How does Barker present the effects of war in ‘Regeneration.’ Regeneration by Pat Barker is a novel about a mental hospital for soldiers psychologically injured on the front line. It is unlike other novels and plays such as journey’s End by R.C. Sherriff which tells the story of front-line battle. The ways in which the war has had an effect on the soldiers is explored in great detail by Barker, perhaps to show that the effect the war has had on the characters, somehow has become part of their personality. Another theme Barker looks at is ‘Silence,’ which could link to her grandfather who refused to talk to her about his experiences in the war.
We lost too many lives because of war. This message show that “Blowin’ in the Wind” is an anti-war song because Dylan shows his helpless toward war issues. On the other hand, Vedder writes, “Unsealed on a porch a letter sat.” The letter refers to government sends out a telegram to families of died soldiers. Vedder use the letter as a symbol of lost lives. Moreover, war only brought sadness to people if they lost their families in war.
The Fallen by Laurence Binyon and The Soldier by Rupert Brooke are two poems with several similarities, though they are not without their differences either. Both poems are about World War One and the death of those involved. The Soldier, which focuses mainly on imagery of landscapes, while The Fallen focuses more on the imagery of the people in the war. The content of both the poems is the way in which death caused by war is dealt with. The difference is that The Soldier is set before anyone has died, and The Fallen is set after many have been killed.
The novel shoes the misery of war and the everlasting effects it has on the soldiers; even Baumer cannot escape those circumstances. Before the war Baumer was a nice, empathetic, and gentle person but the war has him almost disconnected from his feelings. He becomes numb to the evil surrounding him. His friends are quickly lost to the cruelty and horror of war. Some died a quick death while others died a slow, painful death, showing the reality of war.
At this time some poetry was written to encourage men to go and fight, poets like Jessie Pope who wrote war poetry enforced this view although other poets were had a different view of the fighting, such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. These poems were written about (and at the same time as), World War I, between 1914 and 1918. In these barbaric four years 7 million men died and 17 million men were injured. World war one devastated lives. But citizens back home had no way of knowing what this war was like, especially on the front line.
How does Mental Cases Provide Insights into War? Wilfred Owen’s poetry explores the barbaric and inhumane nature of war. In Mental Cases Owen juxtaposes the emotional and physical state of these soldiers with the image of inhumane creatures. Owen's uses imagery, personification and juxtaposition to express the horrors that these soldiers continue to endure after the war. Mental Cases illustrate the disconnection many soldiers face in society.
Generic Question: What aspects of Wilfred Owen’s poems made the greatest impact on you? Wilfred Owen portrays the horror, suffering and waste of lives in war by using poetic techniques in a very powerful way. Two poems which clearly show this are “Disabled” and “Futility”. (You might briefly introduce each poem, linking it to the specific question. In “Disabled” Owen’s represents his views on the horror, suffering and waste of war through the perspective of one young soldier who has been wounded and is now in a veterans’ hospital.
assignment a 2. Examine how two poets have tried to convey the horror and misery of war. The two poets i have chosen are Wilfred Owen, who wrote “Dulce et decorum est.”, and ted hughes, “bayonet charge”. the unfortunate troopers in dulce et decorum est have been dragged though the mud, rain and horror of the trenches and now are marching in the cold rain. “bent double, like old beggars under sacks” suggests they are tired and sore, as they may have just been involved in a battle.
Explain. The commentary is about mourning the dead lost in war. The painting is very dark and intense. It is an abstract look at the death and pain suffered by the people. The artist used this imagery throughout the series Elegy to the Spanish Republic.
However, ‘The Manhunt’ focuses more on explaining the damage caused to the veteran. This is different compared to ‘Quickdraw’. In ‘The Manhunt’ the semantic field is war and the poets have connected ideas of pain and a war atmosphere through the use of their words and emotive language. The images that this creates for the reader is that the woman is at home with the injured man and she is examining his injuries from the war, this was the only time he had actually allowed her to look at his scars and for the reader this could be a very emotional moment however for the man, he isn’t using his emotions it is almost as if he is lost and the woman is trying to find him whilst examining his injuries. As opposed to ‘Quickdraw’, the semantic field is Wild West and the poet has connected ideas of what a phone and a gun compare to and just how dangerous they could be and how dangerous they were for the woman in the poem, Duffy has conveyed this through her emotive metaphorical language.