In analyzing his early work, Gurney's own combat experience and music sensibility is greatly defined in his poem structure and brief modernity of expression. ... " Both poems engage in ambiguous word usage, pastoral images and sense of realism, which draw attention to his vivid lyrics and elusive quality of style. ... "The Silent One" is more vivid and deploys a powerful sense of realism of the dilemmas faced in the frontline. ... "To His Love" employs a vivid sense of emotion that is transcended from shock to comparison and ultimately self-pity. ... Gurney's...

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Byran labels the resulting movies "the noble-grunt film," as generic narratives that feature "the gradual deterioration of order, the disintegration of idealism, the breakdown of character, the alienation from those at home, and finally, the loss of all sensibility save the will to survive." ... In a sense, the film is undermined because its efforts to oversimplify a very complicated situation into what Leo Cawley describes as, "Americans are the good guys, the Viet Cong are the bad guys, and the peasants are the frightened townsfolk who need protection and the rule of law." ...

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The sense of 'local' community was being lost. ... To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. ... What went out was narrative, description, rational exposition; what emerged focused on stream of consciousness, images in poetry (rather than description or narration), a new use of universal myth, and a sense of fragmentation both of individuality and of such concepts as space and time. ... The language mix reflects a sense tha...

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This is significant because although refugee crisis is in a sense a phenomenon that has become synonymous with conflict-afflicted societies for quite some, never have the refugees around the globe received international protection. ...

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