... frontline (Das 9). However, only a few are still known and remembered today for their unique and fascinating technique of delivery. Among those: Ivor Gurney, whose development of poems of originality, broken poetic form, urgency for change in attitude and disruptiveness call of the war, has made him one of the great World War I poets. Gurney, born in Gloucester, England, possessed a dynamic personality ... same themes that seriously depict his unstable mind. Therefore, when analyzing his work, Gurneys biographical dimension becomes very clear in his poems, portraying his unhinged mind t...

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... of the time criticising their decisions and for perpetuating the attitude that it is heroic to fight as a soldier in war and honourable to die for the cause. Owen uses poetic devices such as the imagery of the soldiers face as he dies, similes that contrast the stereotypical image of a soldier and irony to directly attack the common war cries and ... to recruit young men into the army during World War One and ultimately positions its reader to respond negatively to the issue of war. Dulce Et Decorum Est uses the poetic devices of similes and metaphors to contrast the stereotypical image...

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... soldiers and one of them fails to put on his helmet on time, and consequently dies. The third and fourth stanzas deal with the after-war emotions felt by the poetic voice, and hence express the anti-war viewpoint of the persona. This means that the poem can be thematically divided in two, since the first two stanzas describe the war ... , drowning". This has a strong effect on the previously created image of the soldier. Throughout the last two stanzas, the word "you" is constantly used. This anaphora is the method the poetic voice uses to both address the reader and remind that he was t...

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... from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland" and while these words seem kind she then asks God to protect even more the whites. The poet cleverly uses a woman as the poetic persona because this shows how the female gender were not forced to go to war and when she mentions that she might join the Women's Army Corps even though that ... ...

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... are different because of their media but still evoke hope by expressing the dreadfulness of the conditions of war, and the prosperity that continues to exist at remarkably close proximity. Poetic and laden with expressive imagery, Malouf instills 'Fly Away Peter' with a style that allows the reader to truly appreciate how caustic the Western Front locale is, but also the richness ... ...

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... heavily represented the feelings that Owen possessed. This funereal feeling is then shown in the mournful alliteration that Owen employs in Anthem for Doomed Youth. Owen developed many of his poetic techniques at Craiglockhart Military Hospital, where he spent five months out of a total war service of 23 months as a wounded soldier. It was through the inspiration of fellow soldier and ... ...

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... and horrible human disfigurement, the dread, the anxiety and soul-deadening suffering that is the result of "modern" mechanized trench warfare. Remarque brutally strips away these misconceptions with his grimly poetic prose to reveal truth. As Baumer and his young friend are increasingly desensitized on the western front, their only small joys come from having a modicum of decent food to eat ... ...

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