"The Silent One," on the other hand is more vivid with its theme of futility in war for "honorable/heroic deeds," as Gurney emphasizes how "heroes" die in combat and cowards live (Greenblatt 2029). ... From the very beginning, Gurney was eager to enlist in the war as he viewed such act as truly heroic and wanted to serve along side with his old school friend and poet, Will Harvey (Harvey 15). ... Thus, much like many other poets of his time, the traumatic war experience began to have an effect on how Gurney thought, transforming the language in his later poems. .....

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The task of explaining why appeasement, has been continuously addressed by historians over the years. To date, there is still no single cause identified. Nonetheless there is however a general consensus amongst historians that the frightful events of world war one, distilled a sense of fear and regr...

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