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The poem criticizes how the drum encourages young men to join the military through promises of glory and honor, while obscuring the true horrors of war. It uses repetition to mimic the constant beat of the drum that lures men in. While the first stanza depicts the false allure of military service, the second lists the "catalogue of human woes" that result from war, including "ravaged plains," "burning towns," and the "widows' tears and orphans' moans" left behind. The regular rhythm highlights how the drumbeat continues relentlessly despite the very real suffering it brings.
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response paper based on the questions below!
Question:
Read the following poems, look at the works of art, and examine the memorials created by American, British,
Canadian, French, and German soldiers that fought on the Western Front throughout World War I. Discuss
how these expressions represent to the world and future generations the nature and impact of the Great War
on individuals and society. End your essay by answering the question: If you had to sum up the impact of the
Great War in one word, what would that word be?
Some of the questions to consider when writing your response are: What do the poems tell us about the
experiences of these soldiers? How do the works of art express what the soldiers experienced during the war
and how they are dealing with, or not dealing with, that experience? What differences can you see between
the European and American perspectives on the war? How do these men view the war and their role therein?
What strikes you when reading these poems?
You do not need to answer any or all of these specifically, but they might help .
The Yellow Palm & Poppies
The poem "Poppies" is written from the perspective of a mother as she remembers saying goodbye to her son before he leaves for war. Through vivid imagery and juxtaposition of military and domestic images, the poem conveys the mother's overwhelming emotions of love, anxiety, and grief. It follows her journey from reluctantly parting with her son at the door to later visiting his grave and finding only sorrowful memories of their time together. The poem suggests that peace would have allowed both her son and the world to retain their innocence.
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The poem "Poppies" is written from the perspective of a mother as she remembers saying goodbye to her son before he leaves for war. Through vivid imagery and juxtaposition of military and domestic images, the poem conveys the mother's overwhelming emotions of love, anxiety, and grief. It follows her journey from reluctantly parting with her son at the door to later visiting his grave and the war memorial, longing to hear his voice once more.
The Yellow Palm
The poem "Poppies" is written from the perspective of a mother as she remembers saying goodbye to her son before he leaves for war. Through vivid imagery and juxtaposition of military and domestic images, the poem conveys the mother's overwhelming emotions of love, anxiety, and grief. It follows her journey from reluctantly parting with her son at the door to later visiting his grave and finding only sorrowful memories of their time together. The poem suggests that peace would have allowed both her son and the world to retain their innocence.
Futility analysis
Wilfred Owen's poem "Futility" examines the futility of war through the voice of a soldier questioning why the sun cannot revive his fallen comrade. The soldier reflects on how the sun once awakened the man but now his limbs are too hard to stir, even for the sun. Through rhetorical questions, the soldier expresses despair and bitterness at the meaningless death of his fellow soldier. The poem challenges notions of patriotism and military service by highlighting the inevitability of death in war.
Give
This document provides a summary of key elements to consider when analyzing poetry:
- Language techniques like connotation, imagery, metaphor, and simile
- Structural elements such as stanzas, form, patterns, contrast, and juxtaposition
- Poetic devices including alliteration, caesura, assonance, rhythm, and rhyme
- Character perspective and tone of voice of the speaker
- Comparisons between speakers, techniques, and themes across different poems.
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Kipling wrote the Epitaphs of War to commemorate soldiers who died in World War I, as he was deeply affected by the death of his own son in the war. The epitaphs take various forms - the first presents death as a cold and dismissive force over soldiers, though they ultimately escape it. The second tells of an unknown female corpse pleading for recognition of motherhood. The third depicts the brutal rape and revenge of a woman during war. The fourth shows how the passage of time through war can be as destructive as battle. The final epitaph is a bridegroom bidding farewell to his new bride as he embraces the "bride" of death instead. Throughout, Kipling employs symbolic
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This document provides summaries of 12 poems, including context about the poems' authors and time periods, as well as discussions of their key themes, language structures, and tones. The poems discussed are Ozymandias, London, The Prelude, My Last Duchess, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Exposure, Storm on the Island, Bayonet Charge, and Remains. For each poem, the summary highlights the main themes, such as the transitory nature of power (Ozymandias), the harsh realities of industrialization (London), the power and mystery of nature (The Prelude), violence and control (My Last Duchess), honor and bravery (The Charge of the Light Brigade), the horrors
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- 1. The Drum
- 2. Suggests it can’t be trusted unpleasant I hate that drum’s discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round: To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace, and glittering arms; And when Ambition’s voice commands, To march, and fight, and fall, in foreign lands. Freedom – they lose this when Alliteration highlights how quickly they will die they become soldiers
- 3. Repetition reflects the constant beat of the drum I hate that drum’s discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round: Repetition of To me it talks of ravaged plains, And suggests that the list of And burning towns, and ruined swains, horrors goes And mangled limbs, and dying groans, on and on And widows’ tears, and orphans’ moans; And all that Misery’s hand bestows, To fill the catalogue of human woes. Words to emphasise the horror and suffering of war
- 4. Understanding the Poem….. 1. What contrast is shown between the first stanza and the second stanza? The first stanza shows the false associations that people had with the drum sound. It made people think of going to war as being glamorous. The second stanza shows the reality of what, which was not glamorous at all.
- 5. What is the effect of the regular rhythm and rhyme? It reflects the steady beat of the drum. The up-beat feel reflects how young men were encouraged to go to war by being promised glory, honour and status. In the second stanza, the regular rhyme and rhythm helps to reflect how constant and continual the real suffering of war was.
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