Jonatha Brooke

In Wilfred Owen’s 1917 poem “Dulce et Decorum Est,” the poet accuses his nationalistic countrymen of deceiving a generation of young Englishmen into believing that war is glorious. His strategy is to discredit the jingoists with a gruesome description of a soldier’s death by gassing designed to shock the reader and to personalize the war. The speaker, a combat soldier, delivers his eye-witness account in brutal terms that undercut the “sweetness” and “honor” of death in war. In grotesque detail

Wilfred Owen Welcome back your listening to 92.2 I am Oscar Rogers and if you have just tuned in this is our brand new segment ‘Burning Poetry’, where we strip down only the best poems of our era and take a deeper look at them. War poetry has a massive capability of evoking strong emotions and images for everyday people reminding them what life was like fighting in war. Many poets have written on this topic including Isaac Rosenberg and Siegfried Sassoon but the poem I will be talking about today

Good morning Turkish citizens, war veterans and fellow Australians, we gather here at this hour to commemorate the 100-Year anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign. Those of you out there I’m sure you can agree when I say ‘War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.’, the media showcasing it to the people as a heroic gesture that generally is executed by people risking their lives for their country. But it’s so much more than that. Some of you out there might disagree, ‘no no, war is nothing

Today I have chosen to analyse and compare the differences between a poem and a newspaper article, both of these being written about World War I. Although they are both about the war, they express different aspects and present them differently. On one hand, the poem is related to the actuality of war and what it is really like, whereas the news article talks about the benefits and how soldier’s true selves are shown. It also expresses how going to war can truly promote boys into real men. Throughout

War is a subject that often stirs upon many emotions with those directly or indirectly involved. It may bring tears, memories of suffering and loneliness, struggles, or victories. Such disturbance of peace has wounded and killed many souls. It is on the battlefield we see the most hideous side of human nature, for every soldier's only objective on the battlefield is to survive and win. Many people have opposing views about wars which may have been developed over time based on many factors such as

Ok what I have got here today is a detailed speech and I intend to explain two poems “Disabled” and “Dolce et Decorum est.”, both written by Wilfred Owen. I would choose these two poems to be in an anthology because I found the poems to be very dramatic and extremely detailed. Owen intends to shock us by demonstrating what a soldier might expect in a situation between life and death. He is not afraid to show his own feelings. Wilfred Owen is an anti-war poet and expresses his ideas and feelings through

The poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen portrays the horrors of World War I with the horrific imagery and the startling use of words he uses. He describes his experience of a gas attack where he lost a member of his squadron and the lasting impact it had on him. He describes how terrible the conditions were for the soldiers and just how bad it was. By doing this he is trying to help stop other soldiers from experiencing what happened in a shortage of time. Owen opens his poem with a strong

The attitudes to war and the reality of war are presented and developed in the play, Henry V and a selection of WW1 poems in a variety of ways. Parts of the play can be linked in with WW1 poems such as 'The Soldier ' by Rupert Brooke, 'Who 's for the Game ' by Jessie Pope, 'Suicide in the Trenches ' by Siegfried Sassoon and 'Dulce Et Decorum Est ' by Wilfred Owen. The Henry V play is set in England in the early fifteenth century. The political situation in England is tense: King Henry IV has

Wilfred Owen: The Solider Poet Wilfred Owen reflects a dislike of how war is portrayed in his poems “Dulce et Decorum” and “Disabled”. Owen enlisted to fight in World War I in 1915 after teaching English for two years in Bordeaux. It was during his enlistment that he was sent to the front lines of the war in France. Two years later Owen was sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital to be treated for shell shock until he could return to combat. Then, in 1918 five of his poems were published and he

The poetry written in World War I was mostly dark and told of the terrible conditions of the war. The poetry shows how the soldiers suffered and struggled through unimaginable conditions. The conditions of the weather and battle were often brutal and uninhabitable; yet the soldiers endured these conditions. Nature was often a slow and painful killer. War is a constant in an ever changing world. It is easy to see that fighting is an almost futile attempt to conquer and prevail. The poetry from the