This creates the image that the bullets are humans that are hurting humans which represents war. 'The patroitic tear that had brimmed in his eye Sweating like molten-iron from the contre of his chest,-' One of the most hard hitting and cinematic lines in this poem and really shows this image of a patriotic tear that has brought him here now has no place in the battlefield as it has sweated and evaporated. The Ideas and Themes The main idea in this poem I think is to translate the experience of every new soldier and there realisation of war. The fact that the poem doesn't name a soldier personally is poignant as it shows that it happens to many soldiers. Also the poem concentrates and the negativeness of patriotism as it is what has brought these soldiers here but as soon as it has it, in essence, drops
The swirl and muddle of rough and raw emotions of the battlefield, permeating the air like a smog. They think war is a game … when someone is shot they merely die… They do not know, cannot know the truth, cannot hear the screams of dying broken men, crying for their mothers. The tremor of men in their death throes, missing limbs, spewing their own entrails. The malodorous fetor of death loosened bowels. How could we have fathomed the unvarnished nature of war, it was supposed to be an adventure to find our true measure.
Gas! Quick, boys! “ and as the fumble to put their gas mask, one is not quick enough, owen graphically describes his death “gargling”,”choking” and “froth-corrupted lungs” to shick the reader about some of the horrible experiences of war. Anthem for Doomed Youth before even been read it already conveys the attitude on war. “the shrill demented choirs of wailing shells; and burgles
There is the theme of violence and brutality running throughout the novel Lord of the Flies. It appears very early in the novel in a form of a game when Ralph “machined-gunned Piggy”, and lasts until the very end when Jack and his tribe are trying to kill Ralph. So through Golding’s use of language I am going to analyze the scene which I think is the most frightening moment of violence and brutality in the novel - Simon’s death. Golding uses imagery to present the boys’ violent and brutal act in killing Simon. “At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock.
The protagonist, who was keen to remove himself from the rat and lice infested trenches, enrolled himself in a bombardment of the German’s, with little knowledge of what he was getting himself in to. The protagonist was experiencing the concept of ‘Kill or be killed’, had a German soldier at the end of his bayonet and his howling had unnerved him. His rifle stood between him and death and the decision to leave unarmed and possibly die or kill the soldier and survive was to be made. The emotional turmoil was unbearable and the pulling of the trigger was excruciating. Even after this ordeal and the shock, the protagonist was still able to sympathise with the dead German’s soldier’s brother.
"The sow staggered her way ahead of them, bleeding and mad, and the hunters followed, wedding to her in lust, excited by the long chase and the dropped blood" (Golding, 125). Finally, they caught up to the pig, and "Roger ran round the heap, prodding with his spear whenever pig flesh appeared. Jack was on top of the sow stabbing downward with his knife...Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands...He giggled and flicked them while the boys laughed at his reeking palms" (Golding, 125). Jack then started to "lug out the hot bags of colored guts" (Golding, 126). This is an example of how savage the boys had truly become.
As the four remorsefully glared at a stone that read “Son, Brother and Friend”, the deafening silence was pierced suddenly by the deathly shriek of a darkened crow. “Ahhh!” exclaimed the silent Delia. Again it shrieked, and again! Frightened Skye grabbed Delia’s hand while Ivan was holding Maia. The unending fog hung on the stones of the dead like a heavy, suffocating sheath, casting relentless misery on all who trespassed through it.
Screamin’ bursts sourrounds me! Jagged shrapnel on the fly, Kills my buddy makes me cry! *Refrain* Hi Ho Lock n’ Load
His pent - up rage is expressed again in the final stanza “ Hands burn for a stone, a bomb to shiver down the glass”. This shows the frustration of the place and, possibly, the loss of solidarity, the fears among his people. Afrika.s sense of injustice is powerfully highlighted with the effective imagery of the “purple flowering amiable weeds” and the nefarious “crushed white ice; the single rose” which he turns into symbol of white oppression. The ending is stark and poignant as he feels those old feelings of oppression as his hands burn for a bomb to “shiver down the glass”.
U.S army men were slaughtered and there faces were left pale. 3 shots each was their christmas present, what did they do to deserve this? Now vililians started to come, mourning for their protectors, who will save them now? for the sound of the hun shots were getting closer. The civilians dragged the huge soldiers across the sand, they won't, should'nt get shot any more by the monsters; At the market the delicate, fabric dresses made with silk, torn and shreded apart by bullets when the clash began, they were unaware... Coridors of blood led to garages of silk and and food now filled with dread; rain washed the walls and made crimson red pools.