War Is Futile Or Glorious Mystery Essays

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.In the poem, “Dulce et Decorum est,” Wilfred Owen shows his hatred for the romanticizing of war and war in general.In both poems, the authors really did bring out the beast of war.In today’s society, war is often perceived as glorious and mighty.The last few lines of the poem reveal Owen’s sympathy for those, as himself, who were lied to about what war was and are no...

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.In Othello’s speech war is glorified, Othello is describes has made his life meaningful and how important, “glorious war,” is to him.Othello’s speech from Act 3 Scene 3 of the play Othello is very dramatic and Othello praises war, he does this as feels more at home in war than he does in society.In Shakespeare’s time war was glorified, this could be because it was a completely...

The Send-Off, by Wilfred Owen, is an ironic and dark humoured description of how the soldiers we’re sent off to the battlefront, during World War I.This emphasizes the fact that war actually is not what it is portrayed to be.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.This poem actually conveys a message that war is not as glorious and honourable as it is always portrayed as.

This poem concentrates more on what happens after when the war is over.The poem is useless and pointless because was it for this pointless war that humans were created and why would God bother creating life if it is going to be wasted.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.He describes them as scruffy and unhealthy people because during the First World War there weren’t many people taking care of soldiers who were hurt so they had to just deal with the pain.In creates the atmosphere after a soldier has died to show what happens aftermath of a war.

In fact in this time of war romance, the worry among men was the war would be over before they had time to get involved in such an appealing cause.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.Disillusionment was replaced by mutiny and the Allies, with American exception, were not keen to pursue the war any further.Evidence of the continuing loyalty to the cause of war was the unceasing flock of men on both sides, enlisting to join in the war against evil.Staged posters of Satanist Germans were no longer enough to justify the war to a population robbed of an age bracket.

Wilfred Owen has first hand experience of the brutality of war as he fought in World War one.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.The last poem, the Fury of Aerial Bombardment, by Richard Eberhart also shows war as bleak and vicious.For the first time technology could also be used so people around the world could see the horrifying images of war, taken from the front line.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.

Owen gives us a detailed picture of the war: he talks in the first person, ‘I saw him drowning´, and describes one dying man, in contrast to Tennyson´s rather impersonal ‘six hundred´.The theme of ‘Dulce´ is that war and dying for one´s country are not at all not glorious.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.This why he criticizes ‘the high zest´ that some people have for ‘the old Lie´ of the glory of war, and why I think that ‘Dulce´ is the more powerful poem of the two.He was killed in action a week before the war ended in 1918.

World War 1 was fought mainly in France between the Germans and allied forces from 1814 to 1819.The true meaning of war to me is the destruction of entire civilisations and of humans, war takes in brave strong and glorious men and women and spits them out as fragile haggard ruins of men and women.Soldiers on both sides fought and lived in trenches during this war and when they got the call they would run at each other to win the ground in between each trench this was known as trench warfare.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.The imagery he used illustrated to the highest his view of war and the tone and atmosphere was crea...

Also, as much as we may try, we cannot keep death out of our lives.Passini, Rinaldi (who it is inferred died of syphilis), nameless officers, a sergeant, Aymo, and many others are casualties of the insane war.Scribner Paperback Fiction: NY, 1995.To use the ant metaphor (327-328), we are all ants on a log unknowingly running into the fire.Works Cited Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell To Arms.

Pope, creates an image of injury in war as honourable and respectable.But as news came back from the Western Front and Gallipoli, there was a sense that the war was not glorious, the dirtiness, the sheer loss of life was beginning to be revealed through poems such as Dulce et Decorum Est.Whereas Jessie Pope inherently affirms the idea of dying in war as manly and noble, Owen shows us how unceremoniously and graphic real deaths in war are.As untenable to anyone who has had any experience of real war.She makes it seem as though there is no real risk of going to war, there is no graphic imagery and any mention of the bad aspects of war is referred to in opposites.

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.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.This image presented throughout Owen’s anthology to attack all those who glorified and romanticised 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 override the vigorous and pity war holds through it, in the belief of the pa...

Even the majority of soldiers originally joined the war effort gleefully with the promise of an adventure.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.Wilfred Owen’s poems explore war and the pity of war, which he directly experienced as a soldier during World War One.He wanted to present the “pity of war”.The propaganda and government encouragement created a false sense of hope and excitement associated with war.

