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    This Means War War is a time when men are drafted to fight for their country. Henry Reed believes that the soldiers are wasting their lives fighting in the war‚ instead of being home with their loved ones. Henry Reed’s poem‚ “Naming of Parts‚” demonstrates his negative opinion of war‚ how there are two different speakers‚ and that there are different main ideas of the parts. First‚ Reed writes this poem in order to assert his beliefs about war. He believes that war represents the death of young

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    Tim O’Brien‚ author of The Things They Carried‚ applies multiple techniques in his memoir in order to produce the theme of horror in war. He utilizes word connotation‚ literary/rhetorical techniques‚ sentence structure‚ and overall structure in the memoir. In an excerpt on page 199‚ O’Brien employs the combination of anaphora‚ metaphor‚ and negative word connotation to illustrate the horror of the Vietnam War. O’Brien often uses anaphora to emphasize his points within the sentences. Additionally

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    How could war be kind? War cannot be kind. Throughout Stephen Crane’s stories‚ we learn he is opposed to the civil war. Stephen Crane uses sarcasm in “War is Kind” and then gives gruesome details of a soldier’s experience in “A Mystery of Heroism” to prove he is opposed to the war. Sarcasm is meant to provoke thought and to poke fun at the other topic. “War is Kind” uses sarcasm to explain the horrors of war‚ and the effect it has on those related to those in the war. “Great is the battle-god‚ great

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    The caliginous effect of war has entailed the dehumanise of soldiers where death apprehends reality as killing the opposing mortal is a sign of success and failing for one’s country is futile as the soldier deceased and no longer needed. Wilford Owen delivers a starling message about the reality and costs of war. He highlights the dehumanisation and futile deaths of the soldier’s life’s in the year 1917 throughout the gloomy war in his poems Anthemed for doomed youth and the next war. In Wilford

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    Vocabulary: lime (12) - “And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.” The quote speaks about a man in a fire so the word lime can be referring to something that is a sort of substance that is burning through the body. The Latin quotation (27-28)‚ from the Roman poet Horace‚ means “It is sweet and becoming to die for one’s country.” What is the poem’s comment on this statement? The poem’s comment on this statement is the restating of the title of the poem. The title translates from latin to english

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    Both the Bayeux Tapestry and the Portable War Memorial try depict or show just what the war looked like to the artists in different lights‚ while one glorified or showed the victory war can bring the other showed how war affects the present‚ and the awful side that can come from it. The Bayeux Tapestry is showing the events leading up to the Norman conquest in the Battle of Hastings. This work presents an accurate representation of a historical moment. It is from a Norman point of view‚ in that

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    form. This not only makes the poem flow freely‚ it also keeps us interested. Also note the imagery Owen uses‚ these are all of the brutal flash backs of his in the war. The name of the poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” is “a Latin saying that means sweet and right” (Roberts) ‚ and the poem ends with “Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori” “which means it is sweet and right to die for your country”

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    Interpretation of poems Dulce et decorum est are the first words of a Latin saying taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words‚ it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country. The opening of the poem suggests Owen pities the state to

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    extraordinary experiences in which the men had to endure were unimaginable to any human who has not experienced it firsthand. We grasp a sense of the war participant’s vile experiences and physical demands through his extensive use of vivid imagery in Dulce et Decorum Est. “An ecstasy of fumbling”‚ “clumsy… stumbling…floundering”‚ Owen uses these powerful adverbs to highlight the frantic and stressful situation which arises as a result of a gas attack‚ an extraordinary experience to any normal being. These

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    20th Century and beyond- Döring ‚ 1. Sitzung am 08.04.14 Siehe Handout Texts chosen by chance‚ subjection Erich Auerbach- Mimesis Monarchical categories: literature under monarch e.g. 1830-1901 “The Victorian Age” Julian Barnes: A History of the World in 10 ½ chapters‚ 1989 No solution Article: World´s last WW1 veteran dies Difference: talking about event in past (represented through documents  impersonal) Talking about personal experience represented through

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