Literature of War:  Week 5

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John Singer Sargent, Gassed, Imperial War Museum, London.

October 3-7 Reading Themes and Quizzes
Monday World War I Poetry:  Hardy, "Channel Firing"; Brooke, "From 1914"; McCrae, "In Flanders Field"; Seeger, "Rendezvous"; Thomas, "A Private," "February Afternoon," "As the Team's Head-Brass," and "Gone, Gone Again"; Gurney, "To His Love," "Strange Hells"  
Tuesday World War I Poetry:  Sassoon, "A Working Party," "The rank stench of bodies haunts me still," "Counter-Attack," "Base Details," "Glory of Women," and "Repression of War Experience" Quiz 4
Thursday World War I Poetry:  Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est," "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "Disabled," "Mental Cases," and "Strange Meeting,"

 

 Microtheme 2
Friday Hedges, pp. 83-121  

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Resources:  http://www.firstworldwar.com/

last revised October 4, 2005