Active Duty Soldiers After Returning From War

The overall message in this poem is a drill sergeant educating young soldiers and preparing them for the harsh reality of war. He is not playing ‘Mr. nice guy’, he is being tough and strict to give the soldiers no easy way out.

In this free-verse war poem, the idea of 'journey' extends itself to cover both the physical and emotional aspects of the subject matter of the poem. Repetition and word

Like many others soldiers the song writer Lachlan Irvine suffered PTSD being a major reason for writing these poems so people understand what he went through. The meaning of this poem is set upon how bad Vietnam war was like and more focusing on the lesser known parts that happened. The rhetorical questions throughout this poem created great emotional affect upon the audience making them think hard about all these different events. The language used with these questioned is very strong to create lasting effects being extremely upfront one used to

The memories and feelings that the memorial brings forth from the veteran are the driving force to the tone of the poem. The poems is heavy and heartbreaking. It clearly shows that the visit to the memorial has an enormous impact on the author. The author describes several different visions he has while at the memorial. The visions that he has are as real to him as if they were physically present. The author makes it easy to see and feel things through his eyes. The words used to describe his thoughts and feeling evoke emotions of sadness and at times, even despair.

What are returning veterans really experiencing?Did their stress get released or may they still suffer. Many of our returning veterans faces a lot of problems from problems ranging from PTSD to no jobs.These problems are important because some veterans commit suicide because they can’t get help.Homelessness is among the most urgent problems facing our veterans and simply the easiest problem to fix.Upon returning home, they may struggle to find employment, obtain felicitous health care or secure treatment for war-related mental illness and this is the problem when the government failed to help the returning veterans

Before I read this book, I had a limited understanding – it’s still limited due to the fact that I’m not a soldier, nor have I fought in a war – of how those who fight these wars for us are truly affected by the actions required. When we think of a soldier returning from war, we think of them as a hero, which they are, but we fail to think of how they’re could be feeling about the things they had to do. We fail to understand that PTSD is real and common in many soldiers; we fail to understand that we shouldn’t treat them as a “ticking time bomb” , but rather a fellow citizen that needs our help and understanding. We fail to see them as anything more than a soldier; we fail to see their humanity. This book opens up this disconnect a little more. Though the characters are fictional, we are still able to see real feelings that soldier face during and after the war, thanks to O’Brien’s experience. Though there still isn’t a perfect understanding of these feelings that soldiers face after war, the book has helped me to understand just how big this disconnect is. Though these feelings very well could be felt after any war that the nation has fought in, I feel like disconnect between veterans and civilians was broadened after soldiers returned from Vietnam. Civilians had seen on the television, for the first time,

​For many years war has been a huge part of history. Thousands of people go to war for their country and come back physically fine. But what people usually do not notice is the emotional distress and burden that the veterans come back with on their back. That is what drives the purpose of the book in “The things they carried”. Tim O’Brien wrote this book in way that shows how war can be part of the soldier for the rest of their life. Coming home veterans have to deal with individual sufferings, but the emotional baggage the soldiers bring also effect the people around them. The characters in the book the “The things they carried” portray this very well.

I will use this as a resource to understand how a veteran will feel like about the post war and their experiences in my essay. This source provides information such as what is require to be done, in order to care for a veteran. I will use this source as an introduction to how a veteran might feel like as being a patient and the perspective of the nurses who care for veterans. For example, in this journal there have been 3 case studies that the author had written about 3 different veterans. The case studies talked about the veteran’s life back into the society after the war after losing different body parts. In “Disable”, the context of the poem was similar to the first case study; therefore, I will relate how this source and poem are related to the society

The destruction and violence of war are permanent scars in our lives. It’s narrated in memoir style as the narrator recounts some of his experiences as well as alluding to both the physical and emotional trauma of the experience. The poem evokes intense emotion in the reader positioning them to identify with the young soldier at war. Metaphors are cleverly used to highlight the situation the young man is enduring, in the lines, ‘it was a war within yourself’. The repetition of the title ‘I was only nineteen’ deliberately reminds the audience about how young this boy was and that he was naïve. Illustrating to the audience that the soldier’s experience was unusual and worthy of note. This poem is addressing the concept of loss of youth. It is acting as a social comment and reflecting on how the lives of the youth were lost as a result of the wars. It was written as a protest song to convey the writer’s social commentary which is distinctly anti-war and reminds us of the dangers that the war has caused. To share the experience of those who went to war and what they went through. ‘Can you tell me what it means?’ here this rhetorical question creates sympathy from the reader as well as express the idea of that only the leaders really know what was going on in the war while the young men did not have a clue of what and why they

a) I really liked this poem; I thought it was very vivid and memorable. It made me feel angry and sad for the soldiers that died and for the suffering of the other soldiers, their injuries, their trauma and the conditions they had to endure. My daughter also read this poem and it affected her in a similar way; it made her feel sad, angry and ashamed for the things that happened. (71)

The Story has great ways of describing events of losing loved ones. The author words his story vividly and clear enough that people can accurately picture what he is saying while keeping the thoughts war, family love, and hope in the story.

Last week, I went to the Veteran’s day reading. This event was divided into two sections: one of prose readings and another of poetry readings. All stories were interesting, emotional, and astonishing. One of the readings that truly impacted me was a prose read by a woman about his husband. She mentioned that she got married before his husband went to war once again; she shared how scared she was about her husband leaving to war and how her husband told her that everything was going to be fine. Later, she received the horrible notice, saying that her husband had been a good soldier, and that he had died as a hero. This prose was, in my opinion, outstanding and touching since she reflected her love for her husband and her pain for his decease.

This poem has elements that the reader can imagine as they are reading the poem. The Hurt Locker poem stated facts like “Or when a sniper punches a hole deep into someone’s skull” (Kennedy, 2012, p.532). Soldiers know what a sniper rifle can do especially when it is shot at one’s head. Soldiers can

War is an action which causes grave impacts to those who come into contact to it. There is nothing positive that comes out of war. To one side it is a sorrowful grievance while the other side is a bitter sweet victory. Ernest Hemmingway’s Soldier’s Home portrays what soldiers feel when they come home, trying to return to their pervious selves. In conjunction to Hemingway, Carl Sandburg’s poem, Grass, demonstrates what the land as well as the civilians react to war occurring.

When faced with the countless problems of war including death, disease, sorrow, and loss, soldiers develop and intense bond between one another as they seek support in one another. A brotherhood is formed among these soldiers who rely on one another for protection and companionship amid a time in their lives where they are faced with the constant threat of death and violence everyday of their lives. But what happens to them after the war? In After the War, poet brings awareness to how the war-torn soldier attempts to reestablish their self in a society they have been isolated from for so many years through use of free verse and repetitive phrases, which further reinforces the theme throughout the poem.