In ‘Futility’, Owen utilizes personifications such as ‘The kind old sun will know’ and ‘Woke once the clays of a cold star’ to create a sense of desperation on the part of the soldiers. It makes it seem as though the soldiers worship the sun and look to it for guidance, which personifies it further; suggesting that the sun is wise and shows sympathy towards them. It also gives the sun omnipotence and omniscience, insinuating that it knows what’s happening and has the power to change it. This makes the reader empathise with and relate to the soldiers as everyone has felt insignificant and dependant at some point in their lifetime. On the other hand, Tennyson depreciates the soldiers, making them seem idiotic with phrases such as ‘Some one had blunder’d’.
“The Mystery of Heroism” and “Flags of our Fathers” Compare and Contrast Essay The short story “Mystery of Heroism” by Stephen Crane and the photo “Flags of our Fathers” have many similarities and differences. The sounds, visions, and actions of war are all elements that make a terribly wonderful topic on which many novels, short stories, and poems are based. Situational Irony and the battle field show contrasts between the two works, but heroism and soldiers behavior are similar. Situational irony is when what takes place contrasts with what is expected. Irony is used by Stephen Crane to add an element of humor and surprise to a seriously written drama.
How does Hardy portray an emotive view of war in ‘Drummer Hodge’ and ‘The man he Killed’? Both the poems written by Hardy were written about the Boer war. Although they have the same topic matter they present the ways in which war affects people in two different ways. Hardy does this through different poetry techniques and creating different emotions. ‘The man he killed’ is a poem almost literal to its title.
In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry. In ‘Love Songs In Age’, Larkin illustrates the view that time and it’s passing merely leads to many disappointments. The enjambment he uses amongst all three stanzas, “and stood/relearning” in the first and second and “more/the glare” between the second and third; this implies the suggestion that love cannot stop the passing of time and the instances that happen within it, for example the death of the woman’s husband. During the first stanza, Larkin uses imagery to create a memoir of the music sheets that the woman has found, “one marked in circles”, “and coloured”, suggesting that the joy of life, love and happiness isn’t appreciated until age shows what one has missed during their youth. We can then imply from this suggestion that Larkin feels time is only appreciated during the older years of one’s life.
Life is about lessons, knocking down innocence and happiness challenging one to keep standing back up. Johnson uses the metaphor of life’s happenings as bombs and the importance of living through them to show the need to live fearless. In Beth Johnson’s, Bombs Bursting in Air, Johnson uses exemplification to show that one should not live life in fear despite the bombs and tragedies, exploding throughout his/her life. Johnson shows that with youth, bombs are not necessarily felt until a bomb explodes enough to burn up one’s innocence away. Also, Johnson uses personal references to show importance in learning to fear less of the inevitable bombs, as well as, taking away the knowledge that death is inevitable, but one can live life without fearing this final explosion.
A hard sound such as “t” “b” gives the situation more of harsh tone such as “the neighbors were walking around burning and bleeding” (90). This doesn’t give the soft tone of sympathy but a harsh tone of death. Hersey likes to use alliteration to evoke a feeling into the reader’s mind of pathos, more if he or she had just read the story. Alliteration offers the chance of more feelings and emotions to readers throughout the story. John Hersey’s Hiroshima is not only a detailed account of the Americans bombing Japan in 1945, but he inserts rhetorical devices that encourage readers to feel pathos while reading.
Point (parenthetical documentation) a. Explanation/sub point b. Explanation/sub point II. [Main idea] A. [Topic sentence/transitional sentence] 1. Point (parenthetical documentation) a. Subpoint (parenthetical documentation) b. Subpoint (parenthetical documentation) 2. Point (parenthetical documentation) B.
The tone that Alter uses is positive, yet remains firm. He focuses on trying to convince his audience that torture should be legal in some circumstances. He uses a tone that elicits patriotism from readers because he wants to provoke them so they will take his side. When he state “torture, ok, not cattle prods or rubber hoses, but something to jump-start the stalled investigation of the greatest crime in American history.” he is referencing the September 11th attacks, and asserts that nothing has really been done about the individuals responsible. And in order for this tone to work, Alter needs to have a specific audience in mind.
Unless you have experienced it yourself you cannot understand it. Updike and his poetry, and Rhys with her short story they describe death and impermanence in their own ways. When Rhys describes life after death in I Used to Live Here Once and Updike describes not everything is permanent like in Dog’s Death by John Updike I see that both are talking about forms of death. While they both talk about it, one tells what it would be like after you die and the other describes the pain, and sadness leading to it. Through out the short story and poem I realized that the authors used tone, and symbolism in their literary work as described in our textbooks.
In the book, it mentions when analyzing a poem, it helps to have a clear sense of how the rhythms works, and the best way to reach it is through scansion. Scansion helps you scan a line or a poem by indicating the stresses in it. A great force given to one syllable in speaking than is given to another is stress or accent. There are four types of meter—iambic, anapestic, trochaic, and dactylic. Each of them