Post by mrcaldicott on Mar 6, 2015 9:15:11 GMT
EXAMPLE OF HOW TO USE ‘MINI-QUOTES’ (rather than robotically adhering to ‘PEEL’ structure throughout)
In ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ the mood is of unremitting anger and compassion. The poem opens with a disheartening image of the exhausted men: ‘Bent double, like old beggars under sacks’. Owen’s use of simile compares idealistic young men in their prime to symbols of weakness, continued with ‘coughing like hags’. Hags and beggars being at the lowest strata of society reinforces the irony that young men should be in the opposite state – at their peak, thus evoking a sense of anger at their lost youth.‘Bent double…under sacks’ suggests the weight of their exhaustion – again reflecting the detrimental impacts of war.
Owen draws on the exhaustion of the soldiers greatly in verse one with his visual images and unusual combinations of words: ‘Men marched asleep’ to emphasise their extreme exhaustion, and ‘Drunk with fatigue’ conveying their resulting loss of control over their limbs as they appear drunk on alcohol. Owen also evokes a mood of doom with his inference of a hell-like atmosphere: ‘coughing like hags’ suggests the poisonous atmosphere of the front line, and ‘hags’ has connotations of evil and hell.
In ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ the mood is of unremitting anger and compassion. The poem opens with a disheartening image of the exhausted men: ‘Bent double, like old beggars under sacks’. Owen’s use of simile compares idealistic young men in their prime to symbols of weakness, continued with ‘coughing like hags’. Hags and beggars being at the lowest strata of society reinforces the irony that young men should be in the opposite state – at their peak, thus evoking a sense of anger at their lost youth.‘Bent double…under sacks’ suggests the weight of their exhaustion – again reflecting the detrimental impacts of war.
Owen draws on the exhaustion of the soldiers greatly in verse one with his visual images and unusual combinations of words: ‘Men marched asleep’ to emphasise their extreme exhaustion, and ‘Drunk with fatigue’ conveying their resulting loss of control over their limbs as they appear drunk on alcohol. Owen also evokes a mood of doom with his inference of a hell-like atmosphere: ‘coughing like hags’ suggests the poisonous atmosphere of the front line, and ‘hags’ has connotations of evil and hell.