Mr. C's IB English Lit Blog - BD Somani Int School : August 2016

Tuesday, 30 August 2016

WILFRED OWEN "My subject is war and the pity of war"

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) is widely recognised as one of the greatest voices of the First World War. His self-appointed task was to speak for the men in his care, to show the 'Pity of War'.

Owen's enduring and influential poetry is evidence of his bleak realism, his energy and indignation, his compassion and his great technical skill.

The Wilfred Owen Association was formed in 1989 to commemorate Wilfred Owen's life and work. CLICK HERE FOR LINK http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/home

http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owena.htm

IOC TEXTS GRADE 12 HL and SL 2017 Diploma Class

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Text 1 for HL and SL Poems of Wilfred Owen.Text 2 for HL and SL - Romeo and JulietText 3 HL students only Martin Luther King – A call to conscience. Speeches.

1. DULCE ET DECORUM EST

2. THE SENTRY

3. DISABLED

4. STRANGE MEETING

5. EXPOSURE

6. HAS YOUR SOUL SIPPED

7. MENTAL CASES

8. THE SEND-OFF

9. THE SPRING OFFENSIVE

10. THE LETTER

11. ASLEEP

12. ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH

13. THE PARABLE OF THE OLD MAN AND THE YOUNG

14. ARMS AND THE BOY

15. FUTILITY

16. INSPECTION

17. THE CHANCES

18. THE DEAD BEAT

19. THE NEXT WAR

20. SOLDIER’S DREAM

MLK
I HAVE A DREAM.
GIVE US THE BALLOT SPEECH.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE SPEECH.

EULOGY AT THE FUNERAL OF 4 GIRLS MURDERED BY THE KLU KLUX KLAN (SIXTEENTH BAPTIST CHURCH FUNERAL EULOGY)

BEYOND VIETNAM SPEECH.

Monday, 22 August 2016

France/Germany: The Oradour Massacre | European Journal

Ghosts of War: Oradour-sur-Glane - the cultural context of Beckett's pessimism in Waiting for Godot

French and German Presidents stand together at the very site of a Nazi massacre in France in 1944.
These atrocities and the general state of despair after two world wars in the first fifty years of the twentieth century contributed to the feelings of pessimism or at least scepticism in European intellectual life in the 1950s and 1960s. We see this mood in the work of Beckett, Camus and writers.
Students should look at Theatre of the Absurd and Existentialism and also Beckett's own use of the word 'Tragicomedy' to describe his play "Waiting for Godot".
Here is John Minihan's famous photograph of Samuel Beckett.

Samuel Beckett in his local cafe in Montparnasse, Paris