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Short note on war poetry
Short note on war poetry
Comparative essay dulce et decorum est and the charge of the light brigade
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The Subject of War in Poetry from Different Time Periods
Dulce e Decorum est by Wilfred Owen, Suicide In the Trenches by Siegfried
Sassoon and The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson.
From studying the selection of texts (Poetry and Prose) what have you
learnt about the different way writers from different periods deal
with the subject of war.
The three poems that I have chosen to talk about are “Dulce e Decorum
est” by Wilfred Owen, “Suicide In the Trenches” by Siegfried Sassoon
and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Tennyson. I will look
at the three poems different opinions on war and how they compare and
contrast from each other. I will also take into account the way the
poets background may of affected there views. The poets come from a
close time period but with different views “ Suicide In The Trenches”
and Dulce e Decorum est” are from the World War One era and “The
Charge of The Light Brigade” form the Crimean War..
Alfred Tennyson, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen all come from
different backgrounds which alters the way they write, and the way
they put there opinions across.
Tennyson was a rich, public school student, proud of Britain’s
conquests around the world but never fought himself, so had no first
person experience of fighting. Owen contrasts to this as he didn’t
have a lot of riches and was no more then a common soldier. Sassoon
was an army officer but still was quit rich and never got the full
taste of trench warfare during World War One. This shows straight away
that the three writers were all brought up with different views and
backgrounds which would definitely affect the way they write.
The way that Tennyson writes, is the way a man who has never
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... The Crimean War didn’t change
history, but still Britain suffered a terrible loss of men. Tennyson
and the rest of Britain was not used to this, so Tennyson wrote about
the subject of war in a very positive way.
Owen and Sassoon experienced the great war and saw the terrible losses
first hand. They instead of showing how Britain was doing well, they
wrote about how people were dying innocently. In the period Owen and
Sassoon were writing in, Britain faced an uncertain future and Owens
and Sassoon’s poem complement this aspect of life. They both try to
get across the truth and reality in there poems. The World War One
period made writers like Sassoon and Owen write in this style. Unlike
Tennyson they put across all the negative aspects and stuck close to
the point. Although Britain won World War One writers from this period
wrote in a negative manner.
The two poems, 'Dulce et decorum est' and 'Who's for the game?' are both very different war poems. Although they were both written about the First World War, they both had different purposes. The poems have aspects in which they are similar, but they also have very big differences.
This quote suggests that Tennyson’s poem glorifies the war, celebrating the sacrifice they had made for their country. 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 their country. The commitment of war in ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ is only shown because Tennyson's looking at war from afar .We can see this because in the poem he has not used descriptive language to describe what war was like, and has not shown the real outcome of war.
are not free in service, you do what you are told and this is the same
... Paul's strong words, demonstrated through the author's talent, are denouncing the authority figures who were supposed to guide his generation into adulthood but instead turned the youth against each other in the pursuit of superficial ideals. The soldiers were simply the victims of a meaningless war. In conclusion, Remarque's firsthand encounters with trench warfare, Owen's vivid descriptions of the soldiers' experiences and Baker's touching accounts of the lives of historical figures, all state that there were no victors in war, only losers in a hopeless battle for territorial supremacy.
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.
“Totoy’s War” by Luz Maranan, “State of Siege” by Eric Gumalinda, and “War is Kind” by Stephen Crane
This segment of Owen’s poem depicts one of his comrades being poisoned by tear gas; this is clearly not a pleasant sight and is not wished upon anyone. This is of particular interest to me because it depicts the morbid horror of war. I believe the poem does a fine job of communicating the horrors of war much better than other modes of literature may be able to. It also challenges a lot of the idealistic feelings people have towards those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.
Both poems used different techniques to stimulate the readers’ evaluation and realisation of the adverse outcomes of war, especially its effects on the soldiers. Sassoon’s poem title gave the reader an immediate conclusion about the contents of the poem of the hardship that the soldier faced, which brought upon his suicide. Whereas Owen’s gave the opposite impression at first, as the Latin saying translates into “it is fitting and honourable to die for your country.”
War is an event that has been trivialized and encouraged by authority for a thousand years. From the First Crusade, to the American Revolutionary War to the current war in Afghanistan; it is something that society today still encourages men and women to participate in. Although our soldiers now have a far greater support system and understanding of war then those who participated in World War I, our ANZACs enlisted relying on the cheerful, happy times proposed in the government’s propaganda. Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ challenges the image that the government put forth and brings portray the reality of war. The poem depicts the struggles of a soldiers return to base camp. It defies the image created by the government by displaying how gruesome and horrific the conditions that these men had to survive through.
Poets from many civilizations and across vast amounts of time were always considered agents of change. Their remarkable poems gave them the power to play an influential role on human culture and society. One such poet is Wilfred Owen, who was a soldier for Great Britain during WW1. His writing described the horrors of war that he had seen and it was these antiwar poems which gave voice to the suffering soldiers in the trenches of WW1 and altered the British Empire’s view on warfare as a whole. Today, ladies, gentleman and students of the Brisbane Writers Festival, I am here to present an informative analysis on this man’s revolutionary poems “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and “Disabled.” They are two of his many poems remembered in English history as some of his greatest works. The poems
The next line expresses the way in which he has no grave stone, just a
Ultimately, we have two poems which can be compared on the grounds of their subject, but are poles apart regarding their message. The structure of these poems is not what would be typically expected from a war poem, but are structured on the basis of these typical structures in order to create some sense of familiarity. Brooke’s poem expands on this familiarity while Owen attempts to deliberately sabotage it. In regards to content, Brooke shows throughout his perception of the nobility of dying for one’s country, whilst Owen uses all of his poetic techniques to show the opposite.
where every he falls during the war, no matter if it is in a shell
He may have used this technique to make war seem if it had made men
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.