Rupert Brooke

“Soldier” a soldier is thinking about his death that may occur when fighting for his country. In death, he believes that he will forever be a part of England as shown in the lines “That there's some corner of a foreign field/ That is forever England. “ (Brooke, 3-4)When he dies, he will no longer be an individual, but rather he will become a part of England. In the foreign land he dies in, England will be engraved in that land through the soldier’s death. The soldier’s significance in death is…

ultimately accepts that she will never have her soldier again. Sorrowfully, she repeats over and over again, “I bequeath you to oblivion” (Hiroshima 79). In her own perception of grief, she believes she must continue to remember that the soldier is gone forever, despite the pain caused by remembering. It is a kind of pain and anguish she continues to bear because the act of forgetting, to her, would be equatable with allowing her commitment to descend to the Kierkegaardian “lower immediacy.” The…

In the poem, “The Battle of Maldon,” an anonymous poet describes a fearsome battle between the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons. Told entirely from the English perspective, the poem sings countless praises of the Anglo-Saxons, depicting them as heroes commanding their souls to God and sacrificing themselves to advance a greater cause. The speaker depicts war as a heroic endeavor, begetting camaraderie, bravery, loyalty, and perseverance. Soldiers are passionate about the cause, fighting for romantic…

Owen, Faulks and Barker attempt to express the horrors of trench warfare through carefully crafting their language but, in doing so, prove that the horrors are so great that no form of language can truly express it. Mansur, quoting Howard Pinter, argues that “the more tense the experience, the less articulate the expression”, believing Owen cannot communicate the true horrors of war however eloquently he writes. It can be presumed that Faulks and Barker, through vivid imagery, also fail to do…

Death has been shown to split apart families, countries, and governments. In addition, death often causes widespread mourning and even panic. But there is never a focus on the beauty of dying itself. Most often, the depiction of dying focuses on the sadness associated with the concept of loss, while in The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien takes a different stance on the depiction of passing. While most authors of war related literature use the idea of death to depict a somber mood, O’Brien…

Both the authors, William Golding and William Shakespeare highlight severe human weakness in the novel Lord of the Flies and the play Macbeth respectively. This was deliberately done in response to their profound yet interesting lives that they had experienced as a human. This is evident as; Lord of the Flies was portrayed as an allegorical microcosm of the world Golding was involved in, which included real-life violence and brutality of the World War II. Perhaps, it was intended by the author…

Throughout Storm of Steel, his memoir recollecting his experiences during World War I, Ernst Jünger employs the use of simplistic language to express the immediacy of the war. Instead of using a more stylistic and grandiose approach to his writing, the former soldier conveys his feelings through short and plain-spoken statements. Jünger’s style reflects the aloof mindset that fighting in war can produce. Jünger keeps his sentences simple and short. Grammatically, these sentences are proper…

War is like a photograph. It’s beautiful and fascinating until you realize it’s completely staged and not what your eyes made it out to be. Wilfred Owen’s poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, is a piece of art written during World War I. He shows us the truths about war using imagery to make our minds run free and find the pictures he is trying to show us. There are parts of the poem that show us a “brought to life” side of the poem and a side that unsuccessfully shows the audience the life of World War…

Intro Today I have been challenged to write a blog answering the question that both text and context do exist in literature. WW1 was a bloodbath there's no doubt and such awful things happened to the most innocent of lives, during the times of war however it shone a light on the poets who wrote both anti and pro war poems. Each with a different meaning, from Jessie Pope the women who encouraged young men to risk their lives for their country and honor to Owen Wilfred who’s words reached out to…

War has proven over a series of time that it destroys the human mind. It turns family against family, brother against brother, leaving a lasting affect on the human psych. Using literary elements, authors have a way of describing war through their writing. Liam O’Flaherty and Thomas Hardy are two examples of this. Liam O’Flaherty’s short story, “The Sniper”, and Thomas Hardy’s poem, “The Man He Killed”, contain a plot, irony, and theme to describe their thoughts on war, and can be used to state…