War

When a country is plunged into Civil War the effects are cataclysmic, brother fighting brother. This intensifies when religion is involved, Because it takes men’s beliefs and puts drive and…

Within the World War context, medical practitioners were obliged to search for new way of treating patients, in order to combat the growing amount of wounded soldiers and ensure soldiers…

In Both the War Photographer and Stealing By Carol Anne Duffy the occupations of the narrator play a leading role even the titles are names of the occupations they both…

War and the idea of war had, throughout history, been associated with honour and heroism. Before World War 1, war poetry had reflected the opinion that all soldiers were to…

Before World War One, war was seen as glorious and honourable. These attitudes are reflected in the phrase Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mari, translated this means that it…

For my coursework I have chosen three poems. ” The Field-Mouse” by Gillian Clarke, “War Photographer” by Carol Ann Duffy and “Thistles” by Ted Hughes. I chose those poems because…

Both Pope and Mackintosh have used wartime propaganda in their poems to get across civilian attitudes about the war. Pope uses phrases very similar to the catchy propaganda that encouraged…

In this essay I am going to compare the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Wilfred Owen, which have very different attitudes to war. ” The Charge of the Light…

A. E Housman and Thomas Hardy, both highly recognised poets, wrote their poems in response to the same war. This war, The Boer War (1899-1902) is affectively described in their…

War is a topic on everyone’s mind at the moment. It looks as if Britain and America will join forces to take on Iraq. Saddam Hussein has an inventory holding…

World War One saw many new weapons and advancements in technology on both sides of the war. Each side took huge steps towards modern technology to help gain an advantage…

McKay and Duffy come from two very different backgrounds, one being a Jamaican immigrant and the other a Scottish teacher, yet both of their poems seem to amalgamate under the…

Ever since time was inaugurated, man has been influenced by war as has human evolution and history. There have been many famous conflicts over the ages and many consequences to…

In this assignment, I am going to examine Wilfred Owens’s portrayal of war within his poetry. To do this I will firstly examine the context of the poems Mental Cases…

He walks along story yet untold,To his gun his hand finds and holds,He seeks the truth for all to see,What a terrible time war can be.His misconception made him this…

Using at least one poem from each category, show how the attitudes to war changed and are reflected in the work of the war poets. I find poetry from the…

There were many different experiences during the Second World War, most of which were bad. The war did not just affect Europe, it affected the whole world reaching areas such…

In my view Tennyson gives the impression of war being very noble, heroic, honourable yet also dark and those members of the Light Brigade participating in war are doomed and…

According to the international law, war is the declaration of violent intentions on another state or country. Through the ages there have been many ways of preserving the memories of…

In the early 20th Century social change was occurring, Queen Victoria had just died, philosophers and scientists such as Nietzsche and Darwin had just published books with secular and anti-establishment…