War in the Air
War in the Air If there was a war today, aircraft would be used for the following reasons, parachuting soldiers into enemy lines, bombing enemy countries, transporting supplies to troops, spying on the enemy, observe aircraft carriers to gain valuable information about operations in the enemy lines. In 1914 planes were not as useful and were mainly used to watch enemy activities. The only weaponry used by aircraft were the guns which pilots carried to shoot down enemy planes this was very dangerous as pilots risked hitting the propeller and having the shot rebound and killing themselves. Later in 1915 a man called Anthony Fokker a Dutch designer working for Germany designed a machine gun timed to fire between the airplane's propellers. The invention made air combat more deadly and lead to dogfights which was clashes with enemy aircraft. Another source of weaponry used by pilots was small hand bombs which were dropped by hand; these bombs had little effect on the enemy and outcome of the war. In 1914 planes resources disabled the aeroplanes from transporting supplies to troops and operating attacks on the enemy. During 1914 planes were extremely unreliable and very dangerous, they were mostly used for observing the enemies lines, spying and collecting valuable information. At later stages Germany developed the Gotha it was one of the first bomber aircraft, these aeroplanes
War Poems
Comparison of the attitudes towards war presented in "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "Suicide in the Trenches", and how they contrast with the views of Jessie Pope in "Who's for the Game?" In "Dulce et Decorum est", the poem starts with describing how the soldiers are subject to uncomfortable positions for long periods of time, "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks". Wilfred Owen compares the soldiers to old beggars under sacks in that they are forced to sit crouched, and uncomfortable, with nothing more than themselves to their possession. This instantly paints a picture in the readers mind as you can imagine a soldier in such bad conditions, without any form of happiness. "Knock-Kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through the sludge". Owen portrays the image of soldiers coughing "like hags" whilst pushing their way with difficulty through the muddy swamp-like marsh, cursing, with loss of all dignity and respect for their surroundings. Owen also tells how "Men marched asleep", which shows the extreme exhaustion of these men, after a hard day on the battlefield. "Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling", this part of the poem shows us the extreme panic and chaos that is caused within seconds after these men hear the word gas. Not everyone manages to put their gas mask on in time, "As under a green sea I saw him drowning...", "He plunges at me guttering, choking,
War Poetry
Poetry is an art form and therefore must do something that all art does - represent something in the world, express or evoke emotion, please us by its form, and stand on its own as something autonomous and self-defining. Wordsworth described it as "emotion recollected as tranquillity" and "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" and there is no area of human experience that has created a wider range of powerful feelings than that of War: hope, fear, exhilaration and humiliation but to name a few. There are many poems that back War patriotically; they support it, and they impose it upon the younger generation, Winston Churchill said, "Battles are won by slaughter and manoeuvre. The greater the general, the more he contributes in manoeuvre, the less he demands in slaughter." However there are others that are completely against the bloodshed; people like John Scott who composed the poem The Drum. In the poem he describes how much he hates the noise that the drum makes to call up young men to fight. Meanwhile there are poems that convey the idea of fighting as a vocation, an instinct that is in the blood of men, which they cannot help. On the Idle Hill is one of these poems; it was composed during peacetime in the mid -1800's and is pre - American Civil war. Alfred Edward Houseman was English and tended to write in the tone of the Latin poets he had admired. On
War Poetry.
War Poetry When the First World War commenced in 1914 many young men couldn't wait to sign up and cross the channel to what they thought would be an epic adventure. They believed that it would be an exciting experience and that they would be hailed as heroes when they returned before Christmas after a resounding win. Posters, Propaganda and Poems contributed to this glorification of war. Rupert Brooke was the most famous poet of the first part of the First World War. One of his well known poems was "Peace". The poem is a sonnet and has a typical sonnet rhyming pattern, very structured as though there is a structure and completeness about the act of fighting. It is a poem that glorifies war in a number of ways. Firstly it says that one should leave one's trivial life behind one and go to war. The poet makes war seem very admirable, "there is no ill, grief, but sleep which is mending". It is saying that there is no pain or suffering in war, there is only an honourable death. This is a false image of what the trenches were like. The poet describes civilian life to be cold, boring, dreary, empty and even dirty, "Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary". The poet is saying that if you go to war, you've been "awakened" from a dull "sleep". War will cleanse you "as swimmers into cleanness". The poem raises many questions such as, isn't the love of your country far more
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Emmily Nonas 10W Poetry Assignment 8th December 2004 Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon both were brave officers in the war. Neither was pressurised to join the fronts but volunteered. Wilfred Owen was born in 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire. He was a son of a railway worker and poetry had been encourage by his mother since boyhood. Owen returned to France in August 1918 and won the Military Cross in September. He was sadly killed on the 4th of November 1918, one week before the war ended. On the 11th of November when the war ended at eleven am, news of his death reached his family. Siegfried Sassoon also won the Military Cross for courage and fought at several battles. He came from a wealthy, banking family, a very different background from Wilfred Owen. Owen and Sassoon met when they were both receiving treatment at Craiglockhart Hospital, Edinburgh. Both had experiences of the World War One and this inspired them to write poetry. The poetry was to be about the horrors of the war - the needless suffering, the false definition of 'glorious war' and the lack of understanding from the civilians at home. The poems I have chosen to compare are 'Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen and 'Memorial Tablet' by Siegfried Sassoon. This is because these two poems interested me the most out of the four we discussed as a group. The first poem I am going to look at is 'Dulce et
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War Poetry Poetry is one of the most important ways of communication and expression of feelings. War poetry brings history to life it also shows us the thoughts of men and women who have experienced war. The young people today are impressed by the work of soldier poets of 1914-18. They think this is the most impressive part of the huge literature war. Before the end of the nineteenth century there were no soldier poets. The war poets were mostly civilians who used their imagination to say what battle was like. The use of powerful words meant there was a hidden meaning behind it. The writer uses metaphors and similes to express the anguish, fear, love etc in his poems. Everyone's opinion of war changed towards the end of the 1st world war. People thought that sacrificing oneself for their country was seen as being noble and honourable. This put great pressure on the young men to go join the army and to risk their lives. Such poems like this were 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Tennyson and 'Peace' by Rupert Brooke. Jessie Pope's 'Who's for the Game' is a very particularly good example of a poem based on the traditions to encourage men to enlist. The poets before the 1st world war were usually civilians who wrote their poems from newspaper reports or other soldiers' accounts. Some people were taken to war and were paid to write poetry. The poems could have
War Poetry.
