Analysis Of War Is Kind And Other Lies By Stephen Crane

What are some ways that people can protest war? Well, there are many ways that someone can protest war, like writing an anti-war book or poem. Many authors use imagery, irony, and structure in their writing to protest war. Some authors like to use verbal irony to help support their writing. One such author is Stephen Crane. He wrote the poem, “War is Kind and Other Lies,” and uses verbal irony throughout the poem to protest war. “Do not weep, babe, for war is kind. Because your father tumbles in the yellow trenches, Raged at his breast, gulped and died, Do not weep. War is kind.” (Crane 3) In this stanza, he is talking to a baby and he tells them not to cry because war is kind, even though the baby’s father died in war. This is ironic because he says war is kind even though many people die in wars. The structure of a piece of literature can add to the piece. The author, Kevin Powers, uses structured writing to protest war. His novel, “The Yellow Birds,” is written in a strange way where rather than use many sentences of different lengths, he uses long sentences that are the size of paragraphs. These sentences are also jumbled and unorganised to represent war. Most of the ideas that

Using descriptive words can show how terrible war really is. Wilfred Owens shows this in his poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est.” “Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering choking, drowning.” This describes a minute in the war when a man could not get his helmet on in time to protect him from the gas so he died. The author is very descriptive to add to the horror of this scene. Not many people would want to experience this scene the way it was written using imagery. The imagery showed the gruesomeness of war and how horrible it is to make people not want war. Using imagery can help protest