insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.” – Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon was a well known English poet who had gained recognition by writing about his experiences in the trenches as a soldier during WWI. Sassoon uses his experience to express the suffering he had undertaken on the battlefield which were described as brutalising‚ horrific and an unjustifiable waste of human lives. Thus it is through these practices that allow Sassoon to capture the brutality‚ futility and horror of trench
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Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy feel unappreciated and lost as employees. Jorge is “outside…of [Americans] understanding” and The Secretary is lost in her work and compares herself to objects such as her “hips are a desk.” The employees from these poems have become hidden behind their duties and are slowly sinking into the unknown. “Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits” begins with Jorge’s point of origin. While working as a janitor‚ “no one asks where [he’s] from” assuming he’s “from the country
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undoubtedly-consonance-like sounds during the sinking of the ship. This juxtaposition carries into the third stanza‚ where the reader is presented with the “mirrors‚” once made for the wealthy‚ but are now used by the “sea-worm.” This juxtaposition serves to show how the ship sank from once serving the “opulent” to now serving the “grotesque‚ slimed.” Such a contrast in diction also shows the regret Hardy experiences over the lack of appreciation of the Titanic that the sea-creatures exude. In the fourth stanza
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Algeron Charles Swinburne’s “Love and Sleep” established a theme of his lover’s beauty and his unconditional love towards her through strong diction which creates a passionate form of image. In the poem‚ such words as “lying” (1)‚ “asleep” (1) and “night” (1) implies the speaker is in his bedroom‚ creating a lonely‚ quite atmosphere. In this immersive atmosphere‚ the writer strikes a chord with the readers and graphs the sorrow and yearning incisively and vividly. Moreover‚ the word “saw” (2)‚ being
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your poem. First‚ the most important thing is to find inspirations. A poem can be inspired from a trip with your friends‚ your feelings about the last relationship or from ordinary things in life like your house where you have lived since little. But above all‚ your inspiration is something that you desire to bring back memories and feel emotional whenever you remember. It is the content of the poem and the main topic of what you are going to write. Inspiration is the soul of your poem. No one
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Wilfred Owen Poems MINERS (Page 75) There had been a terrible accident at a place called Podmore Hall Colliery (1918). 140 miners and pit-boys died Owen wrote in a letter that he thought this poem had ‘sour’ taste. He also said that if the poem were to have a subtitle it would be: ‘How the future will forget the dead in war.’ This would be its epigraph Soldiers and miners are similar in that they both risk their lives General strike in 1926 because miners didn’t get paid enough for the job
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2014 The Opera Die Walküre In act one‚ the opera starts with a storm. The young man Siegmund is out in the storm and comes to a house. The house belongs to Hunding who lives there with his wife Sieglinde. Siegmund and Sieglinde are twins who were separated as children‚ so neither of them knows who the other one is. Their father is Wotan‚ the chief god‚ but they don’t know this either. Their mother was a mortal (an ordinary person‚ not a goddess) or perhaps a she-wolf‚ which is how the goddess Fricka
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Siegfried Sasson’s “Memoirs of an Infantry Officer‚” is part of a trilogy that follows the main character‚ George Sherston‚ throughout his military career. Mainly based around World War I‚ this book kicks off in 1916 and paints a very vivid picture of what life was like during‚ and after Sherston’s time in the military. Although this story is very informative of the war‚ it was challenging to get a steady grasp of. Within the first few chapters‚ boredom took over and it did not get much better until
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the neck down’. Taylor explains Nicklinson’s argument for his ‘right to die’. Initially Nicklinson ‘once led an active life’ until he suffered from a stroke six years ago in the Athens and become ‘trapped in his own body’. This caused many upsets which lead to a downfall emotionally and physically as he was left disabled and unable to provide and care for himself. Due to these tragic events Nicklinson’s fight for the ‘right to die’ is argued by the high court. Although‚ it may be his wish; but the court
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The oil painting entitled “Nighthawks” was made by Edward Hopper in the year 1942. This image of a brightly lit dinner surrounded by dark empty stores illustrates the quiet loneliness of a night on the town. Elements of this painting come together to show a small group of night owls engaged in small talk inside a comparatively lively dinner on the corner of a shadowy and empty street. • Line: Actual lines are seen throughout the image‚ they are used to shape the buildings‚ streets and interior
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