Coming Home - Owen Sheers (CIE IGCSE poetry revision)
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2015
- A presentation to aid understanding and revision of 'Coming Home' by OwenSheers, which appears in the 'Songs of Ourselves' selection for CIE IGCSE English Literature.
The presentation on which this video is based is available at:
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Thank you Martin; my daughter and I found this very helpful (we are homeschooling for the CIE in China)
Your great…… thanks… these all videos our very very very helpful for us and for our teachers…
Since shaking of the persona's grandfather's hand suggests that age is inevitable, could one link that to the awkwardness in his mothers arms? Perhaps the speaker wishes he wouldn't age, to fit perfectly in his mothers arms, but through his grandfather, he's realising that he is bound to growing up
so helpful! very comprehensive
Thanks a ton, Martin. You have analysed the poem in such depth and perspective. For all CIE students, this is the channel we need! Keep going Martin. Also, I am studying IGCSE and we are learning 14 poems from Songs of Ourselves, Volume II. I would really appreciate it if you could make a video like thus for all 14 poems. Thanks!
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please keep going. its a great help.
thanks a lot!
This video helped me to get A* in my essay :D
Congratulations! Good luck for your examinations.
Hi Martin, just some thoughts on the poem.. let me know what you think.
I think the ending of the poem is quite sad and melancholic but the poet is also reflective of the inevitable passage of time and the process of ageing. The poet feels this way throughout the poem as he returns home and sees how his family has changed from the time that he was a child. Many things at home have not changed- his father 'still goes and soaks himself in the rain' and his hard work and ethics have remained unchanged. His mother still works in the kitchen, tirelessly cooking and providing for the family. His grandfather, despite his old age, has the spirit of celebration and unites the family with small acts like sharing wine. However, many things have changed and that is what the poet is reminded of- his mother no longer hugs him like she used to as a child, his father is finding more discomforting with the struggle and hardship he is facing and his grandfather is getting weaker and more fragile-his mortality becomes apparent and obvious to the poet and to the reader, acting like a reminder to us of our ageing.
I think that these are valid observations. The son sees his family continuing with the familiar routines of their lives but, on reflection, this makes the effects of aging all the more apparent.
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Thank you so much for this! I am taking the English Literature (0486) Cambridge examination in 2016 and your videos are really going to help me (hopefully) achieve an A star! I would really appreciate if you could make these videos for all of the 14 poems. Thanks again.
You're welcome. I hope to have all 14 poems included for my own students' revision and it's really pleasing to hear that others are also finding them of use. Wishing you the best of luck with your course.
You're welcome. I hope to have all 14 poems included for my own students' revision and it's really pleasing to hear that others are also finding them of use. Wishing you the best of luck with your course.
Good luck to you all sitting your exam on Monday :-)
+Martin Daly i'm so scared :( do you know the poems we might get ?
+Martin Daly Thank you! If I (hopefully) get a B or above, it will definitely be from no small part played by your videos!
+falongrey4 I will get an A fam!
+BeachedNerd Go to bed, doing revision at this time of night will do you no good.
falongrey4 why are you still up then ?
Mr.Daly can you add a video for My Grandmother Knitting by liz lochhead. it is on the examination to
Really helpful :)
Thank you! I got an A!
+Matthew Nunn Congratulations Matthew!
maybe the last stanza has 4 lines because it signifies that the grandfather may have lesser years to live
This is an interesting observation, as it does add a sense of finality to the poem that suits the themes of aging and mortality explored in the poem. Thanks!
this is great thanks! For the gcse we also have grand mother knitting, clod and the pebble, and lovers infiniteness if you could do some revision of that would be perfect, thanks!
could the wool left on the hole in the fence be symbolic of the speaker having left the family and the effect this has had on the family, and how they have never recovered, and the fact that it reopens every winter being symbolic of when he has to leave them again and his father tries to stop it?
I think this is an interesting reading. Thanks for sharing it.
Dear Martin, thanks for posting this video as well as the others. I was wondering if the alliterative 'w' meant anything in stanza 2?
What was the effect of the "graphological device?"
Good luck if you have your exam tomorrow!
Hi martin, thanks a ton for the analysis and Would you be analyzing Dr jekyll and Mr hyde anytime soon?
+Aditya Ramesh My Year 10 students will be moving onto this novel in the summer term, so I hope to add some resources then.
You did mention the close bond between the father, but you didn't speak about a contrast, which I think could be a good point? He refers to his mother as 'my mother' but when it comes to his father he calls him 'dad', already portraying the different bonds between parents. This could represent the contrasting feelings and perspective of gender roles that the poet has; his mother is making the dough and bread, working as she has done before, and he sees that as fine, because that's what he was taught as a child by his parents. But when it comes to his father working and putting in his effort, he sees this as unnecessary and that he shouldn't be working as hard as he currently is, as he sees his father as a man who has done his time and should rest, while his mother is still working. This contrasts these roles and the poet's perspectives on both of his parents, which could again show how the poet is being infantilised?
CptBazooka: I think this is a very good point and one, I must admit, I hadn't stopped to consider.
Thank you :). I forgot to say how incredibly useful these videos have been, so thank you again!
i'm listening to this in class rn lol
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