I just want to say that the little song at 24:22 made me chuckle a little and lifted my mood whilst going through this little and very well picked out analysis. Thank you for that 🙂
Just another structural point that I made which could help people.The poem contains rhyme which mirrors the charging of the horses and men. There are several moments in the poem where there are lots of rhymes (e.g. "die" and "why", "shell" and "well"....). However, thee poem contains even more lines which do not follow a rhyme scheme, therefore losing the rhythm and tempo of the ballad. This could reflect the "shatter'd and sunder'd" soldiers who attempted to retreat from the charge. The rhyme which before reflected the trotting of the horses which the men rode on, now becomes almost non existent which reflects the death of not only the horses but also the men. Hope this helps. Would love to hear any improvements or other points to make.
i really like this interpretation but i don't think it really fits. yes the end of stanza 4 has no rhyme but stanza 5 is full of it and both are describing the retreat. i suppose you could just comment of the lack of rhyme in stanza 4 but i feel that painting the entire poem with that rather broad interpretation isn't correct
I too felt a sudden tremor in my heart at 26:50. The sudden commencing of Mr Bruff's mumble to a soprano rendered within me a discomfort which one could not give an explanation of in the ordinary words. My eyes balled out of their sockets on the strength and passion that was deployed by Mr Bruff, how one is blessed by such pleasant experiences, and in my remembrance always will be.
I struggle with English , but good at maths , the way you analyse the poems helps me analyse them as a sort of equation like mathematically. That might not make sense but , thank you
WOOO! I've completed the whole playlist of your videos on poetry! Thank you so so much for this, it means the world. I love the alternative interpretations in each video and the creativity, it's actually inspired me to do A level English literature, as i have found that i love analysing the depths and hidden meanings of a poem. So once again thank you so much! :)
destiny- powerhouse I’m literally doing this now and I’m just taking my own notes on what he’s saying aswell as making sure I include my own ideas. Labelling your poem analysis notes using SLICCE (Structure Language Ideas Context Characters Explore) is something I lovee to use when in poetry as it makes you talk about everything! X
The point you made about 'erred' was fantastic! Someone else may have suggested it but I'd never hear that at school! Thank you so much for these videos. We really didn't look at the poems enough and you're making it so much easier for me to understand them.
When I first read it, i thought of a similar idea. The "ered" sound sounds like "errmmm" or those other phrase that people say when they dont know what to say. This could reflect the people in power (plosives here should show power, followed by the "ered") and how they didn't know what to do, and so failed.
Thank you so much Mr Bruff. You have saved my sanity and Literature grade during this stressful revision period. Thank you so much for everything you do.
At first, I thought that this poem was just plain boring (repeating itself, nothing new etc.), but after watching your vid... I LOVE it now! It's actually really interesting! The context actually particularly helped since my English teacher practically skipped over it -_-... Thanks a lot!!!
Could you also say that 'volley'd and *thunder* 'd ; *storm* 'd at' is imagery of a violent storm that describes the enemy soldiers as an unbeatable surrounding force, such as the sky?
@@willhobson2772 just thinking as a further point. the use of the natural adjectives to create the storm imagery is a semantic field. Nature is synonymous with good and natural and just. By creating the idea that the Russians were an unbeatable force like a surrounding storm it could also suggest that the light brigade was going against nature and therefore god himself. This could be criticism of following the archaic rules that lead to the soldiers deaths. You could use this as a contextual point about victorian Britains expectations as well as Tennysons beliefs about the church. Just a thought lmk what you think
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"All that was left of them, left of six hundred" could be an ironic allusion to the war motto of "no man left behind" - the irony being how the soldiers were forced to flee without ensuring all were there and that the majority of soldiers on the battlefield were indeed left dead, within the Valley of Death
Oh the memories, this was my favourite poem in the "conflict" anthology that we studied in 2016. I'm doing English now for A Levels, and I just wish that the poems were still like this! I miss doing GCSEs.
my GCSEs are going to be in 2018 but I am already checking out your videos, thank you for breaking this down for me. Videos really help because its what I do with my life so these videos really help me remember everything!
Really found the video useful and I struggle quite a lot with poems, you made everything crystal clear and you've reduced stress that I've had for the incoming mocks and then GCSE's I got in a few months. Thank you so much.
Love all the videos that Mr Bruff makes and find it really easy to make notes . Would appreciate all the knowledge Mr Bruff gives to people even more if it was on a Spotify podcast
Mr Bruff thank you so much! I am so bad at English Literature, especially poetry but your analysis has helped me so much to understand all of the poems! I'm going to do my exam in May and I'm sure you've helped a lot!
Absolutely wonderful! I was told by a friend that you are really helpful and she has gone on to get fabulous English grades, which I now hope to too. Thank you so much Mr Buff. :)
24:24 damn Mr Bruff spitting straight fire also the pause afterwards I'm watching at 1.5 times speed and even I thought that pause was long just made everything sound better
Thank you. I am about to teach this and listening to the video had make me identify more things than I thought of. I have the ebooks and they are amazing! Would recommend buying.
My English teacher asked us to watch this for coverwork and on the side she put a little note saying, and I quote, 'He raps at one point in the video!' That was pretty much the only reason our class watched this and suffice it to say, we were not disappointed.
Charge of the Light Brigade compares really well with My Last Duchess, because both: - are a criticism of the upper class/aristocracy having too much power - have victims that have to/should answer to others and are weaker and had no power to prevent their deaths - present the dangers of people having too much power - have strict meters - do not focus on the deaths themselves, but for different reasons but: - in Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson makes it clear that the deaths were as a result of a mistake, whereas in My Last Duchess the death was very much deliberate - in My Last Duchess the duchess dies because she did not do as she was expected, but in The Charge of the Light Brigade, the soldiers died because they did do as was expected
Could the reference to David and Goliath through 'valley of death' be Tennyson's way of suggesting that the soldiers' act of sacrifice was so honourable and brave that God was behind them, like how God was behind David and lead him? Just a thought...
I have a question, what are the effects of the dactylic dimeter breaks in lines 4, 21, 31, 41 and 52? At first, I thought that it was only the blunder'd line that had a break, but other lines also have dactylic dimeter breaks, so does it also carry the same affect as the dactylic break on line 12?
Matthew Bevin wrote brilliantly about this in the article 'Poetry by Numbers' if you can find it online anywhere. Basically it's a complex and debatable topic, but the main point I would focus on is the 'Someone had blundered' line.
If it relates to David and Goliath the failure of the soldiers but victory of David must be in mocking suggesting that God is not with us when we empower the upper classes unjustly? I don't know, any response greatly appreciated
When you talked about the dactylic meter Ihad no clue what that was but once hearing about it I'm definetly going to include this in my writing and im now so confident on this poem. This poem and Bayonet charge was my least favourite poems out of the lot but after watching this I am so interested in it. Kinda hoping this is what my exam will be on.
This is SO AMAZING. Just spent 70 minutes sitting and pausing this to make a spider diagram. (Which I do with all your poetry videos!!). They help me understand the poem so much better. How many quotations would you recommend for learning from each poem? It's so stressful having to know each one in so much depth-especially when we're only going to have to write about two !!!
I would say four quotations from each poem, and really good meaningful quotations, which is what I'm also doing. NEVER memorise about 10 quotations from each and just throw them in. Memorise four or five extremely meaningful from each poem and use them in the exam alongside structure and context, keeping in mind you only have 45 mins.
No link to the book you talk about in the beginning. I'm guessing you changed the name of that ebook to "Mr Bruffs Guide Power & Conflict Poetry." I suggest you point that out on the link.
@@mrbruff I have a question. How do lines 5 and 6 are syllables "gade" and "said" not stressed? The word "brigade" puts a natural stress on the second syllable, and there is the rhyme that puts even more stress on the syllables "gade" and "said." I would say those lines are iambic trimeter with trochaic substitutions at the beginning of the lines.
