Deus Caritas Est

The writings “How to Tell a True War Story”, “Dulce et Decorum est”, and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” offer contrasting portraits of war. The contrasts between “How to Tell a True War Story”, “Dulce et Decorum est”, and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” can clearly be outlined through their acknowledgement of the most prevalent, unavoidable element of war, death. “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’Brien, address death as a matter of fact, consequence of war. Though, O’Brien is…

War has been in the world since the start of humans. Many people encourage it while other don’t. In the poem Who's for the Game? By Jessie Pope, and the poem Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen both of them are about war. Jessie Pope's poem was written first then Owens followed. The two poems are different in the way of views of war. Pope, talks how you cannot get hurt and that you should go for your country, while Owen's is a poem from what war actually is not what the people think it is.…

Beach Burial written by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor is a harrowing elegy which mourns the vast destruction of war. Grasping a thorough understanding of the historical context of the poem is imperative in order to recognize the purpose and impact of the poem. The poem demonstrates a powerful critique of the nature of war through the exploration of ideas such as the anonymity of soldier’s deaths and how it is death that delivers soldier’s from the horrors of war. The success of the poem can be…

The panels that presented on Czeslaw Milosz’s poetry and my own analysis of “A Song for the End of the World” helped shape my understanding of the importance irony and Milosz’s desire to depict the atrocities felt by the Polish during World War II have in his work. Milosz was a Polish poet who lived through World War II. The impact of the war is seen throughout all of his poetry. In the poem “Incantation” Milosz uses images commonly associated with World War II and the Holocaust, such as “bars”…

One effective technique that was used in the poem of Dulce Et Decorum Est and the Soldier was imagery. Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen uses imagery to create a visualization for the reader to deepen their understanding of the authors work that they may visualise the writer's purpose. For example; In the Dulce Et Decorum Est," His hanging face, like a devils sick of sin", Owen was describing how the soldier's face was so distressed that the soldier had turned into a demonic figure that is sick of…

enlisted in the war thought it would be a noble thing to do, but as it turns out the war ended up being a messy and bloody war. In Wilfred Owen’s poem, “Dulce Et Decorum Est”, he develops the theme of war and the horrors that it offers through his imagery and personification throughout his poem. Owen’s poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est”, he describes the horror of war. He states of shells falling from the sky and gas being released into the battlefield. Later into the poem, the poet experiences a…

A major way the text illustrates the importance of remaining connected to one’s humanity is through the contrast of Reinhard and the other combatants in the war. Those deeply entrenched in the war exhibit a lack of feeling and compassion and seem to be wholly consumed by the war. Paul Neumarkt, author of the text “The Orgy of Self-Renunciation an Analysis of the Motif of War in Modern Literature,” writes in depth about self-renunciation in war time settings. Neumarkt analyzes three different…

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…