Wars pre-1914 were very different to WW1. Wars such as the Boer War and the Crimean War were fought by soldiers using mainly sabres and muskets. These wars had little in the way of powerful weaponry such as heavy weight machine guns. WW1 also saw the beginning of trench warfare‚ tanks‚ planes and gases. Almost all of the poetry written during WW1 was written while the soldiers were on the front lines. Pre-1914 poetry however‚ was written by poets back in England. Education really developed during
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Randall Jarrell’s poem “A Lullaby” has both a glaringly bleak and starkly literal tone; it evokes despair about war and human society altogether. Set in an unclear place and time‚ the poem tells the story of a soldier who has sacrificed everything to fight for his country‚ and describes his insignificant life and death with a series of increasingly abstract similes. The speaker’s dismal tone‚ clear from the first few lines‚ makes a grand message about the baseness of war‚ and shifts the reader’s
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Peaks and Valleys depicts the life of a young man who lived in a valley‚ and was somewhat dissatisfied with the way his life was going. He would ask his parents about the peak‚ but he still wanted to experience the peak for himself. The author lets us all know that everyone no matter where they are in life has valleys. He tells us this by explaining to us that ‘every peak is between a valley.” This basically means that when someone is in a valley‚ they came from a peak and are on their way to another
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For each of the texts‚ analyse how links between the beginning and end helped you understand a main theme or issue. The World War One poet‚ Wilfred Owen‚ wrote two poems named ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and ‘Disabled’. The main themes running throughout both poems are that of the pain and worthlessness of war‚ and the crime towards the young soldiers it was. The beginning and ending of these two poems link these ideas through the use of imagery contrast and language features. The poem ‘disabled’
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in my iop‚using wilfred owen’s dulce et decorum est I would would like to contest roperrt brookes pro war or rather patriotic ideology ‚ in effect the iop contradicts every statement or thought brooke through owens ideas and his use of literaray techniques.i will do this by contradicting the different views of both the poets which they have expressed by the use of literary techniques like imagery‚ the tone/atmosphere of the poem ‚comparing thier ideas and messages and their style of writing.both
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In this commentary‚ we will take a deep look into this poem that Wilfred Owen wrote. In the poem‚ a group of soldiers are described‚ and their emotions. Using three guiding questions‚ this will be an introduction into the way Owen writes his poems. Answering these guiding questions will give the reader the full package that the poem has to offer. The first guiding question that is to be answered is: How are the feelings amongst the soldiers described? First of all‚ one can say the soldiers all
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Ok what I have got here today is a detailed speech and I intend to explain two poems “Disabled” and “Dolce et Decorum est.”‚ both written by Wilfred Owen. I would choose these two poems to be in an anthology because I found the poems to be very dramatic and extremely detailed. Owen intends to shock us by demonstrating what a soldier might expect in a situation between life and death. He is not afraid to show his own feelings. Wilfred Owen is an anti-war poet and expresses his ideas and feelings through
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In early civilization‚ people have used the motion of the sun and the shadow an object creates as a measurement of time. In this experiment‚ we would better understand how these factors were used to tell the time back then. We would be indentifying the length of the shadow as well as the angle of elevation of the sun at four different times of the day. To get more accurate results‚ we would be using an object with a fixed height -in this case a bamboo stick 2.84m long. Time: 9:30am
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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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Text Response Paragraph: “How does Owen convey the suffering of war?” For Owen‚ the anguish brought about by war is manifest within the wretched psychological state of the soldiers embroiled in conflict. Owen depicts a view of the war that is undeniably bleak‚ illustrating a conflict that ensnares its combatants within a vacillating state of dull monotony and high tension. Within “Dulce et Decorum Est”‚ the reaction of simply “turning their backs” evidenced by the soldiers trudging in the “sludge”
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