The horrors of World War 1 created an immense market allowing British authors, both professionals and amateurs, the leeway to express what they witnessed in the frontline (Das 9). ... This traumatic combat led to Gurney's change of thinking and transformation of language, evoking a new broken stream of expression and consciousness, attributes of modernism (10). ... His writing, much like many poets of his time, depicts the heroism of the soldiers in the frontline by describing the dilemmas that those who bravely served, faced. ... His later poems, after the war, continue to use the same t...

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Within 1984 there are various recurring themes involving "homelessness", an "encounter with nothingness" and the "nostalgia for the absolute". ... The world of 1984 also reflects various aspects of the social and political life of both the United Kingdom and the United States of America at the time of creation. ... In George Orwell's 1984 there exists a very interesting dynamic where all the answers are essentially provided to the masses, a good example would be how history is tailored to fit the narrative being pushed by Big Brother, but the world they live in is very chaotic. ... Throug...

• Word Count: 3080
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The land of the free (except for slaves) and the home of the brave (and extremely violent and repressive) inculcated racial myths within Clemens during his antebellum childhood on the Mississippi that were slowly fractured, but never completely expunged, as he matured intellectually. ... Oftentimes the best way to approach seemingly unmentionable themes was through the side door of comedy and satire - areas where Mark Twain had few, if any, equals. ... In the public discourse this meant "coon- songs and shows that took the humiliation of the black race to a new level of cruelty, and the p...

• Word Count: 3141
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Beneath the familiarity of middle-class life, in the opening and closing scenes, and the culture of children's play evident in the adventures in Never Land is the anxiety aroused by the shifts in masculine identity in relation to modern life, including the new technologies of the workplace and the demise of Empire. ...

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Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. In the early twentieth century, the first white settlers arrived in the region, forcing the Kikuyu people off of their tribal lands. Europeans took control of farmland and the government, relegating the Kikuyu to a ...

• Word Count: 4862
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate