Bombyx mori

Few devastating forces of humanity have such a power to create, destroy, and reshape the world as war. Large scale conflict between two groups of people not only has the power to devastate and take life, but also the power to grant jobs, prosperity, and glory to those who are brave enough to confront a great foe and emerge victorious. As a result of this duality of war, many different opinions surface throughout history based in perspective and life experience. Few of this opinions contrast as…

First of all, the anthropomorphism of this war-driven horse already indicates a relation to political disturbances. Next, there is also a huge political change occurring during the creation and publication of the Georgics –Battle of Actium and the end of the Roman Republic– and the obvious presence of Octavian throughout the text. Finally, the plague at the end of Book 3 links together the use of anthropomorphism with the political discordance of the period. In Hunter H. Gardner’s journal “Bees,…

Throughout the war, the conditions in the trenches contributed heavily to the negative nature of trench warfare. Source 3.2 outlines just one of these aspects of the conditions in the trenches, mud. Written by Sergeant P Boyd of the allied forces, the source expresses how the mud consumed the soldiers in every aspect of their life, and that it was inescapable. The primary source quotes “I have known those who can face enemy barrage without flinching, who still shiver at the memory of their…

In the Modern era, many writers wrote about the many futile tasks they had to perform. A futile task would be any purposeless one. One of the many themes that occurred in a lot of writers’ poems is futility, which could be a person, behavior, or a task. The people in the Modern era were so focused on this theme of futility because everyday lives were changing rapidly. One work that exemplifies this really well is “S.I.W” by Wilfred Owen. His poetry describes the grotesque reality of the…

Pew Pew! Another man was hit in the shoulder He was bleeding quite badly. I cut of his shirt around the wound with my bandage shears, poured in sulfa powder and applied the dressing. I was writing up the tag on the man when another flight of German bombers came over very low and, when one was directly over me, I saw the bombs release. However the bombs kept going forward so they missed us. “You suck!” I shouted. As i finished patching up this man, i spot another injured soldier. I held up…

It is utterly obvious that the topic of war is a repetitive one. Although, it is almost always agreed that the many hardships of war will cause the people to get involved, whether it’s the soldier themselves or the family and friends of the soldiers. This can be devastating because war is hard on more people than just the soldiers. Most of these effects can be looked at through pictures, writing, poetry, and all other forms of expression. Although Donald Bruce Dawe and Wilfred Owen, the writers…

Owen’s exploration of extraordinary human experiences is vividly exhibited in ‘Dulce et Decorum’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’. These two highly developed poems successfully prove that the most influential texts are those which have an intense focus on extraordinary human experiences. By being able to immerse the audience in striking imagery, Owen questions the value of war, whilst scrutinising the suffering on the battlefield in an aggravated manner. The experiences of war for…

The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” is written by Wilfred Owen, a lieutenant in WWI. It describes war and the death. This poem makes use of an ABAB rhyme scheme, sounding like a march with a steady beat. Owen tries to convey the differences and disconnect between what war is like to the soldiers and what civilians believe war is like. Throughout the poem, there is a constant reminder of the horror of war and its true brutal nature, Owen “captures so compellingly not only the tribulations of the…

‘Dulce et Decorum est’ and ‘The Soldier’ are both war poems which outlines the different perspectives and messages conveyed to the readers. They both ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ by Wilfred Owen explores a real event where he experiences and fights in the front lines of battlefield. It was written in 1917 during WW1, when Owen was hospitalised with a war poet who inspired him to capture the horrific realism of war. Owen’s anti-war perspective developed because of the tragic effects war has on young…

1. In “For Esme with Love and Squalor”, the first half of the story is just the meeting of our narrator and Esme. It sets up the second half of the story, which is really the core of story, chock full of literary themes, such as isolation, death, ignorance, friendship and recovery. The second half of our story our narrator who is a soldier in WW II, just like most soldier in wars, is greatly effected in a negative way by the horrors that he witnesses. The threat of death creeping over his…