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    SEB WRITTEN COMMENTARY

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    Written Commentary: Dulce Et Decorum Est Word Count: 1001 Written by Wilfred Owen the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est is one of the many poems that described the war as it was.  Owen uses a Latin quotation from Horace‚ initially used in recruiting propaganda‚ in contradiction to its own meaning. Through the use of visual and auditory imagery Owen creates a scenario that he himself might of experienced. The constant emphasis on the poor condition of the soldiers is just one of the many factors that Owen

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    Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen were young Englishmen when the first world war began in 1914. Before the war had finished four years later‚both had experienced the horror and pointlessness of war and lost their lives. Each poet takes a different approach to the war in their poetry. Wilfred Owen uses negative language such as ’cancer’ ’vile’ ’froth corrupted’ to generate unsettling images‚ that made his reader think war was a terrible thing. On the other hand Rupert Brooke wrote romantic poems filled

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    Mans Inhumanity to Man

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    Man’s inhumanity to man essay. The whole topic of this essay is the idea of mans inhumanity to man‚ how men are through time finding ways to destroy each other. Edwin Brook is the author of the poem five ways to kill a man‚ has written the poem with a very sarcastic and ironic view of death‚ this method is used to shock you. This poem is written like a recipe‚ it is a recipe for death and destruction and each verse you could say is an ingredient. The poem

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    Is the ANZAC Legend the result of mythology and propaganda or is it based on fact?     The ANZAC Legend was formed by the Gallipoli campaign‚ mounted on the 25th of April 1915. This is a date well remembered by most Australians‚ but for what reasons? Do they think of “that guy with the donkey “or “ANZAC biscuits “or do they think: endurance‚ courage‚ resourcefulness‚ good humour‚ larrikinism‚ egalitarianism and of course‚ mateship. Words describing our soldiers that have been synonymous with the

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    Essay a Farewell to Arms

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    Cited: 1. E. Hemingway‚ A Farewell to Arms. Arkansas: Piggott‚ 1929. 2. W. Owen‚ Dulce et Decorum est. Craiglockhart‚ 1917.

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    War Is Not the Answere

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    United States. The bitter sweet right to die for your country. Most of the time there is no real threat and your die for nothing. This was the idea of famous poet Wilfred Owen. In his poem Dulce Et Decorum Est‚ he explains that the sweet right to die for your country is a lie. “The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.” The only outcome of a sweet right to die is a miserable‚ without cause‚ death. The aftermath of war is an uncertainty‚ chaos‚ regret‚ devestation of life and the transformation

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    There is always a moment where one’s world turns gray and everything seems dull and hopeless. In “Wednesday Wars‚” by Gary D. Schmidt‚ the character‚ Holling‚ experiences a dull depressing time period of his life‚ his seventh grade year. The author then uses descriptive language‚ repetition‚ and symbolism to create a dreary‚ sorrowful mood. He makes Holling’s world look like there is no hope and there was no room for improvement. The author uses descriptive language to describe the dull and

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    The poem I have decided to do is Memorial Day for the War Dead By Yehuda Amichai‚ I choose this poem because I love reading about war and the struggles these people go through. War is not an easy thing to write about‚ because when you ask people about war‚ they don’t want to live through it again. “Behind all this some great happiness is hiding” In This poem‚ the speaker is someone who is witnessing Memorial day‚ they most likely‚ were in the war. The message in this poem is that although people

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    All Quiet on the Western Front‚ by Erich Maria Remarque‚ is considered an anti-war novel. Remarque states in the preface‚ “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession‚ and least of all an adventure‚ for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with. It will simply tell of a generation of men who‚ even though they may have escaped the sells‚ were destroyed by the war” (preface). Erich makes it clear in the preface that war is not to be taken lightly‚ for it is something

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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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