Anger and bitterness is expressed in the poem and there is a direct remark on the ones who send their subordinates to fight the war which in reality they had initiated.The poem describes a cynical way of war and illustrates the emotional challenges and the thoughts the soldiers have to go through once their service is over.Siegfried Sassoon wrote poems on the First World War and his poems reflected both anger and compassion.He satirized generals, churchmen and bureaucrats for their visionless support of the war.He didn’t write about the glorification of the war but of the horror and brutality of the battlefield.

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.As we know that war is futile we can see that they fought each other for nothing except causalities, panic and horrific atmosphere.As war affected these 3 characters (Stanhope, Hibbert, and Raleigh), but they’re still best friends and workers in the same team.Sherriff also used complex adjectives like “murmur” and “Unsteadily” that describe how war affected them, these strong words may explain the level of effect on the solider and it has strong tone while reading it.Hibbert, the last character whom we noticed that war affected him because we experienced that he is faking his sickness...

From far away, elevated buildings are shining and competing each other who can be the brightest.Imagine the astonishing night, rigid and bright buildings lie elegantly on the moonlight sky, bring lights gaze from the thousands of bulbs.On the other hand, the city transmits its vivid and righteous illuminations back to the sky to let people in the “second floor” know that “era of tranquility” began.As these l... .A ferocious leader of the army activates the withdrawal then leads dedicated soldiers to west as if they are tracking down a wild dog.

The Russian campaign’s outcome was very obvious but in every war they went to, both parties claimed to have won; by the end of 1812, however, it was clear the French had been defeated.He tried to stop allied generals from going to war on the Austerlitz eve, but the Tsar did not heed to his command, he thus did not take part in the planning arrangements so that he would not be blamed in case they lost.Moscow 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March.He also looks into their lives as they endured suffering during that period in futility.This army was important in the war against the French and it had to be guarded.

Question Two For some, World War One was thrilling because it was novel and adventurous; it marked an escape from the easy, materialistic, somewhat self-indulgent life many urban European males then lived (and thought themselves trapped within).Their creators’ biases often show clearly; one must wonder how the novel would have read if Germany had won the war.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.Question Three All Quiet on the Western Front reveals World War I as a huge, wasteful, meaningless slaughter in which millions of young men were filled with patriotic fervor, made to believe that war was glorious (an idea this war made obs...

The poem bitterly portrays the inhumane, death-bringing instruments of war having the ‘last laugh’.Similarly to the aforementioned poem, ‘The Next War’ is a sarcastic poem presenting a soldier’s fatalistic recognition that in battle, death is his ‘chum’.Owen claims his primary aim is not poetry, but to describe the full horrors of war and other aspects of human suffering and ignorance.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.The use of the adjective ‘rapid’ and the assonance on ‘a’ quickens the pace and indicates the fashion in which the dead are buried in war.

Homer has a gloomy idea of the underworld.Achilles says that he would rather be a living serf and a landless peasant than a King of the Dead.“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.Homer describes the underworld as a dull place of suffering, where warriors who died in battle have to continue carrying their wounds.

Towards the end of the war the poets began to ask for the war to stop.At the time the poems were written many people believed that if they were disabled at war they would be treated as heroes but these poems show that in reality there was no glory in being disabled at war.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.He asks “How long, O Lord, how long, before the flood / Of crimson-welling carnage shall abate.” He also asks “How long / Shall Satan in high places lead the blind / To battle for the passions of the strong?” This is the same question but in each one war is decribed differently to show that there are so many bad things about war.The e...

The poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord Tennyson however, is very pro-war with far more focus being put on the heroism and bravery of the men at war, rather than the death and horror of war, and as a result, gives us an almost romantic view of war.They are ‘deaf’, ‘lame’ and ‘blind’; all of which is rather sorry language intended to reveal the reality of war and its effects, and already from the opening stanza we can see Owen’s cynicism with war, giving us the anti-war view of what war does to soldiers.“The soldier” by Rupert Brooke also gives us a similar take on war, but focuses more on the patriotism of the men at war, and even of those at home.In Brooke’s poem, he too he too diverts the attention away from the serio...

