War and conflict Flashcards
THE SOLDIER- context
- Rupert Brooke
- He never fought, yet worked with the navy
- Form of propaganda, to entice people to join the army
THE SOLDIER- How is war presented?
- Noble/honourable
- Brave act
- Indebted
MAMETZ WOOD- context
- Owen Sheers
- Woodland in France, occupied Germans
- Allies tried to regain land, yet >1000 Welsh killed
- Written as an elegy
MAMETZ WOOD- How is war presented?
- Harsh
- Betrayal of the young
- Worthless
DULCE ET DECORUM EST- context
- Wilfred Owen
- Fought in the trenches of WW1
- Responding to the propaganda and poetry going around (Jessie Pope)
DULCE ET DECORUM EST- how is war presented?
- Loss of idealism
- Physical suffering
- Betrayal of the young
A WIFE IN LONDON- context
- Thomas Hardy
- Split into 2 parts (receiving news and receiving letter from husband)
- Illuminate absurdity and tragedy of war
A WIFE IN LONDON- how is suffering presented?
- Sense of abandonment
- Unplanned
- Regret
THE MANHUNT- context
- Simon Armitage
- About Eddie, who fought in Bosnian War
- Dramatic monologue
THE MANHUNT- how is suffering presented?
- Relationship suffering
- Emotional suffering
- Physical suffering
Instils hope in the reader in the fact that dying is being commended
THE SOLDIER- “If I should die”
The repetition emphasises the love of the country
THE SOLDIER- “England” x6
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
THE SOLDIER- “Gave once, her flowers to love”
Personifies England as mother-like, so that it needs protection and someone to fight to save it”
THE SOLDIER- “A dust whom England bore”
builds a patriotic sense and makes dying for England appear as glorified
THE SOLDIER- “Some corner of a foreign field that is forever England”
Shows hows youth was ended prematurely and lives wasted too soon
MAMETZ WOOD- “Wasted young” “Walk not run”
Plosive ‘B’ mimics gun sounds and highlights the fragility and vulnerability of the young soldiers
MAMETZ WOOD- “Blown and broken bird’s egg of a skull” “China plate”
Died too early and not even able to finish the ‘dance of death’
MAMETZ WOOD- “Mid dance-macabre”
Treated as worthless and lacked basic rights- such as free speech
MAMETZ WOOD- “Absent tongues”
aged by the effects of war and stolen youthful innocence
DULCE ET DECORUM EST- “Old beggars” “Hags”
Caesura used to slow the poem down and reflects the soldiers limping. Highlights the physical toll of war
DULCE ET DECORUM EST- “But limped on, blood shod.”
Break in the iambic pentameter- shows the chaos and instant impact that the gas has caused.
DULCE ET DECORUM EST- “Gas! Gas! Quick boys!”
What he saw was so evil that even the devil himself would be repulsed
DULCE ET DECORUM EST- “Like a devil’s sick of sin”
Direct address to reader to tell them that they would never view war as positive if they saw the sights he did
DULCE ET DECORUM EST- “My friend”
use of pathetic fallacy, used to foreshadow the events that are about to occur
A WIFE IN LONDON- “tawny vapour”
Euphemism used to soften the blow of the news
A WIFE IN LONDON- “He has fallen”
Mimics the grief and increasing sadness of the wife
A WIFE IN LONDON- “Fog hangs thicker”
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
A WIFE IN LONDON- “Page-full of his hoped return” “New love that thy would learn”
As if the relationship had to be restarted
THE MANHUNT- “after the first phase”
Shows the painstaking recovery and how it took a lot of effort before the wife could bond again with her husband
THE MANHUNT- “Only” (repetition)
Lexical field of verbs used for discovery- as if the wife had to re-discover the man she married
THE MANHUNT- “Trace” “Explore” “Attend”
Double entendre- Rungs of the rib cage; climbing up a ladder- step-by-step process like his recovery and re-discovery
THE MANHUNT- “Climb the rungs”
shift from physical scars to emotional ones
THE MANHUNT- “Grazed heart”
Realisation that emotional injuries are far worse and that it will take a long process to regain her husband.
THE MANHUNT- “Did I come close”
