WWI site
I found the site very interesting. I really enjoyed the sections about poetry and the diaries. The diaries allowed you to see what each person's duties were or how they were feeling. Poetry was another way to express their thoughts. I especially liked the poem "The Rainbow" by Leslie Coulson because he talked about how everything was horrible and devastating, but he still found some good. "...Bodies of men who died/Charging at dawn through the dew to be killed or to kill./I thank the gods that the flowers are beautiful still." The other poems truly expressed the feelings of the soldiers during the war.
I liked the did you know's at the bottom of the page:
ex. A "Dixie" (from the Hindi degci) was an army cooking pot.
I also liked the sections on the propaganda posters. There were posters for everything. There were posters to build ships, join the navy, save sugar (which I found odd..), and save food for the armies (always leave a clean plate). It is amazing to see the different tactics used to make people follow the "Uncle Sam" way. The posters tried to pull people in with their big font and colors. They were very 'straight to the point' on what to do or not do.
posted by AmyS | 1:32 PM
9 Comments:
Well you know Amy, soldiers love to get some sugar :)
I noticed that most of the posters don't have a lot of writing. There's usually a big picture with little writing in big font size, and I'm guessing that's to attract people to read the posters.
Amy-I liked your post because it offered pictures as to what you were talking about. I like the sugar poster the best, because it actually tells people how to conserve instead of just tell people to do it. Plus, I'm more of a visual person.
I liked the posters as well amy, they were my favorite part of the website. Your post was very insightful. How did you get pictures in your response?
I thought it was interesting to see the impact of the war on the American culture, in music and literature. I think the war in Iraq has a similiar impact on our culture, maybe not to the same extent, but you still see army and navy commercials on tv offering adventure and a great learning experience to those who join. And there's some songs that mention the war in Iraq, and I'm sure there's some literature. I also liked the Did You Know facts too.
I thought the same as u did, the diaries and poems did tell us a lot about how soldiers felt and the posters also helped to see what you were talking about. Overall it was interesting and thoughtfull.
All Quite on the Western Front is a great book to see how life as a soldier was. It is written from the perspective from a German so you’re like, "Go Germany" and then you realize that the doughboys were fighting the Germans and you feel all mixed up.
The article and the pictures did help me understand the war even more than I already did. The war propaganda posters were the best because they helped me comphrehend what was happening in those times and what certain items were affected.
Saving sugar? I also found that extremely odd. But, it is true that almost all of the propaganda posters had like POP out words at you for something you should do or shouldn't do. The posters kind of made me feel obligated, like if I didn's follow them, then I'd be unamerican. I also agree with you that the poetry and the dairies were like an insight to the lives of the soldiers
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