Welcome to another video. You've got Mr. Everything English. And today we are discussing the top five, the big five. We are learning the five best poems when it comes to your GCES for this particular year. Everything education, tuition for maths, English and science. Kamakazi, my last duchess, London, bayonet charge and remains. These are the five poems that you must learn inside out. Now remember what I said in my previous video. It doesn't mean we neglect the others. We do learn them and we get a generic understanding but we don't need to learn the quotes off by heart. We don't need to memorize things off by heart for these because hopefully if any of these come up on the day of your exam and you see it there in front of you, you should be able to analyze them based upon your revision. But when it comes to learning quotes and when it comes to really focusing, go for these five, the five in yellow. Now, what do we do if one of these five comes up on the day of our exam? All we do is we compare it with one of the other four and if it doesn't come up in our exam and the white ones come up then we compare these with one of the yellow. Simple. Now in this video I'm going to go through and I'm going to analyze these five points. When we analyze poems guys there are three things that we look at. Language structure form. These three elements must be analyzed. I will then give you the three quotes that you should be learning for each of the poems because in our exam we're aiming for three paragraphs. So I will give you the three quotes and then I will give you one piece of context that you can link to each of the poems and that's it. That is everything you need for that particular poem. So let's begin. The first poem guy that we're going to be looking at is the poem London. Guys, should you ever require English, maths or science classes, do head over to everything education.co.uk. I teach all of the English classes myself and the maths and science classes are taught by fully qualified teachers. Upon joining, you have access to the student portal where you can talk to me, submit your homework, and get your feedback. So guys, should you wish to join, head over to everythingucation.co.uk. Now I wonder through each charted street near where the charted temps does flow. And mark in every face I meet. Marks of weakness marks of woe. In every cry of every man, in every infants cry of fear. In every voice, in every band, the mindful mannequins I hear. How the chimney sweepers cry. Every blackening church appalls. And the hapless soldier sigh runs in blood down palace walls. But most to the midnight streets I hear how the youthful harless curse blast the newborn infants tear and blights we play the marriage hearse. Now guys let's not waste time. The first thing I want you all to make a note of is the form of this poem and I want you guys to say that this is a narrative poem. I want you guys to say very clearly guys that this is a narrative poem. Now what is a narrative poem? A narrative poem is a poem that tells a story. What does this tell? What does this poem tell a story of? It tells the story of London. That is what it tells the story of. Now, we must look at language. We must look at structure. We must look at form. And I can stand here and I could pick out every single quote that you need to analyze and learn and give you a thousand. But let me give you three that we're going to focus on. You want to make sure you learn the quote the mind forge manicles I hear. You want to make a note guys that you make a note of marks of weakness. Where is it guys? Marking every face I meet. Mark of weakness, marks of woe. And you want to make sure you learn the quote. The hapless soldier sigh runs in blood down palace wards. Now we must make sure that we're able to analyze and discuss these quotes very effectively. Now let's go from the bottom up. This quote at the bottom over here guys Mark sorry happless soldiers sigh runs in blood down palace walls. The first technique that I want you guys to analyze in this quote is the technique of personification about how the blood is running down the palace walls. The writer is saying over here that the people that are accountable, the people that are responsible for the death of all these soldiers is the people in charge is the people in power because the blood is running. That's how much blood is on their hands. And then I want you to use the phrase hapless soldier. And this here guys is an oxymoron. Guys, this here is an oxymoron because the word happless means useless and soldiers are not supposed to be useless. But again, this quote shows that the British Empire wanted to expand so much that they allowed anyone to be a part of the army. Then guys, the mind forged maners. I hear this quote over here, I want you guys to talk about it as our var. This is our shift. This is our turning point because in this quote we learn the severity of control that exists within this society. These people are being controlled by their mind and they don't even realize it. And when it comes to another technique guys, I want you to zoom in to the symbolism of the mannequins of the chains. These people are being controlled. These people are struggling. These people