because that's what he talks about over here about how he used to ask people's approval to take snapshots while they were mourning the death of loved ones but the strangest features guys what is it for shadow if for shadow is eventual downfall because he's now hallucinating he's seeing things from hands trembling he's now now seeing things what does this link to it links to the poem remains blinking sleeping dreaming it's a gradual buildup um and the the features start to twist before his eyes now why is that verb important guys the verb is important because it's not as though like right now right if I said to you guys I'm picturing I'm picturing I don't know a car that's fine but this man he's not picturing his victims they're moving and they're twisting it's like there a ghost in front of him it's like he's being haunted um by these memories um of what he did again PTSD and then guys the last stanza where he talks about 100 agonies in black and white what are these agonies what are these things that he's saying the literally the symbol of pain the symbol of hardship it's the pictures and that is why that is symbolism um that has been used in that quote now guys one extra quote not quote but one thing to talk about is the idea of resentment over here he's saying look I'm going through all of this I went through all of this and the editor will pick out five or six for the Sunday supplement what does that imply his hardship is entertainment it's going to sell copies it's going to sell papers as human beings we've become desensitized to Warfare when I'm on my phone and I'm swiping through my Instagram feed and I see a war or violence I carry on swiping because we've seen it so much for these people his hardship his War the stuff that he goes through is entertainment for other people and therefore guys it shows you the ju position the Paradox when it comes to Warfare you've got soldiers dying you've got this man struggling because of the pictures that he takes of these men dying and then you got the last part of the of the vable you've got people buying articles buying papers enjoying these uh articles because of the pictures that are used this poem guys it shows you the other side of War um that some of these poems talk about oh God here we go tissue guys tissue tissue I promise you guys tissue is not hard I'm going to make it super duper easy for you guys tissue guys paper that lets the light shine through this is what could alter things paper thin by a you're touching uh where am I the kind you find in well-used books the kind you find in well used books where am I guys the back of the Quran where a hand has written in the names and history who was born to whom the height and weight who died where and how on which SE your date Pages smooth and stroked and turned transparent with attention if buildings were paper I might feel they drift see how easily they fall away on a side a shift in the direction of the wind maps to the sun shines through their borderlines the marks that rivers make roads rail tracks Mountain folds fine slips from ghoster shops that say how much was sold and what was paid by credit card might fly alive like paper kites or block but let the daylight break through capitals and monoliths through the shapes that Pride can make find a way to trace a grand design with living tissue raise a structure never meant to L of paper smoothed and stroked and thin to be transparent turned into your skin tissue tissue tissue tissue guys what is this poem about this is my analysis guys of this poem for me guys tissue at the top um guys tissue at the top over here is a metaphor and it's a metaphor for life and this poem it doesn't talk about tissues that you wipe your bum with it talks about tissue in the sense of us human beings human beings are built of tissue you cut me and you remove my skin I'm not a scientist but sooner or later you're going to bump into my tissue and it's the idea of the creation of life and that is why the last line is the buildup of all of this turning into our skin turning into us so this poem guys is the metaphor or is a metaphor for life on how to create or how to be like the perfect person that is how I analyze the poem is fin grocery shops might fly our lives like paper kites two the sun shines through their borderline living tissue raise a structure never meant to last these are the quotes that I would like us to speak about now what's being used and where is it being used over here I would talk about the Sora and over here guys I will talk about the symbolism of the Sun the simile over here and then I will talk about the verb over there um in that quot there now what are we doing with these quotes why did I pick let me zoom out a little bit guys why did I pick these particular qus let's begin there's so much guys that we can say in this PO um there's so much if I had an hour to analyze the poem we would go into crazy detail but for the sake of this deta video guys I want to try to keep it short and keep it as beneficial as possible now what can you do with this poem and these three quotes remember what I said earlier this poem is a metaphor for Life how to raise and create the perfect being now number one maps to and the czora gives it a pause and gives it emphasis now what are maps a symbol of map skies are a symbol of the world of course and on the map we have borders yeah we have borders you're from England you're from I don't know America you're from Pakistan you're from this you're from that