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WAR POETS
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- 1Wilfred Owen's 'Smile, Smile, Smile' is a...satirical response to the newspapers concealment of the reality of war.
- 2A line from Wilfred Owen's 'Smile, Smile, Smile' where the speaker is the Press:'Meanwhile their foremost need is aerodromes, it being certain war has just begun.'
- 3Explain Wilfred Owen's reference to 'Cheap Homes' in 'Smile, Smile, Smile.'4 years into the War and the Homes for Heroes had not yet been planned, only adding to the betrayal they felt and the insignificance of the individual soldier.
- 4Explain the second speaker's tone in Wilfred Owen's 'Smile, Smile, Smile.'The opening line begins with 'Nation?' as if they are confused with what the concept of a nation is now, used ironically to demonstrate that they do not believe there to be a nation left.
'like secret men who know their secret safe' - 5What did Siegfried Sassoon say in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?'What was this camouflage War which was manufactured by the Press to aid the imaginations of people who had never seen the real thing?'
- 6In the beginning of the War, the Army had its own official reporter under what by-line?'Eye Witness'
- 7What main literary technique does Robert Graves use in 'A dead Boche'?Graves uses dark imagery to encapsulate the readers into the real horrors of war, e.g. The German soldier was "dribbling black blood from nose and beard".
- 8Two quotes from 'A Dead Boche' that explains where he is lying and a description of the German soldier.1. 'big-bellied, spectacled, crop-haired'
2. lying in 'a great mess of things unclean' - 9Siegfried Sassoon - 'Counter-Attack' is written in the...Third person
- 10An example from 'Counter-Attack' which displays an opposite view to the soldiers' straightforward path to gloryHe 'choked and fought the flapping veils of smothering gloom, lost in a blurred confusion of yells and groans
- 11What did David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister from 1916 to 1922 say about the War?'If people really knew [the truth], the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know, and can't know.'
- 12Rupert Brooke was also recognised for his WWI poetry, how does he differ from Sassoon and Graves?His tone was more patriotic, the barbarity of warfare caused Brooke to look for a more positive meaning.
- 13What does Rupert Brooke's poem 'The Dead' refer to?It is a glorified image of the war, referring to the honour that dead soldiers receive after their death in war, almost as though it is preferable to die in war, rather than having to live through it.
- 14An example of the glorified image in 'The Dead' by Rupert Brooke?'Dying has made us rarer gifts than gold'
- 15How is Rupert Brooke's poetry of the war still indicated as 'Literature of Correction'?It indicates that the press glossed over the reality of the war in an attempt to protect the public from the truth, and some soldiers, like Brooke, felt that they needed it to find substance and offer an explanation that would otherwise have gone unexplained.
- 16What did Siegfried Sassoon say in 'Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man'?'The newspapers informed us that German soldiers crucified Belgian babies. Stories of this kind were taken for granted. To have believed them would have been unpatriotic.'
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