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    but looking for a better future. Every choice we make in life is involving risks‚ don’t worry about the past life for theres nothing at all we can do‚ except move on and hope for the best. But rather hoping just take a step back and give yourself a chance to smile. For that smile will forever reign on your future and provide the happiness we all seek for. Happiness doesn’t come

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    painting a picture in your mind‚ so you can visualize what horrific events the soldiers are going through. All Quiet on the Western Front and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” exploit literary devices to affirm the horrors of war. Erich Maria Remarque and Wilfred Owen emphasize poetic language with the use of personification‚ simile‚ and imagery. An idea or animal that is nonhuman‚ is bequeathed with human virtues. In Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front he emphasizes poetic language by giving

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    Compare the ways Jessie Pope and Wilfred Owen convey the reality of war in their poetry The stories of the two poems are very contrasting‚ they oppose one another quite obviously. One about the horrors of war‚ one about how much ’fun’ it is. Both poems serve a purpose and perform to it very well‚ using all kinds of techniques to encourage or discourage young men to join the army. The storyline of ’Who’s for the game’ is telling of how great the war is and how you

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    TP-CASTT Poetry Analysis By: Matthew S. Title: Anthem for a doomed youth is a title that sounds like they think the generation that is up and coming is going to fail miserably. Paraphrase: The soldiers in war don’t get a honourable death‚ they are being killed off like how cattle are being killed of‚ for the survival of the weaker. The soldier who die’s child[ren] are the ones who know he passed‚ and know that he meant a lot‚ but will never know if he died on honourable death‚ and that’s why

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    Explain the ways in which Wilfred Owen evokes feelings of pity and horror in “Disabled” Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was an English poet and soldier‚ one of the leading poets of the First World War. Many of his poems have been praised for their bleak realism and it is also the case that his poem‚ “Disabled”‚ is observational and written in the third person from his own direct observation and experience. “Disabled” is about war‚ violence and mutilation as well as society’s reaction to this. It was

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    belongs to the first category‚ and ¡§Dulce Et Decorum Est¡¨ by Wilfred Owen belongs to the second. Even though the compositions of these two poems are both based on the same subject - war‚ the composers tried to convey very different ideas‚ views and messages‚ through very different approaches. Through ¡§Dulce Et Decorum Est¡¨‚ Wilfred Owen revealed the horrendous nature of war. In order to strip war of it¡¦s apparent glory‚ Owen featured the utter degradation of war as the predominant idea

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    The Beat Goes On The Beat generation of the mid twentieth century produced a culture that had a lasting effect on generations to come. In the decades following the 1950s‚ the Beats successors‚ or ‘spawn’‚ ranged from authors to musicians. These artists were greatly influenced by the Beat’s writings and performances‚ as well as by spending time with the very Beats themselves. Bob Dylan‚ a spawn‚ credited much of his early work to his readings of the Beats and his relationship with Allen Ginsberg

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    A Second Chance

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    Sometimes I walk right to her face and she stares right throw me‚ as if I am nothing but glass. I’ve tried talking‚ pleading‚ and even yelling at her to get her attention‚ but that doesn’t even work. If I had the chance to take all of it back I would. My mother knew what she was talking about but I just chose not to listen. I followed her up stairs and noticed that she was turning right‚ the exact same direction where my room was. My mom opened the door and at once you could feel the intense heat

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    emotionally charged poems. The horror of war and the spiritual degradation it inflicts is evident in the work of the World War I poets. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) and Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) were both soldiers and poets. Their poems reflect the loss of innocence and the horrible mental and physical toll World War I inflicted on the world. 
Both Sassoon and Owen wrote war poetry to inform people of the realities of war. Sassoon’s efforts to publicly decry the war were stunted when the military

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    The Beat Generation

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    woe‚ woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime‚ delinquency‚ immorality‚ amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don’t understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation‚ the wind’ll blow it back. -- Jack Kerouac The Beat Generation or “Beatness”‚ if you will

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