1. Dulce et Decorum Est

Dulce et Decorum Est
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Dulce et Decorum Est
Havo 5 Literature

Slide 1 - Slide

About the author
  • Wilfred Owen
  • 1893 - 1918

Slide 2 - Slide

What does the year of his death (1918) tell us?

Slide 3 - Open question

About the author
  • Owen died during WWI.
  • He had enlisted voluntarily.
  • Killed one week before the
     armistice (wapenstilstand)
     was signed.

Slide 4 - Slide

About the author
  • One of many poets who
     has written about WWI.

  • Others were Brooke and
     Sassoon, which we will
     discuss later on in this term.

Slide 5 - Slide

What do the following words mean?
knock-kneed
lame
fumbling
stumbling
plunges
gargling
gorgelend
grijpen
met x-benen
struikelend
kreupel
geklungel

Slide 6 - Drag question

Let's read the text together

Slide 7 - Slide

Slide 8 - Video

Let's continue
By answering the questions

Slide 9 - Slide

1. What is the setting of this poem?

Slide 10 - Open question

What is the setting of this poem?
Time: WWI
Place: on a battlefield (back towards their camp)

Slide 11 - Slide

What is a stanza?
A
a type of poem
B
a group of lines forming a unit in a poem
C
12 lines in a poem

Slide 12 - Quiz

2. Describe in your own words what happens in the first two stanzas.


Discuss in pairs or groups of three

Slide 13 - Slide

Stanza 1
Tired soldiers are walking back to their camp from a battlefield. Suddenly they are attacked by their enemy who uses gas.

Slide 14 - Slide

Stanza 2
 The soldiers put on their masks. One, however, fails to do so and is choking in the gas. (He isn’t dead yet, but he is dying!)

Slide 15 - Slide

Connect the figure of speech to the description.
A comparison without the words as or like.


A comparison with the words as or like.


A lifeless object is given a human trait.
personification
metaphor
simile

Slide 16 - Drag question

Question 3
Examine the two figures of speech in the first two lines.

Slide 17 - Slide

3a. What figure of speech is this? Metaphor or simile?
A
metaphor
B
simile

Slide 18 - Quiz

3b. What two things in each
case are being compared?

Slide 19 - Mind map

3c. What image is created by these figures of speech?

Discuss this in pairs or groups of three

Slide 20 - Slide

Correct answer:
The soldiers are a sorry sight, not the strong energetic men you normally associate with soldiers

Slide 21 - Slide

4. What words show how tired the soldiers are?
(Do not use the similes from question 3)

Slide 22 - Mind map

Possible answers:
  • bent double (dubbel gevouwen; shows how they walk)
  • knock-kneed (x-benen)
  • trudge (sjokken)
  • men marched asleep
  • limped (strompelen)
  • lame (kreupel)
  • drunk with fatigue (vermoeidheid)
  • dear (to the hoots)

Slide 23 - Slide

5. What happens to the 'someone' in stanza two and why?


Discuss this in pairs or groups of three

Slide 24 - Slide

Slide 25 - Video

Correct answer
The someone is dying because he couldn’t put on his gas mask in time.

Slide 26 - Slide

Slide 27 - Video

6. Why is there a sentence in Latin? What is it used for in war?


Discuss in pairs or groups of three.

Slide 28 - Slide

Correct answer
Why is there a sentence in Latin?
It is an artistic way to say that it is honourable to die for your country, but the words the old Lie suggest otherwise.

What is it used for in the war?
It is used as propaganda and to justify the many soldiers dying during the war.

Slide 29 - Slide

What were Owen's intentions with writing the poem?

Slide 30 - Open question

9. In Owen's view, it is ... to die for your country. (1 word)

Slide 31 - Mind map

Correct answer
Horrific and devastating: there is no glory, no beauty or honour in the way young men die. 

Slide 32 - Slide

I think I understand this poem well enough to be able to analyse it myself.
Yes
No

Slide 33 - Poll