War Is Futile Or Glorious Ruins Essays

The imagery he used illustrated to the highest his view of war and the tone and atmosphere was created perfectly by a good rhythm and pace which move along with the poem.Chemical warfare was used for the first ever time during this war.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.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.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...

In today’s society, war is often perceived as glorious and mighty.In both poems, the authors really did bring out the beast of war.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.However, by doing this, it also cautions readers about the realities of war.Sorrow goes hand in hand with war.

In Othello’s speech war is glorified, Othello is describes has made his life meaningful and how important, “glorious war,” is to him.These lines bring the sounds of war to life paint a vivid picture of war; the language in these lines and in the whole of the speech is archaic.In Shakespeare’s time war was glorified, this could be because it was a completely different style of war and there were fewer deaths, where as in the First World War warfare was very advanced and could inflict many more deaths.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.Othello’s speech from Act 3 Scene 3 of th...

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.Likewise “Dulce et Decorum Est” illustrates the harsh reality and brutality of war but in this poem the poet writes about an actual event in war that he has witnessed.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.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!”.

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.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.The title is ironic because to get involved in the war is not as sweet and glorious as it seems.This poem concentrates more on what happens after when the war is over.The poem “Futility” is also conflicted on the First World War but in a different way to the first poem.

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.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.But as 1918 came and the Americans entered the war and the British blockaded Germany, the frustrated public could see the end.In the summer of July 1914, war was a great and glorious suggestion.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.

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.This is typical of old war poems and attitudes as it states that it is God who kills and that he approves of murder and destruction and it is as if God is a participant in this war.Wilfred Owen has first hand experience of the brutality of war as he fought in World War one.

Also incorporated is a comparison of the Homeric war to modern day war ethics using Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 as a relatively recent depiction of war in modern society.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 “immortal” through glory.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 w...

Wilfred Owen wrote ‘Dulce´ towards the end of the First World War.This poem is the closest we will get to experiencing such atrocities and if we had, Owen tells us in the final lines, then we would not try to glorify the war any more.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.

Passini, Rinaldi (who it is inferred died of syphilis), nameless officers, a sergeant, Aymo, and many others are casualties of the insane war.War is not a glorious and colorful event; it is a dirty and base thing.Hemingway shows many deaths as a result of the war.To use the ant metaphor (327-328), we are all ants on a log unknowingly running into the fire.Hemingway is showing that man's frantic struggles and his scurrying about are futile, we all die in the end.

Pope, creates an image of injury in war as honourable and respectable.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”.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 ...

It is this very same force that is drove Kantorek’s students to join the army, and for that they abhorred him.Yet it become rather crass when it drives men and countries blindly forward to death and ruin.Kantorek, the former school master of many of the novel's characters, is described as “a stern little man”, and although his physical presence is of little consequence to the novel’s development his actions influence many of the characters in their thoughts and actions.The ideas he preached on nationalism and one’s duty to his country were a glorious mask for the true, atrocious nature of war.National pride is portrayed as outdated and only useful for national leaders seeking to control the populace.

Imagery and irony complete each other to show the turn from classicism to romanticism.The eternal desire of importance and recognition of self existence is present in the poem as the main theme.Everything swings on a wire controlled by time and nature “Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, / The lone and level sands stretch far away” .The name “Ozymandias” is the Greek name for Ramses II, or Ramses the Great, third king of the 19th dynasty of Egypt.Inspired by nature, its hypnotizing beauty and sublimity, Shelley creates the perfect expression of his own feelings, thoughts and desires.

We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes.Let him who thinks that war is a glorious golden thing, who loves to roll forth stirring words of exhortation, invoking Honour and Praise and Valour and Love of Country.DBQ Prompt: Identify and analyze the various European and American literary responses to World War 1 created during the war and in the decade after the end of World War 1. .Let him look at a little pile of sodden grey rags that cover half a skull and a shine bone and what might have been its ribs, or at this skeleton lying on its side, resting half-crouching as it fell, supported on one arm, perfec...

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 override the vigorous and pity war holds through it, in the belief of the patriotism of dying for one’s nation is nothing but an ‘old lie’.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.Owen wants to reveal realities of war to ...

The war had snatched their peace of mind there by causing a situation of alert all the while around them.Many others like Paul had been a false prey to the futile war.He narrates the mental tug of war the soldiers had to bear on being detached from civic life comprising of family and friends.The ideas ejaculating out of the soldiers mind were often weird, like they felt the war should have been fought by the leaders within a ring rather than such merciless slaughtering and cruel blood shed.The war may end in victory but the society is held back by the rudderless youth detached from social and moral life and lives with frustrations of shattered dreams.

Owen’s poetry presents the reader with harsh and confronting imagery, which was contrary to the portrayal of war offered by the government and the press.He wanted to present the “pity of war”.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.The propaganda and government encouragement created a false sense of hope and excitement associated with war.

