... haunts and hassles you, with an eerie, low moan-like sound created by the assonance. What the unborn child sees as worth living for is to be surrounded by a community of helpful, unselfish people who hold happiness and pleasure in their hands hand. It is nicer to be encircled by people who try to please you, who catch you when you fall ... the time the poem was written. The racist discrimination that was happening to the Jews and the tortures, prisons and gas chambers they were put through. Using a "d" alliteration in the line "strong drugs dope me", the poet insinuates how humans sin b...

• Word Count: 2163
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

... it. The rest of the line talks about the dying of the light, which basically portrays death as darkness separated from the light of the present living world. The second stanza, however, gets more complicated: "Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no ... was all about, and on their deathbed, even though they fought to live so that they could began living the life they should have had, it was too late. The imagery and word usage displayed in the poem is magnificent. "Blind eyes could gaze like meteors and be gay" (14) is a beautiful metaphor, .....

• Word Count: 1596
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen gives us an inside view of what it was like for soldiers in the appalling conditions of trench warfare from 1914 until 1918. This poem lets the readers build up a picture of what men during the First World War had to endure; pain, food rationing, trench foot, ... remind us that the men are so close to him that they see his agony attached in every line. "Like a deaths sick of sin-, here Owen tries to get us to imagine the devils face to be twisted, deluded and covered in green pus like that of the "green sea" of gas which so easily "choked" ... and "smothe...

• Word Count: 1476
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... hear the sounds the body makes due to the effects of gas on the body: . . . watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as ... first section we are introduced to the soldier and we are given a very grim account of the life he is presently living. This poor soldier is described as "waiting for dark" (1) in a "ghastly suit of gray"(2). We also learn that the soldier has had his arms and legs amputated at the elbow and knee: ... ...

• Word Count: 1643
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School