Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

A More Compelling Case While both are well known, Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen is not nearly as renowned as John McCrae's In Flanders Fields. Despite being the less popular, Owen's account of World War II is significantly more compelling. For many reasons Dulce et Decorum Est is the superior poem. For example, Owen's ability to implement skillful analogies far exceeds that of McCrae. While McCrae's infamous lines “To you from failing hands we throw / The torch” (McCrae 11-12)…

Many people used to mistake war as a beautiful, sweet thing; a place where young men went to give their family pride. But, as a man who went through the pain and suffering first hand, Wilfred Owen wrote a poem called “Dulce et Decorum Est”. It is a poem about the realities of war and the horrors that come with it. Owen splits his poem into two different parts, using visual ideas in the first half, and visceral ideas in the second half in order to negatively display war to his readers, which in…

Comparing two war poems written by Wilfred Owen: Dulce et decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth. In this essay I will be comparing two war poems written by Wilfred Owen: ‘Dulce et decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’. By…

Hayden Carruth is an American poet who wrote during the twentieth century-modernism movement. He served in World War II and uses a lot of his personal experiences in his writing (Contemporary Authors Online). In “None,” Carruth is able to use many different allusions to show the speaker’s underlying regret for not showing his friend off properly. Carruth uses images, irony, and allusions to show the speaker’s remorse and regret to how his friend was treated. Carruth uses images of the…

Assess the ways in which any two artists have responded to conflict in the twentieth century Pablo Picasso and Chris Offili have both respectively created artworks which display their reaction to conflict in the twentieth century. Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ of 1937 remains one of the most emotionally charged paintings that exists today portraying the atrocities of war in Spain, while Offili’s ‘No Woman No Cry’ painting 61 years later shows a reaction to a more contemporary event in which the theme…

“Disabled” is one of Owen’s more distressing and emotive poems. It was written when he was still in hospital after suffering from injuries sustained from the battlefield. In the poem, Owen describes the present through images that the soldier sees with his own eyes after his “accident” and describes the past with flashbacks of the soldiers “old” life. He does this in order to show his readers the significant change that soldiers go through after coming back from war. The overall aim of this poem…

Kenneth Foote’s Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy examines monuments and memorials that deal with a variety of events in American History. He uses a variety of types of monuments dedicated to natural disasters, mass murders, assassinations, freak accidents and other varieties. Such monuments and memorials deal with what Foote believes is a “sense of place.” In doing so, Foote articulates the various meanings of the memories attached to sites of memorial and…

Name: Derwin Book Title: The Red Badge of Courage Author: Stephen Crane Major Characters with a brief description (add more bullets as necessary): • Name: Henry Fleming • Description: Beginning: o Fantasizer o Young o Vain o Self-centered o Wild End: o Emotional o Tough o Courage o Mature • Name: Jim Conklin • Description: o Strong o Self-reliant o Follower o Quiet o Gets the job done • Name: Wilson • Description: Beginning: o Loud o Arrogant o Young End: o Generous o Caring o Mature…

The irony helps Marlowe’s objectivity. Through his presentation of a military hero who defeats all enemies, yet who is himself subject to ultimate defeat, death, because of his mortality, through his presentation of two challenges to natural order and his declaration of their futility, through his presentation of an enemy that Tamburlaine conquers but whose character is questionable as a worthy opponent, and through his presentation of opposing points of view regarding names applied to…

Lincoln uses a large amount of figurative language, employing imagery, metaphors, and personification, to reinforce his points. When Lincoln says, “... and the war came” (line 27), he personifies the war by saying it is approaching the Union and the Confederacy. In line 46, Lincoln uses a metaphor when he says, “It may seem strange that any men should dare ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces,” comparing earning a living to getting paid to kill…