Poetry for Students Vol. 10

Volume 10 101 committed to staying with him and possibly mak- ing him happy. Fear The thing that the woman in this poem fears— t ...

102 Poetry for Students sentences topped 160,000, and it was mostly their descendants who make up the modern population. Some pa ...

Volume 10 103 away in the Pacific Ocean. This war, in the 1940s, pushed Australia into the global community as a completely sepa ...

104 Poetry for Students Because of the similarities of experience, Americans can generally pick up Australian writ- ings without ...

Volume 10 105 was written in to understand or appreciate it. The kinship between American and Australian poetry is a close one, ...

106 Poetry for Students thoughts are presented with a tone of resignation rather than fear. It is likely that the wife feels thi ...

Volume 10 107 look at the world we live in ... the suffering, poignant and necessary world. “Drifters” indeed, is a portrait of ...

Dulce et Decorum Est Many of Wilfred Owen’s poems, including “Dulce et Decorum Est,” paint in stark images the brutal- ity of wa ...

Volume 10 109 Owen suggests, patriotism becomes an absurd mat- ter: the poem never tells us what country the poi- soned soldier ...

110 Poetry for Students In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, 15 He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in som ...

Volume 10 111 In addition, mustard gas has a particular hue—“as under a green sea.” The speaker views the “floun- d’ring” man as ...

112 Poetry for Students Owen’s representation of death and human suffer- ing within the poem is significant in terms of its dept ...

Volume 10 113 irony that should be acknowledged here. Owen’s reputation as a poet is a direct result of the impact the war had o ...

114 Poetry for Students umbrella that Wilfred Owen both fought, wrote, and died. The numbers alone would seem to sup- port Owen’ ...

Volume 10 115 a wagon. In the end, no one can claim heroism— not the unknown man shelling them, not the un- fortunate soldier le ...

116 Poetry for Students Not all have agreed that “the pity of war”— Owen’s own phrase—is a basis for sound poetry. William Butle ...

Volume 10 117 “feats” of which King Henry speaks, but are in- stead scrambling, with all the stature and courage of “old beggars ...

118 Poetry for Students And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin ... The spea ...

Volume 10 119 “cud” emphasizes their relationship in terms of taste, while the overall impression of the taste is one as revolti ...

120 Poetry for Students Horace himself was being sincere or hypocritical when he penned his lines. Rather, he is pointing to the ...