Dulce et Decorum Est

How does The Charge of the Light Brigade and Exposure show the writers’ opinions on war? The Charge of the Light Brigade (written by Alfred Lord Tennyson) was set in the Crimean war and the battle of Balaclava. Exposure however was set in the middle of World War 1, the poet Wilfred Owen was a soldier on the frontline during this war. Unfortunately, Wilfred Owen passed away exactly one week before ‘D’ day. This difference in contexts leads the poets’ to portray war in different ways. Tennyson…

Forbidden Zones: The Great War Production Essay On ENTER DATE, I went to see Forbidden Zones: The Great War written and directed by Lesley Ferris. This play was performed by the Ohio State Theatre at Ohio State’s Drake Performance Center in the Roy Bowen Theatre. This play, which focuses on short scenes that show the horrors of World War One, used multiple characters over different storylines to show how war can affect the world. Because I am a fan of war stories, I was expecting this to be a…

“War is Kind” by Stephen Crane is a poem extremely critical of war and questions if the war and the death and destructions that the results are truly worth it. Crane uses sarcasm and irony to move the reader to be critical towards war and to see the pain it the causes. The pain suffered by the soldier is obvious, but this poem shows the pain that family members of the soldiers suffer as well. The repeated chorus, “Do not weep/for war is kind,” ties the emotional experience and the actual…

I picked Edvard Munch's work of art from the book Gardener's Art Through The Ages, volume 2 by Fred S. Kleiner. Edvard Munch's piece titled The Screaming (Kleiner, 711) which speak to the anguish of a man. This piece was made in 1893 as a portrayal of what the painter lived before in his life. The piece's available area is "National Gallery Oslo" (Kleiner, 711). This piece is "Tempera and pastels on cardboard by 2' 11.25'' X 2' 5''" (Kleiner, 711). The work is a brilliant portrayal of the…

Avant-garde played a crucial role in the process of developing the area of the arts. Moreover, the response towards atrocities in the World War I in this mainstream was the following. Importantly that a lot of the artists served as soldiers in this war and they tried to point out harmful circumstances of the battles. For example, the Mexican painter Rivera in his masterpiece known as “Man at the Crossroads with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future” (1931) portrayed the…

Poems from the First World War have often been analysed over the last 100 years. From these studies, it can be said that the poetry of the Great War differs from earlier poetry since in the war no specific rules for writing were given (c.f. Puissant 6). But also, poems from the First World War itself offer enormous contrasts (c.f. Longley 58). One corollary of the premise that poetry changed in the course of the war from an expression of martial aspiration and the glory of sacrifice to one of…

Owen uses tone to convey the brutality and bitterness of the many, young deaths as a result of the First World War. One example of his pessimistic attitude is evident in the title itself - ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’. The key words ‘doomed youth’ clearly capture that there was no hope for the fate of his generation, whose destiny, which awaited them, was just to die young. The oxymoronic title signifies that the war was so barbaric, death was an inevitable outcome of it. Another example of Owen’s…

Built in 1880, it became Rodin's first creation to be publicly shown under his name. Its height stands at 178 centimeters, or around 70 inches, and is made entirely out of bronze metal. The art movement Rodin drew inspiration from when creating this life-size sculpture was impressionism. Impressionism is an art form that results in "short, broken brushstrokes that barely convey forms, pure unblended colors, and an emphasis on the effects of light" (Samu, 2004) Impressionists…

R.C Sherriff presents Stanhope to us as a complex character through his responses and actions towards others and what others say about him. As R.C. Sherriff was a Captain in World War I and his play Journey’s End portrayed his experiences in the World War. He has presented Stanhope in this way to highlight to everyone how physically and mentally destructive War actually was and we can see this from the regression and deterioration in his character from Act 1 to 2. This was in stark contrast to…

John Press points out that it was, perhaps, the common soldiers who first apprehended the horror and suffering of the war in its full intensity, and the officers saw the conflict in a more heroic light than the other ranks (1969, 135). Life in the trenches was miserable for Rosenberg, not only because he was a private, but he was a Jew and an intellectual who did not have anyone to talk to about art or literature. What also makes him different from the other poets is the fact that he was a…