No one could foresee the horrors that lay in wait at the front; or, perhaps, simply no one wanted to. ... "I am very quiet. ... I am so alone, and so without hope - (Page 191). ... I had never seen a Frenchman before I came here, and it will be just the same with the majority of Frenchmen as regards us. ... Millions died, empires fell and new countries were born. ...
When the guns finally did fall silent, the German, Austrian, Russian empires collapsed, and the greater part of a generation of young men lay dead. ... In this poem he is saying if you die for your country you will be a true patriot. ... In "Dulce et decorum Est pro patria mori" describes a soldier dying of poison gas. ... The last two lines of this stanza describes the soldier dying, "Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, as under a green sea, I saw him drowning". ... Wilfred Owens use of half rhyme gives his poetry a disturbing quality that amplifies his themes, as i...
The theme that Remarque portrays is one of the devastating horrors the war brings to young men who do not deserve it. ... The novel is set at the beginning of World War I. ... Heavy fire is falling on usEach man lays hold of his things and looks again every minute to reassure himself that they are still there (Remarque, 105). It is a constant struggle to live for these soldiers each and every day they are at war, and everyone knows that they could die at any time. ... World War I was a terrible experience for all that were involved within the battles. ...
As he lay awake in bed that night, the narrator looked at a history of Dresden published in 1908. ... The book, Céline and His Vision, is a story of a French soldier whose skull gets cracked during World War I. ... It has been a couple of years since I first read Slaughterhouse Five, and I'm glad I got the chance to read it again. ... His father died in a hunting accident before Billy left for Europe. ... While he was in the hospital, his wife died of carbon monoxide poisoning. ...
