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Wallace Stevens Poetic Techniques
627 wordsOne poet whose work you can really appreciate is Wallace Stevens. Even though his poetry contains very complex and lyrical vocabulary and his work is symbolic in content, a reader can still find ways to really enjoy the poems. Stevens seems to be almost musical in his work. The poems I have read pay much attention to the sound and arrangement of words. On the other hand, I find Stevens work to be somewhat bizarre. It is a style of writing that will confuse the reader. The reader may not understa...
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Empty Joy Sassoon Negative Tone Towards War Soldiers
1,053 wordsDuring a war people do not understand the pain, sacrifice, and hardship that the soldiers endure. Many are just interested with the outcome. Many questions asked are, Are we winning? as if it is a game they are watching. Propaganda is used to lure boys into the army and comfort family members. It is not until the soldier returns from war (if lucky) deformed and mentally traumatized, that the true colours of war are seen. War petrie are written by many soldiers to tell their experiences, the hurt...
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One Less Traveled Made All The Difference
1,012 wordsEveryone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the continuous journey of life; there exists not a path that leaves one with but a sole direction in which to advance. In his poem, "The Road Not Taken", Robert Frost exhibits insight and perception in using poetic techniques to communicate this message. The piece depicts a mans regret at not being able to travel two roads, and having to make a choice between the two. The importance of making decisions is disclosed in the narrators assertio...
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Analysis Of Mending Wall By Robert Frost
1,167 wordsIn his poem 'Mending Wall', Robert Frost presents to us the ideas of barriers between people, communication, friendship and the sense of security people gain from barriers. His messages are conveyed using poetic techniques such as imagery, structure and humour, revealing a complex side of the poem as well as achieving an overall light-hearted effect. Robert Frost has cleverly intertwined both a literal and metaphoric meaning into the poem, using the mending of a tangible wall as a symbolic repre...
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Time And Space Commits Suicide
2,423 wordsClarissa Dalloway's Double Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is a day-in-the-life story that folds back and forth in time, examining one womans life decisions and one mans postwar nightmare. The woman is Clarissa Dalloway, a perfect hostess in her early fifties, confronts the decisions she made thirty years ago. The man, intended by the author to be Clarissa's double, is the shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith who suffers delayed flashbacks over the wartime death of a comrade. The novel...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Iambic Pentameter
1,781 wordsHistory has taught us that no other war challenged existing conventions, morals, and ideals in the same way World War I did. World War I saw the mechanization of weapons (heavy artillery, tanks), the use of poison gas, the long stalemate on the Western Front, and trench warfare, all of which resulted in the massive loss of human life. We must remember not only that the battle casualties of World War I were many times greater than those of World War II, wiping out virtually a whole generation of ...
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