Write 2 PEE chains (one for 'Exposure', one for 'Spring Offensive') on the following question: "How does Owen show the extreme situation the soldiers faced through his description of surroundings and settings."
Don't forget to analyse the quotations that you use and remember that you are comparing and contrasting the two poems in your answer. Good luck!
How does Owen show the extreme situation the soldiers faced through his description of surroundings and settings?
ReplyDeleteOwen show the extreme situation of the soldiers in 'Spring Offensive' from the weather. The quote " the whole sky filled with fury", expresses that the weather is horrendous can could possibly be thunder and lighting. This would be hard for the soldiers as there uniform would be getting wet, which will make it very heavy.
In the poem 'Exposure' he also uses the weather. " Merciless iced winds that knife us" this empathies that the winds are obviously very strong and that it feels like they are being knifed, the word 'iced' expresses that it is very strong and painful.
How does Owen show the extreme situations the soldiers faced through his description of surroundings? Charlie Newell Churchill 32
ReplyDeleteOwen tries to show the extreme conditions of being a solider in his two poems; ‘Exposure’ and ‘Spring Offensive’ in many different ways. He talks about the soldiers in a respectable way and a way suggesting they are not killers and are heroes fighting for our country. He believes fighting was horrible and in, ‘Spring Offensive’ making out that even nature was intending to stop them.
“When even the little brambles would not yield,
But clutched and clang to them like sorrowing arms.”
This gives nature animal/human characteristics. The use of Personification was used here to help him describe nature knew what was about to happen. He makes out when the brambles; which usually hurt you, were wrapping around the solders legs was as if the brambles were saying don’t go. Where as in the poem ‘Exposure’ it says,
“The air that shudders black with snow,
With sidelong flakes that flock, pause and renew.” Here he is using metaphors to describe the bomb shell pieces falling out the sky as snow flakes. Snow flakes are usually associated with excitement and a Christmassy feel. However, used here he distinctively hidden the truth and had to make you think what he was on about. “Flock, pause and renew” is a very strong way of putting it and automatically can’t help but confuse a common person.
The ways in which the war poet Wilfred Owen uses the surroundings is to help the reader try to understand the side they don’t see or hear about. The papers would say about the war updates and conditions of weather, grounds and weapons used but not about the little things like, the nature, the bomb shell pieces flying, the dangerous lice and deceased animals, the places they slept and much more. Overall he uses the devise of surroundings to show the side no one sees of war and as he was a journalist of war he knows how scary it is being there and experiencing war.
How does Owen show the extreme situations the soldiers faced through his description of surroundings? Charlie Newell Churchill 32
ReplyDeleteOwen tries to show the extreme conditions of being a solider in his two poems; ‘Exposure’ and ‘Spring Offensive’ in many different ways. He talks about the soldiers in a respectable way and a way suggesting they are not killers and are heroes fighting for our country. He believes fighting was horrible and in, ‘Spring Offensive’ making out that even nature was intending to stop them.
“When even the little brambles would not yield,
But clutched and clang to them like sorrowing arms.”
This gives nature animal/human characteristics. The use of Personification was used here to help him describe nature knew what was about to happen. He makes out when the brambles; which usually hurt you, were wrapping around the solders legs was as if the brambles were saying don’t go. Where as in the poem ‘Exposure’ it says,
“The air that shudders black with snow,
With sidelong flakes that flock, pause and renew.” Here he is using metaphors to describe the bomb shell pieces falling out the sky as snow flakes. Snow flakes are usually associated with excitement and a Christmassy feel. However, used here he distinctively hidden the truth and had to make you think what he was on about. “Flock, pause and renew” is a very strong way of putting it and automatically can’t help but confuse a common person.
The ways in which the war poet Wilfred Owen uses the surroundings is to help the reader try to understand the side they don’t see or hear about. The papers would say about the war updates and conditions of weather, grounds and weapons used but not about the little things like, the nature, the bomb shell pieces flying, the dangerous lice and deceased animals, the places they slept and much more. Overall he uses the devise of surroundings to show the side no one sees of war and as he was a journalist of war he knows how scary it is being there and experiencing war.
In Exposure Owen describes something that is inhuman “the merciless iced winds that knive us” this shows that the wind wouldn’t knife you it describes it as a killer like a assassin and it will kill you as it is so cold. He also says “rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy” therefore he makes it feel like the clouds are filled up with so much rain the clouds are sagging and the wind soaks everything.
ReplyDeleteIn Spring Offensive it shows that it’s really hot, Owen says that “and through the summer oozed into their veins like an injected for the bodies’ pains”. This shows that when summer came around it went through their body and they were happy as it might have been really cold.
“Exposure”
ReplyDeleteThe quote “The merciless iced winds that knife us” he uses this sentence to tell you that there is a could wind that is constantly hitting them and that it was painfully cold
The sentence “merciless iced east winds” tell you that it’s cold. “Merciless” tell you that it keeps coming and wont stop and it’s like a knife because it goes straight threw them”
This quote in the poem is described as a person like “Merciless” this makes it sound like it is a person that is trying to kill them and won’t stop. He uses the surroundings to make it more dramatic and traumatising.
“Spring offensive”
“The son, like a friend when loves done” O larger shone that smile against he sun” this quote tells you that it is sunny by the word “sun”
It uses personification by saying” like a friend” this says like its there to help for you and its there if u need it.
It uses a lot of personification like “O Larger shone that smile against the sun” it uses personification by saying “shone like that smile”
This tells you by saying its hot and sunny and every one is quite happy.