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KASHYAP Yash Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
Arms and the Boy

Beliefs, Values, and

Education
Because Politics, Power, and Justice has been overdone
UwU
How war reshapes the subject’s value KASHYAP Yash Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
system
- The boy is shown to be innocent. The author forces the
boy to try weapons he’s never used before, to develop a
liking for blood.
- Initially, the author encourages him to feel the blade, and
later, zinc teeth and bullets.
- He doesn’t simply force the boy to develop an intent to
kill, but wants him to understand the weapons he’ll use
and what it would mean to be on the other side of the
weapon, that is, what it would mean to be killed by it.
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Content of the Poem

What Happens…? *nuzzles*
- The Poem features a boy
- He’s a nice person at heart
- The Army wants him to try out various
weapons to become a cold-blooded killer
- Let him try blades, guns, etc.
- He isn’t a cold blooded killer, he’s a good
person, he shouldn’t be one to kill another
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Language Techniques
Personification Positive Diction Metaphor
“How cold steel is, and keen with “Nor antlers through the “Or give him cartridges of fine
hunger of blood” thickness of his curls.” zinc teeth”
“thinly drawn with famishing for This technique in the “thickness This technique is used to compare
flesh” of his curls” provides a positive zinc bullets to teeth. This shows
connotation towards the boy. The the bullets as a body part, almost
This technique compares the
thickness of curls makes this boy as if the weapon itself was a
weapon (steel sword) to a person,
seem innocent, and the lack of person, and bullets are that
where the steel itself has lust for
antlers, a common feature on the person’s teeth. This person’s
violence.
devil, further cements this idea. values are corrupted, and it’s
This technique shows the reader shown through this comparison.
It further shows the audience that
that the violence doesn’t come
the boy and his values are pure at It further describes how the
from the boy, but rather from the
heart, and that despite the weapons are the means of
weapons he uses, and it further
weapons he holds, he isn’t a bad corrupting this boy, through the
shows how the boy’s beliefs and
person. negative connotations in the
values are being determined by his
words used, and the comparison
surroundings
done.
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KUMAR Manya Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
Futility
By: Manya & Khushi
Contents
01 Poem Context 02
About the poem &
Write up of the poem
poet
03 Analysis Global Issue 04

Language Link to global issue
Techniques & Effect and context
01 The Poem
Futility by Wilfred Owen
(May 1918)
FUTILITY
by Wilfred Owen
Move him into the sun—

Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields half-sown.
Always it woke him, even in France,
Until this morning and this snow.
If anything might rouse him now
The kind old sun will know.
Think how it wakes the seeds—

Woke once the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides
Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
—O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?
CONTENT
About the poem and Wilfred Owen
02
WILFRED OWEN
● He was an English poet and soldier.
● His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas

warfare, stood in contrast to the public
perception of war at the time and to the
confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war
poets such as Rupert Brooke.
More about “FUTILITY” KUMAR Manya Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
The poem is known for its :
- departure from Owen's famous style of including

disturbing and graphic images in his work, like seen in:
- The last laugh
- the poem instead having a more soothing, somewhat

light-hearted feel to it in.
Futility is a poem in which a group of soldiers attempt to

revive an unconscious soldier by moving him into the warm
sunlight on a snowy meadow.
However, the "kind old sun" cannot help the soldier - he has
died.
03 Analysis
Language Techniques with example
Aporia
Series of Rhetorical Questions
● The intensity with which the speaker asks Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir?
these questions shows how much he Was it for this the clay grew tall?
cared about this fallen soldier. —O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
● Highlights the extent of disbelief To break earth's sleep at all?
● Continuous engagement of the reader
Pararhyme
Half Rhymes
● Disturbs the flow of the poem

○ Slightly tortured mood Sun, half-sown (Lines 1 & 3)
○ Reinforcing the mood of the Once, France (Lines 2 & 4)
poem
Juxtaposition
Contrast of 2 ideas
● Stanza 1 : The power of the sun that nourishes life

