The theme of ‘’Dulce et decorum est’’. Has been established form the very first line ‘’ Bent double like old beggars under sacks’’, is a metaphor established to convey there’s no nobility and honor in war or fighting for your country. Here the poet has made an illusion to Homers poem ‘’The Iliad’’, which talks about the nobility of dying in war. But instead the author has written the poem to accurately describe the misery and terror soldiers had to live with, he wanted people to see the real truth behind war and stop them from telling future generations the ‘’old lie’’ that it is sweet and honorable to die for ones country. ‘‘Who’s for the game?’’ is attempting to evoke the opposite to the above; the poem refers to dying in battlefields as glorious and impressive.
Thomas Nagel – Death Summary Thomas Nagel begins his collection of essays with a most intriguing discussion about death. Death being one of the most obviously important subjects of contemplation, Nagel takes an interesting approach as he tries to define the truth as to whether death is, or is not, a harm for that individual. Nagel does a brilliant job in attacking this issue from all sides and viewpoints, and it only makes sense that he does it this way in order to make his own observations more credible. He begins by looking at the very common views of death that are held by most people in the world, and tells us that he will talk of death as the "unequivocal and permanent end to our existence" and look directly at the nature of death itself (1). The first view that Nagel decides to discuss is the view that death is bad for us because it deprives us of more life.
There is quite a great lesson to be learnt in this story as will be seen in this writing. In my adaptation of Woolf’s essay, I tried to put a lesson for human through observed non human subject. This writing will focus on analysis of the story so as to understand how the author presents the aspect of life and death. She uses this story to bring out the common and daily tussle between life and death. The author shows how pathetic an individual can be when fighting for life and yet death is so close at the door.
The Title of the poem gives us a clear indication of the theme. In choosing this name for her poem, Millay makes it clear that she does not support war and the death that surrounds it. Although she knows that death is inevitable she refuses to aid death in its design. Death is personified immediately; we get the image of death as a grim reaper on a horse. Millay uses personification to describe death.
Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force” (YODA, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith). Death is a natural occurrence and as so we should not be scared. “I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died” a poem written by nineteenth century poet Emily Dickinson who expresses her feelings concerned with death, confusing people with possible deeper meaning. This poem unlike the mainstream does not focus on the afterlife of death, but rather the dying process. Yoda stated that dying is a natural part of life.
The fact that he is a single traveler only further serves to illustrate the singular nature of the human condition; no matter when or how we hear the call of death, we all die alone. It is no surprise then, with such a theme, that the tone of the work is mournful, the rhythms sedate. I kinda feel that while Longfellow’s poem is essentially iambic (written in a series of stressed and unstressed syllables), the writer also makes use of the spondee, pairing two stressed syllables, to avoid a tone and meter that sing-song like a Hallmark greeting card. In addition, the flow of the lines naturally pauses when read aloud. This caesura serves to reinforce the steady iambic beat.
In addition a church bell ringing symbolizes death. Equally, this book is heavily focused on contemplations of death and killing so in that way the title reflects on what the novel as a whole is about. After the rest of the group left him behind, he thinks about everything that goes on in his life and he directly thinks, “It’s wonderful they’ve got away. I don’t mind this at all now they are away.” (468). Robert Jordan ponders life and death by saying, “But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope), he thought and so you had better take what time there is and be very thankful for it.” (166).
The strange thing is, for a story that's as morbid as can be, it ends with life. Of course, we realize that the narrator obviously has to live in order for him to tell us how he almost died. Thus, in giving his character life, Poe is able to make us ponder death. Very cool. BUT can a story in which no one dies really be about death?
With no real purpose but to be mindlessly massacred. Through personification, the guns responsible for taking so much human life are made out to be monstrous, even evil. The poem also likens their deaths to a funeral, but one where the bells are shots, and the mourning choirs are the army's bugles. The drawing down of the blinds, the traditional sign to show that the family is in mourning, has been likened to the drawing of a sheet to cover the dead. Through various literary techniques, Wilfred Owen enhances the meaning of the poem.
After deciding that God and the Devil were unfit for the position, he was confronted by Death who he thought would be a good fit. His reasoning for this was that Death made all men equal and did not favor the rich or poor. Death affects everyone whether we like it or not. People we know often pass away, and we cannot forget that we are going to die one day as well. This story depicts not only the physical elements of death and the conflicts suffered because of it, but the psychological ones as well.