are suffering. Then guys marking every face I meet. Marks of weakness, marks of woe. Here I want you all to speak about the anaphora of the mark. It's not a real mark, but it's a sign. It's a symbol of the pain and suffering they're going through. And in this quote, guys, I want you guys to talk about that hyperbole through mark in every face I meet. Um, that part there guys is your hyperbole. Now, why did I pick out all of these things first? Because now you know when I analyze the poem, what are we working with? Our focus point is these three. Now, we've got form done. We've got structure via our voya and our anaphora. And we've got language via hyperbole, symbolism, and so on. Now guys, when it comes to context, can you please make a note that for this poem, we will be speaking about the British Empire. Boom. That is everything you need for this particular poem. Now, let's go through it, guys. This poem, I wonder through each chartered street near where the chartered temps flow. It begins, guys, the word chartered, it means that something is being controlled. So the poem it begins by talking to us about how this place London is under serious control. Nothing is free. The rivers are controlled. The streets are controlled. The people are controlled. And he says how as I'm walking around the streets, I can see a mark in every face. Now this is not a tattoo. This not a physical mark, but it's a symbol that these people look depressed. These people look weak. These people look pathetic. Guys, go on the London Underground. You'll see it. You can tell people are people are unhappy. People are not satisfied with their lives. That's the mark he's talking about. That is what he's discussing here. Um now guys, the hyperbole every it emphasizes the damage that's taking place. Nobody is safe. Now the poem continues in every cry of every man in every infamous cry of fear and every voice in every band. What do all these people have in common? The men that are suffering, the children that are suffering, what do they all have in common? He can hear the mind forward manacles. Manacles are a chain. He's saying I can hear the chains rattling in their mind. I can hear the chains rattling in their mind. Now, this quote can be seen as two things. Is he hearing their chains or is he hearing his own chains? Because he believes he's free. And that's the beauty of this control. The beauty of this control, mind control, is you're controlled, but you don't even know it. Why did everyone go crazy over Dubai chocolate? Why did everyone line up for prime energy drink? Why? because you're controlled and you don't even know it. We're sheeps. We follow trends. We follow society. Physically, we're free. We can walk. We can jump. We can punch. We can kick. But this is not ours. Our ideas are controlled. And that is what this poem is saying. That as I'm walking around London, I can see these people and these people are showing me that they're being controlled because I can hear the chains rattling in their mind. But really guys, is it their chain or is it his own chain? Who knows? Next one guys. Then he moves on. And the chimney sweepers cry. Every blackening church appalls and the hapless soldier sigh runs in blood damn palace walls. Guys, London. Why was London so great? Because London was the capital of the British Empire. The British Empire was out colonizing large large parts of the world. So when he says useless soldiers, it's an oxymoron because that's not how we describe soldiers. But these soldiers are useless because they're not trained. They're not powerful. They're not adults. They're kids. Anyone can become a soldier. And that is why their death, their blood is running down the palace walls. Palace means the kings and the queens because these are the people that chose to go to war. They're responsible for these people's blood. They're responsible for the suffering. And then guys in the final stanza but most the superlative this is the worst part about London but most through the midnight streets I hear how the youthful harlot the young prostitutes curse blast the newborn infants tear and blight and plague the marriage. London is cursed generation after generation after generation they will all be suffering. Now when it comes to this particular poem, you want to see this poem as a poem that talks about the control of a system over a people. London isn't about individual control. It's the control of people who are powerful over a group of people society that is weak. And that is why you want to talk about the British Empire because why was London so controlled? Because the British Empire had to expand, had to grow, had to get people thinking in a certain way so they would fight for their country, so they would do everything they needed. That is how you want to analyze, guys, the poem London. And of course, if you want to say, "Sir, I don't want to learn that quote. I want to learn that quote." Fine, do it. Learn whatever quotes you want. Just make sure by the end of it you have language, structure, form and context done for the entire poem. Guys, when it comes to poem number two, we we'll be looking at my last touches. And as previously guys, the first thing I want you all to make a note is