lunes, 9 de mayo de 2011
World War I and Art
Look at the two pieces connected withWWI.One is a video from the famous British singer and song writer Paul Mc Cartney and the other is a poem by poet and soldier Wilfred Owen. How would you relate them to the events in the world? Did they ,in any way, change your view of the war?
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After I have seen the Paul Mc Cartney video I can relate it with the Farewell to Arms book. Because the video represents what I have read and I could see the soldiers in trenches. Leticia
Before I decided to compare the two pieces I have done some research regarding Wilfred Owens’s biography, and I printed the song from the video to be sure about the writing. Since we have read Siegfried Sassoon I will mention him too and his influence on Wilfred Owen.
Just as Wilfred Owen is one of the greatest writers of the war, so Siegfried Sassoon, who inspired him on his writing. They met in a Psychiatric Hospital, where they were encouraged to overcome shell – shock by working hard on their poetry. I have read the poem many times and I found it very close to morbidity, although in some lines honour to fight and died for the country is showed. I understood my feeling, after I read the biography. He felt the pressure by propaganda to become a soldier. Because he was deeply attached to his mother, during his time far away from home, he wrote to her 664 letters. As most of the soldiers, especially those who were in trenches, they went through traumatic experiences that left psychological trauma.
For me, the video is completely different, the music is beautiful, so the letter. Although it shows the horrors about leaving in the trenches, it has a message of hope that I understood after I read the song.
They have no changed my view of the war, because I have watched a lot of movies, but I have read just a few poems. So, it was poetry and the cruelty expressed on the written pieces more graphic than the movies themselves.
Sandra Varsalona
I undertstand that both pieces speak about the First World War but from two distinct points of view for which it is very important the different historical moments they were written. On the one hand, Paul Mc Cartney showed the difficult conditions soldiers suffered and how much they longed to be with their families. He sustained the idea that people from both sides felt the same things claiming equality among them, and even imagined the possibility of making peace face to face with the enemy shaking hands. On the other hand, Owen (living the war himself) described the hell of war, with a pessimistic view and no hope. But, both thinked about chidren and wanted to protect them from that horror.
These pieces refered to the WW1 but the messages they convey serve to reflect on wars whenever they are made...because we, human beings, create wars , so we are the ones to avoid them.
I remember Mc cartney's song from my childhood.I've read some novelists from Malvinas' war as Vincent Bramley and others and I think how this great people can find ways to show different perspectives of war and give you the possibility to not forget what happened in our history because we are all part of the same world so this facts as european,s war affect us .Reading the poem in class was a great experince to get words become into feelings.
I remember Mc cartney's song from my childhood.I've read some novelists from Malvinas' war as Vincent Bramley and others and I think how this great people can find ways to show different perspectives of war and give you the possibility to not forget what happened in our history because we are all part of the same world so this facts as european,s war affect us .Reading the poem in class was a great experince to get words become into feelings.
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