During our last couple of HUMAN sessions, 7Explorer have started to immerse ourselves into poetry composed during World War One. After grappling with extracts from different poems, we selected one or two lines which really captured our imagination.
‘Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod‘. ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ by Wilfred Owen
‘Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land,’ ‘Dreamers’ by Siegfried Sassoon
We added illustrations to explain what the emotive vocabulary and imagery meant to us and then took part in a class Gallery Walk, noting more examples of rich and powerful words and phrases to describe the images.
