... that they no one had experience anything like this before. The four poets all take different approaches in attempting to portray the effect that war has on the people involved. Rupert Brooke wrote towards the start of the war, this is why when you read his poems there is a strong air of patriotism, unlike Siegfried Sassoon who focuses more on protesting ... drive meaning and there are many references to nature such as "field" and "rivers". The soldier in many ways sums up the mood of the first months of the war. Rupert Brooke is happy to die for his country, but knows nothing of what co...

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... from the King (George V) who reigned from 1910 to 1936, but in effect it covers a much shorter period. A great many of the most significant poets of the time – including Rupert Brooke, D.H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon and Isaac Rosenberg – were published in the series Georgian Poetry (five volumes, between 1912 and 1922), but they cannot be properly classified together. Ezra Pound ... the war was a matter of duty. Poetry was written in order to express a sense of honor and to celebrate the glories of war. A typical example is the first part of Rupert Brooke's The Soldier: If I shoul...

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Lascelles Abercrombie was a noteworthy playwright and poet. He was the least known of the four Dymock Poets (Ourworld, 1). This group of poets consisted of Robert Frost, Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Wilson Gibson, and John Drinkwater (Wikipedia, 1). This group of writers and poets created an Annual called New Numbers. Lascelles Abercrombie was separated both geographically and eternally by ... war. His insatiably loved partner in literature, Rupert Brooke, died in Greece as an effect of World War One (Ourworld, 1). In 1910 Lascelles Abercrombie wrote "The Box- which de...

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... story's opening paragraphs that suggest an unsatisfactory experience with German girls. Krebs and another corporal, both in poorly fitting uniforms, stand with two German girls who are "not beautiful" beside a Rhine that "does not show in the picture." The picture suggests an irony: the American soldiers, once enemies, date German girls with whom they share no common language. Because the American ... uncomplicated. Without any need for conversation, the soldiers simply satisfy their lust on the prostitutes' bodies. Just as he emphasizes the German girls' lack of beauty, Hemingway also ...

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... , Germany was not allowed an air force, she was allowed only 6 capital naval ships and absolutely no submarines. The west of the Rhineland and 50 kms east of the River Rhine was made into a demilitarised zone (DMZ). No German soldier or weapon was allowed into this zone. The Allies were to keep an army of occupation on the west bank of ... the Rhine for 15 years. In general there were three main clauses, 1-Germany was to take full responsibility for the war, 2-Germany had to pay a total of 6,600 million pounds of reparations ... ...

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... their army and navy. Germany was forced to give back Alsace and Lorraine to France, and Allied troops planned to occupy part of Germany. Also, the west bank of the Rhine River in Germany was to be occupied by the Allied troops for fifteen years. This was also a large advantage for France because Germany was also forcd to demilitarize west of ... the Rhine and a strip of fifty kilometers along its east bank. Overall, Germany was forced to give up 15% of their pre-war territory. I do not believe that the west was complettely ... ...

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... writing, and poetry helping to pass the time, while helping their families to feel more secure in the knowledge that they were OK and in good spirits. Poems written like Rupert Brookes" The Soldier and the one in source F also helped to maintain morale, civilians imagining their kin as "gallant soldiers (who) drive (through) the fear of death (it becoming) but ... ...

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... dead. At the beginning of the war, most poets wrote about how it was patriotic to fight or even die for your country, "The Soldier" is one of these poems. Rupert Brooke wrote this poem very early in the war, this is known as a pro-war poem. In this poem he is saying if you die for your country you will ... ...

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... of home and often, they wrote poetry themselves. These works are known as 'War poetry', and their authors are called The 'War Poets'. The most famous is the young Georgian Rupert Brooke (1877-1915), on the outbreak of war he enlisted in the navy and in the autumn of 1914 he wrote a short sequence of sonnets called '1914', expressing a sense of ... ...

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... on others to help him. The euphemistic description "sewn short" is then used to indirectly describe the victim as almost half the man he used to be, a complete contrast to Rupert Brooke's poem "Peace" where the phrase "half-men" is used to describe those who do not go to war. The sibilance of "Legless, sewn" creates a tone of disgust and bitterness ... ...

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... , was in no way able to tackle the strongest military power on the continent. On 6 July 1920, he concluded "for us the enemy sits on the other side of the Rhine, not in Italy or elsewhere." And on August 1st of the same year "we must use everything we can, especially the differences between France and Italy, in order to win ... ...

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... lands lost under the treaty of Versailles. These actions were to bring about the start of the Second World War. By 1936 when Germany reoccupied the left bank of the Rhine and the allies did nothing about this violation of the disarmament Conference Germans must have felt a certain freedom from the shackles of Versailles. visitors to this new Germany were somewhat ... ...

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... y Gasset 2000, PG). Eric Hobsbawm, author of The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991, claims that such political insecurity "swept away all regimes from Vladivostok to the Rhine" (Hobsbawm, 1995, p. 67), which originated in Central Europe. Because of the outcome, capitalism was now forced to endure both domestic and international jeopardy with regard to its current status. States ... ...

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... increase his to match theirs. Another frustrating thing for the Germans was they had to evacuate all military personnel as well as all weapons from the West bank of the Rhine, as well as from 50 KM's on the East bank as well. All military structures in this demilitarized zone had to be disarmed and dismantled. This zone was created for ... ...

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... the rules of defence. When you think of the defence of England' he explained in 1935 (?) you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover, you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies'. The simple point about inaction is that it did not translate into a maintenance of the status quo - in the respect of the expansionist ambitions ... ...

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... £6,600 million. Germany had not only to pay for the direct damages and loss but also for allowances to soldiers' families, the cost of maintaining Allied occupation in the Rhine, etc. It is clear that the Treaty of Versailles, especially with this clause, was made in a spirit of revenge, which was one of the initial aims of the Paris Peace ... ...

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... could not have an army of more than 100,000 men for at least 12 years and Germany must have a volenteer army. Another clause was that 50km east of the Rhine River was to be a demilatirized zone meaning that the Germans could not occupy that area with miltary and in the eyes of the French leader not pose any imidiate threat ... ...

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... was in direct defiance of the Treaty of Versailles which stated that the 'Rhineland' (an area of land which was decreed to be the whole left bank of the River Rhine and a 50km wide strip on the right bank) would have no military stationed in it. Hitler defied this directive on the 7th March 1936 when he ordered his troops into ... ...

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... 1921. France was outraged and invaded the Ruhr industrial region. Germany could not do anything because in the Treaty of Versailles, they agreed not to go within 50km of the Rhine Valley. The French took over all of the industries within the region, which meant that Germany's income became even less. By 1923 Germany had almost no money. This meant hyperinflation ... ...

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... footing" in July 29 , they did nothing accept declare their neutrality. Hollweg refers to the invasion of Belgium territory as justifiable because of strategic reasons "an attack on the lower Rhine could prove disastrous thus we ignore the protests of the Belgian Government " as the French were going to invade Belgium, to an even more fervent Parliament justifying his country's movements ... ...

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... immediate arms buildup. Hitler thought he"d test the other nations a bit, mainly Great Britain and France. He sent the German military to the neutral Saar region and to the demilitarized Rhine region. He also annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia. He repeatedly used the same two lines of "There are Germans there, therefore it should be a part of Germany," and "This is my ... ...

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... the major powers in a way that would assure that no power ever became too large. Under this conference, the German Confederation, very similar in nature to the Confederation of the Rhine, was created, and placed under the administrative powers of Austria. Shortly after this Congress, the four major European powers began the first European Council, charged with meeting and discussing the ... ...

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