Rupert Giles

Q was the homeless veteran, whom I gave my change to during the year that I worked upon the I-405. His name came from the letter Q tattooed on his bicep. Below it was his company’s name, the 173rd, and below that Dak To, the battle he survived. In Nam he earned his ravings as well as the uncontrollable waving of his arms. Of medium height, he appeared to be starved to the bone. Sleeping in the vacant strips between the fence and curb led him to abandon his dreams of women in silk garments. The

“Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, and “The Sorrow of Sarajevo” by Goran Simic, both examine the reality of war. Written in “The Sorrow of Sarajevo” depicts a civilian’s life in a warzone whereas “Dulce Et Decorum Est” is set in a soldier’s point of view in WW1. Despite both poems tackling the subject of war, they contrast in their choice of language, tone and pace, alongside both using literary techniques. The author of “The Sorrow of Sarajevo”, Goran Simic uses a tone that differs greatly

It is evident from looking at World War One (WW1) literature from the beginning, end and after the war that WW1 literature isn’t resolutely anti-war. However, the impression modern readers get from the most memorable pieces of WW1 literature is that of anti-war messages and graphic descriptions of the conditions the soldiers were in. Thanks to the war, the early 20th century was a time of massive social and political change and many values and structures of the 19th century were discarded. This

“Wilfred Owen poetry is shaped by an intense focus on extraordinary human experiences.” Wilfred Owen wrote about the futility, the suffering and the pity of war from his personal experience on the battlefields. He was horrified with the devastating futile waste of life, the “inhumanity of man” and the depth of its catastrophic effects on young men. In his poems ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, ‘Futility’ and ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’, he writes with intense focus on war as an extraordinary human experience

Channel Firing was published in early 1915. The author of the poem is Thomas Hardy. Hardy is known for his controversial poems about war with relation to God. The poem was written before the start of WWI. The overall message the reader receives from this poem is an anti-war message, the pointlessness of war and the destruction it has. This message is made clear through the variety of sound devices Hardy uses throughout the poem. Firstly, the poem follows the rhyming scheme of a typical English sonnet

God bless America To the world, America is seen as one of the greatest nations in the world. Some may even consider it to be the greatest. “Land of the pilgrims and so forth” (Cummings 667). Symbolism is represented in the poem “next to of course god america i” by the way E.E. Cummings uses the land of the pilgrims to represent the countries roots, the heroic happy dead to represent the soldiers that have died for this country to ensure liberty to all that partake of this land, and by the way he

The author uses this to create the idea that after war the only way in which a man can truly begin to heal is through the love and attention of a woman. Wilfred Owen writes poems truly from his own experience in the first world war. In one of his poems, The Send Off, he expresses the after effect of war on the soldiers. It is an ironic poem about how the soldiers were sent off to the battlefront during world war one. Owen convoys us that soldiers are being sent to their doom. He reveals a deep sense

of war. My first two texts were ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘Suicide in the trenches’ by Siegfried Sassoon, which both portray the realities of war and express the opposite of propaganda. While the other two texts, ‘The soldier’ by Rupert Brooke and ‘ Who’s for the Game’ by Jessie Pope, which portray the opposite of the above as describing war as an honorable and best way to serve for your country which indeed isn't true not only that but cause the reader to feel guilt forcing them

around since the first people. War is one of those things everyone hates but no one can do anything about. In the poem “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke it talks more about how he should be remembered if lost, but in the other poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen it says a lot about how they are in the war and how tough it is. The poem “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke is about war. This poem is specifically talking about how if he dies he wants to be remembered in a certain way. The speaker is telling

Charles Hamilton Sorley was a Scottish born poet who fought as a captain in The Great War. Sorley was well educated, attending Oxford University before enlisting in the war. He entered the war as a lieutenant and quickly earned a promotion to captain. Sorley’s last battle was the Battle of Loos, where he was shot and killed, along with over 8,000 others. His body was never recovered, but his kit was. Inside this soldier’s kit were thirty-seven poems written during the war. One of the poems, titled