Imagery, Irony And Protest War

Like death, war contains a lot of pain and anger. For quite a while now, writers have been attempting to write about and protest war. In all honesty, though, they’re just glorifying it and making it seem not as bad as it truly is. They do this, by using imagery, structure, and most of all, irony. How do writers use imagery, irony, and structure, to protest war? How is the pain and struggles of war shown in writings that protest war?
Imagery is very helpful when writing about, and protesting war. Using imagery in writings of war helps the reader understand the struggles of war. Although this helps, writers don’t often use it correctly. Here is an example of imagery being used correctly to display the struggles of war: “If in some smothering
The first one being that it says killing is excellent. Another thing would be that it makes it seem like it is supposed to be obvious. “Make plain to them”, like, show them that killing is great. Like, it’s obvious that killing is just, and alright. This quote is basically saying that it is okay, good, fantastic, etc. to kill. They make it seem like war does not have a mental effect on you. Irony is sometimes overused, and difficult to use correctly.
Structure helps with showing what war does to you mentally. Whether, it’s good structure, or bad structure. Such as: extreme sentence fragments, and misused grammar. In “The Yellow Birds”, the whole thing is a run-on sentence. I think this helps show the narrator’s mental stability. It shows that he or she –whichever it may be- has been through and seen a lot. They’ve seen the gross, gory, gruesome parts of war, and are now scarred by them. Not only physically scarred, but mentally scarred, also. Structure, in my opinion, is probably at the bottom of my list, when protesting and writing about war. The reason for this though, is structure doesn’t do much except help represent their mental stability after being in the