World War I, the war that was originally expected to be “over by Christmas,” dragged on for four years with a grim brutality brought on by the dawn of trench warfare and advanced weapons, including chemical weapons. The horrors of that conflict altered the world for decades – and writers reflected that shifted outlook in their work. As Virginia Woolf would later write, “Then suddenly, like a chasm in a smooth road, the war came.”
Early works were romantic sonnets of war and death.
Among the first to document the “chasm” of the war were soldiers themselves. At first, idealism persisted as leaders glorified young soldiers marching off for the good of the country.
English poet Rupert Brooke, after enlisting in Britain’s Royal Navy, wrote a series of patriotic sonnets, including “The Soldier,” which read:
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.
Brooke, after being deployed in the Allied invasion of Gallipoli, would die of blood poisoning in 1915.
Explanation:
they had to leave their last job, also he has to continue to repeat their plans for the future
Answer: Polonius believes that the real reason for Hamlet's lunacy is his love for Ophelia.
Explanation:
In Shakespeare's <em>Hamlet</em>, prince Hamlet decides to act as a mad man, so that he can revenge his father.
Polonius, however, believes that Hamlet has lost his mind because he loves his daughter, Ophelia, but she rejects his love. Polonius has told Ophelia that Hamlet is out of her league and ordered her not to be with him. Although she does have certain feelings for Hamlet, her father demanded that Ophelia ignores any love letters that he should send her. In <em>Act II, Scene II,</em> Polonius tells Claudius that this is the reason behind Hamlet's madness.
