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War is one of those things that as much as one tries, one will never fully understand till one has lived the experience. However, Stephen Crane in his novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and Edward C. Judson in his poem, The Attack and Repulse, thoroughly explain the experience of being on the battlefield from two different perspectives. Crane, specifically in Chapter 5, writes about war seen through the eyes of the protagonist, Henry, and Judson writes about his own experience. Though both…

Yiluo Li HWL Ms. D’Eon 5 February 2015 Poetry Presentation Script Jessie Pope is an English poet, writer, and journalist. She is famous for her patriotic motivational poems during WWI. Starting from 1914, her poems were widely printed and published on Daily Mail, encouraging men and women to go to war. Her Pro-War attitude presented in poem also attracted some criticism, such a Wilfred Owen. Title is “A Humble Appeal” So the first time when I read it, I thought that this should be something…

In the poem Disabled, by Wilfred Owen, the character in the poem reminisces on past events and reveals all of the things that he has lost during the war. Disabled is thought to be Owen’s most disturbing and shocking poem when written in the year 1917. He wrote this poem whilst he was spending time in the hospital recuperating after returning from the battlefield and he revised the poem a year later. The theme of loss is portrayed throughout the poem in order to reflect Owen’s own experience of…

“Life is so single mindedly awful it seems a conscious, cosmic prank; it starts in pain, is pervaded by painful imitation, dislocation, guilt, desire, fear of responsibility and isolation; and it is always bestial violence and death.” Richard Kasleany in The Shock of Vision sum up approximates Hemingway’s view of life, which is the theme for all his novels. Being a journalist in profession Hemingway had a firsthand experience of the World War I which made him realize the inevitability of death…

In ‘1914’, Owen uses imagery principally drawn from images of seasons and nature to expose the destructive nature of war. From the publication of ‘1914’ to the publication of ‘Futility’ his use of images changes from seeing war as an abstract thing, simply what he imagined it to be to something concrete in his mind that he can’t erase. Both of the poems are sonnet but interestingly not an ode to love which emphasise how Owen has used sonnets to adapt to suit his purpose of exploiting the…

How do Fountain and Tanovic use features unique to their text type to critique the nature of contemporary warfare? Within their respective works, both Fountain and Tanovic expose the reality of contemporary warfare as an untold story of tragedy that is manipulated for personal agendas. They highlight that as a result of false narratives being created for personal agendas, the traditional war genre misrepresents the cyclical and inconclusive nature of contemporary warfare, as well as its…

The Victims of the US Military and the MS of MY KIN In her collection of poems titled, The MS of M Y KIN, Janet Holmes repurposes a collection of work done by Emily Dickinson in the period of the Civil War. Many of the original Dickinson poems have a reoccurring theme of war and military injustice that carries itself over into Holmes own pieces. While a lot of the poems hold military themes, the poem “1862.1 (272-277),” holds an especially tight link to the reoccurring silencing of military…

Good morning to the editor and others receiving this message. My suite of poems, specifically Dulce et Decorum Est and Insensibility invites the reader into the world of frontline bloodshed, exposing the unbearable mental and physical effects frontline warfare has on the human condition. My poems provoke their audience to acknowledge the importance of telling the truth by exposing how superimposed war zeitgeist by glorious war author’s led youthful solder’s to the frontline with perilous…

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, which depicts thoroughly life during war in such a tremendous way, has been a masterpiece of literature and an outstanding success of its time. The novel introduces readers to the peculiar diversity of thoughts and emotions of soldiers and leads us to believe that war has a substantial influence on people’s maturity and transformation. It can be seen from the character Henry Fleming, who at first was a mere coward filled with vanity and selfishness,…

Literature often focuses on the idea of truth, either by revealing it or trying to explain it. Two works of literature that fall into this category are: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, which follows the author’s experiences in the Vietnam War, and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, a novella that tells the tale of a man named Marlow’s journey through the Congo during 19th century. Heart of Darkness tackles motifs of prejudice and hypocrisy with the work’s main purpose being to challenge…