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Modern Era And Brave New world. Alexi Anderson, Kaylin Kozesky , Jason Poruznik , Bekah Schultz. T wentieth C entury/ aka M odern E ra. A uthors’ I nformation. S iegfried Sasson. Background: Works: - I or “ ”. (1886-1967). Wilfred Owen. Background: Works:
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Modern Era And Brave New world Alexi Anderson, KaylinKozesky, Jason Poruznik, Bekah Schultz
Twentieth Century/ aka Modern Era
Siegfried Sasson • Background: • Works: • - I or “ ” (1886-1967)
Wilfred Owen • Background: • Works: • - I or “ ” (1893-1918)
Graham Greene • Background: • Works: • - I or “ ” (1904-1991)
Ted Hughes • Background: • Works: • - I or “ ” (1886-1967)
James Joyce • Background: • Works: • - I or “ ” (1886-1967)
D.H. Lawrence • Background: • Works: • - I or “ ” (1886-1967)
Dylan Thomas • Background: • Works: • - I or “ ” (1886-1967)
Aldous Huxley • Background: • Works: • - I or “ ” (1886-1967)
“The Rear-Guard” • -Siegfried Sassoon • Summary: • This poem tells or the horrors of a man • stumbling through trenches during WWI. He finds • himself 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 and • feel the emotions better in the poem. • Irony: Tell the dead soldier to guide him through • the tunnel • Oxymoron: rosy gloom
“Dulce et Decorum” • -Wilfred Owen • 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 between between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective world such as like, 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
“The Destructors” • -Graham Greene • Summary:
“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
“The Destructors” • -Graham Greene • Analysis: • Irony: The house that didn’t get destroyed by bombs got destroyed by children
Elements of a Modern ShortStory
Works cited • 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.