Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

Alva Elmer Metcalfe was born and raised in Brantford, Ontario. He was a student at Brantford Collegiate Institute. Later, he moved west to attend the University of Alberta. In Alberta, at twenty-two years of age he volunteered for the war. After a year at war Metcalfe was seriously injured in November 1915. His injury was a bullet wound to the thigh, which he received during battle. He was tended to at a hospital in England where he sent letters home to Brantford. In the letters Metcalfe was…

Before the Great war, the Europeans viewed war in a romantic sense. They viewed war as something to look forward to as it is a step toward manhood and helping your country rise up. But, Robert E. Lee’s quote about the American Civil war, “It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.” would ring true for the Europeans after World War I is over. The new technology coming from the Industrial Revolution had rewritten the rules of war. In the days of the…

Imagine being in such a society where you are always being watched and if to do something wrong you get tourchored. Imagine being in a situation like Winston he is in the book 1984 and he wonders when his suffering would end. Otherwise just like during world war two, the people of Asia and Africa wonder when their suffering will ever end. Imagine war that had induced your food shortage and less ways to hydrate yourselves. Imagine thinking of this question in your head would i prefer life or…

lesson relevant to teenagers. War is hate, war is destruction, war is death. The two poems ‘Dulce et decorum est’ and ‘ Who’s for the game’ are both talking about World War One, but they had different purposes. In ‘Who’s for the game’, Jessie Pope uses serval language techniques like rhetorical question and extended metaphor to continue teenagers to join the army to fight for their country. In’ Dulce et decorum est’ , the author Wilfred Owen has used simile and metaphor throughout his whole…

agony, and the guy on your left is lying on the ground withering in pain from the hole in his gut that was World War I. When it came to war, families had a notion that sending their sons off to war was a beautiful, and noble act. However, in “Dulce et Decorum Est” a poem by Wilfred Owen, he explains the reality of war and death. Through intense similes, and vivid imagery, the poet’s attitude about young men dying for their country is conveyed as one full of disapproval. By using similes,…

In the poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, literary devices allow the reader to imagine the horrible tragedies the soldiers fighting in the war had to face. Walking home from their harsh day fighting, gas shells strike the area, and not all the men are able to put their masks on in time. The speaker cannot comprehend how the people at home are continuing to call for war when they truly do not understand the agony war creates. Similes are used in Owen's poem to exaggerate the horrible…

1. Crane wrote “The Red Badge of Courage” with the intention of refuting the glorification of war. What’s fresh about this book is that Crane uses two type of fictional writing; naturalism and realism. This book is different from other books written about war. 2. I believe that the passage written by Crane deeply describes what the soldiers encountered during the bloody chaotic battle. As a reader, I think Crane’s book is much more interesting, thrilling, and easier to relate to. Crane’s story…

Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” are both poems that depict World War One as hellish and evil in nature, as soldiers, they are surrounded by death. Both poets represent death in an ironic way, because war is considered hellish and gruesome, people die, and Owen shows the irony between the romanticized war while Rosenberg shows irony through the freedom of a rat; the two poets alludes to death in devices such as imagery. “Break of Day in the Trenches” and “Dulce et Decorum Est” stand in…

In “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” the usage of metaphors and imagery throughout Jarrell’s poem helps the reader understand the overall theme of how war can cause death and wreak havoc in a young person, how can be a struggle for the soldier’s family, and how disappointing it is when a man doesn’t reach his full potential in life because of being forced to go to war. Jarrell uses key words throughout his poem to show us how war can be a terrible thing, especially for the young people…

“Auto Wreck” reveals what its poet considers to be the terrible secret of modern life: the creeping indifference toward technological determinism, the simple violence of machine against human being in which everyone participates by failing to be troubled or moved by such disasters as automobile wrecks. The tone of the poem is likely to be melodious which an imagism verse is. It is a short, lyrical narrative poem. The poem is described in first person narrative. The poet in short is trying to…