War poems Flashcards
(10 cards)
Dulce Et Decorum Est- Main Points
- Challenges the idea that fighting in war is an honourable act
- Challenges its own title: Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori(its sweet and fitting to die for your own country)
- War aged/scarred/abused/changes soldiers, highlighting the downside of war
- Anti-patriotic
Dulce Et Decorum Est- Main Quotes
“The Old Lie: Dulce Et Decorum Est, Pro Patria Mori”
“His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin”
“Drunk with fatigue”
“men marched asleep”
“And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime…”
“I saw him drowning.”
“guttering, choking, drowning.”
“Gas! Gas! Quick boys!”
The Soldier- Main Points
- Very patriotic
2.Explores the honourable act of fighting for your country
3.Love sonnet written for England- homage to his country, trying to highlight the upside of war - Suggests that soldiers carry their country with them
The Soldier- Main Quotes
“If is should die, think only this of me.”
“some corner of a foreign field
that is forever England”
“And think, this heart, all evil shed away
a pulse in the eternal mind, no less”
“hearts at peace, under an English heaven”
Mametz Wood- Main Points
- War has left an effect/imprint/scars on the earth around
- society seems to have moved on, leaving the bodies and war and soldiers forgotten
- Less personal poem, gives a wider perspective
- portrays the aftermath of war
Mametz Wood- Main Quotes
“years afterwards, the farmers found them”
“the wasted young”
“a chit of bone”
“the relic of a finger”
“they were told to walk, not run”
“even now the earth stands sentinel”
“reaching back into itself for reminders”
“like a wound working a foreign body”
“their skeletons paused mid-macabre”
“with this unearthing, slipped from their absent tongues.”
The Manhunt- Main Points
1.Based on a husband and wife trying to reconnect- Personal and intimate poem
2.Displays the fragility of man
3.Portrays the PTSD and the scars of a person
4.Trying to convey Wife’s POV
The Manhunt- Main Quotes
“only then”- repetition shows how slowly he is allowing his wife to find him again
“handle and hold
“mind and attend”
“the damaged, porcelain collor-bone”
“feel the hurt of his grazed heart”
“the foetus of metal beneath his chest, where the bullet had finally come to rest”
“a sweating, unexploded mine”
“then, only then, did I come close.”
A Wife in London- Main Points
- Sad truths of war
- Portraying effect of loss on those at home
- Anti-war poem
- emotive
A Wife In London- Main Quotes
I- The tragedy
“Tawny vapour”-Connects to “fog hangs thicker” in ‘The Irony’, symbolising the cloudy mystery of confusing emotions and suffocating feelings that those felt at home
“Messengers knock cracks smartly”-opens the second part of the poem with literary sound effects
“flashed news”
“though shaped so shortly”
“he-has fallen-in the”
“the far south land”
II- The Irony
“his hand whom the worm knows”
“page full of his high hoped return”
“new love that they would learn.”
