One of the more popular war poets is Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), who began his career as a poet sometime before the War, and whose earlier style of writing, observed in poems like 'Sonnet Written At Teigmouth, On A Pilgrimage To Keats's House' (1911) was derived from that the Romantic ideology, which stated that poetry 'should be personal (to the point of appearing confessional), sincere (which meant limitations on satire and humor) and richly loaded with imagery' (Purkis 82.) However, after enlisting in the army and experiencing firsthand the atrocities of warfare, O...

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World war one began in 1914 and ended in 1918. During these four years there were enormous numbers of dead and wounded. Soldiers as young as 18 years old defending trench lines, which produced deadlock and nightmarish battles which ended in horrific consequences. As everyone was a volunteer in...

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World war one began in 1914 and ended in 1918. During these four years there were enormous numbers of dead and wounded. Soldiers as young as 18 years old defending trench lines, which produced deadlock and nightmarish battles which ended in horrific consequences. As everyone was a volunteer in 1...

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Our Whimpering World The world is a wasteland harboring hollow men "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality" -T.S. ...

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Do not be mislead by the deceptive title - the front was anything but quiet. And though All Quiet on the Western Front may appear, at first glance, as a novel committed to revealing the senseless horrors of modern warfare with an extraordinary fierceness - indeed, it partly was - beneath the grap...

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The Lost Generation Let us see if we cannot make a fine game of it that we shall be all the better for having played out to the end. From which we shall all come home cleaner minded, clearer seeing, made kinder to one another by suffering. Come, gentlemen, you believed that God has called ...

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Robert G. L. Waite The Psychopathic God: Adolph Hitler In Robert G. L. Waite's book, entitled, The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, he delves deep into the mind of one of the world's most notorious and destructive rulers of all time. He examines his words, speeches, and behaviors and attempts...

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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. Which do you find more effective? "Do they matter? -those dreams from the pit? ... ...

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