As you open your eyes‚ you see the sight of fallen comrades‚ enemies‚ muddy trenches‚ barbed wire and let’s not forget about the guns and bullets. This occurred on a large scale ranging from the east of Europe to the west of Europe. This was none other than World War One. Two poems‚ “A Mother’s Dedication”‚ by Margaret Peterson and “Into Battle” by Julian Grenfell‚ both convey varying tones and attitudes to war. The phrases‚ ‘and in the air death moans and sings’ in Julian Grenfell ‘Into Battle’
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Does General Haig deserve to be remembered as the Butcher of the Somme? In 1st July 1916‚ the river the Somme in France is used as the fighting tool place and war has begun near the river so the war is named. During the period‚ General Douglas Haig is the Commander-in-Chief for the British Army so he took full control of the attack. The General wanted to make a breakthough to get through the German trenches and defeat the army once and for all. What he planned to do is to firstly smash the German’s
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AO1 points on ‘Ballad of the Three Spectres’ “As I went up by Ovilliers / In mud and water cold to the knee” : the poem begins with a realistic scene in the Somme‚ as a soldier tramps through the flooded British trenches. “three jeering‚ fleering spectres”: The ghosts are laughing‚ mocking the soldier. “Here’s a right brave soldier”: the first ghost speaks sarcastically and insultingly about the speaker’s bravery. “he’ll come back on a fine stretcher‚ / Laughing for a nice Blighty”: the ghost
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To what extent did Scotland play an important role in the British army during the First World War? Scotland played an important role in the British army right from the start of the war. Straight away there was a lot of support from Scotland as volunteer rates were bigger in proportion to the size of the population than in any other area of the UK. Scots were also highly involved in the battle of Loos which was one of the first main battles of the war. The next battle that involved a large amount
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Does General Haig deserve to be remembered as ‘the butcher of the Somme’? General Haig was a famous general who won the last war in the First World War‚ he should be remembered as a hero‚ but why do people reckon him to be the opposite‚ as a butcher? As the ‘Butcher of the Somme ’? In my point of view‚ I think of general as a butcher rather than a hero‚ for he‚ in the first battle in the First World War‚ the battle of Somme‚ he used 420000 soldiers to defeat 500000 Germans soldiers and gain 10
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In his chapter on the Battle of the Somme‚ Keegan analyzes the factors that caused the British offensive to fall apart. As Keegan explains‚ the Allied plan for the offensive consisted of a week-long artillery bombardment followed by an infantry attack behind an artillery barrage. The main goals of the first bombardment were to cut German communications lines and keep the Germans from preparing before the Allied attack. The assumption was that the Germans would not be prepared to fight back after
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There were rumors of tanks on page 105‚ and Paul Baümer clarifies that the tanks resemble war more than anything else on page 282. This potentially means that tanks began to become more important and deadly during the war. The Germans trenches had been damaged so heavily during the war that German soldiers had to begin fighting from shell-holes (277). Also‚ to look good for the Kaiser‚ the soldiers drill hard for eight days‚ only to see the man and return to war as usual (201-202). As weaponry
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The film Gallipoli takes place during World War I’s Gallipoli campaign in 1915. The two main characters in the film are Archy and Frank. Archy and Frank are from Western Australia and they both enlist to fight in Gallipoli. Archy is an extremely fast runner who meets Frank at an athletics competition. We can see from the beginning that Archy is eager to join the war. After being turned down because he was underage‚ he goes to Perth‚ anxious for someone to accept him into the light horsemen. Frank
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All Wilfred Owens’s poems seem to rhyme. The ends of the alternate lines rhyme in most all of his poems for example in "The send off" The 1st line ends in way and the 3rd in gay. This is repeated with other rhyming words all through the poem. On the 7th and 9th lines the rhyme is tramp and camp. In "Ducle et decorum est" we can see the same format of rhyming. The end of each alternate line rhymes i.e. the ends of the 1st and 3rd lines in this case sacks and backs‚ and the end of the 9th and 10th
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Field Marshal Haig: “Hero or Butcher of the Somme” I consider the field marshal as a butcher and a hero for numerous reasons. While the insinuation of Haig as a butcher ignores many positives that he possessed‚ the implication of him being a hero also neglects negatives that the field marshal obtains. Although the winning of the war had come at the sacrifice of a vast number of soldiers‚ we must not forget that the general had achieved his primary objective even if it had been accomplished in
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