● Stanza 2 : Life is being in doubt Stanza 1 and Stanza 2
● The idea of there being hope is juxtaposed with the
final destination of death. Reinforces the title of the
poem: it is useless to hold to any hope
Global Issue
04
Politics, Power and Justice
War Hope vs. Death

The were numerous deaths
Setting: WW1 and hope to survive war
was often diminished by
increasing deaths
MALHOTRA Rhea Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
Analysis of Asleep by Owen

Wilfred
By: Rhea M.
Under his helmet, up against his pack, Whether his deeper sleep lie shaded by the shaking
After the many days of work and waking, Of 11

MALHOTRA Rhea Grade great wings,
IBS1 English and and
A Language theLiterature
thoughts that16Nov21
04 Due Date: hung the stars,
10:40
High pillowed on calm pillows of God’s making

Sleep took him by the brow and laid him
Above these clouds, these rains, these sleets of
back.
lead,
And in the happy no-time of his sleeping,
And these winds’ scimitars;
Death took him by the heart. There was a —Or whether yet his thin and sodden head
quaking Confuses more and more with the low mould,
Of the aborted life within him leaping ... His hair being one with the grey grass
Then chest and sleepy arms once more And finished fields of autumns that are old ...
Who knows? Who hopes? Who troubles? Let it pass!
fell slack.
He sleeps. He sleeps less tremulous, less cold
And soon the slow, stray blood came
Than we who must awake, and waking, say Alas!
creeping
Wilfred Owen
From the intrusive lead, like ants on track.
Under his helmet, up against his pack,
After the many days of work and waking,
Sleep took him by the brow and laid him back.
And in the happy no-time of his sleeping,
Death took him by the heart. There was a personification of the word
sleep in the first stanza, ‘Sleep took him
by the brow and laid him back.’ It
There is parallelism also used 2 lines after Of the aborted life within him signifies how he he had a lack of control
this, which is defined as repetition of an over his movements.
entire grammatical structure rather than a leaping ...
word. Death took him by the heart.
Showing the progression/process of the Then chest and sleepy arms
soldiers death
once more fell slack.
Personification to Personification for his
describe the movements And soon the slow, stray blood immediate death use of
of arms after he died. (no the word
movement) came creeping
Simile, shows how
From the intrusive lead, like ants blood moves slowly,
straight, forward,
on track. slowly
Whether his deeper sleep lie shaded by the shaking
Use of personification again.
Of great wings, and the thoughts that hung the stars,
MALHOTRA Rhea Grade 11 Visual
IBS1 English A Language imagery,
and Literature calm
04 Due Date: pillows
16Nov21 10:40 of
High pillowed on calm pillows of God’s making gods making signifies the
soldier is resting in heaven.
Above these clouds, these rains, these sleets of lead, Uses of words such as wings
and God’s making, with the
idea of heaven thus can infer
this.
And these winds’ scimitars;

—Or whether yet his thin and sodden head
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His hair being one with the grey grass
And finished fields of autumns that are old ...
Who knows? Who hopes? Who troubles? Let it pass!
He sleeps. He sleeps less tremulous, less cold VI - helps visualise
Tactile imagery, helps how dead soldiers
readers understand the
Than we who must awake, and waking, say Alas! bodies ‘rot’ overtime
brutality of the war as it was
described as a dead person becoming more and
being in a better state than more alike to mould
Link to global fissue
The poem describes death using sleep - as shown by the previous examples. The
global issue it links to is politics power and justice, as it shows brutalities of war
and the awful experience of seeing someone face death; as a result of political
matters that lead to the war and shows how society (soldiers) is affected by it.
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MEHTA Devanshi Dipen Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
Anthem for Doomed Youth

