Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

“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 novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut it is immediately clear that the author’s intent was to write a novel revealing the effect that war has on the people involved and address these issues as well as how harmful the glamorization of them are by writing an anti-war satire. Vonnegut executed this successfully by explainingly thoroughly the lasting effects war has on people and using examples of the negative and desperate ways that these people will try to cope with their feelings…

In Stevie Smith's poem, Not Waving but Drowning, the helpless cries of a drowning man are mistaken for friendly waves by onlookers. On a more complex level, the poem illustrates the lifelong struggle of depression and the agony it brings, which is only apparent when the damage has been dealt. The poem opens with a serious tone, introducing a drowning man, which then transitions into a more casual second stanza, making use of the literary device bathos. The use of this technique reveals that…

The Savage Deterioration of Man Charles Yale Harrison’s remorseless novel Generals Die in Bed strips war of it’s heroic mirage and examines it, rather, as brutalizing. The myths about war’s glory are destroyed by showing the sheer agony of the soldiers’ experiences in the trenches through factors such as abusive officers, lice and starvation. The aftermath of such hardship results in the psychological and emotional ramifications of desperation, barbarism and insanity on the common soldiers. The…

Dulce et decorum est, Wilfred Owen Dulce et decorum est is a poem written by Wilfred Owen. This very famous poem is about the great war and describes this tragedy in great detail. This poem uses many poetic techniques to display the theme of the poem which is war and conflict. One of the main literary techniques that are evident in this poem are the use of similes. Similes are a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind. An example of similes…

Technology is such a big part of our lives that we often forget that there is more than one way to remember the past or any event for that matter. When we see a picture for example, we are immediately taken back to that moment. Right in front of us we have the surroundings, the people, or even the things that were there the day it was taken. Although we do not realize it, when we read a poem there is a very similar effect. If we close our eyes we can can see the picture that the poet is trying…

In the short story “What I Saw of Shiloh” by Ambrose Bierce, he describes a great contrast between the nobility of officers and the brutality of battle. He paints a brutal picture of war in when he says “This fearful scene was enacted within fifty paces of our toes, but we were rooted to the ground as if we had grown there. But now our commanding officer rode from behind us to front, waved his hand with the courteous gesture that says après vous, and with a barely audible cheer we sprang into…