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hi everyone and welcome back to my
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playlist concerning English literature
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so today in this video and the following
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one we are going to talk about the war
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poets English poets who lived in the
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period of the First World War
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and for this reason they just talked
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about war and they experienced war as
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well so they're they're poor their poems
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were extremely modern and they didn't
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follow at all the conventions of poetry
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on the poetry of the 19th century and we
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can say that they expressed especially
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their feelings their states of mind
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their opinions their experience
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concerning war and so there were two
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completely different perspectives two
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completely different points of view okay
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on one side poets who wanted to talk
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about war in a very lyric way and with a
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very romantic and soft language they
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talked about ideals and they also we can
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say that it was sort of a propaganda it
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was quite rhetoric and they expressed
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their patriotism in a very strong and
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emphasized way the most probably the
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most famous amongst them was Rupert
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Brooke with his sonnets and today we're
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going to analyze his most famous his
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most well known sonnet which is the
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soldier on the other side there were
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those points so wanted to express the
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sort of a denounce against war they
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really am for example Owen okay Wilfred
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Owen he experienced the horrors of war
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in
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Cheers also physical suffering and they
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used he used and other poets who shared
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his point of view used a very crude and
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very strong specific language to express
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those horror and and also physical
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effects only or human beings so there
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was a strong strong denounce against war
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and against propaganda in fact all one's
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work one of his most famous ones is
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called dual check decorum s which is
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writing and it it's a sort of a lie in
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his opinion so that Latin sayings I says
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that war or dying in war it's something
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sweet
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okay and it's a reason of glory well he
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says no this is just a lie now I'm going
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to tell you to show you to talk about
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what war is okay real war is so we're
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going to read his work in my next video
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and we're going to talk about his
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opinion his point of view and the point
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of view point of view obviously of those
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war poets who agreed with him in my next
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video
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today we are talking about Reuben Brooks
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so he was born in 1887 and he attended
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rugby school rugby school and then
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cambree's University he already was a
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poet when he joined the Navy and he
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wrote five war sonnets okay very
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well-known the most common one is the
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one we were going to read and analyze
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today which is the soldier and actually
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we can say that he's so very little
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action in war because unfortunately he
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died he died of blood poisoning
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in 1915 so he could experience a little
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about about war actually was on his way
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to the Dardanelles to fight against
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Turkey so unfortunately he died very
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very young but anyway his his death was
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early death actually made him a young
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hero sort of a symbol of propaganda and
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probably it gave him a great fame so he
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became sort of of an idealized hero of
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war the war his poems were actually
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published after his death
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so in 1918 and the name of this
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collection was collected for actually
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now we're going to read now together the
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soldier the soldiers this sonnet that he
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wrote in December 1914 so basically for
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four months after the outbreak of the
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First World War some I will read now the
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first dance I wouldn't we'll talk about
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that if I should die think only this of
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me that there's some corner of a foreign
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field that is forever England there
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shall be in that rich earth a richer
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dust concealed a dust whom England bore
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shaped made aware gave wants her flowers
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to love her ways to roam a body of
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England's breathe in English air washed
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by the rivers blest by Suns of home well
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you can recognize here he's a quite
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rhetoric way of talking the strong
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patriotism strong propaganda and this
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language which is a very soft very
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romantic very
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idealize because the concept of war is
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actually idealized so so if I should die
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you may notice that the poem is the
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first-person narrator here because he is
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talking the first person he is the
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soldier
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honey sounds ok if I die okay war don't
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pity me don't be sorry
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ok because even if I am dead somewhere
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around the world in a some corner of a
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foreign field as it says ok there is
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still a part of England in that place
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and so I conquered something even if I'm
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dad okay because my body is there is in
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that earth ok
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isn't that field and my body represents
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England there is England inside myself
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this is the strong patriotism of Brookes
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work ok so I am
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England I'm not just English I am
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England and and so he says and that rich
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earth so in that field where I'm dead
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where my body years there is a richer
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dust ok so my mom my body my my corpse
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is something richer because it contains
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inside
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what England gave gave to me because
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England was like a mother so England
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bore shaped and made aware that soldier
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ok like a mother basically and so he
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could give him birth but also England
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educated ok that soldier and made him
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aware of himself of his ideals and you
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may notice here that why talking about
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England
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so the motherland
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Brook said England gave once her flowers
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to love okay
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so England gave that soldier okay dad
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soldier her flowers to love her flowers
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not its flowers okay because England is
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personified here England is the mother
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is the mother okay this is why they used
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he uses sorry the word her or she why
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talking about country their country and
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so England bore shape made aware the
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soldier gave him more flowers to love so
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give him something beautiful something
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sweet to love told him to love tender
