Context Born in Fiji‚ Owen Sheers grew up in Wales. As well as poems‚ he has written plays‚ non-fiction and fiction‚ including a best-selling novel called ’Resistance’. He co-wrote the screenplay for the book when it was turned into a film and has even helped write an opera for children. He also appears on radio and television talking about the arts generally. He writes about places and landscapes but is really interested in people who live or have lived within them. The history and identity
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The poems Futility and Mametz Wood both deal with the grim subject of death on the battlefield‚ and how those who fell to this fate were often left where they fell - with their last moments captured in either their corpses soon after or the skeletons discovered long after the war had ended. Neither of the two peices deal directly with the moment of death‚ but rather reflection on the loss of young life. As death in battle is usually seen as a rather honourable fate‚ the language is respectful towards
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Compare how poets present ideas about death in ‘Mametz Wood’ and ‘Futility’. ‘Mametz Wood’ and ‘Futility’ both present different ideas about death. Sheers shows ideas about the deaths of many soldiers‚ whereas Owen presents ideas about the death of only one soldier. ‘Mametz Wood’ suggests the fragility of life when Sheers writes ‘broken bird’s egg of a skull’. The metaphor gives the image of a young and vulnerable hatchling that could be easily broken at any point‚ just as the soldiers were who
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how poets present the effects of war in ‘Mametz Wood’ and in one other poem from Conflict. The poems that I will be comparing are the poems‚ Mametz Wood and Futility. Both Mametz Wood and Futility are about the death of ordinary men in the First World War. They both contrast the images of men and earth and both are concerned with the memory of the dead. Owen’s work‚ however‚ seems angry at the indifference of nature to the fate of innocent men. Sheers’ poem sees a deeper connection between the two
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’Mametz Wood’ by Owen Sheers and ’Break Of Day In The Trenches’ by Issac Rosenberg‚ both present themes of loss and destruction that can be seen throughout. These ideas are displayed through a motif of conflict and war‚ specifically surrounding WWI. Rosenberg’s poem describes the death-ridden life of a young soldier in the trenches whereas Sheers’ poem depicts the dismal burial ground of the battle of Somme‚ many years later. Despite these time-setting differences‚ both poems are effective in expressing
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Compare how poets portray war in The Charge Of The Light Brigade and one other poem In The Charge of The Light Brigade and Mametz Wood‚ both Sheers and Tennyson present similar ideas about war. The reader is given the distinct impression from both poems that the authors think that war is a waste of time‚ unnecessary and pointless. In Mametz Wood Sheers talks about "the wasted young" suggesting that these soldiers that have been found in the farmers field died before their time because of war
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Compare how the poets express their perspective of conflict in "Mametz Wood" and one other poem. In "Mametz Wood"‚ by Owen Sheers‚ and "Futility"‚ by Wilfred Owen‚ their perspectives are expressed through different techniques such as imagery‚ juxtaposition‚ rhetorical questions‚ personification and changes of tense. I think Owen Sheers perspective of "Mametz Wood" was influenced by Sheers visiting a site of a World War 1 battlefield which made him feel disturbed‚ which I believe to be his perspective
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"The woods are lovely‚ dark and deep‚" This line from the poem Stopping by woods‚ is saying that the woods are an opinionated place. The woods may be lovely to some‚ and scary to others. People may consider the woods to be lovely as they may have an interest for nature and it’s beauty. They may also like to see interesting animals‚ and escape from the reality of life. Some people might want to sit on a tree branch and enjoy the peace and quiet. To some people forests are a dark place‚ where they
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In the poems ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘Mametz Wood’ by Owen Sheers‚ they both put alarming perspective. This is shown in ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ when it says ‘The old lie’ and in ‘Mametz Wood’ when it says ‘Towards the wood and its nesting machine guns.’ ‘The old lie’ suggests that it is telling the audience that anything good you hear when people advertise war is misleading and is deceptive to the reader. Saying ‘Towards the wood and its nesting machine guns.’ also suggests that
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In what ways do the poems ‘Flag’‚ ‘Out of the Blue’ and ‘Mametz Wood’ convey the emotions and images of conflict? ‘Flag’ considers the value of patriotism as symbolized by the flag‚ and explores ideas of national identity‚ with a running metaphor comparing to a flag. It considers how the flag is used and exploited‚ this creates sympathy‚ and the refrain explains subtly that the flag is ‘just a piece of cloth’. In each of the first four stanzas a question and answer is given which both asserts
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