@@jcam42 Thank you for your question. The poem is widely considered to be written in dactylic dimeter, and that is certainly how I read it. A quick online search finds this source: kb.gcsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1223&context=thecorinthian See page 154 for a visual labelling of the stresses. Sparknotes says ‘Each line is in dimeter, which means it has two stressed syllables; moreover, each stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables, making the rhythm dactylic’ (www.sparknotes.com/poetry/tennyson/section9/) Helpfully, Matthew Bevis in ‘Poetry by Numbers’ quotes Tennyson himself explaining: ‘my poem is dactylic, and founded on the phrase, “some one had blundered”’. However, Bevis continues: ‘but some prosodists have felt that his vocal performance is itself a blunder because it’s not dactylic enough. In Meter in Poetry, A New Theory, Nigel Fabb and Morris Halle’ label the poem in the same way you have done. So it’s absolutely fine to consider different ways of reading the poem.
Thanks Mr. Bruff! The next book I'm going to read is Fussell's Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. I went to the library and skimmed through it when I was first learning about meter over four decades ago, and I've been meaning to read the whole book for years. I write narrative ballads, and I find meter the hardest thing about it. It is more of an art than a science, in my opinion. If you are interested, I preform some of my ballads on my TH-cam page. For example, though I usually write in iambs, here is a narrative poem in amphibrachic tetrameter. I'd love your opinion if you find yourself with eight minutes of free time. th-cam.com/video/rKm1hWPFKWo/w-d-xo.html
I've been revising the poems with my exams coming up soon, I dreaded revising this one, but you have made it so interesting and the Gangsters Paradise cameo was appreciated.
Highlight key words in your question first. When you revise, have a copy of the Assessment Objectives in front of you. You need to make sure you cover all the relevant ones in your reply. If it's Literature, you need to show a critical response, i.e showing there are different interpretations (Mr. Bruff usually covers at least two in his videos), you can use the SMILE acronym to remind yourself of the other things you need to cover - are you familiar with that? Structure (and form), Meaning, Imagery, Language, Effects on the reader. Sometimes these overlap, so they don't necessarily need to make their own paragraphs, but it helps you to remember what to cover. Keep to the point and cross reference if possible!
Check out my ultimate 'Power and Conflict' poetry analysis video: 3 key points for all 15 poems 👉 th-cam.com/video/urXta6o-7Xg/w-d-xo.html
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Me:
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"as I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at myself and realise there's nothing left" lmao, great rapping skills
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cause ive been blasting and laughing so long that even my momma thinks that my mind is gone
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I just want to say that the little song at 24:22 made me chuckle a little and lifted my mood whilst going through this little and very well picked out analysis. Thank you for that 🙂
gotta love some gangstas paradise!
I was absolutely shocked😂
Kinda wish you were my English teacher lol
So do I.
Forflies lol yeah if he was then I wouldn't have to do last minute cramming 😂
don't we all?
Forflies aren’t you rich anyway
same
Just another structural point that I made which could help people.The poem contains rhyme which mirrors the charging of the horses and men. There are several moments in the poem where there are lots of rhymes (e.g. "die" and "why", "shell" and "well"....). However, thee poem contains even more lines which do not follow a rhyme scheme, therefore losing the rhythm and tempo of the ballad. This could reflect the "shatter'd and sunder'd" soldiers who attempted to retreat from the charge. The rhyme which before reflected the trotting of the horses which the men rode on, now becomes almost non existent which reflects the death of not only the horses but also the men. Hope this helps. Would love to hear any improvements or other points to make.
I wrote that down. Thank you so much!
Ethan Nation thank
i really like this interpretation but i don't think it really fits. yes the end of stanza 4 has no rhyme but stanza 5 is full of it and both are describing the retreat. i suppose you could just comment of the lack of rhyme in stanza 4 but i feel that painting the entire poem with that rather broad interpretation isn't correct
Brilliant!
gezza
I too felt a sudden tremor in my heart at 26:50. The sudden commencing of Mr Bruff's mumble to a soprano rendered within me a discomfort which one could not give an explanation of in the ordinary words. My eyes balled out of their sockets on the strength and passion that was deployed by Mr Bruff, how one is blessed by such pleasant experiences, and in my remembrance always will be.
you've lost the plot mate is this what english literature does to people?
