To The Warmonger Poem Analysis

Register to read the introduction… It sends the message that dying for one’s country is a great act of loyalty and it is therefore an honour to do so. Brooke uses romanticized, jovial and rich words to describe the feelings of a soldier that sees dying for his motherland as an act of love and gratitude towards what it has done for him. The emotions transferred from the poem are warmth, love and happiness to die for country and countrymen. …show more content…
Sassoon actually experienced the terrors of actual battle and thus wrote poetry that shows hatred and anger towards war and fighting. As stated by epli_ellifu (2004), this poem is written in short, strong, blunt lines that portray the brutality of war. The message conveyed by the words is that war is horrible and brutal but that war is made to seem glorious. The speaker in the poem says in the end that it is he and the surviours of the war that is wounded deeply as they saw the darkness and death of war. Sassoon uses language that conveys the message of pain and suffering. This carries the emotions of pain, suffering, hatred and hopelessness on to the reader.

According to lilplaya (2004), those that were slain, physically and mentally, had their spirits crushed. The human spirit was caused to reach breaking point and many of those that returned from battle were beyond repair. They might have saved a limb or all, but mentally and spiritually they were scarred by the atrocities of war.

Though pain and suffering is the outcome of war, and though this is common knowledge, war will carry on and on and