Siegfried & Roy

War: A Soldier’s Declaration”. For a soldier in the military often times questioning why you are there fighting a war can be difficult because you do not want your loyalty to be seen as wavering. However, at some point enough can be enough. For Siegfried Sassoon he was able to muster the courage to voice his opinion on the war he was fighting in. The direct audience for his letter was Sassoon’s commanding officer. The letter was published in the Bradford Pioneer as well, so the larger audience…

War is considered by many to be one of humanity’s central traits as an advancing species and as such it holds a heavy influence on our past, present and future. From warring tribes in Africa during the dawn of man to the great Empires of Greece and Persia warfare has always been present, whether this war is for defense of a homeland and families, to conquest for more power and wealth or freedom from persecution and oppression. These forces drive mankind and have pushed us technologically and…

Introduction Wilfred Owen joined the army in 1915, where he fought on the Western front, experiencing shellshock. Owen developed his war poetry by getting inspiration from Siegfried Sassoon who was a poet himself. (bbc.co.uk) Rupert Brooke was also a soldier who fought In World war 1, but did not experience it fully, due to his death in 1915, when the war was not over at all. Through the poems of Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke, form, structural devices, figurative language, and sound devices…

Yiluo Li HWL Ms. D’Eon 5 February 2015 Poetry Presentation Script Jessie Pope is an English poet, writer, and journalist. She is famous for her patriotic motivational poems during WWI. Starting from 1914, her poems were widely printed and published on Daily Mail, encouraging men and women to go to war. Her Pro-War attitude presented in poem also attracted some criticism, such a Wilfred Owen. Title is “A Humble Appeal” So the first time when I read it, I thought that this should be something…

In the poem Disabled, by Wilfred Owen, the character in the poem reminisces on past events and reveals all of the things that he has lost during the war. Disabled is thought to be Owen’s most disturbing and shocking poem when written in the year 1917. He wrote this poem whilst he was spending time in the hospital recuperating after returning from the battlefield and he revised the poem a year later. The theme of loss is portrayed throughout the poem in order to reflect Owen’s own experience of…

describing the soldiers and says “bent double, like old beggars under sacks, / Knock-kneed, coughing like hags”(1-2). This use of imagery helps readers imagine just how awful war is by describing what the fallen soldiers looked like in the trenches. Siegfried Sassoon also uses imagery to describe soldiers in his poem “Aftermath” when he says “With dying eyes and lolling…

Alva Elmer Metcalfe was born and raised in Brantford, Ontario. He was a student at Brantford Collegiate Institute. Later, he moved west to attend the University of Alberta. In Alberta, at twenty-two years of age he volunteered for the war. After a year at war Metcalfe was seriously injured in November 1915. His injury was a bullet wound to the thigh, which he received during battle. He was tended to at a hospital in England where he sent letters home to Brantford. In the letters Metcalfe was…

I think Rivers’ view of the war did change, I, however, I don’t agree he was ever in favor of the war. He even states he wanted the war to end so he can start research again As I read the text I had the impression that he felt similar to Sassoon but had yet to view protesting the war, even in his thought as an option. The absolute victory over the Germans militarism was cited in the text as the absolute objective of the war but as the war went on than the lines became static, the goal of an…

Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen were both soldier as they wrote their poems during the latter half of the war. Written between 1916 and 1918, Sassoon wrote They, to contrast the civilians’ nationalism with the realities of the war. While the Bishop in the…

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…