Land locked and loving it, the typical high school student leads an idle and unreal life. To say that their life is unreal does not mean that they are dead, but when the hardest decision of the day is wether or not to eat at Wendy's, one must question how in touch with the real world these students actually are (this author included). Living in an environment that focuses on a pain-free, easy life, it …showed first 75 words of 641 total…

…showed last 75 words of 641 total…joy and the greatness of the past. The greatest similarity between the two is that they are both excellent parts of the English language. And although they were written centuries ago, they are still read, studied and analyzed by small-town school children. While we do not fully understand the grueling hardships endured by these men, the sheer fact that their poems have survived this long stands as a testament to the greatness of their stories.