War Poetry
Don't groan yet!! War poetry is as awesome as it is gruesome and heartbreaking. The poems we will read together will explore what war was really like, and how each soldier was affected in their own way.
Task Sheet
War Poems
Words to use when expressing difference |
Words to use to express similarity |
Words to use to discuss texts simultaneously
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Words to use to modify meaning
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- Each answer should stand alone (you shouldn't need to re-read the question to understand what you have written).
- Eg. for question 3:
- BAD = To talk about how bad war is, however both poets seek to explore this idea in slightly different ways based on their personal experiences.
- GOOD = The purpose of both poems is to express an anti-war sentiment, however, both poets seek to explore this idea in slightly different ways based on their personal experiences.
- Incorporate many SHORT quotations from the poems to support your ideas.
- Eg. While Owen uses the suffix -ing in the line "guttering, choking, drowning" to add emphasis and highlight the horror or war, Dawe uses repetition of this suffix in "picking", "zipping", "tagging" and " giving" to emphasise the machine-like processing of the dead.
- Avoid discussing the poems/poets individually and try to compare them together. Weaving together your ideas shows a much higher level of synthesis and analysis.
- Although both poets had very different experiences of war, they both express their anti-war sentiments through the eyes of a soldier returning home after war.
- Remember to use a topic sentence for each answer. This helps to guide your response and makes it clear to the marker exactly what you are saying and how you are tackling the question.
- eg. The Soldier follows a very strict sonnet structure which gives it a rhythm unlike that developed throughout Partaw’s unstructured epitaph. While The Soldier is structured via……., Partaw uses enjambment and the physical representation of the words on the page to have an effect on the reader etc etc etc.
- The poem should be in capital letters and with italics
- Eg. The Soldier
- For question 4, you need to compare how the poets use sound devices. This means you need to discuss them individually and together to show how they are similar/different.
- No "we", "I" or "us" in your analysis. Your answers should be formal like an essay.
- Refer to the poets by their surnames only after giving their full names at the beginning.
- Eg. Owen uses...
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