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    Question: 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. Prescribed text: War Poems and Others‚ Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen wrote about the suffering and pity of war from his first -hand experience at the Somme. He was appalled by the overwhelming and senseless waste of life‚ the “human squander” and detailed its devastating effects on young men. In both ‘Dulce et Decorum

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    Out of a bad situation‚ you can learn and grow. In all three poems‚ The Seafarer‚ The Wanderer‚ and The Wife’s Lament the main character was exiled causing great pain and sorrow. Through this pain and sorrow they saw some beauty in the situation. In The Seafarer the character is on his ship hopelessly lost at sea. He suffers from loneliness‚ sadness and pain from being lost at sea. In the poem he says “How the sea took me‚ swept me back And forth in sorrow and fear and pain.” ( The Seafarer

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    picked to represent my emotions during this unit is a poem that talks about hate. To start‚ the unit itself is boring to me. Learning about gender theory is not something that seems exciting to me. In the poem‚ it says‚ “If this is a play‚ I want my money back.” This signifies the waste of time that this unit is to me. I did not feel like this unit is significant to my learning and so I felt upset that I had to sit through it all. Furthermore‚ the poem states‚ “If this is a kidnap‚ I’m trapped in the

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    she wrote this wonderful poem‚ to inspire those without hope to give them a perspective from a beautiful bird that hope can change your life in any way you dream it. I choose to analyze the famous poem “hope” by Emily Dickinson‚ Such an interesting and mysterious poet she lived her entire life in Amherst‚ Massachusetts‚ only two of her poems where published in her life time‚ she died in 1886‚ she was never married and live most of her life as a recluse. In this poem Dickinson uses imagery and

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    Discuss the ways in which the poets convey the horrors of war In the two war poems “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen on “War Photographer” by Carol Anna Duffy‚ the writers convey the horrors in different ways. In Dulce Et Decorum Est” Owen writes from the perspective of a tired worn out soldier. In “War Photographer” Duffy writes from the perspective of a man who captured the war. In the poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” the main mood is dark and depressing. Owen refers to diction that

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    Analyzing Poems

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    By analyzing poems you can understand the author and connect ideas of expierences and the future. Looking at Robert Frost’s Fire & Ice‚ and Richard Brautigan’s "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"‚ they both show the theme of past or present with the future. While Frost’s shows his past expierences of desire with how it will effect his future‚ and death‚ Brautigan’s show how today technology is taking over‚ computers are everywhere and one day in the future they will replace our class

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    Algeron Charles Swinburne’s “Love and Sleep” established a theme of his lover’s beauty and his unconditional love towards her through strong diction which creates a passionate form of image. In the poem‚ such words as “lying” (1)‚ “asleep” (1) and “night” (1) implies the speaker is in his bedroom‚ creating a lonely‚ quite atmosphere. In this immersive atmosphere‚ the writer strikes a chord with the readers and graphs the sorrow and yearning incisively and vividly. Moreover‚ the word “saw” (2)‚ being

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    How did poems convey the first world war? Wilfred Owen and Wills Hall covey war in their own way adapting to the  time and circumstances to put across the horror and brutal reality of  war.  The two texts I am going to refer to‚ to show this are “The long and  the short and the tall” by Wills Hall and "Dulce et decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen.  Wilfred Owen writes his poetry to get over the trauma of the  experience. He has (like many other poets) the burning desire to get  the horror of the

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    Wilfred Owens’s poetry evokes the obscene horrors of war. Discuss with close reference to Mental Cases and at least one other poem studied. War is brutal and impersonal. It mocks the fantasy of individual heroism and the absurdity of utopian goals like democracy. The horrific post traumatic stresses are graphically exposed. In Mental Cases and Disabled by Wilfred Owen. They both expose a chronicle of the debilitating stages of post war traumatism; this is achieved through the employment of various

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    A Birthday poem

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    The spots on the tail symbolize her desire that the whole world to see that she has a lover. Ms. Rossetti lived between 1830 and 1894. The poem appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine in April of 1861. It uses lots of medieval terms to convey the message of her feelings about that special birthday. Ms. Rossetti wrote mostly devotional and children’s poems in her later years after she experimented with forms such as sonnets‚ ballads‚ and hymns finally settling on devotional and children’s poetry.

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