Night Duty by Eva Dobell is a poem which displays the awful conditions and standards of care in hospitals during WW1. The poem expresses the suffering of individuals by creating a sombre image of the hospital ward with “terror” and “pain”. The nurse looks upon the injured men. The soldiers lay “remote and strange”, Dobell may be suggesting that war leaves men lost and unknown. She continues to express how the soldiers have lost themselves in the final stanza writing about how they are so near in “body” but in “soul as far”.
Body paragraph 2: Remarque uses loss of generation throughout the novel All Quiet on the Western Front. She shows this when Paul is in the hospital and all the men around him are dying. “It is impossible to grasp that there are human faces above these torn bodies.” Paul is in a depressing situation because the people that surround him are disfigured and innocent people. Some are now too hard to recognise because of all the shrapnel and bombs that have exploded or hit them. Body paragraph 3: All Quiet on the Western Front has a similar notion to I Was Only 19.
As a semi-autobiographical recount, Owen criticises the suffering and psychological scarring of soldiers in ‘Mental Cases’. He depicts the aftermath and trauma experienced by soldiers through anecdotal experience. He begins the poem with a bombardment of rhetorical questions, ‘Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight?’ to create an interrogative tone which demand an explanation regarding why the soldiers have been so tortured with misery. He further portrays their dehumanised state through religious diction, ‘Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows’ to create a visual of soldiers rocking back and forth, trying to shake off their mental torment.
The book “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque is a novel which although very profound and harrowing, depicts the story of a young German soldier, Paul Baumer, during World War I. The novel was written to reflect the horrific nature of war, and to illustrate some of the effects which it has on individuals who are embroiled in it. The novel illustrates the process of war through the eyes of a young man, who initially believes, along with his friends, that war is a glorious conflict however this viewpoint begins to change during the course of the novel. This paper has been written to provide a comprehensive critique of the book and to demonstrate an understanding of whether the writer succeeded in their aims, and it will also present a thesis about the book. The thesis which will be investigated and illustrated is how Paul Baumer is representative of the Lost Generation, and that his character development throughout the book reflects this change in attitudes towards war of the young men who went to fight in World War I.
HOW DOES WILFRED OWEN CONVEY THE HORRORS OF WAR IN POETRY ? Many of Owen's poems direct anger towards the generals and those at home who have encouraged war.Owen's war poetry is a passionate expression of outrage at the horrors of war and of pity for the young soldiers sacrificed in it. It is dramatic and memorable, whether describing physical horror, such as in 'Dulce et Decorum Est' or mental torment such as in' Disabled'. His poetry evokes more from us than simple disgust and sympathy. Owen sympathizes with the vain young men who have no idea of the horrors of war, who are 'seduced' by others (Jessie Pope) and the recruiting posters.
Pat Barker presents the theme of Masculinity in the novel Regeration through characters such a Prior, Burns and Sassoon, who are all patients at Craiglockhart mental hospital, for soldiers mentally scarred and through Rivers, who is the doctor treating the soldiers. Pat Barker shows the struggle that soldiers faced whilst trying to psychologyically recover, whilst preserving any masculinity they had left after the war. Barker presents masculinity as something that cannot be perserved. During world war one, the idea of 'masculinity' was different to what we define as 'masculine' today. In 1914, men were expected to go to war and fight for their country, they were expected to be brave and couragous, they did not understand psycological problems.
I believe that Owen and Sassoon chose to write poetry about the war as a way to express their feelings as well as a way to express their feelings as well as a way to contradict the propaganda and tell people what was really going on when the sent their relatives to war. During ‘A Working Party’ by Sassoon, it starts of describing the way a man walked through the trenches, and by doing so, also described the conditions of the trenches in the first three verses. By the fifth verse, the man previously described, has become dehumanised and turned into ‘a jolting lump’ showing that in life he was a person, in death, a lump of flesh and bones. Going on, the next three verses are describing what the now deceased man was like, talking about his wife and children, picturing him as an ordinary man and how the only thing he had to look forward to was a ‘tot of rum’ to send him to sleep. In the last verse, Sassoon says the simplicity of how the man died and how quick his life ended, an ‘instant split’ and ’all went out’.
All Quiet on the Western Front A soldier in World War I tries to escape death, but death is all around him. In the anti-war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front by the German author Erich Maria Remarque, Paul Baumer is cast as the main protagonist as he tells his accounts of how it is being a soldier in World War I. As the war becomes a strong part of Paul Baumer life’s and defines who he is, Paul becomes physically and mentally affected as he may leave the war, but the war will never leave him. The war leaves Paul Baumer physically scarred. As they are engaging in war against the enemy, Paul describes his comrades and himself as he proclaims: “We have become wild beasts.
‘Mental Cases’, written by Wilfred Own, is a poem about the devastating effects of modern warfare and the men who die and suffer through it. Owen candidly states the truth about war and how it affects the men who fight in it. ‘Mental Cases’ is about World War One and the shell shock men endured when they came back from war. He uses imagery, diction and irony to make his ideas more clear to his audience. The first stanza directly addresses the reader, he opens with two rhetorical questions, “Who are these?
These war poems, which are some of the most significant pieces of poetry of their time, were both written during the two different, but similar war periods, which explains their brutal honesty, dramatic fates of the characters and the poets' desperate attempts to convey their vision of war. "Disabled" was written by Wilfred Owen in 1917 when he was in England recovering from the war. Although it is only a single piece of his string of anti-war poems, "Disabled" stands as arguably one of his most effective and significant works. The poem takes place in Britain during the first World War and tells a story of a disabled soldier who lives and suffers in a hospital. To shock the readers, Owen reveals that the soldier is actually a young adolescent boy aged 17-19 who had returned from the Western Front and was forced to have his arms and legs amputated.