Imagery In 'Dulce Et Decorum Est, The Yellow Birds'

The imagery is a visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. The authors of “The war is kind” , “Dulce et decorum est” , “The yellow birds”, and “ The things they carried” try to make the reader feel what was happening at the war , and how the people suffered in that moment. They use their own perspective to show this feelings and make the reader more into the poem. In the poem “The yellow birds” the people felt “like there was acid seeping down into [their]/ soul” (6-7) all the bad things in the war were affecting them mentally and emotionally in some way. In the poem “War is kind” the author wants to manage the feeling of a “swift blazing flag of the regiment,/ eagle with crest of red and gold” (17-18),
it represents the pride that the people feel for their country and how they lift their flag and their shield even when they know that the red represents blood and the gold represents wealth that they want to obtain by fighting for their country.The poem “The yellow birds” made the reader understand how the war is so hard that he does not want to be alive, but he does not want to die by throwing himself of a train bridge, he just want to sleep forever and never wake up to see how innocent people die because the ignorance of other people(1-2).All these examples of imagery helps the poem the to have more sense and to have a connection with the person that is reading it , this is important in a poem because draws the attentions of the readers and make them want to read more.