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Search term: reality-of-war
In the lake of the woods
... of the Sorcerer was Wade's way of removing himself from the real event that was Vietnam , and his way of hiding behind the truth and reality of ... , yet he was young and ambitious. Wade saw the war as a way of gaining 'hero' status in order to reach his ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Howard Nemerov
... of World War II, Nemerov became attracted to the air force. However, like all poets, this attraction gradually grew into terror at the reality of war ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Comparison Essay: 'The Soldier' and 'Disabled'
... war to be glorious. Irony is supported as the war stole the best years of his life and his legs, effectively getting his message of reality of war ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Beach Burial, Kenneth Slessor Poem, analysis and poetic techniques
... masterpiece. Slessor has successfully conveyed his purpose of displaying the realities of war and the realistic views on soldiers after ... of half rhymes also creates a standstill in the poem, the audience stops for a moment to reflect on the realities of war ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen: Analysis
... of surrealism in the first stanza, due to the fact that the average reader cannot relate to such extreme pains and cannot experience the reality of war ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
How to survive Second World War with a comic perspective? (John Ciardi's war diary and war poetry)
... reality of his fears. Both the poem and the end of the diary mirrors the change in his attitude compared to the beginning of ... death-instinct" of self-destruction, aggression and cruelty. Ciardi's confrontation of pain, repression and the horrors of war is ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
"Carl Sandburg's Motif of Blood as a Symbol of Both Life and Death" (Title pretty much nails it.) Didn't get as good a grade on this one. Lost pts for 1st sentence. Five Pages. American Poetry.
... of dying men, it is also commenting on the fact that the people applauding the war are not subjected to the reality of it. Again instead of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
"Death Of a Ball Turret Gunner" Explained.
... of war, and forced to fight a war whose purpose is long forgotten. In this poem Jarrell brought out the reality in war. War ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Death's Empowerment Over Life-Analysis of Louis Simpson's poem, Carentan O Carentan
... of the important aspects of life, successfully instilled an unrelenting fear of death, and made him overlook the positive effects of war. He could not defeat the force of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Analysis of “The Things They Carried”
... far shore come at me?. The shore symbolizes the reality of the war, coming towards him and he knows can?t avoid ... author/narrator uses setting to build the sense of harsh reality of his crisis, and the ?rawness? of his situation and the world; the ?brittle ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry