WWI Poetry I

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6V War Poetry Project 

Discussing poetry of the first World War

War & Peace

Beowulf -  Anglo-Saxon Period

World War I Poets  

Anglo-Irish Conflict 

Periods of British Literature

Renaissance = also called 'Early Modern Period'

WW I Poets

Introduction

• Watch the following clip
• Find out what started World War I

Rupert Brooke

(1887 - 1915)

The Soldier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAFnhJojMYY

Jessie Pope 

(1868 - 1941)

War Girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9madAIzSSJ0

Wilfred Owen

(1893 - 1918)

 'All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful'.

Dulce et Decorum Est

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4cdRgIcB8

Born in Shropshire

Failed to get into university

Worked as a lay assistent to a vicar in Reading

Worked as an English tutor in France when the war broke out

Enlisted in 1915

Battle of the Somme 1917, came back with shellshock, Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh. Met Sassoon there.

Died one week before the armistace. 

Siegfried Sassoon

(1886 - 1967)

Survivors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeiYwUFk25U

Margaret Postgate - Cole 

(1893 -1980)

The Veteran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2tALm8MWR4

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared implicitly, without the use of as or like.

Simile

A figure of speech that involves a direct explicit comparison of one thing to another.

'My love is like a red, red rose'

Robert Burns

Do

 Work on assignments 

www.theguardian.com

www.bbc.co.uk

ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk

www.poetryfoundation.org

www.poetryfoundation.org

Strands

https://www.nytimes.com/games/strands

Wordle

https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

Squaredle

https://squaredle.app/