O”Brien, Komunyakka, and Owen were soldiers who each wrote a text describing soldiers at war from their personal point of view. O”Brien described in his text “The things they carried,” the physical, mental, and emotional things soldiers carried. Komunyakka expresses in his text “Facing It” how the soldiers must face death and reality at the same time and in Komunyakkas’ text “We Never Know” he is connecting emotionally with a fallen enemy soldier through a picture of a women. In Owen’s text “Dulce Et Decorum Est” Owen is upset about the condition that the soldiers are in and the point of view of people who haven’t experienced war first hand. All three soldiers wrote to better communicate with the world the conditions and reality to them.
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He tries to hold back the tears as he visits the Veterans Memorial and recognizes a name that brings back memories of the event that killed Andrew Johnson. Although Komunyakka is trained to be “stone” he is still human and while Komunyakka is feeling emotions inside he is having a hard time trying to figure out how others can go about their daily routine normally. In Komunyakka’s poem “We Never Know,” he connects emotionally with a “crumbled photograph” that was pulled from a dead soldier’s fingers. Komunyakka says “There is no other way to say this: I feel in love” at that moment he realizes that while he and the enemy is at war they have things in common such as being and human, being able to have a loved one.(Komunyakka …show more content…
“Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori” is a Latin motto that means “it is sweet and meet to die for one’s country, sweet and decorous!”(Owen 238) Owen proclaims this motto as “the old Lie,” he doesn’t think that it is sweet to die for the country. Owen was angry at the condition the soldiers were in. Owen describes the soldiers as “bent double, like old beggars under sacks and coughing like hags,” which mean that the soldiers were in no condition to fight.(Owen 237) The soldiers were tired and sick, but they “limped
He tries to hold back the tears as he visits the Veterans Memorial and recognizes a name that brings back memories of the event that killed Andrew Johnson. Although Komunyakka is trained to be “stone” he is still human and while Komunyakka is feeling emotions inside he is having a hard time trying to figure out how others can go about their daily routine normally. In Komunyakka’s poem “We Never Know,” he connects emotionally with a “crumbled photograph” that was pulled from a dead soldier’s fingers. Komunyakka says “There is no other way to say this: I feel in love” at that moment he realizes that while he and the enemy is at war they have things in common such as being and human, being able to have a loved one.(Komunyakka …show more content…
“Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori” is a Latin motto that means “it is sweet and meet to die for one’s country, sweet and decorous!”(Owen 238) Owen proclaims this motto as “the old Lie,” he doesn’t think that it is sweet to die for the country. Owen was angry at the condition the soldiers were in. Owen describes the soldiers as “bent double, like old beggars under sacks and coughing like hags,” which mean that the soldiers were in no condition to fight.(Owen 237) The soldiers were tired and sick, but they “limped