The War The Game No One Wins By Czeslaw Milosz

War: the game no one wins As Czeslaw Milosz once wrote, “To win? To lose? What for, if the world will forget us anyway. Was has no reasonable goal. In fact, war is just a fight which leads to death and destruction. Czeslaw was born in 1911 and participated in the German resistance force during WWII. However, Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, and Danilo Kis were all witnesses of war. Therefore, they used location, tone, materials, and terms to explain what war was like. All of it was to prevent war in the future. Even, the smallest details in location showed how the different areas were affected by war. For example, certain people lived in a secluded environment. To put this into perspective, if attacked during war, they would probably be one of the last places damaged. The main character lived in a place where one of the few noises they heard was “a steam train rumbling along the railway (Heaney, 480).” However, this means that only information one could receive was over the radio. In this situation, their hometown is in the dark. Similarly, other places were

Another fear some people had developed was a fear to fight. Possibly due to the world of weaponry every citizen had been exposed to. Eventually, it got to the point where people began to “protest Gelignite and Sten (Heaney, 475).” The previous terms was the name for a gun and a component in the creation of bombs. However, there are always two sides to each story. More specifically, people only saw two forces. These forces were better known as “the enemies and the allies (Heaney, 480).” Additionally, the goals of each side were kept away from the public and still are respected. However, war stories are sometimes held on a pedestal. At certain times, people only wanted to hear “…tales about a R.A.F (Heaney, 481).” War victories had seemed to gain a positive connotation. What most people need now is a world where war stories are