The piece that I have considered doing for my project is the poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est", by Wilfred Owen, which is the story of a young soldier’s life changing experience as a soldier in world war 1. Because world wars are things that are always takes about, it has been really easy to find sources. To narrow it down a little bit, I decided to focus this specific search moreso on human morality involved in war. One source that I found was the song “Hero of War” by the band Rise Against, which is a similar tale to the poem I am writing about, but it includes more specifics about what the boy does as a soldier. I found several articles about morals and values during that time, and how that has changed in our world today. And of course there are so many pictures! What I was looking for specifically was pictures of genuine human interaction - interaction outside of the fighting. I also watched
this youtube video, which is a reading of the poem by Christopher Eccleston that Professor Burton recommended to me. This search led me on an ongoing quest to learn more about morals involved in human interactions today, and why wars have been, and are considered either necessary or unnecessary.
I like how you did a thematically focused search, and also how you brought in other texts parallel to the famous one by Owen. I wonder how much of a problem there is in the ways WWI is represented variously in popular culture (at any point in time) compared to the actual war experience. Does it take an ugly image of war for a poem like Owen’s to carry its full weight?
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