https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2 Put your thoughts and observations on each of the sections below. en-us 2022-09-02 01:56:13 UTC 2025-11-02 02:14:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280108769 2022-09-02 01:58:31 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280108769 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280108924 The poem is set in a field in France, where a soldier has died in overnight. In this scene, its depicted that the sun used to wake up the soldier, but the sun is no longer there. So its possible the soldier has frozen to death in the snow.
"It always woke him up." "Until this morning and this snow."]]> 2022-09-02 01:58:40 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280108924 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280108979 2022-09-02 01:58:43 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280108979 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280109038 2022-09-02 01:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280109038 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280109084 The perspective provided is third person. 

This provides a better understanding of the context of the poem and the setting. It is in third person due to the language and pronouns used. For example, for a poem or story to be in third person the use of 'she/her/him/his/they/it' is present.

It is also from the perspective of the soldiers who are on the battle field and have found this person injured. Even though you do not get an insight on them.]]> 2022-09-02 01:58:50 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280109084 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280109105 2022-09-02 01:58:51 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280109105 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280110244 The central themes revolve around the idea of death through the relationship to the symbol of the sun.
The sun is portrayed as a "kind" and "gentle" carer bringing light and warmth to life - something that is present "at home" where comfort can be found.
This starkly contrasts with the chill of the "snow" on the battlefield where the sun is absent, and hence life is also.]]> 2022-09-02 01:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280110244 taysprouty https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280112001 while futility is addressing the insignificance of the world itself, the establishment of the fallen soilder allows for people to see different perspectives]]> 2022-09-02 02:01:20 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280112001 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280113440 in the first stanza of the poem Owen's utilises a romantic tone highlighted through words such as, 'gently' 'kind' and 'morning'
However the second stanza shifts in tone to a more hopeless or futile perspective, this is depicted through the words, 'cold' 'fatuous' ]]> 2022-09-02 02:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280113440 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280114795 futility shows the citizens at home how the soldiers are struggling and how their bodies are failing them on the battlefield and how they look up to the sun for direction and healing whilst on the battlefield 
'move him into the sun-
Gently its touch awoke him once']]> 2022-09-02 02:03:30 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280114795 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280115788 The sun is depicted to be gentle, kind and old. ("The kind old sun will know.")]]> 2022-09-02 02:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280115788 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280117179 The focus of the poem is on the sun, which is seen as a God and how people look up to God. And another focus is on the soldier who is seen as someone who is struggling near his death and wondering why the sun (God) isn't helping him in his time of need and why the help is slowly fading over time, as at the start, the sun was really helpful, but towards the end, the soldier couldn't feel the help anymore]]> 2022-09-02 02:05:05 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280117179 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280117504 the first stanza romanticises the life of a fallen soldier and uses the sun as an image for hope and liveliness; however the second stanza portrays a resentment to the sun and it's inability to save the soldiers and break through the darkness of war]]> 2022-09-02 02:05:20 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280117504 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280118926 The purpose of this poem is to show the struggles of being a soldier due to the war appearing suddenly, this highlights certain questions that wont receive an answer, this is to provide the thoughts of how pointless war is and how hopeless these soldiers feel.]]> 2022-09-02 02:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280118926 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280118964 conveys the author's thought on war; that it is pointless are useless; it sets up a matter of fact tone for the rest of the poem]]> 2022-09-02 02:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280118964 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280120453 The poem follows the sonnet structure as it has 14 lines in total, however it doesn’t follow any of the main 3 sonnet structures due to its unusual rhyming scheme (having an ababcdc and efefghg rhyming scheme rather than any of the more traditional sonnet rhyming schemes such as abbaabba cdecde or abab cdcd efef gg). It has two stanzas, at 7 lines each. The last three lines of stanza two are questions. ]]> 2022-09-02 02:07:47 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280120453 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280120793 The sun beams are seen as pointless and seen as a contrast from humans ]]> 2022-09-02 02:08:02 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280120793 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280125631 While the first half of the first stanza seems to explore a soldier's past, recalling the "fields half-sown." which might reference their past before enlistment, the second half begins to contrast this with with the "snow" of the battlefields, the cold present times. The first stanza then finishes with a hopeful call, speaking of the "kind old sun," and hoping it will rouse the fallen soldier.]]> 2022-09-02 02:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280125631 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280127131 The rhyme between "at home" and "fields half-sown" connects the ideas of a comfortable home and life on a farm and sets the idea up to be contrasted against the brutality of the battlefield.]]> 2022-09-02 02:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280127131 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280128512 Personification (“Gently its touch”, “the kind old sun”)
Half rhymes and internal rhymes (sun, sown and snow, now and know, once and France) (Internal rhyme: home and sown)
Caesura (“Always it woke him, even in France, until this morning and this snow.”)]]> 2022-09-02 02:13:59 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280128512 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280133934 2022-09-02 02:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/2basvnielo77j9h2/wish/2280133934