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Choose one of the following topics for your second paper, 4 pages in length, double-spaced. Clarify and defend your insights using direct quotations from the text. The content of the argument, the style of the composition, and the use of standard grammar and spelling will be taken into account in the grading process. Please use one-inch margins and a reasonably sized font (10- or 12- point). Pages should be numbered and the paper should be titled.

Compare and contrast the representation of one of the following themes in two of the assigned World War I poems:

1. Early enthusiasm for the Great War sense of chivalric ideals of heroism vs. growing objection to mounting atrocities

1. Evidence of the industrial revolution--imagery of technological progress

1. The “alternative reality” of the trench and No-Man’s Land

1. Function of popular imagery rats, lice, flowers, birds

1. Sunrise/sunset as “fully freighted with implicit aesthetic and moral meaning”(Fussell, p.55)--appropriation of pastoral conventions

1. Endlessness of battle

1. Focus on particular body parts corporeal specificity

1. Layers of revolution/rebellion: Industrial Revolution WW1 itself Revolt against war’s violence

1. Dichotomizing--Us vs. them, demonizing of the enemy--“the drama of the binary” (Fussell, p.80).