Analysis Of And The War Was In Its Infancy Then By Maurice Emerson Decaul

War is devastating and tragic. It affects the daily lives of the people that are involved in the war. In the excerpt from, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, it displays a man who is dreaming about war. When the man wakes up, he lays sweating on the ground, remembering the painful memories that the dream has brought. In the end, the man realizes that from now on he will have to live in three worlds; his dreams, the experience of his new life, and memories from the past. Meanwhile, in the image, “In Times of War” by The New York Times, there is an angel on a cloud looking over the dreadful war. Then the angel walks away because the view of people dying makes it sick. The theme of the excerpt A Long Way Gone, and the image, “In Times of War,” is that the war brings death, seriously injured, and psychologically broken people.

The idea of loss is explored diversely in the poems ‘Conscript’ by FA Horn and ‘The Photograph’ by Peter Kocan. Where ‘Conscript’ conveys the loss of a soldier on the battlefields of World War II and his physical demise, ‘The Photograph’ conveys the loss of a World War I Australian soldier and the grief his family endures with the passing of time. Although the two poems are set in different wars, the poets similarly reinforce the devastation, as well as the emotional and physical impact associated with war.

War is a horrible and devastating event that hurts many people in many ways. This something many people have to cope with. Authors are among those who have to cope with war as well. Many people cope different ways but authors cope by protesting war. To do this authors use imagery, irony, and structure.

During times of war, it is inevitable for loss to be experienced by all. In the poems “The Black Rat” and “The Photograph” written by Iris Clayton and Peter Kocan respectively, the idea of loss is explored through an omniscient narrator recalling a soldier’s involvement in warfare. While Clayton writes of a soldier’s abrupt loss of hope and how this experience negatively affects his life, Kocan explores how the loss of a loved one affects a family sixty years later. While both poems incorporate similar techniques in imagery and narration, the time setting for each poem is different as “The Black Rat” is set in Tobruk, Libya during World War 2 and “The Photograph” is set during World War 1.

Weigl has dug deep into his recollection of the war to produce work that can be thought of as artistically beautiful. It’s his aim to find the means, despite everything he’s endured, to transcend misery in his poetry. This is done on purpose and allows Weigl to employ a style in his poetry that’s dependent on the sound of words, to express an image so openly that the verses depict a genuine emotion that doesn’t pose as an insult to readers. Underneath the rubble of his misfortune there is a level of integrity on display that readers can appreciate. Weigl likes to view the world objectively and so does his poetry in a very responsible and accountable manner.

Embracing plastic bags and shouting at a loss that cannot be compensated are the melancholies experiences in life. Lots of mothers pray and wait anxiously at the door to take in their heroes. Afterward suddenly, they lose their hope when seeing the green plastic bags along the floor. The poem “Homecoming” symbolized the young soldiers who have died on the battlefield and subsequently brought home in body bags. The soldiers intensify the sadness in this poem as they perish in a terrible way instead of supplementing their lives while getting old day yet day. In this poem, Dawe explores repetition in “all day, day after day” to emphasize the arrival of a nameless body which is hence different from the heartfelt joy extended to a loved one. The

This song is similar to John Misto’s play ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ as both of these text employ distinctly visual techniques to offer a variety of perspectives on the world, and to convey and create meaning. Both of these texts focus on the concept of survival and the effects of war. However, ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ focuses on the effect of a female POW camp, while ‘I was only nineteen’ focuses on the effects of fighting on the active soldiers. In this song the audience is presented with an image of the effects of the war, and become emotionally invested in the story of the protagonist and become emotionally invested in him as they gain a personal insight into his life after the war. One example of distinctly visual elements in this song is the use of imagery. This is created so that the audience can form an image of the events being described and assist in the conveyance of the author’s message. This can be seen in the line “...and there’s me in me slouch hat and me SLR and greens”. This allows the reader to visualise the characters. This use of imagery allows the reader to become emotionally invested in the characters, as they feel like they were there with them. This makes the story seem more realistic. Another example of this is the line “and an Asian orange sunset through the scrub. This is a pun on the chemical Agent Orange that was used in the war. This makes the song seem more realistic as it incorporates authentic elements from the war. Therefore, through its use of imager, the song ‘I was only 19’ by Redgum effectively offers a variety of perceptions on the