that when it comes to the form guys, when it comes to the form of this poem, can you make a note that my last duchess is a dramatic monologue? That is the form of this poem. Now, what is a dramatic monologue, guys? A dramatic monologue is a poem that has one speaker the whole way through. A very biased, a very one-sided poem. In our poem, the Duke is our speaker. The Duke is the one that presents his side. We never hear from his wife. And in this poem, guys, I'm not going to read all of it because it's quite a long poem. But this poem, guys, is a poem where the Duke believes that his wife, his previous wife, had an affair. And that is what this poem is about. And he has a he's planning to get married again. So, a man comes from that family and he says, "Take a seat. Look at my ex-wife and let me tell you everything about her." That is what this poem is about. Therefore guys, when it comes to context for this poem, the best context to use is patriarchy. The best context used guys is patriarchy because the Duke is both a victim of patriarchy and a cheerleader for patriarchy. Patriarchy is the idea of a society dominated by men. Patriarchy is what makes the Duke powerful. But patriarchy is also what makes the Duke very, very weak. Now guys, when it comes to quotes, I would like you to use the following quote. The first one, um, since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I. For this particular quote, guys, I would like you to use position. I'll explain why at the end. Guys, for this quote I would like you to use just position and I would like you to use foreshadowing. The second quote that I would like you to please learn is the quote where it says then would be some stooping and I choose never to stoop. And here I would like to use the technique of sibilance. And I would like to talk about the enjment at the end of this line. And the last quote that I would like us to use guys is then all smiles stopped together. And here I would like us to talk about the cesora. And I would like to talk about theism of the word together. Now let's go through these three quotes. The first one guys. So when the juke has the guest arrive at his house, he says to the guest, look, take a seat and check out my ex-wife. And like a weirdo, he starts talking to the picture on the wall. And that's the part in the brackets. And he says to the picture of his ex-wife that no one can put the curtain put by the curtain I have drawn for you but I. So imagine guys her picture is on the wall and it's covered with the curtain. And he's saying to the painting, I'm the only one that can show you. I'm the only one that can cover you. And it's a bit of a weird thing to say, but it shows you the weakness of the Duke. It's like a power trip. He believes that this gives him power. He believes that this gives him authority. But it shows you how insecure he is. He's holding on to any thread, any sign of power over his wife. And that is what the Duke does in this quote. And that is why it's just position. But that's not how a man behaves. He's weak in this quote. He's desperate in this quote. He's talking to a picture of his wife. She still has control over him even though she's gone. And it's foreshadowing, guys, because it foreshadows possibly a eventual downfall. He can't get over this woman and what she did for what she did to him because maybe she was the one woman that he was unable to control. Then guys, the quote that I would like you to use next is even then would be some stooping and I choose never to stoop. Guys, this is a very very good quote. So the juke right he lists over here all the problems about his wife. He says she would blush for other men. She would take gifts from other men. And he says I never talked to her about this. I never spoke to her about this. What an idiot. He says I never ever told her that I have a problem. Why? Because he said that this would be stooping. Meaning by me telling my wife what I don't like about her, this would be me lowering myself onto her level. Look at his ego. Look at what he thinks of himself. He sees his wife not as a partner. He sees his wife as a secondass citizen. Me. Why am I going to tell her how to behave? She should know how to behave. He sees it as stooping. He sees it as lowering his level. And he says I will never stoop. I will never go down to her level. That is why guys the enjoyment here of this line continuing and I choose never to stoop is very very effective because it shows his thought process. He's angry. He's not pausing where he should be pausing. his emotions are taking over and it shows how much this means to him that I will never lower myself for her level and that is how you want to use that this guy the Duke he does not believe he should be lowering himself on the level the Duke and Aussie from Aussie Mandas are very very good comparison the power gets to their head and they believe that they are absolutely untouchable and then guys the final quote that you guys should be looking at is where it says, "And then all smiles stopped together." The Duke here says, "Look, she did this, she did that. I saw her flaws and then everything stopped." It implies, guys, that he killed her. It implies that he killed her. And that