you're from that and the writer is saying that with the map we should we should let the sun shine through the map now when you let light shine through paper what happens the paper is hard to see the paper becomes blurry because the light takes out a lot of the text or the lines and the interpretation guys of this quote is the writer is talking about if we want to create the perfect person then we must stop defining ourselves through our nationalities because it causes division it causes problems you're from there and you're from there you're from there and you're from there X stop following man-made lines stop following man-made borders instead use natural borders mountains are natural use them instead of building your own lines and dividing the people that's the first way to create the perfect person second find CS from grocery shops might fly Al Al like paper kites now what is this saying over here guys you get a kite and you put it in the wind and if the wind goes that way you go that way the wind goes that way you go that way what is this paragraph talking about first it talked about stop dividing yourself based upon where you're from number two stop chasing money Mr Burling Mr Scrooge stop being that person whose life is based upon wealth whose life is based upon money and just imagine imagine the kite is money and you're chasing it if the wind goes that way you go that way if the wind goes that way you go that way have some value stop moving wherever it goes and then the last part guys is the culmination of the entire events in the poem If you can fix all of that and guys there's other stuff the poet talks about they talk about religion in the poem they talk about Society in the poem you put all that together you fix all those problems what can you do you can raise a structure with living tissue that was never meant to last what is a structure that is raised with living tissue that is never meant to last we are that structure the writer is saying it's just the position because all that effort into creating something that is never meant to last but that's the idea of power we are powerless we are only on this Earth for a certain amount of time but the writer is saying guys in this poem stop doing things that make life bad for yourself and other people stop dividing based upon nationality stop U chasing money like it means everything to you and other stuff it talks about take guidance from religion stop following Trends in society when it talks about how buildings are existing instead you want to get rid of all those bad qualities and then you can raise a structure that is never meant to last that is ultimately turned into us all right guys emigree and this is a poem that I hate because the lady in this poem lives in denial the agree guys there was once a country I left it as a child but my memory of it is sunlight clear for it seems I never saw that saw it in that November which I am told comes to the mildest City the worst news I receive of it cannot break my original view the bright field paper weight it may be at War it may be sick with tyrants but I am branded by an impression of sunlight the white streets of that City the graceful slopes go even clearer As Time rolls its tanks and the Frontiers rise Between Us close like waves that child vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll open and Spilled like a grammar spills a grammar soon I shall have every colored molecule of it it may be now it may by now be a lie banned by the state but I can't get it off my tongue it tastes of sunlight I have no passport there's no way back at all but my city comes to me in its own white plane it lies down in front of me doile as paper I comb it here and love his shining eyes my city takes me dancing through the city of walls they accuse me of absence they Circle me they accuse me of being dark in their free City My City hides behind me they mutter death and My Shadow Falls as evidence of sunlight what is the emigree about guys the emigree is about a person a woman a girl who left her country as a child and when she left her country as a child she left it because her country was underwar it was being occupied it was being taken over by by oppressive bad rulers and as time has gone on her country has changed because the rule has changed and War has changed and she can't accept that she can't accept that the place she's from has now changed they don't want her anymore the people they have now changed it's been colonized and she then tries to go back but she does not belong in that place so it's the idea guys of the effects of War not killing but the effects of War of people who were misplaced and people who had to leave and lose their homes and then they became strangers where once they belonged you want to look at this poem guys I would call it an epic poem because it talks about the event of War and the other impact that Warfare can have okay the worst news of it cannot break my original review that's the idea of um that's the idea of denial the second quote I would use guys like a hollow doll opens and Spills a grammar they accuse me of absence they Circle me these are the three quotes that I would use and guys I hope you're noticing a trend the quotes that I'm picking the the three quotes that I choose can pretty much sum up every single poem that we're doing all right guys first things first is the idea of denial the worst news I receive of it cannot break my original view she's saying that no matter what I'm told no matter