This is my caparison between Shakespeare use of langue and the choice of langue used to write WW1 poems. I will use Shakespeare play Titus Andronicus and poems by Wilfred Owen and others witch the teacher has given me.
Shakespeare langue can be a Tung twister when people try and read his plays especially when the people doing so isn’t used to this form of speech. In his play Titus Andronicus witch by the way it was the first play of its genre many different langue techniques are used such as: metaphors, emotions and many more. However in the world war one poems you can see the langue itself used is different from the langue that Shakespeare used in his play.
To start with I am going to talk about a poem wrote by Wilfred Owen called “Dulce et Decorum est.” the Arthur uses a wide range of techniques to get his emotions and thoughts across to the reader. “Gas! Gas! Quick boys!—an ecstasy of fumbling, fitting the clumsy helmets just in time.” What the writer has done here is Wilfred Owen has managed to put across the shear panic at this prices moment into the reader head with just a few words the reader is now imaging what this must be like.
“As under a green sea, I saw him drowning” this is a metaphor Wilfred Owen is referring to the gas bombs smoke as a sea witch it isn’t but doing this affects the reader and makes them think deeply about this saturation and what Wilfred Owen at the time must of felt like watching a college drown in a cloud of green smoke. Then Wilfred Owen goes on and writes “he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning” this is good because at the moment where the reader is intrigued to find out whether or not the college died Wilfred Owen relives the reader of his worries by using a wide range of descriptions to describe the state of his fellow soldier. “Many had lost their boots but limped on” this quote from the poem shows the reader the dedication and bravery of the troops in the trenches also this puts an image of the living conditions of the trenches if people had lost their boots.
Siegfried Sassoon’s poem gets off to a totally different start straight away the reader is faced with a writing technique used by millions of famous writers this is known as a reticule question. Writers like this one use this to catch the readers mind and straight away get them thinking. The question in hand is “does it matter?-losing your leg?” it’s almost like the symbol – is there to add a break to add to the thoughts of the reader.
Siegfried Sassoon also said “you can, and forget, and be glad, and no one will say you’re mad” by this I think Siegfried is trying to say the memories from the war are so violent you will just want to drink alcohol and forget about the past and no one will call you mad that’s my interpretation, what’s yours?. This is like encourage meant for the soldiers who fought for your country. “For they’ll know that you fought for your country, and no one will worry a bit”. This is saying to me everyone respects your for you honour to the country and now it’s time by the payback by no one calling you crazy or mad or even worry about you.
Siegfried Sassoon also has another poem called “how to die” how do you die? “The dying soldier shifts his head to watch the glory that returns.” This quote is from the first couple of sentences this shows that even though the soldier is in pain he can still watch his fellows return with victory and full of glory this shows the passion the soldiers has within each other to support each every soldier on the battle field.
Shakespeare was more a play writer them a poem writer but you often encountered some plays that used some poetry techniques to add to the plays dramatic experience I’m not going to talk about any type of play only one in specific witch is “Titus Andronicus” the first play of its genre so you can imaging the shock for the public when the read of watched the play.
MRAC: this what thy daughter
TITUS: why, Marcus, she so is.
LUCUS: ay I, this object kills me!
The script above is extracted from a scene witch discussed most people Titus beloved daughter was raped, had her hands cut off also had her Tung cut out so she couldn’t tell people. You can tell by the word “object” that is used by Lucus that the sight is terrifying but also Shakespeare also done this to make the audience agree with him. Compared to seeing the play and reading it, witch I’ve done both, you can really see and hear the difference because when you watch the play you can hear that the langue has been changed to make it easier for people to listen to. Shakespeare also has a wide range of other techniques that he can use to make the audience agree with him feel emotions. As a writer this was a great skill for.
The directors of the play had to modify the text bit to make it modern and understandable for the audiences but on the other hand this was a great experience to see both the play and read his original copy of the play because other the years the play has been edited but seeing both the modern play and reading the play had a great advantage for because when I was reading the play I didn’t understand certain words then going to see the play filled in the parts that I didn’t understand and gave me a better understanding of the langue Shakespeare used when writing plays.
