Consider how the poets of Lamentations and Bohemians tell us about the :: English Literature

Consider how the poets of Lamentations and Bohemians tell us rough theway in which the army can be a uncivilised and demoralising institution.We all know that the army is surely very tough psychologically, butsurely no one from our generation can understand the constancy andsufferings that men would have had to go through fighting in the FirstWorld War. The army during this time must have been devastatingly hardto cope with and indeed a demoralising institution. Ivor Gurney,author of Bohemians, and Siegfried Sassoon, author of Lamentations,convey the ideas of demoralisation in these two poems concentrating ontwo different viewpoints.A bohemian is someone who chooses to not follow the rules andregulations set by superior powers and lives his life according to hisown rules. In the poem Bohemians, Ivor Gurney explains how these werethe types of soldiers who would have made life uneasy for theirsuperior officers. Gurney tells the endorser how these people would notclean their button s/Nor polish buckles after latest fashions. Thisconveys the idea that bohemians were the kind of people who wereunfazed by the fight and although it troubled them to be at warfighting, they lived life as they would if they were not theresmoking without army cautions/Spending hours that sped like evil forwickedness. These soldiers would have chosen to not become poseur orwhat they would have considered to be mindless soldiers.Gurney has written this poem almost in free verse, though certainwords at the end such(prenominal) as cautions and promotions give the poem asort of rhyme scheme. This portrays the notion that the bohemianswould not have followed the rules whilst fighting at war, and notabided by the regulations set. Coupled with this is the relativelack of punctuation that continues throughout the poem, except fromcommas. This enjambment proceeds until the penultimate track, in whichthe first full stop occurs. This accentuates the last line, which isthe most poignant line o f the poem, In Artois or Picardy they lie free of useless fashions. This line shows that now they have died,they are finally free from having to tolerate the decrees set by the governing body officers of the First World War. This is an ironic finalline as through death, they are freed from the bonds of armyexpectations and regulations about behaviour and uniform.This poem is, to a certain extent, about the dehumanising effects ofwar and wrenched/What little soul they had still further from shape,and how the bohemians did not allow the war change their view on life