1. Alexi Anderson, Kaylin Kozesky, Jason Poruznik, Bekah SchultzAlexi Anderson, Kaylin Kozesky, Jason Poruznik, Bekah Schultz

5. Background: Born into a high level English society class Lived the life of a country gentleman until WWI started He was a patriot and an idealist but after 2yrs his view were stark and savage depicting trench warfare. Diagnosed with shellshock and was put in a hospital where he met Wilfred Owen Works: - Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928) - The Rear-Guard (1917) ** (1886-1967)

6. (1893-1918) Background: Was interested in experimental techniques and mastered the half rhyme His model was John Keats and he studied the French poets His poetry progress was made in the war trenches and military hospitals Work: Dulce et Decorum Est

7. Background: Works: - I or “ ” (1904-1991)

8. Background: Works: - I or “ ” (1886-1967)

9. Background: Works: - I or “ ” (1886-1967)

10. Background: Works: - I or “ ” (1886-1967)

11. Background: Works: - I or “ ” (1886-1967)

12. Background: Works: - I or “ ” (1886-1967)

14. Summary: This poem tells or the horrors of a man stumbling through trenches during WWI. He finds himself upon the corpse of a soldier.

15. Literary Terms: Trench Poet- Poets who wrote “war poetry” but hoped their work would survive and continue to serve as a warning. (EX: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen) Oxymoron- a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory ideas.

16. Analysis: Imagery helps the audience see the action and feel the emotions better in the poem. Irony: Tell the dead soldier to guide him through the tunnel Oxymoron: rosy gloom

17. Summary: This poem is about the consequences that happen to a soldier who does not get his mask on promptly.

18. Literary Terms: Hyperbole – a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect. Simile- A figure of speech that makes a comparison between between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective world such as like, as, than, or resembles.

19. Analysis: Oxymoron: -Ecstasy of fumbling -Desperate glory Simile: -obscene as cancer -bitter as the end of vile Tone: -disgusted Hyperbole: -Line 20

21. Literary Terms: Irony– a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality- between what is said and what is really meant between what is expected and what really happens between what appears to be true and what really is true

22. Analysis: Irony: The house that didn’t get destroyed by bombs got destroyed by children

24. Probst, Robert E., Robert Anderson, and John Leggett. Elements of Literature. Literature of Britain with World Classics. Sixth Course ed. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2000. Print.