War Is Futile Or Glorious Day Essays

The attitude of soldiers in the First World War changed rapidly once they were on the front, many started off in favour of war but after seeing death and war in close quarters many changed their minds.In the speech by Othello war is very much bought o life, from this speech we get the idea of war being heroic and glorious, mainly due to the amount of description and the language used.Attitudes to war had changed considerably by 1914, because as soon as the First World War begun it was realised that it was going to be a far more gruesome war than any other before.Even though this speech mainly glorifies war it still reminds us of the harsh reality of war a bit, that people die, “wasteful ocean.” The ancient Greek war hero is mentioned to ...

In both poems, the authors really did bring out the beast of war.War is not heroic, it is not glorious, and it certainly is not glorious to die unnoticed.Owen clearly states his disgust for whose who have ever been in war, yet romanticized it as the ultimate patriotic sacrifice when he writes in lines 21-28, “If you could…you would not tell with such high zest/ To children ardent for some desperate glory, / The old lie dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori.” Just like Jarrell, Owen shows the gruesome aspect of war in his poem.Sorrow goes hand in hand with war.His tone is one of sorrow and regret directed toward the effects of war on young men, and a cautionary tone, warning those who would be fooled into believing that war is some kind o...

Similarly, “The Man He Killed” also portrays war negatively which is reflected through the poets choice of words describing war such as, “quaint and curious war is!”.Owen’s painfully direct language combines gritty realism with an aching sense of compassion.‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ describes a mustard gas attack on a group of war-weary soldiers.Firstly, it could mean that the soldiers were being sent off to war.However, ‘The Man He Killed’ focuses on the senselessness and futility of war, where a man has killed another quite simply because they were fighting on opposing sides in a war.

The title is ironic because to get involved in the war is not as sweet and glorious as it seems.By using the metaphors and similes the reader can relate to the poem and place themselves in the situation to force them to realise what they actually go through during a war.“Full nerved, still warm, too hard to stir.” This quotation makes the reader feel sad and unhappy to see how easily lives are taken away at war.The poem “Futility” is also conflicted on the First World War but in a different way to the first poem.It describes every step that the soldiers take through their experiences in the war.

Before people knew any better they considered war a good thing, something God approved of and was an active fighter in, but as time went on and people realised the loss and destruction caused by war, people began to look on it less fondly.Before world war one, war was viewed honourable and patriotic, with people feeling that it was their duty to defend their country at any cost.There is a reference in the poem to Cain, which suggests that aerial bombardment, and a war fought in this manner resembles a mass murder.Therefore poetry written before the world war didn’t contain the horrific physical detail of injury, but instead most poets concentrated on the heroic aspect of war.He shows war as beyond human control and comprehension, with Go...

The illusion of glorious war still maintained at home by the propaganda and censorship was completely shattered by anyone who served on the real front of the war.Disillusionment was replaced by mutiny and the Allies, with American exception, were not keen to pursue the war any further.As it reads in Tommy goes to War: “The Somme was an event so cataclysmic, it killed the breezy, crusading spirit of 1914 and 15.Staged posters of Satanist Germans were no longer enough to justify the war to a population robbed of an age bracket.A wise historian once said, “War a glorious idea, but glorious only in idea.” In truth, war is ugly, tragic and ultimately has no victor.

His poem ‘Light Brigade´ increased the morale of the British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War and of the people at home, but Tennyson had not been an eyewitness to the battle he describes.Wilfred Owen wrote ‘Dulce´ towards the end of the First World War.Owen was an officer and often had to send men to their s and ‘Dulce´ gives a personal account of what the war was like.He was killed in action a week before the war ended in 1918.The theme of ‘Dulce´ is that war and dying for one´s country are not at all not glorious.

After carefully comparing and contrasting these two poems I have come to the conclusion that, Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum est' view of war is true.Many people think war is a way of solving futile problems that rise between nations.Chemical warfare was used for the first ever time during this war.Although both poems are diametrically opposed, they have the same common goal to get the reader to believe in their view of war.Both poems are about war although each poem has a completely different opinion on war.