Amrutha, Devanshi and Malavika
Poem
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
What candles may be held to speed them all?
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Can patter out their hasty orisons. Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,— Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
Global Issue
The global issue most apparent here is beliefs, values and education. Wilson’s
beliefs about war and how soldiers are dehumanised are reflected in this poem.
His values are also reflected in the poem, as he feels that soldiers should to be
more recognised and appreciated.
Title
There is irony in the title - an anthem is meant to glorify something or someone,
but the title says “Anthem for doomed youth”. The anthem here is not about glory,
but about youth being “doomed”.
Stanza 1
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? In the first line, soldiers are being compared to
cattle. This dehumanises them.
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Alliteration and personification can be seen as well -
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle “Stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle”.
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,—

Stanza 2
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Alliteration: glimmers of goodbyes.
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

NERLEKAR Ashwath Dinesh Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
Disabled
By: Ashwath and Mihika
One time he liked a blood-smear down his leg,
After the matches carried shoulder-high.
It was after football, when he'd drunk a peg,
He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, He thought he'd better join. He wonders why.
And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts.
Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park That's why; and maybe, too, to please his Meg,
Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn, Aye, that was it, to please the giddy jilts,
Voices of play and pleasure after day, He asked to join. He didn't have to beg;
Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him. Smiling they wrote his lie: aged nineteen years.
Germans he scarcely thought of, all their guilt,
About this time Town used to swing so gay And Austria's, did not move him. And no fears
When glow-lamps budded in the light-blue trees, Of Fear came yet. He thought of jewelled hilts
And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim,— For daggers in plaid socks; of smart salutes;
In the old times, before he threw away his knees. And care of arms; and leave; and pay arrears;
Now he will never feel again how slim Esprit de corps; and hints for young recruits.
Girls' waists are, or how warm their subtle hands, And soon, he was drafted out with drums and cheers.
All of them touch him like some queer disease.
Some cheered him home, but not as crowds cheer Goal.
There was an artist silly for his face, Only a solemn man who brought him fruits
For it was younger than his youth, last year. Thanked him; and then inquired about his soul.
Now, he is old; his back will never brace;
He's lost his colour very far from here, Now, he will spend a few sick years in institutes,
Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry, And do what things the rules consider wise,
And half his lifetime lapsed in the hot race And take whatever pity they may dole.
And leap of purple spurted from his thigh. Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes
Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.
How cold and late it is! Why don't they come
And put him into bed? Why don't they come?
What is the poem about?
The poem is written about a soldier who has been injured in

the war. He is sat in a wheelchair and he is in a lonely place.
He considers his past and how he used to be good looking
and an artist. He lied about his age to enter the army. At the
time, he thought it would be glorious to be a soldier and he
had not thought about the wider implications of entering into
military service. There is a sadness in the poem that they will
not escape the horror of the way and of his uncertain future.
Themes/Global Issues
In the poem ‘Disabled’, poet Wilfred Owen portrays the

horrors of war and the brutal aftermath by using powerful
imagery, dramatic contrasts of pace and time,
overwhelming irony and by creating a strong sense of
sympathy for the soldier of this poem. The contrasts
between health and illness, life and death feature greatly
in the poem; this gives the reader a ‘before and after’
picture of the soldier’s life.
Language features
■ Juxtaposition occurs through the consistent temporal movement from past to present in order to
emphasize the soldier’s mournful reminiscence of his life pre-war.
■ Caesura is a dramatic pause for effect, which is employed in order to dramatize ideas. Caesuras are
usually placed to create end-stopped lines and abrupt stops to disrupt any rhythm in the poem,
reflecting the soldier’s inability to move forward.
■ Repetition is employed throughout the poem, prominently through the use of anaphora. In the closing
lines, the poet employs anaphora through syntactical parallelism as he pleads for the nurses to put him
to bed: ‘Why don’t they come?…….Why don’t they come?’ This works to emphasize the futility of life and
the lack of hope that now dominates the soldier’s life.
Language features
■ Alliteration is the repetition of a consonant sound. If the alliteration begins with an ‘s’, then this is called
sibilance. There are two types of sound: hard sounds (plosives) or soft sounds. It is extremely important
to consider which sort of sound is being repeated, as this will determine the impact.
■ ‘Girls glanced’ (stanza 2) - The soft repeated ‘g’ sound reminds us of a gentler time in his life. However,
arguably the hard sound reminds us of the bitterness that is currently being experienced, as he worries
that ‘girls’ will never ‘glance’ at him again. This is a recurring theme in the poem, as there is repetitive
mention of women: ‘mothering’, ‘girls’ waists’, ‘women’s eyes’ and ‘Meg’. Perhaps he is concerned that
he will never be attractive to women again.
OLEYNIK Aristo Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
Insensibility by Wilfred Owen
Shourya, Aristo and Dev