@@hamzah7 indeed good sir some people have lost the plot indeed
@@hamzah7 🤣
@hamzah7 I am afraid, *yes*
I struggle with English , but good at maths , the way you analyse the poems helps me analyse them as a sort of equation like mathematically. That might not make sense but , thank you
+Gripper great!
mrbruff I might actually do well in my GCSE now
Bynx did u do well?
@@mariacakulova9201 im guessing he failed
I’m the opposite
One of my favourite poems. Didn’t click on it expecting this but couldn’t stop listening to you. Keep it up, marvellous teacher.
Thank you!
WOOO! I've completed the whole playlist of your videos on poetry! Thank you so so much for this, it means the world. I love the alternative interpretations in each video and the creativity, it's actually inspired me to do A level English literature, as i have found that i love analysing the depths and hidden meanings of a poem. So once again thank you so much! :)
apart from watching his videos for power and conflict, how else would you recommend revising the power and conflict poems?
destiny- powerhouse I’m literally doing this now and I’m just taking my own notes on what he’s saying aswell as making sure I include my own ideas. Labelling your poem analysis notes using SLICCE (Structure Language Ideas Context Characters Explore) is something I lovee to use when in poetry as it makes you talk about everything! X
same here lol
The point you made about 'erred' was fantastic! Someone else may have suggested it but I'd never hear that at school! Thank you so much for these videos.
We really didn't look at the poems enough and you're making it so much easier for me to understand them.
Thanks Sion
When I first read it, i thought of a similar idea. The "ered" sound sounds like "errmmm" or those other phrase that people say when they dont know what to say. This could reflect the people in power (plosives here should show power, followed by the "ered") and how they didn't know what to do, and so failed.
This video had many points that we didn't cover in class....thanks a lot
could you say that the repetition of "canon...canon..canon" in the third and five stanaza show the futile cyclic nature of war?
yes!
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Thank you so much Mr Bruff. You have saved my sanity and Literature grade during this stressful revision period. Thank you so much for everything you do.
+Ellie Jackman no problem
At first, I thought that this poem was just plain boring (repeating itself, nothing new etc.), but after watching your vid... I LOVE it now! It's actually really interesting! The context actually particularly helped since my English teacher practically skipped over it -_-... Thanks a lot!!!
+Nightwatcher 2.0 awesome!
same
same
It's the same here for me... the context given in this video has helped me understand this poem so much better!
Ive always loved this poem
Could you also say that 'volley'd and *thunder* 'd ; *storm* 'd at' is imagery of a violent storm that describes the enemy soldiers as an unbeatable surrounding force, such as the sky?
stealing this
@@willhobson2772 just thinking as a further point. the use of the natural adjectives to create the storm imagery is a semantic field. Nature is synonymous with good and natural and just. By creating the idea that the Russians were an unbeatable force like a surrounding storm it could also suggest that the light brigade was going against nature and therefore god himself. This could be criticism of following the archaic rules that lead to the soldiers deaths. You could use this as a contextual point about victorian Britains expectations as well as Tennysons beliefs about the church. Just a thought lmk what you think
@@hiccup6442 very interesting perspective, not sure I’d even be able to remember it all in exam though
you honestly have no idea how much you're helping people... I can't thank you enough Mr Bruff
+Joshua Appiah thanks!
"Back then if you were a rich, posh boy, you could buy yourself in and make big decisions - it was kinda crazy" *looks to 2017's America*
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right i was thinking the same
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"All that was left of them, left of six hundred" could be an ironic allusion to the war motto of "no man left behind" - the irony being how the soldiers were forced to flee without ensuring all were there and that the majority of soldiers on the battlefield were indeed left dead, within the Valley of Death
See, when I understand a poem like I do now after watching this, I really really enjoy this! :)
+Abby Lake great!
@@mrbruff where was the draft of the draft of the poem found
This video blew my mind, we only went through the positive message the poem has praising the soldiers in class!
Oh the memories, this was my favourite poem in the "conflict" anthology that we studied in 2016. I'm doing English now for A Levels, and I just wish that the poems were still like this! I miss doing GCSEs.
+Nathan Lawrence :)
my GCSEs are going to be in 2018 but I am already checking out your videos, thank you for breaking this down for me. Videos really help because its what I do with my life so these videos really help me remember everything!
+Erin great!
