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    What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes Shall shine the holy gimmers of goodbyes. “he pallor of ge brows chal be thet al Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, ‘And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. WILFRED OWEN 4: a fred Owen (893-1918) was brought up in the backstreet of 1920 V\V nd Shrewsbury, and on leaving schoo! Re took upa porta v7 4 county vicar. Removed fom the Initence ofa deve mother pe increasingly eal ofthe Church’ oe im society. His lets etapa period show am emerging swarenes ofthe poors sufferings and hee . the compassion that was to characterize his later poems about the West is In1913 he broke withthe vicar and went to tech English in Fare For more than a year fcr the outbreak of wer, Owen could na de save God through mud — : ought oes, Finally he i, and from Janey to May 517 Eo ech Ba Cod thro chceks wha weetches smiled. inthe Battle ofthe Somme. Then, suffering from shell shock, he was seat War Bkeught more glory to theic eygs than blood, pital near Edinburgh, where he had the good fortune to micet Siegfried Tau gmk their laughs more glee than shakes 2 child. ‘hoe first fiercely felsic war poems hed st appeared The ice {strc realism was useful tonle to Owen’ lus, Keatslan Romaiictae Bey: was laugh there— cout his months in the hospital, Owen suffered from the horrendodt ey It was aa ner ard ghd life absurder. symptomatic of shell shock. The experience of battle, bathished' From) ‘Where death’ Recomes = ad = fe ares mind, erupted into his dreams and then into poems heunted withabsedifg For power was\qa us as we sifihed bones Minded ees Dulce et Decorum Ext) and the mouth of hel Meg Noto fel sickags oF rem ‘The distinctive music of such later oon Sea ; tration, onomatopoeia, assonance; halt 9; have dropped Fas ny platoon, the parachyme that he pioneered. This las technique, the tyne a Behind the barrage, my platoon, with idenccal or simile consonants but difering, sessed vowel echag ng light and cle groaned, killed / cold, hall / hell), of which the second is usually the lero ‘hopes lay strewn Produces effects of ditsonance, file, and unfulfllment that casi Temes: ‘ Echoing Dante, Shakespear, Shelley, Keats, and the Bike, Owen pats re me, owl fr scowl and religious language into jarcing new relationships with the alma | Shine and lift up ith passion &f oblation, ume ‘modern war experience. He recuperates but distorts the conventions of pa Seraphic® for an Four; though they were fou! “ tlepy, relocating them fo scenes fervor, exteme pain, and iredsome death ave made felloships— Inthe yar fife to him afer leaving the hopin Novemb 9 Ome Thaw mae fllganiee tmatred rapidly, Succes st» soldi, marked bythe award ofthe Milan Co pa Ph binding offic ips {nd a's pot, which had won him the recognition of his pees gave hin apg, fot lons sng the Winding om OPS confidence. He wrote eloquently of the tragedy of young men killed in bettle.| . Inter elegiet a dscplined sensuality end passionate incligence En het Pee Owen was killed in action a week before the war ended, ith the bandage of the arm that drips the webbing of the rifle thong erceived much beauty Beers nhs ht ht or courage slat Worl musicin the slenness of duty fe iether shel storms sposted eddest spate Anthem for Doomed Youth What passing:bells for these who die as cattle? —Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out theie hasty orisons.* + Nomockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, — The shrill, demented choies of wailing shells; ‘And bugles calling for them from sad shires.* ter which ks bef chat hich de i eH bn of hh eda sch bi entation and Hor Pla ce, meaning “Apalegy for My Tipeboum prompted by that of Caz tov pel re Vite Sua, "Apo Nevertheless, except you share With them in hell the sorrowful dark of hell, Whose world is but the trembling of a flare ind heaven but as the highway for a shell, You Nhall not hear their mirth: ‘You\yhall not come to think them well content, > By anlyjest of mine. These men are worth Your t Nov-Dec. 1917 Dulce Et Decorum Est! Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, “Tillon 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 tired, outstripped Five-Nines? that dropped behind. ‘There was a\yhispering in my Hearth, A sigh ofthe coal, Grown wistfullyfa former egfth : r 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 hick green light, ‘As under a green sea, f saw him drowning. Frond-forests, and the Before the ten My fire might show sjeazh-phantoms simmer 15 old/eaulagon, Inall my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. Ifin some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon thet we fung him ‘And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could bese, at every jolt, the blood Came galing from the Hath-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer bitter as thecud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— Myfrend you would not tell with sul high zest ‘To children ardent for some desperate glory, ‘The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro ptria marl 1917-Mar. 1918 1920 1s Of boys that slgpt wry sleep, and Writhing the rock where Death reputes ace lies indeed. 2 Cofnforted years will sit soft-chaired, In rooms of amber: By our life's ember; Pelco ener ower 1. Wrote a poem an the Goliery Disaster of sion illed about 150 miners “ E owns urging young men to enlist” Sex Jan a oid at Halneend a fp 2. Miners who dug tomlin et 1,197 iter ie othe) Pours in Representing the Gre To he ‘eth the War athe end Ie ir short, but oh sour in whch to detonate mones Gene lier sel ‘ozntmenal Sook [Owens Jon Ie etcrto he mater The explo: etches. "ore clilld window. ‘As the Team’s Head Brass! Aa the tens hed fathead a edo on The lovers disappeared ina the wood hor ‘Tha\yrened on angle of the low sea : ae ingle of the fallow,? at oop saneing ln Ot charge" Exe ime the ree turned J Upon the Degdleten mayor ag gga eared abi hr sr bowel Senne seed ath Once more. " is ‘The bli Is in by wooded When the warger One mint and a ine A minute more and the samy “Have you been ae Ne ” IFT could only come back se Toul spare an arm, Us Alleg. If | should lose my Ushould want nothing 1 ‘rom here?” “Yes.” “ Only teams wor 1 don't want to, 3 fio ae ant to lose good few, him. It was back in | blizzard, too, Now if "And should bth ‘hod rashes ald hn en diferent or ital es her ae “Ay, and a better, though wre bee Ie Ree all all might seem good.” Tek avery came out of the wood agai Te 9 stared ant for lon lat ie ss [watch the dod aie unl a ‘tre ploughshare andthe studing te May 1916 _ 1 known a ore bats: decoate rv attached to a bores: har- peed tc far moe. 2. Ground plowed and harowed but le SIEGFRIED SASSOON oon (1886-1967) was educated ot Marlborough College and Clare ee sbridge (which he left without at hinga degree). His father eame English Titerary London and the life ‘Sephardic Jews, his mot WY Ohivided his time between literary he beutally different one of the joang man premrmeman. These worlds ond 1 Be che fou himself in 1914, a « emorably described in his clas Pe Faxing Man (1928) and 8 erquch, Mentors of lft) nme Offensive of July 1916 with vMllitary Cross and the nickname vic chest, however, he was sent ake a different p30) ‘Wood and in the Sor ght at Mametz fat be acquired the mpjcaous courage th eres snipers bullet went through Hand atthe begining of APH 161 Frentuatly, with courage eats! vena ant eo his commanding offer" Re Pe eemehance of miliary authori Poe Vhelieve 0 cng deliberately protomged bY MOSS “tho fave the power to end eva i bend ama sedi, convinced {0 U0 tating on behalf of sol” ra ore his war pon which | entered Ne ol pete econ» wat of apgression 2 nd mruent” (For the (ul texts $22 wo Great Was” in the supBiments are) The military authorities, ee macy oh, announced Re ovas suffering from shell shock, Pejes bi to a Fospital near ‘edinburgh, where Re met and ‘befriended Wilfred smothered, but bie poems, osith thele sriyreet speech eetned from Thomas giretroy, church, and government cals public protest may hove eet mice biter irony, and mastery se cto to attack the old men of @ Heir tesponsble forthe miseries and arreler of the young. His poems Eng om contass betwen te ORME CES Se war and the grim real ey angrily aunt the grisly en the rp olence:inThe Rear Guard’ = corp Foplvunancvecring heap” whose Csi oF fpers clutched a lsckening wou fe unaneeed co the Western Front is OA, Wee “wounded again, and w85 an me. An increasingly reclusive

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