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I have a ppe exam tomorrow and i need help with this poem and a poison tree please if you can make a good video of both please if you can make it 5 hours please i will whit until you can make a video of it please in 5 hours

Do you know if we have to comment on context in our exams ?

can you do a video on comparing similar texts and the questions you may be asked about the comparisons?

I was so moved by this poem when I first read it & although I do have an A' level in English ( Some time ago) I found your analysis so insightful. I hope my son studies this poem at GCSE

Officially the best video I understood more than my teacher thank you so much !!!! 🎉 keep it up

@mr_mdking Hello! Do you run regular online tutoring groups my child could join?

Tennant had this to say about Mark Rylance's Hamlet, a version that resonated with him and influenced his own performance: Q: Mark Rylance's Hamlet has been talked about as the genuinely mad Hamlet, Jonathan Pryce's was the possessed Hamlet, David Warner's was the student prince. Is there any pressure to make your mark as a particular type of Hamlet? A: It's funny. Although people talk about Mark Rylance's Hamlet in those terms, that's not how I remember it. I suppose there is a temptation, and you have to guard against finding yourself trying to define your version, to look for the gimmick - or worse for the critics' strap-line - when you're rehearsing. As soon as you get self-consciously idiosyncratic, you might as well go home. I'm sure that Mark Rylance wasn't in rehearsals thinking, “I'm going to do the mad Hamlet.” I'm sure that he just responded to the play as he went along. Having seen it and not read about it - which I think is interesting because performances become defined by what is written down about them - having seen that production twice because it meant a lot to me, I would never describe it as the “mad” Hamlet. For me he was terribly real - not that madness isn't real - but he was terribly connected, and the language made beautiful sense and was very conversational in many ways. If anything, he didn't carry his princeliness with him; he showed Hamlet to be a normal, flawed human being. In my opinion, the reason why Hamlet has stood the test of time so well is because it resonates with the human emotion of grief and all that follows. His humanity is a reflection of ours. This is why Tennant's Hamlet in its pursuit of portraying Hamlet as less aspirational and more flawed feels more correct to me. Text-wise, Hamlet does mistreat the people in his life. That much is pure fact. Trying to flatten it out and portray him as a chivalrous hero is very much sanding off the interesting edges of the character. What makes Tennant's Hamlet tick is that due to the hyper-surveilled world he lives in, he believes he cannot trust anyone (sans Horatio) and that causes him to lash out. Act 3 Scene 1, where he makes fun of Polonius - his meanness was in the text! His words double both as a cover of madness and pointed insults at Polonius. Hamlet is very intelligent, but he's far from a gentleman. Act 3 Scene 4, specifically, stems from how he believes his mother has betrayed him (and his father). That is the primary emotion driving that scene and Tennant and Downie play it perfectly. Thinking yourself to be abandoned by those that you thought cared for you is a much more believable emotion than desiring your parent romantically/sexually. Things like this show that Tennant excels at capturing the nuances of those emotions driving a given scene, and it's clear Doran's production spent time and effort studying the narrative function of each piece of the story and what drove the characters at any moment - all adding to the humanity of the adaptation. The same things Tennant praised about Mark Rylance are very much strengths of his interpretation, and it shows.

Very helpful

please could you do still i rise by Maya Angelou. Thank you so much.

Omg how to destroy a great poem. Study for GCSE and strip out all REAL depth and meaning. Read it like a fecking nursery rhyme. Shameful.

That's awful

I think at 21:57 one could make the point that the "invisible houses" and the sun-gazing narrator are on different lines, seperated via end stopping (" - ") creating a sense that there is distance between the narrator and the invisible houses, and therefore they are unable to realise the full extent of the situation (hence alluding to the idea of invisibility); a sense of the narrator not being involved in the war.

IT CAME UP!!!

For “tis like the distance on the look of death” I really highlighted the imagery of a beam of light being and then leaving. Its the death of that moment and she could be comparing it to that interaction as staring down death and death looking back like she’s not experiencing these thoughts alone.

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sir how do you feel that you are going to get about 5000 views tonight haha

love the taylor swift photo mr king 🤩😂

using your videos to revise for y10 EOY's sir!

To develop the analysis at 19:27 a bit - it would be useful to talk about 'enough' as an exclamative to mean 'stop!' Overall, this video is massively helpful and I'm feeling very ready for exams tomorrow

I have my exam tomorrow, thanks sir :)

Do you have any predictions on what may come up for OCR english literature for paper one An inspector calls and jekyll and the hyde and paper two macbeth and poetry ?

Could the imagery of the "shadows" and "mansions" been seen as a biblical illusion between death and the luxury of Heaven that she wants to represent on Earth?

thank you so much for these videos, really appreciate them!!

I would argue that carrying the picture of Steffi into battle was like the medieval knights carrying a piece of fabric as a symbol of their lady's favor into battle. "Symbolically, carrying a lady's favor represented the knight's pledge to defend his lady's honor and reputation. It was a visible manifestation of the bond between the knight and his lady, highlighting the importance of love, loyalty, and devotion in the knightly code of conduct." As this "knight" has fallen in battle, the photograph or "favor" has been dishonored.

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Thank you for getting the final video for this series out.

very good analysis thank you

hello would it be possible if you could please make a video where you sort all of the poems on the ocr anthology to different types of conflict as i think this would really help to identify which poems should be used for what questions? thank you so much for these videos they have been very useful and i am doing my exam in the summer!

Regarding the power of memory - something that I thought would develop my argument is that the enthusiasm D’Aguiar feels is also felt alongisde struggle - the verbs ‘itching’ and ‘startled’, alongside the enthusiastic connotations mentioned in the video, connote irritation and daunting challenges, which shows that the power of memory can both motivate and overwhelm us.

Please bring back 5 top quotes!

Please can you keep doing the top 5 quotes? They are super helpful as I’m not sure which ones are best to use. Thanks!

This series is really useful!! Thank you 😊!!

Thank u so much. I'm a Spanish student of English Philology and I do love literature. This video has been quite helpful. 😃😃

Could you please do thirteen by Caleb Femi?

love these videos could you do one on Songs for the people?!