Dulce et Decorum Est

Title: War Is Kind, about the good things war does for people and how it accommodates them positively. Paraphrase: Do not cry girl, war is good. Just because your lover got shot and his horse ran away, you shouldn’t cry. The drums of war are loud, the battlefield is full of your men who are craving a fight. These men were born to take orders and die. A flag flies above them where the spirit of battle is great, but the spirit left a thousand dead. Do not cry baby, war is good. Don’t cry…

In the excerpt from The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien effectively develops his philosophy that a soldier carries pride, and that they also hold the burden to do terrible things to others for justice and most of all they have to experience terrible things. through his creative use of a variety of syntax techniques. One such technique is his use of polysyndeton. . He writes, “War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling, war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.” The effect of…

Homecoming By Bruce Dawe Conflict, bloodshed, death and pain are some of the words that people associate to war. These words are commonly used by war poets, such as Bruce Dawe to express their passionate opinions about the war. In the poem Homecoming, Bruce Dawe is referring specifically to the Vietnam war and the young men and women who lost their lives. Dawe feels pity for these young soldiers as he believes that they were unappreciated for their bravery while facing the horrors of war. Dawe…

Currently it is in the middle of the American Revolution and the Continental Army have suffered loss after loss. George Washington and his men are fighting at Saratoga and is the lowest part of war for them, but George then decided to have Patrick Paine’s “The Crisis” read out loud to his men constantly. It is the Pathos statements in Paine’s writing that motivates the Continental Army to keep fighting and win one of the first major battles of the war and this then lead to the aid of the French…

War is brutal, animalistic, and goes against human reason. “Civil War” by Guns N’ Roses is a anti-war protest song about how war only creates more hate and how it has been going on for so long and no change has occurred. The song presents examples of anaphora, allusion. and personification in order to set the tone, include multiple perspectives, and to highlight diction which creates pathos. Anaphora, which means the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases,…

Owen is renowned throughout history as a poet who wouldn’t steer shy of the truth. This is evident throughout his work as he tells the truth about the utter barbarism of war, without holding back. He is therefore not consequently influenced by propaganda nor the past. The theme of the brutality of war is further enhanced throughout Mental Cases with the use of several uses of rhetorical questions in the first six lines. The first question “who are these?” shows us that the state of the soldiers…

In chapter nine of All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque uses diction and imagery to establish the theme that the people who are thought to be one’s enemies in war can actually turn out to share some similar qualities with one another. After Paul stabs the soldier who unexpectedly enters the shell hole Paul is in, he instantly regrets the action he has performed. As he watches the man’s life slowly fade away, Paul speaks to the nearly lifeless body and says, “If we threw away these rifles and…

Stephen Crane’s attitude towards war is bitter and gloomy in both the story “A Mystery Of Heroism” and the poem “War is kind”. He presents this using intimate imagery, as if he has been in/through a war himself. He mostly uses lyrical expressions in his story “A mystery of heroism”; whereas he is very sardonic in his poem “War is kind”. Either way his tone in both his works is very gloomy through the vivid imagery he uses. In his story “ A Mystery Of Heroism” Crane portrayed Fred Collins being…

Men,” reveals the loss of faith in God by veterans after enduring WWI. Eliot suggests that the modern loss of religion creates a desolate and faithless society. Following WWI, the veterans that returned home were faced with the reality that dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, which translates to “it is sweet and honorable to die for one’s country” was not their truth. After witnessing the horrors that took place in the war, the veterans realized that falling for one’s country was not a…

body with that of his nation; he is England, therefore as long as English remains, as will he. Similarly, Frost denotes a soldier as fallen lance susceptible to rust over the longevity of time. Even after death the soldier lives. The phrase "Dulce et Decorum est" is Latin for, "It is sweet and right to die for one's country" - or, more informally, "it is an honor to die for one's country". Through Owen’s sennott, the very definition of patriotism is spelt out. Owen explores the horrific…