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Iraq War Coverage in UK's The Guardian and The New York Times Compared

condemned The New York Times and The Guardian for liberal content and left-wing sympathies, and their war coverage has come under ...

"Sorrow Of War," "Perfume Dreams" And "In Country" - Review

one can readily argue how the expectations of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chao...

The Entry of the United States into World War II

support for joining the war. Although it seemed as if the U.S. might become involved, the Americans were quite happy with Europe f...

Duality and War in Literature

won by any nation. Caputos work focuses on the primary character who remembers an innocence that will always live within him, bu...

The Emotion of Art During Times of War

light - or enlightened. The evil part of humanity - the executioners, are beyond the light - in the literal and spiritual dark. F...

The U.S. Civil War: Causes and Implications

deal of power because their populations were growing so much. At the same time, Southern States were losing power and they began t...

Explication of Wilfred Owen's Anti War Poem 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'

In six pages this paper examines how poet Wilfred Owen portrayed sacrificing one's life for country in the antiwar poem 'Dulce Et ...

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

Horrors of War in 2 Poems by Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

Analyzing Three Poems About War

about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'Paul Revere's Ride,' Its Inaccuracies, and the Real Paul Revere

slumber to acts of resistance. However, Fischer demonstrates that Revere did make his famous ride and that the ride was signific...

A Thematic Analysis of Lovelace's "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"

her, reluctantly, to maintain these values. This argument is grounded in 17th century ideals of chivalry and courtly honor, ideals...

'February Afternoon' by Edward Thomas

themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...

Ride of Paul Revere

In five pages this research paper examines the Revolutionary War contributions of Paul Revere in a consideration of the inaccuraci...

'dandelions' by Deborah Austin

reader that the barrage has lasted all day yesterday and today with "deafening sight." This figurative language mixes sensory in...

Poetry and War

In five pages this paper mentions the poems 'To Lucasta' by Richard Lovelace and 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold in this contrast ...

Wilfred Owen's First World War Poetry

continues as follows: "And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh. Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-leads, Which long t...

First World War and its Psychological Impact

stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...

'War is Kind' and 'A Mystery of Heroism' by Stephen Crane

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

A Review of Mary Jo Salter's 'Welcome to Hiroshima'

This paper of 5 pages review the poem that brings to life the atrocities of war, and includes a discussion of similes, iron, and t...

Comparing Blake's "Lamb" to Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz"

A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares these 2 poems. While William Blake, the eighteenth century British poet, and Emily Dick...

Ancient Writings Like Epic of Gilgamesh and Ideology

purposes of taming Enkidu, the wild man (Radcliffe, 2001). Enkidu is important to the story as he exemplifies the average man in s...

Death in Korn's Song 'Alone I Break' and Robert Frost's Poem 'After Apple Picking'

like a walk in the park. The poem describes how tired a person can feel while working hard, and laboring at ones love. Though a mu...

Death in 2 Poems by Seamus Heaney

(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...

Love in Andrew Marvell's 'The Definition of Love' and in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's 'Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought'

survive, the most poignant works were his love sonnets. Surrey was considered to be quite the ladies man, even though he was marr...

Gender Representations in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

Poets R.S. Thomas and John Betjeman on Nature and the Modern World

and soul) are in a fight for their own survival and right to exist, and that the simple things in life, those things that really c...

Poetic Comparison of John Keats's 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' and William Wordsworth's 'Lines Composed upon Westminster Bridge'

relating it to their own life experiences through the powers of imagination (Minahan 38). Two works that characterize the creativ...

The Bean Eater vs. Old Couple, Comparison

is stating the most depressing facts that seem obvious to them. However, as the poem ends we see an understanding of the gentle an...

Whitman and Hughes’ Poetry

Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...