Wilfred Owen Biography
What country was Owen born?
England
What year did WWI start and end?
1914-1918
Identify one poetic technique in these lines:
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time
Exclamation
Alliteration
Emdash
Vivid imagery
personification
metaphor
Owen wrote his poetry based on his experience of what during the war?
Being a soldier
What year did Wilfred Owen die?
1918
What was the agreement that was signed to mark the official end of WWI?
Treaty of Versailles
Identify the main poetic technique in this line:
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
simile
What literary era is Owen's poetry considered to be a part of?
Modernist
What is the name of the war hospital that Wilfred Owen spent a lot of his time, writing poetry? Who did he meet here that assisted him
Craiglockhart and Siegfried Sassoon
What is the condition soldiers endured as a result of trauma in WWI, and what were some of the symptoms?
Shell shock- anxiety, fear, nightmares, confusion, shakes
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
rhetorical question and biblical allusion
What does the name of the poem 'Dulce et Decorum Est' roughly translate too?
"it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country"
During the war, who did Owen communicate with the most, how did he communicate with this person?
His mother, through letters
What type of warfare was WWI
Trench warfare (with gas)
the Bullets chirped," "Machine-guns chuckled," "Big Gun guffawed
Personification
Onomatopoeia
How many of Owen's poems were published during his lifetime?
5
Wilfred died in _____ exactly ____ week before the ____
1918 one armistice
The Western Front
Owen's poem 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' compares the sounds of war to the choirs and bells which usually sound at funerals.
What do you think Owen is trying to do by comparing these two things?
Wilfred Owen seems to show the futility of religion at this time while also demonstrating the brutality of war.
There is also irony in how he compares the glory of the sounds of war with the depressing reality of the funeral sounds.
What was the main saying of Wilfred Owen's craft, his poetry?