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Wilfred owen
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- 8. Paper 1 Reading Personal Writing FunctionalWriting Media Studies
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- 16. Wilfred Owen 1893-1918
- 17. Wilfred Owen 1893-1918 Shropshire, England
- 18. Wilfred Owen 1893-1918 Shropshire, England First world war
- 19. Wilfred Owen 1893-1918 Shropshire, England First world war Friend of Siegfried Sassoon
- 20. Wilfred Owen 1893-1918 Shropshire, England First world war Friend of Siegfried Sassoon Great war poet
- 21. Vocabulary Sludge Writhing Trudge Jolt Blood-shod Gargling Fatigue Froth Clumsy Obscene Plunges Vile Guttering Zest Smothering
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- 23. Theme Theme- the attitudeof the poet to the topic. He opposes war. He shows the effect on soldiers. His direct experience revealed how brutal and dehumanising war is.
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- 26. Tone Ironic, bitter,angry. The tone is the mood of the poet.
- 27. Tone Ironic,bitter, angry. The tone is the mood of the poet. Look for words and phrases which reveal the tone.
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- 30. Techniques Irony – pretending Simile– image comparison
- 31. Techniques Irony – pretending Simile– image comparison Key words
- 32. Techniques Irony – pretending Simile– image comparison Key words Imagery
- 33. Techniques Irony – pretending Simile– image comparison Key words Imagery Transferred epithet
- 34. Techniques Irony – pretending Simile– image comparison Key words Imagery Transferred epithet Onomatopoeia
- 35. Techniques Irony – pretending Simile– image comparison Key words Imagery Transferred epithet Onomatopoeia Rhyme
- 36. Exam questions 2006- Takeany poem which deals with wishes or thoughts .
- 37. Exam questions ( a)What are the poet’s main wishes or thoughts in the poem?
- 38. Exam questions The titleof the poem is Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.
- 39. Exam questions The poetis thinking of the brutality of war. He highlights that war is not something beautiful or glorious. Owen, an English poet from Shropshire fought and died in the First World War.He bases this poem around his experience of a gas attack. He describes the conditions that the soldiers encounter. They are returning from battle when the attack occurs. One man fails to fit his gas mask and dies. Owen reflects on how inglorious the death is and wants all young people to be told the truth.
- 40. Exam questions ( b) Describe how either the imagery or the language of the poem contributes to the poet’s expression of his or her thoughts or wishes. Explain your answer with reference to the poem.
- 41. choking, drowning. Icould see in this vivid image the man’s slow agonising death. Another image, that of the gas like a green sea is very memorable. ‘ Dim through… sea’ ( b Owen presents the image of his colleagues ) The final verse is perhaps the most shocking. throwing his body onto a wagon. ‘If in some smothering… in’ I was almost sick at the sight of the ‘ white eyes writhing in his face’ and the ‘blood come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs’ The onomatopoeia here was effective Owen ends the poem with the ironic Latin saying. He calls it an ‘old lie’ and leaves us in no doubt about his thoughts on war.
- 42. Read and Attempt 2003poetry question. Apply Dulce et Decorum
- 43. Personal Writing Task Describea time you felt real fear Write a speech arguing that war is evil
- 44. Functional Writing Task Write the diary entry for one of the soldiers Write the letter the commanding officer Would send to the family of the dead soldier