Rupert Brooke

Today war is considered stupendous, and the only option to some. Many disagree to such opinions. War only ends with one result, death. War can not only tear a family apart, but divide a country as a whole. Many families lose loved ones each year to war. Due to not many speaking out on such topic, authors use their works to screech for them. Many using experiences and storytelling, most use literary devices. Writers use imagery, irony, and structure to protest war.…

What are the costs of war? Both the famous Polish poet, Szymborska, and the famous American poet, Billy Collins, addresses this question in their poems. Szymborska in her poem, “The End and the Beginning” talks about the physical expenses of war. Szymborska begins her poem with the lines, “After every war/someone has to clean up,” (lines 1 and 2). To support the expenses of war, she uses the lines, “We’ll need the bridges back,/and new railway stations,” (lines 22 and 23). Also, she writes,…

While Wilfred Owen may seem like the heroic soldier who embarked on a great journey to come back with great tales of World War 1, Wilfred Owen did completely the opposite of what is believed in a true hero. In order to successfully fight a war, a country would need soldiers who are capable of carrying out the demands of the country. Nowadays, soldiers are only understood as the men and women who fought and defended their nation; instead, soldiers are more complex than what they are known for.…

Sing Him to Sleep In the three stanza poem “A Lullaby,” Randall Jarrell conveys the loneliness and alienation of all people during war. The first stanza shows what the soldier gives up to fight in the war. The second stanza shows how the soldier is treated during his time in the army and the third shows the consequences that soldiers have to face. The first stanza uses metaphors and imagery to show what a soldier gives up to fight in a war. Jarrell uses the first two lines, “ For wats his life…

The more a soldier seeks solace in the trenches, the more the earth of his mind becomes riddled with trenches and scarred from fallen shells. When a soldier returns home, he leaves the battlefield, but the battlefield has scarred his mind, and his head remains foggy with gas. Erich Maria Remarque, Ernest Hemingway, and Wilfred Owen documented the harsh reality faced by a soldier. These poets and authors words describe how loss is not just physical for a soldier. Each work describes how through…

can and do dictate the content as to not offend advertisers or to promote the company itself. A perfect example of this currently happening today is at Fox News. The 2004 documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch 's War on Journalism by filmmaker Robert Greenwald criticizes the Fox News Channel, and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, claiming that the channel is used…

It has long been suspected that the media, as a whole is a deceptive organization. Conspiracies have run rampant for decades, and simple common sense of the people has infiltrated the masses enough now alerting us not to believe everything we read. Deceptive reporting was first brought to public attention when Operation Mockingbird, designed and implemented by the US Central Intelligence Agency in the early 1950s was uncovered. It was exposed as the clandestine activity of those who wanted…

Quiet Kill Reacher did as instructed, handing over out the requested amount and then handed it to him. “Thank you,” said Bones placing the cash in his black attaché case, without any intention of actually purchasing the igloo plate. Reacher did not know that everybody except the “buyer” loses. And that often the seller is forced into foreclosure which hurts their credit and the neighborhood, as the igloo plate is left standing empty with its value deflated. And the lender who has been…

A skylight! It had to be, what else could be up there that would need to be covered like that. It was so faintly irradiated, the casual observer would have to wonder how he could be so sure this was a skylight, but the man had hope. Nothing else empowers the human will quite like hope does. So with this hope in his heart, the man set out to reach for the sky. He kept the fires going, but drew them in closer to maximize the lighting he needed. He then began to stack books. One by one, he took…

Jeremy, You know i'd rather go on a long drive with you and jam than go to a club any day. I can't wait to live life with youuuu. I don't care what I see or hear I can fucking feeeeel you. Ill still write you emails.. maybe before bed or after I wake up. But my attention will all be on you and helping run the democracy for 90% of the day, the 10% ill still be in the house.. or you'll be with me or know where Im at. I would like to go to the gym.. I've worked so hard for my tonnneee. I learned…