https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8 Put your thoughts and observations on each of the sections below. en-us 2022-09-15 21:50:22 UTC 2022-09-16 01:28:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299151311 2022-09-16 00:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299151311 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299156563 2022-09-16 00:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299156563 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299157750 The tone shifts dramatically throughout the song, beginning with an ominous and serious delivery that suddenly shifts to one that is energetic and intense.
Then, commands are uttered in a formal tone before the seriousness returns, as if both were part of a funeral.
The energetic tone is then presented once again and transforms into a fervent celebration.]]> 2022-09-16 00:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299157750 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299164856 2022-09-16 00:55:47 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299164856 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299164953 As the Vietnam war was the first major war to be televised the song 'The Unknown Soldier' starts off in a domestic house by stating 'Breakfast where the news is read'. It is then seen to change to a funeral of the unknown soldier by using dialogue typically found in a ceremony held when they die, ending with the gum salute. 
'Preee-zent!
Arms!'

This song can be connected to Wilfred Owen's poem 'Insensibility' as it shifts it's focus from the war to a home such as :
'Happy are men who yet before they are killed
Can let their veins run cold.'
To the shifting of focus in the fourth stanza 
'Happy the soldier home, with not a notion.'
In the song 'Unknown soldier' it shifts from home to a funeral ceremony for the soldiers. ]]> 2022-09-16 00:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299164953 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299165761 2022-09-16 00:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299165761 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299166041 The Doors have made the authorial decision to both title this song ‘The Unknown Soldier’ as well as emphasising it throughout the duration of the song to create an emphasis on the grim amount of soldiers dying on the battlefield and being forgotten. The reason The Doors have chosen to emphasise this phrase is to create an emotional effect on listeners.

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The central themes around the Unknown Soldier are these ideas of war and death. This idea that soldiers who go to war to fight for the cause or the country and end up coming home with no sense of identity or humanity because no one knows who they are or who they were.

The Unknown Soldier has this idea of these two places contrasting. You get this imagery of families reading the news or watching, for the first time, on television ("breakfast where the news is read", "television children fed") and then it has a kind of cut to a soldier dying on the battlefield ("bullet strikes the helmet's head").


]]> 2022-09-16 00:56:53 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299166051 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299167797 2022-09-16 00:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299167797 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299169537 by using older the Doors have provided an insight to the age of the children who were being conscripted off the war during the time.]]> 2022-09-16 01:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299169537 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299171020 the song addresses the unknown soldier and their unsuspecitng family who are unaware of their loved ones death. depicts how the family goes about their normal routine oblivious to the unknown soldiers death]]> 2022-09-16 01:01:45 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299171020 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299171194 the song is addressing a funeral procession for a recently deceased soldier, this is evident through "make a grave" and the extended dialogue type speech which explores the dealings of the funeral itself.]]> 2022-09-16 01:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299171194 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299174866 The focus of the song is the idea of soldiers becoming ‘unknown’ when they are sent off to war, becoming nothing but this image of what everyone sees as the traditional soldier with the camo and pack rather than the individual they were before, when their families at home are going about their daily lives while also being exposed to the horror of war through it being televised for the first time. In the second verse, after the presentation of a military procession, the focus changes to the funeral of the unknown soldier and the twisted, false celebration of a pretend ending.]]> 2022-09-16 01:05:06 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299174866 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299175039 The lyrical devise of repetition is used in the song. The words "unknown" appear in reference to a soldier fighting in the Vietnam War. The word "unknown" represents the idea of a soldier loosing their identity and individuality due to bodily harm from the war. This creates sympathy amongst the listeners because they feel sorry for the soldiers identity being lost, and the family not receiving closer about the loss of their son, father, brother or husband.]]> 2022-09-16 01:05:15 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299175039 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299177591 The lyrical devices that are used are repetition and the use of having longer line and short lines to create depth and differentiation. 1/4 is a formal and mourning period of the death of soldiers and the continuation of war. Another 1/4 is a ‘celebration’ of the war ending yet this can also be seen as an irrational statement. Therefore there is a contrasting of tones.]]> 2022-09-16 01:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299177591 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299179475 The Doors use this lyric in the first verse to convey the message of the soldiers being young and youthful. This connects with the title "The Unknown Soldier", creating the idea that the unknown soldiers that lost their identities in the war, were all young boys just out of their schooling, possibly still school age. ]]> 2022-09-16 01:08:40 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299179475 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299182540 The point of view used is third person, to create this narrative of a soldier that is a rough experience for majority of them, this is to be known since this was documented through television and newspapers and all violence and gore was seen for domestic homes to watch. It switches to a funeral service and how soldiers were respected after death through gun solutes and how an element of peace and comfort of safety through death. This is how most soldiers feel due to the harsh realities of war and death may be not only end. The preceptive of soldiers is displayed through different environments and conveys an emotion.]]> 2022-09-16 01:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299182540 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299189656 The use of this language provides a sense of comfort and safety for the soldier who's being carried to his grave, it gives the sense of trust as the use of "hollow" is describing the person carrying the coffin. ]]> 2022-09-16 01:16:39 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299189656 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299190403 It relates to Wilfred Owen in the sense that there is graphic imagery of gore and bloodshed. "Bullet strikes the helmet's head" shows how the violence was experience and how a majority of the soldiers died in war. "Blood over all our soul" is a way of Owen saying how the soldiers were covered with blood of their own and their fellow dead soldiers ]]> 2022-09-16 01:17:12 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299190403 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299191652 Within the song, there are two sections that share the same structure. One part uses soldier commands to communicate the formality  of funeral processions. It is created using single words and sharp phrases, emphasising the regimented and controlled tone of war. 
The second section that is similar to this is short but less formal, having a celebratory and erratic feel. It is almost uncontrolled and at odds with the funeral precision written about previously.]]> 2022-09-16 01:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299191652 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299198263 Rhyming is used in some sections of the song: "read, fed, dead, head" which parallels Owen's use of rhyming structures.


]]> 2022-09-16 01:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299198263 https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299206180 The Unknown Soldier has this connection to Wilfred Owens poems through the themes of death and identity. This idea of identity is shown in Owen's poetry through the soldiers blocking out emotion and becoming these soldier who follow along with orders and end up dead. this connects with the theme of death and being unknown because at the end of the war, these soldiers who were once innocent people now have this sense of loss not only among the dead but among themselves because they've lost this idea of humanity and personality, with identity.]]> 2022-09-16 01:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/craigfrost1/gpo1d57snma6spj8/wish/2299206180