Analysis Of Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas By Otto Dix

Otto Dix was a German artist who painted the German perspective in his pieces. A famous piece of his is “Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas” which displays German soldiers wearing gas masks and participating in trench warfare. It’s a menacing view of the soldier’s as they advanced on enemy lines. One of the soldier’s in the painting is wrapped in barbed wire representing one way in which a soldier’s body came under attack. The men have an inhuman look, as if they are already dead. The absence of color in the painting emphasizes the horrifying nature of the war. Dix was a machine gunner during the war and experienced trench warfare first-hand. This piece was painted 10 years after the end of the war and appears to be created from a painful memory or a hallucination. It is another piece of art that condemned the war and Dix
Eliot, which was first published in 1922, is arguably the most important poem of the 20th century. This is because Eliot invented his own style of writing as he was not into the traditional rhyme. Eliot did not want to focus his poetry on nature setting and having a romanticist view of the world, but instead was apart of the Modernist movement. Poetry during this time had lost its ability to capture its audience and to describe something from a new perspective. This is where “The Waste Land” differs from other pieces, because there is so much packed into the poem. It switches the point-of-view to different speakers, without warning, and is full of references to classic literature from different cultures. It was influenced by World War I because shows the idea of a decline in Western culture. It created the idea that civilization is a “waste land” because of the losses and destruction that Europe endured due to the war. WWI mocked civilization because it threw out the individuals ideologies about war and of the world. Eliot created a response to the mess the world had become, in poem form, which was “The