reality of war. The two texts I am going to refer to‚ to show this are “The long and the short and the tall” by Wills Hall and "Dulce et decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen. Wilfred Owen writes his poetry to get over the trauma of the experience. He has (like many other poets) the burning desire to get the horror of the war across to other people. “Dulce et Decorum Est” means “It’s a sweet and honourable thing to die for your country”. The poem is about a group of men leaving the trenches for
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Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen criticizes war using imagery and poetic techniques to convey his feeling towards war and to try to show how young men are sacrificed‚ slaughtered‚ dehumanised and ignored for their bravery. His poems are about the suffering and horrors young men face on the battlefield‚ they are left scarred and demented by the sounds‚ horrors and fear of death. They are forced to watch their friends die in front of them and they lose their minds‚ not knowing when or how they could suddenly
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Short Writing 4 The presentation of war in the poems written by Odin and Alfred Lord Tennyson compared to poems written by Wilfred Owen is vastly different. Both shed vastly different light on the subject of one dying for his country. The main fundamental ideological difference of the two given poems by Odin and Tennyson is that they believe when one dies in war‚ they should be honored and celebrated‚ and it should be considered a glorious death‚ while Wilfred Owen believes a death in war is
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Knowles uses interwoven imagery to compare the physical nature of the earth to human nature in a wartime period. He contrasts seasons to represent the shift from innocent youth to restrained maturity: Winter’s occupation seems to have conquered‚ overrun and destroyed everything‚ so that now there is no longer any resistance movement left in nature; all the juices are dead‚ every spring of vitality snapped‚ and now winter itself‚ an old‚ corrupt‚ tired conqueror‚ loosens its grip on the
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In The Charge of the Light Brigade a brave group of six hundred ill prepared men charged respectively into the valley of death during the Crimean war. This poem notes pure bravery they possess‚ the ugliness they face and the honor that the men deserve. The Six Hundred that marched to their death knowing their leader made a mistake is very brave and something that everyone should honor. Near the end it says “When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made‚” [Tennyson 6‚ 1-2]‚ in this section
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Shakespeare and Wilfred Owen expatiate on the common themes of manipulation‚ betrayal and conflict which arouse “vaulting ambition”‚ tremendous violence and great empathy within both the Elizabethan/Victorian audience and the modern day audience. Both writers explore how conflict can lead to both self-realisation and psychosis. Wilfred Owens “Mental Cases” depicts his personal viewpoint on the war and the government‚ and at the same time challenges society‚ religion and faith. Similarly‚ Shakespeare
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In the novel One of Ours Cather illustrates World War 1 different then most. From the somewhat graphic descriptions of injuries and death to the calm village scenes to meditations on what it must have meant for so many young men to finally find meaning in their lives just when they were most at risk of losing everything. She often romanticized the war but at the same time she made it well balanced. She showed the war as a monstrous thing that was fought by decent-hearted people in defense of their
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Thesis: In the poems “For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza”and “Why I Could Not Accept Your Invitation” by Naomi Shihab Nye‚ the poet uses the poetic devices of repetition‚ cacophony‚ as well as a free-verse style of writing in order to convey the emotions of frustration and sadness that flow through these war torn communities. Repetition The Word bullet is repeated many times throughout the first poem. “No bullet like a worried cat...But this bullet had no innocence‚ did not which and one well…” (For Mohammed
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Alfred Lord Tennyson is well known for his different literary works but one of his most famous poems is “The Charge of the Light Brigade”. According to bio.com “Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson was the most renowned poet of the Victorian era.”. Alfred Lord Tennyson uses different types of literary elements in his poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade”; he describes a battle where six hundred men ride into their own death because of the command of one officer. The Battle of Balaclava was fought over three battles
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An unsinkable ship destined for glory‚ the Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage on April 10th‚ 1912. In an attempt to sail to New York the Titanic found a final resting place more than a mile deep in the Atlantic Ocean‚ after colliding with an iceberg five days after starting its journey. Countless books‚ movies and television shows have turned the disaster into a legend that even after a century is a household name. In the poems‚ “Titanic” by David R. Slavitt and “The Convergence of the Twain”
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