Poems Essays

The poems Joining the Colours and The Send-off both discuss, young, guileless boys marching off to war. The Send-off is written by Wilfred Owen, and ex-soldier, which explains why the reader acquires a deeper understanding of war and its sinister quality. Whereas Katherine Tynan writes Joining the Colours, so it …

In this essay I will compare the two poems, “Belfast Confetti” and “come up from the fields farther” and show, how they show how they covey the feeling of helplessness. Walt Witmens poem “come up from the fields farther” was written in 1880, Ciaron Carson’s poem “Belfast confetti” was written …

In a time before conscription, this poem was an important, effective persuasion tool for recruiting potential soldiers. The basic, overall purpose of ‘The Soldier’ is to encourage English people to sign up to fight in the war. It focused on the apparent aspects, experiences and events relating to death; describing …

In the poem “Route March Rest”, we follow the march of s company of Soldiers through a small countryside village. The writer uses this setting to illustrate to us, how War travels and moves. The writer does this in several ways, using effective technique. When “B company” are first depicted …

Theme All three poems, which I chose, are on the subject of conflict. In “Thistles” for example conflict is between the plants and the man trying to kill the plants, but he is trying to control nature and this fight will continue forever. This poem describes man’s eternal battle with …

Poetry Coursework Essay My essay is going to discuss the comparisons and contrasts of the three poems I have chosen. The first is called ‘In Flanders Fields’ and is written by John McCrae, born in 1872-1918. McCrae was a Canadian doctor who first served as a gunner in Europe and …

To show how attitudes to the war changed as the Great War progressed I have chosen four poems. “The soldier” by Rupert Brooke, “In Flanders Field” by John McCare and ” Disabled” and “Dulce Et Decorum Est.” both by Wilfred Owen. Both John McCare and Rupert Brookes poems were written …

“In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.” How horrible is war? The two writers Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon have had enough of war, and so these two men want to show the rest of the Untied Kingdom, war is not as …

Apologia pro poemate meo means the reasons for my poetry and is about the friendships made throughout the war. As a response to Robert graves letter telling Owen ‘for god’s sake cheer up and write more optimistically’, and the more positive style is shown throughout the rhyme, metre and rhythm …

This is a line from “Happy is England now”. In my opinion it sums up the section as a whole because it is stating that the people of England wanted the soldiers to fight and they respect the sacrifices the men have made. The whole section revolves about the acknowledgment …