‘Mental Cases’ and ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ are two outstanding pieces created by Owen, each using techniques such as hyperboles, personification and imagery that associate the two poems, giving us, the readers, a bigger picture of what is happening in the poets eyes. In the poem Mental Cases Owen expresses his perception that war is taking away a soldiers future, a life full of happiness. It illustrates the bloodshed and suffering of war, using a series of graphical description of young men who are treated for war-related illness’, such as shellshock. It was a heart-wrenching poem for Owen because he himself was a patient of shellshock. The repetition of question marks and dashes illustrate the confusion and frustration witnessing Owens fellow comrades, it is a demanding tone begging for explanation for the entrapment of victims.
We are quickly acknowledged to the fact that the man is a very loving and caring person, and so was his wife. However, as much as he trusted his wife and loves her, she does not feel the same way: " Having gone out in the rain one day, in order to deceive her lover, she caught cold and died." (153). Quickly we realize that his wife was not as loving, caring, or faithful as him because she was going to deceive her man had it not been such a dreadful outcome, her death. The man always thought his partner loved him back equally as much as he loved her, perceiving almost a perfect relationship to the reader.
Main ideas in War Poetry The main idea in war poetry, written during World War One – 1914-18, is the harsh reality of war. Poets such as Wilfred Owen use the language techniques of simile, rhyme, repetition and personification to help convey the main idea. Owen uses techniques to paint a grim picture of what war was like and how it affected people. Through this, we see that war is often glorified, thus Owen was able to counter the glorification of war. After reading war poems we are able to get a true idea of how horrific war was and learn of its negative consequences.
106 of Machete Season online version on Google Play). Another gruesome killing was one that Ignace speaks of “ The Tutsis’ trickery made us angry, and we went immediately on a raid and surrounded them. Those with grenades started throwing them at the Tutsis…We hacked up bushes and woodwork from deserted houses, blocked the gallery with this firewood and lit the pile. The Tutsis died of
“I was looking for realism all the time”. This has been superbly done through a variety of cinematic techniques. The use of the shaky camera, and the camera following the actions and movements of the soldiers above and under water, really included the audience as if they were there, beside the soldiers and experiencing the horror and confusion of war. “I wanted to hit the sets much like a newsreel cameraman following soldiers into war”. The sounds of the heavy artillery, bombs exploding and screaming of the soldiers throughout the battle also add to the horror.
Gas! Quick, boys! !” this achieves the sense of haste the writer was trying to achieve by using short sentences and exclamation marks to grab the attention of the reader, also this contrasts with the first verse describing the sense of exhaustion to the one of extreme panic and anger. “Owen’s fear of the ‘haunting flares’ creates the impression that war is a nightmarish and horrific experience. The simile that compares the soldiers with coughing ‘hags’ emphasises this and the corrupt, unhealthy connotations
“Mental Cases” is about the men who went crazy due to the events of World War I. it helps explain how these men looked with the use of half-rhymes, metaphors and similes “ drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish, Baring teeth that leer like skullls teeth wicked?” This talks about what the men looked like after going crazy. The poem explains that these men can only see and think blood and have become living resemblances of the dead from the war. “ Sunlight seems a blood-smear, night comes blood-black; dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh. Thus their heads wear this hilarious, hideous, awful falseness of set-smiling
When telling a story about the cool thing that happened at school or how one beat that guy up, straight forwardness and honesty are often, if not always, disarrayed. When reiterating a story back to someone, the storyteller tends to rely on their inner experience rather than tell what actually happened. In “How to Tell A True War Story,” the narrators friend/fellow soldier, Rat Kiley, deals with this situation after his friend, Curt Lemon, dies. Kiley decides to write a condoling letter to Lemon’s sister trying to make sure she knows he is there for her. In the letter, Kiley, starts telling her how great friends Lemon and he was with one another.
“The guy was a little crazy, for sure, but crazy in a good way, a real daredevil, because he liked the challenge of it, he liked testing himself, just man against gook.” (946). Then, goes on in on! Honoring the valor, enthusiastic and then it get very sad and very touching that mentioned about that love his brother like twin brother that he never had. Because, Rat and Curt Lemon had a lot in common that were making the war like a children playground. And finish the story that “he tells the guy’s sister he’ll look her up when the war’s over” (947).
Sassoon’s poetry described the horrors of the war and how disgusting it is. Two poems which show the perspective of war is: Firstly, Counter-Attack, which describes how war is like; and secondly, died of wounds, which show the condition of war. The poems relate to the feeling and emotion war creates. Also it shows how horrible war is. The techniques that Sassoon has used in the poems are: imagery, simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia.