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World War One Literature
Owen and Remarqué
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Road Map
► Author
Bios:
 Wilfred Owen
 Erich Maria Remarque
► War in general
► Owen’s poems
and World War I
 Dulce et Decorum Est
 Anthem for Doomed Youth
 Strange Meeting
► Remarque’s
work
 All Quiet on the Western Front
► Movie
► Question
Clip of “All Quiet on the Western Front”
and Answer
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
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
Owen (1893-1918)
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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
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/3500
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gun fire November 4th, 1918.
► The news of his death reached his
parents on Armistice.
Poems
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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
Erich Maria Remarque
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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 1930’s.
In 1930’s, Remarque’s 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.
The War of Alliances
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Central Powers:
Austro-Hungary
Bulgaria
Germany
The Ottoman Empire
Entente:
Belgium
France
Great Britain
Italy
Japan
Montenegro
Russia
Serbia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
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
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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
Victorian Warfare meets industrial
killing machines
► Land—Entrenched
armies
Gases—Tear gas,
Mustard gas, Phosgene
► Sea—U-boats
► Air—Zepplins and
Fighters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
Dulce et Decorum Est
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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
Anthem for Doomed Youth
► Sonnet
Form
► Two main images:
 War images (lines 1-8)
 Religious images (emphasized more in lines 914)
► Truth
of War: Looking into the widows faces
http://www.1914-18.co.uk/owen/anthem.htm
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
All Quiet on the Western
Front
By: Erich Maria Remarque
Plot
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= Paul Bäumer
► Stanislaus Katczinsky leads the squad
 Paul’s 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
Themes
► Horror of war
► Nonsense of war
► Effect on soldiers
► Nature
► **Interesting
Neues”
Note: title is “Im Westen nichts
 Originally translated in 1929 by A.H. Wheen as “All
Quiet on the Western Front”
 Literal Translation: “Nothing New on the Western Front”
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)
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Frenchman
 First man Paul “personally” kills- hand to hand
combat
 Printer Gérard Duval
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have killed the printer, Gérard Duval. I must be a
printer, I think confusedly, be a printer, printer—”
(pg. 524 in anthology)
Passage
“The silence spreads. I talk and must talk. So I speak
and say to him: ‘Comrade, I did not want to kill
you…you were only an idea to me before…But 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
brother…Take twenty years of my life, comrade, and
stand up—take 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
Bibliography
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“All Quiet on the Western Front.” Wikipedia: The Free
Encyclopedia. 16 Nov. 2005. 19 Nov.
2005 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Wes
tern_Front>.
All Quiet on the Western Front. Dir. Lewis Milestone.
Universal Pictures, 1930.
http://remarque.org/about_remarque.html. 15
Nov. 2005
<http://remarque.org/about_remarque.html>.
http:/www.kirjasto.sci.fi/remarque.htm. 15 Nov.
2005
<http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/remarque.htm>
Bibliography Continued
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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.191418.co.uk/owen/anthem.htm.
Simcox, Kenneth. "Dulce et Decorum Est." 2000. The Wilfred Owen
Association. 14 November 2005. http://www.191418.co.uk/owen/dulce.htm.
Simcox, Kenneth. "Strange Meeting." 2000. The Wilfred Owen
Association. 14 November 2005. <http://www.191418.co.uk/owen/strangemeeting.htm>.