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    Discuss how composers have used distinctively visual elements to convey a particular point of view. Distinctively visual elements have enabled composers to convey particular points of views‚ through the vividly portrayed images on the topic of war. John Misto’s ‘The Shoe Horn Sonata’ captures the past experiences of 2 Japanese prisoners‚ Sheila Richards and Bridie Cartwright during the horror of World War 2. Misto’s use of distinctively visual elements highlights the power of friendship and emotion

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    Oral Commentary on “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen The poem “Disabled” is taken from Wilfred Owen’s collection of poetry referred to as Trench Poet. It was written in 1917 and tells the story of a soldier who lost his limbs in battle leaving him utterly helpless. It aims to crush the glorified image of war present in the minds of the public. The messages and content present in the poem heavily resemble that of other poems from the collection such as; “The Send-Off”‚ which also uses contrast to

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    Interpretation‚ Structure‚ Language‚ Imagery and Personal Response. The poem talks of a gas attack upon an accumulation of soldiers who are fighting in World War I. He sarcastically states that it is ‘sweet and fitting to die for ones country’. Wilfred Owen thought completely different of this‚ however‚ and is complexly against the war. He uses very powerful‚ vivid descriptions‚ for example‚ the young soldiers being described as ‘aged by war’. For someone to ‘age’ in a matter of minutes‚ seconds even‚ is

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    To begin with‚ this poem is written by Wilfred Owen. He fought in the world war and therefore we can see that in his writing as he has portrayed war has a very negative thing and how death in the world war is normality. Firstly‚ Owen has presented war as an exhausting and strenuous. We can see this when he uses a metaphor “ Drunk with fatigue.” This shows that how soldiers are out of control and are just zombies walking on a killing field. Also he uses another metaphor to show fatigue is “Men marched

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    “Aftermath” by Sassoon “Aftermath” was written after the war in 1920. While other war poems composed by Sassoon‚ such as “Base Details” and “Wirers”‚ which were written from the point of view of a soldier during war‚ Sassoon sets the readers of “Aftermath” as post-war civilians‚ and uses many dark images of the battlefield to emphasize the importance of no forgetting what has happened in the past. From the very beginning of the poem‚ Sassoon demands for the readers’ attention with the rhetorical

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    The poem begins with an order “move him into the sun”. The persona seems to be desperate to move someone under the sun. The second line talks about the beginning of life when the rays of the sun must have touched the delicate body of the person as a baby. The following words “field unsown” refers to immaturity‚ incomplete life or a half grown state. It acts as a metaphor on the cycle of life. The persona continues to speak about the regular behavior of the person. He seemed to have been acquainted

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    In the depressed poem “Exposure”‚ Wilfred Owen through warlike phrases‚ diction‚ and imagery describes that death can mutate an individual’s natural response to any situation permanently. In the poem‚ the men that are described are fighting for their lives in a war. The phrase “war lasts” as demonstrated in this sentence illustrates how long aggressions and violence men can endure till death (Owen Stanza 2‚ Line 4). When someone is fighting in a war‚ there is always a possibility that they might

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    Out of all of Wilfred Owen’s infamous works‚ I have chosen the poem “Disabled”‚ which reflects the result of the decision of a youthful athlete to become a soldier in the war‚ as well as the pains and struggles‚ both physically and mentally‚ that he has to bear. In the first stanza‚ we are introduced to the physical disability of the soldier‚ “legless‚ sewn short at elbow”. Not only has he lost his legs and an arm‚ he has also lost the meaning of his life. He is insensitive to the sounds of youth

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    In the poem “Disabled”‚ Wilfred Owen uses poignant regret and loneliness to show that war is not as glorified as it is portrayed. This disabled man‚ who was crippled in the war‚ sits “in a wheeled chair” all alone in a park. He heard the “voices of boys” ringing throughout the park‚ “voices [filled] of play and pleasure” however‚ to him it was “saddening like a hymn”. He sat there “shivering in his ghastly suit of grey” only able to observe for he is “legless‚ [and] sewn short at the elbow”. Time

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    Asleep by Wilfred Owen Poem Under his helmet‚ up against his pack‚ After so many days of work and waking‚ Sleep took him by the brow and laid him back. There‚ in the happy no-time of his sleeping‚ Death took him by the heart. There heaved a quaking Of the aborted life within him leaping‚ Then chest and sleepy arms once more fell slack. And soon the slow‚ stray blood came creeping From the intruding lead‚ like ants on track. Whether his deeper sleep lie shaded by the shaking Of great wings‚ and

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