The line is; Bent double, like old beggars under sacks which is already a rather miserable tone. ... He describes the soldiers" crooked stance and compares them to old beggars, uncomfortable and undesirable. ... Again the undesirable, slightly unpleasant note is illustrated through the diction. ... The man is giving up the fight, onomatopoeic of the desperate fight for air under a sea. ... Although in this case gas replaces sea, the concept is still basically the same - suffocation. ...

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However, in the trenches he realized how horrific the war was and started to make notes about the conditions at first. Then later in a military hospital he edited and collected these notes into the poetry of Wifred Owen. ... This line needs to be remembered as the poem is based on the idea of it as 'the old lie' mocking the established belief of nationalism and duty to your country. ... The line is sarcastic as Owen has now himself seen a gas attack and a man drown 'under a green sea', and has found out that dying out there in a far off land was a waste of a life and is co...

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His last focus in his work was humanity in which he believed that as man moves further and further away from humanity he seems to be losing more and more of his soul, he was often forced to think about the people trapped in the cities, unable or unwilling to commute with nature. ... Both Samuel Taylor and William Wordsworth conceived a new style of poetry in which nature and diction of the common man outplayed formal, stylized writing. ... In the second quarter of the poem William Wordsworth tells the reader that everything in nature, such as the wind and the sea is met up in a powerful spirit...

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But in the following lines, the poet contradicts what he had said before in the first stanza, "we have but faith" and he writes that it is just for knowledge and trust that we believe in things we see "it comes from thee", moreover in line 22 when man has no fear, "we mock thee". ... In the stanza of the preface it is shown the important effect that time have on human being, that is to say, the death "They have their day and cease to be"; every man has his system or his time, which is divided by days, then being a linear time, there is an end. ...

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What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn? ... When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.' ... Keats then notes that the young man playing the pipe beneath trees must always remain an etched figure on the urn. ... In addition, the young man's love for the maiden will remain forever "warm and still to be enjoy'd F...

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However, he also notes that nature is indifferent to his needs and therefore his desire is unobtainable. ... The alliteration used in 'thin and thistled' and 'night north' uses harsh consonant sounds which make the man - controlled landscape sound inferior to the countryside which is natural. ... There is also a powerful image of the land 'ending' and 'distance' over the sea. ... Larkin describes 'the boy', 'a pensioner', 'dying smokers' and 'going dark' to describe a progression from young to old age. He comment...

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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 publica...

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