Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Friday, April 29, 2016
Henry V
Ethos (morality, religion, great people) Edward the third was a great warrior
- gift of heaven
Pathos (emotion)
Logos (reason)
- law of nature
- law of nations
Fierce tempest, Thunder, Earthquake are metaphors and imagery of nature
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Concluding Paragrph
"Oh Jesus make it stop!"
Ww1 was the First World War that ever happened so this is why so many poets wrote about the experience from there, to describe these things they used figurative language. Most WW1 poetry is about the war's brutality, tragedy and horrors, and how we should never forget. Powerful points that prove this statement are how those left behind can only remember their lost ones in their khaki tunic and not their faces or how they used to be. Also considered is how the men were full of fear, the horrors of 'drowning' in gas and how people are not designed to kill. After such a terrifying and horrible war, how could anyone wish for something like this to ever happen again?
The Soldier:
"Under an English heaven"
The soldier is an important poem for a number of reasons. It exemplifies the attitudes of people at the beginning of WW1, as well as being a very invested example of the sonnet form. The main idea of the poem is how glorious it is to die for England. There are several things that serve the poem. Repetition of England imagery, metaphors, the 2 ideas of the 2 stanzas. The poem is based on England. You can easily tell that the poem is based on England and that ding for England is glorious, this is because they have used England or English in so many ways, to specify that it is England; "English dust, English heaven"... There are many ww1 poems written but even though there are so many, they are all so different with all different options towards the war. The Soldier for example is just based on how glorious it is didn't for England in the war but however there are many poems that disagree with the idea of this one and so they are based on how horrible it is downing for your country and that the war was just a brutal nightmare.
The Sentry:
"Eyeballs, huge bulged like squids"
The Sentry is a poem about the First World War which includes information about the experience of being in war and how brutal it was being apart of it. War is a brutal nightmare. War is a brutal nightmare. This example is the key to what the Sentry poem is about and in the poem it uses several quotations which refers to the main idea; "Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime, kept slush waist-high and rising", "'O sir, my eyes - I'm blind, - I'm blind, I'm blind!", "Eyeballs, huge-bulged like squids'", "Shrieking air", " Drowned himself for good". Wilfred Owen uses figurative language to serve the big idea; onomatopoeia, metaphors, alliteration, imagery of sight, sound, feel and smell. Including all of these figurative languages in a poem makes it really powerful to the reader and also to get a better understanding but also to look deeper in the poem and finding all the different figurative languages in it.
The wind of the Downs:
"It seemed impossible that you should die"
The wind of the Downs, by Marian Allen is a poem which uses some imagery and all of the similies and the repetition of; You, I, Me and We are all bits of figurative language that help serve the big idea in this poem. The big idea of the poem is that Marian Allen can't remember her boyfriends face but she can only remember his khaki figure. An example of imagery of sight from the poem is "In khaki tunic. Sam Brown belt and all..." This quote makes us get the idea of how she can only imagine her boyfriend in the khaki tunic which is his soldier uniform and so this example of imagery makes us see that picture of him in his uniform. The fact that the poem is based on Marian and her feelings when her boyfriend had to leave her to join the war, it uses a lot of repetition of I, You, Me, We and this makes it stronger because we get an opinion from a woman experiencing her boyfriend in the war and how terrified she is that he would be dead, but she still believes that he is not dead. She can only remember him in his khaki tunic and not his face or how he used to be, this is why the first stanza of the poem is about her describing him as she wants to see him and not imagine that he could be dead. The second stanza of the poem is about her remembering and describing their old memories of what they used to do together and how she is now doing them alone, but she doesn't want to be thinking that he is dead so she is still waiting for him to come back from the war again.
Attack:
"Oh Jesus make it stop!"
Attack, by Siegfried Sassoon is a powerful poem about "going over the top", and it uses imagery and metaphors to serve the big idea. The main idea of the poem is that the situation is hopeless and the men are desperate. An example of auditory (sound) imagery is "the barrage roars and lifts", this quote is very powerful because it also includes a really strong metaphor which is "roars" because a barrage doesn't actually roar but since it is so loud it sounds as if it does roar. The sight imagery is best exemplified by "lines of grey, masked with fear". This quote of imagery of sight uses a really great metaphor which is "masked" as if they are all wearing a mask of fear. "Hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists" in this quote the metaphor is "hope" since they are hopeless meaning there is no hope left.
Arms and the boy:
"Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death."
