HOW HAS THE POEM ‘MENTAL CASES’ EMOTIONALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY ENGAGE THE RESPONDER? BY MICHAEL SGRO 10A “Mental Cases” is a poem written by Wilfred Owen. The aim of the poem “Mental Cases” is to show the emphasis of the mental consequences that war has on soldiers. Wilfred Owen uses an array of techniques in this poem to emotionally and intellectually engages the responder. Mental Cases was written to demonstrate the mental consequences of war on participating soldiers in World War I.
Picasso uses images such as fallen soldiers, animals suffering and women in pain as well as destruction of buildings to portray his sorrow and the suffering of war. ‘Guernica’ Pablo Picasso The work is 349 x 776cm and its sharp images and dull colour tones of black, grey and white are used intentionally to promote the pointlessness of war. He uses shadows to depict suffering and pain and shows the turmoil he felt as a Spaniard. William Kentridge is famous for portraying his views through his work. Born in Johannesburg South Africa, the son of a civil rights lawyer, he grew up in the time of Apartheid and depicts this in prints, drawings and animated films.
Goya’s Third of May depicts the execution of Spanish citizens in response to the Spanish attack on Napoleon’s soldiers on May 2, 1808. In order to convey the emotionalism and terror of the scene in his painting and to show the victimization of the Spanish by the ruthless and belligerent French, Goya portrayed “horrified expressions and anguish on their faces, endowing them with a humanity absent from the firing squad.” (Gardner pg. 786) The choice of showing the faces of the Spanish peasants but not showing the faces of the French further takes away from the humanity of the French soldiers and their grey toned clothing blends in with their guns making them appear not human at all but instead like simply a destructive machine. Goya also includes a biblical allusion by positioning the standing peasant in the white shirt, which is to be shot, in a cruciform gesture which is reminiscent of Christ’s position on the cross. This choice adds to the paintings tone of anguish and further allows the viewer to understand the despair of the peasants by comparing their suffering to that of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Baroque Paintings and Artists August 20, 2010 Jessica L. Ingle American InterContinental University Abstract In this paper I have wrote about three artists and their paintings in the Baroque era. I have also included some of their inspirations as well as major happenings that were going on at the time the paintings were created. I also explain to the reader what the paintings look like. Baroque Paintings and Artists Within the Seventeenth Century there were three artists that painted three beautiful works of art. The artists and paintings that I refer to are A Pastoral Landscape by Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Flight into Egypt by Annibale Carracci, and View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen by Jacob van Ruisdael.
And this helps to make the reader to consider about the roll of honor for the people. And with the literature devices use from the poem we can understand how the poet has shown her sorrow towards the victims in the wars. In Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen has described a gas attack during World War One with his strong emotions. He is strongly denying the concept of serving your country is glorious. The language used in the section about the gas attack represents both the pain of the victims from the gas attack and the effect on those who have seen the scene.
War Photographer Essay War photographer is a very powerful message by Carl Ann Duffy. The poem is emotional and very powerful, in this poem, Duffy describes the experience of someone whose job it is to witness terrible crimes against humanity and bring them back to us many miles away. The poem is about how he deals with this kind of traumatic experience and how we must take more responsibility. Duffy makes it clear that these wars are happening across the from; Europe “Belfast”, To the Middle East; “Beirut”, To Asia, “Phnom Penh”. Duffy’s poem is about how we deal with the suffering of others, who might be far away.
Identify what you consider to be the authors main purpose in producing each of the texts you have studied and explore, in depth, one or two main techniques used to achieve this purpose. The poems ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘Suicide in the trenches’ by Siegfried Sassoon used the techniques of personal pronouns and irony to convey the poets feelings towards war. Before Owen and Sassoon all war poetry had been patriotic and was used to encourage recruitment of young men. However both Owen and Sassoon had witnessed the horrors of trench warfare first hand and their poetry was therefore realistic about the harsh realities of war. Owen commented on his poetry that ‘my subject is war, and the pity of it… all a poet can do is warn.’ Owen and Sassoon were both trying to warn young men against war and inform the public on how brutal and disgusting war actually is In both poems, after describing the obscene conditions of war and the impact that these conditions had on the soldiers, the poets dedicated a stanza to condemning the reader on any encouragement they may have had towards young men going to war.
Anthem For Doomed Youth is a sonnet written by Wilfred Owen about the realities of war. Wilfred Owen was a soldier during WW1 and therefore understands fully the true experiences of war. He was against war and was appalled by the effects of war on people and their families. The purpose of the poem is to inform the public of the true realities of war and how young men where dying needlessly. This was because during war times the media would tell the public that the war going great and that the men where doing just fine, but this obviously just wasn’t true.
Stephen Touma Wilfred Owens poetry is driven by a passionate exploration of humanity at its worst. Refer to 2 poems Poetry written by Owen is directed by an intense examination of the human condition and society at its most negative state. Owen doesn’t merely search or subliminally display these experiences he heatedly exposes humanity at its absolute worst. Owen illustrates these experiences through his explanation of the exhaustion of soldiers and their movement between the battlefield, and the sacrifices of war. This can be seen in his two poems ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Parable of the Old man and the Young’.
The interesting of this picture is the uncertainty of what the painting was supposed to mean. First, begin with the horse which is located at the center of the mural and run through by javelin that represents agony. This symbol can be interpreted as Franco’s Nationalism which Picasso foretelling for its collapse because Picasso was on the Republican side. However, in the same character the viewers can see this as the people of Guernica or even Spian who were victimized by the war. The other main animal in this mural is the bull which is located on the left of the mural.