This lesson contains 41 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 3 videos.
Lesson duration is: 80 min
Items in this lesson
Dulce et Decorum Est
Havo 5 Literature
Slide 1 - Slide
About the author
Wilfred Owen
1893 - 1918
Slide 2 - Slide
What does the year of his death (1918) tell us?
Slide 3 - Open question
About the author
Owen died during WWI.
He had enlisted voluntarily.
Killed one week before the armistice (wapenstilstand) was signed.
Slide 4 - Slide
About the author
One of many poets who has written about WWI.
Others were Brooke and Sassoon.
Slide 5 - Slide
What do the following words mean?
knock-kneed
lame
fumbling
stumbling
plunges
gargling
gorgelend
grijpen
met x-benen
struikelend
kreupel
geklungel
Slide 6 - Drag question
Let's read the poem
Slide 7 - Slide
Slide 8 - Video
Let's continue
By answering the questions
Slide 9 - Slide
1. What is the setting of this poem?
Slide 10 - Open question
What is the setting of this poem?
Time: WWI
Place: on a battlefield (back towards their camp)
Slide 11 - Slide
What is a stanza?
Slide 12 - Open question
Describe in your own words what happens in the first two stanzas.
Slide 13 - Mind map
Stanza 1 + 2
Tired soldiers are walking back to their camp from a battlefield. Suddenly they are attacked by their enemy who uses gas.
Slide 14 - Slide
Describe in your own words what happens in the third stanza.
Slide 15 - Mind map
Stanza 3
The soldiers put on their masks. One, however, fails to do so and is choking in the gas. (He isn’t dead yet, but he is dying!)
Slide 16 - Slide
Hyperbole
The definition of hyperbole is “exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.” In practice, hyperbole is language that loads up on the drama.
Slide 17 - Slide
Connect the figure of speech to the description.
A comparison without the words as or like.
A comparison with the words as or like.
A lifeless object is given a human trait.
personification
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
Slide 18 - Drag question
Question 3
Examine the figure of speech (2x) in the first two lines.
Slide 19 - Slide
What figure of speech is this? Metaphor or simile?
A
metaphor
B
simile
Slide 20 - Quiz
What two things are being compared?
Slide 21 - Mind map
What image is created by these figures of speech?
Discuss this in pairs or groups of three
Slide 22 - Slide
Correct answer:
The soldiers are a sorry sight, not the strong energetic men you normally associate with soldiers
Slide 23 - Slide
What words show how tired the soldiers are? (Do not use the similes from previous question)
Slide 24 - Mind map
Possible answers:
bent double (dubbel gevouwen; shows how they walk)
knock-kneed (x-benen)
trudge (sjokken)
men marched asleep
limped (strompelen)
lame (kreupel)
drunk with fatigue (vermoeidheid)
deaf (to the hoots)
Slide 25 - Slide
What happens to the 'someone' in stanza three and why?
Discuss this in pairs or groups of three
Slide 26 - Slide
Slide 27 - Video
Correct answer
The someone is dying because he couldn’t put on his gas mask in time.
Slide 28 - Slide
Stanza 5 is one long 'if-sentence'. If you..., you wouldn't ...
Slide 29 - Slide
Possible answer
If you also had nightmares about young men dying a horrible death,
(then) you wouldn’t tell new recruits it is honourable to die for your country.
Slide 30 - Slide
Slide 31 - Video
Why is there a sentence in Latin? What is it used for in war?
Discuss in pairs or groups of three.
Slide 32 - Slide
Correct answer
Why is there a sentence in Latin? It is an artistic way to say that it is honourable to die for your country, but the words the old Lie suggest otherwise.
What is it used for in the war? It is used as propaganda and to justify the many soldiers dying during the war.
Slide 33 - Slide
What is Owen's intention in writing in this poem?
Slide 34 - Slide
Correct answer
He wants to show the ugly face of the war.
Slide 35 - Slide
What do you think of the words Owen uses?
Slide 36 - Mind map
Why do you think he used this sort of language?
Slide 37 - Open question
What you have to understand (notes!)
He uses direct, graphic, explicit words when describing the state the soldiers are in and the way the ‘someone’ dies.
He does this to highlight the ugliness of the scenes he describes. It is like he wants to shock people.
Slide 38 - Slide
In Owen's view, it is ... to die for your country. (1 word)
Slide 39 - Mind map
9. Explain why.
Slide 40 - Open question
Correct answer
Horrific and devastating: there is no glory, no beauty or honour in the way young men die.