William Blake's radicalism - context on his poem, 'London'

William Blake - London

Nice intro to this poem.

Year 10 homework

As with the homework over the Christmas holiday, your current homework is to revise for your exam next week.

If you want to get yourself ready for next week's homework, I want you to think of a song that you like lyrically. You will be doing an AMAPP analysis of it.

To pre-empt any "but I don't know any songs with good lyrics," excuses, I have picked one for you if you can't pick your own. These lyrics are wide open to interpretation:

Annotation for Ozymandias

Bryan Cranston Reads Ozymandias

Here is the best reading of this poem in the world. I'm not all that big on spoken poetry because I feel that hearing someone else's voice biases you towards their personal reading if it, but I make an exception to this reading because it's awesome.

Ozymandias

We are kicking off this unit with an absolute colossal heavyweight: Ozymandias by Percy Shelley.

Poetry introduction

For those of you who need a little confidence for the prospect of analysing poetry, this short video should sort you out (unless you dislike Rhianna)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebd-0bjUjZk