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POETRY IN WORLD WAR ONE TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF POEMS IN WORLD WAR ONE

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Page 1: POETRY IN WORLD WAR ONE TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF POEMS IN WORLD WAR ONE

POETRY IN WORLD WAR ONE

TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF POEMS IN WORLD WAR ONE

Page 2: POETRY IN WORLD WAR ONE TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF POEMS IN WORLD WAR ONE

WHY WERE POEMS IMPORTANT?

During the war the men had very few ways to express their feelings about what life was like that could be recorded and sent home. Many wrote letters about their experiences but some of the most famous and well-remembered stories of what life was like at war came from poems that the men wrote in their spare time.

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These poems serve as reminders to us of the losses of war but also the horrific conditions that men were forced to live in. By reading these poems, we can learn what life was like and how the men felt about the war.

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FOR EACH POEM …

I want you to highlight the words the tell you all about what it was like to fight in the war and words that tell you about the war.

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IN FLANDER’S FIELD BY JOHN MCCRAE

The most famous poem was written by a Canadian doctor

called John McCrae. He treated thousands of soldiers a week and saw many horrific

things, including death, conditions and injuries. He wrote the poem In Flanders

Fields after treating one soldier who had been through

one example of horrible conditions and injuries.

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In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.

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THE SOLDIER BY RUPERT BROOKE

This poem was written by a journalist called Rupert Brooke. It is a very famous poem and he wrote it to appear in the Times newspaper, not long before he died during the

war. He wrote it based on his experiences of speaking to soldiers and hearing the stories of soldiers who lost their lives during the war.

It is written from the viewpoint of a soldier who has died, thinking about

the war and how he felt about it.

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IF I should die, think only this of me:    That there's some corner of a foreign fieldThat is forever 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 the 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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YOUR TASK!

I want you to write your own poetry for World War One.

It must be descriptive and give details about the war and what it was like fighting

in the First World War.