Deus Caritas Est

Keesh Brewer Dr.Zubel English 200 10 October 2017 The hand that signed the paper In the poem “The hand that signed the paper” by Dylan Thomas, the poet harshly mocks the cold and unfriendliness present of politics and conflict. This poem is explicitly about war. The tone of the speaker reveals his disgust for political leaders as a whole. Throughout this paper the poem will be analyzed through literary devices, as well as elements and themes in the poem which come together as a whole.…

Introduction Wilfred Owen is one of the most well known poets of the First World War; he was born in England in 1893 and joined the military when he was 22 years old. He wanted to be a poet since a very young age and wrote his earlier poems when he was around 17 years old. In 1915, during the First World War, he enlisted in the British army and his first active service was at Serre and St.Quentin in 1917. He continued writing during his time as a soldier but was in active duty only for a few…

War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy is about a photographer who is struggling with the consequences and reality of war. The voice of criticism from the experience of war combined with the use of poetic devices exposes the theme of war. The poet uses compelling and distressing illustrations in this poem to enthrall pathos into the reader’s feelings. The use of pathos stirs up emotions of sympathy, sorrow, and despair. Thus, his photographic films are filled with pictures of the genuine agony…

Taking place during the American civil War, the novel The Red Badge Of Courage provides an accurate nature of war. The war machine is prevalent throughout the novel, and is represented by the utter differences between the idealized war and the real one. Stephen Crane successfully puts an emphasis on his realistic treatment of war by contrasting the protagonist Henry Fleming romanticized notions of war with the reality that he has to encounter. To begin with, the contrast is discernible…

The subject of war and the loss had deeply influenced poetry on the first half of the 20th century. Poets from all around the world had felt the direct influence of these earth-shattering wars and expressed their passionate responses towards the horrors of war. It was during the times of war in which the poems “Refugee blues” and “Disabled” were written by W.H. Auden and Wilfred Owen respectively. Considered to be some of the most remarkable pieces of literature, they were written in the times…

“Attack”, by Siegfried Sassoon, effectively represents a vivid and graphic view of the apathy of war by divulging into the minds of the soldiers, giving a more personal view to his poem. There are many such instances in which Sassoon’s clever diction. Instead of the norm of authors of his time, Sassoon did not emphasize the dramatics of war during the battle; he accentuated the pre-war stage. Firstly, Sassoon divulges into the fears of the soldiers. He does this by construing a grave scene.…

The Use of Literary Devices to Present Anti-War Sentiment in ‘I’m Explaining a Few Things’ by Pablo Neruda In ‘I’m Explaining a Few Things’, Pablo Neruda passionately expresses his anti-war attitude through a variety of literary techniques, such as his manipulation of structure and dramatic change of tone. The poem describes the atrocities committed in the Spanish town of Guernica during the early Spanish Civil War and details Neruda’s objection to the Nationalist faction of the war. ‘I’m…

Depicted above are lines 11, 12, and 13 from the poem “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley. In this sonnet, a broken statue of an arrogant king is described in a desolate place that was once his empire. Line 11 is part of the inscription on the statue itself. I was drawn to this passage by the blatant irony it presents, as I am often frustrated by man who he thinks he owns nature. Humans take extreme action to work against the natural world, such instances include the deforestation of land for…

Raphael Perez Mr. Pelegrin English 9 Period 5 6 September 2017 A Separate Peace: Warfare and Order From bloody battles in the war scene to conflicting relationships with each other, and breaking strict rules and getting away with breaking them, there was a lot going on at Devon. These are a few general examples of how the theme warfare and order is portrayed in A Separate Peace. What is warfare and order in A Separate Peace? Warfare is the wars going on around Devon and out of it, such as World…

In the year 1920, a few years after it was first drafted, Wilfred Owen published his poem Dulce et Decorum est. His poem, one of the most famous pieces of literature during this time about The Great War, told a story of the lives of soldiers living in the trenches. The poem starts out talking about himself (or the view of a fictional person who is telling the story in first person) who start to head to one of the camps designated for soldiers to rest as flares light up the night sky behind them.…