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- 1. AQA English Literature Paper 2 Section B-Conflict and Power Poetry TheYpres Salient at Night , Paul Nash,(1917)
- 2. Wilfred Owen was an English poet and soldier during the FirstWorld War. He was born in Oswestry, on the border near Wales and taught in Birkenhead and France. When the FirstWorld War began, he enlisted as an officer in the Manchester Regiment.
- 3. Owen suffered a number of traumatic experiences. He fell into a shell hole and suffered concussion. He was blown up by a trench mortar and spent several days unconscious on an embankment lying amongst the remains of one of his fellow officers. Dead Germans in aTrench, Sir William Orpen (1917)
- 4. Soon afterwards, Owen was diagnosed as suffering from neurasthenia or shell shock and sent to CraiglockhartWar Hospital in Edinburgh for treatment.
- 5. It was while recuperating at Craiglockhart that he met fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon, an encounter that was to transform Owen's life because Sassoon encouraged him to write poetry to protest against the war. Owen recovered and went back to the war. He and Sassoon felt that, if people thought they were cowards, then they wouldn’t listen to their protests. However, if a hero protested, it was much harder to silence them.
- 6. 2nd Lt,Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, 5th Bn. Manch. R. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in the attack on the Fonsomme Line on October 1st/2nd, 1918. On the company commander becoming a casualty, he assumed command and showed fine leadership and resisted a heavy counter-attack. He personally manipulated a captured enemy machine gun from an isolated position and inflicted considerable losses on the enemy.Throughout he behaved most gallantly
- 7. Owen was killed in action on 4 November 1918 during the crossing of the Sambre–Oise Canal. It was exactly one week (almost to the hour) before the signing of the Armistice which ended the war. He was promoted to the rank of full Lieutenant the day after his death. His mother received the telegram informing her of his death on Armistice Day, as the church bells were ringing out in celebration. He is buried at Ors Communal Cemetery.
- 8. Set during the FirstWorldWar. Soldiers in a trench at night are on watch. However, the freezing cold weather, seems to be their main enemy. The men imagine returning home, but the doors there are closed to them.They believe their sacrifice in war is the only way to keep love ones at home safe. They return to thinking about their deaths in the icy, bleak trenches.
- 9. Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us . . . Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent . . . Low drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient . . . Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous, But nothing happens. What technique is used to present the weather in the first line? Can you find any sound effects? What effect do you think Owen is trying to achieve? Highlight all the verbs.What do you notice about them? What type of pronoun is being used?Why? What is the effect? Why do you think lines 2 and 3 use ellipsis (…) ? What is the effect of the half line at the end of the stanza? • Salient: a section of trenches that sticks out into enemy territory. • As very dangerous place to be as the enemy would surround you on three sides. • The town ofYpres in Belgium was in a salient and was utterly destroyed during three huge battles.
- 10. brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us . . . Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent . . . Low drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient . . . Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous, But nothing happens. half-rhyme is where there is vowel variation within the same consonant pattern in words. Owen used it a lot in his poetry. Can you spot the words which half rhyme because the vowels are different? What’s the effect?Why do you think Owen does it?
- 11. Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles. Northward, incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war. What are we doing here? Highlight the verbs again. What is the effect of each one? What do they all end with? What is the effect of comparing the barbed wire to brambles? What is the effect of the simile in line 2? What is the effect of the simile in line 4? Can you spot any half rhyme? What is the effect of the adverb “incessantly”? Can you hear any sound effects?Effect of the rhetorical question?
- 12. The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow . . . We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy. Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey, But nothing happens. Poignant=painfully sad Effect of the rule of three? Effect of personification? Ranks=lines Grey=the Germans wore “field grey” uniforms Dawn is usually presented with warm colours, reds, oranges and yellows. What is the effect of Owen’s description of dawn here?
- 13. Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow, With sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew, We watch them wandering up and down the wind's nonchalance, But nothing happens. Highlight the sibilance-why is it used here? What is the effect of the alliteration? What words are used to personify the wind and snow? What type of words are they? Nonchalance=appearing calm and relaxed. Nonchalance=appearing calm and relaxed. Snow is usually white, pure, innocent etc.What is the effect of making it black here?
- 14. Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces— We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed, Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse, sun-dozed, Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses. —Is it that we are dying? Highlight the half rhymes- what is the effect? Snowflakes are personified-how does Owen make them seem malicious? The men start to “stare” or “dream” of warmer places in the past at home. The rhetorical question seems to be answering the earlier one in stanza 2. What is the effect of the verb “cringe”?
- 15. Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires, glozed With crusted dark-red jewels; crickets jingle there; For hours the innocent mice rejoice: the house is theirs; Shutters and doors, all closed: on us the doors are closed,— We turn back to our dying. Notice how each line in this stanza has a caesura.Why? Has this got anything to do with the doors? Highlight the alliteration and sound effects in this stanza which describes their exhausted dreams. Glozed=a combination of “glowing” and “glazed”. Why are the coals in the fires compared to “jewels”? (metaphor) What do you think he means, “the doors are closed”? What do think he means when he uses the metaphor, “ghosts”?
- 16. Since we believe not otherwise can kind fires burn; Now ever suns smile true on child, or field, or fruit. For God's invincible spring our love is made afraid; Therefore, not loath, we lie out here; therefore were born, For love of God seems dying. Home fires can only keep on burning if they fight in the cold trenches to protect those at home. Notice how the things at home are from happier, warmer, sunnier times. This is contrasted (antithesis) with the cold of the trenches. Line 4-therefore we don’t hate lying out here as we are sacrificing ourselves. What are the two possible meanings of the final half line? The stanza is very reflective and thoughtful. Seems to be telling us the deeper meaning.
- 17. Tonight, this frost will fasten on this mud and us, Shrivelling many hands, and puckering foreheads crisp. The burying-party, picks and shovels in shaking grasp, Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice, But nothing happens. Zeugma=one verb acting on two nouns What is the effect of the two verbs in line 2? Why are the faces “half-known”? Can you spot the metaphor?
- 18. This poem is this poem about? What other poems could you compare it to? The power of nature The reality and effects of war A bleak lack of hope Loss and absence
- 19. Paul NashThe Menin Road 1919
- 20. Paul Nash,Void (Néant) 1918