Ww1 Poetry

Name Of Poem The City Clerk

The Volunteer

Poet

Attitude

J.A. Nicklin

Pro-War

Herbert Asquith

Pro–War/ Recruitme nt

Peace

Rupert Brooke

Pro-War/ Idealistic

Dulce et Decorum

Geraldine Glasgow

Pro-War

Theme’s

Key Quotes

Pro – War -“The rifles hug is closer than a girls” Bored of there “safe” upper -“keep up England’s wicket” class life, wishing to go -“We were sick to death of ledger” fight Man bored of life Goes to fight Die, but is happy

-“Here lies a clerk who half his life had spent” -“The gleaming eagles of the legions came” -“His lance is broken, but he lies content” -“Goes to join the men of Agincourt” Thanking god for a chance -“Now, God be thanked who had to fight in the war, (ironic matched us with his hour” he didn’t, brother did, died -“We have no shame, we have found in. release” -“Worst friend and enemy is but Death” It is sweet and fitting to die -“With quickened breath you heard for your country your country’s call, and from your Being brave and heroic in hands you let the goblet fall” battle -You snatched the sword and answered as you went” “O valiant dead, take comfort where you lie, So sweet to live? Magnificent to die”

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Jessie Pope

Typical of Pro–War -Bored of life -Don’t want to miss out on the “fun”

Geraldine Glasgow Rupert Brooke Nicklin

Typical of Pro-War -Bored of life -Died, but happy about it

Herbert Asquith

Typical of Pro-War -Thanking god for the chance to fight -Dying, but worse things out there

Jessie Pope

Typical of Pro-War -Answering the call to fight for your country -Use of cavalry language -Dieing for your country, “Sweet and fitting”

Asquith

Who’s for the Game?

Jessie Pope

Dulce Et Decorum Est

Wilfred Owen

In Flanders Fields

John McRae

Pro-War

Anti-War

Anti-War

Idea that the war is a game Who is willing to join in Your countries calling you

-“Who’s for the game, the biggest that’s played” -“And who wants a seat in the stand?” -“Who knows it won’t be a picnic –not much”

Glasgow

Pain and agony that soldiers are going through Description of a Gas Attack Directly attacking Glasgow – Last stanza

-“coughing like hags” -“Many had lost their boots, but limped on” -“Drunk with fatigue” -“Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! An ecstasy of fumbling” -“guttering, choking, drowning” -“My friend, you would not tell with such high zest” -“To Children ardent for some desperate glory” -“The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est” -“Between the crosses, row on row” -“Loved and were loved, and now we lie” “Take up our quarrel with the foe”

Sassoon

Death happening in Flanders Field Futility of war Remembering the dead

Asquith

Graves

Sassoon Owen

Typical of Pro-War -Country needs you -Join in the fun Different -Peer pressure Concept of being left behind Typical of Anti-War -Suffering of soldiers -Everyday battles; Gas Poor living conditions -Criticism of civilians, in this case Glasgow Typical of Anti-War -Remembering the dead

The Song of the RedEdged Steel

Gilbert Frankau

A Dead Boche

Robert Graves

The Hero

Suicide in the

Sassoon

Sassoon

Anti-War

Anti-War

Anti-War

Anti-War

Death Futility of war Harsh living conditions Emphasising the point of the negativities of war Death imagery Death of a German

Naivety of civilians Soldier’s loosing the plot Lying to protect

-“So we laboured – while we lasted” -Socked in rain or parched in sun” -“poisoned; fodder for the gun” “So we perished, and our bodies rotten in the ground they won” -“To you who’d read my songs of War, another only hear of blood and fame” -“War’s Hell!” -“Today I found…a certain cure for lust of blood” -“A face sodden green” -“Dribbling black blood from nose and beard”

-“Jack fell as he’d have wished”, the Mother said” -“We mothers are so proud of our dead soldiers” -“He’d told the poor old dear some gallant lies” -“Jack, cold-footed, useless swine” -“Blown to small bits” -“And no one seemed to care, except that lonely woman with white hair”

The breaking of a solider in -“I Knew a simple solider boy, Who the trenches grinned at life with empty joy”

Graves Sassoon Sassoon Owen Frankau

Owen Frankau Graves

Owen

Typical of Anti-War -Remembering the dead -Harsh living conditions Typical of Anti-War -Emphasising point -Death imagery Different -Talking directly to people who feel pro-war, most likely civilians -Death of a German bad, everyone’s a victim of WW1 Typical of Anti-War -Naivety of civilians, as if protecting them -Graphic imagery (Sassoon) of his death

