20th Century and beyond- Döring ‚ 1. Sitzung am 08.04.14 Siehe Handout Texts chosen by chance‚ subjection Erich Auerbach- Mimesis Monarchical categories: literature under monarch e.g. 1830-1901 “The Victorian Age” Julian Barnes: A History of the World in 10 ½ chapters‚ 1989 No solution Article: World´s last WW1 veteran dies Difference: talking about event in past (represented through documents impersonal) Talking about personal experience represented through
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Sugar-Coated Lies Wars are always difficult to cope with. “Dulce et Decorum est” is a poem by Wilfred Owen expressing the hardships many soldiers had to face during the First World War‚ the importance of remembering the terrible events that occurred‚ and how completely bogus the phrase ‘it is sweet and right’ truly is. It must have been a horrifying experience for these men to fight for their country‚ especially at a very young age where they had a promising future ahead of them. But sadly‚ plenty
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and experienced the front line drew from their personal knowledge to completely dispel these myths. Vernon Scannell‚ Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfrid Owen suffered throughout the war and wrote the poems The Great War‚ Suicide in the Trenches and Dulce et Decorum Est to inform the people at home about the cruel realities of war with their attention to sensory detail and vivid imagery so that the audience may be as close to experiencing the war for themselves. The myth that war was in fact great and that
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Although WW I and WW II poems have the same theme‚ which is war‚ we can see how they have many differences. To begin with‚ all WWI poems seem to focus on the battles of the war itself and the horrifying experiences the soldiers have to cope with. WWII poems have a more deep approach‚ they have a more psychological point of view and usually the poems are set before or after a battle. In these poems the battlefield is not the main focus of the poem‚ but the feeling or ideas of the speaker itself. Another
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Man’s inhumanity to man essay. The whole topic of this essay is the idea of mans inhumanity to man‚ how men are through time finding ways to destroy each other. Edwin Brook is the author of the poem five ways to kill a man‚ has written the poem with a very sarcastic and ironic view of death‚ this method is used to shock you. This poem is written like a recipe‚ it is a recipe for death and destruction and each verse you could say is an ingredient. The poem
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Is the ANZAC Legend the result of mythology and propaganda or is it based on fact? The ANZAC Legend was formed by the Gallipoli campaign‚ mounted on the 25th of April 1915. This is a date well remembered by most Australians‚ but for what reasons? Do they think of “that guy with the donkey “or “ANZAC biscuits “or do they think: endurance‚ courage‚ resourcefulness‚ good humour‚ larrikinism‚ egalitarianism and of course‚ mateship. Words describing our soldiers that have been synonymous with the
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presentation of heroism in a Shakespeare play (e.g. portrayals of heroic behavior in one of Shakespeare’s Histories) and in Literary Heritage poems about World War 1. Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet; focusing on Romeo as the ‘tragic hero’. Poems: Dulce et decorum est by Wilfred Owen and For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon Introduction Personal experiences and political/historical perspectives heavily influenced the presentation of heroism in Shakespeare plays and in Literary Heritage poems about World
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where it safe during the war. Owen portrays the men to be “cringe[d] in holes” with “forgotten dreams” dis-empowering the soldiers and making them less of men or perhaps applying sympathy on them. Additionally‚ Owen similarly utilises inclusive language like‚ “we turn back on our dying” to further show and imply empathy to the soldiers for the suffering they went through. Moreover‚ Owen explores the lifelessness of the soldiers through the personification‚ the “sun smiles” and the “dawn begins to
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United States. The bitter sweet right to die for your country. Most of the time there is no real threat and your die for nothing. This was the idea of famous poet Wilfred Owen. In his poem Dulce Et Decorum Est‚ he explains that the sweet right to die for your country is a lie. “The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.” The only outcome of a sweet right to die is a miserable‚ without cause‚ death. The aftermath of war is an uncertainty‚ chaos‚ regret‚ devestation of life and the transformation
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Cited: 1. E. Hemingway‚ A Farewell to Arms. Arkansas: Piggott‚ 1929. 2. W. Owen‚ Dulce et Decorum est. Craiglockhart‚ 1917.
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