English Journey's End
Compare the ways that Owen conveys powerful feelings about war in these two poems
Introduction:
* Poems written by him through his own experiences at war. * WW1 poet – solider * Anthem of doomed youth = beginning * Send off = end of war * WO influenced by war to write
Para 2: Setting/context Anthem for doomed youth | The send off | Beginning of war 1914 | End of war 1918 | In the trenches “wailing shells” “guns” Shows horror of trenches. | Maybe train station “lined the train with faces grimly gay” | Sonnet- Usually used to convey love- he using as anti-love (war) | Coffins- “Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath” | Anthem for doomed- song for death | Send off- title, applying they have gone from war (dead or alive) | Children go – die “youth” | “down the close darkening lanes they sang their way”- claustrophobia dark =dead sang their way- happy they aren’t there anymore | Young men go “eager to go”- cool/ good | | | |
Para 3: Themes
Anthem for doomed youth
THEME = Doomed
AFDY:
Death, hope, cynical, dying young “drawing down of the blinds”
WO shows strong anger in this poem
The send off
THEME= WAR
TSO:
Cynical- more than AFDY
NO respect: * Loss of everything * Can’t stop themselves
Death
End of war- not being able see relatives
Para 4: Language
Anthem of doomed youth:
“What passing bells for these who die as cattle?” –treated like animals
“Rifles, rapid, rattle”- Alliteration
“And each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds” – telling us at night blind can be up and down. – memories when it is up, down=
Introduction:
* Poems written by him through his own experiences at war. * WW1 poet – solider * Anthem of doomed youth = beginning * Send off = end of war * WO influenced by war to write
Para 2: Setting/context Anthem for doomed youth | The send off | Beginning of war 1914 | End of war 1918 | In the trenches “wailing shells” “guns” Shows horror of trenches. | Maybe train station “lined the train with faces grimly gay” | Sonnet- Usually used to convey love- he using as anti-love (war) | Coffins- “Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath” | Anthem for doomed- song for death | Send off- title, applying they have gone from war (dead or alive) | Children go – die “youth” | “down the close darkening lanes they sang their way”- claustrophobia dark =dead sang their way- happy they aren’t there anymore | Young men go “eager to go”- cool/ good | | | |
Para 3: Themes
Anthem for doomed youth
THEME = Doomed
AFDY:
Death, hope, cynical, dying young “drawing down of the blinds”
WO shows strong anger in this poem
The send off
THEME= WAR
TSO:
Cynical- more than AFDY
NO respect: * Loss of everything * Can’t stop themselves
Death
End of war- not being able see relatives
Para 4: Language
Anthem of doomed youth:
“What passing bells for these who die as cattle?” –treated like animals
“Rifles, rapid, rattle”- Alliteration
“And each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds” – telling us at night blind can be up and down. – memories when it is up, down=