Kadlec‚ Gavin Mme Blais EAE3U 12 May 2014 Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends and Emily Dickinson’s There Is Another Sky: Compare and contrast A commonly asked question concerning poetry is asked many a time. Do poems have any relevance in today’s society? The French poet Paul Valery said during his prime that poems are “the unique intersection of language and state of mind." It is shown in everyday life through communication between people‚ expressing oneself‚ music as well as basic
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Comparing Literature from the Great War One may know very little of what war was really like. Maybe you have a close friend or loved one that has experienced it first hand. Perhaps you are a history buff or possible a war hero yourself. No matter what the circumstances of ones life and interest‚ war has affected many and all lives across the world. Through evaluating values in the two different works depicting the World War I‚ War Horse and Wilfred Owens’s short poem have many similarities as well as
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How did poems convey the first world war? Wilfred Owen and Wills Hall covey war in their own way adapting to the time and circumstances to put across the horror and brutal reality of war. The two texts I am going to refer to‚ to show this are “The long and the short and the tall” by Wills Hall and "Dulce et decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen. Wilfred Owen writes his poetry to get over the trauma of the experience. He has (like many other poets) the burning desire to get the horror of the
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Compare and contrast how Owen presents the horror of war. In this essay I am going to compare and contrast how Owen presents the horror of war. We are going to be looking at two of Wilfred Owen’s poems “Dulce et decorum est” and “Anthem for doomed youth” Two very dark poems laced with the horror of war‚ Both poems are dark and disturbing and use persuasive language such as metaphors‚ rhetorical questions and alliteration to get their point across‚ that war isn’t great and glamorous like all young
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Interpretation‚ Structure‚ Language‚ Imagery and Personal Response. The poem talks of a gas attack upon an accumulation of soldiers who are fighting in World War I. He sarcastically states that it is ‘sweet and fitting to die for ones country’. Wilfred Owen thought completely different of this‚ however‚ and is complexly against the war. He uses very powerful‚ vivid descriptions‚ for example‚ the young soldiers being described as ‘aged by war’. For someone to ‘age’ in a matter of minutes‚ seconds even‚ is
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Gabriel Rossetti and ‘Continuum’ by Allen Curnow are both poems that deal with a sense of detachment the poet experiences. In ‘Continuum’‚ Curnow illustrates his mental state of being uninspired and slightly abashed at his lack of poetic inspiration whereas in ‘The Woodspurge’‚ Rossetti describes his depressive condition‚ possibly due to relationship issues. Both poets seem to be stuck‚ and remain trapped in their minds throughout the poems. ‘Continuum’ begins with Curnow depicting the moon rolling
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Throughout these two poems "Eros" is revealed to the reader in two very different perspectives. The first poem by Robert Bridges portrays to the reader that Eros is a true god and that when it comes to love man is the one who suffers. In the second poem by Anne Stevenson‚ Eros is shown as a beat on and a miserable person who suffers from love. The concept of the first poem is evident in the first stanza of the poem. "Why hast thou nothing in thy face? Thou idol of the human race‚ Thou tyrant of
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Dulce was written in response to Jesse Pope’s patriotic poem motivating men to go to war called Who’s for the Game? She compared the war to a innocent rugby game‚ a verse that could have irritated was Who would much rather come back with a crutch Than lie low and be out of the fun? The fact that Jesse said that people would come back with just a crutch was insane‚ it was portrayed as bad to stay at home‚ instead of not fighting being described as safe Jesse called it ‘ lying low’ which comes across
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The war poets Wilfred Owen‚ Robert Binyon and Alec Waugh make powerful use of language features to not only portray their views on war‚ but to intensify the reader’s emotions as well. Binyon uses euphemism to glorify war‚ and in essence‚ serve his propagandist purpose in the poem For the Fallen. However‚ both Owen and Waugh use graphic‚ hard hitting language to reveal the gruesome truth of war through the poems Dulce et Decorum Est and Cannon Fodder. The poem For the Fallen by Robert Binyon was
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or have fought‚ in war to write poetry about their experiences. “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen and “To Lucasta‚ Going to the Wars” by Richard Lovelace are two poems that share this theme. Even though they share the similar subject of war‚ these conflicting poems are an example of how a theme can be interpreted‚ and written about‚ in completely different ways. While both “Dulce et Decorum Est” and “To Lucasta‚ Going to the Wars” focus around the theme of war‚ Owen’s poem sheds light on the
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