is the symbolism of together. Everything ended at the same time. Everything ended at the same time. her life, her smiling, her breathing, everything. And the cesora here is very effective. The sorora here is an irregular pause. And the irregular pause shows how her life was cut short. She was not supposed to die at this point. But the way he pauses here emphasizes how the irregular pausing shows how her life was cut short. got this poem, right? When it comes to My Last Duchesses, you want to use the Duke as a character who literally abuses his power. He's a man who thinks that power allows him to do whatever he wants and he gets away with it. But you want to say that yes, he might get away with it, but in this quote, we realize that this woman till this day still haunts him. this woman till this day still has some hold, some control over him. All right, guys. Let's move on to the poem Bayet Charge. Um, nice poem. It's a good poem to use. It's come up twice in the GC's already. Um, so very unlikely it's going to make a third appearance. But how would we go about analyzing this poem, guys? Bayonet charge. When it comes to the form of bayonet charge, what kind of poem is bayonet charge? You could argue guys that bayonet charge is an epic poem. What is an epic poem? An epic poem is a poem about an event. Now, what event is bayonet charge about? It is about the event of a man waking up from the sleep, the slumber that he has been in. Now, when it comes to context for this poem, I want you guys to talk about war and the propaganda associated with war. And you could talk about how this man in this poem technically goes against patriarchy. Okay guys, bayonet charge. What are the three quotes that we are looking to learn? The three quotes guys that you want to learn when it comes to bayonet charge are as follows. It's smacking the belly out of the air. Number two guys go for in bewilderment. He almost stopped. And number three guys make a note king honor human dignity etc. Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm. Now when it comes to our first quote guys, bullets smacking the belly out of the air. You want to make a note of the personification and you want to make a note of the verb smacking in bewilderment. He almost stopped. Here we want to speak about the var. And I want us to speak about the symbolism of this word here. This is a very important word, the word bewilderment. And finally guys, I want us to here talk about the list of king, honor, human dignity, etc. And I want to talk about the simile of dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm. We've got form, we've got context, we've got structure, and we've got language. Now, let's talk about what this poem is about, guys. When it comes to bayonet charge, bayonet charge is a fantastic coin when it looks at war and the impact of war. And a good easy comparison guys is charge of the light brigade. Now what are we saying about bayonet charge? In bayonet charge, right, the guy wakes up and running, running. He's in a battle. He's in a war. Now as he's running, he can hear boom boom boom boom boom. Now, I can't really pull up my jumper and start smacking my belly because I probably get cancelled. But this quote, guys, the bullet smacking is saying that as this guy is running across the battlefield, he can hear bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. And this is a really, really good quote to show the real nature of war, the severity of war. War is not a joke. And every bullet, every sound wakes him up, wakes him up, wakes him up. He's thinking, "What the heck is going on?" And his behavior is not normal. A soldier is supposed to fight. A soldier is supposed to go one to one. This guy's leging it. He's running. And it shows how this is not what he signed up for. So he runs. He runs. He runs. This is our vulture. In bewilderment, he almost stopped. The vulture goes with the symbolism of bewilderment. Guys, if you're bewildered, you're confused. He's thinking, "What the heck am I doing here?" He's confused. He doesn't know why he's here. Now, this is where propaganda comes into it. Why do a lot of people join the army? Brave. Be powerful. Fight your fight for your country. You're going to be a hero. But guys, as he's running and he's hearing the bullets, he's hearing everything. War is no longer an idea. War is now real. Guys, what's that famous quote from Mike Tyson? Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. This guy had a plan. I'm going to fight. I'm going to be brave. But now the war's begun. Let's see what you got. And the moment the war begins, he's thinking, "What the heck am I doing?" He's confused. And this is juosition as well because his behavior goes against patriarchy. Then guys, he carries on running. And while he's running, he's thinking, why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? And he's going to go one way or the other. Either he's going to abandon the the the battle or he will stay and fight. Now, what are good comparisons? Kamicazi is a good comparison. My last no my touches. Uh light brigade is a good comparison for this poem. So guys, he runs, he runs, he runs, and then finally he makes the decision. It says as he's running, king, honor, human