Bombyx mori

In writing of his own experience in the Iraq War, Turner creates a style of writing, which is seen as a witness of war in poetry. Brian Turner’s “16 Iraqi Policemen”, and Autopsy is so startling and it is able to leap off the pages and have a grip onto the reader where it refuses to let go. Adding to this, these poems are able to give a taste of what it was like being apart of the Iraqi war, and what it was like to be a bystander. At times Brian Turner is brilliant with how he is able to connect…

“War is hell” (O’Brien 1154). That simple line enlightens so much about what war is and how it is portrayed throughout this short story. The author contradicts himself as he tells the story, to make the point that every contradiction has a story in its own. Three of the most memorable quotes are, “…war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty” (1155). “War makes you a man; war makes you dead” (1155). Lastly, “In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, … in…

War Essay When someone hears the word war, what do they think: fighting, winning, losing, possibly even death? War is brutal, authors show us that in their literary works in order for us to understand what happens. Writers protest war using imagery, irony, and structure. Imagery is vital in showing civilians war. In “War Is Kind” by Stephen Crane, readers can see “[a] field where a thousand corpses lie”(11 Crane). This reveals the effects of war. In “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen a…

The work of art I am choosing to discuss romantic characteristics of is, "The Raft of the Medusa" by Theodore Gericault. This picture depicts the survivors of the "Medusa", a french ship that sunk after a tragic accident. This painting is a huge representation of a macabre theme. It is very disturbing due to the fact that men are lying lifelessly upon the ground and the whole painting creates uneasy feelings. Gericault does a tremendous job at exemplifying the two extremes of hope and despair.…

Today war is considered stupendous, and the only option to some. Many disagree to such opinions. War only ends with one result, death. War can not only tear a family apart, but divide a country as a whole. Many families lose loved ones each year to war. Due to not many speaking out on such topic, authors use their works to screech for them. Many using experiences and storytelling, most use literary devices. Writers use imagery, irony, and structure to protest war.…

interpretation of Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” reveals the terror of war and the response of fear and anxiety towards wartime atrocities. The soldier experiences the mustard gas first hand, and from his experience, he questions “dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” or “ it is sweet and proper to die for one’s country.” Love justifies the actions of hatred and fury, but love questions the actions of hatred and fury as well. War corrupts innocence and youth. The soldier experiences a terror that…

Both Herman Melville along with Walt Whitman published the volumes of poetry that focus mainly on the civil war. In spite of both poetry having similarities, they have differences in philosophical as well as political approaches concerning civil war, their way of transmitting ideas along with their conception. Whitman normally experiments as well as explores the free verse whereas the Melville normally strictly builds his poetry. Their stylistic normally differ parallel and the dissimilarities…

The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest American novels written by Stephen Crane. Unfortunately, this book was banned due to its excessive violence and the enmity that the author has towards soldiers. “The Red Badge of Courage in 1895. Regardless, the book is considered one of the most accurate portrayals of the physical and psychological effects of intense battle.” (Shmoop) What the author is trying to make the reader understand is that in war you either be a coward and run for your…

World War 1 was believed to be the war that would end all wars. It was new, exciting and was expected to be over before the Christmas of 1914. Then, 4 years later, after gruesome trench warfare and severe casualties, our views on war changed completely. The days of enthusiastic enlistment dissolved, while the horrifying reality about the battlefield emerged. This change in beliefs, and the influence of generations, can be seen accurately through the poems, “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen…

Introduction Wilfred Owen joined the army in 1915, where he fought on the Western front, experiencing shellshock. Owen developed his war poetry by getting inspiration from Siegfried Sassoon who was a poet himself. (bbc.co.uk) Rupert Brooke was also a soldier who fought In World war 1, but did not experience it fully, due to his death in 1915, when the war was not over at all. Through the poems of Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke, form, structural devices, figurative language, and sound devices…