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Link to analysis video for Attack - Sassoon

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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

Ww1 poem

The poem is an Italian Sonnet "love poem about war"
It's a love poem to war entitled "Peace" which is to the whole poem ironic
Dieting for your country in war brings spiritual peace which is why the poem is called "Peace
The whole poem is about, going to war brings you inner peace, everything bad becomes good

Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour,     A

      And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping!    B

With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,        A

      To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping,                    B

Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary;                  C 

      Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move,              D (slant rhyme)

And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,                     C 

      And all the little emptiness of love!                                       D (slant rhyme)

Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there,   E

      Where there’s no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending,             F

            Naught broken save this body, lost but breath;                   G

Nothing to shake the laughing heart’s long peace there,               E

      But only agony, and that has ending;                                          F

            And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.                  G

     = Rhyme

     = Repetition

     = Similie
     = Listing
     = Juxtaposition and Listing
Ab = Personification
Ab = Metaphor

Monologue from The Avengers

Monologue from the Avengers, Loki:

Can you? Can you wipe out that much red? Drakov's daughter? Sao Paulo? The hospital fire? Barton told me everything. Your ledger is dripping, it's gushing red, and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything? This is the basest sentimentality. This is a child, a prayer. Pathetic! You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code, something that makes up for the horrors. But they are a part of you, and they will never go away. I won't touch Barton! Not until I make him kill you. Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear. And then he'll wake just long enough to see his good work, and when he screams I'll split his skull! This is my bargain, you mewling quim!

     = Rhetorical questions - It uses rhetorical questions in the beginning, (example) to convince the person that she can't wipe out that much red

     = Simple syntax and Simple diction - The monologue changes between simple and Sophysticated syntax and diction since that makes it more effective while reading it, because when it uses more simple diction and syntax, you read it more calmly and when it's more Sophysticated, you dad it more loudly or aggressively 
     = Sophysticated syntax and Sophysticated diction
     = Sophysticated diction

     = Metaphor - "Your ledger is dripping, it's gushing red" this one sentence includes 2 metaphors. one of them is "ledger" which refers to her soul and then there is the "gushing red" this refers to the blood of others which she has killed. Loki ups the metaphor by saying gushing instead of dripping since it is a more powerful word and it means like "it's not dripping, it's gushing red!"

     = Repetition - In the monologue it uses repetition such as "You......you....you" because then it higlights the fact that he is speaking to "you"

     = Naming - The way he uses naming is by saying "pathetic!" which in this context means that what she has done is just childish

     = Listing - When he uses listing in the monologue it higlights the meaning of his expressions of example "Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear"

     = Jargon - Jargon is used in the monologue "code, something that makes up for the horrors" to describe how she thinks that she can be separate from the others but she is just like any other killer out there

The way that the monologue is written, makes you say / read the monologue in a more aggressive way, because of the language used, for example:

When Loki asks his rhetorical questions to Black Widow he says the questions with a tone which is to make her feel bad and it's like he is beating her down but with words and tone (Can you?.........The hospital fire?)

After he asked and said all of the questions he stands up from a chair and the tone that he is speaking in gets much more aggressive and he starts walking towards Black Widow and seems as if he would attack her (Barton told me everything........never go away)

When he starts saying that he has plans to kill her his voice raises very loud and he talks very aggressively, so much that Black Widow gets very frightened and ends up calling him a monster (I won't touch Barton!.....you mewling quim)