creative writing based n a poem
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how to create a story using 'Dulce et decorum est' as inspiration.TRANSCRIPT
English Controlled Assessment
AQA GCSE
Write a story which uses ‘Dulce et
Decorum Est’ as inspiration.
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
5 Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! Gas! Quick boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,
10 Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone was still yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime. -
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
15 In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
20 His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, -
25 My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen
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wo
rst
New
s
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the
Sce
ne
Mu
m=m
e
Ho
use
—st
ove
, kett
le
Han
gin
g o
ut
was
hin
g
Sun
ny
day
= h
op
e (m
ayb
e ev
eryt
hin
g w
ill
be
oka
y)
Kett
le w
his
tlin
g as
kn
ock
at
the
do
or
New
s A
rriv
es
Tele
grap
h—
kille
d in
acti
on
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iver
ed—
faci
al e
xpre
ssio
ns
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th
e p
aper
rel
uct
antl
y
New
s b
eco
mes
rea
l
Eyes
beg
in t
o t
ear
up
Up
set
Ble
ary
eyed
wit
h t
ears
Man
leav
es q
uic
kly
Mak
e-u
p r
un
s
Gat
her
sel
f to
geth
er
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ng
to t
ell o
ther
ch
ildre
n
Co
mfo
rt t
hem
an
d t
ell t
hem
qu
ick
dea
th
(lie
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htm
are
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at c
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ld h
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pen
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tual
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leep
s—im
ages
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hes
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chin
g (d
escr
ibe
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sh
ell
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did
n’t
get
mas
k o
n
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rt o
f b
reat
h
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ain
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w d
eath
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e u
p t
o c
old
rea
lity
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ld s
wea
t—te
ars
still—
may
nev
er k
no
w
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ays
wo
nd
er
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pe
war
en
ds
bef
ore
nex
t ch
ild is
old
en
ou
gh t
o b
e ca
lled
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wit
h lo
oki
ng
into
eye
s o
f ch
ild
read
ing
rep
ort
s o
f ‘g
lori
ou
s’ b
attle
s
Setti
ng
the
scen
e
Sigh
t
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Name: ___________________________________________
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Band: ___________
Comment & Targets:
Name: ______Ms Pender____________________________
Paragraph 1: ___Setting the scene_____________________
It had been hours since the baby had woken me. I knew that today would be busy, just as
every day had been busy since the baby arrived, but I was glad to have something to do,
something to take my mind off of Billy. I wondered where he was. I wondered what he
was doing. I wondered if he was safe. In a very English moment, I decided that a cup of
tea might make me feel better. Filling the kettle, I placed it on the stove to boil. The sun
was shining in an azure blue sky as I grabbed the washing basket and opened the back
door, only to be almost blinded for a moment as I stepped from the gloom of the house
into the light. Maybe it was warm and bright there too. I tried to imagine Billy under a
smiling sun in France, pushing the images of cold, wet, lonely trenches to the back of my
mind. As the kettle began to whistle, I heard a knocking at the front door and the baby
started to cry.
Band: ___________
Comment & Targets:
The
wo
rst
New
s
Set
the
Sce
ne
Mu
m=m
e
Ho
use
—st
ove
, kett
le
Han
gin
g o
ut
was
hin
g
Sun
ny
day
= h
op
e (m
ayb
e ev
eryt
hin
g w
ill
be
oka
y) S
mili
ng
sun
(p
erso
nifi
cati
on
) A
zure
blu
e (
voca
b)
Kett
le w
his
tlin
g as
kn
ock
at
the
do
or
Rep
etiti
on
—w
on
der
ed
Op
enin
g lin
e—
It h
ad b
een
ho
urs
sin
ce
the
bab
y h
ad w
oke
n m
e.
Ru
le o
f th
ree—
cold
, wet
, lo
nel
y tr
ench
es.
New
s A
rriv
es
Tele
grap
h—
kille
d in
acti
on
Del
iver
ed—
faci
al e
xpre
ssio
ns
Take
th
e p
aper
rel
uct
antl
y
New
s b
eco
mes
rea
l
Eyes
beg
in t
o t
ear
up
Up
set
Ble
ary
eyed
wit
h t
ears
Man
leav
es q
uic
kly
Mak
e-u
p r
un
s
Gat
her
sel
f to
geth
er
Stro
ng
to t
ell o
ther
ch
ildre
n
Co
mfo
rt t
hem
an
d t
ell t
hem
qu
ick
dea
th
(lie
)
Nig
htm
are
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at c
ou
ld h
ave
hap
pen
ed
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tual
ly s
leep
s—im
ages
, flas
hes
Mar
chin
g (d
escr
ibe
)
Gas
sh
ell
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did
n’t
get
mas
k o
n
Sho
rt o
f b
reat
h
Wag
on
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ain
Slo
w d
eath
Wak
e u
p t
o c
old
rea
lity
Co
ld s
wea
t—te
ars
still—
may
nev
er k
no
w
Alw
ays
wo
nd
er
Ho
pe
war
en
ds
bef
ore
nex
t ch
ild is
old
en
ou
gh t
o b
e ca
lled
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wit
h lo
oki
ng
into
eye
s o
f ch
ild
read
ing
rep
ort
s o
f ‘g
lori
ou
s’ b
attle
s
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s A
rriv
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live
red
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rriv
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n’t
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xpec
tin
g an
yon
e to
cal
l an
d a
s I
op
ened
th
e d
oo
r a
little
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e si
ght
of
an o
ffici
al
loo
kin
g m
an fi
led
me
wit
h a
sen
se o
f d
read
. Th
e so
mb
re e
xpre
ssio
n h
e w
ore
co
nfi
rme
d m
y fe
ars
as h
e h
and
ed m
e a
tele
grap
h.
Acc
ept
I st
ared
at
it f
or
a lo
ng
mo
men
t b
efo
re
relu
ctan
tly
op
enin
g it
an
d r
ead
ing
the
wo
rds
I h
ad b
een
ter
rifi
ed o
f si
nce
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y h
ad le
ft.
New
s
“We
regr
et t
o in
form
yo
u t
hat
2/L
t W
. Sm
ith
is
rep
ort
ed a
s ki
lled
in a
ctio
n J
un
e 2
8th
. Le
tte
r
follo
ws.
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acti
on
I lo
oke
d u
p a
t h
is f
ace,
fu
ll o
f sy
mp
ath
y,
and
kn
ew t
hat
th
ere
was
no
esc
apin
g th
e
tru
th.
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eyes
fille
d w
ith
tea
rs a
s m
y
hea
rt b
egan
to
un
der
stan
d.
He
was
go
ne.
My
bea
uti
ful b
oy
was
dea
d.
Up
set
Tear
s
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al li
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loo
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yes
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‘glo
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batt
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