Richie expects the army to be organized and structured, and active combats to be glorious. Unfortunately, as they later realize, the romantic expectations of war of Richie and his fellow enlistees are not met in Vietnam: “We spent another day lying around. It seemed to be what the war was about. Hours of boredom, seconds of terror” (132). While missions certainly beget terror, the missions are extremely short and sporadic.
“rain had called up tall recruits behind the shed,” this quote shows the father cannot destroy them .They differ in the way they felt powerless however as in Nettles the father is feeling powerless because of a physical threat whereas in Harmonium it is an emotional threat of the inevibility of death and unspoken feelings that makes the writer feel powerless. Furthermore they both include the reality of family life as the poems are realistic and the poems, especially Nettles, have both the love and misery of family relationships. In Nettles the love in the poem is the protective instincts of a parent towards his son but the misery is the Nettles that had hurt his child and the fact that being protective isn’t enough to stop him from getting hurt. The realistic relationship in Harmonium is the family resentment and frustration from a son to his father. We can tell that the writer resents and is frustrated by his father as it says “and he being him can’t help but say.......... and I, being me” which shows that he is frustrated at their relationship.
The repetition of question marks and dashes illustrate the confusion and frustration witnessing Owens fellow comrades, it is a demanding tone begging for explanation for the entrapment of victims. And as a result, it encourages the reader to consider the impact the war had on both, the soldiers who survived, and those who didn’t. Dulce et Decorum Est brings to reality that war is not what people say it is. Given by its very title, ‘It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country’. Although, it only an illusion reinforced throughout the poem, along with its irony and sarcasm that is ‘The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori’, it is not sweet and fitting to die for ones country.
Similarly, in Act 2 of ‘Not about Heroes’, Sassoon makes a stand to say he would never betray his comrades and wouldn’t ‘lead’ his ‘Company to be slaughtered’. The verb ‘slaughtered’ suggests to the audience that soldiers died needlessly and another interpretation of this could be seen as the playwright symbolising the innocence of the young, dying in the war pointlessly and Sassoon would have felt a sense of duty to not allow this to happen. Since the play was based on Sassoon’s own life experiences, this gives the audience a realistic
The Fallen concentrates very much on images of the soldiers in the war, specifically those young, fit men who are now dead, and then to the mourning country of England, because these young men will never experience the joy of life. The Soldier is very different from this because in this poem, there are close to no images of actual people or soldiers. The imagery of this poem is based largely around the landscape of England, and makes England seem alive. Apart from this difference, the poems have one identical piece of imagery embedded in the verses; war and death. The content of
How does Wilfred Owen present war though his poems? Wilfred Owen produce a poem called dulce et decorum est. In this poem Wilfred Owen explores the many horrors and cruel ordeals of World War One. He does this by using horrific imagery and techniques such as vivid imagery and dramatic descriptions. Owen then seeks to convince the reader that it is not honourable or right to die for your country, as the title of the poem suggests so.
Emerson actually wrote Concord Hymn as a leaflet on the occasion of the dedication of the Obelisk, a battle monument in Concord, Massachusetts. The monument commemorates the men who gave their lives at the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the first battle of the American Revolution. Emerson’s grandfather was a man who personally fought in this battle. Their house was called The Old Manse, which is next to the bridge where Emerson’s father fought. Emerson is known to have written the hymn while he was living there.
18 September 2012 Rhetorical Analysis of World War I Works World War I was a war that changed the world forever, three references including “In Flanders Fields,” All Quiet on the Western Front, and Storm of Steel, exemplify a different perspective and a different emotional appeal. “In Flanders Fields” written in World War I by John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, and soldier that ministered the wounded and dying in the Second Battle of Ypres, fought in a place near Belgium called Flanders. The poem, written directly after a close friend of his died and quickly buried in the battlefield, marked by a wooden cross, McCrae tells the story of the war. The movie All Quiet on the Western Front is a movie from the German perspective of World War I. The movie demonstrates a visual of what the war was like and how men either
Remarque’s novel is a insightful statement against war, which focuses primarily on the devastating affect both psychologically and the humanity of soldiers. Paul’s narrative reflects persistently on the romantic ideals of warfare. Paul and his fellow soldiers are tempered with the reality that their bonds come at the high price of relentless suffering and terror. Most of the prominence events that refer to character altering situations occur in the final chapters of the book. Paul’s analogy between minting coins and the effect of the war on veteran soldiers is a significant event.
Lindsey Culp AP Literature Mrs. Lawrence 13 January 2015 1943 In the poem “1943”, written by Donald Hall, was a fathomless yet direct poem pertaining to an event during the year of 1943. World War II was close to coming to an end. When I was at a young age, I knew that I would always have a greater love for history because of one man. My great-grandfather, James Edward, before he came to be with the Lord loved to tell stories especially the ones about war. His stories about times of enjoyment in the states, experiencing WWII, and getting to see God’s beautiful creation of our lands is what drew me to this poem.