He is sent to Warwickshire, England due to the murder of a popular military officer. The current conflicts revealed in this small city accurately reflect the post World War I society of England. The historical and dynamic aspects embedded in the novel highlight the wartime role of English women, experiences faced by men, who fought in the Great War and the return of "shell-shock" veterans in England. ... During the war, there were men who, "always came back, and brought his men back with him. ... Most war songs were not composed by professional musicians, but created by soldiers. ...

• Word Count: 2089
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

"Crowds of men were crouching round, heating up their canteens of water, some frying pieces of meat, others heating soup, and all the time laughing and talking. From other groups came the quiet humming of favourite songs and these men knew that they were going over the top in the morning. ... Men will not understand us" And even if a soldier were to survive his time in the trenches the suffering didn't end once they reached home. ... They loathed the old men They desired that profiteers should die by poison gas. They prayed God to get the Germans to send Zeppelins to England - to make ...

• Word Count: 1092
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This pro-war poem aims to persuade vulnerable young men to join the army. ... Pope uses striking lines comparing war to sport it is a new way to "play for England" the poem is very jingoistic with a regular beat and an alternative rhyming pattern. ... Jessie Pope recognises that if she compares war to something young men enjoy, then the men will familiarise themselves with war and they will wonder why they often questioned the fear of fighting. ... Young men would like to be seen as brave than "sit tight " at home in safety. ... Owen uses irony in the fourth line "saddening like a hymn" - A...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This pro-war poem aims to persuade vulnerable young men to join the army. ... Pope uses striking lines comparing war to sport it is a new way to "play for England" the poem is very jingoistic with a regular beat and an alternative rhyming pattern. ... Jessie Pope recognises that if she compares war to something young men enjoy, then the men will familiarise themselves with war and they will wonder why they often questioned the fear of fighting. ... Young men would like to be seen as brave than "sit tight " at home in safety. ... Owen uses irony in the fourth line "saddening like a hymn" - A...

• Word Count: 1280
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42