Wilfred Owens World War poetry Dulce et Decurum est and Mental Cases
Zuhair Crossley English Coursework Mr Lockwood Wilfred Owen's World War poetry 'Dulce et Decurum est' and 'Mental Cases' In 1914 war broke out in Europe and on both sides it was greeted by jubilation from the general public. It was commonly believed by the British community that the war would be over by Christmas, ending in a huge battle and glorious victory. It was a similar scenario in Germany, where thousands lined the streets to celebrate the announcement. There had not been war in Europe since 1871 and even that had been a lightning victory for Germany against the French forces. The result of this was Germany gaining the Provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, traditionally French territory. Throughout Europe young men were gripped with war fever. Newspapers and propaganda showed images of brave soldiers charging the terrible enemy. They believed that they would sign up to be part of a magnificent encounter and go home afterwards. In Britain alone, half a million young men signed up in the first four weeks. Propaganda is "The organised dissemination of information and allegation to assist or damage the cause of a government or movement." Britain used propaganda to great effect throughout the war. A sense of duty was fed to readers of papers, encapsulated in Horace's poem ", Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: mors et fugacem persequitur virum: nec parcit inbellis
Compare the ways in which Thomas Hardy and Charlotte Perkins Gilman capture and maintain their audience's interest and explain which of the two you preferred.
Comparative Essay Assignment: Compare the ways in which Thomas Hardy and Charlotte Perkins Gilman capture and maintain their audience's interest and explain which of the two you preferred. Assessment Criteria: Literature EN2 Although both of these short stories were written in different times, by different authors, both stories are filled with detail, twists, and turns. This is what makes both of these short stories so popular and interesting to read. Although written in two different styles, both are interesting and dramatic from start to finish and instantly the writers capture our attention by using the hook of curiosity. Thomas Hardy opens his story in a cow barn where the milkers are talking about the newly wed wife of Farmer Lodge. Immediately the reader is curious to find out more about the new wife and why she is so important. Then the milkmaids continue to talk and they look at the other side of the barn, where they see another milkmaid who is somewhat apart & seems isolated from the others. The milkmaids say "Tis has for she" and again we are curious to know why it is hard for this strange and isolated character. Why are the milkers talking about her? This curiosity makes us want to read on and find out more. However, Charlotte Perkins Gilman opens her story in a different Way; she starts the story with, "In her soft-carpeted, thick curtained, richly
What effect do you think the endings of the stories, Tony Kytes the Arch Deceiver, The Son’s Veto and The Withered Arm, by Thomas Hardy, might have on the reader ?
What effect do you think the endings of the stories, Tony Kytes the Arch Deceiver, The Son's Veto and The Withered Arm, by Thomas Hardy, might have on the reader ? You should note that the literature course work says you should include comments on the social and cultural aspects of the stories. Tony Kytes the Arch Deceiver is a comedy based on a young man journeying through his village as he tries to deceive three women who clearly have feelings for him. It shows, how in the end, coincidence lets him down and he is caught out. The Son's Veto is a slightly longer story which explores the life of Sophy, a village girl, through many years of her life, concentrating on her son's prejudice and the result in which she suffers and dies unhappily. The Withered Arm is a longer story again, also charting a period of many years involving three people in which jealousy and witchcraft dominate. It finishes in a dramatic and tragic way. The three stories tell very different tales and can therefore be seen as separate genres. Tony Kytes is clearly a comedy as it is a portrayal of ordinary life in which coincidence, intrigue and normal human behaviour is shown. No one suffers terribly, there is a fairly pleasant ending and Hardy gives the reader the chance to criticise the characters' personalities. The ending of this story is as much to do with coincidence and fate, as it is dependant on
Compare and contrast how gender roles are represented in a variety of love poems.
