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War and conflict Flashcards

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THE SOLDIER- context

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  • Rupert Brooke
  • He never fought, yet worked with the navy
  • Form of propaganda, to entice people to join the army
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THE SOLDIER- How is war presented?

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  • Noble/honourable
  • Brave act
  • Indebted
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MAMETZ WOOD- context

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  • Owen Sheers
  • Woodland in France, occupied Germans
  • Allies tried to regain land, yet >1000 Welsh killed
  • Written as an elegy
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MAMETZ WOOD- How is war presented?

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  • Harsh
  • Betrayal of the young
  • Worthless
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DULCE ET DECORUM EST- context

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  • Wilfred Owen
  • Fought in the trenches of WW1
  • Responding to the propaganda and poetry going around (Jessie Pope)
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DULCE ET DECORUM EST- how is war presented?

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  • Loss of idealism
  • Physical suffering
  • Betrayal of the young
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A WIFE IN LONDON- context

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  • Thomas Hardy
  • Split into 2 parts (receiving news and receiving letter from husband)
  • Illuminate absurdity and tragedy of war
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A WIFE IN LONDON- how is suffering presented?

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  • Sense of abandonment
  • Unplanned
  • Regret
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THE MANHUNT- context

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  • Simon Armitage
  • About Eddie, who fought in Bosnian War
  • Dramatic monologue
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THE MANHUNT- how is suffering presented?

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  • Relationship suffering
  • Emotional suffering
  • Physical suffering
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Instils hope in the reader in the fact that dying is being commended

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THE SOLDIER- “If I should die”

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The repetition emphasises the love of the country

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THE SOLDIER- “England” x6

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Shows how the country has provided you with a lot of things, so it’s not up to you to protect and fight for it

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THE SOLDIER- “Gave once, her flowers to love”

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Personifies England as mother-like, so that it needs protection and someone to fight to save it”

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THE SOLDIER- “A dust whom England bore”

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builds a patriotic sense and makes dying for England appear as glorified

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THE SOLDIER- “Some corner of a foreign field that is forever England”

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Shows hows youth was ended prematurely and lives wasted too soon

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MAMETZ WOOD- “Wasted young” “Walk not run”

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Plosive ‘B’ mimics gun sounds and highlights the fragility and vulnerability of the young soldiers

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MAMETZ WOOD- “Blown and broken bird’s egg of a skull” “China plate”

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Died too early and not even able to finish the ‘dance of death’

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MAMETZ WOOD- “Mid dance-macabre”

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Treated as worthless and lacked basic rights- such as free speech

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MAMETZ WOOD- “Absent tongues”

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aged by the effects of war and stolen youthful innocence

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DULCE ET DECORUM EST- “Old beggars” “Hags”

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Caesura used to slow the poem down and reflects the soldiers limping. Highlights the physical toll of war

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DULCE ET DECORUM EST- “But limped on, blood shod.”

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Break in the iambic pentameter- shows the chaos and instant impact that the gas has caused.

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DULCE ET DECORUM EST- “Gas! Gas! Quick boys!”

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What he saw was so evil that even the devil himself would be repulsed

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DULCE ET DECORUM EST- “Like a devil’s sick of sin”

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Direct address to reader to tell them that they would never view war as positive if they saw the sights he did

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DULCE ET DECORUM EST- “My friend”

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use of pathetic fallacy, used to foreshadow the events that are about to occur

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A WIFE IN LONDON- “tawny vapour”

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Euphemism used to soften the blow of the news

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A WIFE IN LONDON- “He has fallen”

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Mimics the grief and increasing sadness of the wife

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A WIFE IN LONDON- “Fog hangs thicker”

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The letter had and air of optimism and talked about the development in their relationship when he came back- yet he would never live to fulfil this

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A WIFE IN LONDON- “Page-full of his hoped return” “New love that thy would learn”

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As if the relationship had to be restarted

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THE MANHUNT- “after the first phase”

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Shows the painstaking recovery and how it took a lot of effort before the wife could bond again with her husband

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THE MANHUNT- “Only” (repetition)

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Lexical field of verbs used for discovery- as if the wife had to re-discover the man she married

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THE MANHUNT- “Trace” “Explore” “Attend”

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Double entendre- Rungs of the rib cage; climbing up a ladder- step-by-step process like his recovery and re-discovery

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THE MANHUNT- “Climb the rungs”

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shift from physical scars to emotional ones

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THE MANHUNT- “Grazed heart”

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Realisation that emotional injuries are far worse and that it will take a long process to regain her husband.

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THE MANHUNT- “Did I come close”

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