dignity, etc., etc. These are all this list. These are all the reasons he was told to go and fight for your country, go fight for your king, go fight for the honor of your people, go fight for your people, etc., etc. Propaganda, propaganda, propaganda. But all these things, they drop. He lets go of them. The way you drop luxuries in an alarm. Imagine guys, if there's a real fire in your house, you're not going to stay there and say, "Oh, wait. Let me get my best shoes, my best trousers. Let me get my best this, my best that. You're going to chip. You're going to move. You're going to drop it all and go. That's what he does. He finally wakes up. And this goes against soldiers such as those soldiers in light brigade because they keep charging and they keep charging and they charge all the way to their death. Whereas this man, he pulls back. He's like, "Uh-uh, this is not happening. I can't be doing this guys. Bayonet charge is a very very very good poem. It's a good poem for a war poem. It's a good poem to even compare to the poem exposure prediction. It is a very good poem guys for exposure because in exposure those soldiers they stand and they fight and they don't move. They get battered. They don't wake up. Whereas this guy is probably the only soldier as well as the one in kamicazi that has a wakeup call and realizes that war isn't what they thought it would be. Next, let's go over the poem remains. First things first, what is the form of the poem remains? Guys, the form of the poem remains is a narrative poem because it tells the story of warfare. It tells the story of this man. And then guys, the context I think a good context to use for this poem is patriarchy because war completely destroys this man completely. It completely shatters and obliterates everything about this man. Now, what three quotes shall we use when it comes to this point? I would use the first quote. Myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind. The second quote that I would use guys is sleep, dream, and where's blink? Uh, sleep, dream, and blink. I would use those three there. I'll explain what we're going to do with them in a second. And then I would use the quote, "He's here in my head when I close my eyes, dug in behind enemy lines." Okay. Now, what are we doing with these three particular quotes? Myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind. Over here, guys, I would talk about juxiposition. I'll explain what we're going to do in a second, guys. Over here I would talk about the juxiposition and I would talk about the symbolism of the same mind. Then over here guys for the next quote for blink, sleep and dream for these three over here I would talk about the semantic field and then I would talk about the foreshadowing that exists in these co over here guys this particular lines here I would talk about the voltage and I would talk about the personification. Okay. Now, what we doing, guys? What are we doing? Can I zoom out and still catch it all? Yeah, perfect. Okay, guys. What am I doing with these quotes? And how are we analyzing this particular poem? Guys, remains. When it comes to remains, remains is a poem about soldiers who killed a a looter who was raiding a bank. Because sometimes when lands are suffering from war, the police leave and the soldiers go in and people just go crazy by robbing stuff and going crazy. So these soldiers they they are they are told, "Listen, somebody is robbing a bank. Go and sort him out." Now this guy is the looter is running away from them and they decide to shoot him from behind. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. And they absolutely obliterate him. Now this quote, myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind. The first part juosition is as though they don't even know the names of the soldiers that they are with. Me and him and him and him. This is not how comrades in war fight. It goes against that nature of war. The brothers in arms and so on. And number two, guys, where it says are all of the same mind, it shows you the impact of propaganda. They're like sheep. They are all brainwashed sheep just doing the exact same thing. And you can argue that they kill an innocent man because this man, he was running away, not towards them. And he did and he wasn't even carrying a gun. They don't even know, but they still kill him. It's like they enjoy the kill. So while they're at war, they do what they want, but when they come home, just like the war photographer, when they come home, the impact of their actions begins to in begins to affect them. Blink, sleep, and dream. This is a semantic field because all these three words linked to peace. When you blink, when you sleep, when you dream, you're relaxed. You're chilled. But these people, well, not these people. This soldier can no longer do this. Every time he blinks, every time he sleeps, every time he dreams, he is being affected by the consequences of his actions. And that is where you look at the idea of PTSD. He is suffering for what he's done. And it's foreshadowing his downfall. Guy, this man will die. He will go crazy because if you can't sleep, if you can't blink, if every time you close your eyes you suffer, how long can you go on