In the first stanza, Owen opens up by giving phrases such as "like old beggars under sacks", "men marched asleep", and "drunk with fatigue", which strongly provides the readers with vivid pictures of soldiers pushing forward in slow and controlled pace despite of deplorable conditions they are in. ... "As under a green sea I saw him drowning. ... In the end of the four lines, usage of the words such as "with such high zest" implies that "once the sentiment of dulce et decorum was once held by either the speaker or the dead man who he now sees on the wagon." ... At last, Owen's "Dulce...

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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 completely pointless. ... In contrast, Owen uses the rigid structure of a sonnet (two quatrains and a sextet) to contrast with the theme of death and loss. ... It uses similes such as 'like old beggars under sacks' an...

• Word Count: 1001
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• Grade Level: High School

Whilst on the surface appearing very simplistic and straightforward, multiple themes are intertwined in the framework of the narrative. ... Jim happens to be in Brisbane when the first news of the war reaches Australia. " It was already several days old, over there, in countries to which they were not linked, and now it had come here." ... Breaking glass a white shirted man with his hands over his face and blood between them" staggers onto the pavement. ... At "le Havre," Jim and Wizzer Green narrowly avoid a "sudden, unexpected confrontation," after Jim allegedly trips the man. ... Significa...

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• Grade Level: High School

"If anything will rouse him now, The kind old sun will know," The second stanza goes much deeper into the Generals emotions he is saying why did the sun break the earth to create us, if we are going to slaughter each other. ... "And floundering like a man in fire or lime" This line is saying the soldier was panicking too much that he was making mistakes and because of these mistakes the soldier doesn't get his helmet on in time and now he is surrounded by green gas. The last two lines of this stanza describes the soldier dying, "Dim through the misty panes and thick green l...

• Word Count: 983
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• Grade Level: High School

Hemingway was a rugged man in the true sense, and his writings show this. ... War was one of Hemingway's most common themes. ... Hemingway was known as an "expert in the areas of war, bullfighting, deep-sea fishing, boxing, big-game hunting, and reckless, extravagant living--experiences that he often recounted in his fiction" (Shaffer 1). ... She instead left him for an older man very abruptly. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Gladstone Parliament of 1880–85 was the 'no-man's land' between the old Radicalism and the new Socialism. ... It was largely a poetry of urban themes; the Romantic dependence on nature had already declined. ... His poems are largely traditional in theme, form, and structure, and show a continuity with the Wordsworthian art of recording the impact of ordinary daily events on an individual and sensitive mind. ...

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Such exposure to new democratic ideals during the war put the old European empires under constant tension that would eventually lead to their collapse in the 21st century. ... So, the question is now, how could this one man and his political party (the Fascists) become so unbelievably popular within Italy in a post World War One era? ... When a man cannot earn a living simply because there is nothing he can do no matter how willing he quickly turns on the government for help. ... He founded the Fascist party within Italy and set himself up as a powerful and lively man who could "sort out" Ital...

• Word Count: 8195
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