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Why I chose this poem:
I chose Break of day in the trenches because in the title and the first few lines of the poem, it paints a mental image of the beginning of another horrible day at war. The poet compares the war from a seemingly unimportant rat’s perspective. Another reason I chose this poem was that upon reading a biography of the poet, I realised that he had lived in South Africa for nearly two years.
Biography of Isaac Rosenberg
Isaac Rosenberg was born on 25 November, 1890. He was Jewish and was born in Bristol. When he was seven, his family moved to a poor district of the East End of London. He attended St. Paul’s School in Wellclose Square, until, when he was 10, his family moved to Stepney, to experience Jewish schooling. He left school four years later to become an apprentice engraver. His hobbies were poetry and visual art and he managed to attend the Slade School of Modern Art.
He suffered from ill-health and thought that his chronic bronchitis might worsen, so he immigrated to South Africa, where his sister, Mina, lived. He needed employment in order to help his mother; therefore he returned to England and enlisted in the army. He was part of the 12th Suffolk Folk Regiment, a regiment for men under 5’3’’ tall. He turned down an offer to become a lance corporal and was transferred to the 11th battalion. He was sent to the Somme on the Western Front in France, after a night of night patrol, he was killed at daybreak, on 1 April 1918.
Analysis of the poem:
At the beginning of a new day at war, a soldier standing guard pulls a poppy from the top of his trench. A rat then touches his hand, which causes him to ponder what war is like for a rat.
“As I pull the parapet’s poppy/ to stick behind my ear.” The poppy i...
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...claws behind his fingers supple;
And God will grow no talons at his heels,
Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls.
Biography of Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen was born near Oswestry, Shropshire. His father was a railway worker. He was schooled at Birkenhead Institute and Liverpool and Shrewsbury Technical College. His shortage of money prevented him from attending the University of London. He took up a teaching post in Bordeaux, France. He enlisted in the army shortly after war was declared.
In 1917, he suffered from “shell-shock” and was sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital to recover. Here he met fellow poet, Siegfried Sassoon, who read his poetry and suggested how they may be improved.
He was posted back to France in 1918 and was awarded the Military Cross for bravery while in action. He died on the Sombre Canal, a week before Armistice.
served in the First World War and was in a German gas attack. By the
Wilfred Owen was of a lower middle class background, he was the son of a railway worker who was the superintendent; he attended Shrewsbury Technical High School he had applied to go to the University Of London but was rejected. He worked as a lay preacher in his locality attending to the spiritual needs of the parishioners. He travelled to France to work as an English teacher within a French language school.
In 1915, Himmler began training with the Landshut Cadet Corps. He was accepted as an officer candidate due to his father’s connections with the royal family. He was eventually promoted to lieutenant. While he was still in training in November 1918, World War I ended with German’s defeat. He was never able to become an officer or see combat. He returned to Landshut. Himmler completed his grammar-school education after the war.
At the start of World War II, his father was sent away, captured by Germans, and didn’t return until the war’s end.
joined the army in 1915 after a frustrating career in the post office. His mother died
... one month before the Armistice. Ironically, on the day of his death, "all was quiet on the Western Front."
He was wounded five times, then released. After returning home, he had a plethora of jobs including: a school master, a tombstone salesman, and even joined a “Gypsy caravan';. His searching for a profession then came to an end when he started writing articles for a Swedish car magazine. He became very well known in the areas of car racing and auto mechanics. He then used his literary skills to write novels that branched from his own personal reflections and experiences. He wrote several best-sellers including: All Quiet On The Western Front, Arch of Triumph, and The Black Obelisk.
He bravely did this in horrendous battle conditions. He was killed by machine gun fire after spending 24 days carrying many wounded men. He fell dead beside his donkey. Murphy continued to serve the brave soldiers of Gallipoli. there are stories about what happened to Murphy the donkey but what really happened is unknown.
‘Poetry can challenge the reader to think about the world in new ways.’ It provokes the readers to consider events, issues and people with revised understanding and perspectives. The poems Dulce Et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen, 1917) and Suicide in the Trenches (Siegfried Sassoon, 1917), were composed during World War One and represented the poets’ point of views in regards to the glorification of war and encouraged readers to challenge their perspectives and reflect upon the real consequences behind the fabrications of the glory and pride of fighting for one’s nation.
The poet Wilfred Owen was one of many poets who were against war. He reflected this idea of anti-war in his poems, one of his poems called “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, mirrors most aspects of war all put together in this short still deep poem. An example of that would be when the speaker stated,” What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?”(1) The speaker asks is there any sound that marks our soldier’s death other than the sounds of church bell’s which are mostly rung to represent somebody’s absence? Clearly, the speaker sets anger as the tone of the poem through this question to show that soldier’s death is unremarkable.. The speaker compares the soldiers to a “cattle” which illustrates that soldiers are treated more like animals with no feelings and also shows how they are killed indiscriminately in war. Finally the line ironically contains an iambic pentameter which is a natural rhythm for such dark, grim, dull subject. The two novels, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, and All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, both present a similar idea of how soldiers are killed out there in the front comprehensively and the dehumanization of war towards its soldiers. The first novel is set during the Civil War, and it focuses on the psychological aspects of one soldier named Henry Fleming and how his naive thoughts about war constantly change through the course of the novel. The second novel presents the life of a soldier named Paul Baumer and his friends who were faced with the terribleness of war and how severely it affected their lives. The Red badge of Courage and All Quiet on The Western Front are similar in the way of how the main characters develop through the novel to change from naïve and innocent men ...
Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire on 18th March 1893. He was the son of a railway worker and was educated at schools in Shrewsbury and Liverpool. Wilfred was encouraged to write poetry from an early age by his devoted mother. He couldn't afford university education, so decided to go abroad to teach English in France. Owen then volunteered for the Army in 1914 when the First World War was in action. After training he became an officer and was sent to France at the end of 1916, seeing services. The following year, Owen took part in the attacks on the German Hindenburg. When a huge shell burst near him, he was shell-shocked and sent back to England.
Owen was born in Oswestry, Shropshire and was the eldest son of a minor railroad official. A thoughtful, imaginative youth, he was greatly influenced by his Calvinist mother and developed an early interest in Romantic poets and poetry, especially in John Keats, whose influence can be seen in many of Owen's poems. Owen was a serious student, attending schools in Birkenhead and Shrews-bury. After failing to win a university scholarship in 1911, he became a lay assistant to the Vicar of Dunsden in Oxfordshire. Failing again to win a scholarship in 1913, Owen accepted a position teaching English at the Berlitz School in Bordeaux, France. There he met the Symbolist poet and pacifist Laurent Tailhade, who encouraged Owen to become a poet. In 1915, a year after the beginning of the Great War, Owen returned to England and enlisted in the Artist's Rifles. While training in London, he frequented Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop, where he became acquainted with Monro and regularly at...
ended up serving in World War I as the commander of an artillery battle. Upon his return
which he served as a member of the French army. After the war was finished, he
Moreover, he survived being wounded two times in battle during the Vietnam War during two separate tours. He was wounded a second time during a helicopter crash where he saved three soldiers and a general, despite his own wounds, which he received the heroism medal for. From there he obtained his masters degree and went on to command the 101st Airborne Division. Soon after he was serving in pivotal positions in Washington (LaFEBER, 2009).