1. In what ways can we learn about experiences of war?

2. Visual representations
WW1

3. These guys wrote poems
Pope Owen Sassoon

4. Photography was a new medium

5. Some chose to represent their thoughts graphically

6. The weapons are heavy, powerful, likely to inflict enormous damage.
The scale of the mountain has no end.
Art
Lugging weapons through the death in order to add to the carnage.
Dead tree
Soldiers wading through the sea of dead bodies.
Mountain of dead bodies
Wheel bogged in the death.
The dead are faceless

7. Art and your glossary terms
Atmosphere
Colloquial
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Rhyme scheme
Rhythm
Setting
Stanza
Theme
Symbol
Tone
Purpose
Audience

8. Art and your glossary terms
Atmosphere
Setting
Theme
Symbol
Tone
Purpose
Audience
I can find references to these terms in this image.

9. Atmosphere
Dark
Haunting
Surreal
Urgent

10. Setting Close to the frontline of a violent battlefield.
The weaponry and equipment implies modern times.

11. Theme
Carnage
Inevitability
Waste

12. Symbol
The tree
The tree symbolises that the carnage and destruction of this conflict extends to all life.

13. Tone
Helpless
Scathing

14. Those not involved in the war.
Audience
Those not involved in the war.

15. Purpose
To demonstrate the unending scale of the tragic, wastefulness of war.

16. What would make a good title for this piece?
My suggestion:
Death’s dump
Actual title:
A landscape of corpses,
by Otto Dix

17. There is plenty to analyse!
Let’s have look at another one together.

19. Title?
Gassed,
by Gilbert Roberts

20. Over to you.

22. Title?
After the battle,
by Paul Nash

23. Rhyming couplets
Rhyming
couplet
I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark
Rhyming
couplet
Can you come up with a rhyming couplet for one of the three images we have analysed this morning?