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things
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okay flowers in this case England gave
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the soldier her ways it's ways to Rome
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so the opportunity to explore okay to
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grow up and again in that place in that
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corner of a foreign field there is a
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body of England's it's not just an
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English body but it's the body of
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England so think about the rhetoric use
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of language to emphasize that patriotism
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breathing English air okay again washed
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by the rivers blessed by the sounds of
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ohms
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all these elements okay nature to the
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rivers the Sun and the air okay all
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these elements could create and could
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actually make that soldier the person he
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is and he is England and so he he will
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never lose okay because even after death
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he is conquering okay there's still a
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conquer of that place so there is no
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chance that a soldier can actually die
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because glory is eternal and their
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conquer is eternal okay
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so the we can say that the the
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possibility of losing the possibility of
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dying is actually denied here and this
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is I mean this is probably a course of
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propaganda okay in order to ask people
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huh ask young people to join the army
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the Navy or whatever and you wanted to
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they wanted to explain and to convince
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them that they would have been walking
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towards glory okay and there is no
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danger danger of actually dying of
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actually suffering the suffering in
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Brooks poems is just the physical
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suffering but it's not so much it's not
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so it's very important because after all
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the most important thing is the feeling
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okay the ideal that is so strong that in
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physical suffering doesn't hurt doesn't
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actually count that much and again and
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think so he's always talking to other
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people who would eventually survive what
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he eventually died be dead
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I think this heart all evil she'd away a
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pulse in the eternal mind no less gives
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somewhere back the thoughts by England
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given her sights and sounds dreams happy
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other day and laughter learnt of friends
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and gentleness in arts and P at peace
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under an English heaven so he goes away
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in his metaphor in his idea that you
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have you English people have to think if
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I am dead okay that my heart won't be
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dying along my my body okay my heart
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will be beating
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forever okay this is the immortality of
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ideals and the immortality of the
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soldier in the eternal minds obviously
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in the eternal context and in some way
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that heart beating gives eternal mind
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thoughts concerning England okay because
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they are inside my body
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they're inside they're in me and so
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there will be the opportunity through my
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own dad death and through my own body
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and through my own mind and my heart
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that won't stop beating there will be
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the chance to see two or better to allow
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others to share sights and sounds and
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dreams of my country of England her her
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sights and South's again the
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personification of the mother England
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and lover said also something joyful and
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learnt of friends so there is a here an
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idea of community of people and
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gentleness again in hearts at peace
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under an English heaven so finally in we
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can say that in Brooks opinion war could
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be important also to to clean to clean
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the world by evil and to change man to
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to create something good so this English
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heaven and hearts at peace is the final
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result you may notice that this rhetoric
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her way of talking is
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celebrating some ideals that were
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typical of the classical and heroic
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literature this is obviously quite
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typical and together obviously with the
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propaganda all the time and there are
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also some aspects that are quite similar
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to the ideas that provoked or anyway
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supported the Victorian imperialism so
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the idea that England was superior the
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British people were superior and so when
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they decided to colonize a country they
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would give them okay their social
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pattern political pattern their religion
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their moral code strict moral code of
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Victorian era actually the the ideal of
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a patriarchal family appearances and so
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on and so on and so they were given this
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as a sort of a gift to make other
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countries other people better okay to
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civilize them okay so this idea of
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England on a higher level well this is
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quite similar to that idea of war okay
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together as I said before to the heroic
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ideal a classical idea of glory of
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eternal glory of immortality and
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obviously propaganda that was used a lot
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by propaganda of the time together with
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the fact that Brooke himself was as I
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said before a symbol okay because of his
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early death a symbol of this young hero
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that represented so well the we can say
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them various ideas and techniques of
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propaganda
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actually a rook unfortunately didn't
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have the chance to question his own
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beliefs to question his own ideas
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because obviously he died too young and
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so he couldn't actually experience the
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horror of war and so he died and his
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ideals were still there and uncorrupted
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because he couldn't have the chance to
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question them we will never know whether
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he would have changed his mind or not
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but we know that owen thought the
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opposite he believed in the complete
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opposite
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so his works are very strong denounced
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and very strong criticism against war
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and against propaganda as old and an old
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and and and huge lie so he talks about
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war in a completely different way the
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language is the opposite it's very very
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strong it's very very crude experient
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experience story suffering okay and
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first-person and he wants to use poetry
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to express that and he also talked about
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the aim that poetry should have should
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have had in his opinion so in my next
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video we're going to talk about owen and
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you will see how different these two
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poets are even if they live in the same
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period and actually talked about the
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same and the same topic I hope this
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other video about war poets thank you so
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very much for your support and bye
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