The document contains three poems that describe the horrors of trench warfare during World War I. The first poem tells of a young soldier who took his own life with a bullet after experiencing the misery of winter in the trenches. The second poem imagines the bells tolling for soldiers who die like cattle in battle, with only the sounds of guns and shells mourning their deaths. The third and longest poem graphically depicts a gas attack, with a soldier seeing his friend drown in liquid poison before dying in a medical wagon, experiencing a fate worse than death.
Anti war poem by Wilfred Owen. PowerPoint prepared for ISC students. Introduction is related to advanced weaponry used during World War I and the maps were used to highlight the fact that despite such weaponry, territorial expansion was marginal and futile at best. Jessie Pope also featured to show contrasting view of war at the time.
Anti war poem by Wilfred Owen. PowerPoint prepared for ISC students. Introduction is related to advanced weaponry used during World War I and the maps were used to highlight the fact that despite such weaponry, territorial expansion was marginal and futile at best. Jessie Pope also featured to show contrasting view of war at the time.
Neste trabalho, apresento alguns dados sobre a poesia de Lord Byron, seleciono alguns dos seus principais poemas para mostrar a importância de seu papel para a literatura Inglesa bem como o que caracteriza sua poesia como romântica.
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelasby Ursula K LeGuin - fro.docxcarlz4
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
by Ursula K LeGuin - from The Wind's Twelve Quarters
With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of
Summer came to the city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The ringing
of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets between
houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown
gardens and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public
buildings, processions moved. Some were decorous: old people in long
stiff robes of mauve and gray, grave master workmen, quiet, merry
women carrying their babies and chatting as they walked. In other
streets the music beat faster, a shimmering of gong and tambourine,
and the people went dancing, the procession was a dance.
Children dodged in and out, their high calls rising like the swallows'
crossing flights over the music and the singing. All the processions
wound towards the north side of the city, where on the great
water-meadow called the Green Fields boys and girls, naked in the
bright air, with mud-stained feet and ankles and long, lithe
arms,exercised their restive horses before the race. The horses wore
no gear at all but a halter without a bit. Their manes were braided with
streamers of silver, gold, and green. They flared their nostrils and
pranced and boasted to one another; they were vastly excited, the
horse being the only animal who has adopted our ceremonies as his
own. Far off to the north and west the mountains stood up half
encircling Omelas on her bay. The air of morning was so clear that the
snow still crowning the Eighteen Peaks burned with white-gold fire
across the miles of sunlit air, under the dark blue of the sky.
There was just enough wind to make the banners that marked the
racecourse snap and flutter now and then. In the silence of the broad
green meadows one could hear the music winding throughout the city
streets, farther and nearer and ever approaching, a cheerful faint
sweetness of the air from time to time trembled and gathered together
and broke out into the great joyous clanging of the bells.
Joyous! How is one to tell about joy? How to describe the citizens of Omelas?
They were not simple folk, you see, though they were happy. But we do
not say the words of cheer much any more. All smiles have become
archaic. Given a description such as this one tends to make certain
assumptions. Given a description such as this one tends to look next
for the King, mounted on a splendid stallion and surrounded by his
noble knights, or perhaps in a golden litter borne by great-muscled
slaves. But there was no king. They did not use swords, or keep
slaves. They were not barbarians, I do not know the rules and laws of
their society, but I suspect that they were singularly few. As they
did without monarchy and slavery, so they also got on without the
stock exchange, the advertisement, the secret police, and the
bomb. Yet I repeat that these were not simple folk, not dulcet
shepherds, noble savages, b.
1. Suicide in the Trenches
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
Anthem for Doomed Youth
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Bent double, likeold beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing likehags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!---An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,---
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.