Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Wilfred Owen (poet)
I read an article about Wilfred Owen who was an English soldier in the first World War. He knew the severity of the war and returned to England after school to train to fight for his country. He was sent to France where he was wounded and sent to the hospital. In the hospital he met and became friends with a man named Seigfried Sassoon who was a poet. Sassoon and Owen became friends and that is where Owen squired his writing style and his love for poety. Two of Owens most well known pieces of writing are "Dulce de Decorum Est" and "Anthem for Doomed Youth". I looked at his actual manuscript of "Dulce de Decorum Est" his handsriting is messy like he was writing ideas quickky as they came to his mind. He scratched through a lot of what he wrote and edited a lot. The poem is actually about the war itself and is very visual and I vivid. His poetry became a good therapy for his mind and he used it to write down his experiences. After he recovered, Owen was sent back out to fight where he became a war hero for his courage and leadership abilities. Owens died in battle but became a war hero and a well known poet.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Great White Fleet Research
So far for my research I have found a crazy good source through the Alabama Virtual Library under student resources about the Great White Fleet. The artical I found has good information reguarding the fleet along with a bunch of great pictures. It even has a list of all the stops that the Great White Fleet made on its journey. I still need a primary source and a few other things but this one source has a lot of the information I need. It is the link I uploaded on the previous post. Id like to find a few more things about life on the journey or more personal details about the Fleet but this is a good start.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
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