World War

Subject: Art
Answer the following question: ESSAY

Why did World War One leave such a legacy of cynicism and bitterness?

Follow the guidelines that are required for all papers. For this paper, I would particularly recommend using some poems from the War Poets;

In Flanders Fields
John McCrae (UK)

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

The Soldier
Rupert Brooke (UK)

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Wilfred Owen
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.

GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!– An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.–
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,–
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
GUIDELINES

Each paper must be:
1. No less than 500 words and no more than 750 words
2. Free of plagiarism. Students will be assigned a zero if SafeAssign or the instructor finds any evidence pf plagiarism. You may only use other author’s words when you are quoting them and, in a short paper like this, direct quotes should be short. If you are using another author’s information without quoting him or her directly, you must paraphrase and cite the information using MLA or APA style. Your paper must include citations within the paper and a list of works cited.
3. Based on several kinds of sources. Use at least TWO academically reputable written sources and cite these in your paper using the MLA or APA sttyle. You will find these using online databases from the Library. Websites are NOT a substitute for these sources. Your text should not be one of these sources. Use at least one source that is not a traditional article or book. This could, for example, be a movie, a novel, a set of poems. This is in additition to the academic sources. You may quote the textbook as a source, but this has to be in addition to the minimum two academic sources.