Wilfred Bio
The country where Wilfred Owen was born.
What is Wales?
Dulce Et Decorum Est serves as commentary on this world war.
What is World War I?
The picture of a "green sea" refers to this type of warfare.
What is chemical (gas) warfare?
The metaphor "blood-shod" communicates this image.
What are blood-covered shoes?
This word implies subhuman status and loss of identity
What is lame?
Wilfred Owen wrote most of his poems about this world event.
What is WWI?
This is the most prevalent theme throughout the poem.
The violence and tragedy of war.
In the beginning of his poem, Wilfred Owen talks about "sludge" and "limp[ing] on". Through these images, he communicates this message.
The soldiers are physically and mentally weak, and struggling to carry on.
What does the metaphor that compares the air to "misty panes" imply about the soldiers' environment?
What is the soldiers cannot see because of the gas?
This quote highlights the exhaustion the soldiers became disoriented by their lack of sleep.
What is 'drunk with fatigue'?
The age at which Wilfred died.
What is 25 years old?
Wilfred Owen emphasizes this theme at the end of this poem.
Society should not glorify war or encourage young generations to join with hopes of becoming heroes.
What type of figurative language does Wilfred use when he says the soldiers are headed for "distant rest"?
What is a double entendre?
This quote illustrates the violent involuntary contortions enhancing their ultimate physical suffering
What 'flound’ring like a man in fire or lime'?
True or false: Wilfred Owen never married
True
Wilfred Owen communicates this theme about the closeness among the soldiers in war.
Soldiers feel connected through experience and losing one of their own impacts all of them like family, even if they were not close.
What is the part of the poem when his fellow soldier gets left behind in the midst of a gas attack.
What is the image that Wilfred imagines himself getting pulled down with him?
What is the part of the poem when his fellow soldier gets left behind in the midst of a gas attack?
What is the image that Wilfred imagines himself getting pulled down with him?
*answer does not have to be in the form of a question*
They make war feel very immediate, threatening, and intense. They also emphasize the fact that war affects everyone.
These three words accentuates the prolonged distress of asphyxiation made more traumatic as witnessed by the soldiers around him
What are 'guttering, choking, drowning'?
Wilfred worked as this profession before he dedicated himself as a clergy man. (Hint* Choo-choo)
What is a railroad station master?
This poem reflects Owen's theme of violence and abruptness in many ways. Name two.
1. What is the choppy structure of the poem (Enjambments etc.)?
2. What is the vivid imagery and diction.
3. What are personalized and descriptive metaphors?
4. What is the concise syntax (Sentence structure)?
What is helping readers understand the horrors of war with terms they understand?
Comparing the dead soldier's face to that of a devil communicates this idea about war.
What is the idea that war turns innocent men bitter because they have had to experience so much evil in the world.
This is the translation of 'Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori.'
What is "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country."?