war poetry

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During wars, the time was brutal which left unforgetable memories and also made a big effect in poetry. People started writing more and telling their stories and how they felt about the war. Most people show the brutality and tragedy of it in their poem.

  The wirers is Its a simple poem about the dangerous job of repairing the barbed wire in front of the trenches during World War I. This had to be done at night otherwise the wirers would be shot. Occasionally the enemy (Germans in this case) would fire up a flare to illuminate No Mans Land, the land between the allied and German trenches. That's how poor Hughes was caught out in the poem. The best thing to do to avoid detection in poor light is to stand absolutely still - the eye is designed to detect movement. At the end he writes "no doubt he’ll die to-day. But we can say the front-line wire’s been safely mended."this shows that he is sarcastically saying that ;well at leats the wire is up, eventhough he died.

In the wind of downs The writer uses imagery and lots if repetitions to tell us the poem.

The big idea of the poem is that the girl can't see his face but only his khaki uniform.
She doesn't think he is dead and she can't remember him, that's what the first stanza is about. "brown and tall, "strong and living" these are all metaphors describeing him.
The idea of the second stanza is about that she doesn't want to belive that he is dead amd she is waiting for him to come back while she is doing things they used to do to get.

Arms of the boy is powerfully telling us about soldiers in the world war one. The big idea is that the war is unnatural which is told through metaphors and imagery.The first paragraph is about the secretion of the gun which is followed by the 2nd stanza which describes the cartridges and bullets and the third stanza is about that people are not designed to kill. One example of metaphor is when it says "how cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood."  this metaphor is telling us about the bayonet-blade and one example for imagery is "there lurk no claws behind his fingers supple; and God will grow no talons at his heels, nor anthlers through the thickness of his curls" This tells us anout the boy and how people are not supposed to be killed.

"Passing through this gate"

Sassooon uses metaphors'listing and repatition to tell us the big idea of this poem which is that people won't remember the soldiers whise bodies weren't found.

"Who will remember passing through this gate, the unheraoic dead who fed rhe guns?" This sentence shows that the writer asks himself who will remember the soldiers who fought in the war and were heroicly fighting for our country. "Their names liveth for ever" This shows the writer wants their names to be remembered forever. He uses metaphors like sullen swamps and 'dead who struggeled in the slime'

Overall there were lots of poems wrotten about WW1 which are very powerfull and describe the whole war.

The wind of the downs

The writer uses imagery and lots if repetitions to tell us the poem.
The big idea of the poem is that the girl can't see his face but only his khaki uniform.
She doesn't think he is dead and she can't remember him, that's what the first stanza is about. "brown and tall, "strong and living" these are all metaphors describeing him.
The idea of the second stanza is about that she doesn't want to belive that he is dead amd she is waiting for him to come back while she is doing things they used to do together.

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"Passing through this gate"

Sassooon uses metaphors'listing and repatition to tell us the big idea of this poem which is that people won't remember the soldiers whise bodies weren't found.

"Who will remember passing through this gate, the unheraoic dead who fed rhe guns?" This sentence shows that the writer asks himself who will remember the soldiers who fought in the war and were heroicly fighting for our country. "Their names liveth for ever" This shows the writer wants their names to be remembered forever. He uses metaphors like sullen swamps and 'dead who struggeled in the slime'

Its a simple poem about the dangerous job of repairing the barbed wire in front of the trenches during World War I. This had to be done at night otherwise the wirers would be shot. Occasionally the enemy (Germans in this case) would fire up a flare to illuminate No Mans Land, the land between the allied and German trenches. That's how poor Hughes was caught out in the poem. The best thing to do to avoid detection in poor light is to stand absolutely still - the eye is designed to detect movement. At the end he says sarcastically well at leats the wire is up, eventhough he died.

