Compare and contrast the ways in which the horrors of war are presented in Regeneration by Pat Barker and Journeys end
Compare and contrast the ways in which the horrors of war are presented in Regeneration by Pat Barker and Journeys End by R.C Sheriff. Both Regeneration and Journeys End, explore the horrors of war in similar ways and also in different ways. They both challenge assumptions about the war and the horrors the soldiers have to face. These horrors involve horrors of trench life, death of soldiers and the suffering the soldiers endured both physically and mentally. These horrors are conveyed by the use of characters that evoke flashbacks and also the mental state of the characters. Regeneration is told through Rivers who is the protagonist of the novel. Rivers is the psychiatrist at Craiglockhart which is a war hospital. Barker uses Rivers to enable the reader to gain a deeper insight into the horrors of his patients and the horrors of war. However in Journeys End this insight is achieved through an examination of men, in a trench, at the front line. The different genres of literature, the time the texts were written and the diverse styles used by each writer, together, provides a contrast, which helps to show many presentations of the horrors and effects of the first world war. The chosen medium for Journeys End is the theatre and this has benefits, but also creates problems. The staging on the theatre can show dim lights, flashes, sounds of trench fighting and no mans land,
How Does Owen Use Nature To Convey His Feelings About War?
How Does Owen Use Nature To Convey His Feelings About War? Wilfred Owen uses nature to convey his feelings in his poems, using many different techniques. In both the poems that I am examining, Exposure, and Spring Offensive, he's uses nature to show pain and suffering. For example, in exposure, he uses brambles to convey pain; "Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles." This quote gives the soldiers the painful reminder that men have been killed easily by the barbed wire, and natures way of portraying barbed wire, is through brambles. The brambles symbolise pain, because brambles are obviously painful. This gives the reader a knowledge of what the soldiers are thinking of. Also this shows that by getting caught in the wire, that they are being held back from fighting, and this gives the soldiers a feeling that they have lost the war. Another thing that nature portrays is love and protection. Not all nature was used to portray pain. In Spring offensive, he uses several terms to portray love and protection; "And though the summer oozed into their veins Like an injected drug for their bodies' pains," This quote shows that that nature can be used to benefit the soldiers, by giving them strength to go on and fight. Nature can also benefit the soldiers, by giving them camouflage, and to protect them from harm,
Compare "For The Fallen", "Henry V At The Siege Of Harfleur", and "The Soldier".
War poems. Compare three or four poems which show war as noble. You should write about: * The experiences in the poem * What the poems show as noble * How the poets make war, or the experience of war, seem noble * Differences between the poems I have chosen to write about "For The Fallen", "Henry V At The Siege Of Harfleur", and "The Soldier". "For The Fallen" tells of the First World War, and the people who gave their lives to fight for their country. The poem begins by saying how proud England is of her "children", the ones who fought for her in the war. This gives the impression we should all be proud of them. The idea of the dead being like England's "children" is emphasised by the third line of the first stanza: "Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit," This makes me feel that they were truly belonging to England. These young men were English to the core. The repetition of 'flesh' and 'spirit' really drives the point the poet is trying to make home. Because this poem is written for the families of those who died in the war, the words used are very soft. This is to soften the blow of the fact the men died, so their families would not get too distraught. By using the word 'fallen', not only in the poem itself, but also in it's title, gives a gentle idea of the way they died, when it was really probably quite horrific. Another word used to
Compare and Contrast Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est and Shakespeare's Speech From Henry V.
Compare and Contrast Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est and Shakespeare's Speech From Henry V It is terribly ironic that in the current international crisis over war I may be analysing two pieces with very contrasting views on the subject. Where Shakespeare glorifies the art of war and the honour surrounding it, Owen devalues a respected Latin phrase, which tells of the honour of war. I will first interpret Owen's poem (Dulce et Decorum Est), and later move on to Shakespeare's piece, and finally compare the two. Owen, himself fought and died in the First World War, and in all his poetry, (which is all war poetry) he conveys the terrifying horror of war. Owen said "The poetry is in the pity" meaning that he did not worry about the popularity of his poems, it was just his means of communication to the public allowing him to transmit the lasting pain caused by war, and dispel any thoughts that war is full of pride and shining uniforms. He starts the first stanza describing the terrible state of the men, he conveys the men as gender less and old. The contrast of this from when they left, with boots gleaming, mood high and now "bent double like old beggars", and "cursed through sludge". This also contrasts greatly with the image of the men marching confidently, shoulders back and chest puffed out, instead they are bent over like old women. He also mentions "hags" this word
Compare and contrast views of the First World War as presented by the poets of that era and by Pat Barker in "Regeneration".
Compare and contrast views of the First World War as presented by the poets of that era and by Pat Barker in "Regeneration" The First World War was looked upon as a heroic and courageous task to perform for your country. The young men of that era were influenced by propaganda to fight in the war as it portrayed true chivalry. These views were also opposed by many but expressed by similar means which were poetry and novel writing. Although these were the main forms of literary pieces there were those who wrote diaries and extracts. This essay will look at the views of the First World War poets in contrast to Pat Barkers Regeneration. Regeneration is a war novel which looks at the harsh reality of the First World War as experienced by young men from the United Kingdom. Although barker had no direct experience of the World War 1, her writing strongly shows her opposing view which is similar to Sassoon and Owen. Regeneration is set in a mental hospital where a series of realistic and fictional characters are interwoven. Two of the main characters included Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, who were admitted into Craig Lockhart where Dr. Rivers treated them for the psychological injuries they both attained throughout the duration of the war. Regeneration is a novel which looks at the psychological damage in which war has on the soldiers. Rivers diagnoses their illness to
A Comparison of the poem "Disabled" by Wilfred Owen and the song, "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by Eric Bogle.
