On the other hand, the poem ‘The Send- Off’ written by Wilfred Owen was set in World War I and is about the departure of soldiers to war. This poem is similar to The Shoe-Horn Sonata as it reflects a shameful image of the operation of war as ‘too few’ will return. Through the use of visual and aural imagery, Owen is able to depict the excited and anxious anticipation of the soldiers at the beginning of the poem through the use of the oxymoron ‘faces grimly gay’. Through the use of juxtaposition, Owen portrays society’s disapproval of sending men off to war to their pointless death; “so secretly, like wrongs hushed up”…
Kenneth Slessor wrote the poem Beach Burial whilst he completed his occupation as the official Australian Correspondent in the Middle East. Due to Slessor 's observations of the war at close quarters he soon learnt about the horrific horrors of war. During Slessor 's stay in El Alamein which is a small village found on the Egypt Mediterranean coast he wrote the poem to describe the realities of war and what realistically happens after heroes are killed. Kenneth Slessor has used imagery and various poetic techniques to establish his purpose to the audience in his poem Beach Burial. Slessor has successfully conveyed his purpose to create a high depth of sympathy and pity for the soldiers who have washed up to the shore after being killed in action or died during the voyage at sea.…
In Kenneth Slessor’s 1942 poem ‘Beach Burial’ he also comments about survival in war and the power in distinctively visual ways through particular words. He relies upon adjectives, personification and the use of imagery to describe the suffering.…
The poems “Out of Time” and “Beach Burial” are both compositions of Slessor’s later work that are considered memorable and influential by many of his critics. They are said to reveal his interaction with the environment and clearly depict his immediate emotions. I am sure that you will all agree that Slessor’s work is significant in today’s era because of his ability to cleverly and creatively use features to inter-relate the true essence of his poems.…
Or fought with us, or neither; the sand joins them together,Enlisted on the other front.…
'The convoys of dead sailors come' imply a repetitiveness and routine in the deaths, where he has dehumanizing them through the blunt language. 'The breath of wet season has washed their inscriptions/As blue as browned men's lips,'. Through his descriptive language and simile, he has illustrated the soldiers washed away, and that their tombstones have no writing on them anymore, making them anonymous. 'Whether as enemies they fought,/Or fought with us, or neither; the sand joins them together,' demonstrates that the men buried in the sands are not only anonymous but are 'joined together' by the sand, whether they were friends or foes. '"Unknown seaman" - the ghostly pencil wavers and fades' gives anonymity, and the word 'ghostly' echoes the deaths. It shows that the pencil is indelible, and that although their bodies will decay, they won't be forgotten because they shall live on through the…
Within this poem Bruce Dawe dramatizes the homecoming of Australian veterans' bodies from Vietnam. This is clearly an anti-war poem, reproducing the sentiments of those who opposed the time when this war occurred.…
The harsh reality about addiction is it destroys lives if left untreated. By the time the sick individual realizes the depth of their problems, the problems have usually mounted to the point of causing total disarray in their lives as well as in the lives of the people around them. At some point, something has to be done. While many fringe solutions may be advertised, the only reliable solution usually ends up being a treatment stint in a reliable rehabilitation center.…
His boat like a cork on the abundant sea. He knew he was to face severe risks on his way home. The boat began to roll from side to side. The day was being swallowed up, and the moon arising. The sea moaning with burden. The stench of salt disperses. The rain-shroud passed by, spitting teasingly at him with swarming tears. The sea swelling and the north wind sped him to his doom. His stomach churned, he felt sea sick, sensing a fever drawing near.…
The reality of war and the mental and physical impact on the involved characters is an important theme in WWI literature. The texts that will be considered involve Birdsong by Sabastian Faulkes, Regeneration by Pat Baker and selected poetry. Specific poems focus on the horrific conditions in the trench and the gruesome action soldiers had to witness; this can be associated with Birdsong which describes the accounts from soldiers and their difficult experiences. Mental cases addresses the issue of the mental impact that the war had on shell-shocked soldiers which relates to Regeneration that portrays the life of shell-shocked soldiers.…
‘Beach Burial’- is poem about the soldiers that loss their life through war. From the begging the hype is built up throughout the story, paragraph by paragraph the tension builds which is done in such away it’s quite confronting for the reader. In the begging of the poem Slessor sets a quite a soft and calm mood but blunt where “convoys of dead sailors come’. The image of the beach is set out to represent beauty and purity. Slessor uses a subdued choice of words to describe the effects of war like ‘softly, humbly, sway’ and ‘wonder’ witch aren’t normally associated with war, This positions the audience feel irony towards the soldiers how their life’s have been consumed by the effects of war like time and death, Even though this poem was written from an Australian author, it does not state a specific country or side, and it doesn’t mention anything about being victories or losing, Slessor wrote the poem this way so all soldiers, regardless of side could relate to the fact that, in death, all are joined together as one.…
An example is arguably one of his most famous poems, ‘Beach Burial,’ which is a military elegy or tribute to troops who fought in the Second World War. The poem conveys the futility of war and also war’s negative effect on people. The stanza seen here is an example of the futility of war evident in many of Slessor’s poem. In using words such as ‘unknown’ and ‘drowned men’ Slessor demonstrates even though the soldiers had served their countries, they will become unknown because of the many that died. This idea of becoming forgotten is emphasised through the simile shown here. This image here is an artist’s perception of what the war would be like. We can see that being a war correspondent, Slessor was exposed to conditions like this, which consequently must of impacted his writing, and thus bought about the anti-war sense.…
In addition to the factor of different voices, there is also the use of figurative language. This poem uses alliterations and metaphors that perfectly help the reader to understand the situations. There is alliteration introduced in the first stanza by the first voice or “the dead man” and says: “I was much further out than you thought” (line 3), which can be a metaphor too further in the poem. If analyzing it literarily it means that the man was too far out on the sea, where the water is…
In the opening lines Rupert Brooke has presented his patriotism in such a forceful expression that he considers the sand in which he would be buried, be it a foreign land, will become an English sand, the richness of which will further be increased by the fertility of an English body of a passionately patriotic soul. The idea of an unnamed “corner of a foreign field” where the soldier will be buried speaks of the unsung and anonymous nature of death in war. Yet the notion that this small space will “forever” be part of England elevates the sacrifice the soldier makes— as if he has in a small way conquered this land. The soft alliteration here lends these opening lines a subdued tone.…
One of Graves' renowned poems is “A Dead Boche”. The poem is of a depressing mood and a horrific atmosphere. It consists of two stanzas of related purposes. The first stanza states that the war is not just what most people think it is, war is not about blood and fame, but it is more shocking than anyone could ever imagine. In the second stanza, Graves asserts his point by describing the horrific sight of a dead enemy soldier that he found in the battle. The main purpose of this poem is to make people at home aware of the real wartime situation at the…