Rupert Brooke

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,…

How Love May Not Provide Successful Comfort Warzones can be incredibly violent, terrifying, and gruesome places. Especially during the Vietnam War, when soldiers had very long deployments in horrid conditions, one major way to deal with the difficult environment was to remember that there was a world beyond it. Even in civilian life, a very positive way to deal with stress is to remember that there is a life outside of the stressor. In the short stories in his book The Things They Carried, Tim…

The poem that I have studied is ''Dulce Et Decorum Est'' by Wilfred Owen. The poet is trying to depict the reality. of war through this poem. The poem begins with a description of a group of soldiers retreating from the front lines of the battlefield. They are exhausted and are,''Bent double like old beggars under sacks ''. The poet used a simile to convey the ragged wretched state of the soldiers. They are''Coughing like hags''. The once clean, strong, handsome, young men are being compared to…

The poems “Dulce et decorum Est” and “The letter” are written by Wilfred Owen during WW1. Owen started writing these poems when he suffered an injury during the war and had to go back to England to recover. These poems have a similar message about war as Owen seems to give a firsthand experience about war in these poems which draws the reader closer to Owen. In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen presents war as violent, inconsiderate and simply pointless. He uses a variety of different…

Literary compositions have the influential capability to depict the punitive truths of warfare and shape the reader's perspective. The harsh realities of war are portrayed through World War 1 poetry composed by Wilfred Owen enhancing the readers understanding of the bleak realities of war and its traumatic effects on the soldiers. The poems “Mental Cases” and “Exposure” illustrates the psychological trauma, the brutality of nature and loss of faith of which the soldiers faced as grim veracity of…

In the poem The Man He Killed the author Thomas Hardy writes about war. This poem can be determined as an anti-war poem. The speaker of the poem is talking about their experience in war. This poem mainly focuses on the negative effects of war. The writing structure and the diction being used in this poem has a big impact on the main meaning of the poem. Thomas Hardy writes, “ Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin!” The speaker’s…

Dulce et Decorum Est and Suicide in the Trenches are poems which respond to the first World War. Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon use a variety of similar techniques in their poems to represent war in a negative light. Both poems highlight the physical and psychological horrors of war. Owen uses a simile by likening the soldiers to 'old beggars' as the impact of war on their bodies has left them 'stumbling' and ' coughing'. The fact they are 'stumbling' suggests they are injured as a result…

“War is Kind” by Stephen Crane is a poem extremely critical of war and questions if the war and the death and destructions that the results are truly worth it. Crane uses sarcasm and irony to move the reader to be critical towards war and to see the pain it the causes. The pain suffered by the soldier is obvious, but this poem shows the pain that family members of the soldiers suffer as well. The repeated chorus, “Do not weep/for war is kind,” ties the emotional experience and the actual…

The article "Iraq Anniversary: How Poetry Played a Part in the War in Iraq" is an article is about the war in Iraq and the impact which was brought about by poetry. The poems in this articles display different features of style,this author mentions John, a platoon commander, who narrates the journey of poetry in war through his contribution and also the contribution of others. After war John acquires a masters in poetry and becomes a pioneer of war poetry through consulting his friends on war…

Owen uses tone to convey the brutality and bitterness of the many, young deaths as a result of the First World War. One example of his pessimistic attitude is evident in the title itself - ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’. The key words ‘doomed youth’ clearly capture that there was no hope for the fate of his generation, whose destiny, which awaited them, was just to die young. The oxymoronic title signifies that the war was so barbaric, death was an inevitable outcome of it. Another example of Owen’s…