War Poetry Comparison Essay
In this essay, I will compare two different poems and compare the way they portray the war. The two poems I will be comparing are, “The Immortals,” by Isaac Rosenberg and, "In a V A D Pantry,” by Alberta Vickridge. They both give contrasting perspectives in the approach due to the different circumstances of the authors during the War were in during the War. “The Immortals,” talks about a soldier dealing with an enemy which seems to be immortal; rising from the dead every time the soldier kills one of them. ”In a V.A.D Pantry,” by Alberta Vickridge discusses her perspective on the War as a nurse in the V.A.D. By analysing these poems we as the reader get a full perspective of the war and understand the emotional effect it had on the people
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One of the poets is Isaac Rosenberg who was born in Bristol, the eldest son of six siblings. Rosenberg served a soldier in the war and was assigned to a Bantam Battalion, a designation for men under the usual minimum height. The poem was written three days before he died in the trenches. The context of him being a soldier in the trenches makes the readers trust that the poem is an accurate portrayal of a soldier's mental outlook during the War. The other poem is, "In a V.AD Pantry," by Alberta Vickridge. The poem draws on the poet's experience working in the Voluntary Aid Detachment Scheme. The VAD was established in 1910 to provide volunteers to support the professional military nursing service during times of emergency. The VAD organisation expanded quickly after the outbreak of war in August 1914 and numbered 80,000 volunteers by 1916. Alberta worked as a nurse at the Red Cross Town Hall Hospital in Torquay. Badly wounded British soldiers from the campaigns in France, Flanders and Gallipoli arrived at the hospital, followed by wounded soldiers from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. This context gives the author an interesting perspective on the war as the nurses are removed from the action of the front line though able to see first hand the devastating effect that the War had on the
One of the poets is Isaac Rosenberg who was born in Bristol, the eldest son of six siblings. Rosenberg served a soldier in the war and was assigned to a Bantam Battalion, a designation for men under the usual minimum height. The poem was written three days before he died in the trenches. The context of him being a soldier in the trenches makes the readers trust that the poem is an accurate portrayal of a soldier's mental outlook during the War. The other poem is, "In a V.AD Pantry," by Alberta Vickridge. The poem draws on the poet's experience working in the Voluntary Aid Detachment Scheme. The VAD was established in 1910 to provide volunteers to support the professional military nursing service during times of emergency. The VAD organisation expanded quickly after the outbreak of war in August 1914 and numbered 80,000 volunteers by 1916. Alberta worked as a nurse at the Red Cross Town Hall Hospital in Torquay. Badly wounded British soldiers from the campaigns in France, Flanders and Gallipoli arrived at the hospital, followed by wounded soldiers from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. This context gives the author an interesting perspective on the war as the nurses are removed from the action of the front line though able to see first hand the devastating effect that the War had on the