WWI Poetry IV

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• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

 War Poetry  

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

Strands

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

Wordle

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

Squaredle

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Today's focus

Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon

Craiglockhart hospital Edinburgh

1917

Wilfred Owen

shell shock

died in war

1918

posthumously

'Dulce et decorum est'

use of similes

alliteration - onomatopoeia

double sonnet 

Siegfried Sassoon

decorated war hero

Use of irony

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

Do

Work on your literature assignments - last class WWI

Ready?

start reading /understanding the works belonging to 'the Anglo-Irish Conflict'