... was not only an underlying cause of WWI, but indirectly WWII, and thus aiding to the collapse of the "Old Order". Overview of WWI - Two symbols One of the symbols of World War I was the machine gun. Being the most common weapon of the war, it was key to creating the stalemate type warfare that occurred. The other symbol of the World War I was ... the shovel. It was used to dig the trenches that so characterized the war. These two symbols are historically significant because they represented a modern style warfare that marked the changing times. Overview ... country literate. There was ...

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... of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history of war to write letters home describing war in all its unheroic horror. The twentieth century has seen more and more of this broadening of artistic trends, extending into the other cultural forms ... the tales. But much more positive is the rediscovery of myth and legend which allowed Yeats and other writers to bring such figures as Cuchulain and Finn McCoull into their works as symbols and expressions of Irishness past and pr...

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... , whose hand has been wounded while at war that is also in rehabilitation. The recovering of his hand does not seem to have the slimmest effect on him at all. That does not seem to be right thought the narrator, for a champion fencer to lose his hand and not care. The narrator works at his rehabilitation while the soldier believes it will never work. One ... - (Esther Murer 4). The reader is at "liberty- to discover that he is dealing with very profound and true symbols. Most readers do not discover it at all, and read Hemingway just about the same way they read any ordinary stories. Like...

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... the war. Thus, much like many other poets of his time, the traumatic war experience began to have an effect on how Gurney thought, transforming the language in his later poems. For Gurney, things like nobility and pride, once emphasized in his poems, were now changed to symbols of futility and death. Consequently, his war poems become more direct with its shocking use of ... by the structure of soft sound: using the 'oh', 'o', 'uh' sounds (Das 20). Gurney also uses alliteration in all four stanzas, which provides an elusive rhythm to the poem. "To His Love," depicts the f...

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... that. Hemingway again showed signs of suicide and death. Clearly volunteering his own self to attract enemy submarines, and to sacrifice his own life just to do the U.S. Navy a favor, showed that Hemingway was on a breach to die. In Hemingway's writings about death he resorts to using vast symbols rather than metaphors. As Baker says, "A world is not wholly without values when it recognizes esthetic values ... . The writer, like the hunter and the soldier, respects his code, and by his word magic, succeeds not in capturing time, which to Hemingway would mean recapturing horror, but in ki...

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