futility
- Created by: rebecca
- Created on: 15-05-13 17:11
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- futilty
- context
- joined army
- returned to England gfor treatment for shell shock
- wrote some of best known poems in trenches
- killed a week before peace was declared
- celebrated for bravery
- influenced by seigfried Sassoon in hospital
- imagery and language
- title very blunt simple and strong
- imagery
- key image is the sun
- 1 positive force
- key image is the sun
- structure and form
- 14 lines like a sonnet
- not structured like a sonnet
- 2 7 line stanzas reflecting change in mood
- hope and confidence to despair
- move him into the sun , action, still alive
- ideas and themes and attutudes
- context
- did not see war as attempt to free Belgium
- poet is very clear and straightforward
- bleak realism of grief and anger
- soft motherly voice - genly, rouse whispering
- kind and old sun
- 2 sun becomes negative
- cold star - cold oxymoron
- no feelings even if warm
- does not care ,creates life to watch it die
- sounds
- half rhymes, once france
- ful rhymes at ends of stanzas
- broken harmony beneath seemingly strong surface
- ful rhymes at ends of stanzas
- pattern of rhymes that are not exact
- elegy - to remember someone who has died
- normally to remember great deeds of the dead
- in contrast, short and compact with nothing to celebrate
- no hope anywhere
- life is futile
- elegy for mankind
- life is futile
- no hope anywhere
- in contrast, short and compact with nothing to celebrate
- normally to remember great deeds of the dead
- in contrast, short and compact with nothing to celebrate
- no hope anywhere
- life is futile
- elegy for mankind
- life is futile
- no hope anywhere
- anger comes from personal knowledge of deads man's peaceful past
- metaphors to describe this, more powerful
- soliders being cut down in battle like harvest time
- no conclusions - futile
- angry about war, sun and WHOLE OF CREATION
- anger expressed in series of rhetorical questions
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