Helen and Edward
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- Created on: 09-02-22 15:20
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- Letters between Helen and Edward Thomas
- Context
- Letters while he was serving in the military in ww1
- Edward was killed 9th April 1917
- Killed at the Battle Of Arras
- Shared children
- Often a one sided relationship- she loved him more than he did her
- He was rumoured to have been unfaithful to her during their marriage
- Post script was written between April and June 1917
- After Edward death
- Mode
- Written letters
- Private letters between husband and wife during Edward being deployed
- Audience
- Personal so just each other
- Feels intrusive to rad
- People who are interested int he effects of the war on families
- Personal so just each other
- Edward characteristics in letters
- Spontaneity
- War imagery
- Semantic field of war vs nature
- Doesn’t ask about the children or Helen
- Not a lot of emotive language- very matter of fact
- Helen characteristics in writing
- Terms of endearment
- Much more emotive
- Postscript is more poetic as it is very thought out
- Context
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