like that for? Now I use this as my vulture because in that quote it takes a turn for the worst. He says how the image of this man is dug in. He's he's entrenched himself into his mind. He can't get over this thought. He can't get over what he saw and what he did. And it shows you over here, guys. Just like the people of London. The control is here. He's not suffering because of his hands or his broken bones, his mind. He has completely lost control over it. And that is how you want to look at the impact of war in the poem remains. Finally guys, we look at the poem kamicazi. This is the last poem on the list of five. Now when it comes to the poem kamicazi guys, this poem came up last year and it's not going to come up again. That's why it's a good poem to learn because we can almost guarantee that this comparison will not will be useful. Now guys, kamicazi. What is the form of the poem kamicazi? Guys, what is the form of the poem kamicazi? Oops. Guys, when it comes to the form of kamicazi, I would call kamicazi an epic poem because it's the act of this man. It's the brave act, the brave event of this man. He shows immense courage in what he does. And when it comes to the context for this particular poem, guys, I would use propaganda here. I would use propaganda for this poem. Now, the quotes that I will learn guys is the following. shaven head full of powerful incantations. The second quote that I would learn spoke again in his presence. The third quote I would learn guys is he must have wondered which had been the better way to die. All right guys, over here guys I would use over here I would use the metaphor and the symbolism of incantations over here. My mother never spoke again in his presence. I would use jster position and I would use g over there and I would use the var over here and then guys he must have wondered which had been the better way to die. Over here I would use juxiposition and over here guys I would use the symbolism of death. Okay. What are we doing with the poem kamicazi guys? Guys the poem kamicazi is a very nice poem. Um kamicazi guys these were men who were who were destined for death. They were sent essentially on suicide missions. So if you were a kamicazi, you would go and kill yourself and in the process kill other people. That's what a kamicazi did. And in this poem, the poem begins right with this girl's dad who's a kamicazi waking up and he has to go and kill himself to kill other people. And it describes his shaven head. It's like a ritual. So like a samurai fighter going to war. He shaves his head, but the head is full of incantations, spells, magic. This for me is propaganda. This man's head is full of these spells. He's a victim. He can't think for himself. Who does that remind you of? The guy in bayonet charge. The people in light brigade. They are simply doing as they told. And this man, he goes off to fight. He goes off to kill himself. But as he's as he's going, he's flying his airplane which is going to crash into the ships and blow them up and kill himself. He slowly slowly slowly wakes up and during these stanzas he slowly slowly wakes up until he realizes I can't do it and he comes back home. Now when he comes back home you would think right his family like oh thank you you're back thank god you didn't kill yourself. Thank god you woke up. Uh-uh. His family disowned him. My mother never spoke again in his presence. That's the VA and just position. It's VA because it shows you the shift. This is not what we expected. This is not what we thought happen. But it shows you how the whole society is controlled. London. London. London. Lovely comparison that all these people are controlled. All these people have been victims of the state media propaganda that the the woman disowned her husband in a patriarchal society. But it shows you how much they value these people. If you didn't fight for your country, you were a coward. You were disowned. You were not important. Um and that is guys the varosition. And then the final line the poem guys where it says he must have wondered which had been the better way to die. This is a very important part because it shows you that in trying to stay alive this man ended up killing himself. His heart may breathe. His blood may pump to the body but to the world he's dead. No one talks to him. No one acknowledges him. No one does anything for him. And this is a good comparison for the poem exposure because in the poem exposure those men were torn. Should we go back? Should we carry on? And they were talking about how if they leave they'll be seen as cowards and so on. And that's it guys. There you have your five points. You have now the poem kamicazi. You have the poem remains. You have the poem bayonet charge. You have the poem my life touches. and you have the poem London. We have now covered the five poems that I want you to learn for your GCSEs this year. I have given you the three quotes that I think are worth learning for each poem. I've given you the context and the form. Now all your job is put those five poems in front of you, load up past papers and see which ones you can and which ones you can't compare to. Guys, I hope the video is beneficial. As always, it's been Mr. Everything English.