- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Paul continues reflecting on his childhood. He reiterates how deeply his generation has been fractured by the events of the war.
This description returns to the paradox of the soldiers’ age, as once more Paul references both their youthful qualities and their burdens of experience. That they are “forlorn like children” speaks to a juvenile helplessness and despondency in the face of the war, while being “experienced like old men” affirms both the wisdom and the trauma they have gained while serving. Extending the contrasting terms, Paul says they, “are crude and sorrowful and superficial”: a combination of grizzled, deep…