On passing the new menin gate paragraph

Here was the worlds worst wound. On passing the New Menin Gate, by Siegfried Sassoon is a powerful poem about 'sacrifice' which uses imagery to serve the poem.The big idea of this poem is that who will remember the dead  people because people will just walk away and won't remember the names. "....endured that sullen swamp" and "struggled in the slime" are examples of imagery of sight which describes the condition and location which the soldiers had to cope with. "Here was the worlds worst wound" is an example of a metaphor and imagery which describes the sight refering the soldiers to a wound. It tells us that loads of soldiers have died and that you can only see blood, which shows the impact of war. Siegfried Sassoon uses all this figurative language to show how many people have given their lives for us and that half of them are not even seen because there are just too many deaths and injuries. Who will remember the all the dead people?!
 

The effect paragraph

 He'd never seen so many dead before. The effect, by Siegfried Sassoon is a powerful poem which uses lots of metaphors to describe what happens to the soldiers in world war one. The big idea of this poem is that too many men are dying. The poem uses metaphors such as "Flapping along the fire-step like a fish" this refers the soldiers as fish who are dying outside the water, how the fish can't breath. This describes how the soldiers are dying slowly in pain. "They sprawled in yellow daylight while he swore" describes how loads of soldiers are spread out and loads of soldiers are covering the hole land either dead or trying to survive. Siegfried Sassoon uses figurative language but mostly metaphors to show that too many people are dying and being dragged down in the horrors of war.

The wind on the downs paragraph

How should you leave me, having loved me so? The wind on the downs, by Marian Allen is a poem which uses lots of repetition and imagery. The big idea of this poem is that she can't remember his face and she can only remember his khaki figure. An example of Imagery is ".....as brown and tall...strong...in Khaki tunic.." this describes her imagining him how her boyfriend looks like, and how she can only imagine him in his uniform. There is lots of repetition used of "I..you...me..we", this is very powerful because it shows howwar was like for the men and women who missed their beloved. She is describing him how she wants him to look like, she is hiding from the fact he might be dead. Marian Allen shows in this poem the pain of missing your beloved, her confusion; she doesn't really know how his husband really looks. She is remembering the things they did together before. Waiting and waiting because she doesn't want to believe that he is dead.

Dulce et decorum est paragraph

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem about 'how disastrous the gas attack was', which uses figurative language such as imagery, similes and metaphors. The main idea of  the poem is dying for your country is Not sweet and beautiful. 'Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning' this is a simile, metaphor and imagery which describes the dropping of gas shells, how the soldiers are dragged down through the horrors of war. The last to lines 'The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' means in Latin; how sweet and proper it is to die for your country but the word just in front 'lie' tells us they mean the opposite. Siegfried uses the last to lines to define the big idea 'it is not sweet and beautiful to die for your country'. Siegfried uses lots of figurative language to support the big idea.

Arms and the boy paragraph

Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death. Arms and the boy, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem about soldiers in WW1, that uses metaphors and imagery to serve the main idea. The main idea of the poem is that war is unnatural. The metaphor 'how cold steel is...hunger of blood' describes how the gun is like an animal or a creature who kills something. The imagery 'Blue with all malice, like madmans flash' show us how the gun is hungry for humans, again referring the gun to a animal or creature. 'Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth' tells us how the bullets are like the teeth biting through flesh. 'Stroke these blind, blunt bullet-heads' describes us how desperate they are to kill. Another metaphor such as 'for his teeth seem for laughing round an apple' and as well as the imagery of the last three lines 'no claws....not talons....nor antlers' which tells us humans are not animals and that they are not designed to kill. Wilfred Owen uses lots of descriptive language like metaphors and imagery to show us how war is unnatural.

Link for analysis of Arms and the boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvqePsLs_pg

The attack paragraph

O jesus make it stop. Attack, by Siegfried Sassoon is a powerful poem about 'going over the top', that uses imagery and metaphors to serve the main idea. The main idea of the poem is that the situation is hopeless and the men are desperate.The sight imagery is best exemplified by "lines of grey.....masked with fear" telling us how the soldiers were hiding away their feelings not wanting to show what they really felt and how it was like. As well as  "hope with furtive eyes and grappling fists" shows us how the soldiers are hopeless and that hope is as if avoiding the soldiers.  And an example of auditory (sound) imagery is "the barrage roars and lifts" which emphases how harsh war was and how the barrage is like a monster, something horrific. Siegfried Sassoon uses imagery and metaphors to show how the soldiers were hopeless and desperate.

The soldier paragraph

Some small piece of a foreign field that is forever England. The soldier is an important poem for a number of reasons. It exemplifies the attitudes of people at the beginning of ww1 as a well as being a very interesting example of the the sonnet form. The main idea of the poem is how glorious it is to die for England. The writer uses lots of powerful figurative language to support the big idea such as repetition of England, imagery, metaphors, the 2 ideas of the two stanzas. He uses metaphors such as "a dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware" which describes the idea of stanza 2, how English his dust is. The repetition of "England" supports the whole idea of English heaven and how glorious it is to die for your country. He also uses imagery such as "corner of a foreign field which describes how even though that they are not home there is still a part of England. The writer uses lots of figurative language to support the ideas which create the big idea

The sentry paragraph

"O sir, my eyes — I'm blind — I'm blind, I'm blind!"The sentry is an important poem for a number of reasons. He describes the horrendous conditions during life in the trenches of World War One. War is a brutal nightmare. He uses figurative language such as imagery, metaphors, onomatopoeia and alliteration. The writer uses smell, hear, sight and sound imagery to describe the location. To show how horrific and brutal war was. Wilfred Owen uses metaphors such as 'Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime, Kept slush waist high, that rising hour by hour,' describing how horribly cold, wet and humid it was in the trenches, basically describing the conditions and location where the soldiers had to live in. The writer also uses onomatopoeia like 'whizz-bangs' which shows the atmosphere and sounds of all the artillery shooting. The writer uses powerful figurative language to support the ideas which creates the big idea

Poem

Arms and the Boy

BY WILFRED OWEN

Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade 

How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood; 

Blue with all malice, like a madman's flash; 

And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh. 

Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-leads, 

Which long to nuzzle in the hearts of lads, 

Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth 

Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death. 

For his teeth seem for laughing round an apple. 

There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple; 

And God will grow no talons at his heels, 

Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls.