This one is my favourite Robert Frost poem I think! Make sure you read its wonderfulness in full before you watch me blathering on about it: www.poeticous....
If you want Closed Captions for said blathering, please just leave me a comment and I'll put some on the video.
One of the reasons I love this poem (aside from the fact it's word choice is freaking iconic) is because it examines the human desire to break the mould and reach new heights as a species in quite an unorthodox way. I think people usually view our desire to be the best we can be as a good thing (understandably), but more than that, as a reason to see ourselves as superior to other animals. Whereas Frost looks at it from the point of view of nature and reveals how this trait can actually be damaging in a big way. It occurred to me on rewatching this video that it kind of seems like he foresaw climate change - right through from the crazy weather conditions to the humans' apathy on learning of the disastrous consequences of their actions. I mean, whoa. A wise dude indeed.
In other news, I have finally started noting down my sources for these videos, yay! All the information presented here definitely did not just spring out of my head magically - I always do a lot of research for these powerpoints and spend a lot of time organising the notes, drawing connections between different points, putting them in my own words and adding in my own observations and interpretations inspired by it all. Do not let anyone make you feel like a failure for needing/wanting to look at other people's analyses or guides on literature before you can form your own opinion. Synthesis, collaboration and listening to others' opinions are vital skills to have for English Literature study (and life!), and that's what you're developing when you research your set texts in a panic because you don't have a clue what it all means. Poems and classics (and especially classic poems) are not meant to be instantly understood and effortlessly broken down by everyone that reads them - otherwise they wouldn't set them for Advanced Level exams. It takes time and effort to analyse literature but we can do it! So yeah, if you want more info on this poem check out these online resources which helped me:
prezi.com/viiu... - really helpful for finding links between this poem and others.
www.vision.org/... - this gives great insight into how the ideas in the poem relate to modern science.
The next 3 are documents about RF in general with sections on Roughly Zones so you might want to use Ctrl + F to find it in the text. :)
www.battle-axe....
www.teachiteng...
www2.le.ac.uk/...
If you've watched a couple of these videos you may have noticed that I keep playing around with the fonts and text styles. I really like what I did in this one with the fancy headers and basic but large text for the rest. Let me know if you have any thoughts on how I should present it.
Oh, and a note on the end of the vid - no the narration did not cut off without me noticing, I just actually had nothing more to say after that abrupt end. I record the narration based on some rough notes then write up the powerpoint slides while listening to it back. I expanded on my last point about contrast at that stage, when I was writing up the slide, so that's why the text elaborates more than the narration. I figured it's better to get in as much info as possible than to have a tidy ending.
Don't go digging up any peach trees! :)
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