-metaphors, sound imagery, 

I hate the way you talk to me 4 feet 2 4 i am 8
And the way you cut your hair 3feet2 3 i am 6
I hate the way you drive my car 4feet2 4 i am 8
I hate it when you stare 3feet2 3 i am 6

I hate your big dumb combat boots 4 feet 2 i am
And the way you read my mind 3 feet 2

I hate you so much that it makes me sick 5
It even makes me rhyme 3 feet 2

I hate the way you're always right 
I hate it when you lie 
I hate it when you make me laugh 
Even worse when you make me cry 

I hate the way you're not around 
And the fact that you didn't call 
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you 
Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all

lots os repetitions
juxtaposition

poetry analysis

Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour,

      And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping!

With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,

      To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping,

Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary;

      Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move,

And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,

      And all the little emptiness of love!

Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there,

      Where there’s no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending,

            Naught broken save this body, lost but breath;

Nothing to shake the laughing heart’s long peace there,

      But only agony, and that has ending;

            And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

it has 14 lines which is for writing in a eomantic style

the rhythm goes like 4,4,6

imagery-clear eye, and sharpened power

simile-as swimmers

world grown old and cold and weary;personififation amd imagery

Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move- personification

foreshadowing in the sound of a thunder

"We guarantee nothing".Foreshadowing is when something at the beggining of the story hints us that something is going to happen later on in the story. The writer of the Sound of a thunder uses foreshadowing to make the story interesting and to make the reader want to read more into it.

For example it already uses foreshadowing in its title because it's going to end with a sound of a thunder. It also uses it in the beggining with the sign and with the sentence which says 'Does this safari guarantee I come back alive?' because now we know something is foing to happen and someone will die.

notes on poems

the slodier

it is a love poem for england and the idea that dying for your country is glorious

italian sonnet -2idea

england explicit +inplicit using imagery 

engalnd mental/spiritual

the sentry

The Sentry

I'm blind..I'm blind.

This poem is about what a brutal nightmare war is which is shown through imagery, onomatopoelia, alliteration and metaphor.

The firts paragraph tells us where the poem is set. "Shrinks of death" shows what a horrible and awful place it is. never ending nightmare is the word that comes into your mind after you've read the second paragraph since it gives an impression of a living nightmare which continues and you can't be awakend from it. But there is still hope as the 3rd paragraph tells us. People still hopeing they might survive ot it might end although at the end of the poem, people loose this and the 'light dies out'.

examples of repetations

-rain

-die/death

-love

-soltitude

Rain,Rain Rain

Repetation is when you write down a word lots of times.

The writer repeats rain because as he listens to the rain he is thinking and the rain makes the atmosphere more miserable and sad. Because rain is usually the symbol of darkness and sadness and dullness so this makes it easier to imagine the badness of being a soldier. And also the rain whashes you clear when ypu die.

He uses the word 'die/death' a lots of times because everyone's always thinking about death beavuse they know they are going to die. This gives it a dull picture and shows how miserable it was.

Love is also repated many times because everyone is losing the ones they love and they know they shouldn't love anyone because they are going to loose them. And this connects to the thought of death.

The writer also uses soltitude more then one times because it is not meant in the way that it's written down. Soltitude means being alone but in this situatuon he is not alone but he's surrounded by people who are just as miserable as he is and noone talks to each other because they know that they are going to die and they don't want to make new friends because it's going to be hard for them to see them die.

jargen: there are groups if you are part of the group it is inclusive and if you are not then its exclusive
Latin american dance

rumba: basic, new york, spot turn, karadja, hand to hand, swivel
cha cha: basic, time step, new york, spot turn, cuban break, double cuban break, swivel
samba: basic, whisk
jive
bachata
salsa
merenge

For the first time since I realized that Teddy was gone, too, I feel something unclench. I feel myself breathe. I know that Gramps can't be that late-inning pinch hitter I'd hoped for. He won't unplug my breathing tube or overdoes me with morphine or anything like that. But this is the first time today that anyone has acknowledged what I have lost. I know that the social worker warned Gran and Gramps not to upset me, but Gramps's recognition, and the permission he just offered me--it feels like a gift .Gramps doesn't leave me. He slumps back into the chair. It's quiet now. So quiet you can almost hear other people's dreams. So quiet that you can almost hear me tell Gramps, 'Thank you.

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