Essay Questions - Junior College - University of Malta.
In this essay I would be explaining how six war poems explore the theme of war. Drummer Hodge was written by Thomas hardy in 1899. He wrote it after he read the death of a local drummer boy in the Boer war .Hodge was a nickname given to country people at that time.Some other essay questions to think about: How does Wilfred Owen make Exposure a highly personal poem? Compare how both Wilfred Owen and one other writer use poetry to comment on the effects of war.The voice in the poem appears to suffer from post-traumatic-stress-disorder and the effects of war, whereas in Poppies, a rites of passage poem about personal mourning and loss, from a collection of poetry called Exit Rooms, describes the mother’s emotional reaction and memory to her son leaving to war, or alternatively because he is dead.
Responding to poetry. Writing your response to a poem, or making comparisons between two poems, takes careful planning. These tips show you how to analyse exam questions, structure essays and write in an appropriate style.Exemplar Poetry Essays - AQA English Literature Exam - June 2017 Here are two exemplar unseen poetry essays, at GCSE standard, based upon Section C of the AQA English Literature Exam (June 2017). The poems written about are Alan Bold's 'Autumn' and Billy Collins' 'Today' and attained full marks.
Compare and Contrast Rupert Brooke's The Solider with Wilfred Owen's Dulce 1470 Words 6 Pages Although 'The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke and 'Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen are concerned with the common theme of war, the two poems contrast two very different views of war.
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