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Really found the video useful and I struggle quite a lot with poems, you made everything crystal clear and you've reduced stress that I've had for the incoming mocks and then GCSE's I got in a few months. Thank you so much.
Glad to have helped. Good luck!
Love all the videos that Mr Bruff makes and find it really easy to make notes . Would appreciate all the knowledge Mr Bruff gives to people even more if it was on a Spotify podcast
26:49 absolute legend, hero
omg im soo going to fail tomorrow! ;-; Save My Soul!
lol Same :(
If only i could have told you the poem that came up lol. Hope you got a good grade :D
No one cares
*He is Technically ur english teacher LMAO*
Did you do it?
Thank you for this analysis. The historical background was fascinating as was the insight into the word 'wondered'.
This is by far my favorite poem from the anthology. It really contrasted with the other solemn, grieving poems.
Yes I really like it too.
This was the best video I have ever watched on this website. Thank you so so much. God bless you.
Thank you!
Mr Bruff thank you so much! I am so bad at English Literature, especially poetry but your analysis has helped me so much to understand all of the poems! I'm going to do my exam in May and I'm sure you've helped a lot!
same here
The fact I’m using this video from almost a decade ago to revise for my upcoming GCSEs and is still useful.
Sir, I am watching one of the Power and Conflict videos every day and am finding it very memorable. Thank you
loved how this analysis was mainly focused on form and structure found it so useful!
good!
WOW! Very helpful! I can now nail this poem in the head when writing about it! Thanks
'I'm cancelling you'- Mr Bruff on Alfred Lord Tennyson's Marriage
Your variety of interpretations of dactylic dimeter are so mind blowingly clever! Thank you!
Got this exam in just 12 days, never enjoyed poetry analysis so much! Thank you for all the key points and most of all for making it engaging :)
Thank you!
Thank u sooooo much Mr Buff, ur videos help me so much, getting help from these videos will defo reflect on my grades
The way i screamed when you got onto that oxford analysing, that is a crazy concept
Thanks, helped me a lot. Best of luck with your channel.
+Tom Carvell (ThePianoLad) thanks
Absolutely wonderful! I was told by a friend that you are really helpful and she has gone on to get fabulous English grades, which I now hope to too. Thank you so much Mr Buff. :)
+Jess Harding :)
This is such a great analysis! Bought one of your revision guides to say thanks :)
just wanna let you know youre still helping y11s now lol. mock exams in about a week and im doing really well watching these while i do my own thing
Found this super helpful - everything you do! So informative and gets me through each week of home learning. Thank you very much Mr Bruff!
24:24 damn Mr Bruff spitting straight fire
also the pause afterwards I'm watching at 1.5 times speed and even I thought that pause was long just made everything sound better
Who's last minute cramming everything for tmr
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So you guys got an extra month before your exams? Lucky bastards.
I know right
i only hav a week and im JUST going into gcse 0n0
omg this is amaaazingggggg!!!like i was so dreading revising this poem as it had no meaning but now..!!
Thank you. I am about to teach this and listening to the video had make me identify more things than I thought of. I have the ebooks and they are amazing! Would recommend buying.
+Rees Skelly awesome. Thank you!
+Rees Skelly so glad to read that
My English teacher asked us to watch this for coverwork and on the side she put a little note saying, and I quote, 'He raps at one point in the video!' That was pretty much the only reason our class watched this and suffice it to say, we were not disappointed.
Glad you enjoyed it!
26:49 hahahha laughed my arse off
+Avinator13 had to rewatch it to see what you meant. Forgot I mentioned Coolio
Haha, I love how afterwards Bruff casually says: 'either one is valid' 😂
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seemed like he got possed .lol😂😂
Avinator13 same I love this guy 😂😂
24:21 he was just sitting there in his room singing that and after just regretted it. I bet
24:23 lil Bruf
This poem makes so much more sense now, thanks ever so much!
Your videos are absolutely amazing! they are so helpful and it is helping me during my English work. Please make more!
+Sorbun Nessa new poem analysis every Saturday
Your videos really do help me!!! Thank u!! I have much better understanding of the poems :)
Please could you do a video on which poems compare best with each and the main points of comparison?
