about? • How did Wilfred Owen portray the misery of war through his use of poetic devices. SUCCESS CRITERIA: 1. As a group, answer the questions relating to the stanza you have been allocated. (You must present this as a ppt) 2. Create 3 freeze frames relating to the stanza you are analysing. 3. Collate all freeze frames from the other groups to create a short ppt slide or video about the poem. Arrange the frames in the correct order. You must include your recording of the recited poem, and the words of the poem under the corresponding frames. 4. You must also use the SPECS/SLIMS PPT based on ‘Dulce et Decorum’ to answer the SPECS/SLIMS poem analysis worksheet. (This must be completed and submitted by Monday through google classroom) Groups Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Stanza 1 Stanza 2 Stanza 3 Stanza 4 and Title Jamie Armstrong Sam Amir Nicholas Conor Fernandez Steven Sebastian Anthony Liam Charbel Daniel Emilio Ryan Owen Read the stanza, search for the following and colour accordingly:
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Questions – Stanza 1. 1. What state are the soldiers in (exactly)? 2. Which two surprising comparisons describe the soldiers? 3. Why is the expression blood-shod dehumanising to the soldiers? 4. What happens in the in the last line of this stanza? 5. Owen selects ugly, textured, guttural diction to convey a hideous event and landscape. ‘Sludge’ is one such word. Find others. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. Questions – Stanza 2 6. Why is GAS repeated and in capitals? 7. Explain the phrases ‘an ecstasy of fumbling’ and ‘the misty panes’. 8. Three comparisons describe the fate of one man. What are they? What effect does the dying soldier have on the narrator? In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. Stanza 3 9. What does ‘plunges at me’ mean? What does ‘guttering’ mean exactly? 10. Explore the force of the words: ‘flound’ring’, ‘fire’, ‘lime’, ‘guttering’ and the underwater comparison – gas has green fumes. If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. Questions – Stanza 4 – one long sentence addressed to ‘my friend’ 11. What do the soldiers do for the dying man? 12. The man’s face hangs upside down. What horrible details of the face are given to us and with what is it compared? 13. The gas eats away the man’s lungs. What ugly words and comparisons describe this result? 14. Who are the children? What is some ‘desperate glory?’ 15. What effect and force do these words have: writhing, hanging, devil, froth-corrupted, cud, sores Does it rhyme? Yes. Have a look at the rhyme scheme and see what words rhyme for effect. Does it have rhythm? Yes. It’s in iambic pentameter. What effect does this have on the way the poem is read aloud?