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Do dreams offer lessons? 
Do nightmares have themes, do we awaken and analyze them and live our lives and advise others as a result? 
Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there?
I think not. He can tell war stories.

- Tim O'Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone


Main Texts
Sophocles, Antigone
Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
Short Fiction
Luigi Pirandello, War
Muriel Spark, The First Year of My Life 
Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl 
Bharati Mukherjee, The Management of Grief
Poetry
Homer, The Champion Arms for Battle, from Book 19 of the Iliad
William Shakespeare, “If we are marked to die . . .” from Henry V,  Act IV, scene iii 
Robert Southey, The Battle of Blenheim 
Walt Whitman, Vigil strange I kept on the field 
one night
 
Herman Melville, Shiloh: A Requiem (April, 1862) 
Siegfried Sassoon, Lamentations 
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est 
Anna Akhmatova, The First Long-Range Artillery Shell in Leningrad 
Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Henry Reed, Naming of Parts 
Richard Wilbur, First Snow in Alsace
Wislawa Szymborska, The Terrorist, He Watches 
Yousif al-Sa’igh, An Iraqi Evening 
Brian Turner, Sadiq
Natasha Trethewey, Elegy for the Native Guards
Paired Poems 
Wilfred Owen, The Parable of the Old Man and the 
Young

Wilfred Owen, Arms and the Boy 
Visual Text
New York Times, Boy Fascist  (1932)
Department of Defence, Fallen Soldiers at Dover Airforce Base (2003)


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New York Times, “Boy Fascist” (1932)
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Department of Defense, “Fallen Soldiers Arriving at Dover Air Force Base” (2003)

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Media Resources and Links

Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried

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Click on the image to the left to see and hear fiction author Tim O'Brien speak about his life and works at the National Book Festival. Presented by the Library of Congress.

Luigi Pirandello, "War"

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Click on the image to the left to hear Walter Dixon narrate Luigi Pirandello’s short story "War."

Cynthia Ozick, "The Shawl"

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Click on the image to the left to hear Cynthia Ozick speak about her book, "The Shawl" for The Big Read.

Muriel Spark, "The First Year of My Life" 

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Click on the image on the left to hear Dame Muriel Spark discuss her world view and writing style.

Bharati Mukherjee, "The Management of Grief"

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Click on the image to the left to hear Bharati Mukherjee read at Litquake in San Francisco.

Homer, "The Champion Arms for Battle"

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Click on the image to the left to watch John Stallworthy discuss Homer’s "The Illiad" in an excerpt from Voices in Wartime.

Homer, "The Champion Arms for Battle"

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Click on the gratuitous beefcake shot at left to watch Professor Donald Kagan lecture on the Greek heroic code of ethics and the importance of manly virtue and honor in the Yale Open Course, Introduction to Ancient Greek History.

Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"

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William Shakespeare: "If we were marked to die…"

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Click on the image on the left to see Kenneth Branagh perform the St. Crispin’s Day Speech in the 1989 film of Henry V

William Shakespeare: "If we were marked to die…"

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Click on the image on the left to see Laurence Olivier perform the St. Crispin’s Day Speech in the 1944 film of Henry V

Film Adaptation of "War" by Luigi Pirandello

"Facing It" by Yusef Komuyakaa

"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen


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Mind Mapping


Procrastination Paper Assignment Resources
Due Date: uploaded to Turnitin.com by 11:59pm on Wednesday, January 21st. DO YOU THINK THAT I WILL BE ACCEPTING ANY LATE WORK?

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