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WWI Poetry Analysis Questions
A. Anthem of the Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen & , The Solider, Rupert Brooke
1. What images of World War I do the two poems convey?
2. Create a Venn diagram that compares and contrasts both of these poems in the space provide.
B. In Flanders Fields, John McCrae
1. Who is the speaker of this poem and to whom is the poem addressed?
2. What message is the speaker giving?
3. What does the poet mean when he writes, “If ye break faith with us who die/ We shall not sleep,
though Poppies grow/ In Flanders field”?
4. Describe ways in which we keep faith with the dead in everyday life.
C. Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
1. What is this poem describing?
2. What are the effects on the human body of being caught is a gas attack? Choose FIVE adjectives
from the poem that describe these effects.
3. Suggest some reason why many World War I soldiers “had lost their boots” (line 6)
4. What is Wilfred Owen referring to when he writes: (i) “through the misty panes” and (ii) “thick,
green light, as under a green sea” (lines 13-14)?
5. Why do you think Wilfred Owen uses the terms “froth corrupted lungs,” “obscene as cancer,” “bitter
as the cud” and “of vile, incurable sores” (lines 22-24). What images do these terms bring to mind?
6. Attempt to translate the last line of the poem. (Without using your cell phone, please!!!)
D. Create your own Found Poem!
**Of the four poems we have read in class pick TWO phrases or sentences that stood out to you the most. Each
must be from a different poem, (you cannot pick two separate phrases/sentences from one poem). In the space
provided please write them down.
#1:
#2: