World War One Literature Owen and Remarqu

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World War One LiteratureOwen and Remarqué

• Katie FischerChris KinmanTrevor
  OReillyElizabeth SongyRussell Valdez

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Road Map

• Author Bios
• Wilfred Owen
• Erich Maria Remarque
• War in general and World War I
• Owens poems
• Dulce et Decorum Est
• Anthem for Doomed Youth
• Strange Meeting
• Remarques work
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Movie Clip of All Quiet on the Western Front
• Question and Answer

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Wilfred Owen

• Wilfred Owen was born on March 18, 1893, in Plas
  Wilmont, England.
• In 1913, he went to France to teach English in
  the Berlitz School.
• Enlisted in the Artists Rifles in October of
  1915.
• Drafted by the English Army in 1917, during WWI

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War Life

• Became 2nd Lieutenant and headed the Manchester
  Regiment in France.
• Injured at the Battle of Somme.
• Recovered at Craiglockhart War Hospital.
• Met friend and fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon.
• Wrote a series of poems, including Anthem for
  Doomed, Youth, Disabled, Strange Meeting, and
  Dulce et Decorum Est

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Owen (1893-1918)

• Was declared fit for war in August 1918.
• He fought at Beaurevoir- Fonsomme, where he was
  awarded the Military Cross.
• He was shot and killed by machine gun fire
  November 4th, 1918.
• The news of his death reached his parents on
  Armistice.

http//news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/350000/images/_35328
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Poems

• Only five of his poems published while alive.
• Friend Siegfried Sassoon arranged for the
  publication of his Collected Poems in 1920.
• -"I came out in order to help these boys--
  directly by leading them as well as an officer
  can indirectly, by watching their sufferings,
  that I may speak of them as well as a pleader
  can. I have done the first." (October, 1918).

http//www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Owen2.html
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Erich Maria Remarque

• Born on June 22, 1898 in Osnabruck, Germany
• His father, Peter Franz Kramer, worked as a
  bookbinder.
• In 1904, at six years old, entered the Domschule
  cathedral school.
• After 4 years, he moved to Johannischle school.
• Said to be always the best in class by his
  closest friend.
• He studied at the University of Munster
• At 18 he enlisted in the German army.
• Fought on the Western Front and was wounded
  several times.
• He got discharged from the army and was offered a
  teaching course
• He taught in school for a year
• Worked as a stone cutter
• Became a Race-car test driver for a tire company
  in Berlin.

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• He began his writing career as a sports
  journalist, while working on his novel.
• Became the assistant editor of Sportbild.
• In 1925, he was married to Jutta Zambona.
• Both engaged in extra-marital activities
• Had an affair with Marlene Dietrich, who he met
  in Venice in the late 1930s.
• In 1930s, Remarques books were banned
• In 1932, he moved to Switzerland.
• In 1933, His books were burnt by Nazis.
• 1938, Remarque lost his citizenship.
• 1939 he emigrated to the United States
• He became citizen in the United States in 1947.
• He worked in New York and Hollywood.

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• Married actress Paulette Goddard in 1958.
• After the war, he went back to Switzerland
• Resided in Porto Ronco, Switzerland on Lake
  Maggiore, with his second wife Paulette Goddard.
• Remarque died on September 25, 1970 at the Sant
  Agnese clinic.
• Suffered from aneucrysm.

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The War of Alliances

• Central PowersAustro-HungaryBulgariaGermanyTh
  e Ottoman Empire
• EntenteBelgiumFranceGreat BritainItalyJapan
  MontenegroRussiaSerbia

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Alliances

• Serbia had pact with Russia, Greece
• British Empire, France, and Russia (Triple
  Entente)
• Russia with Japan
• Russia with Turkey
• British Empire with the United States
• Italy had pact with France against German
  agression

• Austria-Hungary entered into the Triple Alliance
  with Germany and Italy
• Iran had pact with Germany
• The Ottoman Empire had pact with Iran
• Bulgaria had pact with Austria-Hungary
• Not to mention natural hatreds

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Victorian Warfare meets industrial killing
machines

• LandEntrenched armiesGasesTear gas, Mustard
  gas, Phosgene
• SeaU-boats
• AirZepplins and Fighters