what they say about my city no matter what they say about where I'm from I'm not going to change I'm going to still believe that it is perfect and this is J the position guys because she is in absolute denial and the enj guys line carrying on for me emphasizes has this has gone on for far too long but it shows you the damage that war has done land for her was not just like U bricks and grass land for her symbolized a belonging it symbolized somewhere she loved it symbolized home so even though things have changed she's stuck on and held on to that memory of where she's gone and then guys the simil over here like a Hol doll opens and Spills a grammar this is very important a hollow doll empty inside and when you talk you spill grammar that's that is grammar is what grammar's symbols and rules it's not words so it's the impression guys that I get that when she speaks now nobody understands her it's like listening to grammar it doesn't make sense what you talking about where's your words what are you saying to me nobody understands what she's talking about nobody understands what she's trying to say nobody's going to listen and then guys finally they the they here is her referring to the people of that land that she once left they accuse me of being absent meaning you left us this is not yours anymore you you ran away you went they Circle me is foreshadowing her downfall but I wouldn't say they're going to physically kill her it foreshadows the downfall of her memory and that's why it's the vaa it's the shift it's like a wakeup Hall she's realizing that her memory must die her memory must fall um of the land that she once had and guys that is how you want to view the poem emigree in a nutshell now guys checking out my history I am not going to read all of that because that will take us ages but guys checking out my history is a very good poem checking out my history is a poem that looks at the problems with Society the problems with the government the problems with education it looks at how everything that this man has been taught has been taught with an agenda it's been taught one-sided he accuses education of being classist of being racist and he talks about how everything you taught me has been there to dumb me down has been there to Blind me you've never taught me about my history about where I'm from you've only taught me about things to boost up the Empire to boost up the Colonial View that the world is supposed to live under and this is what this poem is about this man is trying to break free of his shackles he's trying to break free of everything that he's been told and he's trying to find his identity he's trying to find who he is now when it comes to this poem this is our lovely beautiful free verse poem guys because this poem look at it it has no clear stanza length it follows no rules Mr John AAR does whatever reflect the idea of freedom now let's focus guys bandage up me eye with me own history blind me to me own identity that is quote number one that we shall be focusing on the repetition of Dem tell me Dem tell me and it continues throughout the entire poem I'm carving out my own identity all right yes this is a free verse poem then first thing that I would like us to focus on guys is the repetition of them tell me now the language that has been used here is colloquial language guys colloquial language is when you write the way you speak and I would zoom in guys I would zoom in to the verb tell for that particular quote then for the second one bandage up me I with my own history blind me to me own identity this I would use it as J position and I would zoom in to what a bandage symbolizes of the verb carving over here and I will also link it to the idea of foreshadowing in this particular call all right cool what are we doing what are we doing with these particular calls first things first damn tell me damn tell me damn tell me damn tell me D tell me Dam tell me why is he writing in colloquial language why is he saying them tell me why is he saying damn tell me I would argue Guy this is a power play he's not following the rules of English language of English language he's writing the way he speaks because the way he speaks reflects where he's from so he is using language here as a tool of claiming back his power that is what I would say for the colloquial language and then guys I will zoom into the verb tell because he's now going to flip it you've been telling me stuff for all this time now let me tell you something so now he's flipping it and he keeps repeating it over and over again because he wants to emphasize the idea that number one enough is enough but number two listen to me if you want to go for a third one put a big question mark who is the them the them the demem could be a symbol of the government it could be a symbol of Education it could be a symbol of the media all the different arms of the government can be a symbol of the Dem because all these ways is all these methods sorry is what the government uses to pass out information to tell people stuff they'll use TV they'll use they'll use YouTube they'll use movies they'll use music videos they'll use education they'll use teachers and curriculum to pass out certain ideas and that's maybe who he's referring to in the them then guys bandage up me I with me own history when do you normally put a bandage over something you put a bandage over something to cover the wounds to cover the scares they want to hide their crimes they want to hide the crimes that