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on To His Dead Body by Siegfried Sassoon, on June 10, 2005One of the earlier poems of Sassoon who began as somewhat of a propaganda piece for the British government. Later in the war the plight of the people became more apparent after he was wounded on duty in the navy and his poetry turned far sourer.
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on Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen, on June 10, 2005The point of the reference to cattle is the nforgiving way in which they are slaughtered. They are no longer people, they are only another uniform on a field of the dead. Then the conscripts are 'herded' onto the field by the whistles of the charge before being put down. A very fitting metaphor i believe.
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on An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by William Butler Yeats, on June 10, 2005This simple poem is one of Yeats's most explicit statements about the First World War, and illustrates both his active political consciousness ("Those I fight I do not hate, / Those I guard I do not love") and his increasing propensity for a kind of hard-edged mystical rapture (the airman was driven to the clouds by "A lonely impulse of delight"). The poem, which, like flying, emphasizes balance, essentially enacts a kind of accounting, whereby the airman lists every factor weighing upon his situation and his vision of death, and rejects every possible factor he believes to be false: he does not hate or love his enemies or his allies, his country will neither be benefited nor hurt by any outcome of the war, he does not fight for political or moral motives but because of his "impulse of delight"; his past life seems a waste, his future life seems that it would be a waste, and his death will balance his life. Complementing this kind of tragic arithmetic is the neatly balanced structure of the poem, with its cycles of alternating rhymes and its clipped, stoical meter.
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on The Lightwood Fire by John Henry Boner, on October 28, 2004i like the rhyming in this poem, its the kind i can read and remember, nice use of vocab aswell.
