final

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Today:

• final three poems 
• Highlight the most important things of the entire reader 

Anthem for a doomed youth

Havo 5 Literature

About the author

• Wilfred Owen
• 1893 - 1918
• Dulce et Decorum Est

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Rituals:

passing-bells

orisons

prayers

bells

choirs

Stanza 2:

What candles may be held to speed them all?

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Which rituals can we perform to give the soldiers a proper goodbye?

"but in their eyes shall
shine the holy
glimmers of goodbyes"
What does this mean?

Possible answers:

tears of the soldiers in their eyes

the dying light of life in their eyes

In Flanders' Fields

Havo 5 Literature

About the author

• Canadian army doctor
• Died from pneumonia (longontsteking) in 1918
• Probably after effects of a chlorine attack
   (remember Dulce Et Decorum Est?)

Which country is Flanders?

What do the following words mean?

poppies

larks

scarce

dawn

quarrel

torch

fakkel

gevecht

klaprozen

dageraad

leeuweriken

nauwelijks

The importance of poppies

• English national symbol of remembrance (WWI)
  
• Because of this poem (In Flander’s Fields)
  

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Does It Matter?

Siegfried Sassoon

About the author

• Siegfried Sassoon
• 1886 - 1967
• Joined army

Before we start..

What is the same with each stanza?

The similarity is...

They all start with a question. We'll see later on why this is important.

STANZA 1

Correct answer

• The speaker asks a sarcastic question about whether or not losing one’s legs “matters”. 
• The answer to this question should be , yes, of course, it matters. 
• But, the speaker goes a different route in order to show the absurdity of war and the public’s lack of understanding about the suffering that the soldiers go through. 
• There are wounds that can’t be healed, mental and physical, by “kind” people. 

Correct answer

• This man is now unable to go hunting with his friends and family, sitting and cheerily greeting the returning hunting party. 
• These other people don’t see the soldier’s pain and he works hard to hide it. 
• The others “gobble their muffins and eggs,” totally unaware of the suffering that the soldier is going through. 

STANZA 2

Correct answer

• The speaker asks another question that he answers immediately. 
• He uses blindness as an example this time.
• There’s “splendid work for the blind,” he says as if this fact does away with this sorrow of losing one’s sight.
• By suggesting that kind people are enough to make up for this injury the poet is drawing attention to how very untrue the statement is. 

Correct answer

• One of the best, and most memorable, images in ‘Does it Matter?’ comes at the end of this stanza with the speaker describes this now blind man sitting outside and turning his face “to the light”. 
• This is a sorrowful scene that shows the longing in the man’s mind and heart for a time when things were different than they are now. 

STANZA 3

Correct answer

• The “dreams of the pit” are the focus of this stanza. The “pit” is likely a reference to both the Hell that is war and to the actual trenches that soldiers were forced in the bunker and fight from. 
• His sarcastic question in the first line is followed up with statements that suggest that people who don’t understand the impact of war won’t comprehend the true damage that soldiers endure.

Correct answer

• The speaker suggests, sarcastically, that you can “drink and forget and be glad” and then no one will recognize that “you’re mad”.
• Others will be happy to accept a soldier’s drinking because he fought for his country and they won’t have to worry about him at all. 

What do you think these dreams are about?

The dreams are about

The horrific scenes soldiers see and encounter on the battlefield.

Words close together with the same initial consonant sound

Words close together with the same vowel sound

When something not living is given human traits or behaviour

A line with 5x a pair of unstressed-stressed syllables

Alliteration

Assonance

Personification

Iambic pentameter

onomatopoeia

alliteration

personification

assonance

The stuttering rifles' rapid rattle

each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

The waves beside them danced.

a man in fire or lime

Dulce et Decorum Est

The Soldier

In Flanders' Fields

Battlefield, battle is still raging.

Battlefield, battle has finished

(make-shift) graveyard

Rank the poems from most negative to most positive.

Most negative

Most positive

Dulce Et Decorum Est

Does It Matter?

In Flanders' Fields

The Soldier

Explanation

• Dulce Et Decorum Est
  Graphic language and scenes
  
  
• Does It Matter? 
  Negative & sarcastic, but uses less strong language
  
  
• In Flanders' Fields
  It talks about the dead, but also about hope
  
  
• The Soldier
  Kind of propaganda (richer dust)