In ‘Nettles’ and ‘Manhunt’ both poets explore pain using different methods. Within Nettles, Scannell uses a direct method telling you about the physical afflictions from the beginning, he uses emotive language and personification to develop his points. The poet explores physical trauma using the father as the narrative voice, the poem tells the story of an innocent boy who falls into the ‘Regiment of spite’. As the poem progresses, the poet reveals a deep emotional pain, experienced mainly by the father but also the son.
Poetry is an effective means used to convey a variety of emotions, from grief, to love, to empathy. This form of text relies heavily on imagery and comparison to inflict the reader with the associated feelings. As such, is displayed within Stephen Dunn 's, aptly named poem, Empathy. Quite ironically, Dunn implores strong diction to string along his cohesive plot of a man seeing the world in an emphatic light. The text starts off by establishing the military background of the main protagonist, as he awaits a call from his lover in a hotel room.
In war, there is no clarity, no sense of definite, everything swirls and mixes together. In Tim O’Brien’s novel named “The Things They Carried”, the author blurs the lines between the concepts like ugliness and beauty to show how the war has the potential to blend even the most contrary concepts into one another. “How to Tell a True War Story” is a chapter where the reader encounters one of the most horrible images and the beautiful descriptions of the nature at the same time. This juxtaposition helps to heighten the blurry lines between concepts during war. War photography has the power to imprint a strong image in the reader’s mind as it captures images from an unimaginable world full of violence, fear and sometimes beauty.
The novel focuses on coping with the death and horror of war. It also speaks volumes about the true nature of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the never-ending struggle of dealing with it. In the
The audience are the people has experience of horrifying war or the people. This poem is about the Vietnam War and
War, something that sounds so cliché yet endeavours a greater meaning; a meaning of finding your true self within yourself, and seeing your natural, brave or mediocre side. The concept of bravery and heroic men is often the label associated with war; however, in Timothy Findley’s The Wars, it is in fact the exact opposite. The Wars is an anachronistic example of what one goes through both physically and mentally. Findley accurately portrays the protagonist, Robert Ross, as a naïve nineteen year old who wishes to escape his excruciating feelings of reality for being held accountable for Rowena’s death by enlisting into war, as well as to adhere to societal norms. Robert is an incompetent young boy that achieves most of his knowledge of war from
It gives off the a tone to the reader that there is war or that there once was war. Levine’s word usage is what gives the poem its unfortunate tone right from the start. Rather than choosing softer language, he starts his poem with words a phrases like “acids of rage” (Levine 3) and
In Brian Turner’s work about war experiences as a soldier, battling post-traumatic stress disorder as well as the never-ending violence in the war fronts provide an impression of how wars both unify and separate people. Turner uses structure and imagery to show unity amongst the people affected by wars. Further, Turner gives weight to the fact that war poetry would continue since a culture of understanding through suffering and loss is inevitable as people shift from one war to another. Turner's work provides true accounts of what goes on in the society as opposed to many poets who are not in touch with the reality. Authors employ poetry in times of war to provide their readers with the impression that war is a universal negative, which every
Comparative Essay How can different perceptions about one topic be expressed in poetry? The main theme that the two sets of poems convey is war, but it’s expressed in different point of views through the use of diction that builds tone. The tones of these poems play a big role in conveying the differences between the different eras that these poems are written in, and shows how societies have changed from the Victorian era till the time of World War I. The diction and tone in Borden and Owen’s poems is so much different than the diction and tone in Lovelace and Tennyson’s poems due to different perspectives and point of views. In all four poems the main idea is war, but each set conveys a perspective of war, a positive perspective
As the poem concludes, the tension created by the separation of sentences is resolved, and the narrator accepts the war's devastating
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.
Writers typically use imagery to give the audience a clear mental image of the many horrors that war brings with it. Stephen Crane’s War Is Kind is a striking example, as it reminds the reader of the father who “raged at his breast, gulped, and died”(A), leaving his children behind in a broken family with no father figure to guide them. Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est also uses imagery to reveal the blight of war through depicting soldiers who began “yelling out and stumbling… like… [men] on fire”(B) after being struck with noxious chemical weapons. Imagery also shows the
Poetry is an aesthetic and rhythmic form of literature, used by the author to evoke meaning and communicate a deeper understanding of one’s opinion. ‘Children’ by Nancy Keesing, a Jewish Australian writer, depicts the horror of modern warfare, further contrasted to the ‘horrors’ of our own lives. Keesing positions the reader to feel sympathetic for the undeserving, innocent children who are victims of the tortures of war. However, she expands on these tragedies when comparing those forced to witness the horrific measures of war to what is stressed over in our world. Numerous literary and imagery features are utilized to further emphasise the theme of modern warfare, even managing to develop a sense of guilt in the reader through the difference
In the poems “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen and “The Bright Lights of Sarajevo” by Tony Harrison, both poems present the truths of war. However, both differ in terms of setting and contrast that help depicts the similarities between their theme. Disabled takes place within World War I as Owen vividly describes the subject’s amputation, but the poem is centered around the subject’s adjustment to civilian life after war. In The Bright Lights of Sarajevo although Harrison discusses the consequences of partaking in war in the town, he illustrates the way in which life goes on regardless the horrific impact. Through use of setting and contrast, both poets contribute to presenting the theme of the realities of war.
In the poem, “A Hymn to Childhood,” Li-Young Lee talks about having fragmented individuality from childhood due to war. He is lost in perception of a traumatic childhood caused by war and a normal naïve childhood. Lee depicts the two diverged childhoods from his memory through the use of antithesis to emphasize the world perceived by a self fragmented individual. Throughout the poem, he consistently presents two opposing ideas to show what it feels like to grow up with emotional trauma.