Typical of Anti-War -Suffering

Trenches

Glory of Women

The Tirailleur

Perhaps

Taking of his life -“In winter trenches, cowed and glum” Civilian life at home, partly -“He put a bullet through his brain, No to blame one spoke of him again” -“You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye” -“…Pray you never know, the hell where youth and laughter go” Sassoon AntiWomen’s portrayal in -“YOU love us when we’re heroes” War/Wom civilian life -“Or wounded in a mentionable place” en Aspects of “hero worship” -“You can’t believe that British troops Don’t understand the true “retire”” pain -“When hell’s last horror breaks them” -“O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send you son” “His Face is trodden deeper in the mud” Millicent AntiTrying to save a young -“HE was so young to die” Sutherland War/Exper French solider -“Death sucks red lips white” iences Futility of war/youth -Why did we wish him life? Why did Death of soldiers we feel a pang (emotion)?” -“his dear fluttering soul- of brothers at his side” -“Only the sister wept” Vera Brittain

AntiWar/mour ning of

Perhaps – concept of looking to the future, for salvation

-“Perhaps some day the sun will shine again” -“And feel once more I do not live in

Graves

Owen Graves

Vera Brittain

-Poor living conditions -Negativity of civilians (naivety), cheering on the war -Futility of war, “youth & laughter” Typical of Anti-War -Naivety of civilians -Soldiers in pain Different -All out attack on Women -Very bitter

Typical of Anti-war (female) -Strong emotions -Questioning the war and their job -Futility of war -Youth

Millicent Typical of Anti-War Sutherland (female) -Mournful

husband

Mourning the death of her husband

To My Brother

Vera Brittain

AntiWar/mour ning of Brother

Mournful of dead brother Emotions surrounding the event

The SendOff

Wilfred Owen

Anti-War

Soldiers marching off to war Sombre

Anthem of the Doomed Youth

Wilfred Owen

Anti-War

Futility of war Youth Life in the trenches

vain” -“There is one greatest joy I shall not know again, because my heart for loss of you” -“Your battle-wounds are scars upon my heart” -“Received when in that grand and tragic “show”” -“May you endure to lead the last advance”

-Only talks about experiences had (typical of Female poets, comp to Pope Millicent Typical of Anti-War Sutherland (female) -Mournful -Only talking about experiences -Criticising the war, “show” (ref to pope?) -“And lined the train with faces grimly Sassoon Typical of Anti-War gay” -Sombre -“So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up” Graves -Innocence of going -“We never heard which front these to war were sent” -Futility of war, lack -“too few(will return)” of people coming -“May creep back, silent” back -Ignorance of civilians

-“What passing bells for these who die as cattle” -“Monstrous anger of the guns” -“What candles may be held to speed them all?”

Typical of Anti-War -Futility of war -Death -Concept of the unknown soldier

AntiWar/recrui ting

Recruiting of troops Hatred of propaganda Life in the trenches

-“I hate that drum’s discordant sound” -“To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, and lures from cities and from fields” -“And when Ambition’s voice commands, To march, and fight, and fall, in foreign lands” -“Mangled limbs and dying groans” -“Widow’s tears, and orphan’s groans”

The Drum

John Scott of Amwell

Journeys End

R.C.Sherri ff

AntiWar/Play/ Life in trenches

Life in the trenches Claustrophobia Classes in WW1

-“I haven’t seen a tree in ages” -“Drinking like a fish as usual” -“Without being doped with Whiskey, id go mad with fright” -“He looked splendid. It – sort of made me feel…. Keen to get out there”(Raleigh, Heroism) -“It all seems rather silly, doesn’t it?”

Regenerati on

Pat Barker

AntiWar/suffer ing of men after trench life

Life in Craiglockhart Trying to be made better to (ironically) go back to the front line Futility of war/the job of making the soldiers better

-“And he began shovelling soil, flesh and splinter of blackened bone into the bag” -“Men with half their faces shot off, crawling across the floor” “Now whenever he tried to eat, that

Typical of Anti-War -Futility of war, death -Living conditions Different -Form: Play, not comp different, Blackadder, Oh What…. Not the most common (poetry) Typical of Anti-War -Looking at trauma of the soldiers after trench life -Futility of war

Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks

AntiWar/life in the trenches/f ate

Life in the trenches Life after the trenches European civilians involvement in the War (injury e.t.c)

taste and smell recurred” -“Missed his chance of being ordinary” “Likable boy he must once have been” -“The trench you started from is just a mass of bodies, people who never even got going” -“Beyond the boundaries of human behaviour” -“So much muscle and blood in the earth” -“They expected to die”

“My Subject is war and the pity of war” – Wilfred Owen

Typical of Anti-War -Futility of war -Death -Living conditions -Youth