Ozymandias and Prelude

Ozymandias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRWbo2x5lnA

Prelude: Stealing the Boat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGn1Ilx_3o4&list=PLcvEcrsF_9zLw38-qZQdnq5h-i7L5QOlU

'London' by William Blake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0GMqqEuus


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHp8eVi27Nw

Watch these excellent resources on 'London' by William Blake

Excellent Victorians Resource

http://dcc.newberry.org/collections/victorians-and-the-hidden-self

This is really intelligent stuff.

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TPE

'Bayonet Charge' - Ted Hughes

This is an excellent website, like the one Eliot found for 'Kamikaze'.  You hover over the parts of the poem for analysis.

http://genius.com/Ted-hughes-bayonet-charge-annotated

See also:

https://poetryshark.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/bayonet-charge-by-ted-hughes-poetry-analysis-gcse/

Half Term Homework

Write a discussion about which of the conflict poems we have studied you consider to be the most effective.

It should make reference to theme, language, structure and context.

It should also make comparisons to other poems to which the poem is thematically similar and different.

You should post your response here if you have a Google account or email them to tpope@bgis.co.uk and I will post them for you.

'The Charge of the Light Brigade' - Alfred Tennyson

Here is a good quality video on 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' designed for GCSE students.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuTrx8lDYI0

This is a good short analysis of the poem

https://interestingliterature.com/2016/01/26/a-short-analysis-of-the-charge-of-the-light-brigade/

And a good article about the poem from The Guardian newspaper

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jan/20/poem-of-the-week-charge-light-brigade-Tennyson

'My Last Duchess' - Robert Browning

Here is a good model essay on 'My Last Duchess' - remember that the form is a dramatic monologue and that this is important to a full understanding of the poem.

http://englishtutorhome2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/analysis-my-last-duchess-ferrara-robert.html

Here is a little context information on Browning from the nice people at AQA, who set your exam!

http://anthology.aqa.org.uk/browning

Learn and know some facts and details about his life.