Work for Wednesday 6 March 2019

Today, you have two choices.
1. You can keep reading the novel or short story or poem(s) that you have chosen yourself to extend your knowledge of war literature OR
2. If you forgot to bring your book, or would like to try another poem from WWI, then have a look at Wilfred Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth.

Owen also wrote Dulce et Decorum Est, which we watched earlier in the term:

There is a lot of analysis of these hugely powerful and famous poems available online to give you some more ideas to think about in relation to the poems, and to war literature, and perhaps to other texts on war that you have read or are reading.

This discussion focuses on the sound techniques used in Anthem for Doomed Youth, and offers a specialist perspective on the use of rhyme and rhythm in poetry (why not learnt to pepper your conversations with phrases like iambic pentameter?)  On the same poem, this shmoop summary may be of interest.

This profile of Wilfred Owen and discussion of his poems may be useful.  One connection between Tim O'Brien's work and Wilfred Owen's work that is worth considering carefully is the role of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Read.  Think.  Write down your thoughts, and feel welcome to email me questions, or tag me in a comment on your work.  Your role is to think about war and literature in lots of ways, and consider how each text approaches this topic and what we learn from each text - about the characters, about war, about ourselves.