UTLTD Flashcards
(31 cards)
In the zeppelin, what is significant about the 3rd and 6th lines?
3rd and 6th lines rhyme don’t expect to rhyme back so has emphasis hence word choice
In the zeppelin, what is the rhyme scheme similar to, and what is the significance of this?
o Similar rhyme scheme to Shakespearian sonnet but different so jumbled + displaced like setting- metanarrative
In the Zeppelin, what animal imagery image is used to describe the zeppelin?
charms like a snake
stings
in the zeppelin, what is the significance of the words “sudden” and “angry” being in quick succession?
give rhythm of raised heartbeat, conveying fear
In Air Raid, how are the humans presented as prey and the guns/planes presented as predators?
Which line later confirms this idea?
o Guns + planes = predators (“bark” and “roar”) humans= prey with compound adjectives “wide-eyed” “prick-eared”
confirmed later by “like some sore-hunted creature”
How does the structure of Air Raid contrast the mechanisation of warfare to the vulnerability/minuscule significance of an individual?
volta marks the focus shift from gargantuan “bark of guns” to inside “breathing of [a] little child”
How does the structure of exposure demonstrate the futility of warfare? What critic quote backs this up?
“but nothing happens” at end of first stanza and last stanza
Birkett- “he is the poet of futility”
What is the effect of the half rhymes (“stormy”/”army”, “brambles”/”rumbles”) in Exposure?
it gives a sense of incompleteness/ fragmentation
What is the significance of the Owenian coinage “glozed”?
- obscure word reflects disconnect from reality
In The Call, what does the phrase “white roads called for their feet” connote?
What poem does this oppose, and what other poem is it similar to?
connotes stairway to heaven/fighting leads to heaven
different to strange meeting where they go to hell
same in field manoeuvres – silver segment of road
What phrase in Brookes propaganda poem “peace” suggests that war breaks the monotonous cycle of life?
“wakened us from sleeping”
In Peace, what phrase suggests war is a purifying force, almost baptismal, as if its a passport to eternity?
Swimmers into cleanness leaping
In the verdicts, what do the cross rhymes suggest about the reliability of the soldiers?
rhyme will come back mimics reliability of the soldiers
What does kipling call the soldiers in the verdicts, that memorialises them as heroes?
demi-gods
In strange meeting, the soldiers meet in hell. In which other famous novel is the idea of meeting in hell present?
dante’s inferno
in strange meeting, what are heroic couplets, and what is the significance of these?
Heroic couplets= rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter
used for epic poetry, ironic bc used for something not heroic at all
In owens strange meeting, what does he mean by “none will break ranks”? What is the significance of this?
no one will rebel against war
usually in military terms this would be good but here Owen seeks to break ranks himself and does so with his protest poetry
what does the title “dolce et decorum est” mean, and where did it come from?
Horace’s odes. 0
it is sweet and right to die for ones country
BC/AD Horace wrote very patriotic poetry as he needed people to fight for the country under Emperor Augustus. Owen would know Horace because studied Latin and Greek at school
In Owen’s dolce est decorum est, what is the significance of the word “mori” being a spondee?
it is drawn out, mimetic of the drawn out death of the soldier drowning in the gas attack
In dolce et decorum est, what do the phrases “coughing like hags we cursed through sludge” and “knock-kneed” demonstrate?
the ageing effects of war. gives sense of “the undone years” which Owen refers to in strange meeting
cacophonous, the c alliteration is onomatopoeic of the coughing .
In the poem deaths men, what does the repetition of the words “click clack” suggest about the soldiers?
theyre toys, robotic and mechanical, stuck in a regime doing the same thing, controlled by the puppeteer which is death
In death’s men, what does referring to the men as “wooden dolls” suggest about them?
they have no soul or depth to them because it has gone with this regime
In officers mess, the speaker refers to his “words” “jerking about like beetles”. What does this imply about soldiers’ conversation?
compares conversations of soldiers with something insignificant- hints at the futility of human conversation, because in the end, they will be dead.
What phrases in the dead suggest there is value in dying? How is this similar to the poem the soldier?
“the rich dead” and “but, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold”
like in “The Soldier” where dying in a foreign field is valuable “in that rich earth a richer dust concealed”
