War poetry

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This lesson contains 16 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

Items in this lesson

Slide 1 - Slide

Which poem do you like best?

In Flanders Fields

They

Dulce et Decorum Est

Slide 2 - Poll

Slide 3 - Slide

To whom is the poem adressed?

Slide 4 - Open question

What is the message?

Slide 5 - Open question

Author adresses fellow soldiers

Message: keep fighting or it will all have been for nothing (the death of the others will have been in vain)

Slide 6 - Slide

Slide 7 - Slide

What is the message from the bishop?

Slide 8 - Open question

What is the message from the soldiers?

Slide 9 - Open question

Fighting for your country is honorable

Not the same: trauma from the war

Slide 10 - Slide

Slide 11 - Slide

What is happening?

Slide 12 - Open question

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What is happening?

Slide 14 - Open question

War scène

Soldiers are marching back to a 'safe' place

There is a gas attack and someone dies

Slide 15 - Slide

Adresses reader as friend

It is sweet and honourable to die for one's country

Slide 16 - Slide