Moving readings of WWI Poetry
"For Remembrance Day 2012, famous British actors were asked to recite First World War poetry. The video featured shows three actors reciting four poems by Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen (click the names of the actors for information about them and the titles of the poems for the full text):
- Sean Bean reads Wilfred Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth
- Gemma Arterton reads Wilfred Owen's Arms and the Boy
- Sophie Okonedo reads Rupert Brooke's The Soldier
- Sean Bean reads Wilfred Owen's The Last Laugh
- Bonus material:
- A powerful poem by TE Hulme: Trenches: St Eloi
- Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war
- University of Oxford: First World War Poetry Digital Archive
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