The Christmas Truce Essay - 760 Words.
Carol Ann Duffy's brilliant poem celebrates the miraculous truce between the trenches, when enemy shook hands with enemy, shared songs, swapped gifts, even played football, and peace found a place in No Man's Land. In a gorgeous small format with David Roberts' beautiful illustrations, The Christmas Truce is an irresistible festive gift. Also.
THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE. Posted by Vidushi on February 18, 2020. T’was the Germans started singing, Christmas day had begun,. Posted under Poetry,Writing Comments (5) 5 Responses to THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE. February 18 2020. Ilakshi. That’s soo good! well done!!!!! Reply. February 22 2020.
Carol Ann Duffy's brilliant poem celebrates the miraculous truce between the trenches, when enemy shook hands with enemy, shared songs, swapped gifts, even played football, and peace found a place in No Man's Land. In a gorgeous small format with David Roberts' beautiful illustrations, The Christmas Truce is an irresistible festive gift.
His Selected Poems was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man (Smokestack, 2014) is a collaboration with cartoonist Tony Husband which tells the story of a young Yorkshire lad caught up in the terrible slaughter of the First World War.
Christmas 1914. Christmas Eve in 1914 Stars were burning, burning bright And all along the Western Front Guns were lying still and quiet. Men lay dozing in the trenches, In the cold and in the dark, And far away behind the lines A village dog began to bark. Some lay thinking of their families, Some sang songs while others were quiet.
From one perspective, the Christmas Truce was not unexpected. Several neutral powers tried to convince the warring nations to keep peace during Christmas and to show the minimum of Christianity. The most successful attempt to arrange a truce was the Pope’s appeal. 6 He appealed the European powers to keep peace at Christmas, which might have helped to arrange a treaty to end the war.
Comparative essays serve to enhance the understanding of the themes, values and ideas represented in texts, by examining their different mediums, contextual values and purposes. Christian Carrion’s feature film Joyeux Noel, and Nic Young’s documentary, The Christmas Truce, are both 21st century filmic responses to a 20th century event.