Owens

Although Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est and Owen Seaman’s Pro Patria deal with the subject of war, both poems are distinctly different in their treatment of the subject. First, Owen’s theme is the brutality and horror of war, whereas Seaman’s theme is patriotism and valor. Owen’s poem focuses on the ghastly, gruesome and gory memories of being on the battlefield when a gas attack occurs. This is noted in the lines “In all my dreams before my helpless sight, / He plunges at me, guttering,…

Ungar and his Liberal Arts Degree Sanford J. Ungar, the writer of “The New Liberal Arts”, argues that a liberal arts degree isn’t as questionable of a decision as believed to be. He trusts that a smaller independent college is a much more intimate setting where students continue learning habits that only better their mentality in terms of education and personality and will stick with them throughout the rest of their lives. More specifically Ungar believes that attending a liberal arts school…

Valentin klinkpe Mr Tim Murphy English 102 03/28/2016 ‘You are the enemy I killed, my friend’ “Strange meeting” by Wilfred Owen Poems are known mainly for the illustration of thoughts, strong beliefs, or emotions. However, through the self-expression of many poets, it is denoted that they speak of important lessons, and morals. As many types of poems there are, as different thoughts, lessons, or moral education they portray to the readers. Nevertheless, I will like to emphasis on a specific…

In Homecoming by Bruce Dawe and Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, the two authors used a range of poetic devices to represent their messages and theme. Dulce Et Decorum Est message is about the authors time in the war and their experience with gas attacks during world war 1 where as Homecoming is about bringing the dead soldiers home from Vietnam war. The two poems have the same overall anti-war message presenting that the idea of war is waste. Both Authors have used some similar as well as…

The first scene in the film begins with the voices of news casters as the credits rolled then cuts to the opening scene a mid length shot showing a crowd of sad faces of people in a coffee shop just hearing deviating news of the youngest person in the worlds death. then the second cut of the movie shot to the tv screen on the wall of the coffee shop as the news continues to report on the tragic accident. The frame has the tv positioned slitty of centered allowing some of the background of the…

With the release of the 2011 film Bully, the world was introduced to Alex Libby, a 13-year-old student from Iowa (Hirsh). Alex soon became the sympatric face for victims of bullying when the film followed him through a typical day of physical harassment, name-calling and death threats. Despite Alex’s efforts to report the bullying to adults at the school, the bullying continued until the movie producers feared for Alex’s well being and showed the videos to his parents. Alex’s parents were…

these groundbreaking inventions, men, women, and children were also introduced to new struggles. Families worked and lived in poor working conditions that exhausted them and put their health at risk. James Phillips Kay, Friedrich Engels, and Robert Owen helped describe the hardships and despair the people were facing during this time period. James Phillips Kay, a physician who practiced medicine in Manchester, England, discussed the struggles the working class was facing during the Industrial…

“Disabled” by Wilfred Owen and “I Am!” by John Clare are both poems of people who are experiencing grief. The speaker in “I Am!” believes his “friend forsake [him] like a memory lost.” He is “like vapours tossed/ [i]nto the nothingness of scorn and noise… [w]here there is neither sense of life or joys.” What has caused his troubles is not made known to the reader, but the speaker expresses his grief deeply. The focus of “Disabled,” on the other hand, is a soldier who was grievously injured in a…

of the soldiers. This can be devastating because war is hard on more people than just the soldiers. Most of these effects can be looked at through pictures, writing, poetry, and all other forms of expression. Although Donald Bruce Dawe and Wilfred Owen, the writers of the war poems Homecoming and Dulce Est Decorum Est, have completely different stylistic characteristics, both of them effectively use literary devices such as imagery, personification, and simile to help the reader understand the…

How would we ever know how war truly is if it wasn 't for literature? Reading literature can help you better understand the hardships and tragedies, they Finish the positive attitude,and challenges your view about war. They touch our hearts, in a way that textbooks are unable to. A good story makes us put ourselves in those characters shoes. Stories spark empathy, they make you interpret them, and think of the many tragic possibilities and consequences that war can bring upon us. Literature…