Scribner Paperback Fiction: NY, 1995.Hemingway is showing that man's frantic struggles and his scurrying about are futile, we all die in the end.Hemingway is showing the horrors of war.Passini, Rinaldi (who it is inferred died of syphilis), nameless officers, a sergeant, Aymo, and many others are casualties of the insane war.Hemingway shows many deaths as a result of the war.

Perhaps that is the best way to describe how Pope conceives war.This activation of four major sense immerses the reader in the almost unbelievable scene of war.It won’t be a picnic” but from this the reader cannot conjure the image of war as a nightmare, as a hell the way that Owen does with his description of the “hanging face” engaging the visual senses of the reader, the sound of “blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs’ the smell “obscene as cancer” and one can almost taste the “vile incurable sores”, “bitter as cud” on their own “innocent tongues”.The quote found on war memorials and that ends Dulce et Decorum est, is attacked in Owen’s poem whereas it is affirmed in Jessie Pope’s inspirational call to action and invocati...

R. C. Sherriff”s opinion about war is that war is futile, but he has more than one opinion like that war is irrational and bloodshed.When Stanhope had a conflict with Hibbert because he wants to see the doctor to escape from war, and fake sickness, he says “Why, go sick- go down the line.A Journey’s End” The phenomenal play has conveyed a message to us and that was that friendship neither dissolves nor disappears, but sometimes it is veiled because war is where you defend your country and defend your lover ones from the enemies.When he first met Stanhope he was glad and excited to be with him in the same company despite that he is the commander of “C” company , he says “I’m awfully glad I got to your company, Stanhope”, it shows that Ral...

Consequently the ideas raised by Owen allow the audience to ponder and reflect on the ineffectiveness of war resulting in human psychological post-war effects experienced at war.For the pity of war is clearly evident in expressing the perspective of World War I, as it is unquestionably bogus to believe war is noble and sweet to die for one’s nation.The use of these aural imagery as well as onomatopoeia allows the reader to understand the effects of war and further oppose the idea of patriotism to war.Owens poetry serves as a warning to future generations to reconsider before they again believe it sweet and fitting to die for one’s country, because once the initial onslaught begins, all control is lost and it becomes near impossible to ov...

Odyssey’s dead friends the can only tell how they died and got to this dark kingdom.In fact, for Homer living after death is just a continuation of earthly vain.“Within the hero’s mind his joys renew’d” (Aeneid 5: 904) and so he eagerly sets sails for the new homeland.In contrast, Aeneas returns with the vision of the great future and he is now decisive to work hard for it.After the travel he is a father of the new glorious people.

Wilfred Owen’s poems explore war and the pity of war, which he directly experienced as a soldier during World War One.This is both his way of trying to comprehend and make sense of the terror he has seen, as well as ask the reader to think and question the real cost of war.He wanted to present the “pity of war”.The second stanza, however, slows down and takes on a more sombre mood, with Owen exploring the sorrow and grief behind the futility of war with rueful contemplation.Even the majority of soldiers originally joined the war effort gleefully with the promise of an adventure.

At first these war poems praised war, but when the soldiers realised the truth about war, their poetry changed to show the horrors of war.At first poets glorified war, as the war progressed they wrote about how they had been lied to by propaganda and about the terrible reality of war.The poetry became increasingly bitter throughout the war and eventually the same poets who glorified war began pleading for the war to stop.He asks “Who is it for the day grew tall, O what made fortuous sunbeam toil To break earths sleep at all?” This question shows how war has caused Owen to give up hope and ask what was the point in God creating the world if he would only let it be destroyed by war.People’s attitudes towards war changed as the war progress...

The last lines depict irony, bitter and harsh irony as people think that fighting and dying in a war is glorious but Sassoon puts forward the rational statement that war is indeed inglorious and is not worth the sacrifice of the life of the soldier.The initial two quartiles are very sarcastic in their tone and the couplet in the end talks about the seriousness of the war... Sassoon begins the poem with a rhetorical question which imparts a satirical tone to the poem with an argumentative proposal – If it really does matter, then people must do something about the ludicrousness of the war.He didn’t write about the glorification of the war but of the horror and brutality of the battlefield.The poem highlights the value of soldiers’ hard w...

