War poetry comparision The Drum & Dulce et Decorum est.
English Coursework The Drum & Dulce et Decorum est War poetry is written either by those who want to promote war as a glamorous adventure or by those who want to depict war as a painful experience causing horror and despair to those involved. Poetry was used in some newspapers during World War one as a means of recruitment for soldiers. One journalist Jessie Pope was famed for this type of War poetry and was criticised by many poets who focused on the horrific truths war of for them and all soldiers. War poetry often gives us a accurate impression of the suffering soldiers had to endure. Poetry is also a valuable source of information on war. In most historical books and reports we are given only detached, objective and factual information. War poetry from the likes of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon give us their own personal feelings of war and the death as reported through their eyes. The two poems I will be comparing will be John Scott's pre 1900 poem "The Drum" and Wilfred Owen's post 1900 poem "Dulce et Decorum est." Both of these poems are anti-war but are written by people who have had very different experiences of war. John Scott who was a Quaker and opposed to all violence wrote "The Drum" in 1782. Wilfred Owen was a soldier in the First World War. The things that he witnessed during this time left him deeply scarred; he expressed his feelings in his
A Comparison of Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum est' and Lord Tennyson's
A Comparison of Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum est' and Lord Tennyson's 'The charge of the Light Brigade.' "The Charge of the Light Brigade" written by Lord Alfred Tennyson and "Dulce et Decorum est" written by Wifred Owen have different perspectives of the wars as they are two different wars written at different times. Tennyson was not at the battle and never saw or experienced anything, which occurred. On the other hand Owen was present and experienced everything; he saw a friend dying knowing he was helpless to save him. Tennyson was only able to write the poem as he read a press report and expanded on it; the press report was written as propaganda, glorifying the British soldiers and making out that they were all able to die for their country as their sergeant ordered them to. Tennyson's use of language is very different to Owen. Owen uses more death scenes and uses imagery to show he was there, however Tennyson was not at the battle, and so he wrote a poem less personal. Tennyson uses repetition frequently to show the power and force of the cavalry, he also uses several powerful images trying to put the British in as the winning people. In comparison Owen uses many different rhythmic lines. "Bent doubles, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-need, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our back And towards our
The worst injuries of war are emotional, not physical With reference to Disabled and Mental Cases to what extent do you agree?
"The worst injuries of war are emotional, not physical" With reference to Disabled and Mental Cases to what extent do you agree? Through phrases such as 'war and madness', Mental Cases and Disabled establish themselves as a rebellion against the old tradition of not questioning orders. Owen's poetry lashes out at the works of Jessie Pope and likewise propaganda, yet does so by not making a tirade about the nature of war, but by attempting to reason the consequences of it. Owen's poetry exhibits the nightmarish truth of emotional and physical injuries, which both shock and sicken the reader. It becomes even more shocking that out of these injuries the physical injuries are conveyed as the worst. Owen usually goes into great repulsive detail of the physical injuries such as 'treading blood from lungs' in Mental Cases. Contrasting this, the first stanza of Disabled plainly states the physical injuries of the persona in, 'legless, sewn short at elbow'. Henceforth, Disabled concentrates on the emotional injuries of war by omitting focus on the physical injuries whereas Mental Cases concentrates on the emotional injuries of war by centralising around the physical injuries. Therefore in both Mental Cases and Disabled it is not what is being said, but rather what is not being said that is most significant. Taking this in account, it is for this reason that Disabled establishes
Come Up From The Fields Father and War Photographer
ENGLISH COURSEWORK - WAR POEMS The first poem is a pre-1900 poem written by Walt Whitman. It is called "Come Up From The Fields Father". This poem tells the story of how a family hear the news that their son has been wounded in battle. Firstly it describes his sister receiving the letter and calling for her father and mother. The poet then goes on to describe the settings of the farm and the background to it. "Where apples ripe in the orchards hang and grapes on the trellis'd vines." "The sky so calm......below too, all calm, all vital and beautiful." He sets the scene of a peaceful beautiful place. I think he does this for a number of reasons. Firstly, I think he does it just to set the background to show the reader where the boy lived and what his family were like. Another reason could be that he is showing to the reader that these are just ordinary people who really have no interest in fighting. However, I think the message that Walt Whitman is really trying to portray, is the fact that everything is serene and going brilliantly until this letter arrives. He is trying to get across the idea that this war destroys normal families and stops them being happy. It creates a sad and empty atmosphere for them. The mother senses that something is wrong. She is shaking and is hurrying to see what is in the letter. We see this as Whitman uses short, stopped sentences, spoken
Why was the World War One not over by Christmas 1914?
Why was the World War One not over by Christmas 1914 James Miller In this essay I will write about why the First World War was not over by Chrismas 1914. I will talk about the Schlieffen Plan, how there was a stalemate, also about the trenches in the First World War. The reason why the First World War started was that Austria-Hungary's heir to the throne who was called Archduke Franz Ferdinand was going into Bosnia because Austria-Hungary had just recently concurred it. The Archduke was driving down a narrow road and this road got smaller and smaller and soon the driver had to stop because if he did not the car would scrape on the sides of the wall and when the driver did stop a Serbian shot him and his wife This was on the 28th of June 1914. A few days later Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and the capital Belgrade was shelled. Russia was the ally of Serbia and they began to prepare for war so the clock was ticking for the Germans and they had to put the Schlieffen Plan in to practice. The Schlieffen Plan was Germany's only plan for war. The idea was very simple and the Germans thought that it would work. The plan was that the Germans would declare war on Russia and the Russians would take six weeks to get their army ready. So the Germans thought that they had six weeks to go through Belgium to avoid the heavy French forces on the border of France and
Analysing Wilfred Owens' Poem Disabled.
