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Youthfulness in the inspection is a very important motif that is also shared with another poems: 'It doesn't like our cheeks so red: Young blood's its great objection. But when we're duly white-washed, being dead, The race will bear Field Marshal God's inspection.'

external connection:
inspection connects to owens religious past and beliefs.

context: British soldiers in WW1. takes place during a military parade.1917

Themes: Demolishing the glory of war.

Language: This poems uses negative diction. for example the words objection, dead, will bear. This could refer towards god judging them.

Structure: 3 Stanzas

Story arc: There’s 3 characters that develop in a beginning, a problem and somewhat of an end.

1st stanza is mostly dialogue where the speaker is reprimanding a soldier because he was dirty.

2nd Stanza: Speaker talks about punishments that other soldiers have served. Soldier told the speaker the stain was blood and not dirt.

3rd Stanza: Discussion progresses through the third stanza where the reprimanded soldier explains how he got the stain and how he almost died. Soldiers question the morality of other soldiers instead of prioritizing his image no matter his condition.

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A common motif in a lot of Owen’s poems is camaraderie, in The Send Off the soldiers sing together, fight together, and most of them die together.

external connection:
the send off connects to the mortality rate/ deaths of the war. it portrays how few men actually survived.

context: Written at training camp in Ripon,1918

Themes: The before and after of war. Soldiers die as soon as they leave.

Stucture: 4 Stanzas of 5 lines each

1st stanza: contains a lot of oxymoron- darkness with singing. They’re being led to death yet they’re singing.

2nd Stanza: Contains foreshadowing- the complete use of sadness and darkness are used to tell us that they are going to die.

3rd Stanza: Comparison- They’re uncomfortable with the truth and/or don’t want to mention it.

4th Stanza: Alliteration- “A few, too little soldiers to make noise”. Also contains metaphor- they don’t even remember their homes.

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Internal connection:
The doubt on church and its rituals is another  common motif in Owen’s poetry. In Anthem for Doomed Youth he states that he sees these rituals as a mockery to the soldiers' deaths.

external connection:
anthem for doomed youth connects to owens thoughts that the war was overly romanticized and that people were not dying for glory but for wars sake.

Themes: The horror and pity of war

contetx:  at Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh in 1917.

Structure: 2 Stanzas

1st Stanza: Focuses on the soldiers themselves, they suffer while saying goodbye and in the war itself.

2nd Stanza: Focuses more on the families left behind and how they had to say goodbye to the soldiers that died at war

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Another very common motif in Owen's poems is giving voice to the dead soldiers, this is similar to what he did in futility. In The chances owen uses slangs and its written in third person to make the reader become familiar with the soldiers vocabulary and habits. This poem is focused on the possibilities of death, but written sarcastically with metaphors to show how normalized death was in war.
external connection:
the chances connects to the horrors of war and also the sense of wanting to get hurt to leave the war and owen getting shell shock and having to leave because he couldn't handle it anymore.

Language: In this poem is present a neative diction that is used to describe all the bad things that happend to the soldiers. for example it uses the words "blow up to chops" "killed" etc...

Themes: violence, Psicological repercution of war, Religon and lost of belief.

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Structure: 2 Stanzas and one significant break between them

1st Stanza: A group of soldiers talking about 5 things that could happen to either one of them when they go out.

2nd Stanza: After the break which cuts from the night to the next day when they go out, it says what happened to each soldier from the night before and how the narrator is grateful that nothing really bad happened to him compared to his friend “Jimmy”

Structural devices: Consonance (1st line "how" and "show"), Assonance (3rd line, e' seen some scrappin')
Rhythm (7th and 8th line, "One of us got the knock-out blown to chops, One lad was hurt like losin' both his props").

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Internal connections:
A common motif between The Sentry and Dulce Et Decorum Est is dreams, Owen used this as a motif as he was constantly haunted with the things he had seen and lived while we were at war.

External connections: The poem ends with it's sweet and fitting to die for the homeland, connecting with how the posters romanticized war.

Context:
Written in 1917, at the middle of war. In this period, Rusia retired and gave up fighting because of some internal conflicts. The United States entered the war to fight against Germany because they attacked a ship that was filled with american citizens.more_vert

Themes:deglorifying death on the battlefield. WO's traumas.

