Comparison of The Hero and Reported Missing

• Reported missing's rhyming scheme is abbaaccadeedaa where as the Hero's rhyming scheme is aabbccdedeffgghhii which makes the hero sound more lyrical like a song unlike reported missing which sounds less like a song so each line has more impact as there's more description to absorb.
• Both poems show a character trying to look at the brighter side of their situation although in reported missing the character is in denial and doesn't want to accept the harsh realities of war.
• The hero contains speech which makes the poem more personal and emotional for the reader as its more real and portrays a empathic story.

Izzie bex tash and jenny

The Hero and Spring in War Time

Comparative analysis of The Hero and Spring in Wartime.

1. In the Hero the majority of the poem's lines have 10 syllables each but the poet hasn't emphasised it as a key feature so some have 11. However in Spring in War Time the poet has made sure that every line has seven syllables apart from the last, which has three, giving a very clear ending to the poem.

2.  In the Hero, the poet uses rhyming couplets throughout the poem apart from the first 4 lines of the second verse which are alternate rhyming and gives a very clear middle section but in Spring in War Time the poet uses alternate rhyming throughout. This makes it feel more traditional as the poem has the standard stanza length and rhyming.

3. The Hero uses many enjambments to make the poem have the feel as if it is being spoken aloud. This makes the poem flow as it doesn't stop and start at the end of each line. However Spring in War Time doesn't focus too much on technicality and therefore has a much more simpler look and sound.

4. Both of these poems are about grieving women but the Hero is about a mother who has lost her son and Spring in War Time is about a grieving widow.

5. Spring in War Time concentrates on nature and the poet's surroundings. it has a positive approach with flowers growing over graves and that everything will continue although he is dead, whereas the Hero has a negative approach and in the last stanza he talks about that no cares that he is dead apart from his mother as he was a cowardly soldier and didn't want to go to fight.

6. Spring in War Time is a very figurative poem and the Hero is more literal.

Alexia, Felicity,Laurie and Katie.

Our Follower

Having read Dean Echenberg; our follower's website, we would like to recommend it to you because it gives an in-depth list of many war poems. If you do some creative writing over the half-term, you may want to look at his website and pick some more war poems for your writing.

www.echenberg.org/warpoetry

From Ed Parry, Lucy Oliva, Georgie Bray and Ashley Layer - group 3 :)

Comparison of 'Spring in War Time' and 'The Target'

Similarities

- They both create a very clear image in your mind of the experiences that are being described and both are very descriptive.

- In both poems the poet uses enjambement. This technique sustains the mood of the poem throughout and makes the feelings of the person the poem is written from, clear.

- Throughout both poems, there is a clear contrast in feelings. In 'Spring in War Time', at the end of every stanza the mood changes, as the last line always contradicts the rest of each stanza, and in 'The Target', there is a very clear contrast between feelings of the man who is at war and the feelings of the soldiers family, and the consequences they will have to face since their son has been killed. There is a very clear feeling of guilt.

- Both poems give across a very clear sense of emotion, and the writer puts across the feelings so that they appear to be genuine. This draws the reader in and makes you feel sorry for the sufferer. These poems may come as some comfort to both grievers and people who have experienced war.

Differences

- The rhyming patterns in both poems are very different. 'Spring in War Time' has an ABAB rhyming pattern, and we feel that this keeps the poem flowing and keeps the reader prepared for what's coming next. 'The Target' uses rhyming couplets which yet again, sustains the readers interest and keeps the poem flowing.

- Both poems are written from different viewpoints. 'The Target' is written from the viewpoint of someone who has experienced war, and the horrors it brings; 'Spring in War Time' is written from the viewpoint of someone who is grieving and the horrors that the death of close ones brings.

- In 'The Target', the poet uses particular words which makes you think more broadly about things and imagine them more clearly. 'Spring in War Time' has a very positive feel about it most of the time and makes you feel some comfort for what has happened to the person because they appear to be handling it well.

SIAN and TORI

Comparisons between 'The Hero' and 'In flander Fields'

Here are some comparisons between 'The Hero' and 'In flander
Fields':

• They are both written in the same time period.
• Both Poems are writen in 3 stanzas.
• The Hero is written in couplets and In Flander's Fields is written in the
  scheme 'AABBA, AABC, AABBAC.
• Both poems use enjamberment to great effect.
• The Hero doesn't have a distinct rhythm. In Flanders Fields has a sort of rhythm.
• Both poems are about death. The Hero is about the death of someone whilst In Flander's Fields is written as if by one of the many dead.
• In Flanders Fields uses repation and this coupled with the last stanza makes the poem sound rather erie.
• The Hero starts as if 'Jack' was a hero and had died fighting the enemy. We find out later that he actually died trying to escape. This gives the poem a rather dark ending.
• In Flanders Fields there is a slight use of archaic language (Ye).
• In Flanders Fields uses semicolons to move the peom on whilst The Hero uses comas only.

By Nathan, Dan and Henry

Comparison of Recruiting and Spring Offensive

I am going to write 4 points comparing Recruiting by E. A. Mackintosh and Spring Offensive by Wilfred Owen

1. Meaning - Recruiting shows the real truth behind recruitment posters and how they lie, and Spring Offensive is about war in spring-time and how soldiers spend all this time getting ready to fight, just to go and die. In a way, Recruiting shows what life is going to be once you've signed up through these recruitment poster to go to war, and Spring Offensive proves it and describes it in more detail.
2. Both poems don't have a point of view from someone in the poem, but it is from the poet, telling us the poem, not the poet writing about someone telling us the poem.
3. Recruiting emphasises on the meaning of the poem and the truth behind the recruitment posters, Spring Offensive emphasises on the effect on the reader and hits you at then end because you read about how they are all getting ready, and then what leaves you with the biggest impact and what makes you remember the poem is how they all die at the end.
4. Recruiting has a regular rhyming pattern; ABCB whereas Spring Offensive has a very irregular rhyming pattern. In Spring Offensive each stanza is of a different length and has a different rhyme scheme, in Recruiting, each stanza is of the same length and has the same rhyme scheme.

From Ed Parry

Comparitve points on 'Recruiting' and 'The Send Off'.

Our group made 10 comparitive points on 'Recruiting' and 'The Send Off'.

1. 'Recruiting' has a rhyming scheme of ABCB whilst 'The Send off' has ABA and Ab rhyming schemes.

2. 'Recruiting has a set rhyme scheme whilst 'The send off' is just sentances.

3. They both focus on the dark side of war.

4. Both poets died in the war, so probably shared similar experiances.

5. Both poems have enjambement and caesural pauses.

6. 'Recruitment' has a much more defined rhythm, whilst 'The send off' has different punctuation at the end of each line which gives a different rhythm.

7. 'Recruitment' is much more literal.

8. Both poems get more sinister as you go through.

9. Both poems are done as though reflecting on the war.

10. Both poems are about going into the war, not about the actual fighting.

By Tash Beaumont, Georgie Bray, Ashley Layer and Lucy Oliva.