Non Sum Qualis Eram by Ernest Dowson || A-Level Poetry Analysis

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This video will teach you 'Non Sum Qualis Eram’ by Ernest Dowson. What will we cover?
🌹We’ll learn a little bit about Dowson's love affairs.
🌹We’ll read the poem.
🌹 We’ll analyse the literary devices.
🌹We’ll dip into form and structure.
This poem can be studied by anyone at any level, but is specific to the AQA English Literature A-Level Paper 2: ’Love Through the Ages.' If you have a friend who'd level up their English with these videos and notes, please do share. Any support is much appreciated.
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0:00 - Start
1:02 - Historical context
1:39 - Who was Ernest Dowson?
2:42 - Poetry reading
4:30 - Stanza 1
7:00 - Stanza 2
9:17 - Stanza 3
10:56 - Stanza 4
13:07 - Form and structure
14:30 - Symbolism
15:39 - Final thoughts
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Thank you so much! Your videos are so extremely helpful! I can't wait for your analysis on The Scrutiny ☺

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Aw, you’re so kind - thank you. Yes, the Scrutiny is on the list! ✏️ 👏🏼

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He was a pedophile????

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[@kevinmunoz3321]

Such a great poem

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Indeed!

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I love the analysis and that last bit by Oscar Wilde! I'm must sit with this a bit. I feel this work intensely! Many thanks, Gabriella! Be well

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Yeah, it’s an intense poem alright. And what’s beautiful about most classical poetry in general, is you can keep revisiting it as you get older and the meaning always shifts slightly. Very cool.

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@@GabriellaTavini Agreed! I much prefer to sit with a profound piece like this. Sharing tea with like mind's ... Deep hearts, grinning their enlightenment. Thank you Gabs.

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[@ajd8848]

I wish I had done this poem in A-level english now...

[@GabriellaTavini]

Don’t worry - if you’re here watching these videos, a lot of the skills you learn are transferable to other poems 😌

[@ajd8848]

Thanks, your content is great I wish I had access to this when I did my A-levels in 2016. But late now haha. Just had a bit of a personal interest in this poet/writer (name is a giveaway). Wish he was an option then.

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@@ajd8848 I know right! Imagine. They’d have to give you full marks for simply being related to him. And thank you. 😁

[@MrTBrearley]

Hi Gabriella, V interesting, but one teeth-on-edge moment as tip for future: 'Yea" is absolutely deffo pronounced "Yay" - not 'Yee", which made yr otherwise excellent reading, and the poem, sound weird. Emnmasaying,com confirms, and all other readings I've heard, including a great one from Burton on YT. Interested in your point about hexameters which I'd not noticed, As a Latin rather than English meter I wonder whether it has the effect of making the poem feel urgent, precipitate and slightly mad - like Burton's reading. Also interesting that other artists raided the poem, which must say something. Cole Porter, in a comic tone "I've always been true to you, darling, in my fashion" and Margaret Mitchell, who loved the poem, used 'Gone with the Wind" for her book.

[@GabriellaTavini]

Hey Mr T Brearley, I love your enthusiasm for this poem and thanks for the hot tip. I’d like to think that if this poem was read aloud purely for performance purposes, not teaching, that the speaker would vary the pace based on their instincts about the poem. I feel the pace changes at specific point, but it’s really subjective to the speaker. Thanks for commenting! 🙏🏻

[@albanvic]

Richard Burton pronounces it SIN-ARA. That surprised me.