MODERN ERA

AND

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Alexi Anderson, Kaylin Kozesky, Jason Poruznik, Bekah Schultz

TWENTIETH CENTURY/ AKA

MODERN ERA

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AUTHORS’ INFORMATION

Siegfried SassonBackground:

•Born into a high level English society class• Lived the life of a country gentleman until WWI started• He was a patriot and an idealist but after 2yrs his view were stark and savage depicting trench warfare.•Diagnosed with shellshock and was put in a hospital where he met Wilfred Owen

Works:- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928)- The Rear-Guard (1917) **

(1886-1967)

Wilfred Owen

(1893-1918)

Background:

• Was interested in experimental techniques and mastered the half rhyme•His model was John Keats and he studied the French poets•His poetry progress was made in the war trenches and military hospitals

Work:• Dulce et Decorum Est

Graham GreeneBackground:

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Works:- I or “ ”

(1904-1991)

Ted HughesBackground:

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Works:- I or “ ”

(1886-1967)

James JoyceBackground:

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Works:- I or “ ”

(1886-1967)

D.H. LawrenceBackground:

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Works:- I or “ ”

(1886-1967)

Dylan ThomasBackground:

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Works:- I or “ ”

(1886-1967)

Aldous HuxleyBackground:

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Works:- I or “ ”

(1886-1967)

LITERATURE STUDIED

“The Rear-Guard”-Siegfried Sassoon

Summary:

• This poem tells or the horrors of a man stumbling through trenches during WWI. He findshimself upon the corpse of a soldier.

“The Rear-Guard”-Siegfried Sassoon

Literary Terms:

Trench Poet- Poets who wrote “war poetry” but hoped their work would survive

and continue to serve as a warning.

(EX: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen)

Oxymoron- a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory ideas.

“The Rear-Guard”-Siegfried Sassoon

Analysis:

• Imagery helps the audience see the action andfeel the emotions better in the poem.

• Irony: Tell the dead soldier to guide him throughthe tunnel

•Oxymoron: rosy gloom

Summary:

• This poem is about the consequences that happen to a soldier who does not get his mask on promptly.

“Dulce et Decorum”-Wilfred Owen

Literary Terms:

Hyperbole – a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect.

Simile- A figure of speech that makes a comparison betweenbetween two seeminglyunlike things by using a connective world such aslike, as, than, or resembles.

“Dulce et Decorum”-Wilfred Owen

Analysis:

• Oxymoron: - Ecstasy of fumbling- Desperate glory

•Simile: -obscene as cancer-bitter as the end of vile

•Tone:-disgusted

•Hyperbole:-Line 20

“Dulce et Decorum”-Wilfred Owen

Summary:

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“The Destructors”-Graham Greene

“The Destructors”-Graham Greene

Literary Terms:

Irony– a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality- • between what is said and what is really meant • between what is expected and what really happens • between what appears to be true and what really is true

Analysis:

•Irony: The house that didn’t get destroyed by bombs got destroyed by children

“The Destructors”-Graham Greene

ELEMENTS OF A MODERNSHORT STORY

• Probst, Robert E., Robert Anderson, and John Leggett. Elements of Literature. Literature of Britain with World Classics. Sixth Course ed. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2000. Print.

WORKS CITED