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    1 Poem Compare and Contrast EO4 20/11/13 Word count: Compare and Contrast of War Poems The poems “Dulce et Decorum Est” by: Wilfred Owen and “The Charge Of The Light Brigade” by: Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson demonstrate images of war in many different and similar ways. War is a subject that often relies on many emotions with those directly or indirectly involved in the countries at war. It usually brings tears and memories of suffering‚ loneliness‚ struggles‚ or victories. Such disturbance of

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    Compare how poets present the effects of war in ‘Mametz Wood’ (page 36) and in one other poem from Conflict. In Mametz Wood‚ by Owen Sheers and Futility‚ by Wilfred Owen‚ their separate perspectives of conflict and war are shown throughout‚ with the use of imagery‚ and personification to show the poets’ changes in emotion. Owen Sheers wrote his poem in the perspective of what happened in the past‚ with the poem being influenced by Sheers seeing a picture of a mass grave‚ provoking gruesome images

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    Portrayal of women in the media A recent UNESCO report describes the common images of women in the media: “the glamorous sex kitten‚ the sainted mother‚ the dishonest witch‚ the severe corporate and political climber.”  The report‚ states that at the current rate of progress on stereotyping women‚ it will take another 75 years to achieve gender equality in the media.  Popular magazines: These types of magazines are trying to feature female image with appearance unattainable for average women. They are

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    can’t breathe. No‚ they whisper. You own nothing. You were a visitor‚ time after time climbing the hill‚ planting the flag‚ proclaiming. We never belonged to you. You never found us. It was always the other way round.  Source: Selected Poems: 1976 - 1986 A Moment in Chess The moment when‚ after many hours of planned strategies and crafted tactics‚ your Queen stands in the centre of the square‚ board‚ battlefield‚ palace‚ kingdom‚ life knowing at last how you got there‚ and say

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    include three phenomenal poems in an anthology of Indigenous Poetry. Each of the poems that will be introduced have been written by indigenous Australians‚ and each includes a form of a relationship within them‚ not only with people‚ but with culture‚ and Aboriginal and European Australians. The first poem to be introduced is Aboriginal Australia‚ by Jack Davis. This gut wrenching poem is about the treacherous acts that the Europeans committed against the Aborigines. The second poem that will be discussed

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    “Convergence of the Twain” Section 1: Poetry Terms Both of these poems are written in free verse. That is‚ they have no established poetic forms to them. “Titanic” is written in three tercets‚ one quatrain‚ and ends with a single line stanza. “Convergence of the Twain” is more structured; it is written evenly into eleven tercets. Both poems seem to have a good mix of enjambment and end stopped lines. That is‚ in both poemssome of sentences stop at the end of the line‚ while others go on to the

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    adhere to manhood in this poem If‚ wherein he identifies certain specific criteria as metaphors for achieving things desired in life. The poem consists of four verses‚ each eight lines long. Each specific verse held in it a very different interpretation in responsibility‚ and each prose deals with a separate yet equally important detail that one would need to encounter. Seeing that Kupling was a writer in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth century‚ it is likely that the poem was meant to be a general

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    ------------------------------------------------- Throughout most of Japan’s history poetry played a large part in the process of death. A jisei is a death poem‚ a poem that any person on their deathbed was encouraged to write. While if you were a samurai‚ according to the bushido code of honor‚ if you wanted to die with honor and not at the hands of your enemy‚ if you had dishonored yourself or fellow samurai‚ or if your master had died you would commit the ritual of seppuku. Seppuku is a ceremony

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    production Theirs a sparse mobile population positive development no understanding of their interactions with their environment that social ecological factor s such as family community and culture are influential for positive human development The poems We are Going by ON and Token Kooris by AH depict imagery of the Australian aboriginal race whose culture and interactions with their environment is misunderstood and declining. Through a satirical note AH speaks of the survival or resilience of

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    Lucy poems Lucy poems are the 5 different poems written by WW between 1798 and 1801. They belong to the second edition of ‘’Lyrical Ballads’’‚ which is a collection of both Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s poems. Lucy poems are lyrical ballads‚ they are written in verse and they all tell a story as briefly as possible. Wordsworth wrote them in the simple language of common people and he often used dramatic changes of states and ironic inversions which are also present in the traditional ballad.

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