they've committed against this man's people they want to hide what they've done and they also want to Blind him to who he is and where he's from and this is to gain power because one of the one of the tools of colonization to gain power was to cut ties between people and their history and this was done by changing the language of the land changing the literature of the land so as time were on generation after generation would become detached to where the family are from and then guys finally if we're looking at the last few line the last line of the poem this line of the poem guys it contrasts it joses the first couple of lines of the poem in the beginning so you can justos as well he is now carving guys this verb is so powerful it's like McBeth carving out his passage when you carve something you leave a permanent Mark he is now finding out who he is bit by bit not in one go he's carving it's a process it's something he's doing over time but what is he carving he's carving out his identity he's finding who he is and the poem ends by him clearly saying I am claiming back the power that you once took from me very good comparison to the poem B charge now move on to the poem kamakazi um Mr suicide is what I call this poem um kamazi guys her father embarked at Sunrise with a flask of water a samurai sword in the cockpit a shaven head full of powerful incantations and enough fuel for a one-way journey into history but halfway there she thought recounting it later to her children he must have looked down he must have looked far down at the little fishing boats strung out like buting on a green blue translucent sea and beneath them aching aring in suedes uh like a h hug flag wav first one way then the other in figure of eight the dark sh of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivel towards the Sun and remembered how he and his brothers waiting on the shore built canes of pearly green Pebbles to see who with stod longest the turbulent inrush of Breakers bringing their father's boat safe guess grandfather's boat safe to the shore salt sh salt Soden a wash with Cloud Market mackerel black crabs feathery porn the loose silver of white bait and once a tunea the Dark Prince muscular dangerous and though he came back my mother never spoke again in his presence nor did she meet his eyes and the neighbors too they treated him as though he no longer existed only we children chattered and laughed till we too gradually learned to be silent what a lovely quote uh to live as though he had never returned and this was no longer the father we loved and sometimes she said he must have wondered which had been the better way to die all right guys Kazi what is this poem about guys first things first you must understand guys that a kamakazi was a suicide uh Mission so a kamakazi was in Japan when um Japanese men would go into a small airplane and they would ride that airplane into a boat or into a ship of the enemy they would blow themselves up and the enemies would die also it was a suicide mission essentially and this poem guys it links heavily to the context of propaganda so these men were fed so much propaganda that they were told that if they do that they die for their country and they go down in history so this man he gets up in the morning and he has to go do his kamakazi mission he essentially has to go kill himself for the sake of his country but halfway there basically he looks down and he begins thinking about his family and his life and he stops and he changes his mind and he turns around and he comes back home when he comes back home and now this shows you the power of propaganda when he comes back home he is disowned by everyone his wife his friends his family his kids when they grow up they all disown him they all never talk to him because he's seen as a traitor he's seen as a coward because he didn't kill himself for the sake of his country and therefore guys this show this poem shows you that this guy was probably better off dying for his country because by surviving he was living like a dead man anyway and that is what this poem is about I would talk about how this poem is an epic poem because it talks about the event of what a kamakazi had to Embark upon um and the first quote guys I would use is a head full of powerful incantations remembered how he and his brothers waiting on the shore that part is enough and the last quote guys that I would use is the IDE idea of till gradually we to learn to be silent these are the three quotes that I would use number one guys head full head full of powerful incantation and then I will talk about the verb incantations for that first particular call then guys over here I would talk about the noun and then I will talk about the flashback and then guys over here I will talk about the vter and I would speak about the drer position those are three courts and those are the things that I would analyze in these courts now what are we saying here guys you know what it says that his head was full of powerful incantations incantations spells now obviously guys there's no one doing Juju on it there's no magic happening here but what is this a symbol of what is it talking about here it's the idea of propaganda his head is full of spells why do people cost spells people cost spells to control somebody this is the propaganda he's referring to his brain is full of stuff like fight for your country because you're brave fight for your people because that's what you're supposed to do king honor human dignity