The war poems compared with Shakespeare, the poems are more emotional and relay history about the war E.G. Wilfred Owens poem when he writes “Gas! Gas! Quick boys!—an ecstasy of fumbling, fitting their clumsy helmets just in time” within a couple of words in to the sentence the reader is feeling emotions and imaging what this saturation would be like and thinking of all the world war one soldiers
Although there might be many difference’s Shakespeare and the poetry have many things in common .E.G. Wilfred Owen says “As under a green sea, I saw him drowning” here Wilfred Owen is using a common technique called metaphor, he is referring to the gas grenade being a green sea also Shakespeare uses this when he writes “Ay me, this object kills me!” here Shakespeare refers to Titus’s daughter being an object not human this is another use of the common langue technique called metaphor. Shakespeare also used another metaphor when he writes “there for I must tell my sorrows to the stones, who, they cannot answer my distress, yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes” in the this quote Shakespeare is saying that stones are like tribunes but in some format they are better because they listen to Titus’s sorrows and that they will not intercept his tale, and that when Titus begins to weep the stones seem to join him in his moment of sadness. Also Wilfred Owen uses metaphors in his poem anthem for a doomed youth “No mockeries now for them, no prayers nor bells, nor any voices of mourning choirs” this technique is known as an extended metaphor because he is comparing a funeral to a death on the battle field in detail because at a funeral there are many crying and bells ringing and the voices of the sorrow songs the choir sings but on the battle field the loud foundering noises of the machine guns the soldiers use carry’s on even though their bodies are full of sadness and sorrow
act 4 scene 2
the capul;et is preparing a meal for Juliet as a celebratory present for her newly wedded husband but she despises the idea that she will be married to someone else than hwer love romeo but capulet has no idea that the two of them are in love
Titus andronicus act 2 Scene 2
Titus and his sons wait outside the emperor’s palace and prepare for a day of hunting.
Titus says he didn’t sleep well last night but he has a feeling it’s going to be a good day.
Saturninus cracks a joke about how it’s way too early in the morning for newly married ladies to be awake (since they’re probably exhausted from the all the previous night’s steamy activities)
Lavinia announces that she’s not tired at all – in fact, she’s been awake for hours.
They all think that Lavinia is tired and shouldn’t be awake because the activities she would have been up to last night as a newly married laddie
Describe the battle of the Somme
Friday 6th November 2015
notes
Attacks in verdan in 2 parts of France weakening the German army so they can take over France and wipe Britain out.700,000 French soldiers die. Haig decides to attack along the river Somme to distract the Germans from verdum to help France heal their soldiers.he was told that the Germans numbers were smaller than the English. The British suffered 420,000 60,000 on the first day 200,000 French loves were lost and 500,000 Germans.two years of war. Many casualties are lost throught the first battle of verdum slaughter plan produces thousands of people’s deaths 1st July 1916 battle of the Somme. Bombarded Germans with bombs then walk over to the trenches. Sometimes fail and cant kill people deep underground shelters. The worse slaughter ever bye a British army in asingle day 60,000. Almost entire regiment wiped out by lunch time on the first day. Because of bombs in first . Tabk makes first apperince in battle. German call the war the bloodbath.1,738,000 shells were fired at the Germans.The British soldiers advanced across a 25-mile front. Haig started with a massive artillery run lasting 5 days.Germans had deep concrete shelters they poored out of them and started mchine gunning the english and french down it made the english slower because all of the shells in no mans land.
The Battle Of The Somme
Throughout the begging of the First World War Germany was attacking France the Germans plan was to keep on weakening the French soldiers until they had so many casualties it would overwhelm the French they then decided once they had weakened the French enough they would burst through the borders and take over Paris. They then would walk down to Callie and plan to invade England and win the war. This plan was working very well but the Germans infantries were declining as well as. Britain had an Allie with France to save France and themselves they decided that they should attack the Germans on the side of the river Somme. Haig a commanding general had the plan to bombard the Germans with shells, the idea was that they would shoot shells into the Germans trench to wipe them out. As the Brits had a larger amount of soldiers than the Germans even if the plan failed to a certain extent they could still wipe out all the Germans and win the war. The Brits and the French took part in a five day bombing of the German trenches which made Britain almost certain that the Germans would not be alive. The Brits were not fully aware of the concrete shelters that the Germans had built to protect them from bombings. The Brits advanced to the German trenches seeming relieved that the Germans had been wiped out,or so they thought(some of the British commanders were so certain of the Germans death they sent their troops out in parade formation).
