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    Both poems display very rich description from the start and continue this full description throughout the poem giving you a very clear image of the sights‚ sounds and smells described. The very first lines of each poem show this rich flavour and very much give you the idea that the poems are about nature. The poems are about forces of nature and they both build the effect of these forces using description. Death of a Naturalist uses the description to give the feeling that the author is control of

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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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    Question: Wilfred Owen’s poetry is shaped by an intense focus on extraordinary human experiences. Select TWO poems set for study and explore Owen’s portrayal of suffering and pity. Prescribed text: War Poems and Others‚ Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen wrote about the suffering and pity of war from his first -hand experience at the Somme. He was appalled by the overwhelming and senseless waste of life‚ the “human squander” and detailed its devastating effects on young men. In both ‘Dulce et Decorum

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    The important information I felt in Chapter 7 was that these days many people have sedentary lifestyles. Machines carry out all the work so that makes people less active and more lazy. This increases a variety of risks to our health so government and institutions are helping out individuals increase the amount of physical activity in their lives. Physical activity is any kind of movement like household chores‚ work related tasks or performance based activities. It is measured as calories of energy

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    I chose to read the poem “Chivalry” by Carol Muske-Dukes‚ and enjoyed reading it. The poem was pretty easy to read and used some good literary elements. The elements that make this poem stand out are the setting‚ tone‚ and the use of symbolism. I understood the poem the first time I read it‚ but I read it two more times to get a better understanding of some of the vocabulary. This poem is about a man that is holding his dead wife in his hands and then decides to set her body in a fire kind of

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    Anglophone Literature I – 2014 Teacher’s name: Tanoni‚ Cynthia Students’ names: Arias‚ Antonella - Brito‚ Priscila Analysis of a Poem: “Sonnet XXXIV” by Edmund Spenser “Sonnet XXXIV” is a lyrical poem written by Edmund Spenser in the 16th century‚ during the Renaissance age. It was published as part of the Amoretti sonnet cycle‚ along with 88 other sonnets‚ which describe the poet’s courtship and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle. In “Sonnet XXXIV” Spenser describes a ship at sea that cannot

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    Expected change and unrequited love show up as major themes in William Yeats ’ poem The Wild Swans at Coole. Yeats sets up the poem in the first stanza to give a general feeling of sadness by describing "The trees are in their autumn beauty" and "The woodland paths are dry" (1-2). Autumn represents a time when nature starts dying and the dying leaves scatter where Yeats is walking. The reader also gets a general feel of an aged surrounding when Yeats mentions "a still sky" (4). The stillness of

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    In this leaflet I will describe the law of negligence and occupier’s liability‚ economic loss and psychiatric loss. Negligence is when somebody has a duty of care and that duty is breached. Negligence is split into 3 parts. Duty of Care In certain situations‚ a duty of care is owed to another person. For example‚ a surgeon owes a duty of care to whoever they operate on. The existence of a duty of care is established by the Neighbour Test which was brought in by Lord Aitken after the Donoghue

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    Two Different Ways Of Weight Loss Millions of people around the globe have been taking the risks of reducing body fat by undergoing surgery while others prefer to burn calories the natural way. Before you consider undergoing a valuable procedure that has‚ no set security people should try to lose weight naturally. Many surgeons have become popular for satisfying their clients while many manufacturing companies have introduced new products for weight loss. In the past thirty years‚ obesity in

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    earlier explorers had when discovering new lands‚ such as America. Nothing will ever compare to this pure first impression‚ the fact that you have no prior knowledge to what you are looking at makes it that much more fascinating. In Walker Percy’s‚ “The Loss of the Creature” he debates whether people visiting jaw dropping places like the Grand Canyon are truly having the fascinating experience that early explorers

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