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Language and Literature Author Study

Students will be matching author facts with the author.

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John McCrae"In Flanders Fields"
John McCraeHis poem gives voice to hundreds of thousands dead in Flanders cemeteries only a few months into the war.
Rupert Brooke"The Soldier"
Rupert BrookeWrote a poem about how enthusiastically men would rush to the war front.
Wilfred Owen"Dulce et Decorum Est"
Wilfred OwenWrote about the horror of men wounded and dying from gas chambers.
Robert Graves"The Trenches"
Robert GravesUses imagery of a large (macrocosmic) and small (microcosmic) universe to show his take on war.
Siegfried Sassoon"Trench Duty"
Siegfried SassoonWrote a poem from the eyes of a soldier who wonders after seeing someone killed why he is still alive.
Erich Maria Remarque"All Quiet on the Western Front"
Erich Maria RemarqueWrote a novel from the point of view of a young German soldier. He didn't glorify war which lead to the Nazi's hatred of him. Forcing him to leave Germany in 1931.
Djuna Barnes"How it Feels To Be Forcibly Fed"
Djuna BarnesWith no prior knowledge she sketched a haunting illustration for the cover of Trend portraying an emaciated, naked soldier, carrying only a rifle with a bayonet as he stalks over a dead body across a ruined landscape where a hand reaches upward from the trench.
ColetteWrote and documented the war front firsthand.
ColetteShe was a French writer.
Mary RinehartShe was an American writer sent to write about the "plight of the Belgian army"
Mary RinehartWrote about the beauty and odor of the flooded trench that was build and flooded to slow down the German army.
Rebecca WestShe is a British writer. Wrote an article "Hands That War: The Cordite Makers"
Rebecca WestMost women authors chose to write about the war front, she chose to write about the home front and the dangerous working conditions of the women working to produce cordite.
Katherine MansfieldShe wrote "The Fly"
Katherine MansfieldSatirized the lack of importance of human life.
Gertrude SteinWrote the "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"
Gertrude SteinDecided to try to help the war effort and ordered a Ford truck from the U.S. to deliver medical supplies to the French wounded.
Frieda SchanzWrote a poem called "Silence"
Frieda SchanzGerman poet who's poem suggests Germans victory as just a calm before the storm.
Edith StilwellWrote "The Dancers"
Edith StilwellThis author wrote a journal called "Wheels" where she published several of Wilfred Owen's poems.
Vera BrittainShe was a British writer that wrote "Testament of Youth" which tracked the course of her life from 1900 to 1925
Vera BrittainThis author, after suffering the lose of her fiance and later found out about the death of her brother, became a peace activist.


Wilder Middle/High School
Wilder, ID

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