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Dulce et Decorum Est

• Earliest known draft written on October 8, 1917
• Stanza 1 sets the scene
• Stanza 2 Poison gas used in trench warfare
  Drowning
• Stanza 3 Result of war death
• Stanza 4 Who is the you referred to?

http//www.1914-18.co.uk/owen/dulce.htm
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Anthem for Doomed Youth

• Sonnet Form
• Two main images
• War images (lines 1-8)
• Religious images (emphasized more in lines 9-14)
• Truth of War Looking into the widows faces

http//www.1914-18.co.uk/owen/anthem.htm
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Strange Meeting

• Who is actually the speaker in the poem? Does
  Owen represent the narrator, or is he the second
  speaker in the poem?
• Message Mankind as a whole needs to seek
  reconciliation and greater love.

http//www.1914-18.co.uk/owen/strangemeeting.htm
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All Quiet on the Western Front

• By Erich Maria Remarque

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Plot

• Narrator Paul Bäumer
• Stanislaus Katczinsky leads the squad
• Pauls mentor
• Bond because of hardships of war
• Atrocities of war vs. typical war hero story
• Monotony/stalemate/constant bombardment
• Food problem
• Seemingly random deaths appears chance decides
  who lives and who dies
• Return home during leave

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Themes

• Horror of war
• Nonsense of war
• Effect on soldiers
• Nature
• Interesting Note title is Im Westen nichts
  Neues
• Originally translated in 1929 by A.H. Wheen as
  All Quiet on the Western Front
• Literal Translation Nothing New on the Western
  Front

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Selection from All Quiet

• Paul trying to get back to his trench
• Falls into a shell hole (place in ground where
  artillery fire created a huge pit)
• Stabs Frenchman
• First man Paul personally kills- hand to hand
  combat
• Printer Gérard Duval
• I have killed the printer, Gérard Duval. I must
  be a printer, I think confusedly, be a printer,
  printer (pg. 524 in anthology)

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Passage

• The silence spreads. I talk and must talk. So
  I speak and say to him Comrade, I did not want
  to kill youyou were only an idea to me
  beforeBut now, for the first time, I see you are
  a man like me. Forgive me, comrade. We always
  see it too late. Forgive me, comrade how could
  you be my enemy? If we through away these rifles
  and this uniform you could be my brotherTake
  twenty years of my life, comrade, and stand
  uptake more, for I do not know what I can even
  attempt to do with it now.
• All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria
  Remarque, pg. 523, Bedford Anthology

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Bibliography

• All Quiet on the Western Front.  Wikipedia The
  Free Encyclopedia.  16 Nov. 2005.  19 Nov. 2005 
  lthttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Wes
  tern_Frontgt.
• All Quiet on the Western Front. Dir. Lewis
  Milestone. Universal Pictures, 1930.
• http//remarque.org/about_remarque.html. 15 Nov.
  2005 lthttp//remarque.org/about_remarque.htmlgt.
• http/www.kirjasto.sci.fi/remarque.htm. 15 Nov.
  2005            lthttp//www.kirjasto.sci.fi/remar
  que.htmgt

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Bibliography Continued

• Remarque, Erich Maria.  All Quiet on the Western
  Front.  The Bedford Anthology of World
  Literature The Twentieth Century, 1900-The
  Present.  Ed. Paul Davis, Garry Harrison, David
  M. Johnson, Patricia Clark Smith, John F.
  Crawford.  Boston, MA  Bedford/St. Martins,
  2003.520-524.
• Simcox, Kenneth. "Anthemed for Doomed Youth."
  2000. The Wilfred Owen Association. 14 November
  2005. http//www.1914-18.co.uk/owen/anthem.htm.
• Simcox, Kenneth. "Dulce et Decorum Est." 2000.
  The Wilfred Owen Association. 14 November 2005.
  http//www.1914-18.co.uk/owen/dulce.htm.
• Simcox, Kenneth. "Strange Meeting." 2000. The
  Wilfred Owen Association. 14 November 2005.
  lthttp//www.1914-18.co.uk/owen/strangemeeting.htmgt
  .