The Yellow Bird Poem Analysis

Disturbing memories, traumatic stress, physical and mental scarring, and permanent guilt are all effects of war. Different people have different views on war. Among those different people are writers. Some of these writers protest war in their writing pieces by using imagery, irony, and structure to accurately get their point across. When reading a writing of some sort, the main thing that draws the reader in is by the use of imagery. “The Yellow Birds” written by Kevin Powers describes how being in war “felt like there was acid seeping down into your soul…” (6-7). When reading that one can only think of that unbearable pain. That’s the author's goal. Wilfred Owen, author of “Dulce et Decorum Est” describes the soldiers as being “drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hearts of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped from behind” (7-8). Meaning

In writing structure is one of the most important elements. For example, in Stephen Crane’s poem “War is Kind”, repetition is used throughout the poem. In three out of the five stanzas “do not weep. War is kind” (4-5) was used. This particular repetition just adds on the fact that Crane was being very sarcastic in his writing. In Document C: The Things They Carried, the author Tim O’ Briens main structure visible to the eye is the use of the word “because”, the use of this word over and over again is known as parallel structure. He made it clear that “because you could die so quickly, each man carried at least one compress bandage” ( 13-14). That is scary if you think about it. These soldiers knew that they could lose their life at any moment. O’ Brien also explains how “because the nights were cold, and because the monsoons were wet, each carried a green plastic poncho” (14-15). Even though these men were all prepared, it was still torture for them. Structure helps the writer form and shape their words used to protest