The repetition of question marks and dashes illustrate the confusion and frustration witnessing Owens fellow comrades, it is a demanding tone begging for explanation for the entrapment of victims. And as a result, it encourages the reader to consider the impact the war had on both, the soldiers who survived, and those who didn’t. Dulce et Decorum Est brings to reality that war is not what people say it is. Given by its very title, ‘It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country’. Although, it only an illusion reinforced throughout the poem, along with its irony and sarcasm that is ‘The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori’, it is not sweet and fitting to die for ones country.
Exposure is a war peom from a soliders point of view by Wilfred Owen. Owen used poetry to express his feelings, reality and the horrors of world war 1 and the harsh weathers. He is also telling us some information that most people did not know about. The title conveys this itself ' exposure'. The truth is being 'exposed', further more this peom is describing and potraying the misery the soliders were feeling.
In the novel Triage written by Scott Anderson, both Ahmet Talzani and Joaquin Morales seem to embody a fatalistic view of life, one in which reasons have to be created. Triage is ultimately a novel where there is a lack of hope. After Marks incident in Kurdistan we are instantly made to feel like the worst is yet to come with the use of strong and colourful language. Hope is distinguished when the whereabouts of Colin is unknown, and throughout Marks recovery there are constantly reminders that Mark will most likely never recover. Anderson shows that war has a damning effect on war journalists as well as soldiers, and that their loved ones and families are also heavily affected.
Slaughter House Five The novel Slaughter House Five presents the experiences of the main character Billy Pilgrim and his fellow comrades during WWII. The war forces suffering upon the soldiers and civilians involved, causing irreversible physical and emotional scars. The author primarily uses Billy Pilgrim to translate the negative affects associated with war to the reader, as he is an innocent target. During the progression of the novel it is evident that war triggers severe physical and emotional trauma and suffering to both Billy Pilgrim and all others involved. As a result of the war Billy is negatively impacted.
Caesura is used within the poem, to give a sense of inconsistency; the lack of punctuation gives this uneasy feeling, where we know that something just isn’t right. The descriptive language that is used emphasizes the sheer number of casualties, and makes the reader feel disconnected from the events being described. Dawe has offered the simile, “Telegrams tremble like leaves from a wintering tree”, to help describe the misery that we as his audience, could never fully understand. War can have devastating
Perhaps the fact that Ted Hughes has written this poem in the third person is to suggest that the soldier is too mentally instable and petrified to think for himself in a clear, structural manner which contributes to the fact that conflict is destroying him. For example a quote suggesting his instability is, “The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest,-“The reference to “patriotic tear” implies that he was willing to fight for his country to defeat the enemy because he was a loyal soldier, but soldiers are not made of stone, they are still human and they still have feelings, and cry. This too is another way in which Ted Hughes represents how the conflict is damaging the individual, because the conflict is interfering with his thoughts. Out of the Blue is written in the first person and this is particularly effective when it comes to understanding the extent that the individual is being damaged as a result of the conflict. The reader is able to sympathise with the individual, “Does anyone see a soul worth saving?” ` In this quote the reader understands that the individual may have been strong and brave before the conflict happened, but now
While missions certainly beget terror, the missions are extremely short and sporadic. Instead of fighting honorably and helping Vietnamese civilians in need, Perry and his fellow soldiers find themselves waiting for the next sneak attack, gripped with anxiety. Plagued with this anxiousness about the next attack, the soldiers often wait weeks in complete paranoia. Originally confident and expectant that glorious combats would fill them up with a sense of self worth, Perry and the young soldiers actually feel let down, disgruntled and paranoid. In addition, further negating their romantic views of war, Richie, Peewee, and the others find the army and active combat to be disorganized, completely inefficient and completely feeble; disillusioned by the concept of war, the young soldiers begin realize that perhaps war was not as glorious as they hoped it to be.
Body paragraph 3: All Quiet on the Western Front has a similar notion to I Was Only 19. The soldiers are stuck with horrible memories and painful thoughts form the war, “so you closed your eyes and thought about something else” and death is always on their mind. I Was Only 19 shows how horrific the nature of war really was and it is clear that in the novel and the song the authors have both used different representations to develop their ideas of war and allow the audience to connect in a more personal way.
As Martin Luther King once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The connection between families and soldiers is affected by the war. Eric Bogle’s poem, The Green Fields of France, demonstrates the anti-war sentiment through the impact on the society due to the loss of young lives. Homecoming, by Bruce Dawe, explores the dehumanisation and pointlessness of war that thoroughly implicate the imperative relationship between soldiers and their families. The poem, The Charge of The Light Brigade by Lord Alfred Tennyson, presents the bravery and courage of the soldiers to sacrifice themselves in battle to defend their nation. The poets are using clear visual and aural poetic techniques to explore the relationship between the
Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" is a fantastic but brutal, description of a gas attack suffered by a group of soldiers in World War 1. One of the soldiers in this group is unable to get on his helmet, and we are told that he suffered horribly. Through his shifting rhythms, dramatic description, and saddening images, Owen seeks to tell us that the horrors of war are outweighs those who praise it. In the first of four stanzas, Owen presents the death-like calm before the storm of the gas attack. Alliteration and onomatopoeia join with and literal images of war to produce a sense of despair "Bent beggars", "knock-kneed", cough and "curse" like "hags" through "sludge."