H.G. Wells once said, “ If we don't end war, war will end us.

WAR POETRY BY: KEITH, GABY, CONNOR, AND KASSANDRA

MAIN TOPICS War poetry was born when the great tragedy, World War 1 began. World War 1 was from It was a time of sadness, anger and depression

OUR POETS Keith- “Still in the Trenches” by Isaac Rosenberg Connor- “Idyll” by Siegfried Sassoon Gaby-“The Dead-Beat” by Wilfred Owen Kassandra- “If” by Rudyard Kipling

Isaac Rosenberg (November 25, April 1, 1918). Isaac was born in Bristol and moved to a poor district of the East End of London with a strong Jewish community. He was well known for his poems about life in the trenches. ISAAC ROSENBERG

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born September 8, 1886 He died September 1, 1967 He was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of anti- war during World War I,. SIEGFRIED SASSOON

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born on March 18, 1893 in Oswestry, Britain. Died November 4, 1918 in Ors, France. According to europeanhistory.com, he was “a compassionate poet, Wilfred Owen's work provides the finest description and critique of the soldier's experience during WW1” WILFRED OWEN

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India, When he was five years old, he was taken to England to begin his education, where he felt overpampered. He returned to India at the age of seventeen to work as a journalist. RUDYARD KIPLING

IN THE TRENCHES This is a poem about life in the trenches and 1 soldier sees his friend die In front of his eyes This connotes a sense of fear and depression because on the battlefield it isnt always pretty “I am choked … safe … dust blind, I/See trench floor poppies/Strewn. Smashed you lie” (14-16)

STYLL This is a poem about the war being over and eveyone is happy. The speaker of this poem is speaking as if tis is a letter that he is sending to his wife and family members “In the grey summer garden I shall find you/With day-break and the morning hills behind you./There will be rain-wet roses; stir of wings; “ (1-3).

THE DEAD-BEAT This poem is very important, because it has a lot to do with what goes on and what went on during wars. He states in stanza 1, “I'll do 'em in,' he whined. 'If this hand's spared, I'll murder them, I will.'” The person dying in this passage shows strength and determination. He proves that he never quits, and I think that's what war should be about, not giving up and staying on your feet

IF This poem is about never giving up(It is almost a cliché). This poem is basically saying “If” you can do it, then get up and actually do it This might just be a speech a general in the army would tell his army. In the last stanza he says “If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,/Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,\If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,\If all men count with you, but none too much:\If you can fill the unforgiving minute\With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,\Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,\And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!”

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