Taliya Jackson: Gallery for WWI and the Dawn of Modernism

This is a picture of the Flanders Field American Cemetery. it shows the many soldiers that have lost their lives in World War I. This shows that there is heartbreak and sadness when it comes to war. This picture also demonstrates the historical context of the memorial and its importance. During, World War I a soldier talks about in “In Flanders Fields” the noises of the bombs that the soldiers hear while in battle and the death of members while in battle. This is similar in “Dulce Et Decorum Est” because it shows you the reality of the harshness of war. It also gives you a point of how the…

This picture shows a love story about a nurse and a soldier going through a relationship while trying to balance going through war. This shows that people find love in the armed services. The main idea behind “A Farewell to Arms” is to show the relationship between love and war. It also shows some balance between the “manly” or the “masculine” side of war because of men holding guns and battling each other. While, women in the military at the time were seen as “feminine”, “healing”, and “caring” for the hurt soldiers. But, in war people can lose a person they care about in war. This is…

This picture is Virginia Woolf. This picture represents the author who wrote “Mrs. Dalloway”. In the book, she talks about people who experience life in war at a young age and when they retire they experience mental issues like PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). This is similar in “Dulce Et Decorum Est” because it tells young adults or even children to persuade them thinking going to war is okay and you are being a hero in a way but they don’t tell you the mental trauma behind going to war. For example in lines, “To children ardent for some desperate glory,”. So the word “glory” could…

This picture shows a text from the poem of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”. In the poem, it talks about how the “side effects” of postwar trauma and how it affects society. It also shows how Eliot uses the word “Wasteland” to show the power that World War I had on the world. Throughout the poem, it shows the different perspectives on life after the war. In “Dulce Et Decorum Est” it talks about a person should “ride or die” for one’s country but many people don’t know the effects on the outside of war. It also shows how it affects everyday people in areas that war is going on in. For example…

In the book, “All Quiet on the Western Front” when by Erich Remarque. In the book, it talks about how a retired soldier that part of World War I and telling a solider’s point-of-view pf what war is like and how his body was mentally and physically messed up being of all the harshness of the war. He also wrote in his book of how he felt and how he felt like an outsider from being in the war and how people treated him. Comparing the two readings of "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Dulce Et Decorum Est" it talks about how people can suffer PTSD from being any form of war and how it can…