Et Cetera

“Disabled” is one of Owen’s more distressing and emotive poems. It was written when he was still in hospital after suffering from injuries sustained from the battlefield. In the poem, Owen describes the present through images that the soldier sees with his own eyes after his “accident” and describes the past with flashbacks of the soldiers “old” life. He does this in order to show his readers the significant change that soldiers go through after coming back from war. The overall aim of this poem…

Kenneth Foote’s Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy examines monuments and memorials that deal with a variety of events in American History. He uses a variety of types of monuments dedicated to natural disasters, mass murders, assassinations, freak accidents and other varieties. Such monuments and memorials deal with what Foote believes is a “sense of place.” In doing so, Foote articulates the various meanings of the memories attached to sites of memorial and…

Name: Derwin Book Title: The Red Badge of Courage Author: Stephen Crane Major Characters with a brief description (add more bullets as necessary): • Name: Henry Fleming • Description: Beginning: o Fantasizer o Young o Vain o Self-centered o Wild End: o Emotional o Tough o Courage o Mature • Name: Jim Conklin • Description: o Strong o Self-reliant o Follower o Quiet o Gets the job done • Name: Wilson • Description: Beginning: o Loud o Arrogant o Young End: o Generous o Caring o Mature…

The irony helps Marlowe’s objectivity. Through his presentation of a military hero who defeats all enemies, yet who is himself subject to ultimate defeat, death, because of his mortality, through his presentation of two challenges to natural order and his declaration of their futility, through his presentation of an enemy that Tamburlaine conquers but whose character is questionable as a worthy opponent, and through his presentation of opposing points of view regarding names applied to…

Lincoln uses a large amount of figurative language, employing imagery, metaphors, and personification, to reinforce his points. When Lincoln says, “... and the war came” (line 27), he personifies the war by saying it is approaching the Union and the Confederacy. In line 46, Lincoln uses a metaphor when he says, “It may seem strange that any men should dare ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces,” comparing earning a living to getting paid to kill…

At first glance, The Things They Carried seems like a collection of one man's war stories. But this novel is full of so much more, it talks about love, loss, and recovery. The author, Tim O'Brien, being a veteran of the war himself, used his writing as a way to cope with the trauma he experienced. O'Brien connects these themes though the use of conceit. Conceit is the likening of two very opposite things through figurative language in stories. for example, love and war are completely different,…

In the early 19th century as World War One was declared Henry Newbolt was recruited by the head of Britain's War Propaganda Bureau to help shape and maintain public opinion in favour of the war effort. Shortly after ‘Vitai Lampada’ was published. The poem are is the belief that regardless of the situation the ‘Caption’ is to be obayed at all times, and the reward of ‘his Captain’s hand on his shoulder smote’ is enough to embarke upon the war. The use of ‘smote’ an old fashioned word along with…

education only to fail twice and join the Artist’s rifles, later to be commissioned into the Manchester Regiment as a lieutenant. Owen is seen as one of the great World War I poets because of his detailed poems and vivid imagery throughout them. In “Dulce et Decorum Est,” Owen gives life to a soldier who is marching back to camp with his platoon to get some rest after a battle. The title…

war is glorious and it is an honor to die for one’s country. The main theme Owen explores is the theme of death. Although ‘death’ is not mentioned throughout the poem, the context and situation of the soldiers further depicts the theme of death. Dulce et Decorum Est was written in 1917 while Owen was at Craig Lockhart and was published in 1920. The poem paints a scene of battlefield of soldiers being taken over by a poisonous gas. “Dulce” is a message to a poet and propagandist, Jessie Pope, who…

Idea: Grief is soul destroying Poems: Sylvia Plath's Mirror and W. H Auden's Stop all the Clocks Although the poems 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and 'Stop all the Clocks' by W. H Auden reflect different experiences of grief, they both convey that its repercussions are devastating. Plath's extended metaphor focuses on the pain of aging, whereas Auden's elegy explores the grief of the physical loss of a loved one. The idea of overwhelming grief is evident in the beginning stanza of Stop all the…