Online Lesson (1)

Online Lesson Term 3 (1)
1) Turrets or cannons on the ship for battling
2) The “jackies” are the sailors of the ship. The reason why they were singing “war charities” was because they wanted to boost the sailor’s morale that were on the ship so they will fight with pride and die for the country their fighting for.
3) Both the gun and shovel are made of iron, and in the past during the war, the type of shovel called plowshares would be hammered into the guns, therefore a gun will always be with the shovel and that is why it is called “The shovel is a brother to the gun”

Paragraph B
1) The poem talks about enemy taking over the city and they have the higher order of the so called “court”, whereby all the citizens living in the captured city become slaves of the enemy and of course they would have to obey the enemies or masters’ commands. In shows and non-fiction scenes, the slaves have a tradition for always obeying their masters’ commands and from the enemies point of view, the title “And they obey” clearly illustrates the main story line.
2) This poem is an anti-war poem, thus is shows that in war, the citizens living there in the area have to rebuild the city that they have damaged.
3) It is harder to build it back up again, for example, the recent earthquake and tsunami that have damaged the nuclear reactors in the nuclear plants in Fukushima, the meltdown is still happening since March. Nowadays they are monitoring the movement of the food in and out, worrying that the food would contain radiation that will affect the people’s health. Recently, the meat have been sent in by Fukushima contained low levels of radiation and some even been sent to the countries nearby. In my view, the amount of damaged the nuclear meltdown have caused is much harder to build back than destroy or damage.

Paragraph C
1) The sounds of the future wars represent silent attack vehicle, which is supported by the fact that the poem states "silent wheels" indicating the wheels of vehicles make no sounds, and probably attacks with cannons as said in the poem “whirr of rods not yet dreamed out in the heads of men” which meant that they have not fired.
2) One “king” that has been kicked under the dust is the President of Egypt Mubarak, who was accused and forced to step down as President due to conflicts.