...perspectives from historical figures featured within Regeneration. Birdsong emotively persuades readers that individual anguish has detrimental effects on soldier’s lives intensifying their suffering. The texts use third person narrative to create emotive circumstances which manipulate the reader into understanding the suffering as either mass or individual. The writers’ portrayal of individual suffering was the most poignant compared to the subversion of widespread suffering. The texts expose the stigmatization of physical disability as a cause of individual suffering. Historically, the dependence of disabled life reflects the burden faced by soldiers of returning to normality. Wilfred Owen’s poem Disabled explores the first-hand impacts and consequences of war, coupled with the persistent individual suffering. Owen became infamous during the war as his poetry extracted the distorted views of the home-front and revealed reality. The metaphor, “put them to bed”[2] symbolizes the individual suffering caused by dependence, and also the neglect caused through others’ ignorance to their needs. The dependence of...
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...Even though "these men are worth/ Your tears" (Owen, "Apologia Pro" 35-36) relatives of the soldiers fail to acknowledge the hell in which "we fight" (Sassoon 7) and the horrid places "we're killed" (8) by euphemistically referring to death in action as "retir[ing]" (9). Similarly, national governments do not know how to appropriately memorialise the souls of the deceased as they immortalise their dead through trivial "decorations" (Sassoon 3) which only pay homage to their actions during WWI and not their personalities...
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...Poems for literature The Dead-Beat/ Worn-out/ He dropped, - more sullenly than wearily, Lay stupid like a cod, heavy like meat, And none of us could kick him to his feet; Just blinked at my revolver, blearily; - Didn't appear to know a war was on, Or see the blasted trench at which he stared. "I'll do 'em in," he whined, "If this hand's spared, I'll murder them, I will." A low voice said, "It's Blighty, p'raps, he sees; his pluck's all gone, Dreaming of all the valiant, that AREN'T dead: Bold uncles, smiling ministerially; Maybe his brave young wife, getting her fun In some new home, improved materially. It's not these stiffs have crazed him; nor the Hun." We sent him down at last, out of the way. Unwounded; - stout lad, too, before that strafe. Malingering? Stretcher-bearers winked, "Not half!" Next day I heard the Doc.'s well-whiskied laugh: "That scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray!" The Send-off Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way To the siding-shed, And lined the train with faces grimly gay. Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray As men's are, dead. Dull porters watched them, and a casual tramp Stood staring hard, Sorry to miss them from the upland camp. Then, unmoved, signals nodded, and a lamp Winked to the guard. So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went. They were not ours: We never heard to which front these were sent. Nor there if they yet mock what women...
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...Wilfred Owen essay draft. The First World War rained havoc on the population of Great Britain and Europe between the years 1914 and 1918, causing catastrophe to the soldiers and their families. As well as many other European countries, Britain used propaganda as a tool and to make life on the front line sound more appealing to the average man. Propaganda posters were used to lure people into fight and to make those who decided not to fight appear as cowards among the other men that signed up. The propaganda worked and caused a positive opinion towards men going out to fight; which made more men go out to war and hope to come back as heroes. Many poets wrote about the things that occurred in World War One, such as, Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, who was one of the leading poets of the First World War. Born on the 18th March 1893, Owen was drafted into the army and he fought for Great Britain, which lead to his shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare, which are mentioned in poems such as, ‘Dulce et Decorum est’, ‘Futility’ and ‘The Sentry’. His presence in the fighting for his country led him into being able to capture the life of the people on the front line and how it wasn’t glamorous as promoted to be and in reality it was a constant battle to stay alive even when not at front line. In addition to this, poets such as: Jessie Pope also wrote about World War One, Pope never was on the front line like Owen, or even been in a trench. Also...
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...Poetry: Post 1900: An essay analysing ‘Strange Meeting’ by Wilfred Owen in terms of Imagery, themes and sound effects Wilfred Owen’s poetry expresses the horrors of war through dramatic and memorable imagery, whether it’s physical or the soldiers’ inner mental torment. It allows us to feel deep pity with the young soldiers and we share resentment for the government in Britain for encouraging the war. Strange Meeting is an example of a thought provoking poem that carries complex messages regarding the soldier’s mental state. Themes include hopelessness and pity, in stanza three he says ‘Now men will go content with what we spoiled’[1], from ‘we’ we recognise that he himself is taking his share of the responsibility encapsulating the guilt that he and the soldiers must feel. The poem explores the idea that the enemy soldiers are just like them, holding bitter resentment towards the politicians and generals who have caused and encouraged this war, not these ordinary men. The poem’s themes include disillusionment, compassion and the need for reconciliation, we feel hopelessness due to the precise details given regarding emotions, thoughts and sights of the soldier, for example ‘…must die now, I mean the truth untold/the pity of war’[2], we feel pathos as the soldiers must have felt alone and that the truth would never have been told to the people back home so they can stop this meaningless brutality. The future for the living is bleak and with the rest having blood on their...
