... different from the poetry of the 1920s. Eliot's poetry explores a private condition; Auden's poetry explores a more public situation. Eliot is searching primarily for spiritual solutions; Auden is stressing that our private worlds cannot be separated from social and political contexts. T.S. Eliot uses form and language to embody the confusions and complexities of individual identity in the modern world. As a result ... twentieth century, Dylan Thomas and R.S. Thomas have become internationally known poets, and Richard Llewellyn's novel How Green Was My Valley (1939) was a worldwide bests...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42

... growing protest against United States" involvement in Vietnam, Wayne contested that he tried to counter the resistance by creating a major motion picture to, what he says, "Tell the story of our fighting men in Vietnam with reason, emotion, characterization, and action in a manner that will inspire a patriotic attitude on the part of fellow Americans." The film begins with reporters asking a group ... not authentic. As The Deer Hunter progresses, the story focuses on the disillusioned and shattered communities the three men face. After being taken prisoners, the three friends are forced...

• Word Count: 3681
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... fought, and played a crucial role in the Allied victory. Britain's triumph in this momentous gigantomachy of the skies would restore their lost confidence, and play an important role in helping them to defeat Hitler. In May of 1940 Germany invaded France. The French army and its British and Belgian allies were ... overpowered by the German blitzkrieg. Toward the end of May, Allied troops were backed up to the coast of France in the town of Dunkirk. In a daring rescue attempt that ensued, an armada of ships from England picked up the soldiers and brought them across the English Channel ...

• Word Count: 3345
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... are probably fairly realistic, while the rate of fire, although already shown as strong, is almost certainly underestimated, or underplayed. In areas around the Belgium town of Ypres (Ieper in Flemish) salients created vicious cross-fire by both machine-guns and artillery, (the latter known as "enfilading" = to sweep ... "morass of glue-like mud" seeming sinisterly different from the simplistically ideal situation in source I, while the colour picture of that source (in our books) makes an even more interesting comparison, with no shell-holes, and the only mud being the trenches. The her...

• Word Count: 6124
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate