“I am not protesting against the conduct of the war‚ but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.” – Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon was a well known English poet who had gained recognition by writing about his experiences in the trenches as a soldier during WWI. Sassoon uses his experience to express the suffering he had undertaken on the battlefield which were described as brutalising‚ horrific and an unjustifiable waste of human lives. Thus it
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even though Wilfred Owen was not alive until many years after this quote that he embodied this quote about poets and their poetry. Poetry throughout the ages has been one literary device that has neither changed nor conformed to the whims of society. Poetry has been a device to recount history‚ express emotion and bring about change; thus poets being agents of change. Wilfred Owen‚ a brilliant poet was amongst those who initiated anti-war writing amidst a country being fed propaganda. Owen brought attention
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society to be able to control his household; otherwise he will lose respect among his people. This is the case in the Igbo society‚ men are challenged to rule their households. The fact that okonkwo’s father was not a very respected man caused Okonkwo to be and act more manly‚ just so he can prove that he can be a better person than his father; this leads him to rule his household more strictly‚ and in a harsher way than others. "Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand. His wives‚ especially the youngest
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How does Priestly show in his presentation of Mrs Birling that she often pretends to be something that she is not? Priestley’s portrays Mrs Birling as a snobbish‚ cold-hearted and unsympathetic woman but she pretends to be sympathetic towards Eva Smiths’ death. Yet she was the one who worked in the women’s charity organisation and refused to help her in the first place - highlighting her harsh and uncaring nature. Also‚ Mrs Birling feigns to be oblivious towards her son’s drinking and pretends that
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McMillan uses harsh words throughout the poem to show his grief and remorse at his mothers death. Words like “shatters” link with how he is feeling‚ like everything is broken and cannot be repaired. This word makes us imagine something broken into lots of tiny pieces which can’t be put back together again‚ and it helps us to understand how broken and jumbled up he is feeling. The word “slap” when talking about “the tears (that) slap my torn face” insinuates the idea that he is in physical pain‚ that
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How does Hosseini convey a sense of tension and violence in Chapter 22? Throughout Chapter 22‚ Hosseini shows the themes of violence and tension. This is achieved by Amir and Assef meeting in Afghanistan in Chapter 22. The theme of tension is portrayed through the use of reminiscence‚ ‘His name rose from the deep and I didn’t want to say it‚ as if uttering it might conjure him.’ Through the metaphor‚ ‘his name rose from the deep’ adds tension to the story because it describes how Assef would move
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significant macroeconomic costs to the War on Terror. The war has had macroeconomic costs to the economy due to investing money in the war instead of into the United States economy‚ and this hinders the progress and stability of the economy and causes economic setbacks. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have contributed in economic setbacks to the U.S. Economy. It can be argued that wars are good for the economy because they create jobs‚ but if the money spent on the war was invested in the public‚ then
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forces. It is told that within Oedipus Rex that Oedipus has no control over what has transpired in his journey from baby to man. In A Doll House‚ Nora’s life is controlled by Torvald in her job as a mother and a wife. Oedipus is the victim of the God’s fate‚ a life that which was written by them‚ or so the characters in the the play describe. At the end of the play‚ Oedipus does an action to himself by his own hands. When Nora leaves Torvald and her children she is making her own choice; a choice she
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Skrzynecki Topic sentence: the poem explores the relationship between the poet and his father and their contrasting experiences of belonging in a new land Point: the poem opens with a positive description of Peter Skrzynecki’s father and his detachment from the consumer competitiveness of his neighbours. His home is the garden Example: “gentle” “ten times around the world” Technique: positive description‚ hyperbole Effect: hyperbole creates a sense of his belonging in this setting as he
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wanted to make something of his life. In the beginning of the story we are introduced to Holden
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