A Comparison of the poem "Disabled" by Wilfred Owen and the song, "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by Eric Bogle. The poem "Disabled" and the song, "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" both show the horrors of the war from a soldier's perspective, describing from the day they joined the war and how this affected their lives after the war. The soldier in "Disabled" lived a joyous life in his youth. He liked to play football with his pals and then used to go out and get drunk together. He had a girlfriend and joined the war to please her and also because "someone had said he'd look a god in kilts". He was not yet 19, and legally a minor for the war, but this never concerned him, nor did it concern the authorities who knowingly wrote down his lie, "Smiling they wrote his lie; aged nineteen years." He was silly enough to lie about his age, not thinking about the consequences that awaited him and what war really meant, "And no fears of Fear came yet"; he wasn't afraid of death because he was too young to understand the horrors of war. He only thought about how smart the soldiers look while they salute and other such army etiquette ("For daggers in plaid socks; of smart solutes"), and how he would be marching amongst them. But the war changed him. In the present he is in hospital and is crippled by the war, "Legless, sewn short at elbow". He can no longer play football or party
Critical Response: 'The Sentry' by Wilfred Owen.
Critical Response: 'The Sentry' by Wilfred Owen 'The Sentry' by Wilfred Owen, written as a result of a horrific incident the poet witnessed in the trenches of World War One, tells the reader of the terrible conditions and experiences that the men endured throughout the war. He focuses on a particular memory of when a sentry was blasted from his post and was badly hurt. Owens description of this traumatising event evokes clear images in the reader's mind and it becomes even more poignant when we consider this is a real life experience of the poet. The first lines of this poem quickly bring us to realise the abysmal conditions of the trenches in world war one. The descriptions of the weather: "Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime" shows the strength and volume of rain falling on the men, and by using onomatopoeia in the word ''guttering" Owen describes the rain effectively. The following lines: "Kept slush waist high that, rising hour by hour Choked up the steps too thick with clay to climb" convey the extreme height and speed that the level of water is rising, the repetition of "hour by hour" emphasises the length of their endurance. Owen uses alliteration to convey the persistent and constant rain and levels of water and mud. "clay" indicates the mud's swampy thickness and which connotes a fast drying sludge and near impossible conditions. "Waist high" again
Presentation of In Flanders Fields - script
Presentation of In Flanders Fields - script Our presentation is on In Flanders Fields by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. There is an irregular rhyme scheme = aabba aabc aabbac Almost all lines are 8 syllables long The rhythm sounds like that of a nursery rhyme - there is an iambic pentameter with a very regular line length and rhyme scheme. This is in great contrast to the actual words all about death and war. Stanza 1 * Line 1 - 'In Flanders Fields the poppies blow' presents a nice natural image of poppies swaying in the breeze. * Line 2 - 'Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place...' 'row on row' signifies the enormous number of graves, as it is not a definite, but an infinite number of crosses. We all know that the crosses symbolise the graves of the dead. McCrae doesn't say it explicitly yet; he uses euphemisms of death as he knows the people at home will. This gives the poem a much sadder tone preparing us for what is to come. * Line 3 - '...and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below...', the larks have been personified and symbolise how the natural world was trying to carry on but could not, because of the war. This seems to distance the natural world from the world of war, as if they don't belong together. * This symbolises how the world carried on bravely despite the war, but the sweet, nice
Compare Owen’s use of language in “Dulce et Decorum est” and “Futility”.
Compare Owen's use of language in "Dulce et Decorum est" and "Futility". Both poems are different approaches of war describing the horrors of it in different ways. One is dealing with the moment of death while the other one is about the philosophical ideas after a death opposed to showing the death. The sun is the central issue in the first line of Futility. It says, "Move him into the sun," which is not said as a shouted command but said very gently. Owen is clinging onto the hope of waking the man up but knows in his mind that the man is dead. He does this because he has just been shocked by the death and can't accept the death and is willing to try any thing to wake the dead man. In the whole of the first verse, Owen hints to us that the dead man used to be a farmer. He talks of how the sun woke him every morning and as if it whispered tasks to be done. Owen shows this by saying, "Whispering of fields half-sown." Owen compares death with sleep and thinks that if the sun can wake sleeping people then it can wake dead too. In the second verse he goes on to talk about what the sun has done in the past. He mentions how the earth was made and woken by the sun, by saying, "Woke once the clays of a cold star." In this poem Owen sees the sun as an omniscient power and a life giver. Owen mentions, "Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides full nerved, still warm, to hard to
In what ways were the lives of people at home affected by the Second World War?
In what ways were the lives of people at home affected by the Second World War? World War II (1939-1945) changed the lives of the British people. By analyzing various sources which range from eyewitness accounts, photographs, Government posters and newspaper accounts, I will be evaluating the extent of these effects. World War II started on the 3 September 1939. It affected many people around the world. Men from all over Great Britain signed up to join the army and everyone at home, ranging from women, old men and children, contributed to the war effort. One of the major effects of World War II was rationing. It begun in 1940, and was introduced so richer people did not buy all the food, and so it could be shared out equally. Bacon, sugar and butter were among the first foods to be rationed. The government set up a special department to deal with rationing called "The Ministry Of Food" and its main purpose was to help people not to waste food. This can be illustrated in source A1. It is a primary source, and is a pamphlet made by The Ministry Of Food. It informs people about the reasons why they should ration. These reasons were:- * Rationing prevents waste of food. * Rationing increases our war effort. * Rationing divides supplies equally. * Rationing prevents uncertainty. This source has both good points and bad points. It is very
