... This was the beginning of Bert's travels. When Bert was leaving to go to the gold fields he nearly lost his life. He was standing near the edge of the wharf when a man yelled at him and Bert got ...

... I haven't been able to keep correspondence with you more often over the previous months. Since my withdrawal from the front in July, thanks to my most unfortunate case of enteritis, I have been moving between Somerville College, where I ...

... adapts to war and passes along the training he gains from Kat and from personal experience to raw recruit who does not respond quick enough to the poisonous gas. Paul's delicacy and understanding extends to advice about throwing away the ...

... pressure that was being put on young men to join the army believing it to be unfair and unjust. Within my study I am going to try and show the conflicting attitudes that poets had to the topic of war. The ...

... The setting of the novel appealed to me as I found it interesting to find out what life was like during the war. The story takes place in 1939-1940 in Little Weirwold, a small village in the English countryside. A ...

... the time at hand. Start everyday with appreciation. To appreciate is to be happy. Until the gloomy night is over. Victorious morning comes. We will start a new day and life. Exhaling and inhaling fresh air Yes, there will be good times and bad. but Zenith is ...

... military and fighting against other countries whose civilians were abandoning their common lives to do the same. Even if these civilians were not directly involved in the war effort, in a military aspect, they were being forced to become war ...

... by a shipping firm, though he didn't much like it. When the Boer War broke out in 1900, between the United Kingdom and its colonies in southern Africa, Alec and two brothers joined a Scottish regiment. But instead of fighting ...

... Fermor, which serves the purpose of excusing the previous 'imperfect'i draft, with which the lady was less than pleased, as well as introducing the theme of the poem: the 'little unguarded follies'ii of the fair sex. Pope tells us that ...

... earthly events. Pope explores, through the use of the sylphs, the ancient practise of the four humours. There are 'The Sprites of fiery Termagants in Flame', 'Soft yielding Minds to Water glide away', 'In search of Mischief still on Earth to ...

... different time and so are fought in completely different ways. Tennyson wrote The Charge Of The Light Brigade about the Crimean war, which was originally between France and Russia but Britain joined because she worried about her security. The Crimean ...

... Brigade. The final stanza is a message from the poet to "honour the Light Brigade" and not to forget what the six hundred men did. The poem has a constant rhyming pattern all the way through with words like "blundered", "hundred", ...

... and sweet because of all the propaganda that was put about to encourage young men to join the army. He then realised that War wasn't as glorified as he had thought and wrote poems to deter other young men, who, ...

... is shown in a dialogue between Joe Keller and Frank Lubey where Joe casually proclaimes: "When you look at a page like this you realize how ignorant you are" when he was reading the newspaper. From what he said, it ...

... the world be if one brought every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best - in a way that cost them nothing" (12). Here, Kantorek symbolizes all ...

... sentences broken only by dashes and commas such as on page 47. Remarque also brings horror through the horrors of the rats and lice. "They are corpse-rats" juxtaposes the matter-of-fact tone of the novel with the repulsive actions of the ...

... in the war. A group of five friends, Baumer, Kropp, Muller, Leer and Kemmerich left school and joined the army. They travelled to the front line where they met more comrades, such as Tjaden, Westhus, Detering and Katczinsky. The novel ...

... the soldiers. The best place to begin in a discussion of the horrors of war and the affect of it would be to look at the incidents that exposed the characters to the shock of war. In the case of ...

... a totally different view. They saw war as gruesome carnage. In the hospitals there were men mutilated by battle, unable to do anything but lie in their beds and hope to recover or else slowly die. Paul, the book's protagonist, ...

... actually exists and as soldiers experience it. The opening chapter is devoted to presenting the novel's main themes: the horror of war and its effect on the ordinary soldier. It also emphasizes, at every turn, the unheroic, unglamorous, horrifying life ...

... and meaningless language that is used by members of that society. As he becomes alienated from his former, traditional, society, Baumer simultaneously is able to communicate effectively only with his military comrades. Since the novel is told from the first ...

... motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades". Comradeship is shown throughout the novel in many different ways, showing that during war they all looked out ...

... in the novel. Their execrable behaviour epitomizes the characteristics of iniquitousness. For example, the obtuse sergeant-cook, Ginger, prepares enough rations for 150 men, because that is the number of men in the Second Company. Unfortunately for the servicemen, after 70 ...

... at home, but Tennyson had not been an eyewitness to the battle he describes. Wilfred Owen wrote `Dulce´ towards the end of the First World War. He was killed in action a week before the war ended in 1918. He ...

... heightens the reader's sympathies by highlighting that the events are real. This made me feel that Owen's experiences and emotions were being shared directly with me. In contrast Carol Ann Duffy's poem was written in the 1970's and was based ...