Candidate number: Compare and contrast how gender roles are represented in a variety of love poems. Introduction In my course work I will be comparing and contrasting how gender roles are represented in a variety of love poems. Gender roles love, marriage and sex have changed since the 1800's.Now people have sex and get married because they want to make love to each other and have a nice family, wanting to spend their life with the perfect partner, together making a commitment to each other. Where as in the 1800's people only got married because they wanted to raise their status and to have children to help them work and earn financial income, when they would be old they could take over their business. In the 1800's it was much different from now because then if you was a woman you wouldn't be able to get a job that you wanted to get, the only jobs which were available where to be a teacher or a domestic servant. Whereas now, if you're a woman you could get any job you want, having the equivalent pay and respect as a male worker, there are no differences between males and females. In the 1800's if a woman would had broke off her wedding, she would risk living the rest of her life as a spinster meaning they really didn't have a choice in their lives. The court and the society's views on adultery where, the court treated the women and the men unequally, the court would
AQA English Lit 'Moon On The Tides' Relationship Poetry Analysis Notes
Sonnet 116 William Shakespeare Themes Nature, True Love, Change, Faithfulness, Devotion Contrast¨ = Theme of loves constancy and the theme of change “Ever-fixed” and the instability of “tempests” Steadiness of “star” and “wand’ring” ships. Authorial Intentions . The voice of the poem is forceful and direct. It is written in the present tense so maybe about someone, helps give emphasis to the poem. Context . The consistency of true love 2. Love doesn’t change when hard situations come around. It remains steadfast against difficulties. 3. Love doesn’t depreciate or diminish with time or beauty. Form . Sonnet therefore talks about love or praise. 3 Quatrains and a rhyming couplet. 2. Iambic Pentameter = Heart Beat, Regular. Love is constant 3. Regular rhyme scheme = Sense of completeness and order Structure . Quatrains discuss similar idea = Consistency, Love not affected by time 2. Change after the 8th line, saying how time does not affect love. 3. Couplet = Ties the poem to an end like a couple is tied till death. Wraps up the poem with a guarantee that what he is saying is true Language and Semantics . Time/Ageing . “Love’s not Time’s fool” = Time personified - creates a battle/tension between ‘Love’ and ‘Time’ 2. “Bending Sickle’s Compass” = Imagery of Death, it is in the hands
Compare and Contrast "Lamb To the Slaughter" with "The Speckled Band".
Compare and Contrast "Lamb To the Slaughter" with "The Speckled Band" For this piece of course work I have been set the task of comparing the two stories mentioned in the title, "Lamb to the Slaughter" and "The Speckled Band". The popular and highly successful author Roald Dahl wrote the story "Lamb to the Slaughter". The story was first published in 1954. The author Roald Dahl is a famous author and he is most famous for writing stories such as "James and the giant peach" and "The Twits" but as not a lot of people know that he also writes more adult stories like "Tales of the unexpected". In his books he mostly rights about fictitious characters that are doing strange things with or strange things happening to them. The author of "The Speckled Band" was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Story was first published in the year of 1892. In this story the main character is a detective called Sherlock Holmes. This character has been in all of this author's books and Sherlock Holmes is a purely fictional character. The character Sherlock Holmes is a Scotland Yard detective and he has a very good friend and partner in the police force, Dr Watson. The detective Sherlock Holmes is a very adept detective and he has had lots of famous cases, "Hound of the Baskervilles" keeping in mind that he is a fictional character, thus so are the cases. The fact that both of the authors wrote about
Show how Hardy responds to the death of his wife, the thoughts and feelings expressed and the variety of devices he employs.
Show how Hardy responds to the death of his wife, the thoughts and feelings expressed and the variety of devices he employs. In the years after the death of his wife, Emma, in 1912, the main subject of Hardy's poems was his wife and how he missed her and grieved her death. In his poems during this period he uses a lot of euphemism, so that he never actually tells the reader his wife has died. However, the strong sense of sadness and regret he feels comes through in every poem. The first poem Hardy wrote after the death of Emma was The Going in December 1912. This poem has a highly regular rhythm and rhyme, with the important words often rhyming at the end of the lines to draw attention to them. The title of the poem is a euphemism for death, and he continues with these throughout the poem, using phrases such as 'vanishing', 'close your term here' and 'where I could not follow'. This poem is written as if Hardy is addressing Emma. In the first stanza, Hardy addresses and questions his dead wife, and gives a sense of what seems like anger and irritation towards her, that she gave him 'no hint' that she was going to die. He suggest she was 'indifferent' and didn't care about leaving him, and this shows how he is grieving and maybe not thinking straight. He emphases her swift, quick death as she left 'with wing of swallow' but this imagery also suggests her beauty in his eyes
Examine the ways in which the poets in “The Flea” and “To His Coy Mistress” try to persuade their mistresses.
