As the poem progresses, Mikhail begins to mock the routine of war, (wakes the sirens…dispatches ambos…swings corpses through the air) therefore showing us the harmful effects of war. Dunya Mikhail portrays the realities of war through the use of personification and lack of punctuation. As you can see the structure of the poem almost resembles that of a list, creating the effect of life during the war, long and routine. Through the use of action verbs such as swings, summons and digs for example she is using this language to show what the war does by giving it human qualities (read examples). The start of the poem (read first 3 lines) has quite a sarcastic tone and I think this shows how she feels towards the military glorifying war, doing whatever they can to convince you to join.
“…Did they really believe that this war would end wars…it all happened again, and again, and again,” this use of rhetorical question and repetition emphasises the anti-war sentiment that both Bogle and Dawe capture. Similarly in Homecoming, it is illustrated the dehumanisation of war. “…mortuary coolness…deep-freeze…sorrowful…frozen sunset…wintering tree…bitter…grief…”through an extended metaphor, it is suggested the implications on the society from the death of thousands of loved ones; the coldness is symbolising the death, grief and struggling of society and the individual. Dehumanising effects give poets their anti-war point of view the effectively portray the bonds between the society and the
This is highlighted with "shut", "bleached" and "dark-clothed". The cleaver use of "shut shops", "sun blinds", "sovereigns", "kings and queens" compounds a critisasation of authority, Larkin does this through sibilance. Larkin then presents the loss in the next stanza with the repetition of the theme of innocence this is highlighted with the quotation "dresses", "never such innocence", "little" and "never such innocence again". This created a sense of destruction and how the war has taken the innocence of so many young people. Also the use off an oxymoron "restless silence" foreshadows the tragedy that is to come.
Discuss how Owen’s perspective on human conflict is conveyed in his poetry. Wilfred Owen’s personal experience at war is reflected in his poetry, depicting the brutality of war and conflict. He portrays his perspective about human conflicts in his poetry and effectively conveys the truth about the agony of war in his war poems, ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ (Dulce) and ‘Mental Cases’. To portray his attitudes towards war, Owen uses a diversity of poetic devices to shock and emotionally stir his readers. As a semi-autobiographical recount, Owen criticises the suffering and psychological scarring of soldiers in ‘Mental Cases’.
Carson postulates: “Man can hardly recognize the devils of his own creation” (Carson 800), and thus is not honestly examining the long term effect of environmental change. In the excitement to control insects, chemical companies have caused small towns and farming communities to become guinea pigs for experiments involving pesticides. “The Flight of Rachel Carson” continues the theme of chemical effects upon birds of prey by opening with Geoffrey Norman’s observations concerning the disappearance of osprey, bald eagles, and brown pelicans. He develops an analogy of their plight to the life and struggle of Rachel Carson to stop the use of DDT. Just as the birds struggled against a hostile environment, Carson combated angry chemical industrialists and governmental agencies whose philosophies and purposes collided with her own.
However, the next scene of the Indigenous teenagers sniffing petrol effectively juxtaposes the previous scene and presents what has come as a result of the broken connection to land, “a trauma I wouldn’t wish on anybody”. A close up shot of Bob Randall is used in conveying this idea to emphasise and evoke an emotional response from responders. Similarly, the poem “Domesticity of Giraffes” accentuates the inevitable, detrimental outcomes which results from removing an individual’s connection with land. In a natural environment, the giraffe is represented as “a big slim bird just before flight”. However, once breaking her connection from land and imprisoning her, the giraffe is represented as dirty and mistreated “in the stained underwear of her hide”.
The Post War Life The effect of the Vietnam War on the surviving soldiers The Vietnam War left a great scar in all the people that were directly and indirectly involved in it. Among the affected were the soldiers that not only died in the war, but also survived it. The war destroyed them physically and mentally to a point that it felt as if the war continued throughout the remainder of their lives. The feeling of trauma, hatred toward the War, and grief are well portrayed in Yusef Komunyakaa’s Roll Call, and W. D. Ehrhart’s Invasion of Grenada. The authors of these poems strived to provide a first-hand experience with the purpose of proving that even though one survives the war, the same war never leaves.
The Holocaust ruined numerous lives, including that of Evelyn Roman, who wrote “Aftermath”: a sorrowful poem that described her feelings about the concentration camps. Wiesel and Roman both share different and insightful outlooks about their experiences in the toughest part of their lives. They still remember a great deal of details “fifty years after the fact…” that they wish could vanish in an instant (1). Wiesel and Roman wondered every minute why they endured those experiences: no human deserves the horror they survived. Knowing that someone actually lived these stories made it almost unbearable to
Goodbye Golden Eye Poetry Analysis #1 Katlyn Carter May Swenson’s poem, definitely exposed to me how the world is destroying the natural beauty of nature. It made me realize that nature is beautiful, and our world today is destroying it day by day with construction and pollution that we cause. All the author really wants is show the world through her words how much destroying a simple bay in this case takes the little things out and it makes a huge impact. destroying the beautiful and peaceful spot the could be described as “golden” in the eye of the animals, and by abolishing it saying goodbye to it. In this first several lines, giving the audience an image of the kite knotted up in the cables that run through what once was a peaceful spot for not only wildlife animals but as well people when possibly wanting to get away from the city life.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the author, Harper Lee has used symbolism with emotive language, frequent use and symbolising people to help the reader understand the timeless idea of how infested with prejudice people and societies can be. The word ‘sin’ is used in “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird,” rather than a word like ‘wrong’ because of the strong negative connotations associated with it. These make the reader understand how unforgivable it is to ‘kill a mockingbird’ which is a symbol representing innocent people that are harmed undeservedly. Using a powerful word such as ‘sin’ conveys the extent of the evil shown by those who ‘kill mockingbirds’ with prejudice. An example of this are the rumours circulating around the “tired, old town” of Maycomb about the recluse ‘Boo’ Radley.