Related International Baccalaureate Languages essays

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   Commentary on poem "Two Hands"

   His hands have "save[d] no one, serve[d] no one, dance[d] with this pencil." The use of the word 'dance' has playful and amateur connotations to it, which shows that his work of literature is meaningless to him.

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   Testing the Reality Commentary

   And as such, the poet creates this imagery which enhances the effect of abandonment through loss in death, as it is clearly visible in the minds of readers, allowing them to be able to understand and also feel the same way the narrator is feeling, that of melancholy and sorrow.

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   Commentary on "Anthem for Doomed Youth"

   The structured symphony of the shells is contrasted with the funeral marches at home, and here a parallel is drawn, showing the difference between deaths on the front, with musical explosions of the shells, and at home, with the mournful song of the band.

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   Poem Commentary on "Strange Meeting"

   "Men will go content with what we spoiled" or "discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled", this shows that man will either kill of be killed in a war. Countries also do not benefit from war as "nations trek from progress" although "none (of the citizens)

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   Wilfred Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth - Commentary

   Metaphors are often associated with sounds, and especially in the first octave , where stuttering rifles' rapid rattle (line 3) and choirs of wailing shells (line 7) can be heard, are a base for original auditory images. In line 3 also, there is both alliteration (rifles' rapid rattle)

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   Two Hands

   is shown by the lines: "I curse tonight, at the other end of the house ". The father too may have needs, which the son may be able serve, as shown by the son's words to his own hand: "you may have your chance to stitch a life for fingers that have stitched new life for many".

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   Comparing and Contrasting Chapter One of Broken April and The Thief and The Dogs.

   Throughout chapter one of both novels, the themes seems to be consistent and similar. Themes such as revenge, fate, the influence of the past on the present, and the law are shown in both novels. Revenge can be considered to be a common theme among novels and it definitely is in this case.

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   Vietnamese Poetry and Language

   Mo�t so� va�n kie�n c��ng vung bu�t �o�i ho�i t�� do sa�ng ta�c, ghi le�n sa�ch ba�o s�� tha�t l�ch s��, nh��ng hie�n t���ng va� ha�nh vi ba�t l��ng cu�a th�i �a�i ho� �ang so�ng, cha�p nha�n mo�i ha�u qua� tra� thu� a�c nghie�t.