Poetry Essays

In this unit I have studied war poetry. In this topic I have studied example from authors and poets such as Rudyard Kipling, Robert Southey, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Wallace and the most famous Lord Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate and creator of ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’. The wars …

For my coursework on poetry I have selected the following two poems for my coursework. “Homecoming” which was written by Bruce Dawe and “Dulce et Decorum “which was written by Wilfred Owen. Bruce Dawe was an Australian poet who was born in 1930 and is still living. Dawe left school …

People’s attitudes to war have changed dramatically over the last century. Before world war one, war was viewed honourable and patriotic, with people feeling that it was their duty to defend their country at any cost. Pacifism was linked with cowardice. Therefore poetry written before the world war didn’t contain …

These three poems are all about war. They focus on different aspects and are written in very different ways. They express different views and use different language. I am going to explain these differences and also the similarities. “Attack” by Siegfried Sassoon, is written in the third person, and it …

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 the poem “SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES” Siegfried Sassoon uses figurative language, descriptive detail, tone, structure and sound to create a powerful impression of the horror and wastage of war. War is viewed as a product of ignorance and it is equated with intense suffering and the destruction of all …

What do you learn of the different attitudes of the poets and their societies and which poet do you find the most effective at expressing their attitude? What is war poetry? War poetry is, on a basic level just that… War-Poetry: poems about war and its effects on people. In …

The three poems that we are reading are all written at different times and places in the war. The Charge of the Light Brigade was written as the battle was actually happening. The Dirge of the dead sisters was written behind the front line where all the injured soldiers went, …

Almost all poetry of Wordsworth involves Nature at some level. In some poems, it is the vessel through which his philosophy is expressed ( Ode to Immortality, To a skylark, etc), while in others, Nature is described for its own sake – for Nature in Wordsworth’s poetry is but a …

“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 …