“All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men”, (William Penn a preacher, minister, and missionary in the late seventeenth century). In The Absolutely True diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexies shows us how alcohol abuse affects Junior's life, how painful it is to deal with the effect, and how it leads to violence and death of the ones he loves. Alcoholism is a disease that affects millions of people and it isn't different for Indians as we see in every other page of this novel. To understand why alcoholism is a disease, it's important to look up it's effects.
The word minstrel means a medieval singer or musician, especially one who sang or recited lyric or heroic poetry. The persona, who is the minstrel talks about himself in the poem and tends to show what he has to grow through everyday and the circumstances under which he is living. The poem opens up with the first person and a metaphor “the road unravels as I go/ walking into the sun, the anaemic”. The use of first person at the beginning of the poem tends to incorporate and appeal to the reader to understand what the minstrel is trying to say and explain. It creates an image as if he is directly talking to the reader.
HOW DOES WILFRED OWEN CONVEY THE HORRORS OF WAR IN POETRY ? Many of Owen's poems direct anger towards the generals and those at home who have encouraged war.Owen's war poetry is a passionate expression of outrage at the horrors of war and of pity for the young soldiers sacrificed in it. It is dramatic and memorable, whether describing physical horror, such as in 'Dulce et Decorum Est' or mental torment such as in' Disabled'. His poetry evokes more from us than simple disgust and sympathy. Owen sympathizes with the vain young men who have no idea of the horrors of war, who are 'seduced' by others (Jessie Pope) and the recruiting posters.
The voice of the speaker suggests throughout that he is feeling resentment towards the ""ridiculous tank-top"" of the younger brother and his ""six-year-old views"". The aspiration to be older and do "what grown-ups do" is apparent through the poem. In the first stanza, the older children discuss football and are dismissive of the younger boy as if they are wiser. n line 9 the speaker sees age as an advantage: ""His smile, like mine, said I was nine and he was ten"". The speaker is reflecting the naively superior feelings of the older boys.
Initially he reacts to this by getting upset and crying “ Why do you got to get killed?” this highlights his lack of knowledge and understanding with the concept of death, the reader feels sympathy towards the sorry state he is. However, Lennie’s then begins to get frustrated and angry about it and hurls the puppy away; he worries that by what he had done George will not let him ‘Tend the rabbits.’ At this point the sympathy towards Lennie stop, as this part shows his aggressive and selfish side as he is worrying for himself. The situation soon becomes much more serious however, when Lennie goes on to accidently kill Curley’s wife by breaking her neck whilst stroking her hair. This time Lennie realizes more the serious implications of his actions and leaves the ranch to hide in the where he was first instructed by George. In opening and closing his novel in nature, Steinbeck is able to connect and compare the actions of his characters with the natural world.
Most of the lines are 10 syllables long and each line there is an alternating use of stressed and unaccented syllables. This rhythmic form makes the poem seem melodious and dulcet. In stanza III Keats indicates that humans are surrounded by a world of misfortune, which the nightingale is not aware of. “The weariness, the fever, and the fret/Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;/ Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs, / Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;” In these four lines Keats describes disease, the helplessness and awareness of one’s death, and the depressingly decrepit way in which humans age. “Palsy” refers to involuntary tremors, which infers that humans are helplessly
When the author gets into a fight, he likens the image of the bloody boy he beat to war paint, displaying the brutality of what occurred. Furthermore, he describes how in the third grade, he faced a corner while waiting for his punishment to end and that he was still waiting. This allows the reader to feel the pain that he feels as he deals with these things to this day. When his cousin sniffs rubber cement, the author ironically describes it as “those sweet, almost innocent choices that the Indian boys were forced to make.” He seems to be combatting the stereotype of Indians getting high just to do it by using this example to show that they could make these choices to get away from things like the constant drinking and weeping of their parents in their run down reservations. Finally, Alexie uses words such as starve and noose.
There are many possible bad experiences that could result in suffering and pain, for example, in The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Choosy, the main character, Charlie experiences mental pain as a result of depression, his best friend's suicide and the memory of abuse, he says, 'there is so much pain and I don't know how to not notice it'. While Dan on the other hand in Five Parts Dead, suffers from both mental and physical pain from the car accident. Dan broke his leg in the accident and he feels 'like roofing nails are being belted into my busted foot', while he suffers mentally because he lost three of his best mates. His mental pain and suffering is shown on page 193 when he says 'I'm sobbing now, my chest heaving like I'm breathing for all of us: Carlo, Aaron, Boris, Phan and me'. Relationships are also deeply
In “Dulce et Decorum est” one particular man is severely suffering from an awful gas attack. The gas is entering his lungs and drowning them, the rest of his friends have to merely watch as he is “Guttering and choking”. This would be a traumatic scene to experience as well as to witness; it would probably mentally scar the soldiers. At one point the Soldier dying directly asks the narrator for help, this is a very prominent part of the poem and emphasises the pure desperation. Also, similarly to “The Send Off” Owen continuously uses sarcastic and rude comments towards the government.
So? They eye each other, seeing themselves tiny in the other’s pupils.” This way of speaking makes it seem as if the young boys are not very friendly toward each other and not accepting as little boys should be, adding to the dark mood. They use phrases like “ I could beat you up”, which does not seem at all playful. At the end of the poem the son says “We could easily kill a two-year-old” This is meant to bring the group together. However to the reader it can be interpreted as mean and cruel.