Language: it uses modern english and latin, and it also uses diction. We can see this in the poem's title "Dulce et decorum est" which means It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But the poem talks about the reality of war which in fact was horrible.

Structure: 4 stanzas

1st and 2nd Stanzas: Description of what seems like an experience

3rd Stanza: reveals that it was a dream, break between the first two and the 4 stanza

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There is a common motif in both The Sentry and The Last Laugh, which is grief: In The Sentry this contrasts with the sobs for the soldier’s loss of sight.

As stated before it shares the motif of Dreams with Dulce Et Decorum Est.

External connections:
The speaker says they don't want to remember what happened, which can connect with Owen's shellshock and how he was traumatized with the war.

Context:
This poem was also written in 1917. The war ended in 1918, so when Owen wrote this poem the different countries were in constant fight. Some entering the war and other retiring and giving up. By being under attack constantly Owen wrote this poems, referring to a group of soldiers that tried helping the sentry while fighting.
Themes: Death and Violence of war.

Structure: 3 Stanzas

1st Stanza: Contains rhymes, alliteration and imagery to describe and tell you what he was living. Mainly imagery for people to imagine and feel what he had.

2nd Stanza: Contains rhymes to give context to the poem, there is also the presence of simile to describe and tell things giving the poem more action.

3rd Stanza: Also uses rhyme to explain and give more sense to know what’s happening in the poem. The presence of visual imagery also gave context to understand what was happening and how violent and depressive it felt.
Sound divices: Alliteration: “And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell”, “And choked the steps too thick with clay to climb. What murk of air remained stank old, and sour”, “mud in ruck on ruck” Onomatopeya: “With fumes of whizz-bags”, “And thud! Flump! Thud! Down the steep steps came thumping”

Language:
In this poem the poet used negative diction. This was used describe the situation the chracters are suffering. The negative diction is expressed on the words:"dense din" "died" etc...

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An important motif that we see in Futility is nature, we can also see this motif in other works from Owen, he tends to use the environment as a metaphor or contrast to the situation. In Futility nature is as important as war; we can see the boy against a background in England where he is a natural part.

External connections: The poem talks about being in France and Owen had moved to France before the war.

Themes: Life and death

Context:
This poem was written in 1918, the last year in WWI. The Occidental part of WWI (mainly France, United Kingdom, Italy, etc) were constantly attacking Germany. Finally, after a long fights the Germans gave up and the War ended. After the war Owen wrote this poem, making a comparison between his life before and after WWI.

Structure: 2 Stanzas:

1st Stanza: Speaks in a positive diction about a soldier who they are trying to revive by moving him to the sun that had awoken the soldier so many times before at war.

2nd Stanza: Speaks in negative diction about the soldier that they couldn’t bring back and who was now dead.

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A motif present in this poem is death and it is about a soldier that dies when he is asleep so he does not suffer. There is sound and visual imagery used to show this which is also in the poem conscious.

External connections: In this poem the speaker believes for a moment that they are in heaven, this relates to Owen being religious.
Themes: Religion,Violence  Suffering, a pleasant death.

Structure: 4 Stanzas,

1st Stanza: Narrator uses  symbolism to describe how after so  many days of hard work he went to sleep

2nd Stanza: Uses imagery to describe how while in his sleep he died

3rd Stanza: Narrator gives a very vivid description on how the soldiers blood spills out of his body

4th Stanza: In this last stanza the narrator describes how the dead soldier is in a better place which in a way is technically anything is better than being in alive in that moment.

Context:
written in the early's 1917. The armies set their positions to prevent enemy attack. It was not the period of most fights, but there were plenty, since the United States entered the War becoming a powerful country. Many soldiers got hurt and unfortunately one of they was Owen, since the poem expresses his emotions in the hospital.

Sound Devices:
Rhyme:  “work and waking”, “heaved a quaking”, “by the shaking”, Repetition: “He sleeps. He sleeps”,and “Who knows? Who hopes? Who troubles?” Alliteration: “more and more with the low mould”

Language:

In this poem the poet uses negative and deep diction to describe how the soldiers are getting asleep, which means that they are dying. He uses the words: death, sleeping, slow, deeper, calm.

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Internal connections: Visual Imagery related to war is present in this poem and in the poem Asleep. This poem uses visual imagery to show the first thing the soldier sees when he wakes up from being unconscious, described as “the yellow my flowers by his head”. This is related to war because it was for the war that this soldier was in the hospital. In the poem Asleep, it is described using imagery how the battlefield of the war was “one with the grey grass.”

