Margaret Postgate Core Poem

The poem is separated into two parts, each with sixteen lines, and is loosely based on an iambic pentameter metre. The rhyme scheme is ABAB throughout the poem, with the noticeable exception of the last four lines of part II, in which it changes to

The second half of the poem is very different from the beginning half because the lines that follow the first sentence

The poem is formed of eight stanzas, each one is six lines long except for the fifth stanza which is an octet. The stanzas are formed of sets of three rhyming couplets in the

The poem was written to show that war is a waste of human life as the soldier knows he will die one day as well as the men around him, just some quicker than others. This can be evident in stanza four of the poem: “I know I’ll join them somewhere, one day.” The language used is more casual than formative, this is effective as it shows the personal feelings and thoughts of the soldier during the time

The poem starts with similar word choices as ‘The Soldier’ but written in the perspective of the mother. The mother tells his son that when he dies he will be in a place of ‘quietness’ and free from the ‘loss and bloodshed’. This reinforces the fact that the battlefield was full of horrors and death. The poem then moves onto how ‘men may rest themselves and dream of nought’ explaining that the soldiers do not have to fear for their lives after their death. This illustrates how they feared for their lives and had negative connotations.

Para-rhymes, in Owen’s poetry, generate a sense of incompleteness while creating a pessimistic, gloomy effect to give an impression of sombreness. Strong rhyming schemes are often interrupted unexpectedly with a para-rhyme to incorporate doubt to every aspect of this Great War. Who are the real villains and why are hundreds of thousands of lives being wasted in a war with no meaning? In ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, the consistent sonnet rhyming scheme is disturbed by a half rhyme, “guns … orisons”, to show how the soldiers all died alone with only the weapons that killed them by their side, and a visual rhyme, “all … pall” to indicate that the reality of war is entirely the opposite to what it seems - no glory, no joy and no heroism, but only death and destruction. Owen occasionally works with this technique in a reverse approach to create similar thought. For instance, the assonance, consonance and half rhyme based poem, ‘The Last Laugh’, contains an unforeseen full rhyme, “moaned … groaned”, to emphasise that nothing is ever fixed in war except the ghastly fact that the weapons are the true winners. Different forms of Para rhymes often work together with common schemes to ably bring out the main ideas of Owen’s poetry.

The poem's structure consists of four stanzas. The first, second, and third stanza follow an abcc rhyme scheme, and the last stanza follows an aabb rhyme scheme. A the reader progresses through each stanza, it is seen that the narrator's dissatisfaction of her confinement

In “September, 1918”, Amy Lowell shows her readers an interesting and illuminating poem. That war can be an ugly time and the people that experience it often seems to live in a “broken world” (19). To fight an evil, sometimes war is needed, nonetheless it is still costly to the people living through the war. Some in a literal sense, like soldiers fighting in a war, while some in a physical sense by the world that they now see and live in. I find the poem truly interesting though, in how the author shows that even in war we can still hold onto hope for more promising days. Lowell portrays a melancholy mood throughout her poem that makes her readers thinking about war but also the hope of it being over.

It was a tribute to the Australian soldiers that fought during World War II. The poem does not talk about the glorification of war or the celebration of heroes. It talks about how brutal and horrifying the deaths of the soldiers were but, the ironic message behind the poem is that whether they were allies or enemies, they were all united in goals and ultimately in death. Slessor conveys his thoughts on war about the unnecessary sacrifices that the young innocent youths have made. He successfully managed to create a depth of emotion in the readers so that they can empathise with him about the loss of the tragic lives by using many language features and poetic

This first paragraph will be talking about the poem. So first off the poem was first made in 1920 and this was during ww1 or “The great war.” In the first three lines, it has a very peaceful, soft, and sweet tone to it. The second half has a very darker tone to it than the

The point of the poem was to deliver the horrors of war to the public

The author uses that quotation at the end of the poem to show you how citizens viewed the war.

The poet uses the text to expose war as an “eternal hell” stating that “War is never over” in the many soldiers and loved ones’ eyes. War Is Never Over reveals that freedom is fought for and that “No freedom is not free!” The poem focuses on the after effects of war, for example, “the memories of the battles” and the “nightmares that ensue.” For me, the poet uncovers that although tough times such as war are resolved in the end, there are still many holes left by the aftereffects of that particular event. It is not only the soldiers that suffer after the war, but also families and loved ones.

This poem describes what horrific things he saw as he tried to survive the battle. The poem is about how brutal war can be. It goes to describe the fatigue of the soldiers, the attack of the green sea, and death of one of his comrades. First, the narrator of the poem describes the fatigue of the soldiers. The soldiers seem deformed and distraught.

The first stanza connotes a slight sense structure as the phrase “ and his buddies did too” is repeated after stating each action the soldier does. Moreover, the lines themselves are structured in such a way that suggests a deliberate organized form- especially in comparison to how the rest of the poem is written. Most interesting about the