home and this home can then be further connected to the country. The idealized concept of an honorable death in war‚ however‚ faded away in the later years of World War I as a grim reality set in. Instead‚ Wilfred Owen demonstrates how the “Dulce et decorum est/Pro patria mori” (It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country) saying is actually a lie in source 8. He does so by describing a soldier’s gruesome death from gas poisoning. The agony that the solider had gone through‚ such as “white eyes
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‘’The experience of the Great War stripped men of their masculinity’’explore the ways in which Barker‚ Sassoon and Owen portray this in their writing. Sassoon and Owen as poets and Barker as a novelist‚ explore through their works of literature the changing and challenging notions of masculinity experienced as a result of The Great War. Furthermore‚ all three writers suggest that the often overlooked reality of the conflict was the creation of a subversion of the stereotypical ‘heroic soldier’.
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These two text type are both protesting against the Vietnam war‚ however‚ they use different techniques and writing stiles to convey the message. The Song uses a first person narrative stile to convey the traumatic experiences of the soldiers‚ the poem‚ however‚ does not refer to experiences‚ instead it uses strong‚ passionate words that directly refer to the effect of trauma. The beginning sentence of the poem clearly shows the authors stile of writing‚ bringing the audience straight to the point
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write about the negative impacts of war protest war through three important literary devices: imagery‚ irony‚ and structure. Many authors use imagery as a way to give vivid descriptions which help to protest war. In Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” he describes how he and his armed brothers were “coughing like hags” and added that they “cursed through sludge” (2). He put it this way so that it can be imagined just how rough being sick is and just how difficult it is to travel through
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Pomegranate Means Grenade was written by Jamaal May in 2013 as a part of his collection Hum. Jamaal May is a 34-year-old poet‚ teaching poetry to middle school children in public schools. May wrote this poem talking about how a child’s‚ Jontae‚ first amendment right was being infringed. May used very many literary devices and terms to make the reader understand his warning. The most important uses that he used was his use of diction‚ allusions and apostrophe. May certainly uses a high level of diction
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The Colonel Carolyn Forche’s “The Colonel” instantly catches the eye. The poem was written in 1978 while Forche was working in El Salvador‚ and retails a merciless meeting with its title character. The Colonel is a hard man in a violent world‚ and he cares not for the rights of the people he governs nor the fact that he is exposing his evil nature to a poet: as he says‚ “something for your poetry‚ no?” (Forche‚ 597). The poem reinforces this effect through its stark irony and short poetic flourishes
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The poem Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walter Whitman best represents the Civil War. This is because of how the author expresses the loud booming of the instruments. The music is meant to drown out any sound from the people‚ and distract them from their daily activities. People are not responding to this war cry‚ making the bugles and drums get louder and louder to drown out everyone from the mothers to the carpenters. Whitman’s tone is excitement‚ proved by the use of his exclamation points at the beginning
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This Means War War is a time when men are drafted to fight for their country. Henry Reed believes that the soldiers are wasting their lives fighting in the war‚ instead of being home with their loved ones. Henry Reed’s poem‚ “Naming of Parts‚” demonstrates his negative opinion of war‚ how there are two different speakers‚ and that there are different main ideas of the parts. First‚ Reed writes this poem in order to assert his beliefs about war. He believes that war represents the death of young
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Tim O’Brien‚ author of The Things They Carried‚ applies multiple techniques in his memoir in order to produce the theme of horror in war. He utilizes word connotation‚ literary/rhetorical techniques‚ sentence structure‚ and overall structure in the memoir. In an excerpt on page 199‚ O’Brien employs the combination of anaphora‚ metaphor‚ and negative word connotation to illustrate the horror of the Vietnam War. O’Brien often uses anaphora to emphasize his points within the sentences. Additionally
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John F. Kennedy once said‚ “Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” War has taken lives‚ stolen innocence and caused suffering. These themes have had a large impact on literature especially in the book‚ All Quiet on the Western Front and the poem‚ “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo”. The two are described from the point of view of soldiers within the war which is especially appropriate considering the authors Erich Remarque and Wilfred Erich were soldiers in World War I. Both works
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