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…both law and history but did not earn a degree. For the eight years between leaving college and the war, Sassoon lived the life of a country gentleman. He spent most of his time playing sports and writing poetry. Sassoon’s best pre-war poem…

…within the two poems. Even though the two poets were contemporaries and friends, Wordsworth and Colderidge each have an original and different way in which they introduce images and ideas into their poetry. These differences give the reader quite a unique…

…. This can be seen in two of the Peter Skrzynecki's poems in the core text 'Immigrant Chronicles'. The poems 'Crossing the Red Sea' and 'Feliks Skzrynecki' significantly convey the meaning of journeys. The poems with an internet article titled 'Journeys: A Cycle…

…Gunn's 'The Reassurance' and Owen's 'Futility' are thematically apt for comparison as they both focus on death. They will be interesting to compare regarding the causes of death- AIDS and war- being natural or man-made. Structurally, the poems…

…autobiographical. For example, in a poem from her book titled The Father, she writes: I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain. Olds' work is primarily focused on her family, especially her relationship with her father. There is sparse biographical…

…A. E. Housman's 'To an Athlete Dying Young,' also known as Lyric XIX in A Shropshire Lad, holds as its main theme the premature death of a young athlete as told from the point of view of a friend serving as pall bearer. The poem reveals the concept…

…Although the poems Recalling War by Robert Graves and Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen are both concerned with the damage that war does to the soldiers involved, they are different in almost every other respect. Owen's poem examines the physical and mental…

…Although the poems "Recalling War" by Robert Graves and "Mental Cases" by Wilfred Owen are both concerned with the damage that war does to the soldiers involved, they are different in almost every other respect. Owen's poem examines the physical…

…“O for a life of sensations rather than thoughts!” What is the relation between thought and feeling in Keats’s odes? Out of all his poetry, the odes appear to be the most sensually explored poems that Keats wrote. Through this collection of poetry…

…Comparing and contrasting the poems we have read, show how they convey the thoughts of the poets and their reasons for writing the poems. Refer in detail to the poems, using quotations from the poems. There are five different poems to be looked…