Anthem to Dead Youth What passing bells for you who die in herds? - Only the monstrous anger of the guns! - Only the stuttering rifles’ rattled words Can patter out your hasty orisons No chants for you‚ nor balms‚ nor wreaths‚ nor bells‚ Nor any voice of mourning‚ save the choirs‚ And long-drawn sighs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for you from sad shires. What candles may we hold to speed you all? Not in the hands of boys‚ but in their eyes Shall shine the holy lights of long
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The Dubliners – Focusing on ‘ The Dead ‘ Good morning‚ today I will be talking about the story ‘ The Dead’ found in the book ‘ The Dubliners’ . In ‘ The Dead’ ‚ there are recurring reference of snow ‚ and I will be focusing on the significance and symbolism of the snow in the story. First off‚ we can already see the importance of snow even right at the beginning‚ at the title of the story.As we all know‚ snow only appears during winter‚ and winter‚ in the literature world‚ is the season of
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Nathan Gourley Pd2 4/25/00 In John Knowles book A Separate Peace he communicates how the war in him was taking its toll on him. He uses the characters in a complicated plot to show the destructive forces of war. The characters‚ Gene and Finny‚ are the opposing forces in a struggle between the reality of war (World War II) and a separate peace. A peace away from the real war and the awful things that come from it. Through their relationship‚ which is a struggle on both sides‚ Knowles
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The story of Speaker for the Dead is fixed in a world far way from earth‚ in which two communities exist. The human community‚ which colonized Lusitania‚ is bond together by the laws and regulations of the church‚ laws of God. The second community is made up of the alien species called the piggies‚ that were there long before the humans arrived. In the Speaker of the Dead‚ a community is symbolized as something positive that defines the personality of each individual. A Community plays an important
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In my opinion Land of the Dead is the last of good Dead films‚ as I’m not a fan of the next two installments. Land of the Dead is last film where the undertones of what zombies represent‚ in the first film disease most notably AIDS‚ Dawn commercialism... here it’s about the wealth gap between the rich and the poor. Also it continues with the ideas left off in Day with Bub and picked up here by the zombie "Big Daddy" played by Eugene Clark‚ a zombie that not only exhibits intelligence. But also a
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Drop Dead Fred Issues of Abuse and Victimization Drop Dead Fred is a movie that explores emotional abuse of a girl named Elizabeth and how she copes with the abuse by escaping reality and creating an imaginary friend name Fred. This movie is sensitive to the character of Elizabeth in showing her growth throughout the movie and by using Fred to provide comfort in times of stress‚ companionship when she was lonely‚ someone to boss around when she felt powerless‚ and someone to blame for the
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A picture is worth a thousand words‚ but James Joyce manages to paint a pretty vivid one in only two short paragraphs. Joyce offers tremendous insight into the character of Gabriel in the short story "The Dead." He captures the essence of a scene laden with death and laced with tones of despair and hopelessness. By employing third person narration alternating with a stream of consciousness‚ Joyce demonstrates his abilities to delve deep into Gabriel’s mind‚ illustrating this somewhat detached disposition
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A Separate Peace: Social Stereotypes Thesis: The five main characters in John Knowles’ A Separate Peace represent social stereotypes‚ according to some people. In his book A Separate Peace‚ John Knowles represents jocks with Phineas‚ a character who believes that sports are the key to life. Phineas is more of a sportsman than a jock. Real jocks only care about winning‚ Phineas makes sure it’s not possible for anyone to win or lose. Chet Douglas is an exaggerated prep‚ just like
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dead prez: Raising the Roof and Black Consciousness Throughout America’s history‚ a stream of voices has given shape to the African American experience. Whether through academic discourse‚ personal narrative‚ poetry‚ song‚ fiction‚ or satire‚ African American literature demonstrates the responses of African Americans to the social‚ political‚ and economic environments of their era. Countless writers have contributed unique‚ even contradictory ideas to this ongoing discussion‚ highlighting the diversity
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In the short story “Dead Man’s Path‚” Chinua Achebe uses the path as a symbol of us a spiritual connection between the villagers and their ancestors. The Villagers use the path that goes through the schoolyard to get to the graves of their ancestors. The headmaster‚ Mr. Obi‚ tries to shut down the path because he believes the villagers should not be using the path since it runs directly through the schoolyard. The villagers take a stand and use the path anyways at night and take the time to destroy
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