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.

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.

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Link to analysis video for Attack - Sassoon

https://youtu.be/ufEHSempPTM

The Soldier paragraph

"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"... Ther 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 didnt 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 paragraph

"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.

Metaphor paragraph "Rain"

Outline for paragraph:

Example 1: For washing me cleaner than I have ever been
Example 2: Born into this solitude

Thesis: The poem Rain includes a lot of very powerful metaphors since it makes the piece much more affective when reading it

"Born into this solitude"
A defenition of a metaphor from vocabulary.com is "A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest similarity". The poem Rain includes a lot of very powerful metaphors since it makes the piece much more affective when reading it. "For washing me cleaner than I have ever been". This one metaphor is about him death but it is mentioned in an implicit way meaning that it does not say it directly in the text. The word washing in this metaphor, is describing all his feelings, thoughts, emotions and so on since all of these things are being washed away. What it means by "For washing me cleaner than I have ever been" is that when he dies, he will be clean from everything and he will be free from the war. Another metaphor that is included in the same sentence as the other one, is "Born into this solitude". He wasn't actually born into solitude but the war brought him into solitude because he was taken away from all of the people that he loves and now is just alone, in the war fighting. Having metaphors in a poem is something that is quite important for a poem to include since then you will have to really consider what is happening in it.

The Soldier

If I should die, think only this of me:                            A
   That there’s some corner of a foreign field                B
That is for ever England. There shall be                       A
   In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;                  B
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,       C          All of this is part of the poem is 
   Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,   D         about that u Had something
A body of England’s, breathing English air,                 C
   Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.            D

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,                      E
   A pulse in the eternal mind, no less.                          F
     Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;   G        This part is about that you
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;        E                   Become something
   And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,        F
     In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.          G

- Natural / Physical, England explicit + implicit using imagery

- England, Mental / Spiritual