These short clips might be interesting:
1. an extract on Wilfred Owen from a BBC programme
2. an extract from Regeneration, the film I mentioned today, in which Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon discuss poetry at Craiglockhart military hospital in Scotland.
There are also lots of good clips on Youtube relating to other First World War poetry, and the First World War more generally. Have a look!
at 1.04 you can see the first draft of the poem being writtin but find the differences between the two pictures =) in the film it is Gas! Gas! where as in the draft you put the link of, it is Gas! GAS! the second gas in capitals =) and there is no scrawling on the word "floundring" on the right corner of the "Dim" word in the original draft =) sorry, being so critical =)
ReplyDeleteWell spotted - you SHOULD be critical! To be fair, though, the BBC version is a reconstruction, but they should have checked the original draft. Maybe they didn't want to prompt difficult questions from students to teachers!
ReplyDeleteLooking at earlier drafts of poems is often interesting, and can give fascinating insights - although exactly how we should interpret draftsraises some intriguing theoretical questions. This is particularly the case with T S Eliot's 'The Waste Land', which Ezra Pound helped Eliot edit heavily. We still have Eliot's first drafts, however, which include whole sections that don't appear in the poem as it was published.