They have turned their backs on the "hunting flares" at the front lines. ... The lines, "under a green sea, I saw him drowning" (14) and " . . . before my helpless sight"(15) tell the reader that despite the number of people that are there, there is nothing that can be done to save this man from dying. ... It is the last few lines of the forth stanza that Owen points out that war is not all glory and honor. ... Although Owen has the skill of painting a gruesome picture of the front lines, he can also paint the picture of the after effects of the war. ... Seeing a fellow soldier die in fro...

• Word Count: 1643
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In the first nine lines the speaker calls God "sir" twice. ... Following this line are the next six lines that are called the sestet. ... The speaker point out a beautiful view that is unfolding in front of him. ... In the first two lines one can find a chiasm: "just, lord, if I contend with thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just". This occurrence evokes the sense that the speaker, even though he is asking these questions, understands that God is just and his justice surrounding him from all sides, front and back. ...

• Word Count: 1601
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The poem is built of four quatrains, each consisting of four lines. ... The drunken father's breath, "Could make a small boy dizzy", yet the boy hangs "on like death" (My Papa's lines 2-3). ... The waltz with his father was so vigorous that the "pans / Slid from the kitchen shelf" (My Papa's lines 5-6), thoroughly annoying the mother who's "countenance / Could not unfrown itself" (My Papa's lines 7-8). ... One way he accentuates his feelings about this woman is the repetition of the letter "s" in the front and middle of words throughout the poem, often in key places. ....

• Word Count: 1292
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Soldiers as young as 18 years old defending trench lines, which produced deadlock and nightmarish battles which ended in horrific consequences. ... Owen thought of Jessie Pope as an unfeeling civilian enjoying the drama of war at home and helping to drive men to the battle fronts, which is evident in her pro-war poem "Who's for the game?" ... Pope uses striking lines comparing war to sport it is a new way to "play for England" the poem is very jingoistic with a regular beat and an alternative rhyming pattern. ...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Soldiers as young as 18 years old defending trench lines, which produced deadlock and nightmarish battles which ended in horrific consequences. ... Owen thought of Jessie Pope as an unfeeling civilian enjoying the drama of war at home and helping to drive men to the battle fronts, which is evident in her pro-war poem "Who's for the game?" ... Pope uses striking lines comparing war to sport it is a new way to "play for England" the poem is very jingoistic with a regular beat and an alternative rhyming pattern. ...

• Word Count: 1280
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The men then walked away from the front line where the flares are described as "haunting". ... Their moral is very low and so the officers don't want the fresh recruits to see them so they have a traffic light system where the new recruits go up one tunnel to the front line while the wounded come down the other tunnel so their disturbing injuries can't be seem. ... Another way we notice the unpleasant nature of war is between lines five and six where it describes in more detail of the state of the men. ... Their distant view is blocked by the life threatening fog, which hovers ove...

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

In the first three lines, the narrator calls what he sees as a "little black thing among the snow" (Line 1) instead of a child, and asks him where his parents are. ... The first lines of the first stanza and the first couplet of the second stanza are identical in each poem; however, the way the poems develop is in sharp contrast due to the different use in diction and imagery in each poem. ... When "the sun is gone down, and the dews of night arise" (Lines 5-6), both nurses addressed the children to come home. ... " (Lines 7-8) In this context, the words "spri...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"I see the city and it's grown into a big machine" and "a hidden landscape on the brink of a development" are lines in which the songwriter has input his views towards development over environment as well an the increasing industrialisation of places where historical sites and nature reserves are. ...

• Word Count: 2284
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School