Natural calamities made the situation harder and thousands of hectors of crops were devastated which played another vital role behind the great famine and snatched thousands of fresh lives leaving the living with a nightmarish experience. ...

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The succession of sound in Stanza four finally breaks into the feeling of uneasiness in the poem with a similar use of assonance- the play of s' sounds such as the sudden, successive flights of bullets [which] streak the silence'. ... Keats's Ode To A Nightingale', which begins with the lines: my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, ( Purkis 117) is echoed in the fir...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
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