Dulce et Decorum Est

Stephen Crane was an American poet, novelist, impressionist, and a naturalist. His father was a Methodist minister and his mother was a woman with social concerns. Yet, he did not accept religious and social traditions. Crane was obsessed with war and very interested in any type of violence either physical or psychic. Even though he had never fought in war, he was a war correspondent. In his poems, "War is Kind" and "A Man Said to the Universe" Crane writes about war and the nature of human life…

Lawson is a dog who was tragically hit by a car. In typical fashion, the car did not stop after it hit Lawson and it kept driving. I guess there is a chance the driver did not realize he had hit Lawson, but from somebody who has hit a few other cars on the road with slight nicks and given the opportunity to say I didn't feel them, I can honestly tell you that you always feel them. When I bounced off that car and kept driving, I felt it! Me bouncing off of other people's cars and driving off due…

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…

One excerpt claims, “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory the old lie. Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.”As simplistic as it may seem the quote holds much weight. This compares a long established assumption with a negative connotation word, “lie.” “Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori” translates to, “sweet and honorable to die for one’s country.” As we learn from the entirety of the poem the many horrors of war the…

and diction just to name a few. Four poems which make great use of Figurative language are “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, “The eagle” by Lord Tennyson Alfred, “Harlem” by Langston Hughes, and “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop. These poems are so different and written in completely different time periods, but yet they still have things in common which make them worthy of study. Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owens crams this…

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…

Yiluo Li HWL Ms. D’Eon 5 February 2015 Poetry Presentation 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…

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…