After witnessing men die in horrific ways as well as those who were then unable to enjoy life because of their disfigurement caused by the war, Paul realizes that the deaths of these soldiers were nowhere close to glorious or brave as many depicted it to be. As Hitler stated, “And this action is the only one
Wilfred Owen's poem “Futility” is one that he himself placed under the category “Grief.” Owen is considered to be one of the greatest poets of World War I, speaking out openly against its horrors which he experienced himself in the trenches. “Futility” is a brief poem of fourteen lines divided into two stanzas; it is full of emotion . The poem concerns the body of a soldier who is not named, but it appears to be someone that Owen knew personally. In the opening line of the poem Owen mentions the sun, which is a recurring feature throughout the fourteen lines. There is a suggestion to move “him” – the soldier who has just died – into the sun in the hope that it might bring him back to life.
The novel shoes the misery of war and the everlasting effects it has on the soldiers; even Baumer cannot escape those circumstances. Before the war Baumer was a nice, empathetic, and gentle person but the war has him almost disconnected from his feelings. He becomes numb to the evil surrounding him. His friends are quickly lost to the cruelty and horror of war. Some died a quick death while others died a slow, painful death, showing the reality of war.
The tone is of absolute desperation, teamed with respect for the dead man. Owen is longing for the soldier to be revived. The poem begins with an imperative, ‘Move him into the sun’. The word ‘him’ creates a sense of anonymity as if war has relegated the soldiers’ identity. The image of the ‘sun’ suggests the giving of life and reinforced Owen’s wish for the soldier to return from the dead.
We lost too many lives because of war. This message show that “Blowin’ in the Wind” is an anti-war song because Dylan shows his helpless toward war issues. On the other hand, Vedder writes, “Unsealed on a porch a letter sat.” The letter refers to government sends out a telegram to families of died soldiers. Vedder use the letter as a symbol of lost lives. Moreover, war only brought sadness to people if they lost their families in war.
The poem uses a question and answer structure which satirizes the uber-patriotic notion that it is noble to die (or, in this case, to become an amputee, a blind man, or a mad man) for one's country. Using three abbca quintains, Sassoon's speaker contrasts a soldier's injuries against the cold sympathies of able-bodied "people." He pits the wounded soldier against uncaring civilians in three post-war scenarios. Each raises the question: "does it matter?" The presumptive question is existential: does a soldier's quality of life matter after he is forever maimed in war?
In the third stanza the speaker addressed the child of the dead solider telling him/her not to cry for “[war] is kind,” but instead of trying to comfort him/her, Stephen Crane, illustrates the last moment of the soldiers where he “tumbled in yellow trenches, [raging] at his breast, [gulping] and [dying]”(8). In the fifth stanza, the clever use of the term "bright splendid" also draws out the suggestion of the blood with the corpse will now be covered in (13). The image of a mother weeping over the body of her fallen son is also the most heart-wrenching of all the individuals addressed, due to the fact it emphasizes the hopelessness of victims, both living and dead. Through Stephen Crane’s use of imagery, the reality of war is highlighted to the readers. In addition to imagery, Stephen Crane also uses diction to develop the ironic tone of the poem.
The subject of The Soldier is set before the war has actually happened, written through the eyes of a soldier who has signed up for the war, but has not actually gone yet. The subject of The Fallen differs from this in a way that instead of concentrating on the grief that may come from the war, it concentrates on the grief that is. In The Fallen, the war has happened, and many of the men have died, young and fit, and everyone in England is mourning for this terrible loss. The imagery of these poems is mainly very different. 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.
Wade Berrigan 5-26-07 The Moral Ambiguity of War In the novel Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Meyers, shows us many examples of soldiers struggling between making morale choices or staying alive. New soldiers look at other soldiers who have been in the war for a while as if they are sick soulless creatures killing everything in their way. Later we find these same characters that are doing the questioning doing the same thing. For example Perry wonders to himself how someone can die in front of them and no one remember it the following day. This shows his morals are still intact.
“To An Athlete Dying Young” “To An Athlete Dying Young” by A. E. Housman a young sportsman meets a seemingly tragic demise. Yet his death is not just met with grief but also with honor as he dyes the death of a champion and will remain one so long as he is alive in memories as no one will have the chance to defeat him. The poem “To An Athlete Dying Young” embodies the saying “the good die young” and shows there are other ways of viewing death than sorrow and trepidation. At first sight Housman appears to be challenging traditional views about death in this poem. The traditional view being it is best to live a long life and accept ones triumphs and defeats as they come; however, this was not always believed and so Mr. Housman is not conveying a new concept of death but evoking an ancient belief concerning the glory of a champion.