Meditation XVII Padlet by C. Drennan https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs en-us 2015-10-22 12:53:50 UTC 2015-10-28 12:18:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/earth.jpg "When she baptizes a child, that action concerns me; for that child is thereby connected to that body which is my head too, and ingrafted into that body whereof I am a member."-John Donne 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76935515 2015-10-22 13:25:00 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76935515 "Reinforcements have arrived. The vacancies have been filled and the sacks of straw in the huts are already booked. Some of them are old hands, but there are twenty-five men of a later draught from the base. They are about two years younger than us. Kropp nudges me: "Seen the infants?" I nod. We stick out our chests, shave in the open, shove our hands in our pockets, inspect the recruits and feel ourselves stone-age veterans."-Erich Maria Remarque 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76938194 2015-10-22 13:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76938194 John Donne is making a metaphor from the church to mankind. When a child is born, the child is baptized and forever apart of the church, and it concerns the other members of the church, as they are a part of it. When a child is born, they are also forever a part of mankind, which concerns others, as they are also a part of mankind. 18vibertt https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76938927 2015-10-22 13:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76938927 "This bell calls us all"-John Donne 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76942008 2015-10-22 13:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76942008 "Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony"-Erich Maria Remarque 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76942155 2015-10-22 13:41:53 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76942155 John Donne and Erich Remarque can compare beliefs about the bell meaning death, and how the bell rings for all. Remarque talks about how no one ever tells anyone that death will come to everyone. 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76942458 2015-10-22 13:42:31 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76942458 When a new recruit comes in, they are joining the Company and, while they are not in there forever, they will be there fighting with the Company in battle  and through the crappy war conditions. The recruits joining the Company concerns the "veterans" because they are experienced members of the Company, and both the recruits and the "veterans" will be together in that body in and out of battle.  18vibertt https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76942517 2015-10-22 13:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76942517 "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were," 18vibertt https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76944811 2015-10-22 13:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/76944811 "We all three have the same thought; even if he should get better, he would be able to use only one- they are no use to him. But as things are now, it is a pity that they should stay here; the orderlies will of course grab them as soon as he is dead. 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77625341 2015-10-27 02:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77625341 "....for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it." 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77625411 2015-10-27 02:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77625411 "Now you will soon be going home," says Kropp. "You would have had to wait at least three to four months for your leave." 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77625542 2015-10-27 02:49:16 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77625542 Pain, according to Donne, is a gift. This gift is something little people find valuable. As Paul is informed of his soon leave, he must realize how much will change by going on this leave, and while on his leave, Paul can't function as a civilian. His own pain of discovering his incapability in society teaches him that where he belongs, if only for the time being, is in the war. 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77625553 2015-10-27 02:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77625553 "Another man may be sick too, and sick to death, and this affliction may lie in his bowels, as a gold in a mine, and be of no use to him; but this bell, that tells me of his affliction, digs it out, and applies that gold to me: if by this consideration of another's danger I take mine own into contemplation, and so secure myself, by making my recourse to God, who is our only security. 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673249 2015-10-27 12:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673249 Paul is in the ditch, with the frenchman he killed with his own hands. But this death teaches Paul how his own reactions to this man's death affects him inside. The pain he feels from killing a man helps him through the process of learning. Learning to let go 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673326 2015-10-27 12:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673326 "I will write to your wife," I say hastily to the dead man...." I will tell her everything I have told you, she shall not suffer, I will help her, and your parents too, and your child." 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673405 2015-10-27 12:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673405 "God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice...." 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673484 2015-10-27 12:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673484 Peter...has the worst injury;- severe lung wound. Franz Wachter...has a shot in the arm. Josef Hamacher..a crack in the head." 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673632 2015-10-27 12:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673632 "A little room at the corner of the building. Whoever is about to kick the bucket is put in there. There are two beds in it. It is generally called the Dying Room. 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673713 2015-10-27 12:20:30 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673713 War, a violent demise for many, causes the worst of injuries among the people involved. But just as those who fight in or with a war are hurt emotionally and/or physically by this tragedy, war writes history, and those involved are the only ones who can sign their name at the bottom. 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673797 2015-10-27 12:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673797 "...so this bell calls us all; but how much more me..." 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673899 2015-10-27 12:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673899 Many people say that when death is approaching, you can feel it. Just as the bell rings for all, one can feel it approaching. Paul experienced the fear of dying, and ultimately dying as a result.  18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673946 2015-10-27 12:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673946 "Summer of 1918- Never was life in the line more bitter and full of horror than in the hours of bombardment, when the blanched faces lie in the dirt and the hands clutch at one thought: No! No! Not now! Not now at the last moment!" 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673997 2015-10-27 12:21:44 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77673997 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77682476 Music

]]> 2015-10-27 12:55:20 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77682476 Kemmerich's boots represent how little the society has shrunk down to be. Boots. Boots of a soon to be dead man are all on their minds. Little thought is put into Kemmerich's actual death until he is dead. When he dies, all are affected. Paul loses his mind trying to survive a loss as such, and losing Kemmerich brought the entire group down as a result. 18drennanc https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77877061 2015-10-28 03:45:48 UTC https://padlet.com/18drennanc/rda0yhcn2mvs/wish/77877061