Weapons: There were different kinds of weapons used in WW1. Firstly‚ there was the rifle and it was a bolt-action rifle. It was the most used gun by the soldiers in the trenches. 15 rounds altogether could be fired in a minute and a person that was standing 1400-1500 metres away could possibly be killed by it so this shows how powerful it was. Also‚ another weapon that was frequently used was machine guns. A disadvantage to them was that they needed 4-6 men to use them so this could be
Free World War I
assignment I have decided to work on two poems. The first one being There is a garden in her face by Thomas Campion and the second She walks in beauty’ by George Gordon and Lord Byron. I will be deconstructing both poems and commenting on them with reference to the techniques used by the author when writing them. The first poem by Campion has a Sesta Rima form‚ meaning a six line stanza composed of a quatrain and a couplet and rhymed a-b-a-b-c-c. It is clearly a love poem. One‚ where the author writes
Premium Poetry Literature Stanza
Half Past Two ’Half Past Two’ is a poem in which Fanthorpe describes how a young child is given a detention for an unspecified misdemeanor and is forgotten by his teacher. Fanthorpe draws on her experience as a teacher to describe the scene as seen through the child’s eyes. The Title of the poem tells me a lot of information even before I read the poem. The information it puts across is that: A boy is told to stay behind until ’Half Past Two’ but this has no-meaning to him because he has no concept
Premium Marketing English-language films United States
I grew up on a ship. Not a cruise ship‚ and not a houseboat or a yacht; the MV Logos II was a converted car ferry that sold books and did aid work around the world. My family moved aboard for four years when I was ten. It’s a singular experience; very few people can say they spent four years living on a ship‚ particularly from the ages of ten to fourteen. Those four years have been incredibly influential on me as a person and for years I’ve toyed with the idea of translating it into some written
Premium Writing Learning Essay
appealed were Conscientious Objectors. Despite the legacy of this group only 6‚000 were sent to prison. 35 received a death sentence but were reprieved immediately and given a ten year prison sentence instead. Who was to be blamed for ww1 and why? 1. Germany was to blame for WW1. Germany started all of the fights and caused a war. Many people sympathize with Germany
Free World War I Treaty of Versailles World War II
poets. One similarity which can be seen at the beginning of both is they both start like fairy tales‚ which shows that the poem should be mostly positive. For example‚ ‘There was once a country’ and ‘One summer evening’‚ this shows that the power of place is influencing the reader and is making them think it is going to be a nice and calm and creating a sense of hope for the poem although they end up being different at the end to surprise the reader and make it more interesting than they would think
Premium Poetry Linguistics Literature
Blake is the narrator of both poems which emphasizes his questioning of creation and religion as themes in the two poems. The simplicity of Blake’s use of rhyming couplets in both poems makes them easy to read and remember. The poems have a rhythm similar to a nursery rhyme which makes them appealing to children as well as to adults. In ‘The Tyger”‚ Blake’s use of alliteration creates a more forceful image‚ as in ‘Tiger‚ tiger‚ burning bright’. In both poems Blake uses animals and their characteristics
Premium William Blake Question Poetry
AND ETERNITY IN EMILY DICKINSON ’S POEMS 906 and 624. Once we endeavor to examine the concept of time we have to do it close enough to the concept of eternity. When speaking of eternity Dickinson often uses the circumference the circle image. Time flees so vast that were it not For an Eternity- I fear me this circumference Engross my finity (poem 802) The relationship between time
Premium Emily Dickinson Life Time
untrue but a brilliant way for the British government to make people hate the Germans even more. German Newspaper headlines -English soldiers put plague germs in German wells. -German prisoners blinded by their Allied Captors. Women during WW1 While the men were fighting someone had to do their jobs so this usually fell to the women. Some of the jobs they were given were; nurses‚ working in munitions factories (which often turned their hair and skin yellow due to the chemicals)‚ in public
Premium World War II World War I British Empire
BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM Biographical criticism begins with the simple but central insight that literature is written by actual people and that understanding an author’s life can help readers more thoroughly comprehend the work. Anyone who reads the biography of a writer quickly sees how much an author’s experience shapes—both directly and indirectly—what he or she creates. Reading that biography will also change (and usually deepen) our response to the work. Sometimes even knowing a single important
Premium Poetry Literary criticism Short story