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...Wilfred Owen wrote his poems as an attempt to stop the war and to make people realise how horrific it was. In a thorough examination of the poems "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "Disabled" and also with some reference to other works by Owen, it can be seen that he uses different poetical features, styles and methods. Wilfred Owen addresses his readers from different stances right up to him addressing the reader personally. This method is very effective in evoking feelings from great anger and bitterness to terrible sadness and even sarcasm, making the reader sometimes even feel guilty. Whichever way he chooses to portray the pity of the war the end result is always the same. "Dulce Et Decorum Est" is a direct attack at the people in Britain who had been taken in by the propaganda drive by telling them the truth of what life is really like at the front and in what conditions their sons, fathers, brothers etc. are in. "Dulce Et Decorum Est" consists of four unequal stanzas, the first two in sonnet form, and the last two in a looser structure. The first stanza sets the scene of soldiers limping back from the front. The authorial stance is of Owen telling us of his own personal experiences. The second stanza focuses on one man who could not get his gas mask on in time. This is a recurring nightmare that Owen has, where he sees one man "drown" in the gas and in the third stanza he describes how the man "plunges" at Owen, "guttering, choking, drowning." This...
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...Themes and Elements of British World War 1 Poets July 28th, 1914 was a very grim day that changed history throughout the entire world. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria sparked the start of the first World War in Europe (Gorman 21). During World War 1, British soldiers began to express their wartime experiences through poetry as a way of recollection and to voice their own opinions about the war. Often writing poems to remain sane, the common themes and elements of the British soldier-poets often included the horrors of trench warfare, and the deplorable conditions of war; that the British soldiers encountered on an everyday basis. Two of the most influential poets of the great war were Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. They both displayed many common themes and elements during the peak of their writing. These common themes and elements as well as some differences in their writings shall be discussed. Siegfried Sassoon grew up in a wealthy Jewish family where he often wrote poetry as a young child. As a young adult Sassoon’s only desire in life was to become a poet. Motivated by patriotism Sassoon joined the British Army, just as the threat of World War 1 was realised. As a soldier-poet he would eventually become one of the most well known and influential poets of the first World War. His poems were generally angry and compassionate towards the war, which often brought him public and critical acclaim. Sassoon served with the Royal Welch...
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...Kyle Threlfall English 102 Professor Hickey November 15, 2011 Compare and Contrast “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” In this essay you will notice the differences and similarities between “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and “Dulce Et Decorum Est”. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” was written in the nineteenth century by Alfred Lord Tennyson. In contrast, “Dulce Et Decorum Est” was written in the twentieth century by Wilfred Owen. The main similarity observed is that they both capture wartime experiences. However, the poets’ present these events using their own style and the effect is two completely different observations of war. The themes of the two poems are portrayed in very distinctive ways. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” explains in a majestic approach that fighting in war is something every soldier should honor. The poem is also about the loyalty of the soldiers, not the bad luck or foolishness of men. Tennyson presents this in his poem to show the bravery of the soldiers, although, he only highlights on the benefits of war. Tennyson’s poem glorifies the war, celebrating the sacrifice they had made for their country with the statement “Honor the charge they made”, (“The Charge of the Light Brigade”, line 51, Tennyson). By glorifying the Brigade, Tennyson has ignored the obscurity and massacre of the war. This is shown by the loyalty that the soldiers have for...
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...The last four lines here are exceptionally ironic and negative, as though they are Wilfred Owen's own particular words. The poem ends with an asseverations that "Dulce et decorum est” is a complete lie. In the last verse, for the first time Owen employs the second person "you" to specifically address us, the readers trying to wake us up to see the revolting reality of war that he reveals. In the expression “Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues", Owen reminds the readers that these warriors in the battlefield were also once the "children ardent for some desperate glory “who were brainwashed to sacrifice their lives in such a pitifully poor environment. These imagery can jerk the readers out of their...
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...March 5th, 2012 Institute Le Rosey TOK “The Arts have little to do with knowledge”. Discuss this assertion with detailed reference to two works of arts in different genres. Knowledge is something at our circumference at all times. We pursue and obtain it in the various stages of our lives. As children we acquire knowledge from our parents, in school, by reading books, going on the Internet etc. As a matter of fact, Knowledge is thrown at us everyday, everywhere and from every angle, without us even knowing about it. Most people know that Math and Science give us knowledge known as Accepted truth and experimental knowledge. But can we acquire unforeseen knowledge from pieces of art such as Paintings, Music and Poems? Does art truly give us knowledge or is it the artist’s intention to play with us and influence us by making us think that we have learnt something? When thinking of it, we as viewers of the pieces of art are confused because we cannot record anything we have ever learnt from them. To most people Art is just there to impress us and for us to admire it. Never would we think that the Art’s actually give us some sort of knowledge. Nevertheless, the reason for this might be because we have the wrong definition of knowledge and are therefore not looking for the correct kind. Essentially, there are two types of knowledge that can be found in pieces of Art: Explicit and Tacit (Implicit) knowledge. Explicit knowledge is the average Joe’s definition of knowledge. It...
