Deus Caritas Est

Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” is a scathing condemnation of war that uses vivid and visceral imagery to contradict the idea that battle is glorious. The title of the poem ironically refers to the Latin maxim promoting the sweetness and nobility of war, while the first stanza contradicts this in its depiction of the harsh conditions of the battlefield and the traumatizing aftermath of war. This jarring juxtaposition between the idealism of society and the reality of the soldier’s…

Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Facing It” is intentionally composed to create the intense scene of a war veteran from Vietnam going to the war memorial and having momentous flashbacks and reflection. The first focus that the analysis of “Facing It” has is the meaning. The meaning of this poem is to mainly expose how Komunyakaa views war and the influence that he believes race has on war (Kraus 1). The next part of the analysis is the main themes of this poem, which are the brutal experiences of war,…

The picture shows the graphic intensity of war. This is a picture of a man who has been gassed, presumably by Cl2. Cl2 was a gas used by both sides that irritated the eyes, lungs, and skin; it is a very nasty gas that is lethal and toxic. The man is lying on a stretcher, he has been shot, and it looks like he has been shot multiple times as spots of deep color are shown on his clothes. These dark spots look similar to an entry wound that blood is pouring out of. The bandage on his head is most…

Dulce et Decorum Est, is a thought turning poem that really challenges the reader to ask him or herself where they stand on certain deep issues. In Dulce et Decorum Est, the author Wilfred Owen, sought after the issues of warfare, patriotism, and different versions of reality. Wilfred Owen addresses these issues by telling the experience one soldier has while coming back from a battle (believed to be during World War I). The soldier describes the turmoil and hardship of war, then tells of a…

“Dulce Et Decorum Est” is a poem by Wilfred Owen that showed the British what war was like when it first came out during World War I. People back then had an illusion in their minds of what war was really like and how their soldiers died, and this poem changed that. Owen uses poetic devices like imagery and metaphor to show the reader how terrible deaths in World War I were and how not every man could die a hero. “Dulce Et Decorum Est” shows that not all of the deaths in war are glorious. The…

Stephen Crane, author of “War Is Kind,” was a reporter in the Spanish-American war, where 100,000 civilians died. This is just one of many wars that resulted in the death of thousands of soldiers and civilians. Wilfred Owen, author of “Dulce et Decorum Est,” fought in WWI. In addition to these authors there are Writers from more recent wars, such as Tim O’brien author of The Things They Carried, fought in the Vietnam War. Another author from a recent war is Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow…

The poems ‘Anthem for doomed youth’ and ‘Dulce et decorum est’ by Wilfred Owen are both poems that were used to show the horror and mass suffering that world war 1 had on soldiers. Owen effectively used various language features that helped reinforce the idea in the poems of the horrific reality of war. I am going to analyse how these language features had created an effect of the war setting as Owen himself had seen it, through the use of metaphors, similes, alliteration, and various other…

comparison essay between All Quiet on the Western Front and Dulce Et Decorum Est The book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, and the poems Dulce Et Decorum Est and Suicide in the Trenches are similar because they include some of the same themes like horrors of war and camaraderie. In the book these two themes are used multiple times and in the two poems they are used as well In Dulce Et Decorum Est it showed horrors of war when Wilfred Owen writes “Many had lost their boots…

TIQA Essay The story “The Dogs Could Teach Me” by Gary Paulsen demonstrated the best example of description. In the story, it says “As I did, I kicked sideways, caught my knee on a sharp snag, and felt the wood enter under the kneecap and tear it loose.” This description of how his knee was torn makes you wince and clutch your own knee in pain as he describes how the injury happens. The explanation he gives makes you picture the vivid scene in action. Description is also shown where it says…

Stephen Crane was an American poet, novelist, impressionist, and a naturalist. His father was a Methodist minister and his mother was a woman with social concerns. Yet, he did not accept religious and social traditions. Crane was obsessed with war and very interested in any type of violence either physical or psychic. Even though he had never fought in war, he was a war correspondent. In his poems, "War is Kind" and "A Man Said to the Universe" Crane writes about war and the nature of human life…