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11 Cards in this Set
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Nature
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'Kind old sun will know' - 'what made fatuous sunbeams toil' -Futility
'Stark blank sky beyond the ridge' 'the whole sky burned/With fury against them' -Spring Offensive 'Brown strings, towards strings of grey, with bristling spines,/All migrants from green fields'- Show 'Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army/Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey' 'Less deathly than the air that shudders black with snow' exposure |
Futility
Spring Offensive The Show Exposure |
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Religion- Positive
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"Offer the Ram of Pride instead"-Parable
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'Parable'
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Allusions
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Mental Cases- Multitudinous murders (Multitudinous seas incarnadine, Macbeth)
Inspection- the damned spot/ was blood (out, damned spot- guilt ) Parable- Genesis 22: 1-19 God so loved the world John 3: 16 |
Mental Cases
Parable |
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Condemnation of Church
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'Flesh marked by the beast'
'Near Golgotha strolls a priest' -Calvary 'hasty orisons' 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle' - Anthem 'God so hated the world that he gave several million English begotten sons so that whoever believeth in them should not perish but have a comfortable life' -Letter March 1918 (God so loved the world.....everlasting life) 'Pure Christianity will not fit in with pure patriotism' 'Packed-up saints long serried/Well out of hearing of our trouble' |
Anthem
Calvary Letters Le Christianisme |
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Religion- Negative
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'The race will bear Field Marshal God's Inspection' -Inspection
'Fatuous sunbeams' - Futility 'Where God seems not to care'- Greater Love |
Inspection
Futility |
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Internal Effects
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'Torture of lying machinally shelled'
'It was the reasoned crisis of his soul/Against more days of inescapable thrall' -SIW 'Always they must see these things and hear them' 'Sunlight seems s blood-smear; night comes blood-black;/ Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh' -Mental Cases 'Didn't appear to know a war was on' -The Dead-Beat 'Where death becomes absurd and life absurder' 'Not to feel sickness or remorse of murder' - Apologia 'He's livin' and he's not;' -The Chances 'Their eyes are rid/Of the hurt of the color of blood for ever' 'Can laugh among the dying, unconcerned' 'But cursed are dullards whom no cannon stuns'- Insensibility |
SIW
Mental Cases Deadbeat Apologia The Chances |
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Dehumanization
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'Lay stupid like a cod, heavy like meat'
'That scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray' -The Dead-Beat 'But limped on, blood-shod'- Dulce 'Purgatorial shadows' 'Hilarious, hideous/ Awful falseness of set-smiling corpses'-Mental Cases 'I'm blind and three parts shell' -A Terre |
Deadbeat
Dulce Mental Cases |
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Loss of Innocence
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'Gently its touch awoke him once'
'Was it for this the clay grew tall?'- Futility 'Sleep took him by the brow and laid him back' -Asleep 'none save the undone years/the hopelessness'- Strange Meeting 'My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/ To children ardent for some desperate glory'- Dulce |
Futility
Dulce |
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Horrors of War
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'Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter' -Mental Cases
'Curtained with fire, rooted in with creeping fire/Slow grazing fire' -SIW |
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Those at Home
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'To please the giddy jilts'
'Touch him like some quuer disease' -Disabled 'But the old man would not so, but slew his son,/And half the seed of Europe, one by one'- Parable 'Snatching after us who smote them, brother/Pawing us who dealt them war and madness'-Mental Cases 'Father would sooner him dead than in disgrace' 'Death sooner than dishonor that's the style'- SIW |
Disabled
Parable Mental Cases SIW |
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Shelley
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A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth
It marries exultation and horror, grief and pleasure, eternity and change Its secret alchemy turns to potable gold the poisonous waters It strips the veil of familiarity from the world and lays bare the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms |
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