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Chose a poem that has helped you to see the unpleasant side of life - By close reference to the text, show how the use of poetic techniques has helped you to understand this side of life.
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Chose a poem that has helped you to see the unpleasant side of life. By close reference to the text, show how the use of poetic techniques has helped you to understand this side of life. "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae is a poem that has helped me to appreciate the unpleasant side of life. It is a poem that deals with the reality that soldiers sacrificed their lives for the living, telling them to finish what they started. It also contains a message from the poet John McCrae that we have a responsibility not to replicate the mistakes of the past. The poet uses exceptionally vivid imagery and skilful symbolism, rhyming, steady pace, well-placed punctuation and other poetic techniques to help me understand this side of life. The imagery used in this poem creates an exceptionally clear picture in the mind's eye of what actually happened...
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