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...response to WWI Brittany made a poster with the quotation “I want YOU for the army”. The British people got dragged by the poster and they saw the war as an opportunity to become war-heroes. Under the war Poems We have been working with two poems in the last module. “The soldier” by Rubert Brooke and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen The Soldier This poem by Rubert Brooke is as you very easily can see, putting England in a very god light. England is being praised to the sky, and Rubert Brooke can look a little bit self-laudatory since he is saying that if he dies, England will just become some corner of a foreign field. But I think that he wrote this poem, to give the English people a picture of how all English soldiers thinks about their country and them self and how valuable they are for their country. Dulce et Decorum est This poem is quite the same as “The Soldier”. The message is just completely different than the message “the Soldier” have. Both poems is showing how soldiers think doing a soldiers job, but in “Dulce et Decorum est” it is a more negative way the picture of how a soldier thinks, there is being explained by Wilfred Owen. The battle of Hiroshima The battle of Hiroshima took place 19 February– 26 March 1945 and it was the first American attack on Japanese soil. It was America who attacked the Japanese property. The reason why they wanted that island was because they needed airstrips close to Japan. The Japanese would of cause protect their island...
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...For my comparison and contrast essay, I have decided to choose Wilfred Owen’s “Disabled” and Robert Frost’s “Out, Out -”. I have chosen these because they both show loss in different ways and perspectives. One talks about the loss of a leg and that effect on him and the way that society treats him after this and the other is about the loss of a hand that then causes the loss of a life. One has a very precise structure of stanzas and rhyming meanwhile the other is more broad, free-flowing, has no stanzas and little rhyme. In Disabled there are rhyming couplets every other line. In line 1 and line 3 there is a couple “dark” and “park”, Line 2 and line 5 rhyme “grey” and “day”. These rhyming couplets give the poem a certain feel as it creates a sense of flowing, this can be both to help the reader but also as a metaphor to the point that with his lost leg he can no longer do fun things, not doing fun things is causing his spirit to leave him slowly through the amputated. This is...
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...K. The Man Who Was Thursday Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness AND one of: Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier Forster, E. M. Howards End, A Passage to India (plus the essays “What I Believe” and “The Challenge of Our Times” in Two Cheers for Democracy) Galsworthy, John. The Man of Property Greene, Graham. One of: Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World Joyce, James. Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses Kipling, Rudyard. Kim Lawrence, D. H. Two of: Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, The Rainbow, The Plumed Serpent Lewis, Wyndham. Tarr, manifestos in BLAST 1 Mansfield, Katherine. “Prelude,” “At the Bay,” “The Garden Party,” “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” (in Collected Stories) Orwell, George. 1984 (or Aldous Huxley, Brave New World) Wells, H. G. One of the following: Ann Veronica, Tono-Bungay, The New Machiavelli West, Rebecca. The Return of the Soldier Waugh, Evelyn. One of: Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited Woolf, Virginia. Two of: The Voyage Out, Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, Between the Acts (plus the essays “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” and “Modern Fiction” in Collected Essays) B. POETRY The...
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...Dulce et Decorum est. In 1917 Wilfred Owen was shell-shocked in the war and was a patient in hospital in Edin burgh when he penned ‘Dulce et Decorum est.’ It was here that Owen encountered Siegfried Sassoon who was sent there to silence him, but encouraged and helped Owen to not only write his poems, but ultimately ensured that his work was published. This was a time when the battles he experienced were still fresh in his mind and the truth about war was not cloud- ed by further life experiences. This is a particularly potent, powerful and hard-hitting piece of poetry. The poet describes the harsh and inhuman conditions of war which is in stark contrast to the propaganda which was published by the military hierarchy and the British state. The following essay will analyse the experiences that Owen was trying to convey through the words he very carefully chose in the writing of this poem. The first eight lines take on a very slow laborious tone which actually physically slows the reader down and sets the mood. Using a phrase like ‘Bent double like old beggars’ in his description of young men in their prime, really gives you a proper idea of the effect this battle has had on the soldiers. ‘Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge’ allit eration of the letter ‘k’ gives the line even more punch and portrays absolute exhaustion, ‘coughing’ would refer to the effects that the battle had on their health from colds and flu’s to the effects...
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...* Home * Literature * History * The Arts * More Subjects * Sign In * Register Today's Date: May 13, 2014 ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Advanced Search Bottom of Form ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form Home » Literature » Poetry » Poem Analysis of “Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas Poem Analysis of “Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas Posted by Nicole Smith, Dec 6, 2011 Poetry No Comments Print In this analysis of “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas, it will be explored how this is a poem that explores the helplessness associated with growing old and inching toward death. There are six stanzas in “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas with a simple rhyme structure that belies the complex message of the poem. In general, it is clear that this is a poem about death and dying but when examined closer, it becomes apparent that it is also about life and how it is lived. Through the structure of “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas as well as the use and choice of language that invokes certain images and employs certain techniques that arouse deep imagery/ The speaker of the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas seems to think it is not honorable or befitting for a great or interesting man to die quietly in old age and he encourages the reader to think...
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