Charge of the Light Brigade compares really well with My Last Duchess, because both:
- are a criticism of the upper class/aristocracy having too much power
- have victims that have to/should answer to others and are weaker and had no power to prevent their deaths
- present the dangers of people having too much power
- have strict meters
- do not focus on the deaths themselves, but for different reasons
but:
- in Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson makes it clear that the deaths were as a result of a mistake, whereas in My Last Duchess the death was very much deliberate
- in My Last Duchess the duchess dies because she did not do as she was expected, but in The Charge of the Light Brigade, the soldiers died because they did do as was expected
loved the short interlude of rapping! i think it might actually help me remember :)
Thanks for all the help your analysis helps me a lot 👍
Great video, thanks. What about the ‘into the valley of death’ repetition?
Me with my exam in a few hours while also in a global pandemic 👁 💧 👄💧👁
Awesome video Mr. Bruff!!!! This helped A LOT!!!
I've subscribed to your channel because of these AMAZING analyses. Thanks!
great!
I should be able to ace my test tomorrow because of this!!!
Hello Mr Bruff I wanted to ask for the link of this article 9:32
Could the reference to David and Goliath through 'valley of death' be Tennyson's way of suggesting that the soldiers' act of sacrifice was so honourable and brave that God was behind them, like how God was behind David and lead him? Just a thought...
Please analyse "Checking out me history" by John Agard and how power and conflict is presented. Thanks!
+Rashiq Hossain tomorrow!
+Rashiq Hossain done
"wondered" an amazing analogy
I have a question, what are the effects of the dactylic dimeter breaks in lines 4, 21, 31, 41 and 52? At first, I thought that it was only the blunder'd line that had a break, but other lines also have dactylic dimeter breaks, so does it also carry the same affect as the dactylic break on line 12?
Matthew Bevin wrote brilliantly about this in the article 'Poetry by Numbers' if you can find it online anywhere. Basically it's a complex and debatable topic, but the main point I would focus on is the 'Someone had blundered' line.
@@mrbruff Thank you, I really appreciate the quick replies, your videos really help my English grades :)
If I were you, I'd speed up your audio. I'm listening at double speed and the message comes across perfectly in half the time
This used to be my least favourite poem, but you've really shed a new light on it
Great!
If it relates to David and Goliath the failure of the soldiers but victory of David must be in mocking suggesting that God is not with us when we empower the upper classes unjustly? I don't know, any response greatly appreciated
yes I like that a lot
+mrbruff thanks big dog
I can now write an entire essay on the word "wondered' 😂. I don't need to memorise the poem, just that.
Could you say the word 'wondered' has both positive and negative connotations
Yes- why don’t you explain how?
Around 29:05 "focus on the orange"
I look at yellow and chuckle because I see "shatt"
Thanks for this brilliant analysis.
'thank you for sticking with it': thank you for making it!! 😄
Thank you so much, you gave an amazing and clear analysis, keep up the good work!
Thank you!
@@mrbruff ur Welcome !
Also the 2nd half of the word “wondered” is “dered” which is like how they ‘dared’ to go in to the valley , the risk of it etc
When you talked about the dactylic meter Ihad no clue what that was but once hearing about it I'm definetly going to include this in my writing and im now so confident on this poem. This poem and Bayonet charge was my least favourite poems out of the lot but after watching this I am so interested in it. Kinda hoping this is what my exam will be on.
That’s great!
26:49 Who has seen Bad Education and gets the reference?
can you make one of the 6 minute revision videos for this poem please
PLEASE, CAN YOU DO ANALYSIS VIDEOS FOR EDEXCEL GCSE!!!
This is amazing! First time I’ve made notes on one of the poems for gcses!:)
I’m taking my gcses this year and am very nervous!
This analysis is excellent. Thank you. Thinking I should do an audio recording of this.
This is SO AMAZING. Just spent 70 minutes sitting and pausing this to make a spider diagram. (Which I do with all your poetry videos!!). They help me understand the poem so much better. How many quotations would you recommend for learning from each poem? It's so stressful having to know each one in so much depth-especially when we're only going to have to write about two !!!