Insensibility by Wilfred Owen
Insensibility’ by Wilfred Owen Techniques used
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed
● Pararhyme of something
Can let their veins run cold.
● Metaphor
Whom no compassion fleers ● Punctuation
Or makes their feet
Sore on the alleys cobbled with their brothers.
The front line withers.
But they are troops who fade, not flowers,
For poets’ tearful fooling:
Men, gaps for filling:
Losses, who might have fought
Longer; but no one bothers.

Pararhyme
● Killed and cold
● Brothers and Flowers
● Withers and Brothers
● Pararhyme makes the poem horrible
○ Hints at the horrible nature of war
● Most of the pararhymes link events
Metaphor
● The soldiers are being compared to flowers
○ Suggest that like plants they fade and wither away
● Soldiers being called brothers
○ Not actual blood related relatives
○ Brothers in arms by being united with a singular cause (the war)
● First two lines
○ Imply that men are happy when they die of old age
○ Also implies that youngsters are the ones in the war
● The front line withering
○ Makes it as though it is slowly falling and breaking apart
Punctuation
● There are many run on lines at the start
○ This encourages the reader to read on
● Near the end of the poem caesura can been witnessed
○ This makes the reader slow down and allows them to ponder upon the poem
● The punctuation varies throughout the poem
○ This causes the poem to be horrible and run at different paces
○ This also mirrors how horrible war is
○ This shows wars uncertainty and that no one is safe during a time of war
Global Issue
Politics, power and justice
● The whole case of war came of the fact of political unrest.

● War is unjust
○ Many soldiers were not allowed justice
○ Politicians weiled power and displayed it through war
○ The soldiers lacked power to refuse orders
○ Higher ranking officers treated lower ranks unjustly and abused power in some scenarios
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SHEIKH Arsh Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
“Mental Cases” by
Wilfred Owen
By Savit and Arsh

Poem SHEIKH Arsh Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight? These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished.
Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows, Memory fingers in their hair of murders,
Drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish, Multitudinous murders they once witnessed.
Baring teeth that leer like skulls’ tongues wicked? Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,
Stroke on stroke of pain,—but what slow panic, Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter.
Gouged these chasms round their fretted sockets? Always they must see these things and hear them,
Ever from their hair and through their hand palms Batter of guns and shatter of flying muscles,
Misery swelters. Surely we have perished Carnage incomparable and human squander
Sleeping, and walk hell; but who these hellish? Rucked too thick for these men’s extrication.
Poem SHEIKH Arsh Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
Therefore still their eyeballs shrink tormented
Back into their brains, because on their sense
Sunlight seems a bloodsmear; night comes blood-black;
Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh
—Thus their heads wear this hilarious, hideous,
Awful falseness of set-smiling corpses.
—Thus their hands are plucking at each other;
Picking at the rope-knouts of their scourging;
Snatching after us who smote them, brother,
Pawing us who dealt them war and madness.

