Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

The horrors of conflict include events from World War One and post-apocalyptic environments, both events can be presented through the harrowing and saddening works of both Wilfred Owen and Cormac McCarthy. Both texts look at the horrors that have derived from conflict including: nature turning against humanity; the loss of civilisation; the loss of faith and the idea of morality. Steven Frye notes that the themes within The Road “deal directly with violence, human degradation, and both human and…

“The Things They Carried” Essay At war, a battlefield is a perilous place, a place where blood is stained red. It is where men and women carry physical as well as emotional loads such as grief, love, terror, longing and etc. In "The Things They Carried", by Tim O'Brien, the American novelist tells his readers about the transformations of Lieutenant Cross. At the beginning of the story, Lieutenant Cross was on the battlefield of the Vietnam War with his comrades. While he was there, Cross keeps…

Zacary Calvetti November 13, 2017 6th hour The theme of this poem, would be a soldier who thinks of war as beautiful rather than it being a dreadful and sad environment. I would think that the author wrote it in a descriptive style, because he describes what has happened by using tone and imagery. In the first part of the poem, Ehrhart wrote, “What if I didn’t shoot the old lady running away from our patrol, or the old man in the back of the head, or the boy in the marketplace?” (Ehrhart). He…

In the beginning of Bao Ninh’s Sorrow of War, he used many literary devices such as diction, imagery, and symbolism and others to prove a sorrowful tone throughout the novel. Bao Ninh starts off the story with “On the banks of the Ya Crong Poco river, on the northern flank of the B3 battlefield in the Central Highlands, the Missing In Action Remains -Gathering Team awaits the dry season of 1975” (Ninh 3). Although most people would not know where the Ya Crong Poco river is, you can really…

It’s as if an elephant is sitting on his chest, crushing his lungs and making it nearly impossible to breathe. Everything around him has turned into a blur; he hardly notices his buddy shouting his name repeatedly. The yelling that surrounds him turns into crying as he falls unconscious with the needle still in his hand. A moment later he awakens, thankful that he bought more Naloxone at the drug store on his way home today and even more thankful his buddy saved his life again. The availability…

pride and tribute for one’s country, but many don’t realize the savagery battlefields hold. Just like George McGovern, the poet, Wilfred Owen, who was a soldier in World War One and died in that Great War wrote many anti-war poems. In Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” he attacks the glamorized perspective of war, the philosophy that it is full of honor, and that to die for one’s country is an act of great heroism through the use of strong diction, vivid, influential imagery…

The poem ‘War Photographer’ addresses the tragedies that take place at war and the issues in the way the western world perceive the photos that raise awareness to these horrible situations. The strong feelings of frustration, love of his job and suffering are portrayed throughout the poem. The photographer is ‘finally’ alone implying that he is welcoming his solitary connotes that his company was not welcoming. This is most likely due to the fact that the majority of them would be soldiers and…

Through the poems “Channel Firing”, “Dover Beach” and “ Dulce et Decorum est ” the respective poets Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold and Wilfred Owen are describing the world’s current situation that is violent and for a common person, not liveable. All the three poems are clearly quoting that there is no peace, kindness, love and emotions left in this world and if this situation doesn’t stop , the day will come soon when all the humanity shall pay for their deeds. Thomas hardy quoted the God in his…

Peace is one of the most important concepts that many people around the world long for. However, during World War I, propaganda in Britain and other countries meant that many soldiers were ecstatic to join the war and serve their countries. After gaining first-hand experience himself, Wilfred Owen’s “Disabled” exposes the calamity of war, by contrasting a generic disabled soldier who is young and naive before the Great War, when he was “whole”, and after losing his legs (and possibly arms) in…

War, a controversial dilemma, can often resolve itself through an orderly fashion, rather than an atrocious disaster. In “The Sniper,” written by Liam O’Flaherty, a Republican soldier who fights for his life against the so-called “Free Staters” in the Irish civil war, comes to suffer from drastic emotional trauma when someone he loves becomes fatally wounded. In Liam O’Flaherty’s story, “The Sniper” uses irony to demonstrate how war reduces human beings to mere objects. Unexpected occurrences…