“Dulce et decorum est” and “Who’s for the game?” In comparing the two war poems by Jessie Pope and Wilfred Owen I have analysed the ways they have presented war. The poems have very different opinions on the Great War, “Dulce et decorum est “is against the war and the injustice of it all whereas “Who’s for the game”, is a recruitment poem. At the time Jessie wrote ‘Who’s for the game’ she couldn’t do any research on the war, due to the media and propaganda, also with being a women with no experience in the war it was hard for her to know the harsh reality. ‘Who’s for the game’ was written with the intent of trying to enlist more men for the war as Pope believed that all men should stand up and fight for their country. However ‘Dulce et decorum est’ has a different view on war, it was written in response to ‘Who’s for the game’ and it was written to show Jessie Pope and the rest of the public that war isn’t at all glorious and it’s not patriotic to fight for their country, both poems have used metaphors and pronouns to portray these ideas.
The British government in particular, heavily censored the material that most posted by the journalists and then even before it went to print. This was because of experiences from wars prior to the Great War as “unrestricted newspaper reporting was an unacceptable security risk” (www.bbc.co.uk). For the few reporters that were sent out to the Western Front, they were subject to many layers of censorship both at HQ in France and back in Britain, and at no time were they permitted to criticise the military operations taking place at any time. As Stephen Badsey stated, “Whatever their own opinions, like most soldiers they were minor players trapped in a complicated hierarchical structure”. Both photography and
Although I could only come up with a few similarities the list of differences are way larger. The setting being one of the biggest you must also consider the difference in the characters. With a little research I also realized how different the two authors are in their young lives and in their writing. Michael Bruce was a gunner in the Canadian Army during the second world war, he said that he came up with the idea for “War” in the barracks when an argument started about if it was all right to kill some men if saving the lives of others. It seems like an odd conversation but the men were using whatever they could to get their minds off of the war.
She supports her main view by questioning the capability of the viewers to comprehend the raw terrors of war. In other words, Sontag claims that we cannot fully understand and react appropriately to war photography simply because we have not experienced war and therefore, we react with socially constructed responses and other coping mechanisms such as disassociation in order to ease our consciences. Sontag establishes this sentiment by stating in her novel, “’We’-this ‘we’ is everyone who has never experienced anything like what they went through- don’t understand. We don’t get it.
From the wars to our today’s life, torture is used as a mean of self-defense or other-defenses to against unlawful actions. There are many different views regarding whether torture can be justified. In my opinion, torture cannot be justified during wars amongst the army but it can be justified in today’s life if someone makes imminent threat towards one’s life. First of all, there is no law or rule to be working during wars. In spite of the fact that every soldier is fighting for their survival and tortures the enemies for gaining important information in order to save someone’s life, this threat is applied bidirectional.
Moreover, in regard to bombing, a chief concern of System of a Down’s moral commentary on violence, Ramsey asserts that “we do not need to know who and where the noncombatants are in order to know know that indiscriminate bombing exceeds the moral limits of warfare that can ever barely be justified” (144). However, while Ramsey’s delineations of war’s ethical boundaries are valuable, the band would ultimately consider them insufficient, because the question Ramsey seeks to answer, “How shall modern war be conducted justly?” is incongruous with the band’s moral epistemology. Modern warfare is an innately unjust phenomenon that
The Just War Theory The method of war as a means to settle disputes is an undeniable part of the history of the world. “War should be understood as an actual, intentional, and widespread armed conflict between political communities. Thus, fisticuffs between individual persons do not count as a war, nor does a gang fight, nor does a feud on the order of the Hatfields versus the McCoys” (Orend). Ancient records, writings, and even scriptures from the Bible are evidence to the fact that wars have been recurring events throughout time. The definition of justified war is not self-explanatory nor can it be understood without delving into the ideas and concepts that lie behind it.
If abstractness, projection of people’s emotions, and uselessness of art create morality in art, then the art itself cannot be moral or immoral, thus proving Wilde’s theory true. There are different examples in the book The Picture of Dorian Gray that shows Dorian’s projection of his own feelings onto art rather than just letting the art be a form of pleasure. Dorian constantly projects meaning and pulls out morals from art, which leaves Dorian feeling poisoned. At one point he even tells Lord Henry that he was never going to forgive him for being poisoned with a book (Wilde 180). Lord Henry responds to this by noting that Dorian was beginning to moralize, and this was a negative thing because he believed that the books and art themselves did not make morals, therefore art could not be poison.
Anthem For Doomed Youth is a sonnet written by Wilfred Owen about the realities of war. Wilfred Owen was a soldier during WW1 and therefore understands fully the true experiences of war. He was against war and was appalled by the effects of war on people and their families. The purpose of the poem is to inform the public of the true realities of war and how young men where dying needlessly. This was because during war times the media would tell the public that the war going great and that the men where doing just fine, but this obviously just wasn’t true.
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.