How does John Harding use gothic techniques to create horror in Florence and Giles? Horror permeates much of Harding’s beguiling novel Florence and Giles (2010). In a retrospective first-person narrative foretold by young didactic protagonist Florence‚ Harding’s richly textured novel attempts to masterfully create horror through various gothic techniques. For example‚ Harding employs recurring weather motifs to compel his audience ’It was December now and we’d have had a lot of snow’ says Florence
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comparing the two poems‚ ‘The Man He Killed’ by Thomas Hardy and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen. ‘The Man He Killed’ is about a man who was in the war and is thinking about his memories in the war. The main part of his experience in the war that he is reminiscing is the killing that he committed and the majority of the poem is focused on that. Thomas Hardy did not go to war himself but it could be thought that he got the idea from a friends experience in the war. The poem is based on the Boer
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How does Owen convey negative feelings in The Send-Off? In this poem Wilfred Owen conveys negative feelings with his clever use of language that can be interpreted in many ways. This poem actually conveys a message that war is not as glorious and honourable as it is always portrayed as. Even the title‚ The ’send-off’ could mean two things. Firstly‚ it could mean that the soldiers were being sent off to war. However‚ it could also mean that the soldiers were being "sent off" to their deaths. This
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The title of this poem is very powerful. It tells the reader that this is a very sad poem and that by going to war death is almost certain. Sassoon has done this to give the reader an idea of war‚ and‚ as the reader reads the poem their insight into the brutality and the sorrow of war increases. The first paragraph of this poem tells of the slow death of a soldier as the sun rises. Sassoon has skilfully manipulated language and his choice of words in order to create a visual image that is slowly
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ways Jessie Pope and Wilfred Owen convey the reality of war in their poetry The stories of the two poems are very contrasting‚ they oppose one another quite obviously. One about the horrors of war‚ one about how much ’fun’ it is. Both poems serve a purpose and perform to it very well‚ using all kinds of techniques to encourage or discourage young men to join the army. The storyline of ’Who’s for the game’ is telling of how great the war is and how you simply can’t
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Wilfred Owen’s poetry is shaped by an intense focus on extraordinary human experiences. Select TWO poems set for study and explore Owen’s portrayal of suffering and pity. Wilfred Owen’s poetry has been highly acclaimed by many critics due to the sheer accuracy and heart that is seen in his lines. These critical assortments of words are most likely birthed from his service in World War 1 and his first-hand experience on what the effects of war have on young men. In both The Next War and Anthem for
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Compare and contrast the way two writers have approached a similar subject Poems regarding the subject of war typically fall into one of two categories‚ ones that idealise and glorify war and ones that highlight the horror and cruelty of war. ¡§The Soldier¡¨ by Rupert Brooke belongs to the first category‚ and ¡§Dulce Et Decorum Est¡¨ by Wilfred Owen belongs to the second. Even though the compositions of these two poems are both based on the same subject - war‚ the composers tried to convey very
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faith. He has his vision for the spire and will do anything to have it built. He irritates and infuriates people with his unbridled zeal for the building of the spire. This conflicts with other characters in the novel and creates tensions between Jocelin and other characters. He creates a detached nature with the reader and other characters through his actions and his nature. This is clear even from the beginning of the book‚ where in the chapter house the conflict between the Lord Chancellor and Jocelin
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