I have studied Rosenberg's 'Break of Day in the Trenches.' This title suggests a calm atmosphere as the break of day is very relaxing and peaceful the beginning of a new day. The whole poem has a calm and peaceful feel to it and the poet achieves this by using assonance e.g. "sleeping green" and soft consonants such as "sympathies." Even though the poem has a calm atmosphere, the message that the poet wants to say in the poem is about anger and object to war. The poet comments on the devastating effects war has on the earth and the freedom that it takes away form men. The poem opens describing the "darkness" crumbling "away" gives the effect of a bleak atmosphere as the darkness only disappears bit by bit and not gradually altogether. The use of "crumbling" conveys an image of there always being a bit of darkness that has not fully crumbled away. Maybe this is because Rosenberg wanted to give war an image of being always dark and gloomy. The poet also makes "Time" a pronoun and describes it being "druid." He may have used this technique to make war seem if it had made men dreary and the sense of time has gone back to the ancient days when life was dull and restricted. The word "druid" conveys an impression of men following a dull and restricted life of studying. I think the poet had meant to say that the same break of day happened and could have personified "Time" as a "druid" who visited them every break of day, which showed how dreary the break of day was in the trenches. Instead of it seeming like a fresh new day, it seems cold and ancient. The poet creates a motionless atmosphere by not describing the men in action. It seems as if the men are just standing whilst the rat passes them. The poet achieves the effect by just describing their appearance of "strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes", as if they are standing there for him to describe. The poem gives a sense of shock in the men and they just stand there reflecting the war images in their eyes; the poet pulls the reader into the men's eyes from the rat's perspective see the "shrieking iron and flame/hurled through still heavens." These horrific images may cause the men to stare distantly and not even "quaver" whilst their hearts are "aghast." Again, Rosenberg personifies the actions of war using words such as "hurled" and "shrieking" that makes war seem like a omnipotent person overpowering men. You could also consider "shrieking" as use of onomatopoeia when
This is the poem that Jim Northrup wrote about war. I am going to Explicate the poem and
This speech is an attempt by King Henry to raise morale among his troops after having passed among his men while in disguise and discovering total self-desolation caused by the knowledge that the French outnumbered the... ... middle of paper ... ... rd Tennyson and William Shakespeare never actually were present during any battle and wrote simply in response to popular belief. After 1900, as the media started to give more accurate accounts of the atrocities of war, less non-combatants pedalled such a romanticised view of war. It was poets such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon who wrote their views on war.
are not free in service, you do what you are told and this is the same
During the time period of the emancipation proclamation multiple black authors were becoming educated enough to write works of poetry. Such works have influenced and persuaded the minds of white people all over America to this very day. It also gave their own people a work of art to turn to for their own history. The poets have ventured into modern day eras also, and still have the same topics at hand. The main idea of these poetry pieces was on their ancestors in Africa but also of course of the modern problem of slavery. Langston Hughes was the first influential black poet. Lucille Clifton and Colleen McElroy are modern poets but is a black woman who has other views on slavery but also very similar looks on their historical past. All of the poets all mentioned their historical background in Africa. Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Colleen McElroy all wrote about their ancestors and of slavery, and some of the same references were of the rivers, and the connection between the people even though they are literally worlds apart; a difference between the poems was the desire for freedom and the freedom that was already existing in the modern day poetry of Lucille Clifton and Colleen McElroy.
pity of War. The poetry is in the pity… All a poet can do today is
Rupert Brooke was born in 1887. He joined the Navy at the start of the
I have studied poems of World War II. I found that the poems fell into
The next line expresses the way in which he has no grave stone, just a
The writers of 'Joining the Colours' and 'The Send Off' both use poetry to express their feelings about soldiers leaving for war. Each have similar attitudes about the subject, but use different approaches to try and get their message across. Both question the popular concept of war, including ideas such as heroism and glory. Katherine Hinkson, the poet who wrote 'Joining the Colours', shows the scene from two different perspectives, that of the audience watching the soldiers and also her own point of view. Wilfred Owen simply shares his thoughts by describing the soldiers leaving from a station, although the effect is no less powerful. As Hinkson is a woman, she focuses more on a mother or wives point of view, whereas Owen gives more of the soldiers perspective.
How do the later war poets differ in their treatment of war? from early war poets? World War I was noticeable for the vast amounts of poetry that was produced by many of the soldiers. The poets wrote vastly over the years 1914-1918 and they all expressed many different opinions. It was a way of getting their views across to other people.
Considered the leading English poet of the First World War, Owen is remembered for realistic poems depicting the horrors of war, which were inspired by his experiences at the Western Front in 1916 and 1917. Owen considered the true subject of his poems to be "the pity of war," and attempted to present the true horror and realities of battle and its effects on the human spirit. His unique voice, which is less passionate and idealistic than those of other war poets, is complemented by his unusual and experimental style of writing. He is recognized as the first English poet to successfully use pararhyme, in which the rhyme is made through altered vowel sounds. Owen’s distinct way of both writing and reading poems led to influence other poets in the 1920s and 1930s.
Life does not always give people what they want is a general saying, but sometimes it can be true. Some circumstances can be beyond one’s control just like the poems that are set in times of war. Nobody truly wants to be in a war, but sometimes people do, to save others life. In the poem of “The Man They Killed” the speaker tries to tell us that if possible he did not want to be in a war because there is no reason for it. “Dulce et Decorum Est” is another wartime poem that the speaker tries to tell us that war is not a glorious thing. In the poem “The Dover Beach,” the speaker explains that the world is a dark place with no ending struggle and fight. In “Patterns” the speaker expresses herself the way the society wants her to be, but on
quickly realized that dying out there in a far off land was a waste of
Chaos and drudgery are common themes throughout the poem, displayed in its form; it is nearly iambic pentameter, but not every line fits the required pattern. This is significant because the poem’s imperfect formulation is Owen making a statement about formality, the poem breaks the typical form to show that everything is not functioning satisfactorily. The poem’s stanza’s also begin short, but become longer, like the speaker’s torment and his comrades movement away from the open fire. The rhyming scheme of ABABCDCD is one constant throughout the poem, but it serves to reinforce the nature of the cadence as the soldiers tread on. The war seems to drag on longer and longer for the speaker, and represents the prolonged suffering and agony of the soldier’s death that is described as the speaker dwells on this and is torn apart emotionally and distorts his impressions of what he experiences.
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English author who considered himself mainly as a poet. A large part of his work was set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex. In 1898 Hardy published a collection of poems written over 30 years, Wessex Poems his first volume of poetry. Emma Lavinia Gifford, Hardy’s wife, whom he married in 1874. He became alienated from his wife, who died in 1912; her death had a traumatic effect on him. He remained preoccupied with his first wife's death and tried to overcome his sorrow by writing poetry, he dictated his final poem to his first wife on his deathbed.