the poem is a narrative account, focused of the fathers perspective of an accident involving his son that brings back memories of his past. Vernon Scannell uses the nettles as a way of reflecting his military past. the nettles are personified as an opposing force. Scannell shows his anger towards the nettles by describing the nettles as a 'regiment of spite', this shows the nettles are like an army attacking the speakers son. The word 'regiment' suggests an efficient army but the word 'spite' makes it sound as if the nettles are malicious.
The essay “Why Soldiers Won’t Talk,” is marked by a clear narrative description of what war is truly like and gives the reader a strong sense of perspective. In the essay, “Ambush,” O’Brien recounts the story in first person, almost in a historical method of storytelling by using the word “I”. Part of the reason for this difference is this essay’s audience, O’Brien’s daughter Kathleen. Also, “Ambush” very much differs from “Why Soldiers Won’t Talk.” O’Brien does not describe the harsh living conditions the soldiers are living in and tries to be clinical about it. The refrains of “Ambush,” such as “he was a short, slender man of about twenty,” are constantly adding to the idea of the storytelling, unlike “Why Soldiers Won’t Talk,” which seems
Simic is not afraid of exploring violence in his poems and this can be justified by his early days. His imagination has the scenes of what he witnessed during the Nazi regime and he seems to be scared of it. However Simic himself justifies his use of violence in the poems, he once said in the interviews, ““Violence is a kind of pathetic, perverted attempt to feel. The poems try to understand its origins, to see its consequences, to exorcise its demons”. (The Michigan Press, 1985) He adds to this, “My subject is really poetry in times of madness.
Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front very much achieves its goal to “try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.” Remarque goes to great lengths to show how the men in his novel came from ordinary backgrounds. These were men who were for the most part around 18-20 years old. The majority of Paul Bäumer’s group were his own classmates in school. Further, these men joined the German Army for patriotic and nationalist reasons. After spending some time in the trenches, they realized the true brutality of war, including the humiliation the soldiers must endure, such as using outdoor toilets in the open.
Book Report I chose The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane for this report because it is about fighting and war, one of the few things that interest me in history. The Red Badge of Courage is a story told during the Civil War about Stephen Crane’s (The author’s) youth as a Union soldier. Henry Fleming (The youth) is terrified because it is his first time being in a war. “As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors (page 3).” This quote demonstrates how nervous the men in the armt are upon the eve of battle. “The youth had been taught that a man became another thing in battle.
The writer tries to pass away time by using small talk which is effective because it also reinforces change: 'about the weather, next about the war.' At the beginning of the stanza, the writer is talking about a farmer ploughing a field and when the horse turns around the brass flashes in the sun. He then moves on to talk about the horse coming towards him, and that he felt like the horse was going to stand on him: 'every time the horses turned instead of treading me down...' Half way through the poem, the writer uses some dialogue to show small talk about the war. Throughout the dialogue the characters talk about war, and how war has affected workers and the farm. The characters start to talk about someone who died in the war.
3 April 2011 Dr. Wohl English Autumn Troubles When most people read the poem “Autumn Beings in Martins Ferry, Ohio” written by James Wright they want to think its about football, but in all reality its about people of all different races seem to escape from their ordinary everyday life just by supporting and watching a good game of high school football. This is a very short poem, but it gets its point across. Many people are quick to think that the poem is all about high school football, but they don’t see that this poem has several hidden metaphors that stand for greater and bigger messages. Through this poem, James Wright talks about a football game he uses; imagery, tone, and metaphors to show the big picture of these people living their life in the small town. First of all in the poem written by Wright, it deals with a lot of imagery that is short, but ends up painting a bigger picture in the poem, Throughout the whole poem Wright seems to paint a picture of the season fall, and the beginning of school, but looking more in depth to the poem images of something like “grey faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,” (Wright 3) While reading this line it made me picture of unhealthy and overworked men.
They are showed through the use of historical references and through the young child’s innocence. Moreover, in exploring a young boy’s journey across the battlefield, this essay analyses the American delusion regarding its history and how it affects the people’s vision toward war. The author criticizes and denounces war’s denaturalization of men by using “Chickamauga”; the bloodiest and most significant battle of the American Civil war. Ultimately, in this war-based short story, Bierce tries to communicate an antiwar message through a lexicon of atrocious terms. He also uses the allegory of a young deaf mute boy playing at war to represent the contrast between the way the matters appear to the child and the actual American historical events.
All Quiet on the Western Front: This novel was very interesting and very vivid. Also the novel is so intense and very detail of the lifestyle of war. The way the book is different from the others is by how the novel takes the readers to the war by telling the vivid details and the characters thoughts and also the lifestyle of the characters. The novel tells the story of Paul Baumer, the main character of the story, a soldier who was persuade and urged by his school teacher Kantorek to join the German army shortly after the start of world war 1. Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.
“Foulcher’s world is caught in clear images that catch our attention but are not always pleasant. The conflict is expressed in the paradox of the title of his poetry anthology – Light pressure.” Foulcher uses imagery and other language features to shape the reader’s response to his poetry.. Imagery used in his poetry is not always pleasant. This is shown in Bradman’s Last Innings, Kangaroo’s near Hay and For the Fire. For the Fire and Kangaroos near Hay show very similar themes: the violence of nature, death, appearance versus reality, while Bradman’s Last Innings largely proposes a contrast to the other two poems.