The Conscript
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- The Conscript
- Wilfrid Gibson
- close friends
- Rupert Brookes
- Edward Marsh
- born in Hexham 1878
- social worker in London's East End
- served as a private on the Western Front
- Georgian movement
- young poets
- colloquialism
- simplicity
- realism
- close friends
- reception
- published in the newspaper 'Neighbours
- plays on society's insecurities
- identifies potential risks of going to war
- fears
- pacifists
- not all men experienced the patriotic fervour reflected in 1914:The Soldier
- identifies potential risks of going to war
- Petrachan sonnet
- 3 themes
- love
- death
- passing of time
- simple and widely acknowledged form
- Gibson's accessible language
- allusion to the Bible in this poem
- 3 themes
- octet
- "the living death/Of mangled limbs, blind eyes or a darkened brain"
- plays of men's fears
- foreshadows mass movement of shell shock
- mental health struggles are rife
- ABBACDDC rhyme scheme
- inversion of situation
- outside rhyme encases the scenario
- "And the chairman, as his monocle falls again,/Pronounces each doom with easy indifferent breath
- juxtaposition of life and death with the rhyme "death" and "breath"
- exposes their transitory state between life and death
- "means life or death, or the living death"
- compares the two then uses an oxymoron to imply that there is a state in between which men would never be able to fully appreciate both
- foreboding the tragedy of the men in battle
- attack on the Home Front
- people at home aren't fully understanding of the "doom" soldiers experience
- juxtaposition of life and death with the rhyme "death" and "breath"
- "Indifferent,flippant, earnest, but all bored"
- rule of three sets the exposition
- motif of light and sight
- "the doctors sit in the glare of electric light"
- light is exaggerated in this sonnet to draw a contrast between its presence and the devastation of the men
- "watching the endless stream of naked white"
- does this allude to their race or to their condition
- ghostly or corpse-like
- does this allude to their race or to their condition
- "the doctors sit in the glare of electric light"
- "the living death/Of mangled limbs, blind eyes or a darkened brain"
- Wilfrid Gibson
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