Global Issue
SHEIKH Arsh Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
The global issue most suggested by the poem would be culture, identity and community, more
specifically the identity aspect. Throughout the poem, it is described with a series of negative
connotations how the soldiers experiences in the war shaped what they believed and how “dawn
breaks open like a fresh wound”. By using this, Wilfred implied that the positivity that is normally
associated with dawn has a negative effect on the despair, blood and death that is ingrained into
their memories that anything that opposes their reality becomes more suffering since it offers
hope when they don’t want it.
Poem Content SHEIKH Arsh Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
The main idea of this poem is the description of the death and trauma that the soldiers
experienced resulting in them being physically described as what is implied to be a military
hospital. This poem attempts to describe the physical appearance of the “corpses” and how their
troubles(PTSD or shell-shock) have essentially made them the “living dead”. The hellish
descriptions such as “purgatorial shadows”, “skulls tongues wicked”, “wading sloughs of flesh”
have implied a hellscape-type atmosphere around their lives. Towards the end, the poem
describes how the soldiers were “Snatching after us who smote them brother” which was
alluding to a larger failure of humanity being in constant war resulting in these soldiers
conditions. The message is more significant when connecting to another poem “Dulce et
decorum est” written by Wilfred Owen where the enthusiasm that soldiers were and are being
sent into wars for thousands of years since ancient times and the encouragement they receive
from society to do so and how soldiers come back in body bags or mentally and psychologically
broken after wars.
Language Technique Analysis SHEIKH Arsh Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
Allusion - The mention of “purgatorial shadows” - an allusion to Dante’s Inferno.
- The souls of the dead are known as “shades”, implies that they are no longer physically present in
the world. (and instead are mere shadows)
- To emphasize the horrific and mental consequences of war and to portray that this endless
psychological torture is so overwhelming that they can no longer function properly
Diacope of “Stroke on Stroke”
- "Stroke" refers to the time, as in the “stroke of the clock”

- Gives a powerful impression of ongoing, day-to-day, minute-to-minute torture.
- Underscores the intensity of the soldiers' pain and conveys the idea that even after the
termination of war, one’s traumatic experiences will always stick with them.
Language Technique Analysis SHEIKH Arsh Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
Symbolism - Nature is a negative symbol in this poem
“She brings with the dawn and daylight nothing but pain and the night brings no relief.”
This overwhelming symbol is of blood and death.
Contrasts the normal association of nature with hope since the despair of the soldiers makes them believe that
having hope is worse than living with no hope.
SMEE Grace Renate Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40
Wilfred Owen
The End Siya & Grace

After the blast of lightning from the east,

The flourish of loud clouds, the Chariot throne,
After the drums of time have rolled and ceased
And from the bronze west long retreat is blown,
Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth

All death will he annul, all tears assuage?
Or fill these void veins full again with youth
And wash with an immortal water age?
When I do ask white Age, he saith not so,-

“My head hangs weighed with snow.”
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My fiery heart sinks aching. It is death.
Mine ancient scars shall not be glorified
Nor my titanic tears the seas be dried.”
Background
❖ Written somewhere between 1914 and 1918
❖ The words “Shall life renew these bodies? Of all truth death will he
annul” from it were written on Wilfred Owen’s gravestone.
❖ He was raised as an evangelical Anglican.
❖ His early influences were thought to be the Bible and Romantic poets.
❖ A philosophical questioning of life and death and his beliefs
❖ Yearning for peace and for the pain to be reversed
Possible theme: Belief, Values & Education

- Particularly religion and death
Main techniques
01 02
Personification Diction/ Imagery
03 04
Rhyme Structure
Personification
Age
“When I do ask white Age he saith
not so “My head hangs weighted
with snow””
Growing old is denied of them,he
seems almost regretful and
burdened
Life
“Shall Life renew these Earth
bodies?” “And when I harken the Earth
she saith … It is death”
Life is like an omnipotent being,
He even pleads with the Earth
deciding if they may live of not. but she denies him, no one
He almost bargains with it. can stop death or escape it.
Diction/Imagery
All the language reflects classical texts. It is elegant, lyrical writing, contrasting his usual
style. There is a lot of imagery reflecting different religious views and myths about death
and gods. Like lightning, chariots and bronze
“Drums of time have

“Fiery heart sinks aching”
rolled and ceased”
Gives an “ancient” feel to the He had hope but despairs as he
poem, implies the end of accepts the end.
everything, a final judgement.
“Mine ancient scars

shall not be glorified” “Titanic tears”
In his paradise his wounds will
His tears and pain were
not matter. There won’t be
manifold, unceasing and bitter.
glory and joy in the remnants
of violence and strife.
Rhyme
After the blast of lightning from the east,

