The war poetry

1.Note down the difference of all the war poets?

Wilfred Owen : Horror of  trench, gas warfare, loss of faith, fear of death.

Rupert Brook: Patriotism, Unbroken Glory.

Wilfrid Wilson: Guilt, Madness, death, Injury, Sense of identity.

Siegfried Sassoon: death, Horror, sympathy for soldiers, Religious  Authority.

Ivor Gurney: Grueling Monotony of day-to-day military life, Religious authority 

2.Compare any two poems with the subjects, Style of writing and patriotism?

 About the poet

Siegfried Sassoon is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about World War I, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Avoiding the sentimentality and jingoism of many war poets, Sassoon wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and contemptuously satirized generals, politicians, and churchmen for their incompetence and blind support of the war. He was also well known as a novelist and political commentator. In 1957 he was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Poetry.

The hero

 Subject 

 The hero poem subject is death, and pain associated the war. the poem divide in to three Stanzas. the poem hero is a death.

Jack fell as he'd have wished," the Mother said,

And folded up the letter that she'd read.

"The Colonel writes so nicely." Something broke

In the tired voice that quavered to a choke.

She half looked up. "We mothers are so proud

Of our dead soldiers." Then her face was bowed.

 In first stanza The poem "The Hero” by Siegfried Sassoon features a mother who receives news of her son's passing in the war. The letter she receives from the Colonel makes the mother think that died as he would have wanted. The Colonel’s letter, as well as the words of the Officer who delivers it to her, make it seem like her son, Jack, was a hero. The mother grieves the loss of her son, but she says she is proud of him, adding that mothers are always proud of their dead soldiers .

Quietly the Brother Officer went out.

He'd told the poor old dear some gallant lies

That she would nourish all her days, no doubt.

For while he coughed and mumbled, her weak eyes

Had shone with gentle triumph, brimmed with joy,

Because he'd been so brave, her glorious boy.

In the second stanzas about the brother officer introduced how to lies the mother had died his the son. In last stanza jack In the second stanza the brother officer is introduced and he has lied to the mother about how her son had died. The brother officer is patronising to the mother in this stanza because he lies straight to her face about how her son had died and he is doing it so she would not suffer anymore.

He thought how "Jack," cold-footed, useless swine,

Had panicked down the trench that night the mine

Went up at Wicked Corner; how he'd tried

To get sent home; and how, at last, he died,

Blown to small bits. And no one seemed to care

Except that lonely woman with white hair.

In the last stanza the brother officer is remembering how Jack had behaved in his last days. The brother officer portrays Jack as being a coward in his last days on the battlefields and this contradicts what he told the mother. The last stanza also shows that Jack tried to get home because of the hardships of war but died before he could. The last stanza also shows that no one cares about what happened to Jack except his mother the ‘Lonely woman with white hair’.

Style of Writing:

 

This poem reflects his disillusionment with the war. Like much of Sassoon’s poetry, this work is written in a simple, clear, straightforward style. As the opening line suggests, the poem uses the kind of language actually spoken by “real” human beings.

 Patriotism:

The poem is a anti - war poem in poem saw the mother be a proud feel is his son jack he died in the war against the fighter. Patriotic poem in poet reality to a war to a everybody and mother proud and  fell situation in poet describe.

 

Second Poem : The Dulce et Decorum est

"Dulce et Decorum est" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during World War I, and published posthumously in 1920. The Latin title is taken from Ode  of the Roman poet Horace and means "it is sweet and fitting". It is followed by pro patria mori, which means "to die for one's country".

Subject 

 The Horror and Trauma of War. The limits of patriotism: The ideals of war spread by patriotism and propaganda, Owen argues, serve only to perpetuate the suffering of those who fight.

The realities of war: Owen’s descriptions of war are horrific, and he does not shy away from depicting its inhumane deaths and ultimate futility in full relief.

Style of writing 

The style of "Dulce et Decorum est" is similar to the French ballade poetic form. 

Patriotism

This poem is after war situations in the poem and struggle the soldier in life focused on the story one soldier agonizing death and behind the death of the solider. this poem horrible so called the ' horror a war' .

3.Do you find any such regional poem/movies/web series/song which can be compared to any one of the poems given here. Also ,give a proper explanation of the similarity.

The Fear

I do not fear to die

'Neath the open sky,

To meet death in the fight

Face to face, upright.

But when at last we creep

Into a hole to sleep,

I tremble, cold with dread,

Lest I wake up dead.

The poem and challa song form Uri movie. I compared the poem of fear because the song and the movie in character is fearless. he not afraid the death and he died the for the nation.

In the movie all soldier ready to fight the another county in his land and he fights to face to face with out fear die. He ready to die. In movie last part soldier came to our land and  many bullets face them. so compare the first Stanzas in poem and the song and some similarity.