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Year 8 · English · War poetry · Lesson 3

Remembrance and sound

Remembrance in John McCrae's ‘In Flanders Fields’ and Wilfred Owen's ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’: speakers, tone and sound techniques.

Whiteboard video lesson: Remembrance and sound

20-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

  • Explain why the poppy is a symbol
  • Analyse the speaker and tone of ‘In Flanders Fields’
  • Analyse sound techniques in ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’
  • Compare the two poems' tones

The method

  1. Identify the speaker and tone.
  2. Pick a short quotation.
  3. Name the technique: sound, simile, contrast.
  4. Explain what it makes us hear or feel.

Key words: alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, simile, contrast, sonnet, remembrance.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

Who wrote ‘In Flanders Fields’?

  1. Step 1: John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, 1915

Answer: John McCrae

Question 2

Where is Flanders?

  1. Step 1: A region of Belgium

Answer: A region of Belgium with many battlefields

Question 3

What do ‘the crosses, row on row’ show?

  1. Step 1: Graves
  2. Step 2: ‘row on row’: huge numbers of dead

Answer: Rows of graves: huge numbers of dead