If you were asked to answer the question, “Which king in European history was the best representative of absolutism?”, you would probably answer, “Louis XIV.” If you were asked to identify the king with the biggest palace and the most glamorous court, you would answer “ Louis XIV .” If you were asked to identify the king whose reign coincided with the most glorious period of culture in his country's history, you would answer “Louis XIV.” If you were asked to identify what king fought an endless series of wars, heavily taxed his population, set up the pre-conditions for a revolution against his own system and was jeered by his people as his body was taken to be buried, then you would answer “Louis XIV.” .How heavily should the many be tax...

Poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as many others gave us their firsthand experience of war and described the fatal effects whether physical or mental upon those who participated and those left behind.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 the purpose of our existence.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...

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... 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.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.He didn’t write about the glorification of the war but of the horror and brutality of the battlefield.The poem highligh...

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.As we know that war is futile we can see that they fought each other for nothing except causalities, panic and horrific atmosphere.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.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.When he first met Stanhope he was glad and excited to be with him in the same company despite that he is the comman...

The Americans lost about 60,000 men in this war.The writer served in the Glorious 27th Youth Brigade during the Vietnam war.Though they lived their separate lives, Kien knew that there were two women in his life he ever loved: Phuong before the war and Phuong after the war.The Sorrow of War” conveys not just the immediate fears of the war, but also the emotional harm it brings and the dislocation of lives it causes.All the sufferings, disasters and losses which have ruined their society are encompassed in the real sorrow of war, in other words, the human story of war.

The story begins with the king's favorite soldier, Macbeth as a very glad and glorious man.These witches have a devil's power to set the event process in the plot and enhance the story's hobby.However, none has been proved to be perfectly acceptable, but some of them were completely unsatisfactory, such as Hamlet's simple "late" or "unable to supplement" diagnostics.In the introduction of the fifth act of the first act, Mrs. Macbeth was brought in to the play.- Power of the Macbeth Witch The myth and religion include sacred or evil creatures with incredible power.

Each stanza discusses different aspects of the war, supported by numerous techniques that help to warn the home front that war is immoral and horrendous.War is so inhumane that Owen wonders what the purpose of life is.Millions of young men should not be fatigued, weary or old before their time and this is what war has done to them.Owen wants the readers to understand that everyone is to blame for this war.In the last two lines Owen used the words “us” and “brother” which means that the reason for war is not just one person’s fault or his fault, it is everyone.

It was, for many, an expression of national pride, and many young men who served believed in their cause, that their participation in the war brought glory and honor to their homelands.In All Quiet on the Western Front, the young protagonists are enthusiastic about the war because of Kantorek’s empty exhortations.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 obsolete), and sent into a high-tech slaughter for no good reason.(Remarque’s novel, for example, shows only the German side of the war, not the Allied perspective.)Nazism aimed to do that, glorif...

This downgrades the value of troops mercilessly sent off to war, leaving behind their families, friends and life.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’.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.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’.Throughout the poem, Owen juxtaposes the musical quality of an anthem with the harsh sounds of war.

Walter Younger was a true depiction of a defeated Black man who unsatisfied with his life sought redemption through consuming alcohol.The dreams of freedom from racial discrimination and hopes of attaining promising job opportunities were futile and the Great Migration was just the relocation of Blacks to further segregation and racial injustices....hol abuse worked as a catalyst to further ruin African Americans and destroyed their families.... middle of paper ... .The occurrence of World War I in Europe had increased U.S. factories and factory productions as European nations, involved in the war, depended on the United States to replenish their supplies.

In reality, we have the authorized formal side presented: the war was ambitious, impious, proud, vain, and resulting in ruin.This is to be understood metaphorically, as the climax of their physical humiliation.But it is a punishment, on the material level, for the material nature of their sin.Satan’s first speech implies that there was another side-even after we have partly discounted the personal tones of the defeated leader who speaks of the good old lost cause, “hazard in the Glorious Enterprise.” That too is a formal side, presented by the losing actor in the drama.It does not last, any more than their later mass metamorphosis into serpents, with which this is parallel.

For example, when Odyssey meets Trojan heroes like Patroclus, they run away frightened, as if the struggle for Troy still went on.In fact, for Homer living after death is just a continuation of earthly vain.Achilles says that he would rather be a living serf and a landless peasant than a King of the Dead.Odyssey’s dead friends the can only tell how they died and got to this dark kingdom.In contrast, Aeneas returns with the vision of the great future and he is now decisive to work hard for it.

The early World War One poetry was written in praise of war.The poem suggests sarcastically that it would not matter to go mad as a result of the war because “people won’t say that you’re mad; For they’ll know you fought for your country / And no one will worry a bit.” This will make the reader see that the idea of people treating you with respect if you are disabled by war is an unrealistic one.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.At the time the poems were written many people believed that if they were disabled a...