Poetry Analysis

Darren Keating
1.0 Introduction

1.0 This proposal is written to be aired on teh ABC program Our World in verse. The proposal is based on poetry of war.

2.0 Aim of this report

2.0 This report promotes the filming of two poems that suggest that war is a waste of life.
The first poem, The Hero, written by American Poet, Siegreid Sassoon, tells the story of a mother mourning over her son who died at war. The second poem, Christ at Gallipoli is written by Australian Poet Geoff Page.

3.0 Subject Matter

3.1 The connection between these poems are on the subjcet of experiences of war and loss of life. The two poets are from different countries, but they both share the same experiences of worl war. Although the poems are set in different eras of world war and a mother mourning over a lost son and the other one about slaughter, they both value life.

4.0 Discourse

4.1 In Christ at Gallipoli, the focus is on Jesus Christ assisting the Allied forces...