The flourish of loud clouds, the Chariot throne,
After the drums of time have rolled and ceased
And from the bronze west long retreat is blown,
Alternate Rhyme
- Very structured
Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth - Not “ugly poetry”
All death will he annul, all tears assuage? - Lyrical and formal,
Or fill these void veins full again with youth like a hymn or
And wash with an immortal water age? classical poetry
When I do ask white Age, he saith not so,-

Couplet Rhyme
“My head hangs weighed with snow.”
- Breaks the flow of the
And when I hearken to the Earth she saith poem
My fiery heart sinks aching. It is death. - Sonnet style
Mine ancient scars shall not be glorified - Leaves a final remark for
Nor my titanic tears the seas be dried.” the poem
Structure
Quatrain & Sestet

- The first two stanzas contain 4 lines each
- The last stanza has 6 lines
Sonnet
- 3 quatrains and couplet, 14 lines, rhyming scheme
- Shakespearean
- Comes from the Italian word Sonetto, meaning
little song
Effect
- Gives it a sophisticated, classical feel, creates
a smooth rhythm
- Reflects the religious context and
philosophical thoughts
- Allows the readers the read the poem without
abrupt stops (more lyrical and smooth)
Beliefs, Value & Education

The main concept that is portrayed throughout this Poem is
“Death”. Wilfred Owen questions the belief that death is the
most peaceful state, he battles with his religious ideas and his
speculations. He discusses the inevitability and finality of death,
writing in a way that indicates his awe and how he sees it as
sacred and majestic. The war is full of strife and this portrays
his questioning and yearning for a final piece for himself and all
those he may have seen die.
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KASHYAP Yash Grade 11 IBS1 English A Language and Literature 04 Due Date: 16Nov21 10:40

Arms and the Boy

Beliefs, Values, and

Content of the Poem

03 Analysis Global Issue 04

Move him into the sun—

Think how it wakes the seeds—

● He was an English poet and soldier.

● His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas

The poem is known for its :

- departure from Owen's famous style of including

- The last laugh

- the poem instead having a more soothing, somewhat

Futility is a poem in which a group of soldiers attempt to

● Disturbs the ﬂow of the poem

● Stanza 1 : The power of the sun that nourishes life

War Hope vs. Death

Analysis of Asleep by Owen

After the many days of work and waking, Of 11

High pillowed on calm pillows of God’s making

And these winds’ scimitars;

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Can patter out their hasty orisons.

No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;

Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,—

Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;

Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,

And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

The poem is written about a soldier who has been injured in

In the poem ‘Disabled’, poet Wilfred Owen portrays the

Insensibility by Wilfred Owen

Shourya, Aristo and Dev

Sore on the alleys cobbled with their brothers.

The front line withers.

But they are troops who fade, not flowers,

For poets’ tearful fooling:

Men, gaps for filling:

Losses, who might have fought

Longer; but no one bothers.

● The whole case of war came of the fact of political unrest.

By Savit and Arsh

Therefore still their eyeballs shrink tormented

Back into their brains, because on their sense

Sunlight seems a bloodsmear; night comes blood-black;

Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh

—Thus their heads wear this hilarious, hideous,

Awful falseness of set-smiling corpses.

—Thus their hands are plucking at each other;

Picking at the rope-knouts of their scourging;

Snatching after us who smote them, brother,

Pawing us who dealt them war and madness.

Allusion - The mention of “purgatorial shadows” - an allusion to Dante’s Inferno.

Diacope of “Stroke on Stroke”

- "Stroke" refers to the time, as in the “stroke of the clock”

Symbolism - Nature is a negative symbol in this poem

This overwhelming symbol is of blood and death.

The End Siya & Grace

After the blast of lightning from the east,

Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth

When I do ask white Age, he saith not so,-

Possible theme: Belief, Values & Education