All through out the poem she is trying to put pressure on those who don’t want to go to war. Her poem is opposing to Wilfred owen’s ‘’Dulce et decorum est’’, the two poets had an enormous dislike and rivality for each other. Just by reading the poems title ‘’Dulce et decorum est’’ the reader understands its referring to the irony and pity of war. Meanwhile ‘’who’s for the game?’’ transmits a more relaxed and fun sense. The theme of ‘’Dulce et decorum est’’.
The poem's (and therefore Brooke's) attitude to war is emphasised even more so by the poet's disdain towards those who did not sign up to fight in the war. 'leave the sick hearts that honour could not move' means that those men who decided not to fight in the war have 'sick hearts', and that there must be something wrong with them since even the promise of honour
They see that their own hate for one another has ended with the death of the ones they love most, and that they cannot let this continue. This makes us think about real life situations where fighting and war can bring innocent people to their death, although they have done nothing wrong, and only want to live a peaceful live with the ones they love. The strong love between Romeo and Juliet contrasts substantially with the hate that fills Verona. Both love and hate are senseless and mysterious. The involved parties focus solely on that attribute, and therefore consequences are ignored, and thus lives can be lost.
I think this is further emphasised when Thomas describes them as ‘Fair-haired and ruddy’ giving the reader an image of youth that is forgotten ‘since their beauty passed’ indicating that Thomas is certain the soldiers will die. Moreover Thomas speaks of the ‘hounds’ in the past tense indicating a memory which he is haunted by, denoting that he thinks memories of the war will haunt him in the same way. These concerns of war are echoed throughout the poem which demonstrates that Thomas is very much aware of the amount of soldiers who have now gone and also of the unending war. The endlessness of the war is recognized when he chooses to say that the ‘hounds’ which is a metaphor for the soldiers ‘streamed by’ as stream is a constant action, Thomas is highlighting how constant the rate the men are leaving at is; but continuing to describe them as ‘a great dragon’ suggests that the men do not know their own power and are a danger to themselves due to their innocence which was mentioned previously. The choice of the word ‘stream’ also links
The consequences of the two images together emphasise his two different minds/faces, his agony over his perception for the value of life. Although he is smiling, this is his public face and he cannot allow them to see him as they first perceived him to be. In ‘Broken Dreams’, Yeats describes Maud Gonne’s changing appearance, by his in-depth description, the reader sees his dislike and loss of attraction for her. In the first two lines of this poem, he very abruptly starts picking out her flaws and demeans her. He writes, “There is grey in your hair.
He explained that people would encourage you to fight yet to fight meant to sentence yourself to an unnecessary death. Owen states war is not worth it and meaningless. He claims to have entered the army with high hopes of serving his country and receiving the glory that was always talked about, but the reality of war was fundamentally different because instead of the celebration and praise he thought he would receive, he only got nightmares and regrets. The title of the poem means “sweet and fitting it is,” and Owen finishes the poem by writing the tile is, in fact, a lie. Owen’s poem is known for its alluring presentation of horrific imagery and
They felt they needed to honor their country by serving in the wars. In “Band of Brothers”, it focused on a soldier watching bombs and attacks going off from afar, reflecting on how the war had affected him. He promised to himself that after the war, he would live a life surrounded by peace and isolated from chaos. The soldier had been traumatized by the despair and sorrow of war, and clearly anticipated the moment that the war and fighting would come to an end. In conclusion, soldiers in both wars abhorred the idea of killing, but these thoughts were overcome by their sense of loyalty to their country.
By using a sonnet for the structure of his poem, Wilfred Owen introduces a touch of irony. The conventional function for a sonnet is love, but this poem has a sort of anti-love, or rather, a love that turns bad. The young male population have so much patriotic love, and are so eager to serve, but this love turns sour. They spend time rotting in the wastes of the trenches, only to be mown down in the blink of an eye by a machine-gun. Not only are their lives wasted, gone without the holy rite of a funeral, but the lives of their loved ones at home are also ruined.
Whispers of Immortality depicts imagery of hissing rumours; reminding the reader that in life they create the image of themselves they wish to remain after they relinquish this power in death. The almost threatening tone of the poem attempts to evoke fear in the reader by reminding them of this mortality. The whispers that create this everlasting reputation bring to mind a poem of Dante’s, from which Eliot takes the epigraph to Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The epigraph depicts a character from Dante’s Inferno, who after death takes exhaustive steps to avoid saying anything wrong, that may be carried back to Earth from the underworld and affect his reputation or further his punishment in purgatory. Eliot’s description of ‘Daffodil bulbs instead of balls’ occupying the eyes of the corpse,
Commentary on “Anthem For Doomed Youth” “Anthem For Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen is a Petrarchan sonnet, written to portray the horror of the First World War. The poem mainly aims to reflect the fate of the soldiers fighting the war, and its effect on the lives of those involved. By contrasting the soldiers’ deaths with the Christian funeral services, he comments on the dark irony that the young men who died for their country, were denied the respectful yet superficial rituals that the religious society values. The poem, includes many different themes, however, it is mostly dominated by the diction motif of death. Other ideas include, meaningless and inadequacy of religion in response to such horrors as seen during the war, anger and sorrow.