In Brooke’s poem, he too he too diverts the attention away from the seriousness of the possible deaths at war, and focuses more on the good points, in the mind of the narrator, of life back home, rather than the deaths and horror at war.While Tennyson knew of the evils of war yet chose not to express them in his poem so that he could portray a patriotic feeling, the poem conveys not only that war is a natural part of human life, but also that the bravery demonstrated by the unquestioned loyalty of the British soldiers should be celebrated, Whitman’s Drum-Taps portray war as an unnatural, disruptive force that robs human beings of their natural desire to live a peaceful life.They are ‘deaf’, ‘lame’ and ‘blind’; all of which is rather sorr...

The work conveys war’s ultimate futility; though some critics have claimed that it romanticized World War I, it seems more of an indictment of war.Nazism aimed to do that, glorifying Germany’s efforts in the First World War and vilifying the forces they believed caused Germany’s defeat.In All Quiet on the Western Front, the young protagonists are enthusiastic about the war because of Kantorek’s empty exhortations.Had he survived, he may have followed the same path as Hitler – though he hated the war, it was all he believed he knew, and he may have sought meaning in something that would vindicate himself and Germany.Question Three All Quiet on the Western Front reveals World War I as a huge, wasteful, meaningless slaughter in which millio...

Wilfred Owens’ poetry on war can be described as a passionate expression of Owen’s outrage over the horrors of war and pity for the young soldiers sacrificed in it.Likewise, ‘The Last Laugh’ circuitously raises the issue of the futility and sympathetic corollary of war.Owen claims his primary aim is not poetry, but to describe the full horrors of war and other aspects of human suffering and ignorance.His poetry is dramatic and memorable, whether describing shame and sorrow, such as in ‘The Last Laugh’, or his description of the unseen psychological consequences of war detailed in ‘The Next War’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’.Unlike the patriotic posters at the time, which showed women at home bravely urging their loved ones to war, Owen d...

Wilfred Owen describes this battle as having ‘immemorial shames’, which proposes that war ended with an empty victory and was completely pointless.At this point Wilfred Owen could be trying to explain to the reader that people wanted men to go off to war which could be another way of saying they wanted them to go to their deaths.Also, Owen has successfully expressed his views on the pointlessness of war and peace.Whilst at war he was diagnosed with shell shock one of the most well known effects of war for soldiers.Towards the end of this stanza the soldier’s surroundings are changing almost as if it is going from heaven to hell, which is equal to Nature to war.

However, this disjointed rhythm is effective, since Owen did not want his poem to flow smoothly; it is deliberately full of ‘Stumbling’ and ‘Fatigue’ (lines 11&7), symbolising a realistic tone of desolation and conveying that patriotism, and the romanticised image of war, no longer existed.The sestet, conversely, moves from the contrived portrayal of war, to its cruel reality, adopting a Petrarchan cdecde rhyme scheme, which heightens Sassoon’s intensified bitter tone.Moreover, ‘You crown our distant ardours’ and ‘You worship decorations’ (lines 7&3) suggests knighthood and bravery, and the octave also indicates glorified artificiality; the ‘Decorations’, ‘Shells’, ‘Crown’, ‘Laurel[led]’ (lines 3,5,7&8) are false and material...

In this quote, describing the life of a solider before he is killed, we see that his efforts during the war appear pointless.Death represents the futility of fighting a war because it is the only guaranteed result.War stories depict, through their graphic imagery, the horrors and tragedies taking place during a battle and The Iliad is no exception.Homer also adds to the horrors of the war by telling us about the history of each individual solider before their death.With war comes death, a fact that resounds throughout the Iliad: While Euchenor knew that boarding the ships for Troy meant certain death: his father told him so… time and again the strong old prophet said that he’d die in his own halls of a fatal plague or go with the ships a...

