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Bobbitt's The Shield Of Achilles
1,081 wordsAchilles's last stand The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History Philip Bobbitt Penguin 25, pp 993 The shield of Achilles was hammered and forged into shape, according to The Iliad, by Hephaestus, who inscribed on it the history of its own making, a tormented saga of unremitting strife, havoc and death. The Marxist critic Georg Lukas turned the shield into an emblem of epic: a story which must not only describe society but analyse the way it works, making clear the dependence o...
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Use Of Latin In Owens Poem
3,387 wordsThe attitudes of poets towards war have always been expressed vigorously in their poetry, each poet either condoning or condemning war, and justifying their attitudes in whatever way possible. I aim to explore the change in the portrayal of war before and during the twentieth century, and also the structures and devices poets use to convey their views persuasively, and justify them. These two poems describe war, and scenes from war, with varying levels of intensity and reality and also from diff...
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Verse Two The Rhythm In Verse Two
1,463 wordsDuring World War I many poets published their poems to encourage people to enlist in the army. Special spaces were left in newspapers for recruiting poems; these poems and other areas of social life pressured young men into joining the army! Poems such as "Fall In" by Harold Begbie were designed to guilt soldiers into recruiting. He tries to make them feel bad in verse one by telling them that the girls will ignore them if they don't sign up, "with a girl who cuts you dead". In verse two he desc...
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Similar To Achilleus Anger
986 wordsWAR AND PEACE The Iliad takes place during a fierce war between the Trojans and Achaians. Almost the entire poem is devoted to the fighting, from an initial overview of the forces to minute descriptions of combat. The descriptions of battle wounds and death are shockingly accurate; reading them, we cannot help but feel the bitterness of war. Since the two major characters-Hector and Achilleus-either die or have their death foreshadowed, a sense of futility is also built into Homer's chronicle. A...
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Very Vivid Example Of The Way War
1,842 wordsThe Horrors of War, Through the Eyes of a Modernist Poet Modernism was a movement in literature that was the result of many events of the times. First, the industrial revolution, which changed the way many people lived, strongly affected the writing of the Modernists. Modernist writers started to believe that the world was getting darker, which lead some Modernists to believe that this downward trend would culminate in the apocalypse. This dark feeling of despair is a very common theme in a lot ...
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Poem Like Dulce Et Decorum Est
2,323 wordsComparing and contrasting the poems we have read, show how they convey the thoughts of the poets and their reasons for writing the poems. Refer in detail to the poems, using quotations from the poems. There are five different poems to be looked at, all of varying style, and about different aspects of war, such as celebrations, mourning and reminisces. Also, they were written in different periods, i.e. The Soldier, which was written in 1914, before people were aware of how long and horrific the w...
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Owen And Metallica
924 wordsOwen and Metallica: Worlds Apart but Message The Same For my paper, I chose to compare and contrast Wilfred Owen's poem, "Dulce Et Decorum Est" and Metallica's song "One". Although Owen died before the members of Metallica were even born, they both share the same message in these two poems. That message is a simple but important one: War isn t glorious; it's dirty and vicious. They go about getting the point across very differently, but that doesn t take away from the similarities that they shar...
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Pablo Neruda Explaining A Few Things
334 wordsThe Spanish Civil War in 1936-1939 strongly affected Pablo Neruda. The war started when General Francisco Franco in Spain Morocco organized the revolt against the lawful Republican government. The explosion of the civil war and the murder of Garcia Lorca, whom Neruda knew, made him join the Republican movement. During that period of time, Pablo Neruda started working on his collection of poems Espana en el Corazon. A poem I'm explaining a Few Things is included in the collection of poems Espana ...
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Different Educational Levels Cliches
1,075 wordsKomunyakaa (with Vincente Gotera) (1990) Interviewer In much of your work, probably more so in Lost in the Bonewheel Factory [where "The Dog Act" and "The Nazi Doll" first appeared] than in Copacetic it seems to me that you strive for a tension between levels of diction. I see you, for example, yoking Latinate words to everyday ones. Komunyakaa That's probably who I am. Fluctuating between this point over here and another strain over there: the things I've read that come into my work, and also t...
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Canadian John McCrae
1,754 wordsIn Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies g...
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Iang Village Tu Fu The Chickens
1,027 wordsPreface No other author we have read so far in this class has grabbed my attention and interest as Tu Fu did. It could be that as a history major I strive to discover what the past holds, and Tu Fu is an excellent primary source. Or it could be that I can relate to the Time of Troubles, since many of my family have perished in civil strife, concentration camps and war. Still, his poems are full of emotion, virtue, sincerity and realism. It is the latter that I will try to emphasize my paper on. ...
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Writer Of The Poem
3,173 wordsA Glimpse into Sorrow The countries of Eastern Europe have long endured chaos and destruction. Many of the countries in that area were devastated by war. Poland, an excellent example, rests between Germany and Russia. During World War II both those countries invaded Poland, leaving many of its cities in ruins. In modern times the Soviet Union has shattered. However, this liberation has come recently. Except for written materials produced in this decade, most works have been influenced by a life ...
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Poetry Of The Great War An Anthology
1,506 wordsDavid Becker An analysis of a First World War poetry anthology '... I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base And speed glum heroes up the line to death... And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die - in bed. ' (Sassoon, Base Details: 2-3/9-10) Gardner states in his introductory note that '... those who wish to ponder on tactics and strategy, or to know How It Happened, must turn to other volumes. This account has nothing to do with that: it is traced on the emo...
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Analysis Of Weapon's Training By Bruce Dawe
1,253 words"Weapons Training" by Bruce Dawe, is an 'anti-war' poem, a dramatic monologue in which an instructor is teaching new recruits about their weapons in preparation for the Vietnam War. His voice is aggressive and demanding, the tone of the instructor is disciplined and hard on his students. The poem has a negative tone to it because it is about men being trained in the use of devices that will kill other men. The reader senses the atmosphere of a training area, and knows that the soldiers will most...
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True For The Feminine Look The Poem
6,636 wordsAn Essay On "Gay Chaps At Then Essay On "Gay Chaps At The Bar" By Susan Schweik Susan Schweik From the start, "Gay Chaps" links itself directly and indirectly both to soldiers' letters and to soldier poetry. Its title and epigraph derive explicitly, as I have said, from a letter to the author from a "Lieutenant William Couch, in the South Pacific". After an opening dedication to Brooks's brother ("souvenir for Staff Sergeant Raymond Brooks and every other soldier"), words from one of Couch's let...
