War Is Futile Or Glorious Treats Essays

In today’s society, war is often perceived as glorious and mighty. War is not heroic, it is not glorious, and it certainly is not glorious to die unnoticed.

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. Even though this speech mainly glorifies war it still reminds us of the harsh reality of war a bit, that people die, “wast...

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!”. This poem actually conveys a message that war is not as glorious and honourable as it is always portrayed as.

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. It explains what happens through the war and how people are suffering during the war.

Wilfred Owen has first hand experience of the brutality of war as he fought in World War one. 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.

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.

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. 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 theme of ‘Dulce´ is that war and dying for one´s country are not at all not glorious. 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.

Both poems are about war although each poem has a completely different opinion on war. Many people think war is a way of solving futile problems that rise between nations.

War is not a glorious and colorful event; it is a dirty and base thing. Passini, Rinaldi (who it is inferred died of syphilis), nameless officers, a sergeant, Aymo, and many others are casualties of the insane war.

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.

War is defined in the poem as futile with the only result coming from it is the denaturing of psychological consciousnesses or death. 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.

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. Furthermore, Owen could be seen as equating the lies of...

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. 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.

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 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 in...

As war affected these 3 characters (Stanhope, Hibbert, and Raleigh), but they’re still best friends and workers in the same team. 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 can...

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...

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. This downgrades the value of troops mercilessly sent off to war, leaving behind their families, friends and life.

After the travel he is a father of the new glorious people. 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. While Tennyson knew of the evils of war yet chose not to express them in hi...

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. Remarque certainly achieved his objective of showing war in its true colours and produced a powerful and enjoyable book in the process.

Some of the poetry can help us understand the sense of grief and anger at the pointlessness of war and the anger at the sheer numbers of soldiers sent to battle to be massacred like ‘cattle’. Owens’s poetry is not for everyone as it combines graphic descriptions of war and the reality for those involved on the front line.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. 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.

The army report for the day on which Paul died simply read “All quiet on the western front.” This shows that even though this man who the reader has come to know has died, in the whole war his death means nothing. 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...

“We hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, like twitching agonies of men among its brambles.” The soldiers ask themselves “What are we doing here?” as they are constantly tormented by the agony of war, having been deceived by the glorious, heroic perception of war described in the poems by Pope and Brooke. Even one of the greatest poets of the Firs...

One cannot help but conclude that the common people of France might have been better off if Louis XIV had never reigned. Versailles, though glorious, was based on oppression.

It was if they were doing the government’s job for them by persuading the people at home that war was glorious. 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). This was mainly because they were not being successful in the war and they needed the slaves to help the Army’s manpower needs.

He experienced it first hand and saw that the war was merely destructive. In pre-World War One poems, Alfred Tennyson among other poets describes war; the emphasis on honour and glory: “When can their glory fade?

Owen understood that War was no longer glorious or honourable for the ordinary soldier-there was no longer any hand-to-hand fighting anymore but mechanical weaponry e.g. In pre-World War One poems, Alfred Tennyson among other poets describes war; the emphasis on honour and glory: .