Surviving the war the speaker revisits the scene and experiences survivors’ guilt, with this poem he restrains his anger and beautifully remembers. The speaker starts his poem by saying “ The castles on the Rhine / are all haunted” (lines 1-2). Meaning that along this boat trip these castles are abandoned and no one has lived there since the terrible events that took place. By the speaker saying “…the ghost of Jewish mothers / looking for their ghostly children” (lines 3-4). The speaker is envisioning in
The scene ends with endless pictures of graves and then the camera zooms in on the man’s eyes. After this close up the film flashes back to the war. It takes us to the scene where the soldiers who are on the boat are ready to get off then you see the soldiers are afraid, you can see this because they are throwing up and shaking. At the end of this scene the director builds up the moment by slowly opening the doors on the boat and you get to watch the soldiers being killed by the Germans. Then the director shows some excellent underwater footage of men being shot and killed.
After only a few moments the viewer is thrown into a horrific scene where soldiers kill his family and burn his home. As Whales sifts through the ashes he retrieves his pistol and looks into the distance. In the next scene he is seen burying his family and crying uncontrollably. The scene fades to the sound of gunfire and the camera zooms in on a fence post being used for target practice. As the shooting continues the camera shot turns 180 degrees and zooms in on the hollow and pinpointed eyes of Whales who seems to be staring beyond the camera at his target.
All in all he shall be missed by all of us and we will remember him as the brainless stereotypical blue-collar who was apparently eaten by a clam. Here’s a quote I thought of that perfectly fits Peter, “Some people love them, most people hate them, everyone groans when they hear them.” The funeral was held at 3:50 pm for about two hours, too long. Here’s an advice to the people “When entering a funeral home, remember to stay alert and always look
He was a lance corporal who became a sergeant and is quite inquisitive. He starts by playing the favourite wishing game of the men, Broadbent takes the food from Brown’s haversack after he dies. He also attacks Cleary as he believes Clearly is cheating with the bread. Broadbent has the patience and self-control to shoot Renaud after he has been hit by a flamethrower. He is with the soldier in Arras and in the final battle at Amiens he and the soldier are the only two left of their company.
So I imagine in my mind a man looking down from heaven watching his body die. I think the writer is referring to himself as being beyond being saved, but he is still crying for help. When I read, “I was much farther out than you thought.” I think that the person he refers to as you, would be the person that he drank his alcohol with, and he is saying, I was a lot father gone than you thought I was. Then it goes on to say for the first time, “Not waving but drowning.” Which to me, it is said sarcastically, in a sense that he is crying out for help, “Poor chap, he always loved larking and now he’s dead… they said.” but no one believes him. The poem uses imagery about his death as drowning.
13 He thought how 'Jack', cold-footed, useless swine, 14 Had panicked down the trench that night the mine 15 Went up at Wicked Corner; how he'd tried 16 To get sent home, and how, at last, he died, 17 Blown to small bits. And no one seemed to care 18 Except that lonely woman with white hair. Big White Lies: Analytical Essay of The Hero by Siegfried Sassoon In “The Hero”, poet Siegfried Sassoon expresses his contempt towards the hypocrisy of warfare and especially his critical view of the authorities’ attempt at glorifying a soldier’s death. In this poem he provides stark contrast between the harsh truth and reality, employing the use of irony, imagery, contrast, and even alliteration. Firstly, Sassoon effectively uses irony to illustrate the contrast between the soldier’s real and glorified death, as well as the impression of a close-knit military unit, as opposed to the truth that no one had the compassion to care for a fallen soldier.
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. This is why the old man was unable to cross the
His only solution to escape sadness is to leave the living to join the world of the dead but at this moment of the play, Hamlet his not able to take this decision yet. 1. To live among the dead : a deep mourning This passage is the continuation of the previous one but it’s the very first time that Hamlet is alone on the stage, addressing both God and the audience in a monologue through which he expresses his sadness caused by the loss of his father. a. The praise of a dead father In this excerpt, Hamlet makes a short description of his father which can be seen as a funeral oration, even though it does not take place on the day of his funerals.
The poem poetically counterpoises the sounds of a normal church burials, bells chiming, choirs, sobbing girls, with the heartless noise of the battlefield:”anger of the guns... rifles rapid rattle... walling shells”. I think the poem is written with a hopeless and ironic tone. There will be: “no bells” signalling the soldier’s death, there will only be the: “monstrous anger of guns”, and “stuttering rifles rapid rattle”. Owen says “there will be no mockery now for them”. To me it means in normal situations when young men die the priest explains how it was God’s will.