Whether writers engage in war as combatants or not is unimportant. What matters is the immediacy and actuality of what they portray.’ How far do you agree with this statement? In your response you should comment on and analyse the connections and comparisons between at least two texts you have studied. Writers who aren’t directly involved in combat can offer a truthful and accurate portrayal of war‚ equally writers who are combatants can equally do this. One of the actualities of war that is
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OWEN WILFRED – ‘DULCE ET DECORUM EST’ & ‘ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH’ Wilfred Owen’s poetry focuses on and portrays the pity and suffering of the war as well as the extraordinary human experiences. Owen illustrates the crucial facts and the tragic reality behind war whilst exposing the truth of war: the shame‚ the humiliation‚ the pity and the suffering experienced by the soldiers who fought and the families who suffered their loss. In Wilfred Owen’s‚ ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’‚ Owen’s disapproval
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audience to witness the terrifying content of what a soldier has to face every day. However‚ Owen has not only implemented imagery‚ he has also utilized simile to further emphasize the realities of war. “Bent double like old beggars under sacks” and “knock-kneed‚ coughing like hags” Owen cleverly manipulates the poetic technique simile to highlight the physical repercussions of war on a soldier. Wilfred Owen the composer of Dulce Et Decorum Est. has utilized the techniques simile and imagery‚ so that
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In the poems ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘Mametz Wood’ by Owen Sheers‚ they both put alarming perspective. This is shown in ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ when it says ‘The old lie’ and in ‘Mametz Wood’ when it says ‘Towards the wood and its nesting machine guns.’ ‘The old lie’ suggests that it is telling the audience that anything good you hear when people advertise war is misleading and is deceptive to the reader. Saying ‘Towards the wood and its nesting machine guns.’ also suggests that
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Compare how poets present ideas about death in ‘Mametz Wood’ and ‘Futility’. ‘Mametz Wood’ and ‘Futility’ both present different ideas about death. Sheers shows ideas about the deaths of many soldiers‚ whereas Owen presents ideas about the death of only one soldier. ‘Mametz Wood’ suggests the fragility of life when Sheers writes ‘broken bird’s egg of a skull’. The metaphor gives the image of a young and vulnerable hatchling that could be easily broken at any point‚ just as the soldiers were who
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that as such we cannot comment on differences relating from distance to the subject. Owen’s poem is a story of a gas attack in the First World War. Using pathetic fallacy (‘we cursed through sludge’) and negative language he sets up a scene of sheer horror. He begins by describing their weary march. He describes them using language like ‘bent double’‚ ‘asleep’ and ‘knock-kneed.’ This immediately gives the impression of fatigue‚ and he goes on to use negative language such as ‘blood-shod’‚ ‘lame’
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In The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Tennyson reflects on the consequences of war for the whole of the British cavalry who were killed in the Crimean war. In Mametz Wood‚ Owen Sheers describes the rediscovery of lost World War 1 graves so that we can be reminded of what happened. Both Alfred Tennyson and Owen Sheers reflect on how fragile life is and that it can be wasted so easily due to war. Both poets use imagery in order for their thoughts and feelings to be portrayed; this shows what
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How does Owen Sheers use language‚ form and structure to explore ideas about separation and division in ‘Winter Swans’? The Poem ‘Winter Swans’ seems to convey a strong theme of natural love. The poem begins with setting a scene of a peaceful day‚ where nature seems to be stilled after the torrential weather that is referred to in the first line through ‘The clouds had given their all.’ It goes on to say that there was then a ‘break’‚ and throughout the poem the poet uses words such as ‘silent’
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Wilfred Owen was one of the many soldiers who fought for our country during WW1 in 1917. Owen left for the western front early in January 1917. Whilst at war he was diagnosed with shell shock one of the most well known effects of war for soldiers. Wilfred Owen was evacuated to the Craig Lockhart War hospital in June but despite his horrendous injury he returned to fight for his country till his very last breath on the 4th November 1918 when Owen was killed whilst attempting to
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University Assess how the Carlson SAN approach would be implemented in today’s environment. Like many IT staff faced with exponential storage growth‚ Norman Owens realized a few years back that his company was headed for a challenge if it did not start consolidating its storage resources onto a storage area network (SAN). Owens‚ a storage network engineer and consultant with Carlson Companies‚ spoke to an audience of his peers at Storage Decisions 2003 recently about his company ’s consolidation
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