In Flanders Fields, Vs. Hardy's Channel Firing By Thomas Hardy

War, an idea that has been in the history of man even before modern civilization or even civilization itself. Due to this, war itself has become the topic of many forms of literature, because of its ability to transcend he normal aspects of life, allowing authors, writers and poets to include many pieces of knowledge, lessons and themes in their work. Two authors that have attempted to do this are John A McCrae in the poem “In Flanders Fields” and Thomas Hardy in “Channel Firing”, in these works there holds many similarities and differences. Such as in both works the authors are clearly speaking on the negative gory aspects of war, and both have a point view of a person who is in a middle of the battle. These texts though differ in the fact that they use literary elements in different way to emphasis a point.
In the work of literature “In Flanders Fields” the poet John A McCrae one way in which there lies a similarity with Thomas Hardy’s “Channel Firing” is that they both speak about war itself. “In Flanders Fields” McCrae talks about the aspect of war in which there lies so much death and despair. For example, the poet writes “We are the Dead” (McCrae 6) in a way to describe the situation in which the soldier is in, a situation in which he is technically dead. Yet even when there seems to be no hope in the text the

For in the text it states that “That night your great guns unawares, / Shook all our coffins as we lay,” (Hardy 1,2) this imagery also brings forth the concept in which explains the darkness and the idea that going toward is like going to your death. This theme about war being like death is consistent in both the poems for they coincidently allude to death when speaking about the actions of