H5 In Flanders Fields

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Introduction to 

World War 1

Why WW1:

It was a conflict which has been very important for the UK.

It sparked a lot of literature 

WW 1 aka The Great War

It was called the Great War because it showed the enormous scale of the conflict. It was a war that had never been seen before. It was one of the deadliest conflicts of the time: may soldiers lost their lives over very little gain. 

Where did the war take place?

Read the information so you can answer the questions in the next slides

Information

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesizeopics/z4crd2p/t

Skim through the information on this website: make sure you read the info under 'Keypoints', 'The alliances' , The assassination of Franz Ferdinand' and 'The outbreak of War'. 

Which 3 countries formed the Alliance Triple Entente?

How long did the First World War last?

1. 2 years
2. 3 years
3. 4 years
4. 5 years

In which city was Franz Ferdinand assassinated on June 28 1914?

1. Berlin
2. Paris
3. Vienna
4. Sarajevo

The impact of the Great War

Everybody thought to be "at home before Christmas" at the start of the war. There were feelings of nationalism, pride, romantic patriotism at the beginning of the war. 

However, that changed during the four years of life in the trenches. 

Watch this videoclip: 

Life in the trenches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ersq3x0xFM4

The feeling at the start of the war:​

“War was romantic. War was colorful flags, spiked helmets and flashing sabers. War was an adventure. Those called to arms would be heroes, defending their homelands and way of life.”​

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Rupert Brooke - The soldier 

Find the poem here

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13076/the-soldier

What do you think the poem is about?

Task ahead

Look in your reader and answer the questions about 

"The soldier"

Poetry from the start of the war

John McCrae "In Flanders Fields"

In Flanders' Fields - John MacCrae

Task ahead

Look in your reader and answer the questions about 

"In Flanders' field"

               In Flanders Fields

    In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow

         Between the crosses, row on row,

       That mark our place; and in the sky

       The larks, still bravely singing, fly

    Scarce heard amid the guns below.

    We are the dead. Short days ago

    We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

       Loved and were loved, and now we lie,

                              In Flanders fields.

    Take up our quarrel with the foe:

    To you from failing hands we throw

       The torch; be yours to hold it high.

       If ye break faith with us who die

    We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

                                In Flanders fields.

Who wrote 'In Flanders Fields'

1. Siegfried Sassoon
2. John McRae
3. Wilfred Owen
4. Rupert Brooke

2. Is in Flanders' fields a sonnet?

1. yes
2. no
3. What is a sonnet?
4. I don't know

The poppies in In Flanders Fields are a symbol for:

In the poem “In Flanders fields”, it is said
“We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow . . .”
This is referring to how soldiers could die within days of reaching the front, this is only one of the many horrors of the great war. What kind of effect would this have had on the surviving soldiers and how is WW1 poetry influenced by them? (4-5

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The surviving soldiers, especially while the war was still going on, would have been frightened, depressed, angered etc. the specific feelings depending on the soldiers themselves of course. These negative emotions would have been brought over into the poets’ writing. This made the poems considerably darker and gave them more depth and meaning. Most of the time, the worse the mental state of the poet, the better the poem.

What is Flanders Fields about?
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6. What is the setting (place) of this poem?