Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori The poem "Dulce et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen gives us an inside view of what it was like for soldiers in the appalling conditions of trench warfare from 1914 until 1918. 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. ... "Like a deaths sick of sin-, here Owen tries to get us to imagine the devils face to be twisted, deluded and covered in gr...

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• Grade Level: High School

So, the last stanza answers the questions that we've been wondering through the poem. ... The poem develops an image of a family supporting their brother, and son, before he goes off to fight in Europe. ... Throughout the poem, Cummings uses the word "etcetera," for many different usages, and parts of speech. ... Most importantly, the poem foreshadows his later poems, which put love on a pedestal, high above the power of conflict, or anything else on earth. ... Also, "i sing of Olaf," relates to a completely different poem Cummings wrote called "any man is wonderful."...

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• Grade Level: High School

During that time, people believed in the Enlightenment, and industrial developments and scientific breakthroughs were a daily reality apparent in the rising standard of living. ... The poem "Rosie the Riveter- by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb paints a vivid picture of the role that women played in "making history, [w]orking for victory.""12 It also describes the long hours of work that women had to put out in order to fulfill their production quotas. ... Reichsmarschal Hermann Goering also stated in his 1942 radio broadcast to the German nation that raw materials such as coal and iron shou...

• Word Count: 2634
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• Grade Level: High School