Throughout this poem, the Sanburg intentionally uses the concrete and proper nouns to represent the death that occurs over time in a war zone. These concrete nouns represent the extreme conditions that happen while at war. The use of the word “bodies”(1) starts off the poem on a somber note, by simply representing the amount of people that have passed. Furthermore, the concrete nouns represent how some of these battles dragged on through the use and repeat of the word, “years.”(7) The catastrophic effects of war on the landscape is exemplified by the passengers asking, “What place is this?”(8) The people that come back to these war-stricken areas do not even recognize where they are in because it has been so badly devastated. Similarly, the

To conclude, it is important for readers to keep in mind that Brian Turner’s poetry, Phil Klay’s short story “Redeployment,” and the film Restrepo provide the most emotional portrayal of war, predominantly the traumatic experience, and the aftershock of war that an American soldier is forced to endure. Turner’s use of anaphora, descriptive language, and military jargon in his poetry enables the readers to expand his or her knowledge regarding war and its true meaning—war is evil. Klay’s use of descriptive language in “Redeployment,” allows the readers to realize that returning home from war is not an easy task for a soldier. Not to mention, that in the film Restrepo viewers get the opportunity to visualize see the true meaning of war; it is

Dawe encapsulates fear and horror associated with war and it’s repressive power over the individual and society. Reflecting the emotional and physical damage of war personified through the alliterated simile “Telegrams tremble like leaves from a wintering tree”, emphasising the burden of carrying terrible news. Additionally the reference to the “wintering tree”, indicates seasonal imagery from autumn to winter. Therefore the cold and distant feeling of displacement is similar to the attitudes of the silent, dead soldiers coming from Vietnam. Political power creates further harm emotionally and physically leading to the soldiers coming “too early, too late”. Discussing the youthfulness of the dead soldiers who are now in “green plastics bags” lack individuality and are forever forgotten. The simile “whining like hounds” emphasises the catastrophic fear and death within war depicting how a dog can also feel emotions of loss.

Throughout history, poetry was often used in conflict with glorified or ambiguous images of war being presented to the people at home, revealing the truth and brutality of war. Bruce Dawe, Kenneth Slessor, Carol Ann Duffy and Wilfred Owen are well-known anti-war poets who express their concerns ad objections of war through poetry. Dawe’s ‘Homecoming’ and Slessor’s ‘Beach Burial’ explore the vastness of war and the futile magnitude of soldiers who had fallen in battle, never to return home. Contrastingly, Duffy’s ‘War Photographer’ and Owen’s ‘Arms and the Boy’ comment on the disability of psychologically returning home, exploring the corruption of innocence and youth, with those involved in war never to return home as the same person.

This poem included many similes that allowed the reader to have sequential images which eased the understanding of the poem. For example, " I like to imagine love can pull your essence like red thread through the cold needle of my life now without you." In this example, the simile that was used help in transcribing feelings into images by comparing essence to red thread. Additionally, the use of imagery such as "each an ego of forced air, heavy with the smells of onions, mushrooms, sage and rain.", helped in connecting the readers with poet's thoughts by using the sense of smell. Thus, the images of grief and memories installed upon us as readers allowed the theme sent from the poet to be explicitly understood.

The poem “War Trauma” describes the how men during the time of war, are quickly changed by its destructive nature. He describes how soldiers have been thrown into a state of chaos, feeling all these unnecessary pains and emotions just to survive. Bennett soon compares them to “wooden, human shells” to show how these men have come to be hollowed and void of any emotions. He utilizes an analogy to demonstrate to his reader the severity in which soldiers have been affected by war. By comparing them to empty shells he established the notion that they have lost a sense of their true self, to “never be quite the same” again.

DPs • I found this poem quite shocking, as it expresses the horrors of war in such a brutal and grotesque manner. As a result, it was an eye-opening to hear and visualize how savagely violent being on the battlefield truly is. • One critical aspect of the text is the author’s inclusion of similes in order to capture the essence of how heart wrenching it is to be a soldier. An example of this occurs in the beginning of the poem when the narrator is describes the other soldiers as, “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,” (1). In this example, the author shines light on how pitiful and hopeless they look from the effects of war.

How is the theme of war portrayed through imagery in the poems Lament by Gillian Clarke and War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy?