1909...Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
A new use of form. A new way of interpreting the world.
Prufrock?

1901...The Blue Period.

YEAR 12/13 LESSON 57 [23rd June 15]: Homework

Today's session explored issues relating to literary value. Students were asked to consider the concept of the canon and discuss the notion of value. The question at the heart of the discussion was:
HOW DO WE CALCULATE LITERARY VALUE?
Students were then asked to consider the merits of a prose extract from modern author, and son of Hull, Russ Litten, and T.S.Eliot's The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock.
Students were asked to consider which text offers the most literary value?

HOMEWORK:  DIGEST LITERATURE. DIGEST THESE RESOURCES.

Read Eliot's PRUFROCK and read Ted Hughes' LOVESONG. Not only do I want  students to consider why these two poems could be considered valuable but I also want students to consider how metaphor is being used to shape meaning.

YOU TUBE PROVIDES THESE KIND OF RESOURCES! SOAK THEM UP! HERE, TWO ACADEMICS DISCUSS READINGS OF ELIOT'S PRUFROCK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DeqZ9ryTc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsDOASE42HM
Here is a link to a bloke talking about the poem. This is the kind of resource that YOU TUBE can offer the student. This man offers his own reading of this famous poem...and links the poem to his life. Is this a useful resource?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA4NpKVmV5I 

One of the central questions that we will consider on Friday is:
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF METAPHOR?

I expect ALL students to be familiar with the texts in FEED YOUR BRAIN and I expect class discussion linked to ELIOT/HUGHES to be illustrated with references to the texts in the Anthology. The aim of the Anthology is to allow students to illustrate their critical argument with a wide range of textual reference. READ THE ANTHOLOGY.......READ...READ....READ....READ.

Students should also digest the resources below:
Katie Tempest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRYLzWovtk 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLWlB3ib7ZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv5fggapRwQ
Hollie McNish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiS8q_fifa0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJX5XHnONTI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5-BNFKkz9M
John Cooper Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4qN9pduox0
TS Eliot reads..Prufrock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAO3QTU4PzY
Florence Welch reads Hughes' LOVESONG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woyB_gJQLpg
Lemn Sissay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXp8yzY99uw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlfdYWx5pDQ

BACK AGAIN....

The last few works of this academic year will consist of students considering questions such as:

• WHAT IS THE PURPOSE AND VALUE OF LITERATURE?
• WHAT IS THE CANON?
• HOW DO WE CALCULATE LITERARY VALUE?
• WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF METAPHOR?
• WHAT IS GOTHIC LITERATURE?
• WHY BOTHER READING?

The textual focus for this philosophical section of the course is the FEED YOUR BRAIN Anthology. This lovingly prepared slice of literary nutrition contains some of the most famous poems in English Literature and also some less famous, less canonical, but perhaps more valuable texts.

Students need to engage with this section of the course as it will prepare the philosophical foundation for next year's work. The two texts that students need to explore for the work at BGS in 15/16 are:

• Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN or THE MODERN PROMETHEUES.
• Christopher Marlowe's THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS.

Students might like to dip into these resources posted below...Is this Literature?

Katie Tempest:
Hollie McNish:
John Cooper Clark:
more to fillow with links.....the school system is not allowing me to access You Tube.....