Miss Fry’s English Classroom: Recent Episodes
Miss Fry
Line-by-Line analysis of Sassoon’s late WW1 poem about the cover up of the truth when telling a mother how her son died in battle
Line-by-line analysis of Siegfried Sassoon’s simple poem packing a punch about the taboo subject of suicide in war
Line by line analysis of the vivid and horrific Wilfred Owen poem describing a gas attack which angrily urges the listener not to use propaganda to encourage young boys to go and fight
Line by line analysis of Canadian surgeon John McCrae’s famous rondeau written the day after he lost a close friend in the Second Battle of Ypres, 1915. This poem inspired the use of poppies as a symbol of remembrance
Line by line analysis of Wilfred Owen’s important 1917 anti-war sonnet lamenting the lack of funerals for the soldiers who die on the battlefield of the Western Front