Simply because the Navy Seals dø not want emotion from their soldiers. They need to be a solid, indestructible, unstoppable person. The Seals in the movie began trying to remove pity, the most useless emotion of mankind. That was a very clever tactic upon the man who recited the poem.
*I forgot his rank sorry*
Self Pity - D.H. Lawrence
The Emily Dickinson poem used in the movie "G.I. Jane" is "Because I could not stop for Death." This poem is recited by the character played by Demi Moore during a particularly intense training exercise.
The poem "pity this busy monster, manunkind" by e.e. cummings was written in 1944.
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- Jane Anderson-
The poem featured in the book "Jane Eyre" is called "Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan. It is referenced by Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre as they discuss their own personal journeys and struggles.
The rhyme scheme of Jane Yolen's poem "Earth Day" is AABBCC, where each stanza has rhyming pairs of lines.
Theodore Roethke compares Jane to the birds in Elegy for Jane because Jane is actually a bird. He refers to Jane for most of the poem as "my sparrow."
In the poem "To Blossoms" by Robert Herrick, the pity referred to in the second stanza is the idea that flowers, like human life, are brief and fleeting. The speaker is reflecting on how quickly flowers bloom and fade, much like the brevity of human life. The pity is for the flowers that must die so soon after blooming, symbolizing the fleeting nature of existence.
Mary Jane Carr
they don't relate
Sad