Discussion After reading the authors biographies and poems, select two poems and discuss the characteristics and viewpoint of each poems narrator. Describe how you envision each narrator based on lines of poetry. Choose three aspects of each narrator to discuss, such as age, stature, personality, interests, hobbies, fears, passions, social economic status, or beliefs. In your post, be sure to quote each poem at least once. As in all of your writing for this course, remember to be original in your writing. Do not simply retell information you learned from this weeks sources.
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The 20th century was wrought with war, and many artists who lived through
those wars carried those experiences into their work. This week you will learn
about writers whose works touched on themes of war and watch videos that
reflect significant moments from World War I and World War II.
Literary Terms
Use the Glossary of Literary Terms or other internet resources to define the following terms:
biographical criticism
framed narrative
literary voice
narrator
point of view
tone
Reading Options: Literature
Select four writers from this list. For each, read their biographical information and one of their
poems:
1.
W.B. Yeats
Read this biographical information and the poem Easter 1916
2.
Yosano Akiko
Read this biographical information and read or listen to the poem O My Brother, You Must Not Die
3.
Rupert Brooke
Read this biographical information and the poem The Soldier”
4.
Wilfred Owen
Read this biographical information and the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”
5.
Isaac Rosenberg
Read this biographical information and one of Rosenbergs poems: August 1914, Break of Day in
the Trenches, or Dead Mans Dump
6.
W.H. Auden
Read this biographical information and the poem September 1, 1939
7.
Sylvia Plath
Read this biographical information and listen to Plath reading her poem The Thin People (2:30)
Viewing Options
Watch one video about World War I and one video about World War II from these lists:
World War II
1.
The U.S. Assault on Okinawa Was Met With an Eerie Silence (3:36)
2. Rare Footage of the Attack of USS Bunker Hill (2:54)
3. This is the Only Color Photo of the First Atomic Explosion (4:34)
Discussion
After reading the authors biographies and poems, select two poems and discuss the characteristics
and viewpoint of each poems narrator. Describe how you envision each narrator based on lines of
poetry. Choose three aspects of each narrator to discuss, such as age, stature, personality, interests,
hobbies, fears, passions, social economic status, or beliefs.
In your post, be sure to quote each poem at least once. As in all of your writing
for this course, remember to be original in your writing. Do not simply retell
information you learned from this weeks sources.
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