Wilfred Owen’s protest poem Strange Meeting contrasts harshly with Mary Henderson’s An Incident. While Owen argues the futility of war‚ "a nation’s trek from progress"‚ Henderson likens the soldier’s death on the battlefield to the crucifixion of Christ‚ advocating it as a honourable‚ almost divine sacrifice for the motherland. Henderson recounts an incident where she tends to a wounded soldier‚ displaying a motherly characteristic consistent with other female war poets. The soldier is identified
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even though Wilfred Owen was not alive until many years after this quote that he embodied this quote about poets and their poetry. Poetry throughout the ages has been one literary device that has neither changed nor conformed to the whims of society. Poetry has been a device to recount history‚ express emotion and bring about change; thus poets being agents of change. Wilfred Owen‚ a brilliant poet was amongst those who initiated anti-war writing amidst a country being fed propaganda. Owen brought attention
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A Comparison Between “Out‚ Out” by Robert Frost and “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen “Out‚ out‚ brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow‚ a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage‚ and then is heard no more”. Undeniably this bittersweet reference from Shakespeare’s Macbeth that illustrates the image of a wavering candle light that is fragile and brief also brings to mind the spirit of life‚ which at the same time is also brief in addition to easily snatched away. “Out‚ out" is a
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Relationships are presented as unpredictable and can often be dangerous. To what extent and in what ways do you agree with this statement with reference to Four Movements in a Scale of Two? Many of Owen Sheers’ poems in ‘Skirrid Hill’ explores the nature of love and relationships using imagery to symbolize a less than idealized version of love. Impulsive actions are made as two naïve people enter a relationship oblivious to consequences and Sheers uses this to map out an unpredictable course of
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Johnson Professor Drummond-Matthews English Comp. II February 1‚ 2012 Funeral Blues Explication In W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues”‚he uses a sort of calm or sorrowful tone. The woman in this poem says‚ “Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚”(1) She is wanting to give respect to the dead. She says to get rid of the noises that may be distracting from the process of mourning. Auden creates a mood or sense of respectfulness. The first stanza is stating to get rid of the regular
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The poem the unknown citizen written by w.h Auden portrays from the point of view of the government what or how an ideal citizen should look like. This piece is written in third person omniscient to project a non-bias perspective and that way transmit the “truth” without being affected by feelings or personal point of views. Moreover at the end of the poem the author makes a relevant turn which effect is making the reader question himself if what was depicted before is the right thing‚ if that ideal
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Discuss the Structure of ‘Refugee Boy’ by Benjamin Zephaniah Refugee Boy is a story about a 14-year-old boy named Alem Kelo born in Africa. Benjamin Zephaniah uses Alem as an example of how badly treated refugees are and how it is possible for us to treat them better if we treat them like normal people. In the beginning of the novel Alem’s father took him to London for what Alem thought would be a holiday. Leaving his mother at home‚ his father actually planned to leave Alem in London believing
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The Blues is a musical form and genre‚ which originated in South America within the African-American communities. It originated near the end of the 19th century‚ and was rooted from spirituals‚ work songs‚ field hollers (which are very similar to work songs‚ but some do not have lyrics)‚ shouts and rhymes. The blues form in jazz‚ rhythm and blues and rock and roll; and each is characterised by a specific chord progression‚ the most common being the twelve bar blues. The blues notes‚ are played or
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essay between the poems “Out‚ Out-” and “Disabled” Wilfred Owen and Robert Frost both use their poems “Out‚ Out-” and “Disabled” to portray the destruction of youth and how it can be cut short by a lack of maturity and wisdom. This creates a sense of loss of innocence within the reader. In “Out‚ Out-” the subject or character has a very quick and short death which contrasts to “Disabled” as death would be a merciful release to the veteran described. Frost and Owen also both use a third person omniscient
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bias (I was aware it existed‚ but didn’t know it had an official name)‚ but I fully feel that it is more common than we could imagine. This isn’t one of the topics of conversation as outline below but I will use a current event as an example. The refugee crisis in Europe‚ many people say that they have nothing against these displaced peoples‚ but how many people would actually be willing to allow hundreds‚ thousands‚ or even hundreds of thousands of refugees into America and into their daily lives
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