Sassoon stated, ‘This war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest’ , and he saw the war as being prolonged unnecessarily.Wilfred Owen’s, ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’, similarly conveys the morbid realities of war, juxtaposing civilians’ patriotic ideals.The soldier will be trodden ‘Deeper’ (line 14) as time passes; indicating how he will forever be imprinted on the ground, yet there is also a poignant tone suggesting that he has been left and forgotten about, which dispels all illusions regarding war as a noble pursuit.Furthermore, Owen could be seen as equating the lies of patriotism and war with sin itself.Sassoon thus saw all humans equally, which contradicts the notion of w...

Sartre, Jean-Paul.New York: Dell Publishing, 1968. .“Existentialism is Humanism.” Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre.Vonnegut, Kurt.Walter Kaufman.

I also think that the two poems, which show war in a more realistic light, are more truthful of what war entails.He does this better than many war poets who were involves in a particular war or conflict.We must be aware that Tennyson never fought in the war and wrote this poem ten years after the war ended.These five poems focus on four different conflicts- the Crimean War, the Anglo-Boer War, the First World War and the conflict in Northern Ireland.He puts war across in a very realistic way but he is highly idealistic about the achievements of war.

The centuries of colonial rule and decades of struggle for independence were now replaced by civil war against pro and anti-communist factions, each with the backing of more powerful countries.This campaign, supported mainly by peasants and farmers and guerillas were protracted because the revolutionaries did not have enough resources to wage a long, indefinite war against the mighty machinery of Salazar’s government.The establishment of the Second Republic (Estado Novo) after World War I radically changed Portugal into a dignified colonial monarchy into an oppressive regime with German Fascist tendencies led by the dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.For decades, Mozambique, along with other African colonies staged a protracted war for...

The intense and futile nature of war educates Slessor to conclude that time is the conqueror that withholds the universal fate of death.Similarly, Slessor’s experience as a war correspondent in El Alamein observing “…Convoys of dead soldiers” rolling to shore led to the inspiration of composing the elegy ‘Beach Burial.’ .Many critical analysis of Slessor’s work convey that his perception of time is that of a mystery, something that cannot be clearly defined and comprehended.Hopefully I have given you a thorough insight as to why Slessor’s poems are still relevant and significant today.It is evident to see that the themes and values that he expresses through his poems are off a universal significance and his ability to convey them throu...

In MTB the reader learns of his confusion and resignation as a result of his experience of death.The portrayal of death in the poems connote the poet’s feeling that life is futile; these themes combine to present Heaney’s feelings on life and loss.However, Heaney presents this in a more dramatic manner.This is emphasised through enjambment, which creates a sense of freedom.Stanza one is longer than the second stanza, presenting how the poet revelled in his days of innocence.

To the Lighthouse has a more traditional view of the night being a time when everything looks eerie and surreal, and Nightwood is more radical in its treatment of nocturnal individuals in Paris.Nora feels exiled because she has a lesbian affair, even though homosexual relationships were not illegal in Paris.Djuna Barnes was an ex-patriot bisexual living in bohemian Paris, and she addresses problems characters experience with gender, sexuality and identity.Whereas Woolf expresses the night as being a time where human life ceases, in Nightwood a darker, more mysterious side to life is revealed.Both writers are interested in the mind, and characters’ thoughts and private lives, with much emphasis on psychoanalysis.

They appear to live a rather unpleasant life because they choose not to live it.Perhaps Godot has something worthwhile to offer, therefore waiting becomes worthwhile and he and Estragon become futile.In waiting for Godot, the play conveys boredom, despair, tediousness and the helplessness of waiting and tends to become more and more desperate as Estragon demonstrates, “I’m in hell” (pg 64).Estragon and Vladimir have wasted their lives waiting by this tree for someone they may or may not know, to decide something they are unsure of, that will benefit them somehow.Existentialist express “man of bad faith” as someone futile, waiting for life to pass them by, just as Estragon and Vladimir do.

This is the artifact that represents the united, glorious and powerful civilization that we learn and study from today.Once the two nations became unified, the two goddesses or sisters were no longer divided.They were both known as the “two ladies” that were the guardians of the combined Egypt.The crown has so much history behind it into forming the entire civilization itself, I don’t believe that there are any other artifacts that can amount to how much significance the crown has with ancient Egypt.In about 3100 BCE, political action by the two powerful leaders of the north and south of Egypt resulted in war.