The poem “War is Kind” was written by Stephen Crane in 1899. He was born after the civil war‚ but died before WWI. Crane wrote this poem about the civil war and the men who fought in it. The poem has three different themes: Warfare‚ The Home‚ and Patriotism. “War is Kind” does not mean that war is actually kind it is just saying that people are willing to go into battle and sacrifice their lives for their country. War is cruel‚ not kind‚ the exact opposite of what Crane repeats throughout the poem
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Virgil’s Aeneid an Anti-War Poem? Virgil opens the Aeneid’ with the words ARMA virumque cano ( I sing of arms and of men). The central role that war plays in this Roman epic is made apparent from the very first word of the Aeneid’ by the emphatic placing of the word arma at the very beginning of the poem. A fair chunk of Virgil’s Aeneid’ is set on the battle field but its violent and gory descriptions of death and its frequent battles alone cannot make this poem an anti-war poem. Virgil does not
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Explore the different ways Owen presents the war in Anthem for Doomed Youth’ and ‘The Send-Off’ Wilfred Owen uses emotive language to present death in both poems. In the first stanza of Anthem for Doomed Youth‚ Owen writes “What passing-bells for those who die as cattle? – Only the monstrous anger of the guns” Here‚ Owen presents the soldiers to be unregarded and of no concern to anyone at their funerals when not even playing a single tune. Owen’s use of diction when describing the soldiers as “cattle”
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The Impact and Cruelties of War The common phrase‚ "Don ’t judge a man until you ’ve walked a mile in his shoes”‚ tells the world to never put a label on an individual before you have truly experienced what they have gone through. Tim O Brien ’s work‚ In the Lake of the Woods‚ shows how men who have all experienced war‚ truly have walked in each other’s shoes. These traumatizing experiences impact the human spirit dramatically because once back from the war‚ veterans struggle to live normal lives
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In the novel In the Lake of the Woods‚ O’Brien channels between his life in the present at the lake with his wife‚ and his life in the past‚ recalling memories from the war in Vietnam. The novel begins with a preview into the love life and marriage of John and Kathy Wade. While the novel progresses‚ their relationship begins to deteriorate and as the narrator jumps from his past to his present‚ the impact of his time in Vietnam becomes more apparent as a primary factor in the failure of their marriage
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Earl Woods “The night that Tiger won his second U.S. Amateur in 1995‚ Earl Woods made a prediction. “Before he’s through‚ my son will win fourteen major championships… “Earl was prone to over-the-top statements… thirteen summers later‚ Tiger is there. Fourteen“(Smiley 275). Before the quotation is mentioned‚ Tiger has just won his 14th major championship‚ and 65th tournament as a professional. The man who says the quote is Tiger Woods’ father‚ Earl. He is talking to group of reporters‚ claiming
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My Wood‚ by E.M. Forster is a witty essay depicting Forster’s reaction to the ownership of a small estate he bought with the royalties from a novel he wrote. He cleverly discusses the effects the wood may have on him. Forster conveys a negative attitude toward his experience of acquiring property through the use of biblical allusions‚ word choice‚ and the manipulation of sentences. This passage encourages us to think about the nature of materialism and the seductive power of our possessions.
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Wilfred Owen achieves to capture the atrocities of war through these rhythmical literary pieces which convey an anti-war sentiment. The poems most brilliantly‚ accurately and informatively epitomize the terrible aftermath of war through the present life of an injured soldier to his past hopes and accomplishment in ‘Disabled’ and further explore the horrors and fears of being a combatant in this this military engagement in ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’. Even though the poet died in WWI he will still remain
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embodied energy of the hardwood flooring life-cycle is based on the flowing parts‚ the raw materials acquisition‚ the manufacturing‚ processing‚ transportation‚ recycle and waster management. The primary raw material of the hardwood flooring is the wood from angiosperm trees. There are many kinds of hardwood species such as ash‚ pine‚ oak‚ maple and cheery. These primary raw materials can make two kinds of hardwood flooring‚ which are solid hardwood and engineered hardwood. Because of solid hardwood
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in the Woods 1. Joss Whedon says that ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ is “your basic horror movie taken apart; five kids go to a cabin in the woods to have a fun weekend of partying and possibly sex… and are therefore dismembered”. Whedon and Goddard have in essence tried to create a movie with roots tied to the horror genre; it is simply your common slasher movie where the characters are killed off one by one till there is either one person left or none for that matter. ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ also
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