The speaker remains unnamed throughout the poem; in the last line the speaker is just “He.” This further ridicules the speaker, by making him generic, or just a typical politician; they all ramble on about nonsense they do not even take time to fully consider. “next to of course god america i” is a poem aimed at revealing the potential of abusing patriotism to sway people’s thoughts. Patriotism can be used to manipulate people into doing things they usually wouldn’t. This implicit theme is enforced throughout the poem by allusions and other literary devices [pic] and suggests that the poem is not actually unpatriotic. The speaker is admonishing people on being wary of how patriotism is used and uses sarcasm to accent his position.
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.
“Tolerance, what crimes / have been committed in your name.” can especially be seen as a criticism against the various social and legal inequalities perpetrated against many races, religions, and sexes under the guise of ‘Political Correctness’. However, as the point of these focus papers seems to be on interpreting the poem within its historical context, I will leave this tangent short. Levertov begins with “Genial poets, pink-faced / earnest wits…”2 This seems to be a criticism against all poets who write “neutral3” things; poets who do not try to choose a side; poets who do not challenge their readers; poets, even, who rely more upon being witty than on actually saying something. The entire stanza, from “Genial” to “name” seems to imply that poets who do these things are making excuses rather than really putting their ideas forward. However, at the second stanza Levertov moves back into familiar territory, seeming to criticize women who are content to live at home and bake bread4 ; to remain blind to the “nightmare reality5” around them.
Charles Gryder October 10, 2012 Period 3 Essay Final Draft All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Pro-war poetry, and the World Studies Textbook are all very alike but at the same time very different. All Quiet on the Western Front is strictly anti-war, and describes it as a horrible, disgusting, and terrifying thing and is very slightly biased towards the Germans. Pro-war poetry glorifies war and makes it sound like an honorable, fun, and happy activity, and is biased towards the Allied Forces. The World Studies Textbook seems completely factual, but it shows bias at times towards the Allied Forces. All Quiet on the Western Front, pro-war poetry, and the World Studies Textbook, all contain bias, whether it is apparent or hidden, against the Central Powers, or for the Central powers, and they all are very different in the way that they portray war.
For ATP, in the first couplet, the speaker is angry at his friend; in the second, at his foe. This difference immediately makes the simple poem less simple. As we continue on reading the couplets are beautifully rhyme, meter and show the importance of the purpose which is tolerance and forgiveness. In TMVTL rhyme is not respect and it too sentimental. The central idea is there but not coherent.
With an abundance of asides, which the whole passage is, and bits of detail that create and amazingly complex set of ideas, Hawthorne manages to successfully conjure his image of Puritan society and how they treat Hester. Without using such circuitous grammar and syntax, Hawthorne might have failed to recreate the formal, deeply psychological Puritan society and ways that the novel attempts. The tones that Hawthorne uses in the paragraph are more so detached, moralizing, impassioned, formal, and skeptical, and he makes it very obvious that he does not care for the Puritan society (The Scarlet Letter - Linguistic
Essay on ”Time and Distance Overcome” The deadly honest and almost cynical non-fiction essay, “Time and Distance Overcome”, by the American non-fiction writer, Eula Biss, is an eye-opener not yet seen alike. The essay deals with the American history in a way that would make any proud patriotic American look down on his feet, ashamed and regretful on behave of his forefathers. The boring and uncolored history reading is over. Biss plays with both the essay – as well as the historical genre when she writes about the painful faith of black Americans in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. The essay genre is known for its personal and reflecting touch.
His most famous fictional character is Jesse B. Semple, nickname Simple, who uses humor to protest and satirize the existing injustice. Hughes, however, writing from a black man’s perspective, is much less optimistic about what America has been or will be. While Whitman’s’ poem was very unstructured in blank verse, Hughes’s poem is more tightly controlled with rhyme, tone, rhetorical questions, and more unified with repeated anaphora. Langston Hughes uses connotation well in this poem to evoke all of the wonderfully patriotic images of America but also to make the reader question this images. These images are very vivid; the idea of scars connotes all the violence and beatings of slavery, which makes the reader even more passionate of the reading.
The idea of dramatic irony since Collins is unknowing of this dangerous journey while the audience and his comrades are. The literary critic Frank Gado who wrote the article "Introduction" quotes, "The streaking artillery shells emphasizing the probability of death or mutilation should the men leave the safety of the clay bank" (para. 42). This dangerous expedition means nothing compared to Collin's arrogance to improve the other soldiers, to show and make him a "hero". The technique irony and dialogue both focus on one or more characters.
The Intro of the essay asserts the notion that the English language has been disfigured by the human race and is on the residual decline as a resultant. Mr. Orwell attributes this downfall to politics and economic causes but goes on to outline his remedy to correct what he refers to as a “reversible” process. George Orwell goes on to cite passages from several prominent essays and articles, concluding on the similarities in their staleness of imagery and lack of precision. He criticizes the passages, stating that the incompetence and vagueness of such political writings desecrates correct English prose- construction. DYING METAPHORS.