War Is Futile Or Glorious Treats Essays

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 ...

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 prove that they will be victorious. 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 ...

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!”. It is not glorious and honourable to fight in war but the people and soldiers going through it suffer greatly and most do not survive.

“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 title is ironic because to get involved in the war is not as sweet and glorious as it seems.

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. Now that people have realised the loss involved with war, poetry is generally anti war and emphasizes brutality...

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. 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.

The poetry became increasingly bitter throughout the war and eventually the same poets who glorified war began pleading for the war to stop. People’s attitudes towards war changed as the war progressed and this is shown in the war poetry which reported about war to the civilians back in Britain.

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.

These two historically accurate astounding poems where written in completely different eras of time and during two very different wars, the Crimean war and World war 1. 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.

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.

In conclusion, we see the whereas Jessie Pope attempts to obscure the truth about the futility and atrocities of war, Owen, a soldier gives us a confrongtingly realistic portrayal of the death of just one man in a retreat on the western front. But as news came back from the Western Front and Gallipoli, there was a sense that the war was not glorious...

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.

Furthermore, Owen could be seen as equating the lies of patriotism and war with sin itself. Siegfried Sassoon’s ‘Glory of Women’ articulates how propaganda enforced a ‘glorious’ portrayal of enlisting to the war.

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. 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 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...

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 Raleigh cannot balance nor distinguish his life in the rugby team and war because in rugby you can be chose for playing because maybe your be...

Nazism aimed to do that, glorifying Germany’s efforts in the First World War and vilifying the forces they believed caused Germany’s defeat. 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.

Owen claims his primary aim is not poetry, but to describe the full horrors of war and other aspects of human suffering and ignorance. Unlike the patriotic posters at the time, which showed women at home bravely urging their loved ones to war, Owen describes the place to be ‘silent’ and secret, only ‘dull porters…staring hard’ at the British youths.

In contrast, Aeneas returns with the vision of the great future and he is now decisive to work hard for it. So Odyssey becomes aware of futility of war that sends heroes to this dark place.

I personally think this is stupid notion and a life lost at war, is a life wasted, no matter what the reason or how heroically the person died, because in my opinion, war is pointless and achieves nothing other than wasting vast quantities of money and vast numbers of lives. The poems I have studied have given me much insight to what war was like, a...

In his 1928 classic anti war novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” Erich Maria Remarque attempts to portray the horror and futility of war in a number of ways. Remarque certainly achieved his objective of showing war in its true colours and produced a powerful and enjoyable book in the process.

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. Many of the poets suffered from psychological problems during and after the war due to shell shock and the horrible mutil...

Wilfred Owen, who died subsequently after receiving mortal wounds while in combat in the war, had some strong viewpoints and messages about war which he tried to convey through his poetry. He is quoted here describing his work: “Above all, I am not concerned with Poetry .My subject is War, and the pity of War.

In conclusion, “All Quiet On The Western Front” effectively highlights many themes, such as horror of war, sacrifice and waste of life to show the ultimate futility of war. We are told Kantorek was the one who persuaded Paul and his friends to sign up in the first place, inspiring them with speeches about how it was their duty to the Germany as the ...

The title “The Great War” seems ironic and ill-fitting, as if there was one word that would be used to describe the war, it should unquestionably not be “Great” However the First World War would certainly be “Great” in the 1920’s if it was measured on a scale of destruction. At the beginning of World War Two, no poems were written portraying the ent...

One cannot help but conclude that the common people of France might have been better off if Louis XIV had never reigned. 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 ...

This poem is unique as it depicts Nature and war as the antithesis of one another by using many poetic techniques without fail. Whilst at war he was diagnosed with shell shock one of the most well known effects of war for soldiers.

These runaways were not like the fugitives before the war, these were whole families which included women and children who had abandoned the plantations that they worked for to go to the Union lines (Foner 412). One of the possibilities that the strike during the Civil War created was to allow slaves to enlist in the military.

” There is no purpose in fighting such a terrible war and now it is up to the poets to tell the truth about it: “All a poet can do today is warn. He experienced it first hand and saw that the war was merely destructive.

“Shall life renew these bodies?” he asks in ‘The End’, and the only answer he can find is that “it is death.” There is no purpose in fighting such a terrible war and now it is up to the poets to tell the truth about it: . Just like a game of football the man thought team spirit would carry him through the war.