... river nosed past, pliable, oil skinned, wearing a transfer of gables and sky." (Lines 3-5) This sentence sets the scene for the rest of the poem very well. Heaney uses the sense of sight a lot in this poem because it is all about imagery. In "Mid-Term Break", Heaney uses the sense of sight much less ... it sound pretty vile. The next mood change is at the end of this very long sentence. Heaney incredibly turns to face the rat at the start of this battle between him and the rat. We know that it is a battle because Heaney starts using military terms like "Bridgehead" (Line 18), "trained"...

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... own" (17), which leads her right into the confession that this man, who is reading them now, by contrast, is not hers. The abrupt sentence, through which the reader learns it, indicates that this is a painful thing to admit for the poet. It is common for people to speak in short, ... love and its opposite, hatred: the various feelings of its members towards each other. It could be that the speaker feels herself as a third angle, because the third's angle degree is determined as the difference between the total possible degrees (180̊) and the degrees of the other two angles. Similarly, t...

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... the pointless waste of life and the barbarity of the human race. Owen is able to give the reader a vivid picture of the reality of the war because he personally fought in the war. He enlisted in the Artists' Rifles group in 1915 in support of World War I, and after training in England, was ... est" to educate people about the reality of war and as a clear message to Jessie Pope that she did not understand the reality of the war. The starting stanza of the poem describes the soldiers in an incredibly poor physical shape, "bent double" and "knock-kneed". Owen uses a simile to describe the ...

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• Grade Level: High School