Stephen Crane’s Writing “The Open Boat” and “War is Kind” has an amazing realist writing in these stories. Stephen Crane is one of the most influential realist writers in America. As Tony Moore biography his life‚ “ Crane was born on November 1‚ 1871‚ in Newark‚ New Jersey. As where he left college in 1891 to work as a reporter and writer. Which brings Crane to the Commodore and where the “Open boat” was created”. “The Open Boat” is based on an incident that occurred when he was a reporter where
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“War is Kind” by Stephen Crane‚ is a poem that is very famous‚ and is about‚ well‚ war! War‚ violence‚ shooting‚ and death is what most of his famous works are about. We read in Biography.com that Stephen Crane went to college and never actually was in a war. He wrote “A Red Badge of Courage”‚ a book that was about the psychological part of war and how the soldier felt while he was in battle. Even though he never fought in an actual war he did a lot of research and what he wrote was very true
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“War is Kind” by Stephen Cane is a poem from the late 1800’s. This poem is assumed to be written about the civil war because World War 1 and World War 2 have not occured yet. This poem is very moving and full of sorrow. “War is Kind” was inspired by Crane’s experience in the front lines in Greece(1897) and cuba(1898). Although the poem is called “War is Kind”‚ war is definitely far from kind. “War is kind” talks not about how war is “kind” but about how it is the worst thing to ever have to go
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The poem “War is Kind” written by Stephen Crane in 1897. The title of the poem is ironic because war is not kind and in the poem a list all of the bad things about war. The theme of the story is completely different than the title. This poem however has more than just one theme there are actually three. Warfare is one of the themes of this poem‚ war is not kind and it is mean. War takes away families it makes them lose their loved ones. All what war is‚ is nothing but lose and heartbreak it only
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addresses the hurt that three people experience because of the loss of a loved one. He tries to justify the means in which these loved ones were lost but he cannot justify war. It is ironic that Stephen Crane’s title of the poem and basically his most common phrase or chorus throughout‚ is the phrase “war is kind.” In reality‚ war is the opposite‚ it is disastrous‚ destructive‚ and catastrophic not only to the cities and towns it touches but also to the families and people of that nation or other
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and struggle. I often marvel at the fine line that separates humans from other animals that do whatever it takes to ensure their own survival. In Stephen Crane’s poem‚ War is Kind‚ he illustrates how war forces men to discard their humanity‚ and they effectively become dehumanized. The word “humble” is used in the poem to show how war diminishes the importance of
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“Do Not Weep‚ Maiden‚ for War is Kind” On first reading‚ Stephen Crane’s poem‚ “Do Not Weep‚ Maiden‚ for War is Kind”‚ is a poem that is making light of the seriousness of war and the loss of loved ones‚ for example: “Do not weep/War is Kind”. However‚ upon a second reading‚ it is the opposite. Crane is not making light of war‚ he is encouraging the maiden to join him in the bitterness toward the forces that perpetrate war (Semansky 258). Semansky describes Crane’s technique in cinematic terms
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War is Kind: Stephen Crane I. In the introduction the poem opens up with the speaker mentioning Maiden in this poem simply refers to a girl A. The man tells the girl not to cry because war is kind. Even though this is to sound ironic the phrase really means the opposite of what the character is trying to tell the girl. B. The maiden had been crying for her dead lover who had thrown his hands towards the sky‚ in which a horse appears to get scared and leaves the man alone on his own
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Writers protest war by using imagery‚ irony‚ and structure. The writers in this DBQ to protest against war using and describing images and war. They use irony by making the title seem for war while the text really is against war. They use structure like lists and such to describe how they die because of simple thing. I think writers using imagery‚ irony‚ and structure is an effective way of protesting war. Writers use imagery to protest war by describing certain events that happened using sensory
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The point made by Mark Twain’s “The War-Prayer” (1905) is simple‚ even simplistic: that the unspoken part of the desire for victory over the enemy is the desire that misery and death befall others. The irony‚ as noted by the stranger who comments on this silent prayer‚ is that it is directed supposedly “in the spirit of love” to “Him who is the Source of Love” (398). In fact‚ Twain’s piece makes this irony unmissable‚ as it ends with the failure of the congregation even to understand the stranger’s
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