Trench warfare

Introduction Wilfred Owen is one of the most well known poets of the First World War; he was born in England in 1893 and joined the military when he was 22 years old. He wanted to be a poet since a very young age and wrote his earlier poems when he was around 17 years old. In 1915, during the First World War, he enlisted in the British army and his first active service was at Serre and St.Quentin in 1917. He continued writing during his time as a soldier but was in active duty only for a few…

The subject of war and the loss had deeply influenced poetry on the first half of the 20th century. Poets from all around the world had felt the direct influence of these earth-shattering wars and expressed their passionate responses towards the horrors of war. It was during the times of war in which the poems “Refugee blues” and “Disabled” were written by W.H. Auden and Wilfred Owen respectively. Considered to be some of the most remarkable pieces of literature, they were written in the times…

War has a dark, funny way of underlining the incongruities of warfare. Irony has a strong presence in Erich Maria Remarque's novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. Set in the German lines of the Western Front in the First World War, Paul Baumer and other young men, such as Albert and Müller, volunteer to be soldiers after their schoolteachers persuaded them. At the front, they admire Kat for his practical skills and reliable instincts. On the opposite is Himmelstoss, a largely inept leader who…

A sharp spray of bullets, the constant pit of fear resonating from every man's soul, mud filled boots, and an almost surreal environment littered with barbed wire and rotting bodies. Truly, World War One was a blood bath of which many believe brought nothing beneficial to our Nation's table. However, amongst the putrid wave of loss and grief, came the ever-slow separation from Great Britain. So, while Canada remained under it's motherland's foreign policy for the lifespan of the war, the uniting…

It’s not often that a single man can make such an impact on the world’s perception of a fundamental part life. Erich Maria Remarque, the author of many controversial war-themed novels, was able to expose the world to the true horrors of war. Having fought in the trenches during World War I, young Remarque found out the extent to which men will fight and kill. Like many others in his generation, the trenches swallowed up a young man, and spit out a wise and broken warrior. Remarque’s battlefield…

During the early 20th century, war was considered an honor to be a part of. To fight for your country was considered such a great honor and you would be fighting for the ruler of your country. Patriotism was a major concept in the early 20th century. Some teenagers thought that fighting for your country was better than going to college (even though at that time it was probably the smart thing to do because Germany would have been decimated by the French and Russian troops). All Quiet on the…

The lives of men in war are completely different than any ordinary day for someone not in war. They face many things that regular people couldn’t cope with. They have to worry about loud noises; the machine guns, diseases, and exploding artillery shells that often caused them to panic and lose their bearings. They only went forward because they were carried on by the force of the soldiers around them. Soldiers in war also lived with the persistent presence of death and watching people they loved…

There were a total of 38 million men fighting in WWI, these men were Russian, German, French, Italian, English, American, Hungarian, Austrian, Bulgarian or from the Ottoman Empire. They all had the same experiences while at war. There were differences depending where they were placed, but the fundamental characteristics were the same. There were a total of 17 million dead and 20 million wounded; the survivors were left to live with the effects of being dehumanized because of all the death they…

the only way to stay in the trenches was to put dead soldiers. Oh, how it hurts me that I stood on my friends all this time. Being in the trenches with wet ground and dead bodies brought a lot of diseases. The diseases influenza, trench foot, typhoid, and trench fever almost got me sickened. There is also this deadly new thing called poison gas that came out. Poison gas was one of our enemies. After it came to your body it just ate up you skin, man you will not stand. Even the gas…

easy as it seemed. Next, source 42. In Flanders, this song was sung to the tune of ‘My Little Grey Home in the West.’ Lyrics to this song include ‘I’ve a little wet home in a trench, where the rainstorms continually drench.’ According to other resources, when a trench was flooded with water, men often were diagnosed with ‘Trench…