Summary: English Literature

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• 1 Great War Poetry

• 1.1 Achtergronden

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• When ended the 19th century for England?

  1914

• What separates The great War?

  The Vicorian age and the Modern Age.

• Courtly love poetry

  A love in distance where the man tries to make him self worthy of her by doing brave things or singing songs

• 1.2 Terms

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• Literary terms, short story?

  - Genre
  - Theme
  - Protagonist: Main character
  - Antagonist: character in conflict with main character
  - Conflict: the central problem
  - Exposition: Backround information
  - Setting: location
  - Foreshadowing: Iets dat wij al raar vinden.
  - Climax: the high point of senstion
  
  - Denoucement: Day-new-MAW, the conclusion
  - Irony
  - Flat Character: een bij karakter      
  - Round character: maincharacter    

• 1.2.1 The Soldier

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• Why does this poem fit the literature timeperiod?

  Firstly, the title is soldier -> war -> great war poetry
  Secondly, this poem is kind of a goodbye letter. This is probably written by a soldier, who thought that he might die.

• Explain "some corner of a foreign field".

  It probably a place where the soldier is fighting, not home, so a foreign country.

• How can a foreign field be for ever England?

  When an English soldier dies, he thinks it will be England forever.

• 1.2.2 Dulce et decorum est

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• What is the rhyme scheme?

  Everywhere ababcdcd 3 times

• Why does this poem fits the time period?

  It's talks about dead and war.

• Paraphrase the first stanza.

  Walking like zombies