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ffi When was the FirstWortd War? Which countries 7 ffi Do you til<e the poems? Which one do you prefer?
were involved? Give reasons.
2 Sfi fnCf Read and listen to the poems. Which poem:
THE SOLDIER by Rupert Brooke
1 gtorifies dying for your country?
2 hightights the horror of dying in war? If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
3 ft fnCn Read and listen again. Use the adjectives below to
That is for ever England. There shail be
describe the tone and content ofeach poem. Give reasons for In that rich earth a richer dustl concealed;
your opinions. s A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
angry bitter compassionate depressing gruesome Gave, once, her flowers to love, her wa)rs to roam2,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
hard-hitting nostalgic patriotic peacefuI powerful
Washed by the rivers, blest3 by suns of home.
realistic sentimentaI shocking soothing uplifting
And think, this heart, aii evil shed awaf,
ro A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
4 Read the Fact file. ln what way do the two poems reflect each Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
poet's experience of war? Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Glossary 1'a richer dust' i.e. the soldier's body
Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen both died in the First World 2paths and roads to wander 3blessed aremoved
War. Brooke was 27 and died of an infetted mosquito bite
on a naval ship in the Mediterranean.0wen was 26 and was
killed in action in France on 4 November 1918, exactly a week
before the war ended. DULCE ET DECORUM EST
The Saldier was written in 1914 at the start of the war,
Brooke had not experienced any fightinB, by Wilfred Owen
Dulce Et Decorun Est was written in 1917 after 0wen had Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
experienced a number of years of trench warfare, The poem Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
was written to Jessie Pope, who wrote poems encouraging Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
young people to ioin the army, And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
s Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod]. A11 went lame; all blind;
Match each of the four stanzas of Dulce Et Decorum Esf with
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
a summary sentence below. There is one sentence that you Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
don't need. Gasl GAS! Quick, boys! An ecstasy of fumbling,
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a the image of the sotdier dying recurs in the poet's ro Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
dreams But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
b a direct address to the reader chat[enging him/her not to And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime ...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
glorify war
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
c a warning not to join the army
rs In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
d sudden action as the soldiers come under chemical
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
weapon attacl<
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
e a description of tired soldiers returning from battle Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
6 Consider and contrast the imagery used in the poems.
zo His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
7 ln The Soldier, find: If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
a references to the English landscape. Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
b tranquil images in lines 12-14. Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
2 ln Dulce Et Decorum Esf, find: To children ardent for some desperate glory,
a two similes in Iines 1-2 describing the soldiers. zs The o1d Lre: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori2.
b four adjectives in [ines 6-8 describing the sotdiers.
c shocking images describing the dying soldier in lines Glossary 'shod' wearing on one's feet
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1.6-24. Latin: 'lt is sweet and fitting to die for one's country'.
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