This poem lets the readers build up a picture of what men during the First World War had to endure; pain, food rationing, trench foot, mustard gas and even if you were very unfortunate, you could be lying in no-mans-land injured, screaming and shouting. An image that paints a vivid picture in our heads of the horrific nature of war is shown in verse one. ... We need to imagine what it was like as we are reminded by repetition, "...if you could hear- The final and most bitter part of the poem that points a striking picture of the disgusting nature of war would have to b the expressions use...

• Word Count: 1476
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Since the "hollow men" possesses a "headpiece filled with straw" a picture of a scarecrow denied a brain is envisioned. ... Instead of just using adjectives Eliot includes an adjective and its direct opposite to paint a more vivid picture of the colorless and formless setting. ... The final portion of the poem begins lightheartedly, poking fun at lines from a child's nursery rhyme: Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear Although the real song focuses on a flourishing mulberry bush Eliot doesn't. ...

• Word Count: 1435
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The Modernist era arrived in late nineteenth century Europe due to a general change in the attitude of the time. The effects of Industrialization on Europe's society, the development of scientific theories, such as Darwin's evolution theory', and the tension between the European nations that was ...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The final strand was when they wanted to do a movie on him, and he did not want to because of the war involved. ... I chose Lee's book because I think it showed the whole picture the best out of the information I gathered. ...

• Word Count: 1210
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It was during World War 1 that modern propaganda techniques really began to be used. Propaganda came from all countries and for many different causes, even though the way those countries used propaganda differed, they all got their messages across. The way and the type of propaganda used varied gr...

• Word Count: 1321
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Owen uses the words - "Guttering" "chocking" and "gargling" those onomatopoeic words all show a horrific picture in your head about what it must feel like going through the pain of dying. ... "Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs," The poets "message" is clear in the final verse when he addresses the reader. ...

• Word Count: 1068
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Critics said that the book did well for his first novel, and they described it as, "A satirical picture of the dissolute life of the Lost Generation in postwar Europe"(Hays 54.) ... Earnest Hemingway's final novel was The Old Man in the Sea, which he wrote in 1950. ...

• Word Count: 1080
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Hitler did have the final say on any subject in which he took a direct interest, including the details of military operations, that is, the actual direction of armies in the field. ... After the war, the picture emerged of Hitler as a megalomaniac who refused to listen to his military experts and who, as a consequence, lost the war for Germany. ... By late 1942 Hitler's subordinates had split into cliques that competed for increasingly scarce resources, while he remained the final arbiter of all disputes. ...

• Word Count: 2463
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

So the picture painted by this was one of division, and a small number of voters who didn't vote with their hearts. ... To many, the lack of success, debt and death induced by this pointless war was the final straw. ...

• Word Count: 1832
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School