WAR POETRYSHAMIZA, TAPU & OLI

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WILFRED OWEN

WILFRED OWEN

Wilfred Owen was a famous British war poet in World War I. The horrible violence of war turned Owen into a poetic genius. In a two-year period during the war, Owen published only four of his poems, and grew from a negligible minor poet into a famous English-language poet. His poems were antiwar poems of his life in trench warfare.

ANTHEM FOR A DOOMED YOUTH

DULCE ET DECORUM EST

Poems by Wilfred Owen…

THEMES

BOTH POEMS HAVE A SIMILAR THEME:

DEATH IN WAR IS INEVITABLE AND UNNECESSARY

ANTHEM FOR A DOOMED YOUTH

LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES USED:Similie: “those who die as cattle”

Metaphor: “each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds”

Personification: “monstrous anger of the guns”

DULCE ET DECORUM EST LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES USED:Similie: “bent double like old beggars under sacks”

Onamatopoeia: “gargling”, “coughing”

Metaphor: “bloodshod”, “drowning”

RUPERT BROOKE

Rupert Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier), as well as for his poetry written outside of war.

THE SOLDIER If I should die, think only this of me:

That there's some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England. There shall beIn that rich earth a richer dust concealed;A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,A body of England's, breathing English air,Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,A pulse in the eternal mind, no lessGives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,In hearts at peace, under an English heaven

THEME

IT IS NOBLE AND BRAVE TO DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY

THE SOLDIER LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES USED:Personification: “England bore, shaped, made

aware”

“Gave, once, her flower to love, her ways to roam”

Imagery:“and think this heart, all evil shed away.”

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADEHalf a league, half a league,

Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

Forward, the Light Brigade!" Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew Some one had blunder'd. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred.

Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd. Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death, Back from the mouth of hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wonder'd. Honor the charge they made! Honor the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred!

• The Charge of the light Brigade was about the Crimean War that took place on October 25th 1854 -1856. Where a brigade of 600 soilders rode on horses “into the valley of death” where they were assaulted by shells and cannons in front of them and on both sides of them.

• It was between the Imperial Russia vs France, U.K and Ottomon Empire.

• 673 men went in – 118 men killed

- 127 men wounded

- 362 horses killed

THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE

THEME

DEATH IS INEVITABLE IN WAR BUT STILL HONOURABLE

THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE

LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES USED:Personification: “jaws of death” “mouth of hell”

Repitition: “Half a league, Half a league, Half a league…”

Rhetorical Question: “was there a man dismay’d?”

ANY QUESTIONS?