Soldiers frequently got injured and lots of them died in battles or of illness in the deplorable conditions of the army. The poem is indignantly ironic about the war and emphasizes the bitter aftermath. 'The Soldier' focuses on the glory of sacrifice for one’s country, not mentioning the process of sacrifice, i.e. being injured and dying. Brooke writes about the dead soldier instead of one that has survived.
The word ‘Anthem’ is used because it is a song of praise, which celebrates the soldiers’ heroism. Originally, ‘Dead’ was used in place of ‘Doomed.’ The title was changed by Seigfried Sassoon, who had taken Wilfred Owen under his wing when they met at a field hospital. Sassoon changed it because ‘Dead’ suggests being at peace; whereas, ‘Doomed’ suggests continued suffering. ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ literally translates to ‘It is Right and Proper’ which is ironic because the entire poem says it is anything but proper and right to died for one’s country. The rest of the poem undercuts the title.
Alex West DeAnn Chasarik English IV December 17, 2012 “The Charge of the Light Brigade” “Theirs not to make reply/Theirs not reason why/Theirs but to do and die”(Tennyson 13-15). One of the most famous poems in the history of literature, written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, spoke about the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War (1854-1856), a historical event. The Charge of the Light Brigade tells the story of a brigade consisting of 600 soldiers heading into a battle foreshadowed to be a massacre. Alfred, Lord Tennyson conveys an image of heroism, bravery, determination, and perserverance toward the 600 soldiers; the reader can infer from the text that the soldiers were knowing of their imminent fate and accepted it without fear of death. The author is constantly foreshadowing events that are soon to come in the poem, often by the use of repition to help the reader understand the feeling of the whole situation.
He was a second lieutenant which was quite low in the rankings. He hated and feared the war. He did crazy things in the war which was why he was called “Mad Jack”. He was injured and met Wilfred Owen. He was awarded a military cross and was well-known before the war.
Jake was willing to serve his country, and paid for it dearly. Jake was mutilated by the war, and because of his injury rendered impotent. In this sense the world broke Jake, and took his life from him. For a lot of men, losing something like what Jake lost is seen as a fate worse than death. After Jake was wounded, and was lying bandaged up in The Sun Also Rises the colonel gave him a speech saying, “you, a foreigner, an Englishman… have given more than your life!” (Ernest Hemingway, pg.
The Charge of the Light Brigade “Half a league, half a league/ half a league onward/ All in the valley of death/ Rode the six hundred.” The Battle of Balaclava is perhaps one of the most famous battles of the Crimean War. Though the charge was a failure, due to poor military intelligence and communication, the British cavalry has been forever immortalised for their fearlessness in the face of adversity. ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson uses various literary techniques to create the tone of exhilaration and to present the Light Brigade in an honourable way. Tennyson uses strong imagery, metaphors, various biblical allusions, rhetorical questions, repetition and many other poetic devices to project the bravery of the Light Brigade to the audience. Alfred, Lord Tennyson has written a rousing poem with an immensely hypnotic beat.
He survived the war living to eighty years old but was deeply affected by the horrors of war. Wilfred Owen, also a lieutenant, was shot on the 4th November 1918, one week before Armistice Day. Owen met Sassoon at Craighart Hospital in Edinburgh, where Owen was suffering from shell shock after being blown up by a mortar. Sassoon’s poem, ‘Suicide in the Trenches’ has a simple four line stanza with four stanzas in total. This regimental stile of writing is reflecting a regimented lifestyle.
Due to his plight, he sees the bridge as a dead end for him: “I am seventy six years old. I have come twelve kilometers now and I think now I can go no further.”(2) The war has affected his state of mind and destroyed the love of life in him. Through this character Hemingway is actually making an example of the old man WITH the aim of describing the effects of war on the state of mind of innocent civilians. Neither his tired body nor his confused mind seems capable of grasping or coping with the sudden collapse of his entire world. By the end of the short story, the narrator, who is a soldier in this war, , reports to the reader that the old man “got to his feet, swayed from side to side and then sat down backwards in the dust.”(3) This description is very telling because it reflects the inevitability of death when it comes to war.
Wilfred Owen had a good education as well, but (unlike Rupert Brooke) he went to war, and saw what it was it was really like, the bad conditions, the lack of food and meaningless deaths, Wilfred Owen realised that the war was cold and cruel, not like people imagined it. This poem is very negative, and quite sad, unlike ' The Soldier' it expresses the tormented thoughts and recollections of a teenage soldier in the 1st World War, who has lost his limbs in battle and is now confined, utterly helpless, to a wheelchair. I think Wilfred wanted people to realise that the war was not as glorious and victorious as people thought, there were so many men whose lives were thrown away even if they did physically survive it.. Unfortunately Wilfred Owen died on the 4th of November 1918, before the end of the war. To conclude, these two poems are different in many ways (attitude, mood, tone, ect..) One was to encourage the people to fight for their country and go to war, one was to make people see that the war destroyed many men's lives, it had no mercy.
The movie “Paths of Glory,” portrays a war theme - more specifically an anti-war theme. The message of the movie is portrayed through the soldiers and the different “paths the soldiers took to get to victory and survive.” Every soldier went down their own path overall leading to somewhat “glory” which not all of them got to experience. Men died in battle, mental illness (and illness in genera), fellow soldiers doings, death sentences; just an endless amount of reasons. Soldiers believed that they were fighting for the glory of victory or “patriotism” which Sam Johnson described as the last refuge of a scoundrel. Soldiers were brainwashed with the idea of patriotism - leading their country to victory at all costs, even if meant going into battle knowing you were going to die enforcing the message of the movie that, “The paths of glory lead but to the grave.” At first, the movie described the trench warfare situation of World War I.