Judith Johnson Examine the ways in which the poets in "The Flea" and "To His Coy Mistress" try to persuade their mistresses. Both "The Flea" by John Donne and "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell are seduction poems, written by the poets to seduce their mistresses. Both have three stanzas and a basic couplet rhyming structure. Donne and Marvell are metaphysical poets from the 17th century. They have taken simple ideas and stretched them far - for example, using a flea as a symbol of union. They have made philosophical poems about simple facts of life - for example, the fear of death seen in "To His Coy Mistress". The similarity seen between these poems is quite surprising - the use of imagery, enjambement and variation in rhythm and rhyme to relate their ideas, and the way they put forward their arguments to seduce their mistresses. In "The Flea", the flea is used as a symbol of their love, or his love for her. The word 'flea' has many connotations and denotations, but interestingly, when spoken sounds the same as the verb, to 'flee'. In addition to perhaps suggesting the fleeting nature of love, the word also connotes danger: "to run away as from danger; to take flight; to try to escape", is the Oxford English Dictionaries definition. It can also connote an abrupt ending "to run away from, hasten away from; to quite abruptly, forsake (a person or a place, etc.)".
How does Wilfred Owen in Disabled treat the subject of exclusion? Including comparisons with how W.H Auden in Refugee Blues treats the same theme
Jordan Carp How does Wilfred Owen in Disabled treat the subject of exclusion? Including comparisons with how W.H Auden in Refugee Blues treats the same theme ________________ Both poets explore a form of exclusion and are similar in the respect that the exclusion was brought about by war. They have face exclusion due to similar circumstances and this is outlined in both ‘Disabled’ and ‘Refugee Blues’ respectively. Wilfred Owen explored the theme of exclusion by taking a fine young man who was fit, healthy, attractive and full of exuberance for life, and turned him into a disabled soldier who lost various limbs in the First World War. The exclusion he faces is from normal, able-bodied society. He can no longer perform the acts that made him seem so appealing in the past and he is excluded from everything that previously defined him and made his life worthwhile. W.H. Auden also based his theme around exclusion. However he focussed more on the aspects from The Second World War in his poem, when a number of races were excluded from their basic human rights on a national and worldwide scale. In both cases the people who had been excluded have felt that they have lost their humanity, due to the way they are treated like items, who can just not be involved or turned away without a second glance. The sympathy that is drawn from the poem appeals to the reader’s feelings
The two poems which I am comparing are by Andrew Marvell and John Donne whom are both metaphysical poets from different backgrounds. The poet John Donne is the probably the greatest metaphysical poet, he was born in 1572 in Bread Street
Metaphysical Poetry Metaphysical poetry to a full sense expresses the simplest experiences from the surface of life such as love, joy, hate, anger, sex, politics, religion and peace through a philosophical and logical perspective. This certainly adds extra depth and complexity to each of these life experiences. Metaphysical poetry almost takes these simple elements of life which may sometimes be taken as insignificant, and expands them out through philosophy and logic instructing us to view the bigger picture of life. The term 'metaphysical' fell upon a group of men in the 17th century ( by John Dryden) who were mainly known as Donne, Marvell, Vaughan, and Traherne; these men were all labelled as metaphysical poets as they all shared similar characteristics in their poetry like their strong wit and inventiveness, also their use of extreme hyperbole and very sharp conceits; this made them quite a contrast to the smooth and sweet tones of the 16th century' instead they took an energetic, rigorous and rough style; which acquired one's intellect rather than emotion, totally discarding mysticism and intuition. Their energetic and uneven style may have possibly been due to their logical reasoning of subjects which brought out the subject in a very honest and straight forward manner, which at the time was interpreted as 'uneven'. Even though the meanings of these poems are very
