Poison gas in World War I

“Attack”, by Siegfried Sassoon, effectively represents a vivid and graphic view of the apathy of war by divulging into the minds of the soldiers, giving a more personal view to his poem. There are many such instances in which Sassoon’s clever diction. Instead of the norm of authors of his time, Sassoon did not emphasize the dramatics of war during the battle; he accentuated the pre-war stage. Firstly, Sassoon divulges into the fears of the soldiers. He does this by construing a grave scene.…

Owen uses a range of ideas, forms and language to influence responders and create meaning about war as an experience of human calamity, waste and idiocy. It is pointless and disgraceful and its influence on individuals is captured powerfully by Wilfred Owen. His personal participation and eventful death in WWI adds a stark truth to the tragedy and waste of potential of youth. Owen knew all too well that war defaces men physically and emotionally and that unnecessary death and emotional…

contribute to his wider concerns about the “Pity of War”? In your response, make detailed reference to “Futility and one other of Wilfred Owen’s poems set for study. Wilfred Owen’s poetry set during World War 1 illiterates a wider concerns of the experiences of individuals contributing the the “Pity of War”. Wilfred Owen is critical of the unworthy treatment of soldiers and the ramifications of this behaviour along with the pointlessness of War. Owen portrays the torment of soldiers that are…

reading the poem, it becomes obvious that it is about unveiling the harsh realities of war. This can be paralleled with the publicity the war receives: although the war leaves the soldiers exhausted, hopeless, and haunted, it is portrayed in a positive light to the country as a whole—especially the youth. The stanza that follows starts out with something that affects the reader much in the way that the reality of war affects the young soldiers going into battle for the first time: they go from…

comes to fighting in war. "Inspection" written by Wilfred Owen explores the idea of a soldier who comes to uniform inspection with a blood stain and yet, these blood stains are from the hard battle he had fought in the war. The poem presents the idea of the way soldiers are treated, blood being treated as dirt, and the sacrifice soldiers have to make in war. Through the use of diction, allusion, metaphor and colloquialism, Owen has explained the blood which is shed during the war. Right at the…

Intro Today I have been challenged to write a blog answering the question that both text and context do exist in literature. WW1 was a bloodbath there's no doubt and such awful things happened to the most innocent of lives, during the times of war however it shone a light on the poets who wrote both anti and pro war poems. Each with a different meaning, from Jessie Pope the women who encouraged young men to risk their lives for their country and honor to Owen Wilfred who’s words reached out to…

The Terrible Beauty of the Forgotten War In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s, use of words to describe his memories of the Vietnam war transform the stories in his novel. O’Brien is able to take images of disturbing horror and turns them into a romanticized vision, that the reader can understand. Because this is a war story, it’s obvious there will be horrible images that O’Brien and his platoon had to experience, but he able to transforms them into beautiful narratives. Throughout the…

Wilfred Owen’s Disabled is poem of the post-Great War period, when hundreds of young men were -similarly to the protagonist- abandoned to their misery and handicaps in military hospitals. The intentionally vague and indistinguishable character is presented as empty, an indicator of his inability to recover. However, despite his superficial remorse and apathy, we can distinguish an underlying message; Owen portrays the value of an individual in society as both fleeting and unappreciated. He uses…

The use of Chemical Warfare in World War 1 was horrifying as many soldiers would say. Chemical gases were used as a physical weapon as much as a psychological weapon. The first major gas attack happened on January 31, 1915 when over 18,000 tear gas shells rained down on the russian lines but as surprising as it may seem the gas did little to no effect on the russian lines as one soldier said “The results left him disappointed” (Pruszewicz, 2015). Even tho the first gasses weren't that effective…

could a colorless, odorless, oily liquid create so much chaos and inflict so much harm? As it turns out, mustard gas causes intense irritation (especially in the lungs), extensive skin blistering, and psychological issues. Yet, the immediate damage mustard gas caused in World War I pales in comparison to the larger arsenal of chemical weapons it paved the way for. Up until World War I, weapons generally fit into two categories: guns and explosives. Both of these could be heard in one way or…