According to the international law, war is the declaration of violent intentions on another state or country. Through the ages there have been many ways of preserving the memories of these precious moments of human violence - through art, drama and documented personal accounts, but one of the most empathetical methods is through poetry. War poetry is a person's response and contains issues surrounding war; most poems written about war have personal feelings and include their interpretations of events. Many who are affected by the aftermath of war turn to poetry in order to release their trapped feelings; they attempt to evoke a response from the reader. The first poem was written previously to the 20th century and it focuses upon the Crimean war. The poem is titled 'The Charge of the Light Brigade.' The Crimean war lasted from 1853 - 1856. It was military conflict between Russia and a coalition of Great Britain, France, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire; this war was a major turning point in the political history of post-Napoleonic Europe. The roots of the conflict lay in the Eastern Question posed by the decline of the Ottoman Empire, a development of fraught with explosive implications for the European balance of power. From the 18th century, Russia had become increasingly eager to take advantage of this situation to increase its influence in the
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War Poetry GCSE Coursework On August 1st 1914 Germany declared war on Russia. Then the next day Germany put into action a plan to attack France by advancing through Belgium. The reason for attacking France was that they had a treaty with Russia and they felt that the French would help Russia with invading them. On 14th August 1914 after Germany ignored an appeal from Britain to refrain from violating Belgium's neutrality in this attack on France, Britain declared war on them. As it was the first major war that Britain had fort in for hundreds of years it sparked fantasies of becoming a war hero in young boys and men's minds. Because the government had told everyone that the war would be over by Christmas, they decided to join up in an attempt to not miss the excitement of war. Little did they know that they were being sent to fight in a horrific war that would lead them to their deaths? Some poets were also very patriotic just like all the young men going to fight. Because of this patriotism the poets wrote about how glamorous the war was and how good it was to die for your country. This was all an attempt along with propaganda to keep the number of men high enough to replace those who died. These men who wrote patriotic poems did see a bit of action but they were all mainly middle class people so were given high ranks in the army such as a General which ment that they
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How does Wilfred Owen, use his poetry to communicate the horrors of the First World War. In January 1917 Wilfred Owen arrived on the western front at the northern end of the Somme sector where he spent four months in appalling conditions. Owen didn't approve of the lies being told about the war so he wrote poems to tell the truth about the horrors and cruelty of the war. I looked at a number of Wilfred Owens poems and I have chosen four to write about. 'Dulce et decorum est', 'the sentry', 'Exposure', and 'disabled'. In these poems Owen uses a lot of personal pronouns to communicate to the horrors of the war. He shows this by explaining the suffering he went through. In the opening paragraph of the sentry, Owen explicitly describes the situation as being 'hell' we know Owen was experiencing this horrific event because he uses personal pronouns such as, "we" and "our". Having studied a variety of Owens poems it is clear he had a strong personal view of the war. The four poems that I am focusing on two highlight actual events that Owen has experienced. Both poems deal with specific incidents that have had a lasting impression on Owen. The poem Dulce et decorum est is about death the first section of the poem takes the reader on a march with the soldiers and shows vividly the unglamorous aspects of the war. "Men marched asleep" tired suffering men who are no longer pain,
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An Introduction War has given writers much material to use in books, short stories, descriptive essays, poems etc. Sometimes these merely narrate incidents and bring them up to story form. For instance Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece, War and Peace, tells the story of five families during the Napoleonic Wars, "The Great Escape" by Paul Brickhill which was also made into the movie, and Ernest's Hemmingway's "A Farewell to Arms", which examines how World War 1 impacted the lives of several characters---including an ambulance driver. The film, based on the novel, earned Academy Awards for cinematography and sound recording, Apart from the poems "Six Young Men" by Ted Hughes and "War Photographer" by Carol Anne Duffy, "Vergissmeinicht" by Keith Douglas and "Bombing Casualties in Spain" by Herbert Read also show the futility of war, without minimizing the horrors it creates. Some of these books go into the economics of war. All these books imply that given a similar set of circumstances as well as predictably of human nature, war is inevitable. They also bring about the aftermath of war and how it damages the socio-political nature of a nature. Most of these war novels have a good dose of love and romance and many have been made into outstanding films. The Poets of the First World War The First World War brought to public notice many poets, particularly among the
