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analisi dettagliata del testo della poesia "Dulce et Decorum est" di Wilfred Owen (3 pagine formato doc)

DULCE ET DECORUM EST DI WILFRED OWEN: ANALYSIS LINE BY LINE

Dulce et decorum est di Wilfred Owen.

" Dulce et Decorum est" is a war poem written by Wilfred Owen, one of the most significant war poets, during World War I.
He was born in 1893 in Shropshire and he was educated in Liverpool. He tought English in Bordeaux in 1913 and he retourned to England in 1915 to enlist in the army. He caught trench-fever on the Somme and was hospitalised in Edinburgh.

He went back to fight in France and in 1918, was decorated for bravery and was then killed on the Sombre Canal one week before the Armistice was signed.
His experiences of the war led him to represent the war through crude and realistic details, but also with pity and human sympathy.
Now considered the most important ot the "war poets", Owen wrote poems particularly relevant as experiments in poetic technique.
The "war poets" were the first who denounced trench life or death by gas, but also who revealed the sense of exaltation and the spirit of adventure that marked the first years of the war.

WILFRED OWEN DULCE ET DECORUM EST ANALISI

Dulce et Decorum est is an example of Owen's statement of the horor of war and the hypocrisy and ignorance of patriotism. The poem focuses on the terrible new chemical weapon of World War I: Gas.
" Dulce et decorum est" is divided in four irregular stanzas. Each stanza deals with a precise point, in fact we can notice that in the first the poet introduces the situation, in the second he describes the gas attack, then in the third we can find the description of poet's dream-nightmare and at the end he describes the soldier's death and produces the poem's message.
The narrator is the poet himself as we can infer by reading line 14:"...I saw him..." and "...in all my dreams..."(15), "he pluges at me..."(16), "my friend..."(25). In fact we can see that Owen doesn't write from "without" but from "within" the war, he is inspired by his own experiences and by the small and great tragedies of thousand of unknow people involved in a nightmarish, hallucinating reality.

DULCE ET DECORUM EST THEME AND MESSAGE

The first stanza is made up of 8 lines and describes some men who are marching away from the front, as we can understand by reading in line 4: "towards our distant rest", and in line 8: "that dropped behind" which are jambic verses conveying tiredness.
There is also represented a frontal attack on the enemy's tranches. We can say that it isn't an heroic scene because the soldiers are given grothesque traits such as: "like old beggars"(1) and "coughing like haugs"(2).
Moreover by reading line 3 "we turned our backs", we can notice that they are withdraw before meeting the enemy.

DULCE ET DECORUM EST ANALYSIS LINE BY LINE

The scene is described from the point of view of a soldier who is the poet himself, in fact he says: "we", "our", and he gives us a description of the exhausted soldiers. He uses a lot of adjectives suggestive of weakiness and exhaustion as we can infer by reading: "asleep", "lame", "blind", "drunk", "deaf".
The idea of exhaustion is also suggested by the use of compound words as we can infer by reading "bent double", "knock-kneeds" and "blood-shod", and by the use of metaphors as in line 6 and 7:"blood-shod" and "drunk with fatigue".

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La grande illusione (La Grande Illusion) è un film del 1937 diretto da Jean Renoir, nominato all'Oscar al miglior film nel 1939.

1914-1918, Prima guerra mondiale.

Prologo. Fronte francese. Il capitano Boëldieu e il tenente Maréchal sono abbattuti con il loro aereo dall'ufficiale tedesco von Rauffenstein, asso dell'aviazione tedesca, e fatti prigionieri.

Campo di detenzione di Hallbach. Boëldieu e Maréchal sono trasportati in questo campo di prigionia dove incontrano altri connazionali: un attore abile nei giochi di parole, un professore, un ingegnere del catasto, un sarto figlio di ricchi banchieri, Rosenthal, che divide con i compagni i pacchi di viveri che la famiglia gli invia. Durante il giorno il gruppo di francesi conduce la normale vita dei prigionieri di guerra; di notte, però, lavorano segretamente alla costruzione di un tunnel per poter evadere in gruppo. Hanno anche il tempo di organizzare una festa teatrale in cui alcuni si travestono da donne, quando improvvisamente arriva l'ordine di trasferimento degli ufficiali dal campo dove arriveranno dei prigionieri inglesi. Ciò impedisce l'evasione attraverso il tunnel ormai terminato

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The Great War (Italian: La grande guerra) is a 1959 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Mario Monicelli. It tells the story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I; the movie, while played on a comedic register, does not hide from the viewer the horrors and grimness of trench warfare. Starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

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A movie based on the book, was released in 1970 and directed by Francesco Rosi, named Uomini Contro / Many Wars Ago. Stylistically, the movie follows the current of politicized post-realism, of whom he was one one the central figures.
The movie, overtly pacifist, reminds of Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory for the argument, settings and thematics showing the instill of war. Sadly, as soon as the movie was released, the director was denounced with the accuse of vilification of the army (but later absolved), leading to a national case where political parties used the movie rhetorically for their own propaganda. The movie was at the time then boycotted, but succeeded in becoming a classic of antimilitarism and influencing the public opinion about the results of World War I. Rediscovered and in 2015, the movies was screened at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in honor of Francesco Rosi, deceased a few weeks before, finally received its deserved credits.

