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Poetry: Language and History
24 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult
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Additional information
Order number: 1005
An inquiry into the relationship between language and its historical context. We discover why Seamus Heaney's Broagh and Yeats's Easter 1916 are political as well as landscape poems; we also consider the relative importance of the sound of a poem and its meaning. Can one admire the technical ability of a poet like Dryden whilst disagreeing with what he says? And are we in fact really incapable of grasping what he says, since we can't rid ourselves as readers of our own historical context? Do we always reinterpret works written in the past in the light of our own time, instead of learning more about the times they came out of?
Credits -
Presenter:
Graham Martin
Director:
Tony Coe
Open University/BBC
