People often ask what authors do to make their writings so effective. Of course, it depends on the topic but authors use anything from repeating syllables to writing satires. Suppose we are protesting war. How would an author go about writing about something so serious and devastating? There are a variety of techniques authors could use to convey to readers how gruesome war can be and to protest it. Writers protest war by using imagery, irony, and structure.
Writers use imagery to give their audience a visual of what they are talking about. When protesting war, imagery can be very effective. Wilfred Owen uses imagery to his advantage in his poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” when he is describing the soldiers and says “bent double, like old beggars under sacks, / Knock-kneed, coughing like hags”(1-2). This use of imagery helps readers imagine just how awful war is by describing what the fallen soldiers looked like in the trenches. Siegfried Sassoon also uses imagery to describe soldiers in his poem “Aftermath” when he says “With dying eyes and lolling …show more content…
Stephen Crane uses a large amount of irony in his poem “War Is Kind”. The irony is found not only in the title but throughout the poem. This poem is ironic because Crane says “Do not weep, babe, for war is kind”(12) but then goes into detail about all the terrible things in war and how it is not kind. Another piece of literature that includes irony when protesting war is The Yellow Bird by Kevin Powers. Powers makes a very ironic statement when he writes “cowardice got you into this mess because you wanted to be a man”(Powers). This man thought he needed to join the war to be a man or he would be a coward. This quotation says that cowardice got him into the war because he thought that is what it took to be a man, which makes it ironic. Irony can be a very good technique, when used correctly, to protest war. Kevin Powers and Stephen Crane do a fantastic job at mixing irony with
Writers use imagery to give their audience a visual of what they are talking about. When protesting war, imagery can be very effective. Wilfred Owen uses imagery to his advantage in his poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” when he is describing the soldiers and says “bent double, like old beggars under sacks, / Knock-kneed, coughing like hags”(1-2). This use of imagery helps readers imagine just how awful war is by describing what the fallen soldiers looked like in the trenches. Siegfried Sassoon also uses imagery to describe soldiers in his poem “Aftermath” when he says “With dying eyes and lolling …show more content…
Stephen Crane uses a large amount of irony in his poem “War Is Kind”. The irony is found not only in the title but throughout the poem. This poem is ironic because Crane says “Do not weep, babe, for war is kind”(12) but then goes into detail about all the terrible things in war and how it is not kind. Another piece of literature that includes irony when protesting war is The Yellow Bird by Kevin Powers. Powers makes a very ironic statement when he writes “cowardice got you into this mess because you wanted to be a man”(Powers). This man thought he needed to join the war to be a man or he would be a coward. This quotation says that cowardice got him into the war because he thought that is what it took to be a man, which makes it ironic. Irony can be a very good technique, when used correctly, to protest war. Kevin Powers and Stephen Crane do a fantastic job at mixing irony with