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Emilio Lussu and his “A Year on the High Plateau”

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Emilio Lussu and his “A Year on the High Plateau”

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During his experience, Emilio Lussu fought bravely for the whole war though he raised strong critics against military commands. On WWI, Italy had almost 700.000 deads: military generals who couldn’t realize their mistakes badly led their troops due to lack of preparation of merely arrogance, or even were too ruthless and too determined to scarify thousands of lives to conquer a bit of territory.
This inadequacy, brought rebellions and mutinies among the soldiers who started to recognize their generals as their own enemy, though any try was fiercely repressed.
The vanity of rhetoric patriotism, ridiculous battles, tragic or even grotesque episodes are narrated by the soldier’s feeling, the mistakes and inhumanity of war.
Even if Lussu’s works were usually read and questioned through his political tendencies and experience, it is the personal level that better tells how his opinions about war changed. By the moral and philosophical point of view, Lussu’s books tell a story of regrets, having been previously an interventista (favourable to entering the war) and a revolutionary (in Giustizia e Libertà); his works soberly describe what war, in its cruellest moments, was like for him: repulsive and disappointed. The novel, is now considered on the of the most important contributions of Italian literature regarding wars.

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Reading of “Dulce et Decorum” by Wilfred Owen

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Reading of “Dulce et Decorum” by Wilfred Owen

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Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen: Read by Christopher Eccleston | Remembering World War 1 | C4

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Dulce et Decorum Est

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,

Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

Till on 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 gas-shells dropping softly behind.

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 thick green light,

As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,

He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace

Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,

His hanging face, like a Devil’s sick of sin;

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est

Pro patria mori.

Notes:Latin phrase is from the Roman poet Horace: “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”

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Analysis of “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke

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Analysis of “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke

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Video appunto: Brooke, Rupert - The Soldier (2)

Comprehension

In the first stanza, the poet tells the reader that if one day he should die in a foreign country, his dead body will make that land a better place because a piece of England will be buried there.
England is personified: she is like a mother to him who gave him life, education and good values.

The poet loves his country for its beautiful landscape full of flowers, rivers and roads where man can live in close contact with nature.

In the second stanza, the poet tells us that dying at war will be a way to show gratitude to his mother country for all the joy and happiness that she gave him.

The poet's soul will be purified by his death and when he dies his spirit will be given back to England and will live forever in peaceful hearts.

Analysis

The poet is a soldier speaking to a person from his family, perhaps a woman.

The poem deals with the themes of war and patriotism. The poet will be proud to die for England, his mother country. In England he has spent a pure and innocent life, full of joy.

Brooke shows a classic romantic attitude to war: he expresses his strong enthusiasm, patriotism and idealism because he hasn't experienced the cruelty of war.

The poem was written at the beginning of the war. Brooke died in 1915 of blood poisoning. He didn't die at war and didn't have time to see the horrors of fighting in the trenches.

The use of alliterations and enjambments or run-on lines makes the rhythm of the poem smooth and flowing.

The tone is patriotic and nostalgic.

Layout

The poem is written in the form of an Italian sonnet. It is made up of 14 lines divided into two stanzas of eight lines (octet) and six lines (sestet).
It has a regular rhyme scheme, ABAB CDCD EFG EFG.

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Video appunto: Brooke, Rupert - The Soldier (2) In the first stanza, the poet tells the reader that if one day he should die in a foreign country, his dead body will make that land a better place because a piece of England will be buried there.

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The Soldier

If I should die, think only this of me:

That there’s some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England. There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;

A body of England’s, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

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THE WAR POETS
The First World War or the Great War was welcome with enthusiasm. The “war poets” were the first who denounced trench life or death by gas, but also those who revealed the sense of exaltation and the spirit of adventure that marked the first years of the war.

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The Great War Propaganda

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Propaganda During World War 1 - Opening Pandora's Box I THE GREAT WAR Special

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Recruitment Poster

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Recruitment Poster

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The British Army

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Historical Background: causes and consequences

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Historical Background: causes and consequences