The beginning of the poem starts out very depressing, the soldier talks as if they are old men on their death beds. ""Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge"(2), this line implies how miserable the soldier 's are, their sick, weak, and enduring unbearable conditions. They are walking toward their camp, which the poem tells us is quite a distance away. But they are so tired they are sleeping as they walk toward the camp. These men don 't even have sufficient clothing, some have lost their boots and most are covered in blood. "Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots / Of tried, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind"(6-7). This line tells us that these men are so exhausted they have become numb to the war and blood-shed around them. The soldier 's have become numb to the 5.9 inch caliber shells flying by their heads, the bombs bursting behind them, and their fallen comrades body 's lying next to them.…
In the passage “nail soup” this man is wandering around near a cottage and he has no food or shelter. He comes across this cottage where a camp fire is burning where a woman is right next to it. The man walks up ask if he can spend a night just so he doesn’t freeze in the coldness of the night. Women at first doesn’t let the man have some shelter than she found some heart. The man asked for food, the women didn’t have any. So the man asked for a pot and he fills it up with water and he takes out a needle and puts it in the water. Then he stirs with a porridge stick. Then he adds a little bit of flower and stirs. Then he was done and the man and women ate the nail soup.…
The tragic death of four-year-old Ayen Chol has sparked vigorous amounts of distress in the media and convinced everyday citizens that laws pertaining vicious breeds of dogs must be strictly enforced to ensue the safety of our residential communities. This incident has inspired Leanne Pelen to publish an article in the Herald Sun, regarding her personal experience with dog breeds such as American pit-bulls and Staffordshire terriers, and the scars they've left on her and her family. Through using persuasive techniques such as emotive language, visuals, and anecdotes, Pelen expresses her views on current laws governing these savage animals and convinces the reader to side with her…
In the poem “The Things They Carried” the author uses imagery to show that not everyone wanted to be in that war. The only reason soldiers went was so that they wouldn’t feel like cowards for not going. For example where it says, “they died so not to die of embarrassment” it shows that the only reason they ever went was to not feel weak. They also felt that if they didn't end up…
In “The Hollow Men” and the story excerpt “The Things They Carried” both authors, T.S. Eliot and Tim O’Brien, utilize similar techniques such as imagery and tone, while having a different purpose for writing. In the poem “The Hollow Men,” T.S. Eliot apples imagery and tone to help his audience apprehend how life without a purpose proves to be a waste when the world's final hours are close. As for in the excerpt, “The Things They Carried”, the author uses his techniques to demonstrate the toll that war can have on a person and how it causes some individuals to lose themselves.…
In complete contrast with the reality of the poem’s setting, the touch of snow is equated with an image of lying under a blossom-laden tree in England. The home fires contain glowing coals described as ‘crusted dark-red jewels’, this actually signifies a dying fire, a symbol of people’s waning interest in the fate of the exposed soldiers. That the ‘doors are all closed: on us’ is also symbolic, representing the total loss of the memory of the men and that…
A simile is used when they say “given broad strokes of murder by a pelican lumbering shoreward, then diving with a splash like a car wreck, rising cradling a fish in his bill, and so emerging triumphant”. Although there is only one simile in this poem I believe this symbolizes a lot in the poem and about life. This effectively says how the pelican was determined to get the fish as food for survival and how the fish was helpless as part of this feat. It’s kind of like a cycle of nature. It is like survival of the fittest. Everyone needs different things in order to survive. The message of this explains how we must always be determined, never give up and we will be triumphant or victorious in life as the pelican was. We all strive to emerge triumphant in everything we do, it means doing the best we can always. For example I want to do well at college so I can have a good career in the future. Athletes always strive to improve and win every week, especially at the professional level, when they know their living wage depends on it. This is an example of survival of the fittest cause in the workforce or in the NFL if you don’t succeed or aren’t determined to make it, you’ll get cut and this is what this poem is telling us is you have to always be determined to succeed in life and have goals, just like the pelican had a plan of attack for how he was going to kill or “murder” the fish in order to survive, we…
Fire! (lines 4-5) This shows how bad the fire was and how scared the people were. They exaggerate the happenings to get more emotion and reactions to get the reader more attached to the poem.…
