Both poems are about WW1 or ‘The Great War’ and were written to express both poets’ opinions on the situation at hand. They represent two contrasting views of the war but also Patriotism. The Soldier The Soldier is made up of two stanzas and has 14 lines in total; it has an ‘ababcdcd’ rhyming pattern. This means the 1st line rhymes with the 3rd line and so forth. As I mentioned before the topic dealt with in this poem is the war and patriotism.
These poems are all written by the poet Wilfred Owen. I’m comparing the speeches and poems to give the different views on what people thought about war. In Henry V speech Saint Crispin’s day Henry V speaks a lot of glory, honour and brotherhood. All these ideas can inspire even the most despairing and oppressed men. This speech is very powerful and when someone is feeling unmotivated and depressed it has the ability to stir you to focus.
Wilfred Owen was a selfish coward who would rather choose personal gain over altruism. However, his ability to translate, specifically and graphically, the lives through the eyes of the soldiers of World War I was revolutionary in its fashion. Never before had literature seen the depictions of combat as Owen had illustrated. His poems have made him the war poet of the time. There is no doubt that his personal experiences and observations enabled him to express the ugliness of the war to those who may have no idea otherwise.
Owen Connelly’s perspective on the way Napoleon won battles is his opinion and he tries to prove it in this book. Napoleon may have had an ego…maybe he earned it. He may have “scrambled” to get the job done…maybe he thought outside the box and it worked most of the time. But, he was determined and brilliant and to me he still remains the Great Commander that I wish I had when I was in the
The speaker starts the poem by saying ‘next to of course god america i love you’. As God is the most powerful person, using exaggeration and placing God and America on the same level shows patriotism and how much he loves his country. As you read further through both poems, the attitudes to war both change. In Bayonet Charge, the soldier starts to panic and confusion starts to creep in. This is evident as the first line of the second stanza says ‘In bewilderment then he almost stopped-‘.
Wilfred Owen Practice CA Comparing Owen’s presentation of war in Exposure and in Spring Offensive Wilfred Owen was a poet in the First World War, who’s work at his time was very unappreciated, however now is one of the most famous war poets of all time, if not the most famous. Owen’s poems reflected very much on the true nature of war and focused on dehumanising it and displaying its gruesome brutality; we see some of his work has similar wider intentions and meaning when read between the lines. A first instance where we can notice a similarity between Owen’s poems, ‘Exposure’ and ‘Spring offensive’, is when we look at Owen’s presentation of the aspect of time in war, and how it was not all over by Christmas as promised, rather timeless in its own horrifying way. The way we can see these two connect is firstly in ‘Exposure’ when we can see Owen’s repetition of the phrase, “But nothing happens” and in ‘Spring Offensive’ when Owen reveals the boredom and anxiety of war as the soldiers, “hour after hour they ponder the warm fields”. What ‘Spring Offensive’ tells us is that, when the soldiers were back in their home country, they were told that it would all be easy and over very quickly, they would be heroes.
Critics thought of him and his work as a good poet and an even better writer who made a major difference in the Harlem renaissance. Harold Bloom thought that “Thomas hardy, with his acute sense of life’s ironies, might have admired Sterling Brown’s Rain Which Precedes Robert Penn Warren in reviving Hardy’s Sprit” (5). Blyden Jackson a critic of the time likes Sterling Brown because he is a great poet and how Brown uses dialect with precision. David Littlejohn said that “Brown Attempted to do for the south what Langston Hughes did for the north” (Bloom 19). People thought that Brown’s irony was sharp, his ideas were exciting, and he was not only and protestor of his time but one of the first times.
In the 1920’s Sandburg began one of his most ambitious projects including his study of President Lincoln. Lincoln was an idle to Sandburg and Sandburg admired what he did. Sandburg’s early writings dealt with his belief in social Justice and equality and were written in such a way that they barely resembled what most people thought of as poetry. Sandburg’s early poetry not only tended toward unshaped imitation of real life but also copied other poets as well. Now to think that Sandburg Would steal work from other poets is outrageous, people just don’t know good poetry when they see it.
Nick’s dream is to live a new life, be a bondsman, and have peace for the summer. However, because of his contradictory beliefs, he cannot fully attain his dream. For instance, Nick says he is “inclined to reserve all judgments” (Fitzgerald 1) but yet, he still judges people internally. Because he is contradictory, he cannot live his dream. At one point, I believe his dream was to date Jordan Baker, but even that was contradictory because he claimed to not like dishonesty, yet Jordan is probably the most dishonest character in the book.
William Shakespeare establishes Benedick’s character by using diction and imagery to show his changed viewpoint on marriage. Benedick is strongly opinionated and rarely ever let’s his guard down when it comes to feelings or love. After he overhears that Beatrice is in love with him, he ponders what to do. The characterization is established through diction, “And wise, but for loving me; by my troth it is not addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her!” (II.3.235-237). He is saying that is might not be wise for loving him, but he swears it won’t be stupid for he is going to be “horribly” in love with her.