In the poem Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind by Stephen Crane, Stephen talks about the aspects of war and the effects it has on people outside of the war. Another poem called the sonnet-ballad by Gwendolyn Brooks, talks about a woman who has just lost her lover do to the war and is asking her mother where happiness is. In both texts, the authors focus on the negative and how cruel war really is. Although the authors focus the the horrific parts of war, Brooks sees beauty in war and how tempting it is. However, Crane only focuses the dreadful and grim parts of war.
The first connection I would like to make between the poem and the article is how unconsciously the citizens around soldiers showed a complete lack of concern. The
This description paints the scenes of the poem as they happen, the powerful connotations of the words battling against each other, and to the grievance of the reader, the negative feelings prevail. This battle illuminates the brutality and fear experienced by soldiers, in WWII, during their final moments on Earth - their fear, sadness, and horrified disgust all hidden between the lines of these two sentences. Foreshadowed by the soldier's machine like tone, the speaker alludes to the fact that he will fight for his life, and
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.
One of the things that happened in World War I that changed poets opinion on war was the mass death that occurred in the war. In total the casualties add up to about 37 million. That is more than half of the soldiers that were mobilized. The total number of deaths shows how much pain there was for so many people when they found their loved ones to be dead. That had to impact a lot of people all over and poets must've seen how badly War had hurt not only soldiers but everyone.
While the poems focus on someone on the outside of the war waiting for their loved one or they are dead and no longer have to face the wrath of the war the book's main character Baumer is very alive and indulged in the war he shows his fear in every chapter and talks about how lonely he feels or how guilty he feels after killing another man he feels like he is a murder. We see the war from the eyes of a
As a whole, the poem depicts the disillusionment of the speaker through the litany of questions within the poem, placing ambiguity in the outcome of the war and further reinforcing how war has no true winner. This view aligns with Tim O’Brien’s novel “The Things They Carried”, in which the protagonist describes war as “just the endless march, village to village, without purpose, nothing won or lost” (O’Brien 14).
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke is a poem that is pro-war. In the poem, the persona glorifies war and sees dying for one’s country as a noble act whereas In Flanders Fields by John McCrae is anti-war. The poem addresses the gruesome death brought upon by the war. An Irish
Walt Whitman paints a picture to me of a war scene with men being sent to war, he gives these elements details and puts a picture in your head. The tone or emotion of the poem is his response to the
The Anti-War Movement clashed with the pro-war people, other simultaneous movements going on such as the Civil Rights movement and the Second Wave Feminist movement. Another idea, through the confusing storyline, it represents the life of soldiers entering and exiting the war. Many soldiers when they came back home did not know of the animosity towards veterans and the political turmoil the country was in; they were
The poem aims to glorify soldiers and certain aspects of war, it goes on to prove that in reality there really isn 't good vs bad on the battlefield, it 's just a man who "sees his children smile at him, he hears the bugle call, And only death can stop him now—he 's fighting for them all.", and this is our hidden meaning.
But glory has little to do with the harsh realities of war. Walt Whitman, the famed transcendentalist poet, understood the perils and horrors of war firsthand, as he was a male nurse who cared for wounded soldiers in Washington, D.C during the Civil War. This prompted him to suggest that “the real war will never go into the books.” It would seem that even an esteemed author of his caliber felt that war was impossible to capture honestly due to the textual mediums limitations as well as the unwillingness of writers and historians to properly document the plights of marginalized groups during the war.
In these writings authors use literary devices such as structure to advance their purpose. Stephen Crane’s “War Is Kind” implements structure to protest war. Stanzas one, three, and five are all structured the same. This helps with his purpose because he keeps repeating some of the same lines to give the poem emphasis. He emphasizes it to show that war is glorious and to make the reader cry.
A heroic couplet structure within the poem provides a degree of clarity while still asserting the chaos and cruelness of war. Once again, it can be inferred that Owen himself serves as the speaker. However, this time his audience is more focused on young soldiers and families rather than plainly the public in general. In contrast to the previous work, this poem is set primarily in a World War I training camp, signifying the process young soldiers go through prior to deployment to the front line. The tone of this poem is more foreboding and condemnatory, not only describing the training soldiers but outright degrading their forced involvement as morally wrong.
.Most poetry of this genre is based around the topic of World War One and World War Two. But also around other famous wars in history such as the American Civil War and Troubles in Northern Ireland. This poetry contains messages of hatred towards war and towards the idea of war. This section includes poetry of very famous poets who not only were alive during the war but some of whom also
