The futility of war and the horrors brought upon the landscape result in despair and
Rationale - Bridget Whitaker destruction of the human condition. My idea stemmed from how war impacts on not just country’s vast environment but also human welfare. It also accentuates how soldiers are brought into horrific scenes of war and suppose to remain in the destructed surroundings until war ended. This is evident in Owen’s text ‘Futility’ and ‘Dolce Et Decorum Est’ along with my visual collage. My collage is both conceptual and auditory towards my idea, as it explores the horrific scenes of war.
Actions of war is a clear outline on the gruesome hardship that we put on ourselves.This is depicted in the poem ‘futility’. In this short but impactful poem, Owen’s use of repetition and metaphorical representation of ‘snow’ for ‘war’, ‘Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow’, questions how the human civilisation is able to wake from such savagery and brutality of WW1. Owen uses rhetorical questioning and imagery, ‘ Are limbs so dear-achieved, are sides/ Full-nerved, - still warm, -too hard to stir?’. To accentuate how the abhorrent nature of war impacts on the wellbeing and health their bodies and the inability for them to attribute the …show more content…
The use of colour accentuates this idea. The rhetoric device elaborates on the brutality and impact of war we impose on the individuals that attend war as black and white. I did this as they are contrasting colours for life and death and the innocence and the unknown these being the dominant colours depicts the expression and feelings of war individuals have to endure. By using the severed branch, I was able to emphasis the gruesome experience of war, as it represents mortality. The attached dead leaf it carries represents melancholy sadness they are burdened with. Capturing the consequences of war that we inflict on ourselves effecting us in a negative
Rationale - Bridget Whitaker destruction of the human condition. My idea stemmed from how war impacts on not just country’s vast environment but also human welfare. It also accentuates how soldiers are brought into horrific scenes of war and suppose to remain in the destructed surroundings until war ended. This is evident in Owen’s text ‘Futility’ and ‘Dolce Et Decorum Est’ along with my visual collage. My collage is both conceptual and auditory towards my idea, as it explores the horrific scenes of war.
Actions of war is a clear outline on the gruesome hardship that we put on ourselves.This is depicted in the poem ‘futility’. In this short but impactful poem, Owen’s use of repetition and metaphorical representation of ‘snow’ for ‘war’, ‘Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow’, questions how the human civilisation is able to wake from such savagery and brutality of WW1. Owen uses rhetorical questioning and imagery, ‘ Are limbs so dear-achieved, are sides/ Full-nerved, - still warm, -too hard to stir?’. To accentuate how the abhorrent nature of war impacts on the wellbeing and health their bodies and the inability for them to attribute the …show more content…
The use of colour accentuates this idea. The rhetoric device elaborates on the brutality and impact of war we impose on the individuals that attend war as black and white. I did this as they are contrasting colours for life and death and the innocence and the unknown these being the dominant colours depicts the expression and feelings of war individuals have to endure. By using the severed branch, I was able to emphasis the gruesome experience of war, as it represents mortality. The attached dead leaf it carries represents melancholy sadness they are burdened with. Capturing the consequences of war that we inflict on ourselves effecting us in a negative