Cultrural/Historical Inventory
The cultural history in this text is reflected by how the author brings up the different time periods and areas that people live in and how it can affect their culture. Yes this does help explain the text, it makes you understand that even if you live in the same country people still live in different areas and have different cultures. No it does not effect my understanding of the text I thought it was easy to understand.

The Soldier
I thought this was a good poem, it makes me think about people going to war and how there family's and friends are affected. This poem makes you think of the otherside of war, not just the battles but the other effects that war has on society.

Anthem for Doomed Youth
When reading this poem I thought about how war makes people just look like they are animals and not cared for. The first line when is what makes me think of this, and when I kept reading I just kept thinking about how in war people are killed and it is accepted as being fine because it is war.

Dulce et Decorum Est
This poem describes war very well, you can picture bombs going off and the horror of what is going on in the battle field. I thought about how the soldiers must be going threw so much suffering and pain, you can tell the passion when reading this poem. When the author talks about the gas you can just picture the panic of the soldiers and the fear they must feel. You can picture bombs going off, men dieing, shots being fired, blood, explosions, and seeing soldiers running. This poem describes war in a very good way and gives you a good picture of what it would be like.

Glory of Women
This poem describes the opposite side of war, what the women are going through when there men are gone. This poem shows how people may be thinking one thing but not ever know what is going on at war. The lady knitting socks for her son, not knowing that he was already killed at war, shows such a reality that family's go threw during war.

They
When reading this poem you don't think about how the soilders will react to what they have seen, and how they will change, but in this you read that the men will change and not be the same. They go through problems when they saw horrific things at war, the bishop talks about how god works in strange ways and that is the case in this poem when they talk about how the soilders will be different.