Bombyx mori

War is brutal; it brings death, sadness, and destruction. In Henry Reed’s poem “Naming of Parts” and John A McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields”. The authors convey a soldier’s reaction of war. Although the stories contain obvious difference, it is the similarities that are significant. Both poems are differ in setting and tone. In “Naming of Parts”, the setting is in a classroom where a military instructor is giving a lecture on “parts” of a rifle and showing the new recruits the firing…

Evaluating the importance of individuality and human dignity within the context of war, captures the destruction and loss of humanity within futile warfare. The intimate focus on a single moment separates ‘Futility’ from the rest of Owen’s poems, presenting a different side of war and importance of a single moment. The loss of individuality through war is explored as death consumes the soldiers, stripping them of their individuality. Futility presents the audience with a dying soldier whose…

Honour and valour, he who possesses such idiosyncratic traits will withstand judgement when facing uncertainty. Fundamentally, a soldier is their own monument, whether their state be dust or bone. Frost, Owen and Brooks delve into this concept through their poems. They discuss that through pain and hardship the soldier may suffer, unlocks their immortality to entirety. Brooks and Owen contrast heavily due to opposing perspectives, however intern reveal an identical closure. This result is…

Owen portrays the soldiers as being 'innocent', to show that they were young. They were willing listeners and believed everything that they were told including the old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est, pro patria mori. The final two lines 'Dulce et Decorum Est, pro patria mori' is a famous quote by a Latin poet called Horace. This translates into 'It is sweet and honourable to die for one's country'. Owen contradicts this quote using this poem throughout the use of many…

How would we ever know how war truly is if it wasn 't for literature? Reading literature can help you better understand the hardships and tragedies, they Finish the positive attitude,and challenges your view about war. They touch our hearts, in a way that textbooks are unable to. A good story makes us put ourselves in those characters shoes. Stories spark empathy, they make you interpret them, and think of the many tragic possibilities and consequences that war can bring upon us. Literature…

The soldiers and people realized that wars are disgusting, they need to put an end to it. “My friend, you would not tell with high zest to children… the old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”(Owen,2). In war time, the people that did the wars would say the old lie to soldiers going to war. The old lie is: how sweet it is to die for your fatherland. Its is not sweet to go into war, is is not sweet killing , it is not sweet watching your…

importance of irony as a way to start the poem in order to set the setting. The author also uses irony within the title to actually contradict with the last two lines of the poem which is also in latin. ¨The old lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.¨ It is sweet and glorious to die for your country. Wilfred Owen, used irony as a way convey that dying for their country is…

The wholly conspicuous anti-war discourse in the novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, occurs in between Vonnegut and Mary O’Hare. O’Hare fears that the book will glorify war as a myriad of books and movies have in the past. She is apprehensive that Vonnegut might portray the “babies” fighting in the war as grown men, and these babies will be played by “war-loving, dirty old men” (18). Vonnegut reassures Mary that the he will show the inhumanity of war. Vonnegut even goes to promise, “I’ll call it ‘The…

YEAR 12 ENGLISH “UNIVERSAL THEMES” - REPRESENTATIONS OF WAR: PLANNING Poem Chosen: Anthem for Doomed Youth Write a paragraph summarising the representation of war being presented in your poem and the main ways in which it is shown. The poem represents war as depressing and futile. The representation of how horrific war is, can be construed from the title itself. It conveys a strong feeling for the reader and foreshadows what the poem will consist of. Usually an anthem is a stirring song…

Inspired by the events of the 1991 Gulf War, Gillian Clarke’s Lament effectively describes the impacts of war on the surrounding environment and wildlife. Although written specifically about the Gulf War, the message of the poem can be applied to the present day - using only words, Clarke paints a vivid picture of the effect of humanity’s behaviour on nature and its inhabitants. Similarly, Boey Kim Cheng’s Report to Wordsworth illustrates the extent of the damage done to the environment. Written…