External Connections: This poem connects consciousness and unconsciousness to the line between life and death. The lost mentality of hope to live can also be a connection to the moment where soldiers started to realize that war wasn't as pretty and romanticized as it was in the posters used to recruit soldiers.
Context:
This poem was written in 1918. During this year, Ferdinand Foch becomes Marshal of France, second battle of of the marne ends. It also started a flu pandemic caused in china.
https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1918
Themes: Death, Violence.

Structure: 2 stanzas

1st stanza: a soldier is regaining consciousness therefore he is becoming aware of his surroundings  so he realizes that he is no longer in the battlefield.

2nd stanza: the soldier starts losing consciousness and he thinks he is dying so he starts to panic while losing all hope of surviving.

Sound Devices:
Rhyme: “drink of water” “crimson slaughter”, end line rhyme. Repetition: “Cold; cold; he's cold; and yet so hot:” and “all right, all right”

Language: This poem makes use of dialogue. It also uses a negative idction as it uses the word slaugter, bewilders etc...

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Again we see the motif of Nature, in 1914 Owen uses the natural seasons to place the outbreak of war. He says that war has become the new winter. This poem has symbolism to represent darkness, which is also seen in The Send Off.

External Connections: This poem connects the posters to the seasons mentioned because the posters were again a romanticized version of war and they used warm and happy colors to hide the fact that war is cold and Winter-like. Also the mentioning of "Famines" can be a connection to the part of the documentary that mentions how the soldiers that were in the trenches had to ration food and they were very hungry.
Context: This poem as the title says, was written on 1914. During this year Archduke Franz Ferdinand, got the Austro-hungarian empire, were he was shot with his wife by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Also Austria-hungary declared war on serbia.
Theme:The destructive nature of war.

Structure: 1st Stanza: Talks about the war and how, when it began, it didn’t just destroy the place where it started, Berlin, but how it destroyed most of Europe.

2nd Stanza: Talks about life pre-war in an almost cyclical way when it talks about the seasons of the year to symbolize the way that life was and everything that they hope to become once again.

Sound divices:
- End line rhyme: “whirled-furled-hurld” “rome-home”, “need-seed”

Language:
In this poem we can see the use of contrasting language and negative diction. For example we can see it starts with the words "War broke". And it tells that 1914 was the winter of the world contrasting the classical tradition everybody knew.

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Internal Connections:
In these poem there is also visual imagery related to death

The motif of grief in The Last Laugh is the cries of the soldiers who are dying.

In The Last Laugh the motif of youthfulness is seen when the dying son calls the name of his father and mother, probably too young to have to leave them.

External Connections: This poem talks about 3 dying soldiers and all, before dying, had a moment where they hallucinated and saw or heard what they most wanted. Whether this is a connection to death's last laugh meaning that death won; or if it is a connection to a moment of relief that the soldiers felt is unknown. But again, this poem talks about the undeniable and inescapable death at war.
Context: This poem, as the conscious poem were written on 1918. during this year the World War I Ended With the Treaty of Versailles. Because of a flu going arround, at Camp Devens in Massachusetts, a third of the 15,000 people at the camp became infected, and 800 died.
Themes: Personification of war, and Lost of belief.
Structure: 3 Stanzas: All 3 stanzas talk about 3 different dying soldiers. They all follow roughly the same pattern and in each stanza, weapons still make sounds to mock the fallen men who, in their last moments, had hallucinated what they were hoping to go back to.

Language: The poem uses realistic diction, to show the specific scenes in a real way, to make an image of what is happening. He uses descriptive words and words that makes the audience imagine the specific situation where the soldiers are fighting and dying.

Sound devices: Direct speech: ‘O Jesus Christ! I’m hit,’ ‘O Mother,—mother,—Dad!’ ‘My Love!’ Onomatopoeia: “ Machine-guns chuckled—Tut-tut! Tut-tut!” “ And the Big Gun guffawed.” “And the splinters spat, and tittered” “ And the Bayonets’ long teeth grinned;   Rabbles of Shells hooted and groaned;  And the Gas hissed.” “The Bullets chirped”  Repetition: “In vain, vain, vain!” “Tut-tut! Tut-tut!”