Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Fiction Adaptation- All Poems Research

I have had some thoughts about all the poems and what I could do with them and I'm still not sure which one to go for so I'll hopefully decide after looking more into them individually.

                                     "Anthem for a Doomed Youth" - by Wilfred Owen (1917)

                                      

In the poem the poet tells us about the holy ritual which marks the soldiers who got slaughtered in the war. Also that in the war there are no special occasions or funerals or soldiers buried in special and different places but only the sounds of weapons which play and almost song for the funeral for the dead.  He is also stating that there is no difference between loosing one man to the other and that they is not love lost until the bodies are taken home to their loving families.

Owen decided he wanted to become a poet at the age of 19 but didn't publish anything good until he saw some war action in France. This made he join the army, start training and published his first poem. After his terrifying experiences at war he was diagnosed with shell sock and sent to a war hospital for treatment. During his stay at the hospital he met a friend called Siegfried Sassoon who later wrote "The Death Bed". During his time Sassoon strongly advised him not to return to war. However Owen did so and didn't tell Sassoon until he was already back. 7 Days after his return the war ended but so did Owen's life. He was made to express his feelings and experiences about the war in the hospital in theory and there he wrote "Anthem of a Doomed Youth".

With this poem I had some ideas of things I could film like a battle field full of soldier one by one getting killed in some way and maybe having their faces covered by either a mask or tights. This will emphysema what Owen was writing saying that no one really cares about the individuals who die at war just mainly the numbers.
http://mural.uv.es/horpla/owen.html

                                         "The Cenotaph" - by Charlotte Mew (1919)

Charlotte was a child from many in her family however 2 of her siblings had mental issues and were imitated the and institute and 3 others died along with her father. It was her, her mother and last sister left and her and her sister promised never to marry in fear of passing on the mental problems on. She started writing and became successful with her writing and poems and helped her families financial problems and was labeled the best woman poet of her day. After her sister died Charlotte became very deeply depress and was imitated to hospital which she later committed suicide.

This poem didn't really speak to he in the way some of the others did. Through reading this I could picture a woman in a institute writing this poem, even before I researched it. I could picture her writing it and as she did flashes of her life and others and the life she wanted but couldn't have.
http://www.poemhunter.com/charlotte-mary-mew/biography/

                                          "Recalling War" - by Robert Graves (1938)

                                   

Robert Graves was a normal middle class man, he won a scholarship to Oxford university but a year later dropped out and joined the army. He was injured in the war and was in hospital where he published his first poem. He went on to publish several more during his service but the got injured again so he left the army, married and went back to Oxford, where he met a woman who drastically influenced his career and he went on to write "Recalling War"

This poem reminded me of after the war when it was all died but the wounds were still alive. I thought of an idea where you see all the injured and survivors of the war all together and they were so forgotten by people that they too forgot about themselves and that they was a war. So they forgot about their injuries and tried to carry on normal life with their injuries.
http://www.legacy-project.org/index.php?page=lit_detail&litID=103

                                      "Summer in England" (1914) - by Alice Meynnell

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Alice was born in 1847 and was an inspired poet all her life, she converted to Catholicism in her twenties and with her faith inspired her more with poetry. She met loads of other famous poet and published many poem including her most famous poem "Summer in England".

With this poem I like it because it's saying that even with all the war, battle, blood shed and death, that the world is still living and moving on, with the seasonal changes comes a new beginning. I don't think this poem attracts me as it's too happy and light compered to the other poems which I have read. Even though it's a really good poem seeing the bright side of the war, it's almost childlike in it's approach with sliver linings and happy ending. The war for me was a bad time or pain and suffering and I want to focus on a poem which displays these qualities so I can better understand the suffering that went on during the war.

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