I would say four quotations from each poem, and really good meaningful quotations, which is what I'm also doing. NEVER memorise about 10 quotations from each and just throw them in. Memorise four or five extremely meaningful from each poem and use them in the exam alongside structure and context, keeping in mind you only have 45 mins.
Haven’t watched full video yet so idk if he’s covered this but I’ve always inferred ‘Half a league onward’ as getting close to death but idk
No link to the book you talk about in the beginning. I'm guessing you changed the name of that ebook to "Mr Bruffs Guide Power & Conflict Poetry." I suggest you point that out on the link.
Good point. Thanks.
@@mrbruff You're welcome. I just bought the book.
@@mrbruff I have a question. How do lines 5 and 6 are syllables "gade" and "said" not stressed? The word "brigade" puts a natural stress on the second syllable, and there is the rhyme that puts even more stress on the syllables "gade" and "said." I would say those lines are iambic trimeter with trochaic substitutions at the beginning of the lines.
@@jcam42 Thank you for your question.
The poem is widely considered to be written in dactylic dimeter, and that is certainly how I read it. A quick online search finds this source: kb.gcsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1223&context=thecorinthian See page 154 for a visual labelling of the stresses. Sparknotes says ‘Each line is in dimeter, which means it has two stressed syllables; moreover, each stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables, making the rhythm dactylic’ (www.sparknotes.com/poetry/tennyson/section9/) Helpfully, Matthew Bevis in ‘Poetry by Numbers’ quotes Tennyson himself explaining: ‘my poem is dactylic, and founded on the phrase, “some one had blundered”’.
However, Bevis continues: ‘but some prosodists have felt that his vocal performance is itself a blunder because it’s not dactylic enough. In Meter in Poetry, A New Theory, Nigel Fabb and Morris Halle’ label the poem in the same way you have done. So it’s absolutely fine to consider different ways of reading the poem.
Thanks Mr. Bruff! The next book I'm going to read is Fussell's Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. I went to the library and skimmed through it when I was first learning about meter over four decades ago, and I've been meaning to read the whole book for years. I write narrative ballads, and I find meter the hardest thing about it. It is more of an art than a science, in my opinion. If you are interested, I preform some of my ballads on my TH-cam page. For example, though I usually write in iambs, here is a narrative poem in amphibrachic tetrameter. I'd love your opinion if you find yourself with eight minutes of free time. th-cam.com/video/rKm1hWPFKWo/w-d-xo.html
I've been revising the poems with my exams coming up soon, I dreaded revising this one, but you have made it so interesting and the Gangsters Paradise cameo was appreciated.
You are truly a life saver keep it up!
was really confused before😕🙁. Now I understudied the whole poem. thanks to mrbruff
Amazing piece of analysis. Thank you. My year 10 class will benefit greatly from your research. :)
+Anita Taggart awesome!
Wow! Thanks again Mr Bruff!! Amazing
"All the world wondered" is also a quote from Revelation 13...Thank you for the analysis. I think this is my new favourite poem!
thanks!
Hello:) This has been very helpful; quite perceptive and complexed ideas explained clearly. Thank you very much.
Great video, continuing to help on my way to my great GCSE results ;) haha keep up the good work!
I struggle with english , as I struggle seeing the ideas and writing them on the page without adding random nonsence any help
plan the key points you want to include before writing
Sama M thanks
Me too, It's my first language but in my report, English was the subject I scored lowest in, Physics was highest though :)
Highlight key words in your question first. When you revise, have a copy of the Assessment Objectives in front of you. You need to make sure you cover all the relevant ones in your reply. If it's Literature, you need to show a critical response, i.e showing there are different interpretations (Mr. Bruff usually covers at least two in his videos), you can use the SMILE acronym to remind yourself of the other things you need to cover - are you familiar with that? Structure (and form), Meaning, Imagery, Language, Effects on the reader. Sometimes these overlap, so they don't necessarily need to make their own paragraphs, but it helps you to remember what to cover. Keep to the point and cross reference if possible!
Thanks I will try and remember the SMILE acronym. Hopefully it helps me haha :)
My English lit exam is today and I have spent my morning listening to this as prep 😄
23:10 - subtitles write dactyl as 'dark teal'!