After the bombing raids had been finished they advanced to there artillery stations and as the Brits approached they mowed them down with machine guns. The English lines had began to rapidly decrease because they did not expect the Germans to be waiting for them as they approached the . Haig was outraged as his plan had not worked against the Brits (Haig had commented a few days before this raid that the Brits were certain of the successes of the bombing raid). As the days progressed the Germans had also summoned their artillery units for the raid which made an even bigger dent on the English forces. As soon as the German artillery had finished there artillery attacks on the first day the Brits had lost the biggest amount of soldiers in one day which summed up to around 60,000.As Haig thought that it would be an amazing idea to let the units carry on with there attacks he set many more units to there deaths. The soldiers were infiltrated with Haig,s decision because they were pretty certain it would lead to death (which it did). As the Brits continued to approach they were harmed by many of their shells approaching them as the had fallen short. As the weeks passed by the deaths had in creased by the thousands because Haig had not stopped the infantries poring in for the attacks. The allies had come from New Zealand and Australia the Australians had lost many of there men on the first day b ut the numbers increased to a sum of 25,000 deaths at this one battle. The Kiwis had introduced the first ever tank into battle this did not seem to be the savoir of the Brits as they had hoped the Kiwis had still lost 6,000 of there men even though they had a tank. As more allies came ion the attacks seemed to be useless and wasting many of there lives. All of the allies had seemed to have lost massive amounts of men. The Brits had lost 420,000 and the French had lost 200,000 as well as the Germans had lost 236,000. A great loss on both sides. The Germans named this battle deblutbad which meant bloodbath in German. The war was one of the worst in English history and will never be forgotten
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English assessment
As the sun light hit the high block of flats in southeast London dark shadows was created people would start to wonder what was lurking in these dark mystic shadows.
What was it? The people next door would start to look out their door and by the look on their faces you could tell they was thinking deeply or maybe even too deep about what was lurking in the shadow.
The people next door to me would start saying things like there’s a terrorist in the shadow waiting to kill us this would bring terror into the block of flats. This sounds a bit too far fetched for there to be a terrorist in the block of flats in the hidden block based in the center of southeast London. This one dark mystic shadow has got families from every house on the floor of flats wondering and thinking what could be in this shadow.
Well what is it? No one knows what is in the shadow I overheard someone say there was a freedom fighter. If this aint right what is the right word for what’s in the shadow.
When the sun went down the dark shadow would disappear this would lead to more discussion between the people that lived in the flats.
The shadow reappeared the next morning first thing.so what is hiding in the shadow outside my door? A boy who looked like mine. Fear struck thru his face when I opened my door to invite him in. he steadily walked towards my door the boy took his shoes off and come in sat down on the sofa. It was my son lurking in the shadow. I have found the right word to describe what was lurking in the shadow this news started to get passed around the people who lived in the block of flats hidden in the centre of London.
The block would awake to yet another shadow formed by the sun light hitting the block of flats. By 11am the hole row of flats on the floor would be out wondering what the this dark mystic shadow had lurking in it today.
Well what was lurking in the shadow today. No one knows what the shadow had installed today. People would go so close up to the shadow to see but no one could see what was lurking in there people would run away from the shadow claiming that some think or someone try touch them or they have seen some think move inside the shadow.
Well I guess it’s down to me again to find out what was in the shadow today. So I started to try think what could it be maybe I was thinking to deeply into what was it. I came up with idea that in the shadow there was an animal. This sounds all a bit too far-fetched for there to be an animal in a block in south east London.
I started getting more desperate to find out what was in the shadow. In the shadow I could see an outline of a tall skinny body. I’ve got this now in the shadow was the janitor of the block of flats cleaning the floor. All this for a janitor cleaning floors.
People would still wonder what was creating these mystic shadows on this one floor of the blocks. I’ve told everyone that its caused by the sun light hitting the side of the building but no one believes me they all think there’s some think else causing the shadows to be formed. If so what is forming these shadows. Some sort of spirit or demon. This whole thing is far-fetched for a demon or spirit to be in a block of flats in south east London. This maybe because I don’t believe in spirits or demons.
The shadow description
Out your door lurking in the shadow is a terrorist.
In the shadow is a homeless person taking shelter
No what’s the right description in the shadow is a lonely person wanting help
Hold on I’ve got this now hiding away in the shadow is a young freedom fighter
NO I haven’t got this right still no words could describe what is lurking in the shadow.
In the dark shadows you can see a free-fighter no that’s wrong what’s the right work?
In the shadows you can hear a hostile militant
You can see a child in the shadows that looks like yours.you open your door,come in you say,come in and eat with us. The child steps in carefully at your door takes his shoes off.
The 1st paragraph
In the thick layer of fog stands an old power station with two men waiting patiently for the car to cross the bridge.
The white car had one man on ether side of the car waiting for the white car with dark black windows to drive past.
The background had an old tall standing building with a thick layer of misty fog making the building look even older and spooky like this building is a place of darkness and mysteries.
A man with a dog stood just before the gate and the small office security block and in the corner just in front of the man you can see the traffic light controlling the traffic passing past the spooky dark foggy building.
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