Masayuki Mori

In the beginning of Bao Ninh’s Sorrow of War, he used many literary devices such as diction, imagery, and symbolism and others to prove a sorrowful tone throughout the novel. Bao Ninh starts off the story with “On the banks of the Ya Crong Poco river, on the northern flank of the B3 battlefield in the Central Highlands, the Missing In Action Remains -Gathering Team awaits the dry season of 1975” (Ninh 3). Although most people would not know where the Ya Crong Poco river is, you can really…

It’s as if an elephant is sitting on his chest, crushing his lungs and making it nearly impossible to breathe. Everything around him has turned into a blur; he hardly notices his buddy shouting his name repeatedly. The yelling that surrounds him turns into crying as he falls unconscious with the needle still in his hand. A moment later he awakens, thankful that he bought more Naloxone at the drug store on his way home today and even more thankful his buddy saved his life again. The availability…

Est” by Wilfred Owen was written in first person to help regular civilians understand how gory and terrorizing war really is instead of being such a positive, heroic thing. It is not always a true statement with saying “Dulce et Decorum Est Pro patria mori” to a post traumatic World War Vietnam, which means “it is sweet and honorable to die for one’s country” Dictionary.com. Proved by Wilfred Owen, who fought in the war himself, made this poem in reply to a women who was writing poems to make…

George S. McGovern once said “I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” McGovern is stating that the “old men”, the government use the young men of a specific country to fight the wars they initiate. War is most of the time seen as a sense of pride and tribute for one’s country, but many don’t realize the savagery battlefields hold. Just like George McGovern, the poet, Wilfred Owen, who was a soldier in World War One and died in that Great War wrote many…

The poem ‘War Photographer’ addresses the tragedies that take place at war and the issues in the way the western world perceive the photos that raise awareness to these horrible situations. The strong feelings of frustration, love of his job and suffering are portrayed throughout the poem. The photographer is ‘finally’ alone implying that he is welcoming his solitary connotes that his company was not welcoming. This is most likely due to the fact that the majority of them would be soldiers and…

Through the poems “Channel Firing”, “Dover Beach” and “ Dulce et Decorum est ” the respective poets Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold and Wilfred Owen are describing the world’s current situation that is violent and for a common person, not liveable. All the three poems are clearly quoting that there is no peace, kindness, love and emotions left in this world and if this situation doesn’t stop , the day will come soon when all the humanity shall pay for their deeds. Thomas hardy quoted the God in his…

Peace is one of the most important concepts that many people around the world long for. However, during World War I, propaganda in Britain and other countries meant that many soldiers were ecstatic to join the war and serve their countries. After gaining first-hand experience himself, Wilfred Owen’s “Disabled” exposes the calamity of war, by contrasting a generic disabled soldier who is young and naive before the Great War, when he was “whole”, and after losing his legs (and possibly arms) in…

few conflicts have been that horrific like the First World War. Being one of its combatants, the English poet Wilfred Owen was one of the first to question military propaganda which defended the old Latin proverb: “Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori”; meaning ‘it is sweet and glorious to die for one’s country’. With nothing else than words, he created a distinguished and innovative masterpiece that condemned the grandeur of war by picturing how cruel and deranged the reality in the front was.…

War, a controversial dilemma, can often resolve itself through an orderly fashion, rather than an atrocious disaster. In “The Sniper,” written by Liam O’Flaherty, a Republican soldier who fights for his life against the so-called “Free Staters” in the Irish civil war, comes to suffer from drastic emotional trauma when someone he loves becomes fatally wounded. In Liam O’Flaherty’s story, “The Sniper” uses irony to demonstrate how war reduces human beings to mere objects. Unexpected occurrences…

Pro patria mori.” Serious imagery is used in lines 19 - 25 with lines like “And watch the white eyes writhing in his face” (line 19), this line gives the reader an imagery of the dead man’s lifeless body, he describes “white eyes” like they have lived on their own…