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Wilfred Owen - A Remembrance Tale "Poetry is in the pity" …
Wilfred Owen - A Remembrance Tale
"Poetry is in the pity"
Jeremy Paxman
Wilfried Owen
Great poet of the First World War :pen:
First poet to be the voice of soldats
Died in action when he was 25 on the banks of the canal at Ors in northern France
over 50 poems
The second most studied poet in Britain after Shakespeare :books:
He embodies the paradox between war and poetry .
His poems are aigainst the idea of dying for Glory and your country, and that's precisely what he did. :broken_heart:
The First World War
Terrible :fearful:
Industrial age to killing
mechanised slaughter :male-mechanic:
9 million of men were to die :skull_and_crossbones:
28th f June 1914, the Archduke Franz Ferndinand, the heir of the throne of the Austro-Hugarian empire was assassinated
August 1914 : German attacked France -> Britain dragged into war :flag-gb:
Hundreds of thousand Young men were volunters
Propaganda
Press with patriotic slogans
Poetry with a woman : Jessie Pope
Living conditions of soldiers
Standar kit
Army book (testament)
Bully beef
Phrase book (French words)
Tiny little bag with spoon set and penknife
trenches
when it's rainning, the muds becomme sticky, it's pulling a your boots
muds is just a nightmare (clothes, foods, hair, weapons)
Dead bodies can't be clean up
foot in wtaer is a heath problem so you have to dry your boots and your socks everywhere and it is checked
Little things from loved ones at home became hugely important
SHELL SHOCK :shell:
series of syptoms including
emotional shock and nervous
the body can't support the stress of intense modern warfare any longer
shakiness, loss of sensation headaches
soldiers want to do their duty and save their life
Back at home
thousand of soldiers suffered of it
Treatment
electric shock
AJ BROCK's treatement
encourage to occupation, look at plants, meet people,
Manny graves in cimentery have just the inscrpition "Unknow soldier" 2/3 des 7000 tombes are unidentified
400 miles of trenches
shells were continually found everywhere today again
Poetry of Owen
over 50 poems, but only 5 has published during his lifetime
His verses is angry, vivid
The sound of guns stay in his poetry with onomatopoeia
In hospital, Owen wrote over 20 of his most important poems
Deeply change the vision of war in poetry and litterature
Many patriocally believd it was right to die for one's country. Rupert Brooke
He's the poem of the soldiers, he speaks a soldiers tongue. Anti-War poems but in the same time, pay homage to those who have give their lfe for their country.
anthology 1919 next a en 1920 collection with an indtroduction by Siegfried Sassoon
1960s -> gained popularity
Dulce et decorem est
One of his greatest poem
His childrhood
was born in OSWESTRY, rural Shorpshire
in spring 1893
His parents
Tom OWEN
Susan OWEN
want his eldest son has succes
Have a strong relation
over 500 letters he has wrote for her
Eldest of his 3 brothers and sister : Harold, Collin and Mary
He lived
in the confortable house of his grandfather (next sold)
place in industrial Burkenhead
sensitive child who loved Keats and Sheaspare :bookmark:
He has try to wrote his first poems early
His teenager
want to go to the London University but he can't for money resasons :cry: so he came to... :arrow_heading_down:
village of Dunstane -> job as a vicar's (pasteur) assistant :latin_cross:
18-20 in afternoon, he visited the poor or send letter to his mother
Reverand Hebert Wiggin :place_of_worship:
Attend services
He didn't like the vicarage
hypocrisy when the poor's vists 😤
Fell a lot opf pity for the porr et then for the soldiers 😟
He left Dunstane, lost his faith, missed a lot of his exam, had'nt written much decent poetry
So he came to France"Gap-Year" in automn 1913 :flag-fr:
Language scholl in Bordeaux :wine_glass: :smoking:
When the war begun
Frist he had voluneered
Want to save the English culture and language
"Save the language of Keats and Shakespeare"
In september 1915, England determined to sign uo
Trainning seven month
second lieutenant in the Manchester regiment (shock for a sentivie man)
He learnt to soldats how to fight
Very good for shot
New recruits went though a specific enrollement military
He has to swear with the Bible his engagement for the king
His weights, mesurations were written
In the battle field
1916 -> France wrote to his mother that he felt himself heroic but he didn't tell her that life expectancy of a officier in the frontlife was measured in days.
July 1916 fight began. The fisrt day -> 60 000 men were casulaties (portés disparus) -> 1/3 were killed
Orwen arrived in Picardy in 1917 et déjà 1.5M de soldats britanniques ont connus la mort
janvier 1917 : first arrived, coldest winter :snowflake: -> Shoks traumatism, he relized how much he's been wrong and the war's horror :cry:
April 1917, traumatism experience. He was blown up in the hairn and when he came down he relised that he was lying among the remains of a close friend, an officer called Cock Robin. -> terrible effects upon him
The Medical Officer noted that Owen was shaky and tremulous -> SHELL SHOCK
Lucky -> progressive hospital for officers in Edinburgh called Craighlockhart :hospital: Doctor AJ BROCK :male-doctor::skin-tone-2:
Encouraged by the doctor to writting, he edited the Hydra (magazine of the hospital) -> important point in this life -> he relived his nightmares in verse :ghost: :writing_hand::skin-tone-2:
By saving him for insanity, Lockhart made of him a poet. -> start of period of intense creativty (6 poems in a week)
Metting Siegfried Sassoon (a brave, educated and already recognised poet) -> he has defied military authority by publishing in July 1917 a public Attack aigainst the gouvernement :arrow_right: greatest anti-war poetry
Influenced his style : romantic language -> brutal and simple words. He found his way.
In the spring 1918, he looked forward to one day publishing a book of poems and wrote a preface "My subject is the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity."
One year after the CraighLockart's treament -> Owen was determnted tô go back in the battlefield even his mother was worried and his friend's Sansson. As a offocier -> authory, as a poet -> a witness to the suffering and courage of the men
In September 1918, Owen rejoined his old battalion. The best way to survive is to become insensitive and unconcerned
Owen had become a superb soldier, fighting with precision efficiency ans selfless courage -> he was awarded the Military Cross :crown:
He has passed the last days of this life in a cave of a little cootage in the woods near Ors
4th November 1918, he was kill in action during the crossing of the Sambre-Oise esactly one week before the signing of the Armistice. He was promted Lieutenant the day after his death. His mother received the telegram informing her of his death on Armistice Day, as the church bells in Shrewsbury were ringing out in celebration
GAS ATTACK
the battle starts with a gas attack
diificluty to see
you have to put your mask very quickly
Effetcs
diiferents types (lungs, burnt)
The aim isn't to kill the soldiers, more make there become with disabillites