War is tragic. War tends to make people sad and upset. Because of this, many writers often protest war. War is a terrible thing, and that devastation can be expressed through writing. Writers protest war using imagery, irony, and structure to protest war. Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” he uses the words “white, writhing in his eyes” (19) to show imagery. He wants you to be able to picture the fear in their eyes. In “War is Kind” by Stephen Crane, Crane describes twice the bodies to be in “a field where a thousand corpses lie” (11,22). He says this to have his readers get a visual of what the war vets endured. In The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers, he describes the smell “like metal and burning garbage” this heightens your senses to be