Wilfred Owen's poems concerning WWI offer the responder a unique personal response as Owen was actually on the battlefield as an Army lieutenant. ... This sonnet takes this concept and ironically uses the form to point to the loss of a whole generation of youth due to war, instantly gives the responder the sense that the content of the poem is of serious nature. ... Owen further emphasises this idea of war killing the young with his use of "boys" and "girls" in the poem's conclusion The final metaphor, which completes the poem, is that of the "drawing down of blinds", this ver...

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GCSE English Literature: War Poems Compare two poems from the selection which make you feel sympathy for the people involved in war. ... Perhaps the most famous of these poems is that of Owen's "Dulce et Decorum est", a poem based on a re-occurring nightmare that Owen says haunts him "In all my dreams". ... Moreover, on looking at the draft copy of this poem, one can see that Owen chose to change the adjective "clauring" to "haunting" as a description of the flares. ... This poem is extremely effective as an anti-war poem, making war seem absolutely horrid and revolting, just as the auth...

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The poem appears to be like any other free verse but what makes Mackowski's poem special is its unusual content, the human mind. ... This juxtaposition of images is very clear in the second sentence of the poem. ... The metaphors used by Mackowski in the poem highlight the incredibility of the human mind. ... To make her poem easy to read, Mackowski uses a simple structure for the poem and mainly focuses her attention on the content itself. ... Mackowski does not use any consistent meter patterns or rhyme in the poem, but the poem is full of slant and internal rhymes. ...

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The conclusive paragraph draws on the common motifs to Whitman and Dickinson in the poems analyzed. ... Poetry of the Nature In this poem Dickinson creates her characteristic fusion of nature and art, of the rose and the poem (Fart,Carter,2005). ... Thus, the given rose becomes the message and the poem at the same time. ... Erotic connotation of the poem However, even considering the simile between nature and poetry as the focusing point, the only words that precede verses in their original form of letter text can suggest a different interpretation of the whole poem: "You and I, didn't f...

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Wallace Stevens attempts to write in an emotionless and literal point of view in his poem "The Snowman", whereas William Wordsworth's poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" displays quite the opposite, with countless metaphors and exaggerations of the reality. But which poem exhibits a more honest appreciation of nature? ... On a spectrum of the level of reality, these poems display the two extremes. ... This proves that he himself understands the poem is unrealistic and dishonest to his own beliefs of nature. ... The lack of comparisons in Wallace Stevens' writin...

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Wespazjan Kochowski wrote this poem with the intention of warning his readers about the gentry's abuse of power. Kochowski's poem represents Sarmatism. ... Kochowski's poem is made up of six stanzas, with eight lines in each stanza. In the traditional Polish version of this poem, there is a rhyme scheme present with the pattern of a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c in each stanza. ... In the last stanza, the poem calls for all Poles to treat freedom, "Not as a poison but an adornment," (Line 43). ...

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Poet Peter Skrzynecki uses various language techniques throughout his poems to portray the idea that you have to earn belonging. ... The title of the poem, Post card, provides a sense of not belonging in itself, as the postcard is a symbolic representation of the distance that the person appears to feel about his connection to Poland. The concept of belonging, not-belonging, and rejection are equally balanced in the poem "Migrant Hostel" and are depicted by the language and images. ... Within this poem, there is some sense of cohesion and empathy with the other migrants. ... The title of this...

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Dulce Et Decorum Est is a poem written by Wilfred Owen set during world war 1 written in 1917, and talks about the trials and hardships that soldiers went through. ... Wilfred Owen aims the poem at the government of the time criticising their decisions and for perpetuating the attitude that it is heroic to fight as a soldier in war and honourable to die for the cause. ... Owen aims the poem at an older audience and the government that were punishing these men to go to war when they didn't know the circumstances; physical and emotional effects that war had on these soldiers. ... The idea o...

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Mark Strand's poem "Giving Myself Up" illustrates the surrendering of one's senses and self-identity in order to "[begin] again without anything". ... This negative depiction of what most people would think to be a distinctively unique feature of an individual sets a glum mood for the remainder of the poem. ... Strand's use of the relative pronoun "which" throughout almost every line of his poem enhances our understanding of "Giving Myself Up" by providing a direct comparison, rather than an implied metaphor or mixed metaphor. The placemen...

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"Felix Skrzynecki" is a poem filled with admiration, regret, detachment and compassion. ... Peter Skrzynecki poem "10 Mary Street" also encapsulates the distresses of changes in perspectives the poet and his family undergo due to the migrant experience. ... Throughout the poem, reference to the "china-blue" house acts as an extended metaphor, symbolizing the parents" desire to preserve their European heritage and culture, allowing them an escape from reality. ... As the family becomes "naturalized", a sense of loss overshadows the poem - a loss of cultural background, of heritage, becomes evid...

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The whole poem is simply an insult to a woman's demeanor and thrives off her uneducated social status. ... The evidence supporting the effect of figurative language, poetic form and carpe diem on the theme of insult and irrationality in Marvell's poem clearly puts the man at fault. ...

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"Fear no more the heat of the sun" is written by William Shakespeare, in the time Elizabethan England, during the later part of the renaissance period, when society was very structured, and different from today. Shakespeare was an infamous poet and playwright who wrote many sonnets and plays- traged...

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The contextual circumstances in which a literary work is composed have a profound effect on the ideas and opinions that composers express within them. This is most notable when examining Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1817). Both texts allude to the th...

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What makes up Literature? Literature plays an important part in the educational world. It can be used to explain historical events in history, theories of scientists in Biology, and many other subjects. Literature also makes up a unique reading styles because of the different literary terms and ...

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