Jonatha Brooke

In the poems “Dulce et Decorum Est,” by Wilfred Owen and “The Soldier,” by Rupert Brooke the authors tend to use diction, figurative language, and voice to express their attitudes towards the war. While they both use similar characteristics towards the war they also have highly different ones. The first poem, “The soldier” uses diction, rhyme scheme, personification, and voice to show that he thinks it is great honor to die trying to fight for your country. In the poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est” the

Poetry invites us into a different world and broadens our understanding of human experiences by endorsing us with reality. Wilfred Owen’s verse undermines the pervasion of ugliness and the abhorrent physical and emotional consequences of war, stimulating us to witness the dehumanisation of soldiers in conflict. Thus, revealing war’s harsh reality and simultaneously allowing the responder to learn the human experiences of war. Owen’s bitterness in the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”, graphically unfolds

perception can be established through the poets of Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke.In the poems, "The Soldier" (1914), by Rupert Brooke, and "Dulce et Decorum Est" (October 1917), by Wilfred Owen, both poets use language features to help the reader to comprehend each text. The Soldier is a portrayal of Rupert Brooke's eternal love for his country as he goes to war. Brooke uses personification and structures his poem in the form of a sonnet to portray the patriotic love the soldier has for his country

throughout both Rupert Brooke's 1914 war poem 'The Soldier' and Wilfred Owen's war poem 'Dulce et Decorum Est'. Poet Rupert Brookes, has displayed the ideology of honour through sacrifice resulting from patriotism within his 1914 sonnet 'The Soldier". The poem was written at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, as a part of a series of sonnets written by Rupert Brooke. 'The Soldier' illustrates the ideals of honour sacrifice and patriotism that were valorised during the period of WW1. Rupert

Wilfred Owen’s poetry acts as a medium for people to deepen their understanding of the terrors of war, such as death, suffering, pain and hopelessness. He speaks for those who have been to war, they can truly understand war as they lived and experience these horrors. While those back at home are ignorant to these facts due to the jingoistic propaganda by the government, Owen attempts to open their eyes to this atrocity. These narratives of war are made terrifyingly apparent in “Dulce et Decorum Est”

C – A love of homeland Peace Does Brooke see his generation as lucky or unlucky? He sees his generation as lucky. What has the war done to young men? Explain the comparisons about the sleepers and swimmers. Do you like these? What does Brooke despise about the pre-war world? The war has killed very much young men. Those who were still alive after the war were injured physically or mentally. In the comparison of the youth with sleepers Rupert Brooke says that the youth didn’t do anything useful before

Explore the psychological and moral impact of war on soldiers and civilians in Pat Barker's Regeneration and Wilfred Owen's poetry. In the course of your writing show how your ideas have been illuminated by your response to Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and other readings of both core texts. Pat Barker's Regeneration, Wilfred Owen's poetry and Joseph Heller's Catch-22 can all be categorised as subjective war texts as the main structural principle is not dominated by character's actions, but rather

Oh What a Lovely War: Oh what a lovely misrepresentation of history? The 1969 film Oh What a Lovely War is a British, anti-war satire created during the height of the anti-Vietnam sentiment in the U.S., which undoubtedly permeated the consciousness of British filmmakers. The film focuses on World War I, a war largely demonized as a pointless war that resulted in the death of Britain's finest young men in senseless trench warfare. The generically-named Smith family is shown to embody the 'typical'

Wilfred Owen presents the fractured relationship between humanity and nature in his Anthem for Doomed Youth poetry collection as the main casualty of war. To what extent do you agree? Wilfred Owen explores vividly throughout Anthem for Doomed Youth the relationship between man and nature as well as its development throughout the First World War. In the poems 1914, The show, and Spring offensive Owen emphasises that the negative impact the war has had to the previous harmony between the two is the

Literature encapsulates the human experience, reflecting facets of our culture, traditions, and beliefs. Literature functions as a tool to develop and explore empathetic links with other individuals and can provide insight into experiences removed from our own reality. Peter Fischl’s poem ‘Little Polish Boy’ is one such text in which we can attain a unique understanding of the horrors catalysed by war. An expression of Fischl’s own Holocaust experience, this poem is set in WWII, and addressed as