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War Poetry Essay Plan

The document provides guidance for comparing the poems "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen and "Remains" by Simon Armitage. It outlines the assessment objectives to understand how the writers present war and its effects through language, structure, and historical context. A suggested essay plan is provided that compares the perspectives and experiences of war depicted in the poems, including analyzing how each writer portrays a key event and its impact on the soldiers.

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War Poetry Essay Plan

The document provides guidance for comparing the poems "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen and "Remains" by Simon Armitage. It outlines the assessment objectives to understand how the writers present war and its effects through language, structure, and historical context. A suggested essay plan is provided that compares the perspectives and experiences of war depicted in the poems, including analyzing how each writer portrays a key event and its impact on the soldiers.

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Core Essay: Compare the ways the writers present war and the effects of war in

‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘Remains’ by Simon Armitage


AO1 (R) Understand, AO2 (R) Explain how writers AO3 (R) Relate texts to their social,
identify, interpret, compare use language, structure and cultural and historical context and in
ideas from the texts using presentational features to achieve doing so, demonstrate awareness of the
quotations and reference to effects and influence readers needs, rights and concerns of others.
the text. using relevant subject
10 marks
terminology.
10 marks
10 marks

 You are expected to respond to the poems in detail.


 You are expected to use terminology (simile, metaphor, alliteration etc)
 You are expected to use multiple short quotations and explore the effect.
 You are expected to explore messages between texts.
Suggested essay plan

1) Introduction:

Summarise and compare the different experiences of war in each poem (ie WW1/ Iraq; the events
depicted in the poem). Comment on relevant context.

Compare whose perspective each poem is from and how this voice is conveyed.

2) Compare the presentation of the soldiers in the opening of both poems. Comment on tone.

3) Compare the presentation of the key event (gas attack/ shooting of looter).

Begin by analysing how Owen depicts the gas attack in ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’. Comment on the
change of pace in stanza 2. How does Owen depict the soldier’s suffering and death?

Then compare to how Armitage depicts the shooting in ‘Remains’. How does Armitage depict
suffering and the soldiers’ attitudes?

4) Compare the impact and effect of this event on each soldier.

Dulce Et Decorum Est: Stanza 3: what is the impact of the soldier’s death on the speaker? How is
this shown by the form? Final stanza: Analyse the imagery of suffering here- why?

Compare this to the effect of this event shown in the second half of ‘Remains’. How is the speaker
impacted when he returns home?

5) Conclusion: Discuss Owen’s view, ‘My subject is war, and the pity of war. The Poetry is in
the pity’. What attitude is expressed about war at the end of ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’? Significance
of title? What experience of war did Owen have? How does the presentation of war in this poem
contrast to the presentation of war at the time?

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