The arms and the boy, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem about soldiers in WW1, it uses a lot of imagery and metaphors in 3 of the stanzas, to serve the big idea of the poem. The big idea of the poem is that war is unnatural. An example of metaphor from the first stanza of the poem is "How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood". This metaphor is describing how the bayonet-blade is and feels. The first stanza is all about the secretion of the gun. In the second stanza there is a great metaphor "Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth, Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death. This metaphor is linked to the main idea of the stanza because it is describing the cartridges and bullets. In the third stanza it uses a great bit of imagery "There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple; and God will grow no talons at his heels, nor antlers through the thickness of his curls. This imagery describes the boy and how people are not designed to kill. All three stanzas all describe something different but they still fit together because it is all about how war is unnatural and it isn't right because people aren't designed to kill each other.
Dulce et Decorum Est
"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!"
Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem using a lot of figurative language such as similes , metaphors and imagery of sight which helps to serve the big idea. The big idea of this poem is that dying for your country is not sweet and beautiful. This sentence is a great example of both simile and metaphor from the poem "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning". The simile in this sentence is the bit that says "As under a green sea" and the metaphor bit in this sentence is "I saw him drowning" this is a metaphor because his friend isn't actually drowning but it is as if he is drowning in all the gas, which he is surrounded by. A great bit of imagery of sight from the poem is "He plunges at me, guttering, chocking, drowning". This imagery of sight makes you get this picture in your mind, of a man full of fear and as if he is drowning in gas, just a picture of fear. Dulce et Decorum Est means sweet and beautiful in Latin, this means that the author is trying to say that dying for your country is sweet and beautiful. But in the end of the poem it says "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori" meaning the conclusion of this whole poem is that dying for your country is not sweet and beautiful but in reality it is terrifying and just like a brutal nightmare to be apart of a war.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
The wind of the Downs:
"It seemed impossible that you should die"
The wind of the Downs, by Marian Allen is a poem which uses some imagery and all of the similies and the repetition of; You, I, Me and We are all bits of figurative language that help serve the big idea in this poem. The big idea of the poem is that Marian Allen can't remember her boyfriends face but she can only remember his khaki figure. An example of imagery of sight from the poem is "In khaki tunic. Sam Brown belt and all..." This quote makes us get the idea of how she can only imagine her boyfriend in the khaki tunic which is his soldier uniform and so this example of imagery makes us see that picture of him in his uniform. The fact that the poem is based on Marian and her feelings when her boyfriend had to leave her to join the war, it uses a lot of repetition of I, You, Me, We and this makes it stronger because we get an opinion from a woman experiencing her boyfriend in the war and how terrified she is that he would be dead, but she still believes that he is not dead. She can only remember him in his khaki tunic and not his face or how he used to be, this is why the first stanza of the poem is about her describing him as she wants to see him and not imagine that he could be dead. The second stanza of the poem is about her remembering and describing their old memories of what they used to do together and how she is now doing them alone, but she doesn't want to be thinking that he is dead so she is still waiting for him to come back from the war again.
"It seemed impossible that you should die"
The wind of the Downs, by Marian Allen is a poem which uses some imagery and all of the similies and the repetition of; You, I, Me and We are all bits of figurative language that help serve the big idea in this poem. The big idea of the poem is that Marian Allen can't remember her boyfriends face but she can only remember his khaki figure. An example of imagery of sight from the poem is "In khaki tunic. Sam Brown belt and all..." This quote makes us get the idea of how she can only imagine her boyfriend in the khaki tunic which is his soldier uniform and so this example of imagery makes us see that picture of him in his uniform. The fact that the poem is based on Marian and her feelings when her boyfriend had to leave her to join the war, it uses a lot of repetition of I, You, Me, We and this makes it stronger because we get an opinion from a woman experiencing her boyfriend in the war and how terrified she is that he would be dead, but she still believes that he is not dead. She can only remember him in his khaki tunic and not his face or how he used to be, this is why the first stanza of the poem is about her describing him as she wants to see him and not imagine that he could be dead. The second stanza of the poem is about her remembering and describing their old memories of what they used to do together and how she is now doing them alone, but she doesn't want to be thinking that he is dead so she is still waiting for him to come back from the war again.
Dulce et Decorum Est
"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!"
Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem using a lot of figurative language such as similes , metaphors and imagery of sight which helps to serve the big idea. The big idea of this poem is that dying for your country is not sweet and beautiful. This sentence is a great example of both simile and metaphor from the poem "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning". The simile in this sentence is the bit that says "As under a green sea" and the metaphor bit in this sentence is "I saw him drowning" this is a metaphor because his friend isn't actually drowning but it is as if he is drowning in all the gas, which he is surrounded by. A great bit of imagery of sight from the poem is "He plunges at me, guttering, chocking, drowning". This imagery of sight makes you get this picture in your mind, of a man full of fear and as if he is drowning in gas, just a picture of fear. Dulce et Decorum Est means sweet and beautiful in Latin, this means that the author is trying to say that dying for your country is sweet and beautiful. But in the end of the poem it says "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori" meaning the conclusion of this whole poem is that dying for your country is not sweet and beautiful but in reality it is terrifying and just like a brutal nightmare to be apart of a war.
"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!"
Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem using a lot of figurative language such as similes , metaphors and imagery of sight which helps to serve the big idea. The big idea of this poem is that dying for your country is not sweet and beautiful. This sentence is a great example of both simile and metaphor from the poem "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning". The simile in this sentence is the bit that says "As under a green sea" and the metaphor bit in this sentence is "I saw him drowning" this is a metaphor because his friend isn't actually drowning but it is as if he is drowning in all the gas, which he is surrounded by. A great bit of imagery of sight from the poem is "He plunges at me, guttering, chocking, drowning". This imagery of sight makes you get this picture in your mind, of a man full of fear and as if he is drowning in gas, just a picture of fear. Dulce et Decorum Est means sweet and beautiful in Latin, this means that the author is trying to say that dying for your country is sweet and beautiful. But in the end of the poem it says "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori" meaning the conclusion of this whole poem is that dying for your country is not sweet and beautiful but in reality it is terrifying and just like a brutal nightmare to be apart of a war.
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Arms and the boy
Arms and the boy:
"Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death."
The arms and the boy, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem about soldiers in WW1, it uses a lot of imagery and metaphors in 3 of the stanzas, to serve the big idea of the poem. The big idea of the poem is that war is unnatural. An example of metaphor from the first stanza of the poem is "How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood". This metaphor is describing how the bayonet-blade is and feels. The first stanza is all about the secretion of the gun. In the second stanza there is a great metaphor "Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth, Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death. This metaphor is linked to the main idea of the stanza because it is describing the cartridges and bullets. In the third stanza it uses a great bit of imagery "There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple; and God will grow no talons at his heels, nor antlers through the thickness of his curls. This imagery describes the boy and how people are not designed to kill. All three stanzas all describe something different but they still fit together because it is all about how war is unnatural and it isn't right because people aren't designed to kill each other.
"Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death."
The arms and the boy, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem about soldiers in WW1, it uses a lot of imagery and metaphors in 3 of the stanzas, to serve the big idea of the poem. The big idea of the poem is that war is unnatural. An example of metaphor from the first stanza of the poem is "How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood". This metaphor is describing how the bayonet-blade is and feels. The first stanza is all about the secretion of the gun. In the second stanza there is a great metaphor "Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth, Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death. This metaphor is linked to the main idea of the stanza because it is describing the cartridges and bullets. In the third stanza it uses a great bit of imagery "There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple; and God will grow no talons at his heels, nor antlers through the thickness of his curls. This imagery describes the boy and how people are not designed to kill. All three stanzas all describe something different but they still fit together because it is all about how war is unnatural and it isn't right because people aren't designed to kill each other.
Attack:
"Oh Jesus make it stop!"
Attack, by Siegfried Sassoon is a powerful poem about "going over the top", and it uses imagery and metaphors to serve the big idea. The main idea of the poem is that the situation is hopeless and the men are desperate. An example of auditory (sound) imagery is "the barrage roars and lifts", this quote is very powerful because it also includes a really strong metaphor which is "roars" because a barrage doesn't actually roar but since it is so loud it sounds as if it does roar. The sight imagery is best exemplified by "lines of grey, masked with fear". This quote of imagery of sight uses a really great metaphor which is "masked" as if they are all wearing a mask of fear. "Hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists" in this quote the metaphor is "hope" since they are hopeless meaning there is no hope left.
"Oh Jesus make it stop!"
Attack, by Siegfried Sassoon is a powerful poem about "going over the top", and it uses imagery and metaphors to serve the big idea. The main idea of the poem is that the situation is hopeless and the men are desperate. An example of auditory (sound) imagery is "the barrage roars and lifts", this quote is very powerful because it also includes a really strong metaphor which is "roars" because a barrage doesn't actually roar but since it is so loud it sounds as if it does roar. The sight imagery is best exemplified by "lines of grey, masked with fear". This quote of imagery of sight uses a really great metaphor which is "masked" as if they are all wearing a mask of fear. "Hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists" in this quote the metaphor is "hope" since they are hopeless meaning there is no hope left.
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