WWI Poetry IV

War Poetry

Discussing poetry of the first World War

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War Poetry

Discussing poetry of the first World War

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War & Peace

Beowulf - Anglo-Saxon Period

World War I Poets

Anglo-Irish Conflict

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Periods of British Literature

Renaissance = also called 'Early Modern Period'

WW I Poets

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Today's focus

Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon

Craiglockhart hospital Edinburgh

1917

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Wilfred Owen

shell shock

died in war

1918

posthumously

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'Dulce et decorum est'

use of similes

alliteration - onomatopoeia

double sonnet

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Siegfried Sassoon

decorated war hero

Use of irony

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Some numbers ...

Craiglockhart - 1500 - 1800 patients

WWI -

880,000 British forces =

6% of the adult male population and 12.5% of those serving.

109 women - 100 men

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Either work on your literature assignments or your essay

Test literature

Wednesday 12 February 2025

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Strands

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

Wordle

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

Squaredle

https://squaredle.app/

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