Good morning guests‚ families‚ friends and fans of Siegfried Sassoon. Welcome to the 2017 Word Poets Festival held in the beautiful city of Sydney. We are here today to celebrate 100 years since Sassoon has released some of his most famous poems which at the time were highly controversial representations of the horror of war. “Suicide In The Trenches” is one of Sassoon’s most well know poems. Sassoon composed this poem to reflect on his own service and to show the effects of World War 1 on himself
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ENGLISH NOTES- WILFRED OWEN DISABLED Themes - effect of war on the individual - loss of identity and humanity - multiply this for all seriously injured soldiers Techniques 1. Imagery a) Soldiers present life “ satin a wheeled chair” “ legless‚ sewn short at the elbow” EFFECT- establishes the scene and situation - shocks the reader b) Previous life “ town used to swing so gay” “ carried shoulder-high”
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Introduction Few would challenge the claim that Wilfred Owen is the greatest writer of war poetry in the English language. He wrote out of his intense personal experience as a soldier and wrote with unrivalled power of the physical‚ moral and psychological trauma of the First World War. All of his great war poems on which his reputation rests were written in a mere fifteen months. From the age of nineteen Wilfred Owen wanted to become a poet and immersed himself in poetry‚ being especially impressed
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English ETE tables and notes for assessment task 1 Main Ideas: - Futility of war - Propaganda vs. reality - Brutality of war Supporting ideas: - Hideous nature of death - Loss of innocence and life - Pre mature deaths Anthem for doomed youth Subject matter: meaningless slaughter of troops doing dirty work for the government and how they do not receive proper funeral rights Example Technique Effect Idea‚ issue‚ theme‚ notion ‘’ Anthem for doomed
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Owen uses structure to present the loss of innocence of the soldiers in Anthem for Doomed Youth alongside Futility. The poem is presented in a Petrarchan sonnet form‚ which is ironic as their conventional functions are as love poems. However‚ it can be interpreted that this sonnet conveys strong emotions of fear and grief‚ reflecting the love and admiration he had for the soldiers lost. In the first eight lines (octet)‚ the soldier asks a rhetorical question in the present tense. The imitation of
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destined to fail. The quality of producing no valuable effect‚ or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The structure of the poem is in balanced stanzas - the tenderness and hopefulness at the beginning; the growing bitterness of the second‚ with its climax. Owen is telling the persona’s story of the death of a comrade as a balance. This has to happen as so many of them died that there still has to be a degree of sanity left in them. "Futility" mourns the sad ironic death of a soldier‚ a young man in a young
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Owen Wilson’s poetry is based around the false glory of war and the true brutality of the experiences the soldiers faced while at battle. These ideas and experiences are represented in the poem’s Mental Cases and Disabled effectively as they discuss the physical and mental burdens the soldiers faced returning home from battle through the use of poetic techniques. Mental Cases revolves around the victims of shell shock and their experiences of never truly leaving the war. The use of oxymoron’s‚
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the person is disabled‚ and the quote “legless‚ sewn short at elbow” further described that the soldier was limbless. Owen described him as a “ghastly suit of grey” painting a picture of colorless‚ grey‚ lifeless man. This soldier was clearly devastated‚ despair and hopeless to himself and Owen portrayed it using irony and sympathy techniques for readers to empathy him. Moreover‚ Owen contrasted the memories of the soldier with his current experience‚ allowing readers to relate to the soldier easily
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3669019/Wilfred-Owen-The-soldiers-poet.html feature article Jeremy Paxman explores the context and importance of the famous historical figure Wilfred Owen‚ known for basing his poetry on the horrific reality of war compared to the public view on war and soldiers. Paxman talks about the hardships faced by Owen‚ through his character and changes‚ to the experiences he faced throughout. The famous “war poet” Wilfred Owen was especially known for poetry being very
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Poems by Wilfred Owen: [It Was a Navy Boy]‚ Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce et Decorum Est. <br> <br>Wilfred Owen was a poet who was widely regarded as one of the best poets of the World War one period. <br> <br>Wilfred Owen was born on the 18th of March 1893‚ at Plas Wilmot‚ Oswestry‚ on the English Welsh border; he was the son of Tom and Susan Owen. During the winter of 1897-8 Tom Owen‚ Wilfred’s father was reappointed to Birkenhead‚ and with that the whole family moved there. Wilfred started
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