linking it what to Bay Net charge this poem is very similar to Bay Net charge the guy starts off ready to go but as the poem develops he realizes what am I doing and he jump ship he abandons and that is what we can say guys from the first quote that we learn that this guy is is is a victim of propaganda because that is what was used heavily during Warfare and then guys it's the flashback what breaks what loosens the chains what what what rubs out the the incantations it's the memories it's the flashbacks that he has in particular the noun Brothers the brothers symbolize family symb love and you've got relationships you got life versus death and that battle going on right now does he walk into the valley of death or does he pull back because he remembers that hold on a second I'm not a robot I have people that I care about I have people that care about me and there's that J position guys there's that fight that he has between the two of them and then guys last but not least this is the vter because look at the look at the J position after all that who did he come back for he came back for his family he came back for relationships he came back for the people they don't care about him to them he's a coward to them he's a sellout and that is why it's j a position and why is this the vter guys because this is a turning point where even the last people that were left were the children and even they learned that verb is very powerful even they learned based upon the status quo B Bas upon society that people like that man people like your dad people like our dad we don't speak to him cuz he's an outcast because of what he did and that is a nice way to end the poem because it shows the danger of propaganda and the power of War how War can brainwash people to make them obsessed with winning that they are even willing to put a country before family and relationships so in this video we have now covered aie mandes we've covered London Prelude dut es Light Brigade exposure storm on the island Bay Net charge remains poppies War photographer tissue emigree checking out my history and chicology we have covered all 15 power and conflict poems nothing remains nothing is left to be done I genuinely hope guys that you find this video beneficial and I hope you find some benefit in all the PO poems last thing how do you compare the poems this is is the structure that I use p r t and e p r t and E then you come back and you zoom in and you give the effect then you bounce across and you zoom in and you give the effect and then you end your paragraph by focusing and giving the link now what does that actually mean and what am I talking about you're aiming to do three of these paragraphs now guys imagine in your exam they ask you how or compare compare how Warfare is presented in in I don't know bayet charge to kamakazi right so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to talk about how war is presented in bayet charge and our Point could be that war is presented in bayet charge as being a product of propaganda and the reference that we can use is the quote that goes like what is it King honor human dignity Etc dropped like luxuries in an alarm here can analyze the simile and give the effect of how the simile shows us how the propaganda in Warfare was so strong that it took it took the entire poem for this guy to wake up and realize what he's doing once I've done that then I would say why is my arrow the wrong way around one two 3 Four Guys once I've given my effect then I would do similarly or on the other hand so I would give my comparison so for example similarly in the poem kamakazi The Man also wakes up during the poem realizes what Warfare is about drewing the poem this can be seen and I might give the quote either about the brothers or the incantations and the technique that has been used here Aku the position Aku the noun whatever I want to do and I give the effect about how this man ultimately needs to think about friends and family to wake up this man thinks about the king and the honor and the country and the this man thinks about human relationships I give the effect then I go back to my first poem and I zoom in to a quote a word in the quote so I may zoom into the word Etc and I give the effect of the word Etc and I talk about how that word shows us how what was once important to him now isn't even important he just wants to get rid of it then I bounce across then I bounce across further more and then I zoom into this poem give the effect and then I end it by giving the link link you're basically guys doing if you look at the board you're doing two pretzel paragraphs side by side but you're breaking them up in between because the breaking up is what gives us the comparison the black part is the comparison I call it ping pong you bounce back and forth between the poems you want to aim for three of these in your exam that is definitely possible guys you're essentially guys breaking two pretzels side by side you want to make sure that across your entire essay when it comes to our techniques and our zooming in you do a breath of language structure and form and in one of the three paragraphs you want to talk about context this could be PTSD this could be patriarchy this could be the British Empire this could be Freud you fit that in in any one of the three paragraphs all right guys I hope you found this video beneficial I hope it really helps you on your exam or in your exam is being Mr Everything English thank you so much for support peace