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purpose for the soldiers has been forgotten as they are perishing and thus are viewing death as inevitable confronting the reader through the severity of the war. In Previous stanzas of this poem, the word love has been repeated in reference to families, houses and other comforts they once experienced whereas in this line, it has been used to juxtaposed against ‘dying’ in depicting the lack of faith and belief in a saviour or for the world to go back to the way it was. ‘MC’ explores this loss…

Guy Masterson - A Master of Poignant Poetry Guy Masterson brings the trenches of the Great War to life in his one-man show Anthem for a Doomed Youth, one of four performances in his #LestWeForget series, at the Bakehouse Theatre this Fringe season. Whether performing solo or with an accompanying cast, he consistently brings excellent productions to Adelaide and this is no exception; the show features Masterson expertly and passionately presenting a moving compilation of poems and prose from…

The narrative, “A Story of War and Change” by Reza Kiarash details the gruesome horror of the Iran-Iraq war through the experiences of the author as a paramedic within the Iranian army. What is immediately noticeable by the reader is how the author recounts his memory in short, staccato esque sentences. Evidence of such is provided when the author writes “ Yes, it is”. The lack of sentence sophistication helps immerse the reader into the atmosphere of the campaign the author is fighting in. As…

from Barker’s novel would be Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, two brothers in arms who had mutual friendship eventually leading Owen to developing romantic feelings for Sassoon. Although, “Owen and Sassoon found themselves enmeshed in constructions of gender that… Their understanding of their own homosexuality encouraged them to self-identify as essentially feminine beings with masculine bodies” (Campbell p 3). Although, Dr. Rivers tries to explain to Sassoon that there are limits and during…

the ways in which the poets you studied this year use poetry as a form of protest. Different poets utilise various poetic techniques to express their opposition against war, death and society. Wilfred Owen in ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and Siegfried Sassoon in ‘Suicide in the Trenches’ condemn the glorification of war based on their experiences in World War One. ‘Funeral Blues’ by WH Auden and ‘Do no go gentle into that good night’ by Dylan Thomas convey the poets’ common objection against the…

evident from the works of popular war poets, like Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, among others, that the self-satisfied poetry of the recent past needed to be broken and they could not simply write poetry celebrating nature. War poetry captures the physical and emotional, brutal reality of the war, the pain, madness, and degradation of human kind. The finest and the most discussed wars poets like Owen, Thomas, Rosenberg, Sassoon were young and had experienced war up close.…

George S. McGovern once said “I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” McGovern is stating that the “old men”, the government use the young men of a specific country to fight the wars they initiate. War is most of the time seen as a sense of pride and tribute for one’s country, but many don’t realize the savagery battlefields hold. Just like George McGovern, the poet, Wilfred Owen, who was a soldier in World War One and died in that Great War wrote many…

The poem ‘War Photographer’ addresses the tragedies that take place at war and the issues in the way the western world perceive the photos that raise awareness to these horrible situations. The strong feelings of frustration, love of his job and suffering are portrayed throughout the poem. The photographer is ‘finally’ alone implying that he is welcoming his solitary connotes that his company was not welcoming. This is most likely due to the fact that the majority of them would be soldiers and…

When Britain declared war on the Axis powers in 1914, many young English men saw this as an opportunity for bravery, glory, and chivalry. As the war escalated many people started to change their view as they saw the brutalities of the fighting. This war had a big influence on poetry in future decades. The main difference between the attitude towards the war sparked from the poet's tone. The tone varies from seeing the war as glorious, to it being a dreadful experience. The Soldier by Brooke…

Although World War 1 influenced many military operations and proclaimed many lives, it also inspired many individuals. The English poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen became leading poets of the First World War. During their time in the service both were diagnosed with shell shock and were hospitalized near Edinburgh, where both became friends. According to Thomas W. Salmon, M.D. (1917), “ It is…