Gatsby’s heroism in the war, determination in the pursuit of his dreams, and his tenacious devotion to the love of Daisy forms Nick’s final opinion which leads him to give him the compliment. From all the events portrayed through the eyes of Nick in this novel, and after the death of Jay Gatsby, Nick states “Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…” Nick characterizes them by asserting that they are careless people who end up retreating back to their money and to the safety of their relationship after having their “good time”. After reading and looking back through specific parts of the novel and, as well, coming up with my personal conclusions; I must agree with the judgment to which Nick had made most frankly clear. Nick insists, by using the term ‘smashed’, that Daisy and Tom destroyed countless lives
When the third act started, a lunatic name John Wilkes Booth stormed in and shoot Abe in the left ear and the bullet was dislodged into Abe’s right ear. A man next to Lincoln pushed Booth over the balcony while getting slashed with a dagger. After the shooting, a doctor from the crowd came to check the president in a quick exam(America’s). After the examination, six soldiers carried the fallen president to a boarding house across the street. At exactly 7:22 on April 15, 1865, Lincoln died a tragic death that every Northerner grieved about.
In contrast Tennyson’s Charge depicts a disastrous battle during the Crimean War and therefore shows the disbelief and horror of conflict. Tennyson uses the poem to show the admiration and bravery of the solders in their determination to obey orders even though the orders were foolish. Futility could be considered as an elegy for the unnamed solider and opens with a tender and sad tone shifting to pointlessness in the second stanza. The use of the pronoun ‘him’ in the opening line suggests this could be any soldier from World War I demonstrating the number of men who would remain unnamed and unclaimed during this conflict. On the contrary Charge is patriotic with Tennyson celebrating the courage and obedience of the soldiers – this can be seen in his use of ‘glory, honour/noble’.
Again the denotative meaning is the physical downward of the ship sinking but it also means death is upon you. Later, Slavitt shows the things people die with. These luxuries show the sweeping romance of the trip. The mood of poem should be concerned about the great tragedy, it’s contemplative and lighthearted. The tone is happy and almost celebratory.
These poems are all written by the poet Wilfred Owen. I’m comparing the speeches and poems to give the different views on what people thought about war. In Henry V speech Saint Crispin’s day Henry V speaks a lot of glory, honour and brotherhood. All these ideas can inspire even the most despairing and oppressed men. This speech is very powerful and when someone is feeling unmotivated and depressed it has the ability to stir you to focus.
The Bards state: Had been served as he’d serve them; Beowulf, A prince of the geats, had killed Grendel, Ended the grief, the sorrow, the suffering Forced upon Hrothgar’s helpless people. (351-354) A hero is who someone looks up to and in the poem Beowulf, the reader can see that his soldiers and his village see Beowulf as a triumphant hero who shall never give up and will forever continue to fight for them. Hrothgar has seen Beowulf’s true colors and states “Beowulf, you’ve come to us in friendship, and because/ of the reception your father found at our court” (316-317) A hero has a different effect on everyone and in the the novel “Sir Gawain” the green knights sees Sir Gawain as an undamaged good. He states, “ I consider you polished as while and as perfectly clean/ As if you had never fallen since you were first born” (370-371). He is much like Beowulf in the ways that his men look up to him as their King, someone who could never let them down even when not being watched.
The author uses events that really happened in the Civil War to bring home the brutality of war--the building of a wall with dead bodies, young men shot in the stomach being left to die, horses being killed to feed starving men. These events must change the men involved. When Charley leaves for Fort Snelling, he is a smiling, fast-talking boy. Once Charley returns home, he is a different man-a broken man, in constant pain, unable to hold a job, and looking forward to his own death. Narrative
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.
This story becomes an allegory of a situation that could happen to those who refuse to live fearful of God and Puritan religion using symbolism as a way to exemplify such allegory. The character of Tom Walker and his wife symbolize greed; the journey to the Indian fort stands for the way to hell, and the devil’s offering is a sing of eternal damnation for men. Around mid-nineteenth-century, American Literary Nationalism began to emerge in the United States since the country was looking forward to develop their own true identity: an American culture. During that specific period, many literary writers helped to create this new identity, such is the case of Washington Irving with his short story “The Devil and Tom Walker.” This piece of literary work demonstrates thoroughly the practices and doctrines of the Puritan religion that would not stand an immoral and outrageous behavior of an oncoming sinner population. Irving clearly states that this new emerging American lifestyle is doomed unless the people summit to God’s will and destroy all kinds of sins from among themselves,
“Zapped while zipping” (107) is what they all said because Lavender died while returning from going to the bathroom. Cross takes the death very hard. Kiowa, one of Cross’s soldiers, talked about how he wished he could feel the grief that Cross was feeling.