'We mothers are so proud 6 Of our dead soldiers.' Then her face was bowed. 7 Quietly the Brother Officer went out. 8 He'd told the poor old dear some gallant lies 9 That she would nourish all her days, no doubt 10 For while he coughed and mumbled, her weak eyes 11 Had shone with gentle triumph, brimmed with joy, 12 Because he'd been so brave, her glorious boy. 13 He thought how 'Jack', cold-footed, useless swine, 14 Had panicked down the trench that night the mine 15 Went up at Wicked Corner; how he'd tried 16 To get sent home, and how, at last, he died, 17 Blown to small bits.
We can tell that the writer resents and is frustrated by his father as it says “and he being him can’t help but say.......... and I, being me” which shows that he is frustrated at their relationship. However the Harmonium is used to describe his father so therefore his family life whereas in Nettles it is reversed. The Nettles, that had caused pain for the boy, is actually describing soldiers and war therefore the underlying message is not about family but about war and the underlying message
Boys are woken up, sleepily with eyes half-closed at 3 am, ordered to run to Gettysburg, a place that buried 50,000 men who died in America Civil War, and that is where they learn a profound lesson from Coach Boone and reflect on themselves. Since then, things go well step by step. Titans try to understand each other and consider themselves as a team, an unbreakable team. Lastik and Sunshine, different from those white boys born in Alexandria Virginia, are shocked by the way how whites and blacks get on with each other here, being on the verge of breaking out a fight whenever and wherever possible, because they come from places where is no racial discrimination, with the idea that the feud of whites and blacks can be eased. Hence, they do not follow the flow of being unfriendly to blacks like the
Owen wants his reader to feel exactly what he felt about the war, persuade his reader to believe the terror, pain and torture of the war, how devastating can a war effect a human being. He uses imagery and innovative metaphors through the poem. In the first two lines, ‘Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge’, Owen is using figurative language combined with simile and alliteration literary devises to reveal the reality of the war. Soldiers are
It is 1940,Jacko Moran is dying in a hospital as a result of having been gassed in the First World War. He joined up when he was only seventeen, and now, with little time left, is reliving the years in the trenches in Flanders. Many thoughts and people come to him in his mind - he remembers the camaraderie, the friends, the bravery, the stink, the endless hardships and above all his incredible success at being a sniper. He comes from an impoverished background where his father drank and abused the children. This has given him a shrewdness and an ability to survive.
Vernon Scannell also talks about the father’s reaction and what he does. “I took my hook and honed the blade” implies that the father has sharpened his blade for battle with the ‘Regiment of Spite’. The writer also describes the action the father does in order to destroy the nettles. “Went outside and slashed with fury”, the word ‘Slashed’ represents big sweeping movements. Scannell then implies the fact that the father’s work in cutting down the nettles
The story holds more than a nature - walk or a historical timeline of a solider. It holds the story of a hero and the hardships he faces when seperated from his company, and the force of leaving the handicapped boy behind due to the boy becoming delirious with pneumonia. Soley focused on his return to the rank and file of the 95th foot, Dodd does find company in a group of Portugese irregulars, who as well as Dodd see the horrors committed by the French Army. Setting the bridge in Zezere on fire, he felt no remorse, to live and fight one more day Dodd knew all this was done for the right to return to his company. This tale shows a solider's fight not only for glory, but for the right to fight along the side of his brothers.
In this essay I will explore the emotions and moods portrayed in two poems, ‘Suicide in the Trenches’ by Siegfried Sassoon and ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen. Siegfried Sassoon was twenty-eight years old when he joined the Army, this was old by the standards at the time with the average age of recruits being 16/17 years. Sassoon was a 2nd lieutenant in charge of leading these boys as he seen them. He was nicknamed ‘Mad Jack’ for his near suicidal exploits on the battlefield. He survived the war living to eighty years old but was deeply affected by the horrors of war.
Speech – Good Morning students and teachers today I will be talking about some Wilfred Owen Poems that conveyed the experiences of wars. The two poems that will be discussed are “Dulce Et Decrorum Est” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth”. Many of his poems show that wars are bad and it is not needed. Wilfred Owen was born on the 18th march 1893 and died on 4 November 1918, he is best known as one of the most powerful war poets, who detailed the reality and horrors of the First World War. Owen's first experience of the war was in hospitals treating the wounded soldiers.
Anthem for Doomed Youth Wilfred Owen wrote out of his intense personal experience as a soldier, he wrote with unrivalled power of the physical, moral and psychological trauma of the First World War. The atrocities he witnessed in his career as a soldier left him scarred for life. His poetry is a vehement protest against the evils of futile warfare. In a letter to his mother, dated May 1917, he wrote, "I am more and more a Christian. .