“Disabled” is a poem written by Wilfred Owen after the war about a young man, who like many others was fooled by the idea of returning from war as heroes, and the rest of his life was instantly taken away from him, although he still lives on.As the war deepened the public began to understand that war was not about making heroes or role models, but it was about brutality and bloodshed.The glory of war had perished with the millions of young men who had fallen for “The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est” The repeat of WWII shows how little Europe learnt from the colossal consequences of the “Great War” even though the citizens of Europe was permanently scarred and the damage could not be undone.The title “The Great War” seems ironic and ill-fit...

This is what the poet is writing about, the pure futility of these actions and of course war itself.The writer is so depressed, so fed up with war it’s as if he has given up hope.Owens poetry is the best I have read because it leaves me thinking with those images in my head about the true meaning of war and not just the legend ”Dulce et Decorum est” which I think is what he aimed to do.When war broke out and innocent young men in the prime of their life were sent to die, to see their friends bodies torn apart in front of them it gave them the will to write poems about the true reality of war.It doesn’t directly describe war in a bloody or gory way and doesn’t tell you how terrible it is to be in battle.

Some of his poems from the war help us to rethink the elegiac triad of; mourning poet, mourning reader, and mourned victim, suggesting that even in war elegies; both poet and reader may partly create the victimisation they mourn.He felt by writing ‘Futility’ he would be able to portray the worthlessness of war, the uselessness of human life and arouse pity and grief in those who read it.Once again in this poem, along with ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, he refers to how young the soldiers were that died, ‘fields half sown’(3), a metaphor for lives not fully lived yet, they had not had time to experience life before they died at war.War for Owen was senseless, for so many men to lose their lives, especially at a young age, made him question th...

Exposition and description are among the chief beauties of this text.Note too that in a poem such as this, superlatives are common.He intends to stress that this was the height of British perfection, and therefore all the physical objects in that time must have been perfect too.The poet begins his work by reminding us that the history of Britain is both ancient and glorious; Aeneas, whose deeds in the Trojan War are legendary, whose exploits in war are recorded in Virgil's Aeneid, and who is legendary for having founded the city of Rome after the Trojan War , was the ancestor of a man named Felix Brutus who founded Britain ("Britain" comes from "Brutus").The poet insists on the superiority of all the material items he describes-food, clo...

Homer through the Iliad pays homage to the brave soldiers fighting in the Trojan War and acknowledges the inevitability of violence.Throughout the epic, Homer emphasizes the devastating consequences of war on the combatants mainly through his descriptions of the battles througho... .Included in this essay will be an analysis on the two sides of Homer’s depiction of war: the devastation and destruction of war to both armies as well as the inevitability of war and the benefits of fighting towards the warriors.Through integrating these two dissimilar viewpoints, Homer reveals a complex attitude about war towards his audience and encourages them to ponder whether or not their lives are worth putting on the line for a chance to become “immort...

This team has made their name a famous one when they have made a very impressive record of knocking down 154 Japanese war planes in just seventy six days of combat.“Skull & Crossbones Squadron: VF-17 in World War II, The”.The writer could not help indulge in a self-venerating way of writing about what happened during the World War II, after all this is his side of the story.Before going to war, you have to know first what you are against at.They say that the book is a well written note of what happened during the World War II.

The book destroys much of the glamorous image of war and what was described as “The Iron Youth”.This book gives an excellent insight into the First World War through the eyes of a Pacifist.Remarque suggests that before the war these men would have what could be described as an average view towards life, but war has hardened them and made them older.The First World War came at time of social unrest where years of tension between the expanding empires of European countries led to a situation where all that was needed to start a war was a small event known as a trigger.Remarque certainly achieved his objective of showing war in its true colours and produced a powerful and enjoyable book in the process.

"He [Willy Loman] exists as an insulted extrusion of commercial society battling for some sliver of authenticity before he slips into the great dark.Life is more brutal than most people care to admit.Each of them play a part towards explaining the characters and why they do some of the things they do.(Cardullo) Willy is the enemy to himself as Miller challenges the 'American dream '.In the end Willy was unable to redeem himself and his mistakes, just as many people do.