How poets and song writers respond to war through song and poetry

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List powerful statements and descriptive sentences about war.

For example :

War is futile

The corpses lay broken and neglected long after the shooting had stopped

Barbed wire tore at the horses and men

Napalm scorched the earth and left it barren and dead

Heroic men and women sacrificed their lives so that we could have freedom

Share these with your peers

 

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Find a song that express sentiments about war.

e.g Mettalica - One

Leo Sayer - I hear the Laughter

Van Morrison - Virgo Clowns

Bruce Springsteen - Born in The USA

Redgum - Only Nineteen

and any other

 

What are the messages of these songs?

POETRY - WILFRED OWEN

Consider the feelings Owen expressed about WWI - is this so different from modern song and poetry about the horrors of war?

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In your prior knowledge section you were asked to identify other ways that people express their opinions/feeling on war.

See if you can locate any posters or art work that expresses an artist's impression, belief on war.

Analyse the art work.

Explain its message.

How does the artist deliver his/her message?  (look at the image, colour, symbols, background, text etc.)

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CLASS ACTIVITY VIEWING :

Redgum - I Was Only 19 (1983) VIEW this in class on youtube 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY

What ideas about the effects of war on young men and women are expressed by the song?

Discuss the following line -  'Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon/God help me, he was going home in June'.

What does the title of the song mean?

STUDENT ACTIVITY

Find a song that express sentiments about war :

e.g Mettalica - One

Leo Sayer - I hear the Laughter

Van Morrison - Virgo Clowns

Bruce Springsteen - Born in The USA

 

POETRY

 Dulce et Decorum Est ~ Wilfred Owen ~ Kenneth Branagh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghUFB2WZD6A

Only one week before the end of the war, while attempting to traverse (cross) the Sambre canal,Wilfred Owen was shot and killed. He was 25 years old. Although his poem is about World War 1, it has a lot in common with modern songs and poems about war.

 

What are the messages of these songs and poems?

Collect your favourite lines that you consider demonstrate the nature of war and the way the song writers and poets feel.

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