Diabled: Disabled shows the struggle of one man who everyday contemplates his wasted life. All he has are the memories but they seem to become more distant as the days go on. Owen is describing someone that he knew in the army. This man was in the Scottish regiment. He has had his leg blown up. He has no legs and his arms are sewn at the elbow. He is in an institute, a nursing home of some sought. He waits for darkness because then things will be quiet. He is fed up with life and is waiting to die. He hears voices of boys singing, these are voices of people playing just as he had once played. He talks about the evenings. He says that at this time the towns atmosphere was fun and happy everyone is dancing having fun. He is very sad that he will never again experience this again. He says the girls look upon like he has some kind of disease. He talks of how he will never again feel the waist of a women, he also talks about how he threw away his knees in the war He was once a lovely face now he looks old. He back is now in a brace this is the back that was not so long ago was as strong as anything. He has lost his colour just like losing blood. He feels as tough he has poured his life away down endless shell holes, he wonders what he has been given for this. Nothing. "And leap of purple spurted from his thigh." He loves his youth. When his leg was blown away a massive
Why did the First World War affect the people of Britain in so many different ways?
Why did the First World War affect the people of Britain in so many different ways? At the beginning of the war society was different. For a lot of people, poverty, social and economic disruption was normal. Literacy was fairly general and the society was mainly Christian and was very religious, therefore there were frequent Bible readings. The upper classes were better classed with leisure and comfortable living conditions. They had servants, which were mainly women, who worked in the 'domestic service'. There was little mixing between domestic and industrial working classes. When war broke out in 1914, the impact was disruptive. There was a rapid increase in unemployment, especially of women who had also worked before because of poverty. The stock market crashed which resulted in food prices increasing and panic buying. The First World War affected the people of Britain in so many different ways but the question is why? The war affected both the people directly involved in the war and the civilian population. The men were affected because the war demanded hem to fight, so they played a vital role. When war was declared thousands of men volunteered to join, the 247,000 regular soldiers in the British army. The volunteers were affected because if they didn't recruit then women handed out white feathers to them because they were in civilian clothes. They were known as
Compare the ways in which Owen, Brooke and the Sassoon portray WW1
Hannah Glass 9k2 Miss Price Unit of work: Poetry Source: WW1 Poetry Title: compare the ways in which Owen, Brooke and the Sassoon portray WW1 World War one took place between 1914 and 1918. Owen, Sassoon and Brooke were all poets and soldiers during the war. However, their poems had many similarities and differences, because of their different experiences. Owen and Sassoon actually fought in the war, whereas Brooke never made it into battle as he died on the boat from Malaria. The audience varies for the different poems. Owens's audience is people in the future generations who want to go to war. "You will not tell with such high zest" In this quote we can tell Owen is not pleased with another generation dying from ambition and propaganda. Equally Sassoon doesn't agree with war and writes his poem for people who haven't experienced war and the horror of living in the trenches. In contrast Brooke writes to men to men to encourage theme to enlist and join the war. "A pulse in the eternal mind" This suggests that Brooke believes the soldiers will always be remembered for fighting for England... Whereas Brooke has a patriotic and idealistic attitude, Sassoon and Owen have a stark hate towards war. "The old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mon" We can see very clearly from this how Owen feels towards war. He doesn't see the
'In Memoriam' by F. A. Mackintosh, 'Death Bed' by Siegfried Sassoon and 'Dulce et Decorum est'by Wilfred Owen.
First World War Poem Essay In this essay I am comparing and discussing three poems from the Great War, each by a different author. These poems are 'In Memoriam' by F. A. Mackintosh, 'Death Bed' by Siegfried Sassoon and 'Dulce et Decorum est' by Wilfred Owen. First I shall discuss 'In Memoriam' by F. A. Mackintosh. The title starts by telling you that the memory of someone who has died is probably involved as the word memoriam is usually used in epitaphs. This can be linked to a memorial which is a monument in memoriam of a lot of people which shows that this not about one person. The first stanza starts by saying 'So you were David's father,', and from this you know this is someone who is talking to the father of someone he knew. Also the use of the word 'were' in the past tense means that David is no longer his son and, at a guess, I'd say David was dead. The next line says 'And he was your only son,' notice the use of the past tense again in the form of the word of, as this says that he no longer has a son. Also it says his 'only son', which implies a tighter bond between the father and son than there would be in a family with two or sons in it and/or daughters, which means that the grief may be amplified. The next three lines say: 'And the new-cut peats are rotting, And the work is left undone, Because of an old man weeping,' These lines show that the grief did
Show how Winifred M. Letts in
Show how Winifred M. Letts in "The Deserter" and Siegfried Sassoon in "The Hero" use language to show the brutal reality of the war. Both Winifred M. Letts and Siegfried Sassoon have strong views on the war; however they both express themselves using different language. Winifred M. Letts chose her words carefully to put the reader on the side of the Deserter using rhetorical questions as in line 6, "But who can judge him, you or I?" This makes it seem like the deserter running away, was a natural response to his surroundings, and is asking if you would do or feel any different. In line 5, she uses the phrase, "Just that" This gives the impression that it was a very simple decision for the Deserter to turn and run because as it says in line 2, "Fear had dogged by night and day." Here she is metaphorically saying that fear had surrounded him every day and night since arriving, and he could not escape it. Winifred M. Letts chose, in line 8, the phrase, "Yearns to live and not die" This creates a dramatic emphasis on how he longed and struggled to be free of the war, and go home to his family and safety. In line 13 the use of the phrase, "With eyes as wild" Gives the interpretation that he is not thinking properly, he is frightened and on edge, ready to snap at any moment. He will not listen to anyone and is alert because of the sickness of wanting to be home and
