Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

We chose this picture and text because this text perfectly match up with this painting. They express the same theme and idea. Moreover, we can have the same feeling by reading and looking at this text and poem. After I researched this picture, I know that the painter of this painting is Gyrth Russell, an Canada war artist. The main color in this picture is blue, and blue is a symbol of sadness. However, there are also some orange in this pictures as well. Orange is a symbol of hope. The…

Throughout the poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” the author constantly uses many forms of imagery to help prove his point. With his use of similes, descriptive imagery and powerful word choice, Wilfred Owen, the author, is able to get the reader to understand the real side of war; a fight that is a horrific and disturbing experience to those fighting, which is contrary to the popular belief that war brings glory to those who partake in it. Owen utilizes creative similes to help the reader…

Introduction Wilfred Owen joined the army in 1915, where he fought on the Western front, experiencing shellshock. Owen developed his war poetry by getting inspiration from Siegfried Sassoon who was a poet himself. (bbc.co.uk) Rupert Brooke was also a soldier who fought In World war 1, but did not experience it fully, due to his death in 1915, when the war was not over at all. Through the poems of Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke, form, structural devices, figurative language, and sound devices…

War is one of those things that as much as one tries, one will never fully understand till one has lived the experience. However, Stephen Crane in his novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and Edward C. Judson in his poem, The Attack and Repulse, thoroughly explain the experience of being on the battlefield from two different perspectives. Crane, specifically in Chapter 5, writes about war seen through the eyes of the protagonist, Henry, and Judson writes about his own experience. Though both…

Script Jessie Pope is an English poet, writer, and journalist. She is famous for her patriotic motivational poems during WWI. Starting from 1914, her poems were widely printed and published on Daily Mail, encouraging men and women to go to war. Her Pro-War attitude presented in poem also attracted some criticism, such a Wilfred Owen. Title is “A Humble Appeal” So the first time when I read it, I thought that this should be something about society, calling attentions for poor social groups,…

In the poem Disabled, by Wilfred Owen, the character in the poem reminisces on past events and reveals all of the things that he has lost during the war. Disabled is thought to be Owen’s most disturbing and shocking poem when written in the year 1917. He wrote this poem whilst he was spending time in the hospital recuperating after returning from the battlefield and he revised the poem a year later. The theme of loss is portrayed throughout the poem in order to reflect Owen’s own experience of…

“Life is so single mindedly awful it seems a conscious, cosmic prank; it starts in pain, is pervaded by painful imitation, dislocation, guilt, desire, fear of responsibility and isolation; and it is always bestial violence and death.” Richard Kasleany in The Shock of Vision sum up approximates Hemingway’s view of life, which is the theme for all his novels. Being a journalist in profession Hemingway had a firsthand experience of the World War I which made him realize the inevitability of death…

In ‘1914’, Owen uses imagery principally drawn from images of seasons and nature to expose the destructive nature of war. From the publication of ‘1914’ to the publication of ‘Futility’ his use of images changes from seeing war as an abstract thing, simply what he imagined it to be to something concrete in his mind that he can’t erase. Both of the poems are sonnet but interestingly not an ode to love which emphasise how Owen has used sonnets to adapt to suit his purpose of exploiting the…

How do Fountain and Tanovic use features unique to their text type to critique the nature of contemporary warfare? Within their respective works, both Fountain and Tanovic expose the reality of contemporary warfare as an untold story of tragedy that is manipulated for personal agendas. They highlight that as a result of false narratives being created for personal agendas, the traditional war genre misrepresents the cyclical and inconclusive nature of contemporary warfare, as well as its…

The Victims of the US Military and the MS of MY KIN In her collection of poems titled, The MS of M Y KIN, Janet Holmes repurposes a collection of work done by Emily Dickinson in the period of the Civil War. Many of the original Dickinson poems have a reoccurring theme of war and military injustice that carries itself over into Holmes own pieces. While a lot of the poems hold military themes, the poem “1862.1 (272-277),” holds an especially tight link to the reoccurring silencing of military…