Repetition is a dominant technique that is used in the first half of the poem to accentuate the ongoing nature of bringing the body’s home. The repeated use of the pronoun “they’re” implies an impersonal ceaseless connection between the bodies and their handlers. In addition, it indicates an anonymous mass, thus accentuating the sheer number of deceased bodies. Dawe uses the metaphor ‘chow mien’ to indicate the messy disarray in Vietnam, the fallen trees represent the noodles whereas, the deceased bodies symbolise the meat. The vicious characteristics of war can also be determined by the personified simile “whining like hounds”. This allows the reader to feel the reverberating, hostile sound that is comparable to a hound dog. The aftermath affect of war can be recognised through the metaphors, “the spider swings in his bitter geometry” and “telegrams tremble from a wintering tree”. This specifically emphasises the arbitrary pain that affects the people who receive the telegrams. By personifying the telegram and describing it as ‘trembling’, it allows the reader to interpret the significance of the news the deliverer is bearing. By contrasting telegrams to the number of falling leaves from a ‘wintering tree’, it indicates the colossal number of unfortunate…
The poem begins with the connection word ‘And’ for emphasis and as an interruption to the soldiers. It is for the drill sergeant to interrupt the soldiers dazing and get them to listen to him.…
Some examples within the lines create scenes for the audience which may come off as harsh or even downright combative. The first stanza acts as a host to an early example of the descriptive imagery used by the narrator. The line, “Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone” is powerful due to the mental picture it constructs (line 8). The picture that materializes is one of an “everyman” that must almost “survive” the change, lest he or she drown in it by not being active. To include imagery that implies join or die, the message starts to become more crucial and worthy of concern. Strong imagery can also be seen in the third stanza where the “everyman” must take a stand against the politicians. The line, “There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’ / It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls”, implies that this conflict is a violent one that requires resolution (lines 25-26). Between this battle imagery and the “join-or-die” imagery from before, one could envision a much grander conflict that seems war-like in comparison. Imagery can often be quite effectual in writing in deriving the deeper meaning behind the words. In recall, imagery was used to illustrate the harsh struggle for change.…
The second stanza shows his views on war and he shows that the death that occurs is more like slaughter than sacrifice.This stanza shocks the reader as it makes them realise and understand the true horrors of war.In addition Scott effectively presents his critisism on the way people perceive war when he uses two contrasting stanzas.The poet uses graphic vocabulary to create imagery.For instance ‘And mangled limbs and dying groans’.Theese are vivid and descriptive.They make the reader really imagine the agony and pain the people are experiencing.…
Tone is used by Rosenberg to furthermore reveal the theme in this poem. The two that he uses are musing and contemplative tones. The author uses the air of musing in this poem throughout the beginning few lines of the poem. When a soldier is immersed into war they are exposed to the death of their friends and peers, they are taken from their family, and they are forced to repel any emotions. The soldier who is telling his story is sitting in the war trench at sunrise or in his words, the “druid Time”. The Druids are an ancient civilization who at sunrise made sacrifices to their gods. This leads readers to believe that the soldier is sitting among what could be interpreted the human “sacrifices” that war had taken. Around him there are soldiers lying dead for seemingly no good reason. To be talking in the tone of curiosity rather than pain and horror in that situation, it shows that he has numbed himself to the feelings that would naturally come to him because he is so used to seeing the display of death. The other tone that is used by the author is a tone of contemplation. Rosenberg shifts from talking to himself, to directly addressing the rat, asking questions and drawing his own conclusions. The soldier gets more and more demanding of the rat as the poem goes on, eventually asking it, what do the eyes of mankind say. The soldier uses the rat to ask all of these questions because he knows he shouldn’t be thinking emotionally. He can’t control himself and he has to let off steam by talking to a rat, which can’t respond or judge him. He then has a final break in his mind, using the death of a poppy to symbolize death of soldiers. He says, “Poppies whose roots are in man’s veins/ Drop and are ever dropping;/ But mine in my ear is safe-/ Just a little while…
The first two lines of the poem are, “Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun” (Heaney, pg. 3). The speaker is literally referring to him writing the poem, but is also referencing his ancestors and them working in the fields with shovels. The poem ends with, “Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests. I’ll dig with it.” (Heaney, pg. 3). He went into such great depths to describe how hard his ancestors have worked in the fields and passed down the tradition from generation to generation. Even though the speaker isn’t a farmer and doesn’t work with a shovel, he still requires the same skills that his ancestors used out on the fields. The speaker will dig, but he will do it on paper with his words instead of out on a field. He will use a pen instead of a shovel, but he will have the same work ethic that his ancestors…
The hunger makes them 'lie down' that is mention three times in the poem. '_it makes people lie down but not feel at rest - unable to stand - and count the rafters_'. 'lie down' here means that those people have already surrender, they have given up, not knowing what should they do to escape from poverty. Meanwhile, 'count the rafters' means something related to God. It symbolizes their feeling, they try to be patient…